Cultivating a sense of hearing is something that requires practice. Especially in the hurried bustle of our 9-5 world we often make very little time to have truly deep listening experiences. We rarely pause to hear what is around us, unless it is of distress in nature and the luxury of b...
Initially discredited by mainstream academia, Jung’s psychology offers a renewed understanding of religion, myth, legends, fairytales and dreams, as well as hermetic traditions, such as alchemy and astrology. Jung speaks to a new generation looking to maintain their rationality yet open themselves to...
Modern-Day Alchemy If I seem embittered toward the medical system – I am. I have had some very compassionate nurses, and a couple physicians who were not part of my immediate specialty care team. My primary care doctor is great, but I’ve been lost in the wilderness of medical specialtie...
First, we searched for atoms, a search which had lasted for centuries and went through such strange paths as alchemy, but did result in the deep knowledge summarized in modern periodic tables of the elements. Then, we explored the atom and discovered electrons and protons and neutrons and ...
pour. The rising scent of wet tea leaves, darkening shades of green.Taste.Alchemy — parts of us becoming the chemistry of tea: tannins, L-Theanine, sunlight, time.Pause, swallow. We are materially transformed, linked to tea plants, time and season, humans and labor, sunlight, earth, univ...
I learned about this conference and the Alchemy LAB just yesterday from Alex Joyes, a senior learning and development specialist at a Canadian Bank. I met Alex at a 2-dayCornerstonetraining that we both attended in Santa Monica in February, 2020; back in the good ole days when we were abl...
By the middle of the eighteenth century, the state of technology and the luxury and quality of life afforded the average individual were little better than they had been two millennia earlier, in ancient Rome. Then two things happened that did matter, and they were so ...
Case Study 1: Architectural Alchemy The Visionary Architects In a world where bricks and mortar meet bits and bytes, architecture firms are leveraging AR and VR to redefine how structures are designed and experienced before they’re even built. One such example is the ingenious firm “Skyline Wo...
Dam planners essentially see the ideas of floodplain people as irrelevant to development decisions, believing that their needs and interests can and should be traded off against national need, or that by some alchemy they will be transformed into sophisticated wage workers thriving in an expanded ...
or that by some alchemy they will be transformed into sophisticated wage workers thriving in an expanded urban economy. To those planning dams, knowing what floodplain people think and feel about the future is only important if it is useful in negotiations to persuade them to move quietly from ...