"Catherine MacCoun’s book On Becoming an Alchemist offers practical guidance to anyone wanting to learn and apply alchemical principles. She enlightens and surprises us by sharing how alchemy isn’t something left to the past but is, instead, a treasure-trove of knowledge that can help in our daily struggles. Her book brings Jung’s alchemical work into the everyday world. Readable, engaging, and enlightening, MacCoun’s text reveals how alchemical operations can be used to transform such “inferior states” as desire into devotion, vulnerability into compassion, and territoriality into integrity. The downside of her book is a lack of differentiation between magic and alchemy, with the two words used at times interchangeably."

Reviewed here:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...ode=ujun20

https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Alchemis...1590306872

By Gabriel Müller.

Full text.


https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9252/3/3/17


Who was Daniel Sennert?

https://geniuses.club/genius/daniel-sennert

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/alchemy...index.html

Lots of information on Daoist alchemical texts:


https://sejinlifeforce.blogspot.com/2023...ts-in.html

Not specifically alchemical, but a very interesting website devoted to

THE EXTRAORDINARY LOCAL HISTORIES OF CHESHIRE, DERBYSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE:

https://thelocalmythstorian.com/read

Old (2010) seminar:

https://heterodoxology.com/2010/06/27/al...-workshop/

"Alchemy is based on the Square of the Four Elements. The Four Elements are oppositions. The oppositions of Alchemy are related to the oppositions of the Square of Opposition of Aristotle in an orthogonal model. They form an arc of 90 degrees, which makes Alchemy the complex part (imaginary) of Logic. In his work De Arte Combinatoria Leibniz developed a general theory of science that was based on a fusion between Alchemy and Logic."

http://hans.wyrdweb.eu/about-alchemy-and...oppositio/

Ancient recipes investigated, e.g. "formulations from a sixteenth-century alchemical treatise, the "Nectar Mine Light of Mercury" (Rasaprakāśasudhākara). The treatise focusses on the medicinal application of mercurials, but also contains a chapter on making alchemical gold and silver and artificial pearls and coral."

http://ayuryog.org/content/alchemy-reconstruction

e.g. The Hermetic Marriage of Art & Alchemy: Imagination, Creativity, and the Great Work (Inner Traditions, 2023)

https://marlenesevenbremner.com/

   

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