Taoist books and paraphernalia:

https://longhumountain.com/

A beautifully illustrated introduction.


"Internal Alchemy (Neidan) is the advanced Taoist practice of consciously transforming one’s inner energy, not just calming the mind. Building on Yang Sheng, Wu Wei, and Qigong, Neidan refines essence (Jing) into energy (Qi), and energy into spirit (Shen), ultimately returning awareness to harmony with the Tao. Using the body as an alchemical laboratory, practitioners work with the 5 Elements as internal forces—aligning intention, calming spirit, unifying experience, releasing attachments, and cultivating stillness. The goal is not power, but De: quiet, integrated presence and a return to profound simplicity."

https://lets-see-america.com/neidan-inte...formation/

"Boleskine House is honoured to announce the acquisition of the McLean Collection, the personal scholarly library of the internationally respected Scottish alchemical scholar Adam McLean. This significant gift marks a major milestone in the Foundation’s mission to restore Boleskine House as a centre for heritage, learning, and academic study of esoteric traditions."

https://boleskinehouse.org/boleskine-hou...iterature/

Acts of Improvement: On the Use of Tonics and Elixirs in Sanskrit Medical and Alchemical Literature

By Dagmar Wujastyk

"In Sanskrit medical literature, rasāyana is defined as one of eight subject areas of medicine. The proclaimed aim of rasāyana therapies is to preserve or promote health and well-being, but also to prolong life, to halt degeneration caused by aging, to rejuvenate and to improve cognitive function. The term “rasāyana” describes the therapies that together constitute this branch of medicine; the methodology and regimen of treatment; and the medicinal substances and formulations used in these therapies. In Indian alchemical literature, the Sanskrit term “rasāyana” is predominantly used to describe the final stages of alchemical operations, i.e. all that is involved in the taking of elixirs for attaining a state of spiritual liberation in a living body. Rasāyana in this sense describes a series of related processes, including the preparation of the elixir; the preparation of the practitioner; the intake of the elixir and finally, the process of transformation the practitioner undergoes after intake of the elixir. In my paper, I present examples of rasāyana sections from a selection of medical and alchemical treatises to explore their connections and divergences. I also discuss how the connections between medical and alchemical rasāyana sections reflect the development of iatrochemistry in alchemical literature."

https://www.academia.edu/36321661/Acts_o...Literature

By Matteo Soranzo

This article breaks down my research for the general public, and especially younger readers.

https://www.academia.edu/145189834/The_h...of_alchemy

Importance of Ananda kanda in the history of Indian alchemy

By Sreekumar Parampathu

https://www.academia.edu/1863621/Importa...an_alchemy

Ivana Horacek

2015


"This dissertation examines the material potentialities embodied in Kunstkammer works of art that were exchanged as gifts with the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II (1552-1612) and his contemporaries at the end of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Within this context, extraordinary, expertly crafted, and inventive gifts of things—such as paintings on semi-precious stone, commesso di pietre dure landscapes, magical natural objects (such as rhinoceros horns and bezoar stones), and books of instruments—were key players in political and social affairs, between courts and individuals separated by distance, religion, and political divides."

https://www.academia.edu/76372002/Alchem..._Rudolf_II

By Lisa Fagin Davis

From the journal Manuscripts 

Volume 72 – Number 2

Spring 2020

https://www.academia.edu/43359095/What_W...Manuscript

Alchemy, in A. Kaldellis and N. Siniossoglou (eds.), The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2017, 234-251.

By Gerasimos Merianos

https://www.academia.edu/36127314/Alchem...17_234_251

Alchemy, chemistry and metallurgy in Renaissance Europe: a wider context for fire-assay remains

By Marcos Martinon-Torres and Thilo Rehren

"During the Renaissance, what we nowadays call 'alchemy' and 'chemistry' constituted a single, all-inclusive, sphere of activity, that involved the routine conduct of fire assays. The quest for the philosophers' stone was just one endeavour within a wider spectrum, and it did not convey the religious or speculative connotations attached to this practice in later interpretations. This al/chemical world overlapped with metallurgy substantially: both fields were strongly intertwined and there was a bi-directional flow of theories and practices."

https://www.academia.edu/1977272/Alchemy...ay_remains