I made this little thumb-sized doll for my eldest daughter many years ago and had totally forgotten about it. However, it suddenly came to light again recently when she unexpectedly gave it back to me. It was during one of those darkest nights of my soul when I had to face the hardest challenge of […]
The tools I discovered to help me survive the furnace.
So how does it feel in real human terms to find oneself in the furnace and how did I survive? All I can say is that none of us have any idea what we can put up with until we are thrown in at the deep end. Fortunately I was blessed with a stoical nature […]
The enforced entombment that led to my hermetic death.
Being trapped with M.E. in a body that wouldn’t operate, when even drawing breath at times was just too exhausting, felt like nothing less than than being entombed in some sort of hellish half-life from which there was no escape. No way to get away from the pain of my broken life and shattered dreams. […]
Alchemy in a nutshell.
Alchemy is a sacred science that combines philosophy, theology, psychology, imagination and consciousness. It is also said to be the prelude to modern chemistry as initiates attempted to turn base metal into gold, whilst also trying to find the inner golden elixir of transformation. The mysterious aura and strange fascination that has grown up around it, […]
My family tree.
This sculpture reveals just how huge the burdon of trying to heal both my maternal family background, as well as that of my immediate ancestors, had become. It is as though all that genetic karma and childhood trauma is so oppressive that I have lost my way in the material world and been dragged down […]
The mountain of the adepts.
The process of psychological developement shown here on this early manuscript is analogous to all the alchemical stages of transformation ie turning base metal into gold- the philosophers stone.
What alchemy meant to me?
Being completely ignorant of what the hermetic path entailed as I embarked on my own inner journey gave me a huge advantage I realized later, as I had no expectations of what I would find. Thus in my opus magnum, The Sleeping Giant’, I was able to describe my experience in my own innocent terms. […]
The kings crown.
This wonderful kings crown was made for me by my eldest daughter, a gifted artist; it represents the masculine principal. Alchemists knew that in order to ‘square the circle,’ they must strive for an equal balance of power between their masculine and feminine energies until they reached a more androgenous state.
The beautiful profound words of Jung, on alchemy.
‘There was once a flower, a stone, a crystal, a king and a queen, a castle, a lover and his beloved, somewhere long time ago on an island in the middle of an ocean, five thousand years ago. Love is like this mystical flower, it is there at the center of the self’.