RSS Updates The Alchemical Sophia – Jung’s two greatest works on Alchemy are Psychology and Alchemy and Mysterium Coniunctionis, the latter representing his final summing up of the implications of his long preoccupation with alchemy. In this last summary of his insights on the subject, influenced in part by his collaboration with the Nobel Prize winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli, the old Jung envisions a great psycho-physical mystery to which the alchemists of old gave … http://owl.li/GZYk50cYN4e

RSS Updates The Most Beautiful Thing – “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest… http://owl.li/vEvV508DHZl

RSS Updates Salt, Sulphur, and Mercury – Alchemy: “A three-headed monster in an alchemical flask, representing the composition of the alchemical philosopher’s stone: Salt, Sulphur, and Mercury.” Save Save Save http://owl.li/3fPo503YCBq