by Christina | Aug 11, 2026 | Alchemical Reflections, From The Blog
“They discover that in the very darkness of nature a light is hidden, a little spark without which the darkness would not be darkness… the lumen naturae is the light of the darkness itself, which illuminates its own darkness, and this light the darkness...
by Christina | Jul 13, 2026 | Alchemical Reflections, From The Blog
”It is .(also) . . understandable that their will-power weakens and their self-control becomes slack and begins to lose its grip upon circumstances, moods, and thoughts. It is quite consistent with such a state of mind if some particularly unruly parts of the...
by Christina | Jun 14, 2026 | Alchemical Reflections, From The Blog
”None of us stands outside humanity’s black collective shadow.” – C.G. Jung Introduction Sometime in the last month, I came across an article in the New Yorker Magazine with a title that stopped me mid-scroll: “Why Is It So Hard to Be...
by Christina | May 17, 2026 | Alchemical Reflections, From The Blog
”We are not here to fit in, be well-balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we...
by Christina | Apr 16, 2026 | Alchemical Reflections, From The Blog
“You cannot individuate, for instance, by locking yourself up in a cell; you can only individuate in your concrete life, you appear in your deed; there you can individuate and nowhere else. Real consciousness can only be based upon life, upon things experienced, but...
