tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post4208220213715412828..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: They Only Come Out at Night (12.22.11)Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66808334747360582442008-12-05T18:48:00.000-08:002008-12-05T18:48:00.000-08:00Did you say Gold?!Did you say Gold?!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44473198931360549842008-12-05T18:47:00.000-08:002008-12-05T18:47:00.000-08:00Thanks guys! That clears things up! :^)Thanks guys! That clears things up! :^)USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52884907244054957312008-12-05T09:55:00.000-08:002008-12-05T09:55:00.000-08:00Alchemy in this context just means transforming th...Alchemy in this context just means transforming the lead of the ego into the gold of spirit.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56483055811439914502008-12-05T09:27:00.000-08:002008-12-05T09:27:00.000-08:00(Psst! Dupree... rattle the trashcans, I think Bob...(Psst! Dupree... rattle the trashcans, I think Bob overslept)Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54493465239896437652008-12-05T09:26:00.000-08:002008-12-05T09:26:00.000-08:00Thanks for the Hillsdale link Nomo, looks like a g...Thanks for the Hillsdale link Nomo, looks like a goodun'Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1625826782526589792008-12-05T09:02:00.000-08:002008-12-05T09:02:00.000-08:00Woof?<A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXcHKNtiz8M" REL="nofollow">Woof?</A>Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46057482041060462682008-12-05T07:29:00.000-08:002008-12-05T07:29:00.000-08:00Finally watched the WSJ video - Dorothy Rabinowitz...Finally watched the WSJ video - Dorothy Rabinowitz is my hero.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-17002569976113609522008-12-05T07:25:00.000-08:002008-12-05T07:25:00.000-08:00An inspiring essay on recovering the "art of const...An inspiring essay on recovering the <A HREF="http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis.asp" REL="nofollow">"art of constitutionalism"</A>.<BR/><BR/>While there is still time.NoMohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01100042056270224683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-77050346205218031762008-12-05T07:22:00.000-08:002008-12-05T07:22:00.000-08:00Play video games as spiritual, symbolic 'texts' fo...Play video games as spiritual, symbolic 'texts' for a different effect. Especially the game 'Doom'. Descending into Hades and all that...Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53598757829524687972008-12-05T06:52:00.000-08:002008-12-05T06:52:00.000-08:00Exactly, Van. I seem to think UF actually does exp...Exactly, Van. I seem to think UF actually does explain how he uses the concept of alchemy, basically as being purely symbolic, but I don't have time to look it up at the moment. In other words, he uses it the same way he uses the Tarot - as a way of thinking about spiritual transformation.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-31874199952766828482008-12-05T06:50:00.000-08:002008-12-05T06:50:00.000-08:00Isn't "alchemy" also an apt description for the "m...Isn't "alchemy" also an apt description for the "magical" transformations that God is able to perform on us and through us using the very meager raw ingredients we provide - when we let Him?<BR/><BR/>Evolutionary.NoMohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01100042056270224683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40786397718630049492008-12-05T06:46:00.000-08:002008-12-05T06:46:00.000-08:00... and turning something ordinary into something ...... and turning something ordinary into something precious and valuable, lead into gold, interpersonal relationships into Love, etcVan Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22107736896285974682008-12-05T06:38:00.000-08:002008-12-05T06:38:00.000-08:00I would think, and this is just from my experience...I would think, and this is just from my experience reading fantasy and the like, that alchemy is generally the notion of making more from less - <EM>qualitatively</EM>. Thus a lot of scientific stuff we do is a kind of alchemy. In that way, alchemy is a kind of magic - but a specific, 'earthy' kind. So also alchemy always refers to transmuting substances - which is in reality, combining or separating things to bring out heretofore hidden qualities of their natures.<BR/><BR/>A great kind of alchemy is cooking, wherein we take things that have certain qualities and produce something with a greater quality - that of being delicious.<BR/><BR/>Yum.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12258753781187900332008-12-05T05:39:00.000-08:002008-12-05T05:39:00.000-08:00Ben said "I'm tryin' to grasp what he means by "al...Ben said "I'm tryin' to grasp what he means by "alchemy" in this context. "<BR/><BR/>Ben, I'm guessing from the previous line "the fertilizing sphere (outside of and beyond the normal consciousness) and fertilized consciousness", it may mean something similar to how fertilizer performs a sort of alchemy in combining chemicals to spur growth, in our unconscious we take the world around us and combine it with myths and mysteries to promote the growth of spiritual truth within us. <BR/><BR/>It's a book that's still on my wish list, but not on my side table, so I don't know first hand, but there's my guess.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-77431631051190087542008-12-05T05:36:00.000-08:002008-12-05T05:36:00.000-08:00Jung wrote extensively about alchemy as the transf...Jung wrote extensively about alchemy as the transformation of the psyche with the help of certain symbols. He saw the alchemical tradition as a precursor of psychology more than chemistry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52276152271428698732008-12-05T00:26:00.000-08:002008-12-05T00:26:00.000-08:00"...the amplification of immediate data from the m..."...the amplification of immediate data from the manifestation of the unconsciousness by means of alchemy, myths, and mysteries belonging to mankind's historical past,..."<BR/><BR/>I'm tryin' to grasp what he means by "alchemy" in this context. <BR/>Without success thus far.<BR/>Any ideas on this, Bob? Anyone?USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33222589127732786222008-12-05T00:12:00.000-08:002008-12-05T00:12:00.000-08:00"We must follow this star without reserve, for "a ..."We must follow this star without reserve, for "a whole world is at stake," the resurrected world of our interior being."<BR/><BR/>Nothin' like a bit of pressure to motivate ourselves! This is crucial!USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87876369995887199662008-12-04T23:03:00.000-08:002008-12-04T23:03:00.000-08:00I gotta still, too.I gotta still, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40007365774719563042008-12-04T22:25:00.000-08:002008-12-04T22:25:00.000-08:00Dorothy ReginawitzDorothy ReginawitzAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20255225672505855002008-12-04T19:02:00.000-08:002008-12-04T19:02:00.000-08:00Deepak gets ass kicked by little old Jewish lady.Deepak gets ass kicked by <A HREF="http://online.wsj.com/video/deepak-blames-america/0C935F1D-826B-44C8-8CC9-A78EE80A3D03.html" REL="nofollow">little old Jewish lady</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53153429220234124342008-12-04T16:26:00.000-08:002008-12-04T16:26:00.000-08:00Yes, I think Still is correct - like when you're s...Yes, I think <I>Still</I> is correct - like when you're sitting outside at night, someplace where the light pollution is almost non-existent, watching the stars emerge and begin to twinkle. Naturally, voices lower to whispers and murmurs. Watching the firelight or watching the starlight, either way it's reverie.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44373392722117606882008-12-04T15:28:00.000-08:002008-12-04T15:28:00.000-08:00"The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon anothe..."The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor."<BR/><BR/>I Cor 15:41 (TNIV)<BR/><BR/>Most stars look pretty much the same to me, but Paul and science tell me different.NoMohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01100042056270224683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22171862645396365802008-12-04T15:16:00.000-08:002008-12-04T15:16:00.000-08:00Yep. Shiny!Yep. Shiny!Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-17091632710851343292008-12-04T15:12:00.000-08:002008-12-04T15:12:00.000-08:00"Mainly, I wanted his breadth of vision, which was..."Mainly, I wanted his breadth of vision, which was truly cosmic in its scope -- both in time and space, both interior and exterior. See if this sounds familiar: Teilhard "followed the 'star' on a long voyage: through the paths of the universal evolution of the world throughout millions of years. "<BR/><BR/>I'll second Julie, Walt and Joan here, it is one of those topics that just seems to slip right by the tongue (or fingertips as the case may be).<BR/><BR/>But forcing them to speak anyway, there is that sense of a star that sought for, draws you upwardly inwards, Truth becomes something more palpable than a factual conclusion, and in that pursuit, going ultimately subjective and beyond where we can bring evidence out for consideration, there is for me the sense that the slopes of that upwardly/inward pyramid cross at an internal doorway at the reaches of consciousness and the sharp tippy toppermost of the Truth quest crosses into the top half of the "X" and expands through my inwardness, outwardly into something vast... and Bright... giving illumination to our night.<BR/><BR/>I suppose it is beyond where words reach well, or at all.<BR/><BR/>Very sparkly though.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88175791095096342552008-12-04T13:58:00.000-08:002008-12-04T13:58:00.000-08:00I'm glad you said still, Walt. My first attempt to...I'm glad you said <I>still,</I> Walt. My first attempt to think on it was as though I had heard a still, small voice and so wanted to retreat for a bit.Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.com