Alchemical Aspects of Extractions

[blue.magic]

I was thinking about this lately and I am interested in your opinion on this.

Since I started with extractions 2 years ago I realized it's more than just "cooking" or "chemistry", something like art but not really ... then the right word came in: alchemy!

I heard that some alchemists did experiments like just boiling and cooling water many many times, meditating during the process. And it should have somehow change the water, but more importantly, the alchemist. The alchemical process was double sided and the transformation happened to both the alchemist and the substance.

Now I was thinking about doing extractions and making medicine. The connection with the plant, the consciousness and focus put into each step... it inevitably changed me a lot, not only because it's an exercise in patience and care. I feel it's more like all we do in life when we create - we take stuff/matter and by focusing our mind, we distill, concentrate, separate, heat, cool... and finally make realize our intent in matter.

This applies not just to DMT extraction, of course, each plant somehow teaches me more way before I ingest it. The process starts with the intent of doing the extraction. And each plant source has a different kind of teaching.

What are you perspectives on this kind of alchemy?

 

[CosmicLion]

Alchemy and astrology are forever tied together as one and the same...

Being aware of your own astral birth chart, the current lunar, star and planetary phases, and how it effects and interacts with your substances, and your own birth chart, is critical to traditional alchemy.

In fact, some of the founding fathers of alchemy said treating a patient who was sick was not about which herb + medicine to use... It was about the metaphysical properties of each herb in relation to the currently placement of stars + planets and how that relates to the patient being treated.

Using the patients individual astrological birth chart, and the current astrological conditions, only then can a proper herb be selected for their treatment.

Using the same herb for all people for all conditions was absurd to them, as these interplays of cosmic forces at different times activated the medicine within each herb individually.

Check out some of the classic works of Paracelsus... a founding father of Alchemcy, esteemed physician, astrologer, and esoteric occult researcher.