Consciousness Posts
Essays on the mind and inner experience: meditation, closed-eye visualizations, inner alchemy, belief, and the parts of human awareness that science still struggles to measure.
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Inner Alchemy: How the Search for Immortality Gave Us Better Ways to Boil Water
From Taoist immortals and Egyptian metallurgists to medieval laboratories and the invention of the bain-marie, alchemy has been quietly influencing the modern world for thousands of years.
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Why Did We Forget Isaac Newton Was an Alchemist?
The father of modern physics wrote about a million words on alchemy. Why we forgot, and what inner alchemy says about experience science still can’t measure.
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Everyone Runs on Faith, Even Scientists
Ancient people weren't less intelligent, just less informed. On volcanoes, the problem of induction, and why faith in science resembles medieval faith.
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The Ontology of Ether
Cosmology, consciousness, and unseen forces in The Bright Dark, with a creation story from the world after the apocalypse.
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The Magician: The Archetype of Transformation
From Merlin's hidden knowledge to Frankenstein's overreach to Ren's inner alchemy: the archetype of transformation, and why good and evil were never the point.
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Meditation - Closed Eye Visualizations
Exploring closed-eye visualizations in meditation, from subtle patterns to vivid imagery: a personal account of CEVs, their neuroscience, and inner alchemy.