Episode notes
For this episode we return to a new book, as yet unpublished, called Magick Here and Now. We begin with Alchemy—Stone of the Wise. Learned men and women with academic qualifications are no better than the common or garden New Age or online ‘gurus’ when it comes to construing the meaning of the stone of the wise, the secret of alchemy. This does not, it seems, stop anyone from pretending they know what it means all the same. Worse still, these pundits and bloggers probably believe in all sincerity they really know the secret. The second part of this episode is concerned with Cosmic Mind and Group Mind—two things that are frequently confused today. The relatively modern notion of a group mind, a kind of collective mentality that no doubt owes something to popular psychological theories, is very mistaken when applied to initiation—unless the organisations are pseudo-spiritual or even anti-spiritual.
Part One: Secret of Alchemy
Part Two: Cosmic Mind and Group Mind
The music is called Alchemy Zero, and was composed and played by myself, Oliver St. John, on guitar and other instruments especially for this podcast.