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An Alchymical Odyssey: The Book of Uncertain Volume 2

An Alchymical Odyssey: The Book of Uncertain Volume 2

Boughn, Michael

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ISBN10: 1581772548
ISBN13: 9781581772548
Publisher: Station Hill Press
Published: Aug 14 2026
Pages: 258
Language: English
Following A Hyperbiographical User's Manual (The Book of Uncertain Book 1), An Alchymical Odyssey (The Book of Uncertain Book 2) dives deep into the processes of bios/zoe that constitute something called a life . The journey implied in the process leads back home even as it traverses a range of experience. That process can be identified with the Alchymical notion of the opus, a work of continual spiritual transformation (clarification), an ongoing ordeal that moves through different states, including nigredo (disintegration), albedo (purification) and rubedo (instauration) over and over until it eventually results in the chemical wedding that produces the philosopher's stone. It also echoes with a sense of Odysseus's long journey home through multiple dangers and temptations. As Alchymy imagines its central struggle in terms of the relation of male and female figures, the King and the Queen, and their eventual union, so too does Odysseus's eventual successful return to Penelope figure a union, or re-union, as the image of an achieved spiritual wholeness. The concern is with psyche, but psyche in James Hillman's sense as something beyond the person, something persons particip

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