Transpersonality: Trees of Life & Death [Shoreline] “One thing meanwhile stands firm: the real, the original, way from the whirlpool lies in heaven. With this finding, one may plunge again into the bewildering jungle of ‘earthly’ myths concerning the Waters from the Deep.” ~Giorgio de Santillana & Hertha von Dechend [Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay Investigating Read More…
Tag: Alchemy
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter Two
From Alchemy to Psychoanalysis [Map with an ‘X’] “I’ve been crawling on my belly Clearing out what could’ve been I’ve been wallowing in my own confused And insecure delusions For a piece to cross me over Or a word to guide me in I wanna feel the changes coming down I wanna know what I’ve Read More…
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Prologue
A Fight in a Phone Booth [Ocean] “This life is hard, my mental level is odd Like devils versus gods, there’s a war inside my mind going on Squads represent these separate emotions Three quarters of us is made of water, Now it’s land versus ocean.” – Existence Ill Bill (Non Phixion) Click Here for Read More…
Cannabis in Symbolism & Metaphysics
When a cannabis-user is criticized for their choice of substance, it has become oft-cited and incredibly valid to retort with the use of cannabis among the ancient Chinese, right alongside opium. The oldest recorded documentation of cannabis being prescribed to patients dates back to an ancient Chinese medical compendium, with a description of uses that Read More…
Interview Uncut w/ Symmetry: Music, Alchemy, & Addiction
This week, Anthony Tyler of The Last American Vagabond had the opportunity to sit down with musician, Mike Slap, aka Symmetry, to discuss some of his upcoming music, his previous work with producer Ryan Lewis & Macklemore and the Junky LP, the trials and tribulations of mastering an art, and even some comprehensive metaphysical analysis. Mike Read More…
Psychotherapy as Alchemy
Through the looking-glass, down the rabbit hole—peering into the kaleidoscope. Whether a person is a materialist or a spiritualist, a human being’s birth is the first initiation—and it is an initiation of a certain sequence or order(the individual consciousness of the newborn) into the fractal mathematics of relationship that dictates the material world—the chaos of Read More…