"Lots of SHAC events and activities are coming up in the next six months. We hope you can join us at one of them and that you enjoy the new publications."

https://www.ambix.org/october-2025-news/

"The question of how to create life does not just go back to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, when the eponymous character used forbidden science to create life. Humans have been interested in creating artificial life since at least classical antiquity and probably much earlier. One manifestation of this is the idea of the homunculus, a diminutive humanoid creature that was believed to be created through magical means."

https://www.ancient-origins.net/index.ph...man-009836

"Another amazing medieval discovery has been made in eastern Europe. This time, hundreds of medieval objects were unearthed in east-central Poland. The discovery was made when excavators were preparing for new gas works in the village of Poniaty Wielkie, Poland. Here, Polish archaeologists found the remains of an ancient alchemical workshop containing over 200 metal and ceramic objects. But more important were the ancient production remnants that were also found at the site including furnaces, wells and rubbish pits. Each artifact reveals “the economic development of the medieval settlement,” according to Polish Police. Some of these medieval objects are unique and will likely tell us more about the people who made them and what they were used for and by whom."

https://www.ancient-origins.net/index.ph...ts-0014527

"5-days workshop with Dr Andrew Jan. Join us for a transformative five-day meditation course, designed to guide you through ancient Taoist alchemical practices. Experience the profound union of fire and water, or yin and yang, as we lead you to the heart of the marriage of heaven and earth, and through the final doorway to the wonders of Nothingness (wu ji) and Oneness (huang ji)."

https://www.mantak-chia-media.com/video-...an-and-li/

Darke Hierogliphicks: Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the Restoration

"The literary influence of alchemy and hermeticism in the work of most medieval and early modern authors has been overlooked. Stanton Linden now provides the first comprehensive examination of this influence on English literature from the late Middle Ages through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing extensively on alchemical allusions as well as on the practical and theoretical background of the art and its pictorial tradition, Linden demonstrates the pervasiveness of interest in alchemy during this three-hundred-year period. Most writers―including Langland, Gower, Barclay, Eramus, Sidney, Greene, Lyly, and Shakespeare―were familiar with alchemy, and references to it appear in a wide range of genres. Yet the purposes it served in literature from Chaucer through Jonson were narrowly satirical. In literature of the seventeenth century, especially in the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Milton, the functions of alchemy changed. Focusing on Bacon, Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Milton―in addition to Jonson and Butler―Linden demonstrates the emergence of new attitudes and innovative themes, motifs, images, and ideas. The use of alchemy to suggest spiritual growth and change, purification, regeneration, and millenarian ideas reflected important new emphases in alchemical, medical, and occultist writing. This new tradition did not continue, however, and Butler's return to satire was contextualized in the antagonism of the Royal Society and religious Latitudinarians to philosophical enthusiasm and the occult. Butler, like Shadwell and Swift, expanded the range of satirical victims to include experimental scientists as well as occult charlatans. The literary uses of alchemy thus reveal the changing intellectual milieus of three centuries"

Stanton J. Linden

https://myfreesky.online/book/2739168/b5...=recommend

Interview with Owen Weinman:

https://rumble.com/v70f6dy-what-everyone...v1_science

Kyle Fraser

"This paper explores the relationship between Zosimos of Panopolis and the Book of Enoch, focusing on the perception of alchemy as a form of forbidden knowledge. It examines Zosimos’ references to fallen angels and their teachings in alchemical practices, highlighting the influence of Hellenistic Judaism, particularly through gnostic currents. The discussion aims to contextualize Zosimos within the broader dynamics of ancient philosophical traditions, particularly his syncretic views on Jewish and Egyptian alchemical customs and his engagement with esoteric texts." (Ai-generated abstract)

https://www.academia.edu/1237033/Zosimos..._Knowledge

1992, The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, ed. H. D. Betz

https://www.academia.edu/128377241/_PGM_...ranslator_

"In the past decade or so, we have come to understand more and more about women involved in alchemy in early modern Europe. Thanks to a number of published and ongoing research projects, we now know that women were patrons, authors, and practitioners, as well as laboratory assistants and managers. We also know that they read, excerpted, and collected alchemical knowledge in household collections of recipes, known as receipt books."

Tara Nummedal

https://www.academia.edu/108820242/Alche...al_Visions

"From prehistoric metal extraction to medieval alchemy to modern industry, chemistry has been central to our understanding and use of the physical world as well as to trade, warfare and medicine. In its turn, chemistry has been shaped by changing technologies, institutions and cultural beliefs. A Cultural History of Chemistry presents the first detailed and authoritative survey from antiquity to today, focusing on the West but integrating key developments in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Arabic-Islamic and Byzantine empires."


https://www.academia.edu/70717076/Cultur..._Antiquity