In the past you recommended to take the Jean Dubuis Spagyrics course, and I indeed started working through it. You also gave me good advice in this forum about choosing a crucible. I found the course instructive, and made progress into making my first Elixer. Unfortunately, after this experiment, the course goes into distillation, and I currently lack the funds to build the necessary set up.
1. Do you, or anyone else who may be reading, have recommendations about alternative material that instead of going into distillation right away, continues teaching about elixirs? I was thinking maybe continue in this path until I can get hold of a distillation set up.
2. After reading about the theory of Spagyrics and trying my hand in it, I realized I was already doing something like that in the garden. There is a method of natural farming that is very popular in the organic gardening community those days - knf. It teaches you to ferment plants (preferably wild plants that grow in thriving ecosystems), to produce incredibly bioavaliable fertilizers. There are other methods that resemble calcination to obtain phosphorus salt from beef bones as an alternative to relying on the mined stuff. On top of that, something that is pretty much elixers for plants is also used. Do you think knf could be alchemy hiding in plain sight?
3. I started getting back into homebrewing after many years in haitus, and I want to make herb beers - gruits. To those who are interested, I found a book I plan to buy called "Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation" by Stephen Harrod Buhner. But, sine I already started asking alchemy questions - you mentioned in your writing that homebrewing is also essentialy alchemy, but modern brewing books treat it more like science. I tried searching for writings that deal with the alchemy side in Archive.org but was not successful, so I thought I'd ask you or any of the readers if they have other reading recommendations for my research?
Again, thank you for sharing your knowledge and answering questions, I could not get into alchemy without your advice.
A few Alchemy related questions
1. Do you, or anyone else who may be reading, have recommendations about alternative material that instead of going into distillation right away, continues teaching about elixirs? I was thinking maybe continue in this path until I can get hold of a distillation set up.
2. After reading about the theory of Spagyrics and trying my hand in it, I realized I was already doing something like that in the garden. There is a method of natural farming that is very popular in the organic gardening community those days - knf. It teaches you to ferment plants (preferably wild plants that grow in thriving ecosystems), to produce incredibly bioavaliable fertilizers. There are other methods that resemble calcination to obtain phosphorus salt from beef bones as an alternative to relying on the mined stuff. On top of that, something that is pretty much elixers for plants is also used. Do you think knf could be alchemy hiding in plain sight?
3. I started getting back into homebrewing after many years in haitus, and I want to make herb beers - gruits. To those who are interested, I found a book I plan to buy called "Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation" by Stephen Harrod Buhner. But, sine I already started asking alchemy questions - you mentioned in your writing that homebrewing is also essentialy alchemy, but modern brewing books treat it more like science. I tried searching for writings that deal with the alchemy side in Archive.org but was not successful, so I thought I'd ask you or any of the readers if they have other reading recommendations for my research?
Again, thank you for sharing your knowledge and answering questions, I could not get into alchemy without your advice.