"Christopher Warnock of Renaissance Astrology https://www.renaissanceastrology.com/ eventually discusses an actual dream he had about alchemy, but first has to give a lot of background about the medieval/Renaissance approach to both dreams and alchemy because the modern views are so different and we jump to them so automatically."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkNz_VSLCLA



Please do visit the excellent https://www.renaissanceastrology.com/  

"The impact and influence that a religious tradition can have amongst culturally out-group populations can be quite unexpected and can even “boomerang” back home in equally unpredictable ways. This article explores one example of a Chinese religion’s unexpected cultural influence within the Western psychiatric community using religious Daoism and its appropriation by analytical psychologist Carl Jung. Although elements of religious Daoism, such as Daoist Internal Alchemy or the Yijing, integrated into a system of psychiatric practices, its influence was not straightforward. It will be argued that Jungian ideas such as active imagination, individuation, and synchronicity were directly influenced or inspired by Jung’s exposure to religious Daoism through Richard Wilhelm, Daoist texts, and his own adoption of Daoist Internal Alchemy techniques, an influence which would reverberate through both Western and Chinese popular culture."

Ming Chen.


https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/1/69

"The phoenix rising: Alchemical imagination in the works of Edward Taylor, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne"


Author:
Randall Anthony Clack, University of Connecticut


"This study explores the use of the alchemical opus--the esoteric science which was concerned with the transmutation of base metals into gold--in the works of Edward Taylor, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, three major authors from two distinct periods of pre-twentieth-century American literature who were influenced by hermetic (occult) philosophy and alchemy."


https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/dis...AI9511413/

At Liber Antiquus, Early Printed Books and Manuscripts.

"A very rare book, in which the author excoriates the false doctrines of alchemy and its practitioners, who spread the "seeds of their stupidity without any sense of shame for their nonsense" in the streets where they congregate, in their schools, and in their precious furnaces."


https://www.liberantiquus.com/pages/book...-cause-che

Why Does Gold Explode Purple?

It's a rare win for the turning-lead-into-gold crowd.


https://www.iflscience.com/400-year-old-...rple-71679

"I first met you at your talk, An Alternate History of Technology, AI & Its Alchemical Future, based on your podcast. In that talk, you established that the mathematical and conceptual basis of artificial intelligence was actually founded in Renaissance alchemy—that is, within a paradigm in which material science and spirituality were still unified as one."

https://pacificsun.com/paradigm-shifts-w...enan-azam/

"In April of 1651, the thirty-year-old Welshman Thomas Vaughan released what he said would be his last “discourse,” titled Lumen de Lumine, or a New Magical Light. It was also to be the key to his first, published the previous year and the subject of a protracted debate. Vaughan would continue to write books under the pseudonym Eugenius Philalethes (“well-born lover of truth”), but this new one would be unlike anything else he ever wrote.”

https://aulalucis.com/new-magical-light/

"Light in Alchemy is a much debated, as well as fascinating, topic. But few have understood what it’s really about. Since the greatest mistake alchemists can make is trying to learn the “how” instead of the “why”, we often find ourselves tied for life to only one of the innumerable paths and thus never arriving at the knowledge of the true foundations. Alchemists, be curious, don’t be stubborn!"


https://www.labyrinthdesigners.org/alche...roduction/

Useful...


https://omgsymbol.com/alchemical/

"In this full-color guide to co-creative alchemy with crystals and stones for personal and planetary healing, Robert Simmons provides techniques and meditative practices with specific stones to go with each stage of the alchemical transformation process. Also includes an illustrated dictionary summarizing the spiritual qualities of more than 375 minerals, crystals, and gemstones."

https://www.innertraditions.com/books/th...-of-stones