The article "Benefits of Learning Alchemy as Deep language" tells us that Alchemy and Chemistry referred to the same discipline. I think it is sad that they started to reserve the term Alchemy for attempts to transmute base metals into gold, making the this branch of knowledge more of a "magical" thing, then a science based knowledge. If there would not have been this separation, maybe the practitioners now practicing chemistry, would have been more open to terms as "Qi" and "the nature's mind".
To me it feels like chemistry, and maybe all sciences, are drifted away from nature and the bigger picture. Science, to me, is now more a really dry practice, where they try to understand things of nature by describing them in understandable packages in a language we understand, but it has nothing to do with the magic of the phenomenon. All of the sudden nature turns into this abstract concept, without any feeling or "magic". Like neuroscience who describe thinking, as "shooting neurons, that is all", while the human body is one of the most magical things that exist! Isn't it magical that our body works so perfectly and that "the shooting neurons" have an affect on our whole bodily system? And that the earth is a living system, perfectly able to take care and heal itself?
So my answer to this question is: Alchemy is the science of magic and art.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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i agree, the separation of "magic" from chemistry is unfortunate. sad and devitalizing for all involved. and the lack of connection to the deeper spiritual nature of scientific work has led to many disturbing consequences.
I like what you said about the way western science tends to reduce complex phenomena into tiny bits, instead of recognizing the magic of the whole.
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