Alchemy: Page 2

The title is provocative, and is meant to be. When the slant put on the reporting of a case almost guarantees a suicide "verdict", it is important to focus on the players who seed this interpretation. In the Kelly case, journalists in the mainstream media promoted a suicide bias from the beginning, but many of their cues were taken from professional figures at the Hutton Inquiry.

Offers an insightful summary of alchemical philosophy plus original alchemy texts such as "The Treasure of Treasures" by Paracelsus, "Summi Philosophi et Chemici" by Joachim Tanckivs, and "The Discovery of Secrets" by Abu Musa Djaber.

is Don Juan Cardoza's insightful collection of pages on the symbolism and meaning of alchemical transformation from the Chinese, Indian, Egyptian, Sumerian, and Amerindian perspectives.

A brief history of Giordano Bruno, the spiritual alchemist who was burnt at the stake by the medieval Church.

An introduction to the science of alchemy and information on what is being done in this field today. Lectures and links to modern and ancient alchemy sites.

A moderated index of Internet resources devoted to the study of medieval science, including alchemy and hermetics.

Four kilometers outside the picturesque town of Pienza stands Sant'Anna di Camprena. Probably most famous as the church used in the movie, "The English Patient", this 15th century monastery contains numerous frescoes by the notable Sodoma and some of the most beautiful views of the Val D'orcia.

Radioactivity is the key to today's alchemy. What happens in a nuclear reactor? Uranium is transmuted into plutonium, caesium, strontium, barium, iodine, krypton and xenon, to name but a few elements. These often decay to other stable elements through various radioactive processes. Such nuclear reactions are used to produce americium-241 for use in household smoke detectors, technetium-99 for use as a radioactive tracer in health care, and in production of plutonium-239 - the isotope of plutonium used in nuclear weapons.

A versatile and complex system of elements is born from a simple binary mathematics.

Music for a deeper understanding of love. The play of subtle sexual energies, barely perceptible at first, then growing in intensity as swirling erotic forces entwine you both, dissolving the borders of self. By honouring the male and female within ourselves and each other, our relationships are transformed and we discover a world of intimate beauty, as the dance of Shiva and Shakti initiates the process of transcendant alchemy.