Alchemy Quote by Terence McKenna Download Open image “Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.” — Terence McKenna ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alchemy Alchemy Really Inspirational Inspirational life Life Matter Redemption Redemption Spirit Religion Secret Secret Tradition Spirit Spirit Matter Tradition Tradition Redemption
The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about. — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the… — William Temple Copy Share Image
Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul of the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We find that alchemy has to do with magicians or magic and may even have roots in the Chaldean people who lived in the… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
When we believe we have all the answers, we are not open to mystery. To begin a mystical journey, you have to start with… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
I want to explain the new alchemy [in the "From Earth, Air, Fire, and Water to a New Vision of Mind and Time"], which… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use,… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“...the world is only the visible aspect of God. And that what alchemy does is to bring spiritual perfection into contact with the material… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“You must learn to bend to open windows, my friend. That is why artists and dancers are closest to God. They clench their chests… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Every human being has gone through a tragedy of sorts. And the idea is that you have two paths you can take, you can… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
“Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.” — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
“She pushed the book towards them, and Harry and Ron read: The ancient study of alchemy is concerned with making the Philosopher's Stone, a… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Arya Maloney updates the basis and practice of transpersonal psychology by using the spiritual principles of India's masters and the transformational alchemy inherent in… — Arnold Mindell Copy Share Image
“To follow our bliss and dive deeply into the mysteries of fragrance, color, and taste; blend with the magnificent diversity of mother nature; and… — Prana Gogia Copy Share Image