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https://www.voynich.ninja/thread-1745.html

Searching for the Cosmic Quintessence: How Alchemists Meditated in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Dennis William Hauck, Ph.D. 

"The meditative techniques practiced by alchemists in the Middle Ages were different from what we think of as meditation today. Alchemical meditation was an active instead of a passive activity, and it focused on harnessing spiritual forces for positive transformation and specific manifestations. The alchemists sought to actually work with the transcendental powers during meditation to achieve union with the divine mind or somehow bring the transformative powers from Above directly into their practical work in the lab or their personal work in the inner laboratory of their souls."

https://www.academia.edu/8459539/Searchi..._Meditated

Jonathan Paul Marshall 

[revised and unabridged version of a conference paper published in Geoffrey Samuel, (ed.) Western Science and Its Alternatives, University of Newcastle Department of Sociology and Anthropology Occasional Papers Series, 1995]

"Alchemy was one of the dominant modes of world description and experimentation in Europe for a period of at least 300 years, yet within a 20-30 year period it lay publicly abandoned. At the secret heart of the so-called scientific revolution pursued by Robert Boyle, John Locke and Isaac Newton, it lay publicly dismissed and abandoned, the pursuit of fools and lunatics alone. What happened?"

https://www.academia.edu/1700173/Alchemy...the_Divide

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https://scholar.google.com/schhp?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5

"Revealing the essence of humanity's origin, this extraordinary book delves into the intricate mechanisms that shape our physical existence and the immutable laws that govern our being. Prepare to embark on a transformative journey that spans the realms of mind, body and spirit, illuminating the quest for knowledge and truth.Through the alchemical quest, the seeker embarks on a multidimensional odyssey that transcends the boundaries between the spiritual and the material. Witness the intricate dance of spiritual growth and tangible metamorphosis as the alchemical fires ignite profound change on every level of existence."

Elias Rubinstein

https://tinyurl.com/sa7z28dp

"A collection of 38 herbal manuscripts have remained all but hidden to scholars in the shadow of the Italian Alps. Despite several texts analyzing specific texts (Leporace, 1952, Lupo 1982, Ragazzini 1983, Toresella 1985, Pezzella 2007 and Bruzzone 2015, 2019) and one pioneering work which synthesizes a large portion of them as united in the corpus (Segre 2000), the “alchemical herbal tradition” has so far escaped examination through methodologies employed in the history of science, medicine and magic.'

Bryce Beasley.

Full text:

https://shareok.org/handle/11244/340569

"For Zosimos the alchemist (c.4th C. AD), it seems that the whole of alchemy depended upon the kairos – the opportune moment, determined via katarchic astrology, when an experiment would succeed. In fact, Zosimos refers to alchemical transformations as kairikai katabaphai – colour changes achieved at the kairos – and states that they are «subject to lunar influence and the passing of time» (The Visions 10.12). This paper explores Zosimos’ understanding of kairos and its importance in his alchemical practice."

Full text.

http://rivista.thaumazein.it/index.php/t...e/view/260

"It is tempting to affirm that on and about November 2022 (post)human character changed. The revolution in A.I. simulations certainly calls for an updated of the ancient realization that humans are imitative animals, or homo mimeticus. But the mimetic turn in posthuman studies is not limited to A.I.: from simulation to identification, affective contagion to viral mimesis, robotics to hypermimesis, the essays collected in this volume articulate the multiple facets of homo mimeticus 2.0. Challenging rationalist accounts of autonomous originality internal to the history of Homo sapiens, this volume argues from different—artistic, philosophical, technological—perspectives that the all too human tendency to imitate is, paradoxically, central to our ongoing process of becoming posthuman."

Open Access book:

https://books.google.je/books?id=9BYrEQA...navlinks_s

Author(s): Prajit K. Basu 1
Publication date (Electronic, pub): 31 March 2023
Journal: AsiaChem Magazine
Publisher: Israel Chemical Society (ICS)

"In this essay, I describe very briefly, the pursuit of chemical knowledge in India until the period of the early eighteenth century."

https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...7/acm00052

"The Oedipus myth is foundational to depth psychology due to Freud’s use of Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex in the creation of psychoanalysis. But analytical psychology’s engagement with the myth has been limited despite the importance Jung also places upon it. The absence of a developed Jungian response to Oedipus means the myth’s psychologically constructive elements have been overlooked in favour of reductive Freudian interpretations. I examine whether analytical psychology can fruitfully re-engage with Oedipus by reinterpreting his story as a paternal rebirth."

Full text:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full...5922.12959