It's Elemental

Tag: Alchemy

  • swallowing the sun

    what spirit speaks the heart re-echoes
    its lofty chambers with choric ringing 
    twist and fold in timely rhythm
    the fountain’s deep moods springing  

    unshadowed now, revealed and waking
    all forge and fire, veils rent aside
    the swallowed sun, see! – beaming again
    ‘cross the rivers, stride in stride

    the call’s heard round from distant shores
    the ferryman’s change cast far away
    for the light, in the light of what must come
    all self’s entreating sleeps this day

    for no ‘troth be had ‘cept to purest gold
    with transforming beat of future’s time
    sounding now through wordless Love
    the spinning forth of spiral line

    seen from above, auricles embracing
    hearing blood’s poems shouting alight
    the heart, this heart, carries forth the sign
    and the eye awakens in the night 


    The Swallowed Sun
    The Swallowed Sun



  • SA Updates

    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.

  • 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

  • Website version of thesis: DONE!

    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.

  • 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.