It's Elemental

Category: Consciousness

  • The Museum of Lost Wonders

    Wow – wandering through Powell’s books just turned up this gem – perfect for me!  It’s a book with an alchemical basis (the chapters are organized by the seven basic alchemical processes), exploring philosophy, science, history, and consciousness… 

    but what’s even better is that the book is very visual and creative.  It includes seven paper models that can be cut out and constructed into 3D artefacts with philosophic, scientific, and alchemical meanings.  It’s kind of like if Nick Bantock was a scientist/philosopher and wrote non-fiction.

    How did I not know about this book?  Oh well, at least now it was only $18 instead of the $50 list price!

    Plus it has an amazing website that anyone can visit to get the flavor:

    http://www.lostwonder.org

  • Thesis? … DONE!

    After working on this thesis for, well, let’s face it, WAY too long, I am finally DONE.   It’s actually kind of hard to believe, and I’m pretty sure that my wife was thinking that this day wouldn’t actually arrive.  I should have made a bet.

    Basically what this means is that in the next… um, period of time, I will be converting my thesis and posting it on the spiritalchemy.com site.  Then I guess the question is, will anyone want to read 240 pages online?  Probably not, which is why I have a PDF version ready to go as well.  Boy am I optimistic!

    I also get to categorize this entry as relevant to all my included categories except for poetry, as my thesis contains original work in all the other areas – let’s hear it for generalists!

    Oh, in case you were wondering, I decided to call it: The Elements as an Archetype of Transformation: an Exploration of Earth, Water, Air, and Fire.  You can get a basic idea of the table of contents (not quite updated to match the final version) at https://spiritalchemy.com/thesis.html.