Albert (Al) Case has studied autosuggestion and hypnotherapy for more than 30 years. He began his studies in the 1970s at Niagara University, and continued those studies through his tenure at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he received his bachelor of science degree. His investigations into hypnosis obtained he and his associates an invitation to a group of people who met every Thursday evening on the university campus. That invitation, in the mid-1970s, led to his introduction to, and study of the rather esoteric subject of alchemy, its relationship to chemistry as its predecessor, and ultimately to an interest in is a branch of physics known as quantum mechanics, or the study of sub atomic particles.
It was only after a devastating stroke in 2008 that a doctor of psychology introduced Mr. Case to the study of astrology. Surprisingly, this was not the astrology that one reads in the daily newspaper, but the astrology that predated the study of astronomy, and like alchemy, is largely unknown to the population in general. The study of astrology, which we will technically call esoteric astrology, actually has very interesting parallels to the study of alchemy.
It was through these examinations of alchemy and esoteric astrology that it became evident that there were natural progression in human knowledge and thought. The discipline outlined in Progressions, although it had its genesis in alchemy and astrology, itself is an interesting tool to examine any progression in thinking.
