What Is Alchemy, Really? From Ancient Egypt to Carl Jung and Beyond

Alchemy is often remembered as a pseudoscience, as medieval mystics and chancers trying to turn lead into gold. But its true legacy runs much deeper, and is one of humanity’s oldest metaphors for change: turning the raw material of life into meaning, wisdom, and enlightenment.

 In this first episode of The Alchemy of It All, host Fiona Meiklejohn explores alchemy’s origins in Egypt, China, and the Islamic Golden Age; the symbolism of the Magnum Opus and the philosopher’s stone; and its later interpretation by Carl Jung as a map of psychological transformation.

This episode is the beginning of a larger exploration: how transformation, in all its forms and expressions, has shaped who we are and who we might become.

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