The Encyclopedia of Magic and Alchemy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Encyclopedia of Magic and Alchemy write by Rosemary Guiley. This book was released on 2006. The Encyclopedia of Magic and Alchemy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive illustrated reference guide with more than 400 entries on the subjects of magic and alchemy.
Alchemy, Its Science and Romance
Alchemy, Its Science and Romance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alchemy, Its Science and Romance write by John Edward Mercer. This book was released on 1921. Alchemy, Its Science and Romance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Alchemy and Psychotherapy
Alchemy and Psychotherapy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alchemy and Psychotherapy write by Dale Mathers. This book was released on 2014-03-05. Alchemy and Psychotherapy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Alchemy in Contemporary Art
Alchemy in Contemporary Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alchemy in Contemporary Art write by Urszula Szulakowska. This book was released on 2011. Alchemy in Contemporary Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Rise of Alchemy in Fourteenth-Century England
The Rise of Alchemy in Fourteenth-Century England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise of Alchemy in Fourteenth-Century England write by Jonathan Hughes. This book was released on 2012-03-08. The Rise of Alchemy in Fourteenth-Century England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
