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We cling to things, people, beliefs, and behaviors not because we love them, but because we are terrified of losing them.

Alchemy itself has been seen as gold making, Self-making, and God making, and there are also the divides between phenomena and noumena, limit and transcendence, mechanism and vitalism, thought and being, image and idea, spirit and nature, soul and spirit, ontology and history, absolutism and relativism.

The theory of compensation that these figures supposedly exemplify begins with Alfred Adler, the third, least-known, and shortest-lived member of the great therapeutic triumvirate of Freud, Jung, Adler. His studies of gifted personalities universalized the idea of compensation into a basic law of human nature. His evidence, gathered in art schools

The cosmologies of today—big bangs and black holes, antimatter and curved, ever-expanding space going nowhere—leave us in dread and senseless incomprehensibility. Random events, nothing truly necessary. Science’s cosmologies say nothing about the soul, and so they say nothing to the soul, about its reason for existence, how it comes to be and where

Mark Stavish, who defines an Egregore as an “occult autonomous psychic entity composed of and influencing the thoughts of a group of people.”3 As I shall discuss in more detail later, the word “Egregore” is Greek in origin and derived from egregoros, meaning “wakeful” or “watchful”.