The medieval alchemists tried to transmute lead into gold and wrote many cryptic texts about it. Carl Jung, the eminent psychologist, realized that many of these texts metaphorically describe the ‘transmutation’ of the human soul into the ‘gold’ of our highest, best selves.
Read MoreBefore ‘algebra’ was introduced to the West in the Renaissance, mathematics was largely concerned with geometry — the proportions and relationships of lines and circles. Sometimes special ratios and such were used in the design of temples and cathedrals. That idea can be extended to music, and to a ‘sacred geometry of the soul.’
Read MoreScience has given us extraordinary knowledge about our physical world. But Science was never about the Wisdom to use scientific knowledge wisely. We’ve had the ‘Age of ‘Reason’ — can we please have an ‘Age of Wisdom’?
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