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| Alchemical Acupuncture |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-10-2024, 02:08 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices
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Five Spirits: Alchemical Acupuncture for Psychological and Spiritual Healing
Audiobook - unabridged
"The Five Spirits themselves can be understood as the Taoist version of the chakra system of Vedic India. Like the chakras, the spirits exist as centers of consciousness in the subtle body, rather than as structures in the physical body. Just as each chakra relates to a particular level of consciousness, each spirit relates to a particular aspect of human awareness, a particular vibration or frequency of psychic energy."
https://tinyurl.com/5x8ys4fx
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| Ann Skea - Ted Hughes and alchemy |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-10-2024, 01:53 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"Hughes was not interested in the worldly, laboratory–based alchemy from which modern chemistry derives. His interest was in the spiritual alchemy which began in Italy when, in 1460, Cosimo de Medici, instructed Marsilio Ficino to translate an ancient Greek document, purportedly based on the writings of an Egyptian sage know as Hermes Trismegistus. These Hermetic writings were taken up and further developed by Pico della Mirandola, and, especially, by the Franciscan friar, philosopher and poet, Giordano Bruno, who brought his teachings to England in 1583."
https://ann.skea.com/An%20Alchemy.html
"The Cambridge University Library is almost certainly where Hughes read some of the earliest English occult treatises written as poems by alchemists like George Ripley (1415-1490), Thomas Norton (c.1433-c.1513), and (in the seventeenth century) by Eugenius Philalethes (the name adopted by Thomas Vaughan (1621-66)) and his twin brother Henry. Many anonymous alchemical works were also written as poems - a medium which perfectly suits the symbolic, metaphorical and imaginative language in which the spiritual and technical secrets of alchemy have been couched since its earliest appearance, reputedly in Ancient Egypt."
https://ann.skea.com/TH%20and%20British%...ition.html
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| Fiction: The Alchemists’ Council by Cynthea Masson |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-10-2024, 09:24 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices
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"As a new Initiate with the Alchemists’ Council, Jaden is trained to maintain the elemental balance of the world, while fending off interference by the malevolent Rebel Branch. Bees are disappearing from the pages of the ancient manuscripts in Council dimension and from the outside world, threatening its very existence. Jaden navigates alchemy’s complexities, but the more she learns, the more she begins to question Council practices. Erasure — a procedure designed not only to remove individuals from Council dimension but also from the memories of other alchemists — troubles Jaden, and she uses her ingenuity to remember one of the erased people. In doing so, she realizes the Rebel Branch might not be the enemy she was taught to fight against."
https://alllitup.ca/books/the-alchemists-council/
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| Arnaldus de Villanova: Holistic Theology & Alchemy |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-10-2024, 09:19 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"Arnaldus de Villanova (c.1240-1311) was a renowned Catalan physician, theologian, diplomat and alchemist who made significant contributions to the development of medicine and spirituality in medieval Europe. An influential figure in the courts of kings and popes, Arnaldus pioneered a holistic approach to health and healing that synthesized insights from Hippocratic-Galenic medicine, Christian theology, Kabbalah, hermeticism and alchemy. At the heart of his thought was a conviction in the intimate connection between the physical and spiritual dimensions of the human being, and a belief that true medicine must address both body and soul. This essay will examine Arnaldus’ key ideas regarding the spiritual aspects of disease and wellness, the elixir of life, apocalypticism, and the transmutation of the soul. It will explore the relevance of his integral vision for contemporary understandings of health and the potential future evolution of the human being."
https://gettherapybirmingham.com/the-hol...villanova/
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