Referring to the website www.spiritalchemy.com
I updated the main page to load much faster, and created a page of alchemical images:
https://spiritalchemy.com/alchemyimages.htm
Please beware that the page is LOADED with images, in order that they can be easily browsed, so it may take a minute to load.
Today I put up most of my poems on the site: http://elements.spiritalchemy.com/poetry.html
Poetry isn’t good for much if it never gets read, so despite the fact that many of these poems are embarrassing for one reason or another, I thought I’d post them as a kind of experiment/record of my own transformation, since transformation is what the site is about anyway – hence the chronological ordering.
This is also a chance for me to challenge my perfectionistic side and my tendency to keep parts of myself hidden – so there.
If I told you this took me 8 years to complete would you believe me?
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After much waiting and toil, I have completed the online version of my thesis, completely customized for the web. Adopting hundreds of pages with images, tables, and outlines is not a terribly fun task; more a labor of love, but I am happy with the result and hope that it can provide a useful resource to any interested parties.
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.
I transitioned from the built-in 1&1 wordpress blog to a standalone upload of the lastest wordpress version, so I can have more control over everything, particularly the look and feel, although the widgest are cool too… :) For example I can easily include photos from flicker like this:
I added a few tools from freefind.com: a internal search, a what’s new page, and a site map. They come with some minimal advertising, so I might not keep them, but for now they work, and they let me use the Spirit Alchemy template to make them look decent.