A wonderful day meeting new friends and sharing the "separation from the Beloved," which invites this brief excursion into the heart of Rumi: There is a candle in your heart... There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, …
Citrinitas and Rubedo
Expanding thoughts on the alchemical yellow from sara annon.
Alchemical Psychology – Part V, Yellow
We start off the chapter on yellow with a brief mention that many alchemists did not include the stage of yellow, especially in the later years of alchemy's heyday, but moved directly from white to red. Hillman, who was himself trained as a Jungian analyst, suggests that Jung included the yellow because he was fond …
The Symbolism of Alchemy
Some wonderful background to Alchemy from muscleheaded. Enjoy!
Alchemy is so much more than arcane chemical experimentation, but a system of symbols and processes with a spiritual purpose.
For the student of self, a wonderful source of helpful, instructive symbolic concepts is alchemy.
The great psychologist Carl G. Jung spent many years studying the esoteric, intentionally abstruse mass of literature relating to alchemy, determined to demonstrate that the true goal of alchemy, ‘The Philosophers Stone’, was not a literal substance to turn base metals into gold, but a symbolic process to turn base man into Actualized Self: the process of individuation. <*8>
On this subject, Gerhard Adler wrote: “… the best alchemists knew that they were aiming at the gold within themselves. In all their writings, there is a clear indication that the aim is Self.
Jung himself said that alchemy was somehow the mirror image of psychology.” <*6>
One need only study a few of the alchemical…
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All We Are Saying…
During the summer of love, 1967, I turned 9 years old. The winter before, I stayed home sick with mononucleosis - out of school for 8 weeks. With plenty of time spent resting on the living room couch, television on, I became acutely aware of the horrors of the Vietnam war. Two years later, a …
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