The Lion Will Become Man: Alchemy and the Dark Spirit in Nature—A Personal Encounter

One could say that they are like different interpretations and portrayals of the same story or play, taking place in anything from three to five discernible acts or phases, named after colors: nigredo (blackening), albedo (whitening), citrinas (yellowing), and rubedo (reddening). (In later alchemical texts, from the fifteenth century, citrinas was

It was here, during my first semester of the M.A. Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program, that I became exposed to Jung’s studies of the medieval practice of alchemy, especially his magnum opus Mysterium Coniunctionis. Today, as a professor of depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in California, this subject remains one of my pr

Individuation is a path of psychological transformation by which one comes to realize one’s unique individuality, while over -coming inner disunity in an affirmative acceptance of the depths of one’s character and the wholeness of one’s experience. Individuation brings the conscious ego, the “I” principle, with its more or less exclusively personal

The observed changes in the matter, brought about by various chemical operations, named in Latin (such as separatio, coniunctio, calcinatio, solutio, sublimatio, and coagulatio), were actually a reflection or projection of the inner workings of the human psyche.