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 @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