This first unio mentalis stage of the Great Work that we're concerned with here involves healing the disconnect between our ideals, intentions, and inspirations (our spirit, the “masculine” or “projective” part of our being) and our embodied, emotional, sexual, creative energy (our soul, the “feminine” or “receptive” part of us, which is also the part of us that gets fertilized and “gives birth” to synchronous experiences in the outer world).
