Thank you for this opportunity to study with you!

@@DianaRowanBrightWay and many thanks for your support and kind words - and your lovely music!

@@TheEsotericaChannel oh my goodness, I'm honored - thank you for words on my music! The harp has very interesting arcane connections. Love your Chopin theme music key choice ;)

As a practice step back see how plants make sugar. Magnesium sulfate well that's crystal vegetable oil. The philosophical stone is you. Your urine baked in ashes of hardwood and pine. What's there? What makes the tree petrified? Silver is aluminum and potassium! Potassium and sand is red!! Yet nitrogen chromate is as well. Potassium and sand gives platinum with aluminum! Nitrochromate makes everything gold it's already silicate so no need for sand!! It's epi genetics.

Perhaps the greatest contribution of Alchemy to a modern day student is to serve as evidence of the legitimacy and actuality of the art. A kind of "Where There's Smoke There's Fire" analogy at least that has been my experience. The huge collection of unintelligible kaleidoscopes of confounding images form an aggregate that can speak to your soul and awaken it.

Woo?

@@marshallmcluhan33 Nonsense.

@@pinkimietz3243 Thanks 🙏

Specifically new age, rambling, incoherent superstition

Exactly what I was thinking as well.

@@bryanmccaffrey4385 I would like to learn a bit more, how does alchemy achieve therapy

@@LondonMoneyCashEnterprise turning a leaden mindset into golden.

Glad it worked out!

It’s not a coincidence it’s called algorithm 😉

Well, once you further your understanding of alchemy and more specifically Hermeticism, you will realize there is no such thing as coincidence.

Sameee

synchronicity

Wow - glad you are sticking around!

"Deleting KZfaq" would be quite an undertaking! :)

Check out Let's Talk Religion and Robert Sepehr if you want a lot of comparative religion context to go along with it. Still a few good channels on here.

KZfaq can be deleted???????? I thought it was in build

@@sentientcardboarddumpster7900 I vouch for both.

How are you doing, Theo? The fact that you are reaching out for knowledge is strong and wise of you. I don't want to pry, but I have been where you are. Are you safe?

@@TheMurray1922 its how I was raised! Thank you for reaching out!! I am safe for now. Im in a hotel and we're really behind on the bill, but im hoping we can crowdfund to keep it through the holidays. My roomate and I are both very physically disabled, so we can't be on the streets, thats a death sentence. After, I should be able to get an apartment? My roomate is getting money from a relative that died, just enough to get through the fees and first months rent on a place. We just have to wait for the check and the processing once it arrives. Again, thank you so much for reaching out. It really means the world!!! I hate youve been in the same place, but the past tense there is a relief.

@@theob.6588 Hopefully you are still doing well

@@kamcat2901 I am making it! My partner is sick and the situation for us hasn't changed, but we are getting through.

@@theob.6588 How are you doing now? I would like to talk with you about this stuff and I have a similar situation myself...but I feel I'm more like a witch living in the woods. 😉

It finally worked

#facts

Thanks - no reason why we can't have fun as well! Glad you like the content!

Agree 👍👍

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quite eligant yourself -_-. we should chat sometime.

Lmao nerd

This reads like chatgpt wrote it ☠️

Thank you! I was wondering if there was a pdf floating around.

Glad you think so!

Dr. Justin Sledge is gutsy and daring. He is the epitome of an academic and a paragon of scholarship. I am thankful that he has created this channel to share his knowledge with us.

I tripped really bad one night recently and figured out what the flames of madness felt like. Funnily enough Elden ring helped make the connections from the flame storyline to its deep connection with humanity, and the bible/spiritual journey

@@childpeanut5095 Well that's a hell of an experience lol, hope that didn't affect you too negatively in the long term.

Or maybe better put(as I dont want to downplay whatever the previous history of your influence may have been unbeknownst to me) the marriage of your knowledge and the online medium for your prescence to have the possibility reaching all interested, was bond by fate! Much love sir

Mercury is vital in the production of gold. Mercury added to gold ore will form an amalgamation which then can be heated to vaporize the mercury and leave behind the gold. Subsequent heating would lead to a more pure metal. This is likely why they latched onto the idea as the transmutation of base metals into noble metals was a goal of the alchemic sciences. In the modern day the terms "base" and "noble" still exist in chemistry, but don't refer to the same concepts. Interestingly, of the 12 alchemical changes of state, 11 have been achieved by modern chemistry. This includes transmutation, lead to gold, by way of nuclear physics and particle accelerators. The final Magnum Opus, which is projection, eludes us, though there exist plenty of legends surrounding it. Hope that helps!

@@MrPSaun Good comment, thanks

Mercury also just stands out while being fairly easily accessible. Like it defies our intuition by being a metal that is liquid at room temperature, that just doesn't feel like it should happen. It also looks like silver and is incredibly reflective. For all of those reasons it's easy to understand why people across cultures have latched on to it. But yeah it is very ironic that they ignored what ended up being one of the most useful chemicals, but of course alchemy has roots from long before gunpowder was created so no one had any idea what potential sulfur had. Also I'd just like to say that it's never too late to learn a science like chemistry and it's more accessible than it has ever been. There are a ton of great chemistry channels, I'd personally recommend NileRed if you want to see some cool examples of chemical synthesis like creating cherry soda from plastic gloves.

It's basically viewed as a sustained mis-reading of historical alchemical texts. Now, that doesn't take away from Jung's approach being interesting for other reasons but his take does fundamentally misunderstand historical alchemical theory and practice - same with Atwood.

By ingesting Monoatic gold the dreams becomes awesomly more clear, so I think Jung is on to something big. My teeth also healed up. I think the stories about transforming led to gold is totally misleading propaganda. These aparatus are for extracting herbals for medicines the alchemical way, to get the whole spirit of the plant.

@@djribz I would be extremely careful about that since the only way to dissolve gold is with an extremely strong acid and those products do not say anything about what chemicals they contain. Gold on it's own does seem to be mostly harmless to ingest but you have no idea what it may be bonded do and it could possibly mess with your nerve cells given that it's a metal.

I got a copy from the R.A.M.S. library. If you have any experience with their books, what's your opinion on them? Because the grammar, so far, is abysmal.

Thanks so much for your support!

@@TheEsotericaChannel You're welcome, Dr. Sledge :)

Right on!

@@FraktalPriest Hello again Elios. If you are a reader, I think you would enjoy the book "Revelations On Interstellar Highway 10". I'm curious to hear of some of the mystical experiences that you've encountered. Regards, AO

@@asteroxfoundation It won't let me reply, must be the keywords I'm using..

@@FraktalPriest Did you get this reply? KZfaq's blocking algorithms does strange things sometimes.

@@asteroxfoundation Of course. You didn't use any ban words. I think some words I used in description of some of my mystical experiences were not allowed.

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No one expects HANNIBAL LECTER!

also his random dune insert!! do random but so cool

Glad the episode could help - hope you are well, friend!

ESOTERICA : Life is good. Focal aware seizures just make me see scatomas, have Déjà Rêvé (common with TLE), synesthesia/ideathesia and such. This stuff sort of feels like a super power. The focal aware can make my personality change a bit at the drop of a hat. They are mainly just exhausting, due to the muscle spasms and severe anxiety to panic attacks because I am scared of how I will act and if it will lead to Tonic-clonic/Myoclonic/Atonic seizures that are the ones that really suck. I got slotted by fate to share an ailment that many famous occultist and philosophers, and even artist like Di Vinci had. Called ‘epileptic personality disorder’ also called (Gestaut)-Geschwind Syndrome is more common medical term however it not well liked. One of the symptoms is that I tend to be loquacious and extremely detailed. Thank you, especially if you have made it this far. However Geschwind Syndrome has so much to do with the subjects at hand if you are curious; it has its problems but I feel in love with my epilepsy. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschwind_syndrome Many benedictions.

@@TormodiR Thanks for helping me understand! I've often heard of folks that experience temporal lobe epilepsy (I think maybe of Dostoevsky?) also having profound mystical experiences. There is just so much about the world and our varied experiences of it - I am humbled to learn!

@@TheEsotericaChannel Herakleitos and a few others remarked that many of the greats like Empedokles had “falling sickness” which is often translated as “epilepsy”. There have been some arguments on the philology/etymology however with the way Empedokles prostituted himself with newly found revelations of godhood after a long absence, well he is a man after my own heart in a sense. He credited with giving us the four ριζώματα//roots or elements as the later came to be called after Latin Etymology. However Empedokles was said to travel and we know that Eastern Influences weren’t uncommon in his area of Asia minor. There are depiction of Indra in Greek fashion as an example. Empedokles’ work mirrors that of the Tattwas. Making me think the east vs west aspect is a bit more complicated than we generally accept. I have quite the inner world myself. I don’t want to come off as chauvinistic but I am a very strong personality to say the least. Epilepsy is a weird colorful and picturesque world for me. It helps me see pattens and gives me the ability to visualize things fairly well. I am an undergrad in cultural//linguistic anthropology. I am working on it but health, COVID and being a dad make it tough. Regardless I am also happy to be an independent as well, hey it’s more grandiloquent than “arm-chair scholar” lol.

Ive come to understand its both, as you can do the same thing purifying chemicals

Alchemy was not a pseudo practice. The modern day interpretation of it being a metaphor is not what it actually is. As you transmute lower metals it is a deep connection and you go through the levels of the physical and spiritual awakenings because your tapping into another form of evolution of consciousness.

Corpuscular theory has nothing to do with Leibniz’ monadology. you can see Leibniz’s disparaging thoughts of corpuscular theories in response to Locke in the new essays Leibniz’ monads also have nothing to do with these monads in the video. There are different theories of what a monad is

If you're mostly interested in internal Alchemy you might be interested in Chinese meditation internal elixir practices, aka Neidan.

Welcome, friend. And yes, alchemy is very confusing; especially if you dont know where to start. When you are at the point in your journey, you will see, that this is all necessary for it especially relating to its history; as well as its character as a tradition; also these symbols are not only significant themselves; but how they related to the other symbols with it; as well as juxtaposition.

Thanks for watching!

Robert Shrewsbury Feb. 2021 I wrote this in such a way that one does not have to be a Scientist (with a degree) in order to understand it. Metallurgy and Alchemy Brief. What might be said about where element-particles come from, how they are made and if they can be altered? From the internet...“The entire variety of the elements and isotopes found in today's universe were created by Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, stellar nucleosynthesis, supernova nucleosynthesis, and by nucleosynthesis in exotic events such as neutron star collisions.” An Alchemy definition, from the internet: “The medieval forerunner of chemistry, based on the supposed transformation of matter. It was concerned particularly with attempts to convert base metals into gold or to find a universal elixir. (Includes) occult sciences, such as alchemy and astrology." These statements I found on the web under “Nucleosynthesis” and it made me think a bit on them. After my years of researching and experiments, I’d agree The “Big Bang” belief has some merit to it, however the amount of heat, pressure and radiation, I found works with far less than what is postulated or theorized and I have done tests to evidence this many times. Observing a natural form, a Volcano, exploding with heat and pressure, also produces a little radiation. The seeds of future metals, etc. are created in the pressure and heat. Sometimes, when it comes from deep enough in the Earth (where Potassium 40 is), it has even more radiation, because Potassium-40 is radioactive. Other times, there is Uranium or Thorium in the Earth where a Volcano explodes and this further ensures Nucleosynthesis from the combined materials, heat and pressure. In that type then, so many, many elements are spontaneously created, like platinum group metals, copper, zinc, silver, gold, rare-earth metals, etc. In short, Nucleosynthesis is Nature’s form of Alchemy on earth. This Nucleosynthesis can also be produced artificially in a Laboratory, a form of Alchemy and I have done this at least a hundred times with success and no failures. A mini-explosion produces radiation as well as a rifle or cannon shot out of the barrel of a weapon, but it is minor. However (powdered) Metal, even Iron placed in a container with the Proper Chemicals and a lid on it (like a bomb) and then heated to its ignition or flash-point, will spontaneously (explode). A mini “Big Bang”, it then changes the isotope configuration and creates multiple stable elements, including P.G.M’s, Au and Ag. This is Alchemy and nothing mystic about it. During WW2 the Germans were working on this in a similar way as I did. These tests have to be done with caution, sensibility and knowledge so that no one gets injured or other problems created. Cordially, Robert Shrewsbury robertshrewsbury13@gmail.com

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Great contemporary example

@@TheEsotericaChannel yes,it is. As is water. Would you rather drink fresh water from a lake? Or a faucet? Or distilled?

@@liliththerapper Why would anyone ever drink water from a lake? That could make you sick?

It's a bit difficult to say that anything is “superior” outright because we first need to establish what quality we are comparing. Synthetic diamonds do have several advantages over natural ones because they're created in a controlled environment. They are more pure for example and as a result stronger, this also gives them better electrical properties and heat conduction and makes them more transparant. The first four qualities are great for use in any sort of tool and is why synthetic diamond coatings have been used in power tools for decades, the last quality can matter in optical instruments but those rarely use diamonds anyways. That last quality does however matter for jewlery since that is all about subjective taste and synthetic diamonds do end up looking more like glass. Recently however companies have figured out how to add impurities to recreate the look of natural diamonds and at the same time manufacturing has improved allowing larger diamonds to be made at a cost where they can compete with natural ones. In response to this diamond mining companies have tries to push the idea that synthetic diamonds are somehow worse, as basically a form of competition. When it comes down to it though natural and synthetic diamonds are basically identical, having the same chemical structure and being formed in similar ways just at different speeds, synthetic diamonds are just preferable in most practical applications because we can closely control their formation and thus make diamonds with desireable properties. And when it comes down to it something like this is basically the case for everything, the division of artificial versus nature is ironically completely artificial and doesn't actually show up anywhere. We can for example produce estrogen both naturally and synthetically and the end result is the exact same molecule, which is better then? Well obviously neither because they're the same molecule but sometimes we need estrogen in a situation where it isn't produced naturally so we use the synthetic variety. Though fun fact we used to extract estrogen from mare urine up until the late 90s so it's only fairly recently that artificial synthesis became more practical than extracting it from a natural source. We have to remember that everything in nature came about through evolution and evolution is working with the exact same laws of nature and elements that us humans are working with so the only difference is just that evolution has had 4 billion years to experiment while we've only been doing this science thing for roughly 200 years. And that's why very often we just steal good ideas from nature because that's way easier than making it from scratch.

Also while I kinda used synthetic as a synonym for human made in biology and chemistry the word isn't used like that, evidencing the fact that there's no real difference between natural and manmade stuff. Like the method your cells use to create proteins is called Protein Synthesis, because synthesis just refers to the act of creating a molecule from some base components regardless of who does it.

you should do videos on them too, for those of us who don't read either!

The picatrix

Love it, too? Look at the the Japanese guy with the water crystals and with symmetry and cymatics too music in 432hz, etc.?

Water purification has already been invented, we've even invented like hundreds of different ways to do it with everything from tablets to straws and of course on a large city level scale, so you're a bit late to the party. I mean maybe there is some undiscovered and much better way out there but if your goal is to get rich this is probably a bad area to look into.

Theres only one secret

Then you don't really want to know about actual, historical alchemy. Yep, most episodes on alchemy deal with the stone of the philosophers.

@@TheEsotericaChannel BTW you are adorable and l ❤️ your mind 😊

Thanks - the more new-agey and Jungian alchemy stuff from the late 19th and 20th century make historical alchemy into a kind of modern self-help but that's pretty anachronistic. Historical alchemy was always a theory of and for transformation nature via 'art.'

@@TheEsotericaChannel ya I love Jung's work. I'm definitely into the spiritual, physiological and esoteric aspects. The academic and historical is interesting but not usually my focus. I figure it's all intertwined.

A lot of alchemists also just accidentally discovered really useful things like white phosphor and some useful reactions.

I believe there will be an easier way to do this in the not too distant future.

@@JB-if7pm Hell, at the rate that we are adding new, ultra-heavy elements to the Periodic Table, and adding to the ever-expanding list of quantum particles, it is certainly possible! 😎🤘

They lack purity of consciousness @ CERN. It can be done. ⚗️🧪🫧⚖️🤗

It’s fascinating all the stuff they tried to figure out and the ways they documented their findings, complete with drawings n all. Trying to create gold, imagine it not yet being known it cannot be done (well, certainly not with the available tools of the time, these comments say it might be possible today but I wasn’t aware) so it makes sense to try and figure out how to do it - the potential upside would’ve been huge. Must’ve been very interesting to have been working on those things, even if ultimately it didn’t really lead anywhere

@@JB-if7pm There is no possible easier way to do this, like it just isn't possible. Not that it matters to us because we don't need to create gold when there's plenty of it for us to mine even just here on Earth.

I wish I could meet you or see more of your work. You sound b@tshit crazy :)