Alchemy is known as the Science and Art of Transformation from a lesser to a more noble state, be that of Spirit, Soul, or of the physical being. The alchemists defined this as the raising of vibrations, and is best known as the process of the transmutation of Lead to Gold. In the mystical sense we understand this as being the transformation of the baser, dark crudeness of that which is belonging to the worldly consciousness into the finer, brighter light of philosophical gold, as the incarnated sun, light of the soul, the higher self and cosmic consciousness.
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Alchemy is described as a science because there is a certain knowledge and technique to its operation known as the Modus Operandus. The ancient texts write, "Seek ye the secret fire, for without it nothing can be achieved in our...
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J. Krishnamurti Tradition and Revolution Dialogue 2 New Delhi 14th December 1970 `Alchemy and mutation'
Questioner P: I was considering whether it would be worthwhile to discuss the ancient Indian attitude to alchemy and mutation and to see whether the findings of alchemy have any relevance to what you are saying. It is significant that Nagarjuna, one of the great propounders of Buddhist thought, was himself an alchemist Master. The search of the alchemist in India was not directed so much to turning base metal into gold, as to an investigation into certain psychophysical and chemical processes in which, through mutation the body and mind could be made free of the ravages of time and the processes of decay. The field of investigation included mastery of breath, the partaking of an elixir brewed in the laboratory, a substance wherein mercury played a vital part, and a triggering of an explosion in consciousness. The action of the three leads to a mutation of body and mind. The symbolism used by the alchemist was sexual; mercury was the male seed of Shiva, mica the seed of the goddess; the union of the two, not...
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Hi Angelina If there are pieces that you don't understand just ask. The letters Shin is the spirit of God and the root of fire, this is a significant thing. When the spirit of God (Shin) hovered upon the waters of the deep (mem) God said letter there be light. Mem is our salt and its processes. When the spirit or fire ignites the dead head a flame rises, the flame rises from the earth to the heavens creating light. There is much here. God's bride who is Shekinah is by tradition the only way we can know God, she is God's fiery bride. This is expressing the processes of the vision of the Holy Guardian Angel and the conversation. The Zohar says that when Tetragrammaton ends in Dallet 4 it is poverty but when it ends in Hey 5 it is prosperity. 1 is the difference between 4 & 5, 4 is the elements 5 is the quintessence - the flame alights and rises, the fire serpent. The fire and the serpent both hiss, SHHHHH this is the partial phonetics of Shekinah SHHHHH. Strangely enough it is the sound we make...
Why is it called a "Stone" first of all ? Herein lies the clue as to what it is. Spiritual energies are volatile energies. They are not too useful to us in their volatile states. To integrate these energies with our physical aspects, we must be able to fix these energies from their volatility and bring heaven down to earth. At the same time, one cannot just blend the volatile with that which is fixed, the body. We must open and volatilize the fixed. The terrestrial aspect of consciousness must ascend to heaven and descend again new born to earth, bringing with it the imbibing of the above. This is a great work of dedication, discipline and repetition. In this way there is a blending, a kneading like when kneading dough. Also look at the potter when he mixes water and clay. One cannot just drown his clay, it will wash away. He must imbibe the clay slowly with his water. To create the stone, we must open our matter, subtlelise it so that the volatile can enter and merge with it until the fixed and the volatile make one thing as an in-between substance of spirit and matter, fixed...
We are pleased to announce a conference on Deleuze and Guattari which will take place at Santral Istanbul (provided by Istanbul Bilgi University) between April 22-24, 2010 with confirmed plenary speakers: Constantin Boundas, Arkady Plotnitsky, Rosi Braidotti, Dorothea Olkowski, Claire Colebrook, Gary Genosko, Mahmut Mutman and Daniel W. Smith.
Among the confirmed artists are: Richard Pinhas, FR. Pier Giorgio De Pinto, IT. Anthony Donovan, UK. Ridha Dhib and Elisabeth Celle, FR.
Please find below the CFP (NB: application deadline September 1, 2009).
RESONANCE(S) A Deleuze and Guattari Conference on Philosopy, Arts and Politics
"The function of philosophy is to create concepts … Creating isn’t communicating but resisting … Creation takes place in choked passages." G. Deleuze
Resonance as a nomadic concept in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari still throws light and shades to our understanding of the problematical relationship between philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis and arts on the one hand, and the spectacle or the specular on the other. What kind of a concept is resonance? Can it be theorised or should it simply be left untheorised? What are its implications for the concept of a concept? What are the conditions of its distribution in the work of Deleuze and...
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Running concurrent with the thread of psychodynamic therapies is the current of Consciousness Studies which lately has taken the bedfellow of Complexity and Chaos Theory. Consciousness Studies are multidisciplinary inquires into the physical, psychological and social nature of consciousness, spirituality and the cosmos.
The realm of consciousness studies has shed light on the seamlessly welded relationship of mindbody, therefore many physicists, psychiatrists, and medical doctors have a strong presence in the field. The most avante-garde in this arena postulate, with the ancient Vedas, that it is ALL consciousness--that all we perceived and experience is a form of maya, the construct of our filtering senses and mind. The latest finding in Quantum Cosmology, for example, tell us counter-intuitively that at the cosmic scale nothing moves--rather, space is expanding rapidly from every so-called 'point.'
Physics ran into the same conundrum regarding subjectivity decades ago in the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics, which required the observing presence of the experimenter to collapse the wave-function. This led to the development of the Uncertainty Principle, and the relationship has not yet been satisfactorily resolved. Now we find that chaotic systems do not respond statistically to probability, but with unpredictable yet deterministic turbulence....
Source: Adam McLean's Alchemy Website @ www.levity.com Included in Five treatises of the Philosophers' Stone, London 1652.
Gold, Sol, Sun, Brasse of Philosophers, the body of Magnesia, a pure body, clean, ferment of Elixir, Masculine, Argent vive fixt, Sulphur incombustible, Sulphur red, fixed, the rubibe stone, kybrik, a man, greene vitrioll, burnt brasse, red earth: the water that is distilled from these things, is named of the Philosophers, the taile of the Dragon, a pure wind, ayre, life, lightning, the house, the afternoone light, virgin’s milke, sal armoniack, sal niter, the wind of the belly, white fume, red water of sulphur, tartar, saffron, water, the white compound, stinking water, the filthiness of the dead bloud, Argent vive, a Cucurbite with his Alimbeck, the vessell of the Philosophers, a high man with a Sallet, the belly of a man in the midst, but in the end it is called the fot, or the feet, or on the which feet, or earth is calcined, rosted, congealed, distilled, or made still and quiet: the shaddow of the Sun, a dead body, a crowne overcoming a cloud, the bark of the Sea, Magnesia,...
I. Bókkon. Dream pictures, neuroholography and the laws of physics. Journal of sleep research. 2006 Vol. 15. Supplement I. Abstract. p:187.
According to the laws of physics, electrical signals generate visible pictures if electrical signals are converted to electromagnetic waves (EMW) of the visible range (light photons of wavelengths between 350-700 nm). During dreams our eyes are closed, so the brain is isolated from visible EMWs of the surroundings, yet we can see visible dream pictures. It follows from the foregoing that electrical signals of the brain processes can generate visible pictures of dreams if and only if electrical signals are converted to weak, EMWs of the visible range (biophotons) in the brain. Nobody can explain origin of visible dream pictures if only the laws of physics are being taken into consideration! The homeotherm state and REM phases of sleep are developed simultaneously in evolution. In homeotherm creatures there appear well-regulated body and brain temperatures, restricted neurogenesis, and well-structured neuronal systems, which bear a relationship to the holograph-like operating mechanism of the brain. Exact temperature regulation is important for many holographic systems, because holographic pictures can be deformed if temperature fluctuations are too large. A...
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Visual homunculus by fast feedback and iterative processes Bókkon I. 2009
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Any kind of phenomena can be mystic, while we do not understand its mechanism and function. It seems that visual homunculus also belongs to these mystic phenomena. Recently, Bókkon (2009, BioSystems) proposed a redox molecular hypothesis about the natural biophysical substrate of visual perception and imagery. Namely, the retina transforms photon signals from the external visual world into electrical signals that are conveyed to the V1. These retinotopic electrical signals can be converted into regulated biophoton signals by mitochondrial redox processes that make it possible to generate intrinsic biophysical picture representation in retinotopically organized cytochrome oxidase rich visual areas during visual imagery and visual perception. This daring hypothesis not only resuscitated Kosslyn’s depictive representaion theory and homunculus, but claims that biophysical pictures can emerge in the brain. Here, we suggest a possible simple mechanism as the visual homunculus can be achieved by the help of feedback and iterative processes. Namely, biophysical pictures by very fast feedback and iterative processes give rise to that feeling as if a homunculus would look at the picture in our brain during visual imagery. Moreover, we propose that our brain can use both...
And, in my understanding (verified by a Hebrew translation of the original words) -- the word "waters," taken figuratively, means simply the condition of primal or absolute space ("the deep")... Which, before becoming the initial cosmic radiant triune hyperspherical cosmic fields that subsequently fractally involve, becoming denser and denser, until the first fundamental particles appear... Some of whom eventually combine -- first, into atoms and later into H2O. So, which cane first, the water or the light is a moot question.
Thus, in the correct interpretation, such spacetime is like "water" -- which, being one thing, totally interconnected, can mold itself into any shape or form simply through the actions-reactions governed by fundamental laws of nature.... "Earth" refers to the manifest spacetime field, reflected later in the physical planet Earth before life appeared... And ponderable mass is simply condensed energy -- making everything in the universe nothing but pure energy, or as Einstein said, "spacetime in motion." So, which came first, the water on Earth or the energy (of light)? No paradox here like the chicken and egg conundrum.;- )
Therefore, since water requires atoms of hydrigen and oxygen (which are made up fundamentally of photon/electron fields) -- obviously, light...
