"Ever wonder how a quest for eternal life in ancient China led to fireworks, gunpowder, and a lot of very confused emperors? In this relaxing yet absurdly fascinating history for sleep video, we dive deep into the world of Taoist alchemy, immortality elixirs, mercury poisoning, and the unplanned invention that changed warfare and celebration forever."

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

"Titan Radio podcast host/producer Vivian Eader interviews Westminster College Religion and Philosophy professor Dr. Timothy Grieve-Carlson about his book, American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius. They discuss his expertise and background in the field, as well as his journey to Westminster College. Grieve-Carlson’s book explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age—a period of widespread cooling in the North Atlantic region—during the 17th century. Grieve-Carlson focuses on the life of Johannes Kelpius, a Pietist and theologian who settled in Philadelphia in 1694, and looks at the Hermetic and alchemical dimensions of Kelpius’ Christianity before turning to his legacy in American religion and literature."

https://www.wcn247.com/holcad_and_campus...316c2.html

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

http://kelpius.org/biography.html

Lorie Dechar

"The Five Spirits are the Taoist map of the human psyche. The system provides a view of the nervous system and forms the basis of Chinese medical psychology. It also describes a precise and efficient technology for spiritual transformation, the process through which a human being rediscovers their essential wholeness and innate connection to the divine."

https://www.amazon.com/Five-Spirits-Alch...B09CFY3JWP

Dagmar Wujastyk, University of Alberta

"IN THIS ARTICLE, I will examine the practice of producing factitious gems as described in Nityanātha’s Jewel Mine of Mercury (Rasaratnākara, henceforth Jewel Mine), a thirteenth to fifteenth-century alchemical work written in Sanskrit."

https://www.wisdomlib.org/uploads/journa..._8_134.pdf

"In this informative video, we will explore the fascinating world of the athanor, a specialized furnace used by ancient alchemists. The athanor was essential for maintaining the precise temperature required for various alchemical processes. We will discuss its design, functionality, and the significant role it played in transforming materials through processes such as calcination and distillation."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEmJoxSVJ1g

"Jung attempted to explain the obscurity of alchemy, the drive of its marked and colourful symbols, and the reality behind people’s reporting
the discovery of things, like the Philosophers’ Stone, which we might regard as chemically impossible. Basically Jung argued that the alchemical work acted as a kind of dynamic Rorschach blot in which the equally dynamic processes of the psyche were projected onto the substances the alchemist was working with. Alchemy was a kind of a collective conscious dream."

https://carljungdepthpsychologysite.blog...lchemy-48/

"As we climb the rungs of this ancient mystery, we also dive into:

✨ Alchemical interpretations of Jacob’s Ladder and the celestial ascent
? The connection between orbs, UFOs, and biblical angels
? Dream downloads and altered states as portals for receiving cosmic truth
? The use of gematria and number codes to decode spiritual transmissions
? How planetary alignments mirror symbolic initiations or gateways
? The language of light and frequency that bridges dimensions"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq0W3TErnFc

"The Avicennan text De congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum had a great influence on the alchemical thought of the thirteenth century. This Latin text disputed both the veracity of alchemy and the possibility of alchemical transmutation by arguing that art is inferior to nature and that the alchemists cannot manipulate a metal because its true characteristics are hidden from our senses; thus an alchemist cannot change something which is unknown to him."

Full text.


https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/...4EACA66D3B

"Was eighteenth-century European porcelain just a ceramic material to be moulded into useful objects – or could it mean more? This conference explores what European porcelain might have communicated when it was used to create devotional objects... Porcelain’s alchemical heritage was also not without significance: success at the alchemical enterprise had always been deemed dependent on divine favour. These factors could lead to porcelain assuming a sacral character in Catholic court contexts. Devotional images in European porcelain exploited these cultural associations of the medium itself."

https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/0NP9lyz9Ew/s...ember-2025

Bass player and composer Johan Örtlund started Aglaia in 2015.
The music's a mix of european jazz, swedish church music and folk.
Based in Gothenburg, SE

Anna Lundqvist - vocals
Simon Westman - piano
Andreas Erehed - trummor
Peter Bengtsson - gitarr



https://music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B0FL3HMYTD