"Enter alchemy – thing-words, image-words, craft-words. The five supposed sources of alchemy are each a technology. Each is a handwork physically grappling with sensate materials: (1) Metallurgy and Jewelry: mining, heating, smelting, forging, annealing; (2) Cloth and Fiber Dyeing: dipping, coloring, drying; (3) Embalming the Dead: dismembering, evacuating, infusing, preserving; (4) Perfumery and Cosmetics: grinding, mixing, distilling, diluting, evaporating; …
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Class Notes – Session Eight
Session Eight of the Jung Platform's online class on James Hillman's book, "Alchemical Psychology," moves the work from forge to stove, in which the use of glass vessels for heating the material make alchemy both possible and psychological. "Glass also separates observer from observed. It is the material of distancing, separating events from life by …
Class Notes – Session Six*
In Class Six of the Jung Platform's online series, Alchemical Psychology, presenters Robbie (Robert Bosnak) and Pat (Patricia Berry) begin with a discussion on deriving meaning from matter, or the materials. This is a continuation of the discussion on fueling the fire in alchemy which needs heat to purify and transform the metals, or materials. Knowing …
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