How To Use Alchemical In A Sentence
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We lose ourselves in the burning, and it alchemically transforms us from the power-pushing games of the belly to the love-pulled movements of the heart.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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Certain of these exercises involve the "alchemical" use of mind-active drugs, including new vasopressin derivatives, beta-endorphins and hallucinogens
Ncunuabula: Catalogue of Rare Books, Manuscripts & Curiosa, Conspiracy Theory, Frontier Science & Alternative Worlds from Emory Cranston Part II
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Some alchemical mix of beauty, muteness and otherness.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a world where values spread along the currents of communication, it has always been commonplace for business leaders to say to Tibet activists that open trade with China will result in a loosening of China's restrictions on free speech, that the values of democracy and freedom will be alchemically infused into the Chinese system, that we will "change" China ...
Josh Schrei: The Value Of Freedom, The Ugliness of Censorship: Google, the UFC, and China
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He is holding a closed book, signifying a mystery, possibly a stage in the alchemical process.
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Various reflecting surfaces were used: polished metallic rocks such as obsidian, pyrite, and iron; rock crystal; and an alloy of rose copper and tin, plus an alchemical brew consisting of white arsenic, red tartar, and nitre.
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Alchemical treatises frequently warned of the hazards of working with sulphurous exhalations and volatile chemicals.
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For some reason, some magical reason, in this bath of lucidity, flesh itself took on an almost alchemical palpability.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
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Which is to say, bluntly and for those with ears to hear, that to work the Wheel of Fortune you need to work two things, not one as is the common practice in alchemical circles.
Archive 2007-08-01
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Here are high-rez scanned pages from Isaac Newton's "alchemical" notebooks where he recorded his chemistry experiments.
Boing Boing: April 2, 2006 - April 8, 2006 Archives
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In discussing an alchemical work by Senior De chemia, Jung suggested that ravens represent the helpful spirits or familiars who complete the work when the skill of the artifex has failed him.
Listening to Raven: The Shadow’s Role as Guide
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Alchemical symbolism permeates several of Shakespeare's plays; King Lear in particular has been interpreted as an allegory of alchemical transmutation.
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The obscure gray water is dotted with fishing boats, which brush the calm surface, each caulked with a paste of alchemical silvers.
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Even the taking of the Eucharist is an alchemical ritual, in which the divine body is subsumed into the individual body in order to bring the individual into closer contact with the divine.
Josh Schrei: The Crucible Gone Cold: Modern Yoga, Christianity, and the Practice of Individual Transformation
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Would it be considered naive or delusional to suggest that sometimes "bad" things that happen can be transformed alchemically into something good?
Jayne Lyn Stahl: Accidentally on Purpose
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The latter concealed his life-long alchemical studies, leaving the outcome of his alchemical pursuits almost entirely in the unpublished papers.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Alchemical treatises frequently warned of the hazards of working with sulphurous exhalations and volatile chemicals.
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First realized in 2001, the piece came about after Mr. Basinski revisited some of his old magnetic tapes and found them chemically, maybe even alchemically, altered.
Music With an Exclamation Point
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The rays extending from the central eye look a great deal like an alchemical symbol.
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Alchemical failure may also have been at stake.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some are so hard to extract that they require almost alchemical processes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Or perhaps it was the aura of alchemical mystique that surrounds the whole idea of breadmaking?
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Bollingen, which Jung considered his alchemical crucible, is dismissed by Giegerich as
Romanticism, Alchemy, and Psychology
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Working in a tradition should be an alchemical marriage where the structures that have been passed down to you are infused with your own unique gnostic revelation of what they mean and how they relate to your life and personal experience.
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It's a pretty thorough analysis comparing alchemical symbology with dream (and through dream to archetypal) symbology.
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Various reflecting surfaces were used: polished metallic rocks such as obsidian, pyrite, and iron; rock crystal; and an alloy of rose copper and tin, plus an alchemical brew consisting of white arsenic, red tartar, and nitre.
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However, the real goal of alchemical work is not to obtain material gold, but spiritual gold: a state of enormous power, clarity, and purity.
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Despite the alchemical and astrological elements in the illustrations, their sources remain unrecognized, and no parallels have been discovered.
The Times Literary Supplement
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You know 1/6 of his writingsNewton wrote a tremendous amountwas caught up in alchemical knowledge in one way or the other and he believed that there were secrets to be uncovered, that the ancients had this great knowledge.
A Conversation with Rebecca Stott about The Coral Thief
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In the room that he called the "alchemical," Ian, disengaging himself, turned and put both hands on Alexander's shoulders.
Foes
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The goat's horn thus stands as a representation of the elemental energies of the earth, the prime matter from which the alchemical process begins its quest for the transformation of gold.
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Alchemists, along with surgeons, soldiers, butchers and blacksmiths, were regarded as ‘children of Mars’, the association presumably coming about through the importance of heat in powering the alchemical athanor or furnace.
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The alchemical perspective lends its adherents the incredible power of self-definition.
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Carim Clasmann's musical youth was spent in German recording studios learning the alchemical business of faders, compressors and microphones.
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These abominations should never have been born -- born, synthesized, stitched together, alchemically confected, necromantically conjured, however they'd come into the world.
Interview: James Morrow on 'Shambling Towards Hiroshima'
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Perhaps it was fashioned of wood or a metal that had been through an alchemical process all its own.
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This is drawing with an alchemical dimension.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was also frequently cited by Carl G. Jung in illustrating the transformative dynamics of the psyche's "alchemical" individuation process.
Archive 2005-11-01
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Against the backdrop of these feeble intellectual currents lurks the traditionalist discourse that altogether consigns modern science to oblivion and attempts to prop up a fatal mix of mystical and alchemical knowledge.
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We clear the alchemically wiry growth each morning before bringing the children into the field.
The Fields
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He thought that experiments proved all acids to be compounds of the element oxygen; and for many years after Lavoisier, the alchemical expression _the principle of acidity_ was superseded by the word _oxygen_.
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
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Florence, with it alchemically transforming art and catalysing capitalism.
Times, Sunday Times
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The alchemical texts, some very ancient that had been handed down partly translated, were passed around in coded language.
A Conversation with Rebecca Stott about The Coral Thief
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Whatever the answer, how much more complex the alchemical process between actor and performance when the actor is called upon to give voice to a character hitherto limned only by the comments of others?
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Somehow this alchemical process turns it from a cooling herb to a tonic herb.
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In "The Secret Rose" are two "alchemical" tales and in "The Tables of the Law" (1904), two others of like subject.
Irish Plays and Playwrights
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First found in Chinese alchemical works emphasizing the lengthening of life and the search for immortality, medical alchemy was integrated first into Islamic and then into Western alchemy and medicine.
Alchemy
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First and foremost, a kind of alchemical transmutation of all mere rationality into true Reason instrumental rationality being only the leaden and debased form of Reason; of the transmutation of mere fantasy into creative imagination, of knowledge into wisdom; and of science into gnosis.
Blake, Nietzsche, and Sri Aurobindo
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Somehow this eclectic blend of influences produces an extraordinary alchemical reaction.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alchemical treatises frequently warned of the hazards of working with sulphurous exhalations and volatile chemicals.
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Sometimes it seems as if an almost alchemical mystery has been locked inside the very material.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is holding a closed book, signifying a mystery, possibly a stage in the alchemical process.
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Actors and directors don't like interlopers, fear their mere presence will ruin the alchemical process.
Times, Sunday Times
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The spiritual nature of matter as the Alma Mater, which serves as the alchemical framework of Hegel 's dialectical idealism, is the sublation (Aufhebung) of raw inchoate matter by which it becomes what it always already potentially is: Geist or Spirit.
Romanticism, Alchemy, and Psychology
