Modern alchemy leaches gold from water
Modern alchemy leaches gold from water
A small French start-up company is selling a technology with a hint of alchemy: turning water into gold.It does so by extracting from industrial waste water the last traces of any rare—and increasingly...
A small French start-up company is selling a technology with a hint of alchemy: turning water into gold.It does so by extracting from industrial...
A small French start-up company is...
Jun 8
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Initiations
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Initiations
Initiation is just one of these things either discussed in silent, mysterious tones or off-handedly in a way which indicates that absolutely, positively everybody is aware of what initiation is and if you do not...
Initiation is just one of these things either discussed in silent, mysterious tones or off-handedly in a way which indicates that absolutely...
Initiation is just one of these...
May 13
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Oh! To Be Like Water: Fluid, Adaptive, Full of Kinetic Energy
Oh! To Be Like Water: Fluid, Adaptive, Full of Kinetic Energy
Be like water. Water’s adaptive fluidity is the need of the times. This post from The Mind Unleashed highlights how the water metaphor teaches us to...
Be like water. Water’s adaptive fluidity is the need of the times. This post from The Mind Unleashed highlights how the water metaphor teaches us to...
Be like water. Water’s adaptive...
Mar 29
What the History of Alchemy Can Teach Us About Curiosity and Spiritual Transformation
What the History of Alchemy Can Teach Us About Curiosity and Spiritual Transformation
Alchemy is an ancient practice, ridden with mystery and secrecy…until now. While popularized by the medieval scientific quest to turn lead into gold...
Alchemy is an ancient practice, ridden with mystery and secrecy…until now. While popularized by the medieval scientific quest to turn lead into gold...
Alchemy is an ancient practice...
Mar 29
The strange number 0.577 keeps showing up in everything
The strange number 0.577 keeps showing up in everything
If you had to pick the most famous number in the world, you would probably go for pi, right? But why? Despite being crucial to our understanding of circles, it's not a particularly easy number to work with, because it's...
If you had to pick the most famous number in the world, you would probably go for pi, right? But why? Despite being crucial to our understanding of...
If you had to pick the most famous...
Mar 29
Ancient Alchemist: Nicolas Flamel
Ancient Alchemist: Nicolas Flamel
Nicolas Flamel 1330 - Paris, March 22, 1418 - was a successful French scrivener and manuscript-seller who developed a posthumous reputation as an alchemist due to his reputed work on the Philosopher's Stone.According to...
Nicolas Flamel 1330 - Paris, March 22, 1418 - was a successful French scrivener and manuscript-seller who developed a posthumous reputation as an...
Nicolas Flamel 1330 - Paris, March...
Mar 29
WHAT IS CALLED 'HEAVENLY CIRCLE' IN CHINESE ALCHEMY?
WHAT IS CALLED 'HEAVENLY CIRCLE' IN CHINESE ALCHEMY?
A pupil asked: There are some practitioners who feel by themselves like qi moves in a circle through the Ren and Du Meridians, and therefore declare that the themselves have opened these channels. This method of...
A pupil asked: There are some practitioners who feel by themselves like qi moves in a circle through the Ren and Du Meridians, and therefore declare...
A pupil asked: There are some...
Mar 29
DAZUO MEDITATION
DAZUO MEDITATION
Most modern methods of practice rely on a meditation as a method of "enlightenment". The following text is an excerpt about meditation from the book of the Teacher of Single Yang."In the world there is a kind of method...
Most modern methods of practice rely on a meditation as a method of "enlightenment". The following text is an excerpt about meditation from the book...
Most modern methods of practice...
Mar 29
Rediscovering the Alchemy of Isaac Newton
Rediscovering the Alchemy of Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton, the English physicist and mathematician revered as the father of modern science, devoted a great deal of time to the study of alchemy. All told, he wrote more than 1 million words on chemistry’s medieval...
Isaac Newton, the English physicist and mathematician revered as the father of modern science, devoted a great deal of time to the study of alchemy...
Isaac Newton, the English...
Mar 29
THE ROSICRUCIANS AND THEIR SECRET DOCTRINE
THE ROSICRUCIANS AND THEIR SECRET DOCTRINE
The student of the history of occultism and the esoteric teachings, and even the average reader of current books and magazines, finds many references to "The Rosicrucians," a supposed ancient secret society devoted to...
The student of the history of occultism and the esoteric teachings, and even the average reader of current books and magazines, finds many references...
The student of the history of...
Mar 29
Management of Phakka Roga in Ayurveda
Management of Phakka Roga in Ayurveda
Kashyap samhita is one of the important ancient documents of kaumarbhritya. Kaumarbhritya is one among the eight branch of ayurveda. Kaumarbhritya consist from birth of baby up to he becomes capable of independent...
Kashyap samhita is one of the important ancient documents of kaumarbhritya. Kaumarbhritya is one among the eight branch of ayurveda. Kaumarbhritya...
Kashyap samhita is one of the...
Mar 29
Heart of Hinduism: Arts and Sciences
Heart of Hinduism: Arts and Sciences
India's arts and sciences are extensive and many may have predated their Western counterparts. These disciplines usually contained significant spiritual elements, and were not simply attempts to unethically exploit...
India's arts and sciences are extensive and many may have predated their Western counterparts. These disciplines usually contained significant...
India's arts and sciences are...
Mar 29