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Warburg Institute Video on Paracelsus |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 05-03-2023, 01:46 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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Throughout his controversial life, the alchemist, physician, and social-religious radical known as Paracelsus combined traditions that were magical and empirical, scholarly and folk, learned and artisanal. He read ancient texts and then burned “the best” of them. He endorsed both Catholic and Reformation beliefs, but he also believed devoutly in a female deity. He traveled constantly, learning and teaching a new form of medicine based on the experience of miners, bathers, alchemists, midwives, and barber-surgeons. He argued for changes in the way the body was understood, how disease was defined, and how treatments were created, but he was also moved by mystical speculations, an alchemical view of nature, and an intriguing concept of creation.
Bringing to light the ideas, diverse works, and major texts of this important Renaissance figure, Bruce T. Moran tells the story of how alchemy refashioned medical practice, showing how Paracelsus’s tenacity and endurance changed the medical world for the better and brought new perspectives to the study of nature in his book titled 'Paracelsus: an Alchemical Life'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oG8ep8256s
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Video: Manly Palmer Hall lecturing on Esoteric Alchemy |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 05-03-2023, 11:02 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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“Alchemical symbolism is a lovely metaphysics, a gracious and beautiful approach to one of the great problems of daily existence. Every individual in his own personal life can be an alchemist, a worker with the divine chemistries of living… Alchemy is actually a dedicated effort to find out where we come from, why we are here, and where we are going. It is a way of applying all that we know to all the problems that we must solve. Step by step, we become more knowing, more useful, and more helpful, becoming better citizens here and, whether we realize it or not, better citizens of Eternity."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD6KKh0AQ5g
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AlchemEast project |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-30-2023, 10:19 PM - Forum: News - Meeting - Events
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The AlchemEast project is devoted to the study of alchemical theory and practice as it appeared and developed in distinct, albeit contiguous (both chronologically and geographically) areas: Graeco-Roman Egypt, Byzantium, and the Near East, from ancient Babylonian times to the early Islamic period. This project combines innovative textual investigations with experimental replications of ancient alchemical procedures. It uses sets of historically and philologically informed laboratory replications in order to reconstruct the actual practice of ancient alchemists, and it studies the texts and literary forms in which this practice was conceptualized and transmitted. It proposes new models for textual criticism in order to capture the fluidity of the transmission of ancient alchemical writings.
https://alchemeast.eu/
Here are details of one of their projects:
https://www.alchemiesofscent.org/events/...oman-egypt
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Videos: Reconstructing Indian alchemy |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-30-2023, 03:05 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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This is the Youtube channel of the AyurYog project "Medicine, Immortality, Moksha: Entangled Histories of Yoga, Ayurveda and Alchemy in South Asia". The project examines the histories of yoga, ayurveda and rasaśāstra (Indian alchemy and iatrochemistry) from the tenth century to the present, focussing on the disciplines' health, rejuvenation and longevity practices. The goals of the project are to reveal the entanglements of these historical traditions, and to trace the trajectories of their evolution as components of today's global healthcare and personal development industries.
https://www.youtube.com/@AyurYogProject/playlists
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