Towards a New Alchemy

Towards a New Alchemy
Title Towards a New Alchemy PDF eBook
Author Nick Begich
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 1996-04
Genre Inventors
ISBN 9780964881228

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The New Alchemy

The New Alchemy
Title The New Alchemy PDF eBook
Author Osho
Publisher
Pages 211
Release 2009
Genre Consciousness
ISBN 9788172612351

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Extemporaneous talks given by the author in Mount Abu and Mumbai, India.

The Newer Alchemy

The Newer Alchemy
Title The Newer Alchemy PDF eBook
Author Ernest Rutherford
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 93
Release 2014-12-04
Genre Science
ISBN 1107440424

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Originally published in 1937, this book discusses the contributions that the study of radiation can make to the problem of elemental transmutation.

This Is It

This Is It
Title This Is It PDF eBook
Author Alan Watts
Publisher Vintage
Pages 160
Release 2011-09-28
Genre Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN 0307784320

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Six revolutionary essays from "the perfect guide for a course correction in life, away from materialism and its empty promise" (Deepak Chopra), exploring the relationship between spiritual experience and ordinary life—and the need for them to coexist within each of us. With essays on “cosmic consciousness” (including Alan Watts’ account of his own ventures into this inward realm); the paradoxes of self-consciousness; LSD and consciousness; and the false opposition of spirit and matter, This Is It and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience is a truly mind-opening collection.

The New Alchemy Water Pumping Windmill Book

The New Alchemy Water Pumping Windmill Book
Title The New Alchemy Water Pumping Windmill Book PDF eBook
Author Gary Hirshberg
Publisher
Pages 141
Release 1982
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 9780931790232

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An Alchemy of Mind

An Alchemy of Mind
Title An Alchemy of Mind PDF eBook
Author Diane Ackerman
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 341
Release 2012-10-30
Genre Science
ISBN 1439125082

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Zookeeper's Wife, an ambitious and enlightening work that combines an artist's eye with a scientist's erudition to illuminate, as never before, the magic and mysteries of the human mind. Long treasured by literary readers for her uncommon ability to bridge the gap between art and science, celebrated scholar-artist Diane Ackerman returns with the book she was born to write. Her dazzling new work, An Alchemy of Mind, offers an unprecedented exploration and celebration of the mental fantasia in which we spend our days—and does for the human mind what the bestselling A Natural History of the Senses did for the physical senses. Bringing a valuable female perspective to the topic, Diane Ackerman discusses the science of the brain as only she can: with gorgeous, immediate language and imagery that paint an unusually lucid and vibrant picture for the reader. And in addition to explaining memory, thought, emotion, dreams, and language acquisition, she reports on the latest discoveries in neuroscience and addresses controversial subjects like the effects of trauma and male versus female brains. In prose that is not simply accessible but also beautiful and electric, Ackerman distills the hard, objective truths of science in order to yield vivid, heavily anecdotal explanations about a range of existential questions regarding consciousness, human thought, memory, and the nature of identity.

Atoms and Alchemy

Atoms and Alchemy
Title Atoms and Alchemy PDF eBook
Author William R. Newman
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 265
Release 2010-05-05
Genre Science
ISBN 0226577031

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Since the Enlightenment, alchemy has been viewed as a sort of antiscience, disparaged by many historians as a form of lunacy that impeded the development of rational chemistry. But in Atoms and Alchemy, William R. Newman—a historian widely credited for reviving recent interest in alchemy—exposes the speciousness of these views and challenges widely held beliefs about the origins of the Scientific Revolution. Tracing the alchemical roots of Robert Boyle’s famous mechanical philosophy, Newman shows that alchemy contributed to the mechanization of nature, a movement that lay at the very heart of scientific discovery. Boyle and his predecessors—figures like the mysterious medieval Geber or the Lutheran professor Daniel Sennert—provided convincing experimental proof that matter is made up of enduring particles at the microlevel. At the same time, Newman argues that alchemists created the operational criterion of an “atomic” element as the last point of analysis, thereby contributing a key feature to the development of later chemistry. Atomsand Alchemy thus provokes a refreshing debate about the origins of modern science and will be welcomed—and deliberated—by all who are interested in the development of scientific theory and practice.