"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/

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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"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

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

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

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_

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/

"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/

Sections based on Sabar and Davis added.

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

"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

"Three major anthologies of Latin alchemy were published between 1602 and 1702: the six-volume 'Theatrum Chemicum," the single-volume "Musaeum Hermeticum," and the two-volume "Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa," the last in large folios. Each had a clear editorial design."

https://www.academia.edu/39304587/Alchem...07_215_230