I believe in some things some might call "pseudoscientific bullshit", yet I'd like to think I'm thoughtful about it.
@Ulfra_Wolfe same, although I feel that the word "believe" is somewhat stretched here. Merely because I find value in a concept doesn't mean I "believe" in it, in the conventionally understood way.
@Ulfra_Wolfe Take, for example, my growing curiosity about devising a personal alchemy. One person's "pseudoscience" is another person's deeply felt mythology--at long as it's acknowledged AS mythology, and not as a statement about the nature of physical reality.
@kara_dreamer @Ulfra_Wolfe Alchemy is made up of two fields one being modification of ones soul, the other is what likely evolved into early chemistry.
@codeawayhaley @Ulfra_Wolfe I want to learn more about the second aspect, truthfully, especially the work of the Muslim alchemists. They seem to have been a lot more systematic than the Western practitioners, and gave us a lot of our chemical terminology
@kara_dreamer @Ulfra_Wolfe The first aspect of Alchemy is actually one of the aspects that turning a human to vampyre involves as the process is merging their tutelary angel and demon into themselves (often with the assistance of a vampyre, most often a prima or a vampyre created from an angel in physical form)
@kara_dreamer @codeawayhaley @Ulfra_Wolfe
I will say you'd be remiss to overlook the Daoist alchemists as well :) especially if you are more interested in internal alchemy.
Sufi alchemy is very interesting, i rather like like pouring over Avicenna in general though :3
@Irick @codeawayhaley @Ulfra_Wolfe you're better informed than I am then! can you recommend any sourcebooks
@kara_dreamer @codeawayhaley @Ulfra_Wolfe
I'd recommend getting a translation of the Hui-Ming Ching (it's less crazy symbolic) and Understanding Reality by Chang Po-tuan (crazy symbolic, but foundational and beautiful)
@kara_dreamer
Actually, it wasn't too hard to find them, here: Hui-Ming Ching is the second work on this page: http://www.rexresearch.com/goldflwr/goldflwr.htm and here is a translation of Understanding Reality: https://terebess.hu/english/Cleary-Thomas-Understanding-Reality-by-Chang-Po-tuan.pdf
@Irick @kara_dreamer OMG KARA, thank you for channeling lrick's message. Daoist mysticism is interesting to me since I have been getting into yijing! Thank you for the content, lrick, I am anxious to get reading!
@Filene @kara_dreamer
:D
I'm glad I could aid your Craft!
@Filene @Irick ah, glad to be a conduit :] I try to keep my eye open to what my familiar @kel likes to call xer magickal "shinies", although for xem a powerful magickal "shiny" might be, for example, a piece of costume jewelry found by chance lying in the street. but texts and authorities also count
@kara_dreamer @kel @Irick Collectors of useful arcana!!!<3
@kara_dreamer @Filene @kel
Found objects are some of the most powerful ones! At least as far as Oberon Zell-Ravenheart seems concerned. :3
*Has the power of making everything about books*
@kara_dreamer @codeawayhaley First steps might be the cited works here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy_and_chemistry_in_medieval_Islam#Alchemists_and_works