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The flame and its heat play an essential role in a multitude of alchemical operations, such as distillation or calcinatio (drying). The police are also called “the heat.” A criminal who hasn’t been caught yet is always concerned about avoiding the heat. A criminal who has been detected wants to escape or outwit the heat.
Connie Zweig • Meeting the Shadow
When we are willing to accept the darkness, it is only then that we find the light.
Brianna Wiest • The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
The adequate question therefore never is: Have I a shadow problem? Have I a negative side? But rather: Where does it happen to be right now? When we cannot see it, it is time to beware! And it is helpful to remember Jung’s formulation that a complex is not pathological per se. It becomes pathological only when we assume that we do not have it;
... See moreConnie Zweig • Meeting the Shadow
The Emerald Tablet , the Smaragdine Table , or the Tabula Smaragdina [a] is a compact and cryptic Hermetic text.[1] It was a highly regarded foundational text for many Islamic and European alchemists.[2] Though attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus, the text of the Emerald Tablet first appears in a number of early... See more
Emerald Tablet
The more we synchronize ourselves with the time in clocks, the more we fall out of sync with our own bodies and the world around us. Borrowing a term from the environmentalist Bill McKibben, Michelle Bastian, a senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and editor of the academic journal Time & Society, has argued that clocks have made us “fatally
... See moreJoe Zadeh • The Tyranny Of Time
There’s something about entering a movie theater on a weekday afternoon that resets your mind. The context is so novel—“most people are at work right now!”—that it shakes you loose from your standard state of anxious reactivity. This mental transformation is cleansing and something you should seek on a regular basis.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Each soul that arrives in this world carries a hidden spark that burns with varying levels of intensity throughout life. The spark of life is the inner nature of the person seen in its fiery form. This spark of the soul generates both bodily heat and inner intensities. It burns with the heat of libido or vital life energy that makes us warm-blooded... See more
