A l c h e m y
in Science, Psychology and Art
a symposium
Transmutation of Matter,
Transformation of the senses
Literary essays & Links Invited From:
Metallurgists Chemists Physicists
Psychotherapists
Historians
Artists Writers Sculptors
contact: Johnes Ruta
The Symposium program
Chronology of Topics :
Ancient
The Archaeology of Smelting
The Age of Bronze : Marriage of Copper and Tin
Confluences of Wisdom: Eros & the Divine Sophia
The Art of War : Iron and Steel
China : Chi of Matter
India : Castes of the Elements
Pythagoras : The Triangle and the Eye
Arabia : Medicine & the Soul :
Galen, Khalid, Jabir & al-Razi
Medieval & Renaissance
Stages of the Transmutation:
Calcinatio, Precipitatio, Sublimatio, et al
Kabbalah & Western Mystery
Raymond Lulle, Nicolas Flammel, & Robert Fludd
Paracelsus
Ficino, Bruno, & Pico della Mirandola
The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
The Visual Coniunctio of Leonardo
The Experimental Method of Modern Science
Calculus of the Monad
Metaphysical & Symbolist Literary Movements
Modern
Theosophy
The Psychology of the Unconscious
The Alchemy of 20th Century Art
Synchronicity and the Archetypes
The Alphabet, Language, and Metaphor
The Transformative Vision
