The Alchemical Fool: Practical Alchemy for Everyday Use: Recent Episodes
The Alchemical Fool
Taking alchemical ideas and transforming them into advice and practices to help you in your day to day. Offering other ways to view mindfulness and other psych-tech with wisdom in the tradition of Newton, Jung, and others. Intro music from https://kabbalisticvillage.com/
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Hermes Trismegistus and about 40 different pronunciations of Asclepius. Or Ascelpius
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Love and Mystics
Love and Mystics
They go together like tartar and fish sticks...
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Working back to Egypt, then back to Crowley.
First of a few.
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Fig trees, huh? Well, see you later
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Dreams, naps, creativity, and benzene.
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Ladders, steps, and stairs, oh my!
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John Dee, the archetypal magician. A little bit of a wild character, but someone worth learning about.
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People who journal in glass houses should check the mirror first.
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“A jester unemployed is nobody's fool."
We finish out the Arcana series with a look at the Fool.
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Exiting the Arcana journey backwards, we remember where we have yet to go.
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Mother Nature invites you to learn wisdom at her feet. Also to eat corn.
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The masculine principle of order and civilization has some merit and worth to it.
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Not a card to be approached lightly, the Hierophant is the bridge between this world and the world beyond.
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All you need is love, or is it?
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In the words of Chamillionaire:
They see me rolling
They hating
Patrolling and trying to catch me riding dirty
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In a world where justice is sometimes the #1 priority, I wonder if it's even a worthy goal.
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The wise sage in our lives, and in the collective subconscious
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I had the awesome opportunity to talk with Owen Cyclops, and we tread a wide variety of ground in the mystical, occult, and otherwise strange.
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Round the wheel we go, where we'll stop, who knows?
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In which I wind up reading "Una and the Lion"
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The Hanged Man is an iconic character in the Arcana journey, and the hanged man imagery is found throughout media. Also some thoughts on the backbone of mythology in human consciousness
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How we deal with death on the journey of individuation and self-fulfillment. Also a few thoughts about horror movies.
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What is temperance? I think I make a decent case for what it is and how to think about it in the major arcana journey. I also made a new email for the show specifically:
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Thinking about the darkest cards in the Major Arcana, and the darkness in our lives.
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Digging back through the Arcana, and shedding some light on this trio of cards.
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Working backward through the major arcana decks, looking at some symbolism in the cards and more about tarot as an externalizing of the internal. This mini-arc will feature some one-offs of the more interesting cards, sometimes I'll group them together, but I like the idea of going back through these.
Major Arcana 20: Judgment.
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Working backward through the major arcana decks, looking at some symbolism in the cards and more about tarot as an externalizing of the internal. This mini-arc will feature some one-offs of the more interesting cards, sometimes I'll group them together, but I like the idea of going back through these.
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Paracelsus is one alchemist who is worth looking into.
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An entirely stream-of-consciousness rambling about anxiety and mindfulness as an agent of personal change. What mindfulness is and what it can do for you.
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Rolling dice as a way of life
An excellent chapter from a book on Roleplaying Games
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What do motivational speakers have to do with Alchemy? Change.
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I love ghost stories, but ultimately I'm a skeptic.
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How meat has changed us, and how we've changed meat.
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Whose plumb-line is it anyway?
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Thoughts on the changes we may be going through
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There are two general approaches to making the philosopher's stone- the wet method and the dry method. In my opinion the best methods to make pizza dough and steak are both philosopher's stones of cooking- they take time.
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A brief primer on the very basic outline of alchemy and the use of alchemy as metaphor.
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