Comments on: The Resurgence of Alchemy http://www.starchamber.com/1996/09/the_resurgence_of_alchemy.html Ned Gulley's Blog. Resident buzzwords: wise crowds, accelerated design, swarm robotics, synthetic biology. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:08:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: chiz http://www.starchamber.com/1996/09/the_resurgence_of_alchemy.html/comment-page-1#comment-61161 chiz Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:14:20 +0000 http://starchamber.com/?p=11#comment-61161 Good post. You make some great points that most people do not fully understand. "Much as astrology is now associated only with the frothiest part of a rich tradition, so too we find that alchemy is now identified only with the thoroughly debunked notion of turning lead into gold. If we persist in viewing it only as a lapsed proto-chemistry, we are wiping out a vast store of accumulated wisdom with implications far beyond metallurgy. What we call alchemy today is only the discredited part of a much richer, more compelling tradition that is fundamentally about putting man into harmony with a living, interconnected universe." I like how you explained that. Very helpful. Thanks. Good post. You make some great points that most people do not fully understand.

“Much as astrology is now associated only with the frothiest part of a rich tradition, so too we find that alchemy is now identified only with the thoroughly debunked notion of turning lead into gold. If we persist in viewing it only as a lapsed proto-chemistry, we are wiping out a vast store of accumulated wisdom with implications far beyond metallurgy. What we call alchemy today is only the discredited part of a much richer, more compelling tradition that is fundamentally about putting man into harmony with a living, interconnected universe.”

I like how you explained that. Very helpful. Thanks.

]]> By: james http://www.starchamber.com/1996/09/the_resurgence_of_alchemy.html/comment-page-1#comment-5 james Tue, 13 Dec 2005 02:29:30 +0000 http://starchamber.com/?p=11#comment-5 please, though that was very imformative, i should have you know that Nicholas Flamel turned mercury into gold three times (see www.iras.ulcalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Flammel.htm) i just want to know how he did it. Can you tell me? please, though that was very imformative, i should have you know that Nicholas Flamel turned mercury into gold three times (see http://www.iras.ulcalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Flammel.htm) i just want to know how he did it. Can you tell me?

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