You have to give up an equivalent amount that you want to gain. This is first rule of Alchemy: the law of equivalent exchange. When the medieval scientist first saw the possibilities that thing can be changed, up to its core, like a chemical reaction where some inert black solid can become a highly active milky liquid, just imagine the excitement they felt. Because they heard that man can become God like or Angle like creature, the alchemist started to devote their life to find the secret formula that they knew indeed exist! This is the real alchemy. Today alchemy is not being practiced under the brand name of alchemy. Rather it is embedded and hidden inside many disciple like Psychology /Neuroscience, Theoretical/quantum physics, String theorist, TV/Hollywood, Behavioral economics, High finance/Banking and Politics. It is alive and well active, but just like always, working in secrecy and practicing in underground.

The opposing force working against any possibilities of personal transformations is organized and industrialized science employed by High Priests. The human genome project tried to find the ground from which you cannot escape. It then give you the stranglehold of fixed, concrete genetics almost like a law written in stone. It preaches that transformation is not possible and you tied with whatever gene you might have. If you try genetic transformation, you will be just a mutant and degenerate. So forget about transformation. On the other hand, evolution is without any specific goal other than blind urge of survival of the fittest and maintaining the continuity. Freudian individual life is doomed by the ultimate drive from Libido. There is no possibility of transforming yourself other than the old you. String theory is trying to say that there are multiple universes and our universe might not be the center of any attraction. We, the human being, are just a meaningless, pathetic existence or a fluke/glitch on a forgotten and neglected corner of a universe that might just be part of a multiverses. Relativity theory is saying everything is relative, so your point of view is not superior to any other dumb persons. This is why they killed Lamarckian hypothesis of acquired but inheritable traits, instead, promoted Darwinism , Relativity and Freudian psychology. For really desperate case, they will allow some limited version of changes but only as a blind evolution and libido driven acts. And for your unruly mind/thoughts, they will employ the ultimate mind control devices like school, TV or finance.

But nobody is asking a question just one layer above. Why we have to survive as the fittest, and why to have sex. Are those really blind? I do not think so! Seek yourself and you will find.