Few intellectual traditions have been as misunderstood, romanticized, and ultimately as consequential as alchemy. Most people dismiss it as a fool’s errand — a pre-scientific fantasy in which deluded ...

A Brief History of Modern Practical Alchemy 🌿Frater Albertus, Manfred M. Junius, Dennis William Hauck, and Brian ...

In the late 19th century, Southern California attracted misfits, idealists, and entrepreneurs with few ties to anyone or anything. Swamis, spiritualists, and other self-proclaimed religious ...

Fire and Gold: The Art of Alchemy (1450–1850) is a new permanent exhibition in the newly reopened Fisher Gallery at the ...

Alchemists once chased gold and immortality. Philadelphia's newest permanent exhibit shows how that obsession became modern ...