excerpts from C. G. #Jung: #Psychology and #Alchemy
"It is clear enough ... what the ultimate aim of alchemy
really was: it was trying to produce a *corpus subtile*, a transfigured and resurrected body, i.e., a body that was at the same time spirit. In this it finds common ground with Chinese alchemy, as we have learned from The Secret of the Golden Flower. There the main concern is the “diamond body,” in other words, the attainment of immortality through the transformation of the body. The diamond is an excellent symbol because it is hard, fiery, and translucent. Orthelius tells us that the philosophers have never found a better medicament than that which they called the noble and blessed stone of the philosophers, on account of its hardness, transparency, and rubeous hue."

C. G. #Jung taught us to pay attention to our dreams. Why is this important? To heal the Faustian split between reason and the unconscious. From *Psychology and Alchemy*:
... in the dialectical discussion between the conscious mind and the unconscious, a development or an advance towards some goal or end, the perplexing nature of which has engaged my attention for many years. ... It is a *longissima via*, not straight but snakelike, a path that unites the opposites in the manner of the guiding caduceus, a path whose labyrinthine twists and turns are not lacking in terrors.! *Alchemist in the initial nigredo state, meditating.—Jamsthaler, Viatorium spagyricum (1625)*

Blast from the #gaslighting past. State media, October 2020: "Dutch people want stricter covid measures"

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