20/07/2026
"Today, we must recognize the shadow side of the great development of ego consciousness, namely the creation of defenses that allow too much separation of the ego from the unconscious and from the emotions of the body. Alchemical thinking holds out a way of returning to wholeness without abandoning separation and distinctness of process. In a way alchemy’s time has come. Perhaps we can now return to those mysterious realms or ‘third areas’ that are neither physical nor psychic, domains whose existence must be recognized if we are to reconnect split orders of reality such as mind and body. I believe that such ‘third areas,’ a major concern of alchemy but left behind by scientific thinking, will have to be re-introduced if we are to gain a true sense of what the soul in relationship is, especially under the eye of psychotherapy."
"The mystery of human relationship. Alchemy and the transformation of the self" Nathan Schwartz-Salant
Polecam odwiedzenie wspaniałej wystawy Anselma Kiefera "The Women Alchemists" w Sali Kariatyd w Palazzo Reale w Mediolanie- przestrzeni zniszczonej przez bombardowanie w 1943 roku. Czterdzieści portretów postaci kobiet-alchemiczek spotyka się z czterdziestoma zniszczonymi i okaleczonymi przez wojnę figurami kariatyd. In a way alchemy’s time has come.
