Isaac Newton's Dark Secret

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Jung and Alchemy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology_and_Alchemy

Psychology and Alchemy is the twelfth volume in the Princeton/Bollingen edition of the Collected Works of Carl Jung. In it Jung argues for a reevaluation of the symbolism of Alchemy as being intimately related to the psychoanalytical process. Using a cycle of dreams of one of his patients he shows how the symbols used by the Alchemists occur in the psyche as part of the reservoir of mythological images drawn upon by the individual in their dream states. Jung draws an analogy between the Great Work of the Alchemists and the process of reintegration and individuation of the psyche in the modern psychiatric patient.

In drawing these parallels Jung reinforces the universal nature of his theory of the archetype and makes an impassioned argument for the importance of spirituality in the psychic health of the modern man. Lavishly illustrated with images, drawings and paintings from Alchemy and other mythological sources including Christianity the book is another example of Jung's immense erudition and fascination with the eso- and exoteric expressions of spirituality and the psyche in religion and mysticism.

Influenced by pioneering work by Ethan Allen Hitchcock and Herbert Silberer (who was in turn influenced by Jung), Psychology and Alchemy is a seminal work of reevaluation of a forgotten system of thought which did much to revitalise interest in Alchemy as a serious force in Western philosophical and esoteric culture.

Also interesting about this book is that patient whose dreams are being analyzed in the second section is the physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who would go on to collaborate with Jung on such ideas as the acausal connection principle of synchronicity. The dreams are interpreted as a series to elucidate the meanings of recurring motifs and symbols, with the series culminating in the vision of a 'world clock', which is actually several clocks on different planes operating on different scales and colours as a symbol of Pauli's unconscious apprehension of some grand cosmic order. Three of the best of these dreams were also mentioned by Jung in his Terry lectures Psychology of Religion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton's_occult_studies

Alchemical research

Much of what are known as Isaac Newton's occult studies can largely be attributed to his study of alchemy. [ 2 ] Newton was deeply interested in all forms of natural sciences and materials science, an interest which would ultimately lead to some of his better-known contributions to science. During Newton's lifetime the study of chemistry was still in its infancy, so many of his experimental studies used esoteric language and vague terminology more typically associated with alchemy and occultism . [ 3 ] It was not until several decades after Newton's death that experiments of stoichiometry under the pioneering works of Antoine Lavoisier were conducted, and analytical chemistry, with its associated nomenclature, came to resemble modern chemistry as we know it today. However, Newton's contemporary and fellow Royal Society member, Robert Boyle, had already discovered the basic concepts of modern chemistry and began establishing modern norms of experimental practice and communication in chemistry, which information Newton did not utilize.

Much of Newton's writing on alchemy may have been lost in a fire in his laboratory, so the true extent of his work in this area may have been larger than is currently known. Newton also suffered a nervous breakdown during his period of alchemical work, which is thought by some to have resulted from the psychological transformation alchemy was originally designed to induce, though there is also speculation that it may have been some form of chemical poisoning (possibly from mercury, lead, or some other substance

Chariklo

This is very interesting, but why do you call it Isaac Newton's Dark Secret?

Alchemy was a subject in which many of the most educated and learned men in the seventeenth century, and earlier, were very interested. Notable among these were Isaac Newton and Elias Asmole, whose name lingers on in memory as the founder of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

These were the early scientists, some of the greatest thinkers of their day, as we see with Isaac Newton, whose fame goes way beyond his inspiration over a falling apple! Wikipedia has some useful pages, and also this article from the BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/oxford/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8340000/8340451.stm.

In fact, there has been a revival of interest in alchemy in the last twenty years or so.

Terry

Newton--when it came to the scriptures--was lunatic fringe. He was a pre-echo of Fred Franz.

The writings of Jung can be seen transformed into the work of L.Ron Hubbard who combined the occult with "science" and spiritual "truth".

This sort of thinking and pursuit is often done by very clever, intelligent and diligent thinkers hell bent on make "discoveries" of a numinous and transcendent nature.

What we end up with, however, is speculation, projection, ad hoc ramblings which seem to bear the cachet of "genius" and often mislead and confuse true believers.

Isaac Newton's Dark Secret

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