Author: Christopher Chayban For Jung, the pictures in the Rosarium Philosophorum were an apt analogy to portray his understanding of the complications that he encountered with the transference relationships (Jung on Alchemy pg.194). Of course, the transference is an unconscious …
Author: Christopher Chayban Alchemy features both scientific and religious aspects. Complex coded language and imagery are combined with step-by-step recipes. For example, a logical mode of operation is seen by the sequential stages referred to as Nigredo, Albedo and Rubedo. …
Author: Christopher Chayban There are three overarching themes that contributed to the downfall of alchemy and the ascent of modern scientific chemistry. The first is concerned with the divisions present within the different alchemical traditions, the second, our own Western …
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Author: Christopher Chayban Without a doubt, whether we are taking about the loss of myth or the new myth, the main component in the process is the phenomena of projection. The loss of myth is the loss of the shared …
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Author: Christopher Chayban To use Bellah’s term “mythospeculation,” the use of the medium of myth (Axial Age pg.81), we can see that the “Axial Age” had its own myth operating as a kind of “superordinate myth” that all the other …
Author: Christopher Chayban With water, I immediately thought of the alchemical symbolism of the process of “solutio.” The images of the Rosarium Philosophorum aptly show the death and rebirth symbolism, with the bath in the mercurial waters who is the …
Author: Christopher Chayban The use of Eliade’s work for Jungian’s is highlighted by the fact that, like the depth psychologists, Eliade takes symbolism seriously. To start, Eliade dichotomized religious man and modern man as participating in two different worlds, which …
Author: Christopher Chayban In reading Steven Walker, on the distinction between archetype, archetypal Image and myth, I have come to disagree on how the term “monomyth” is defined. The monomyth, would be, as the word “mono” denotes “one” and “myth,” …
Author: Christopher Chayban I will raise the question, could the Minotaur be an image of projection from the feminine Ego perspective that needs to be slayed? Could that be why Ariadne is relatively absent? And by slayed I mean, made …
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Author: Christopher Chayban The search for immortality and finding of meaning the story of Gilgamesh strikes home with me. “Gilgamesh encourages hope in that, even though one may not be able to live forever, the choices one makes in life …
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