Tag Archives: Transformation

Three Essential Alchemical Elements

In this talk I explore the Three Essential Alchemical Elements including applying them to a number of different areas of life.  As with most things in life, it’s about how to achieve balance with these elements rather than making any seem more important than any others.

Below is a talk I gave exploring the Three Essential Elements in Alchemy:

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Three Elemental Principles in Alchemy and Four Color Phases of Transformation

In Alchemy, there are many elements that are discussed and several maps of transformation.  This talk I cover the three fundamental Alchemical principles of Mercury, Sulfur and Salt as well as the four color phases of Black, White, Yellow and Red.

Below is a talk I gave on the Three Principle Elements in Alchemy and the Four Color Phase model of Alchemy:

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Alchemy as a Model for Psychology

Many people know that Carl Jung was very open to the mystical and metaphysical and that had an impact on his model of Psychology.  What most people aren’t aware of is that certain elements of Alchemy, especially imagery and language had an impact on even Freud in the development of Psychology and Psychotherapy.

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Below is a talk I gave on how Alchemy served as a model for the development of early Psychology and Psychotherapy.

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Decoding the Emerald Tablet Part 2

This is the second talk I gave on The Emerald Tablet.  In this talk I expand on what I had covered earlier in terms of polarity and geometry.  The main area of focus of this talk is how the Seven Stages of Alchemy come out of The Emerald Tablet and, most importantly, how we can understand these phases and move through them in our every day lives.

This is a visual depiction of The Seven Stages known as Azoth of the Philosophers:

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In this second I cover is how to work with the seven stages as a map  as well as two big obstacles to completing a process, attachment and aversion.

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