Sylvia Rose
Leucosis, the Pallor: Spiritual Alchemy
In spiritual alchemy , leucosis is the bloated white underbelly of albedo , the purification. Leucosis corresponds to psychic disease or...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 275 min read
Four Humors & Medical Stagnation
The theory of the four humors dominates medicine for two thousand years. Since the time of the ancient Greeks to the 19th century, humor...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 275 min read
Robert Fludd & Renaissance Medicine
Robert Fludd (1574 - 1637) is an influential figure of the European Renaissance. He's known as a cosmologist, astrologer, mathematician...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 246 min read
Psychology: Archetype of the Self
In Jungian psychology, the Self archetype is the deepest core of a person's being, including conscious and unconscious aspects and the...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 234 min read
Spiritual Alchemy: Cupellation Process
Cupellation involves smelting and manipulation of metals to improve their qualities or separate them into components. Silver is often...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 236 min read
Hair Loss: 9 Natural Cures of Physician Dioscorides
Hair loss and baldness ( alopecia ) is a fear in ancient times, if hair is a sign of status, youth or virility. First century AD Greek...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 226 min read
Complexes: Psychology of the Psyche
A complex in psychology is a cluster of intertwined emotions, memories, perceptions, and desires deeply rooted in the unconscious mind....
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 213 min read
Spiritual Alchemy: Fixatio (Fixation)
Fixation, fixatio or fixing is a process of alchemy and spiritual alchemy. Within the mystical world of the alchemist, fixatio is used in...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 205 min read
Natural Health: Paracelsus & Hermetic Principles
Innovative Swiss physician and alchemist Paracelsus is strongly influenced by the 7 principles of Hermeticism and a holistic approach to...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 193 min read
Azoth: Divine Substance of Alchemy
Azoth emerges from the mystical world of alchemy. It represents a universal panacea or potent solvent sought by alchemists for...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 182 min read
The Pauli Effect - Quarks or Quacks?
The Pauli Effect is a peculiar phenomenon named after physicist Wolfgang Pauli. In the early 20th century, quantum theory makes waves and...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 183 min read
Xanthosis, the Yellowing: Spiritual Alchemy
Xanthosis means "yellowness" . In alchemy and Jungian psychology, citrinitas is the solar day, the brightening and joyful spirit. ...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 143 min read
Alchemy Colors: Color Phase Therapy
In alchemy the four colors black, white, yellow and red define phases of psychological growth, enlightenment or physical process as the...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 135 min read
Anima Animus Archetypes & Sexuality
Simply put, the animus is the male part of a woman, and the anima the female part of a man. Beyond this, there's nothing simple about the...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 123 min read
Animal Archetype: Mysteries of the Unconscious
The Animal is an archetype described by Carl Jung as sublime. It's a clue to one's connection with primordial nature, based on instinct...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 123 min read
Psychology: Understanding Archetypes
An archetype is a fundamental concept deeply embedded in human culture and psychology. Archetypes appear in literature, art and...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 123 min read
Archetypes, Stereotypes & Prototypes
An archetype in psychology is a pattern. It contains definition of specific characteristics integral to its being. Embodying the essence...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 94 min read
Active Imagination: Creative Therapy
Active imagination is a therapeutic process of communication between the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. Often invoked in...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 26 min read
Synchronicity: Psychology of Coincidence
Synchronicity describes thoughts and occurrences with apparent relations in meaning, yet without an obvious causal connection....
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 13 min read
Anima & Animus: Gender Archetypes
The anima and animus have dual aspects. They can bring life-giving development and creativeness to the personality, or they can cause...
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