![]() ![]() That something is a new way to look at systems theory that will be introduced in this essay. Hopefully this will vindicate the alchemical searching of Newton and other alchemical practitioners within the Western tradition who saw through a glass darkly that something was missing in the Western Scientific perspective on Nature. Here we will go back to the roots of Alchemy in Egypt to find our starting point for the introduction of a new form of science which actually has very old roots within our tradition. It is only recently that scholars have begun to delve into this shadow side of the great scientific hero. It is a great secret that Newton who is seen as the father of modern physics spent most of his time on alchemical experiments. We have actually lost our ability to understand alchemy so that it has become foreign to us even though it was a substantive part of our scientific tradition for a long time. Unfortunately, since Newton Alchemy has been languishing as it has lost its direction through the myriad interpretations that have been projected on it and due to its own myriad interpretations by alchemical practitioners within our tradition. Available at Amazon or a free pdf copy is available: work attempts to make the case for an attempt to reinstate Alchemy as a vital part of our scientific and philosophical tradition. Jung the augur- artist’s legacy thus brings us close to the world-creating function of language and a new definition of the human being. Such participation is pre-reflective, although it may be followed by action based on reflection (memory). It addresses the unknown future and gives us a way to act that orients us to the soul background (the coming guest) of modernity, and to participate in the event of the incarnation of the coming guest into actuality. His legacy also has its methodology-one very different from that of depth psychology. The artist Jung has also left us a legacy-one that has remained virtually unnoticed for many years (with one notable exception as we will see). The other Jung was the augur-artist as I named him in yet another book, Animal Soul. In this book, I give particular attention to Psychology as a Discipline of Interiority as pioneered by Wolfgang Giegerich who has refined Jung’s work into a discipline of the soul. One was the depth psychologist whose legacy has developed into the discipline of Jungian Psychology with its various inflections. In these documents I was sure I could detect the presence of “two Jungs”. This book is an expanded edition of my book, The Coming Guest: Advancing Jung’s Augury into the 21st Century in which I first attempt to articulate my hermeneutic “reading” of Jung’s little- known high relief carving at Bollingen c.1960, along with two letters he wrote, one to Sir Herbert Read and one to Dr. ![]()
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