December 2008 – It's Elemental

Poems

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.

December 29, 2008

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

December 28, 2008

new Flickr photos

Finally got around to weeding through recent photos and posting some to Flickr.

Most notably, these include a trip to Palm Springs and some amazing flowers at a bed and breakfast (Elements, I believe it’s called) on Whidbey Island.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/spiritself

Here’s a sample: