... empire. I don't mean the American empire, I mean the empire of European thinking. Created in the wake of the Prodestant Reformation and the rise of modern industrialism. The empire in short of science. Science has exhausted itself and become mere techni. It's still able to perform it's magical tricks but it has no claim on a metaphysic worth any meaning. Because the program of rational understanding that was persued by science has pushed so deeply into the phenomenon of nature, that the internal contradictions of the method are now exposed for all to see" -Terence McKenna
This was animated from a 16 century piece of Alchemical artwork titled The chemical Preparation of Aurum Portable (Sadeler ll, Kilian, Geiger)
The Aurum Portable is the liquid version of the 'Philosophers stone'. A liquid that can cure all ails. Despite the pop-culture comodification of Alchemy the goal was not to create an actual physical stone. But the entire Enterprise being a metaphore for the psyche. The entire goal of Alchemy was to change ones mind and psyche. To delve into the subconcious and bring fire to the things undesireable until they were molded into something more pure. The ultimate goal being that of a mind resembling the Philosophers Stone. Having the ability to do anything. Go anywhere any be anything. .
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Nice
Loving that quote from McKenna