"37-character carving found near the Yellow River may rewrite what we know about Qin Shi Huang’s hunt for eternal life."

https://interestingengineering.com/cultu...est-221-bc

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

"One of the very first feature-length sci-fi films ever made, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis took a daring visual approach for its time, incorporating Bauhaus and Futurist influences in thrillingly designed sets and costumes. Lang’s visual language resonated strongly in later decades. The film’s rather stunning alchemical-electric transference of a woman’s physical traits onto the body of a destructive android—the so-called Maschinenmensch— began a very long trend of female robots in film and television, most of them as dangerous and inscrutable as Lang’s. And yet, for all its many imitators, Metropolis continues to deliver surprises. Here, we bring you a new find: a 32-page program distributed at the film’s 1927 premiere in London and recently re-discovered."

https://www.openculture.com/2025/06/read...polis.html

If you’re on the hunt for a fresh way to experience Nantes, the City Game The Alchemists Elixir offers a unique blend of outdoor adventure, history, and puzzle-solving within the city’s botanical gem. Rather than only strolling through the Jardin des Plantes, this activity invites you to become part of a captivating story set in 1882, where you join an alchemist in search of a youth-restoring elixir. It’s a playful, interactive experience that turns sightseeing into a quest, perfect for families, couples, or friends who enjoy a bit of brain-teasing fun.

https://www.travelersuniverse.com/city-g...s-plantes/

Another Tesco offering.

"Winner of the 2021 American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Annual Book Prize for Best Theoretical Book in Psychoanalysis! Stanton Marlan brings together writings which span the course of his career, examining Jungian psychology and the alchemical imagination as an opening to the mysteries of psyche and soul. Several chapters describe a telos that aims at the mysterious goal of the Philosophers’ Stone, a move replete with classical and postmodern ideas catalysed by prompts from the unconscious: dreams, images, fantasies, and paradoxical conundrums."

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/pr...QPno4aJQPm

An Amphitheatrical Microcosm

Heinrich Khunrath’s Oratorium-Laboratorium

https://www.academia.edu/129845148/An_Am...boratorium

The Number 0: The Monad and the Metaphysics of the Soul
June 8, 2025

Written by:
Hank Williams


https://mindstatematters.com/2025/06/08/...-the-soul/

https://mindstatematters.com/2025/06/08/...imensions/

"As the Venerable Raymond Lull says: The intention of nature in carrying out our magistery is that the stone must be divided into four elements, so that each one by itself, according to the demand of nature, can be purified."


https://www.alchemy-texts.com/book/scala...losophers/

All Living Things is an animated art-book puzzle game inspired by The Ripley Scroll, a 15th-century alchemical manuscript. Solve 12 intricate visual puzzles, each reflecting a stage in the alchemical process. Select and sequence objects to create looping animations, guided by cryptic verse and symbolic imagery.

All Living Things introduces a unique visual puzzle mechanic that invites you to carefully observe mystical and natural processes in order to uncover the secrets behind cryptic hermetic emblems...


https://store.steampowered.com/app/36813...ng_Things/

Including:

3.3 The Alchemical Purification System

3.4 The Body as an Alchemical Lab

https://bookdown.org/becerra_je/TCM/the-...ion-system

"Sasha Chaitow, PhD, is a British-Greek cultural historian, author, artist, and lecturer whose work explores the rich intersections of esotericism, philosophy, and the arts. An internationally exhibited artist, she is the author of several books including her translation of The Hieroglyphica of Horapollon Niloos, the topic of this video conversation."

https://bathtubbulletin.com/5th-century-alexandria/