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  Crop Circle: Ipuacu, Brazil
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-08-2025, 09:53 AM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

"The S represents the central synthesis of 7+7=14 combined elements. This is entirely alchemical and hermetic, speaking of a transmutation process."

https://cropcircleconnector.com/2025/Ipu...ments.html

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  The Serpent's Tale
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-08-2025, 09:49 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

"One of the most compelling parts of the prologue is the section on alchemy. Indian and European traditions alike utilize mercury and sulfur as metaphors for spiritual change, the author indicates, but the gendered symbolism of those elements is flipped between cultures, which leads to interpretive clashes-most famously in the lectures that Carl Jung gave on Kuṇḍalinī, wherein he insists that the Indian sources must be wrong about their own symbolism. This anecdote sums up, fairly well, the broader critique of this book: that Western frameworks have too often misread or overwritten indigenous systems of knowing in a search for universal models."

https://brighterkashmir.com/serpent-isnt...experience

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-serpen...231559430/

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  Josef Váchal: The Alchemist's Death
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-08-2025, 09:44 AM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

https://melindareidinger.substack.com/p/...ium-part-i

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_V%C3%A1chal

https://portmoneum.cz/en/portmoneum/jose...-1883-1969



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  Alchemy and Verdi's Falstaff
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-08-2025, 09:32 AM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

"If Falstaff is teacher and the other characters his students, we must ask: what is his pedagogical method? How does transformation occur? The answer lies in the opera’s dramatic structure, which subjects Falstaff to three trials corresponding to the classical elements—water, fire, and earth—while his own essence manifests as the fourth element, air, in the form of laughter that breathes through all trials and ultimately becomes contagious, spreading to all characters in the final fugue."

https://stasiefomalgaut.wordpress.com/20...-falstaff/

Opera here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vglRBwL_3q0

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  Facebook: Portal Ibis
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-08-2025, 09:23 AM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

Cute Facebook page with lots of well-chosen images and iconography, including many items of alchemical interest:

https://www.facebook.com/portalibis/

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  Review: Mystical Metal of Gold
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-06-2025, 11:16 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

Stanton J. Linden, ed. Mystical Metal of Gold: Essays on Alchemy and Renaissance Culture
Mystical Metal of Gold: Essays on Alchemy and Renaissance Culture by Stanton J Linden
Review by: Mark A. Waddell
Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Winter 2008), pp. 1346-1348


https://www.academia.edu/12291768/Stanto..._Inc_2007_

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  The Unity Process
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-06-2025, 11:01 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

A heavy-duty blog dealing with an integrative methodology called the Unity Process, which combines the philosophy of Natural Law, the Trivium Method, Socratic Questioning, Jungian shadow work, and Meridian Tapping—into an easy to use system that allows people to process their emotional upsets, work through trauma, correct poor thinking, discover meaning, set healthy boundaries, refine their viewpoints, and to achieve a positive focus.

https://theunityprocess.com/the-unity-process/

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  John Donne: Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-06-2025, 10:44 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"The poem is remarkable for its intense introspection and its use of alchemical and cosmic imagery to express emotional annihilation and transformation."

https://english-studies.net/a-nocturnal-...-analysis/

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  Updated Wiki: The Voynich
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-06-2025, 10:42 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Sections based on Sabar and Davis added.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

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  Video: 3I Atlas & The Great Eclipse
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-06-2025, 10:38 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"Matías De Stefano reveals how 3I ATLAS, the Great Eclipse of 2027, and the asteroid Apophis in 2029 are part of a cosmic chain of events designed to awaken our species through alchemy and remembrance...Matías De Stefano discusses the 2027 eclipse's significance and its connection to 3I ATLAS and the asteroid Apophis. This cosmic alignment is presented as a three-year initiation, offering opportunities for personal growth and transformation. Learn how to navigate the energetic shifts and alchemize upcoming challenges."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgEcI0i8aP4&t=3s

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