Alchemy

Author : Rosemary Guiley
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438130007
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Magic and Alchemy written by Rosemary Guiley and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive illustrated reference guide with more than 400 entries on the subjects of magic and alchemy.

Author : John Edward Mercer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alchemy, Its Science and Romance written by John Edward Mercer and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dale Mathers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317801040
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alchemy and Psychotherapy written by Dale Mathers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alchemical symbols are part of popular culture, most recently popularised in the Harry Potter books. Alchemy intrigued Carl Jung, the founder of analytical psychology. It inspired him as he wrote ‘the Red Book’ - the journal of his voyage of internal discovery. He devoted much of his life to it, using alchemical symbols as metaphors for unconscious processes. Alchemy and Psychotherapy explores the issue of alchemy in the consulting room and its application to social and political issues. This book argues against the dominant discourse in contemporary psychotherapy - scientific materialism - and for the discovery of spiritual meaning. Alchemy and Psychotherapy has four main sections: ‘Alchemy and meaning’ - looks at the history of alchemy, particularly the symbol of the coniunctio - sacred marriage - a metaphor for the therapeutic relationship. 'The symbolic attitude’ - explores working with dreams, fairytales, astrology and the body: each of which is a symbolic language. ‘The spirit and the natural world’ - discusses the concept of 'burn out' - of therapists, our ecological resources, the mystical aspects of quantum physics and the philosophical underpinning of symbol formation. ‘Clinical Applications’ - shows alchemy’s use with victims of abuse, those struggling to secure gender identity, in anorexia and in ‘social healing’ - atonement and restorative justice - which apply the idea of the coniunctio. Alchemy and Psychotherapy is illustrated throughout with clinical examples, alchemical pictures and poetry which emphasise that alchemy is both a creative art and a science. Bringing together contributors from a wide range of disciplines, Dale Mathers and contributors show that therapy is both art and science, that the consulting room is the alchemical laboratory, and that their research is their creative engagement. Alchemy and Psychotherapy will be a valuable resource for practitioners, students at all levels of psychotherapy, analytical psychology, psychoanalysis and creative, art-based therapies and for creative practitioners (in film, literature and performing arts) who draw on Jung’s ideas.

Author : Urszula Szulakowska
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754667360
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alchemy in Contemporary Art written by Urszula Szulakowska and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alchemy in Contemporary Art analyzes how twentieth-century artists, beginning with French Surrealists of the 1920s, have appropriated concepts and imagery from the western alchemical tradition. Examining artistic production from ca. 1920 to the present, with an emphasis on artistic on the 1970s to 2000, the author discusses the work of familiar as well as lesser known artists to provide a critical, theorized overview of the alchemical tradition in 20th-century art.

Author : Jonathan Hughes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441142789
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Alchemy in Fourteenth-Century England written by Jonathan Hughes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alchemists did more than try to transmute base metals into gold: they studied planetary influences on metals and people, refined plants and minerals in the search for medicines and advocated the regeneration of matter and spirit. This book illustrates how this new branch of thought became increasingly popular as the practical and theoretical knowledge of alchemists spread throughout England.Adopted by those in court and the circles of nobility for their own physical and spiritual needs, it was adapted for the diagnosis and therapeutic treatment of the illnesses of the body politic and its head, the king. This is the first work to synthesize all aspects of alchemy and show its contribution to intellectual, social and political life in the fourteenth century. Hughes explores a rich body of manuscripts to reveal the daily routines of the alchemist and his imaginative mindscape, and considers the contribution of alchemy to the vernacular culture and political debate, leading to a reassessment of the intellectual life of the middle ages.

Author : Arthur Edward Waite
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Tradition in Alchemy written by Arthur Edward Waite and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert Stanley Redgrove
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alchemy: ancient and modern, being a brief account of the alchemistic written by Herbert Stanley Redgrove and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir
Publisher : Mundus Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.IB/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry written by Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir and published by Mundus Publishing. This book was released on 1902 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alchemist written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne J. Mamary
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476681341
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alchemical Harry Potter written by Anne J. Mamary and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Harry Potter first boards the Hogwarts Express, he journeys to a world which Rowling says has alchemy as its "internal logic." The Philosopher's Stone, known for its power to transform base metals into gold and to give immortality to its maker, is the subject of the conflict between Harry and Voldemort in the first book of the series. But alchemy is not about money or eternal life, it is much more about the transformations of desire, of power and of people--through love. Harry's equally remarkable and ordinary power to love leads to his desire to find but not use the Philosopher's Stone at the start of the series and his wish to end the destructive power of the Elder Wand at the end. This collection of essays on alchemical symbolism and transformations in Rowling's series demonstrates how Harry's work with magical objects, people, and creatures transfigure desire, power, and identity. As Harry's leaden existence on Privet Drive is transformed in the company of his friends and teachers, the Harry Potter novels have transformed millions of readers, inspiring us to find the gold in our ordinary lives.