As Above Inside Out Below

Projective Mythology Series #2 Inspired by the early spagyric chemists and present-day spiritual science, these psychoemblemata - pictorially woven imaginations of soul - spiral into the inventive endeavor of the cosmos, elaborating Hermetic effort while tapping into a storehouse of metacognitive ideation. Here, alchemical sensibility ferments, distills and exalts capacities for meeting the philosophic stone of self-initiation. Without annotation, these images ardently assemble a contemporary awareness of the Hermetic value for addressing the hiddenness of meaning. Engaging the breadth and transparency of archetypal gestures and characterizations of soul, these visual displays of "imaginal tissue" (the second in a series of alchemical notebooks) augment the author's earlier work, breathing by a devotion that further aspires to wed the destiny of appreciative feeling to the body of wisdom herself, Sophia. Andrew Franck is a philosopher whose interests include the history of consciousness, Goethean science and somatic psychology. He has worked with such notables as Reiner Schurmann, Quentin Lauer, Manfred Riedel, Ronald Brady, Otto Wolff, Klaus Wilde, Robert Sardello and Alfred Tomatis. His writings include The Transparent Bride, Mantras and Musical Solutions, The Art of Porosity, The Holy Bodies Circuit and Number & Spell. andrewfranck.net