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Alchemy in Harry Potter
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Starting with the first book in the HP series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (which became Sorcerer’s Stone for the muggles in America), an eleven-year-old boy achieves what most people set out to do in a lifetime. He obtains the…
One Man’s Anima Mundi is Another Man’s Collective Unconscious
Today brought about a monumental achievement. I finished a book I had been reading for three years. Lazy? Maybe. But, Mysterium Coniunctionis is far from an easy read. As if anyone truly understands what the hell the alchemists were talking about. But Carl Jung does a fascinating job of drawing connections between modern psychology and…
The Seven Stages of Alchemy Explained
I’m sure we’ve all asked, what exactly were the alchemists turning into gold? The answer lies in the context of transmutation--turning the Moon (unconscious mind) into silver and the Sun (conscious mind) into gold in a figurative sense, or in the language of the alchemist. Or perfecting the contents of consciousness through the process of…
It’s interesting how much can be inferred about someone from what they see as their “archetype.” I’m so very amazed every day by how much one’s appearance, aura and style can be better understood by these symbols we hold in the collective unconscious. Not only this, but it seems from experience, as well as observation…
Leonardo da Vinci the 'true Renaissance man' never stopped a day in his life. Leonardo's ambition and obsession with understanding everything inspired such great masterpiece works that his genius is unparalleled by artists, inventors, and scientists even today. Between his blueprints for industrial scale machinery, paintings of the most life-like portraits, and natural philosophy of…
There was a woman at Alexandria named Hypatia, daughter of the philosopher Theon, who made such attainments in literature and science, as to far surpass all the philosophers of her own time.
The teacher Hypatia was born in 355 CE, the daughter of a notable mathematician Theon. She is considered one of the greatest female…