Alchemy and Alchemists Mental Health science fiction and mystery stories

science fiction and mystery stories

there's so much to see on the building site

self-loathing

and often magical

and the belief that God does not care about us

Alchemy and Alchemists Mental Health science fiction and mystery storiesIn this Pocket Essential Sean Martin shows that nothing could be further from the truth. It is important to see the search for the philosopher's stone and the attempts to turn base metal into gold as metaphors for the relation of man to nature and man to God as much as seriously held beliefs. Alchemy had a self consistent outlook on the natural world and man's place in it. Alchemists like Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus were amongst the greatest minds