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Transcript passage · Unknown · 45:06

Your Truth Vs The Good, Weighing the Heart & Freedom as Natural Law (Freedom PT 2 )

Relevant chapter: Letting go of assumptions to learn truth

these books okay so now you're not open you the truth will not reveal itself to you because you already think you know what the truth is and you're just in you're engaged in this like going on a roller coaster poster. It's an experience I want to have. This is [expletive] cosplay at that point. Okay. Now, [music] in order for the transmutation to happen, whether it's initiatic or otherwise, you [music] must allow yourself to undergo the negreo. Okay, these principles of alchemy aren't an

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 56:07

Drew Mackinnon: Teleology of the Temple

Relevant chapter: Meaning of temples, symbolism & inner transformation

Horus said Isis it's a story of resurrection everybody's it's kind of been convoluted in this idea it's like oh this is just you know this is their burial ritual like no this is living resurrection living resurrection is the transmutation of material to ritual in my mind right so you'll see that in all of these different temples you can go into a dharma temple um in India and same idea resurrection resurrection the resurrection of what is removing yourself from the material and

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:10:37

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Music Analogy for Healing & the Body

you know, I think it's um yeah, an interesting way to look at this like vastness of, you know, you mentioned like pretty much anything outside of ourselves can act as a medicine, right? It's like these these outer reflections of things that are inside of ourselves. I got to chime in. Okay, so you said this was probably like 10 minutes back, but you said transformation and transmutation in the same sentence. And that's something I wanted to ask you about. I wanted to ask you what is the

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:11:11

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Music Analogy for Healing & the Body

difference between transforming and transmuting? That's a it's a big question um more on the transmutation side of things because I think it's something that's argued about in in the literature um and something I'm still finding my own place with. So like transformation is just the process of change, right? So I think it's it's it's a bit more open-ended and vast than transmutation. So if we'd say transformation is the process of change. Um let's say for example, you know, you've got an

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:11:48

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Music Analogy for Healing & the Body

essential oil and it's in an oil, right? And then when you heat it, it turns into a gas and you condense it and turns back into an oil again. Like it's gone through a change, you know, inarguably. But it hasn't turned into something else, right? Transmutation is when something turns into something else. And I think that is, you know, definitely a worthy topic of debate and has been a topic of debate, you know, back and forth between alchemists and, you know, many other people um forever, you know, is the idea, can something turn into something else or what is the definition

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:13:02

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Music Analogy for Healing & the Body

that itself and like I'm not super interested in converting the lead into the gold so much. But m maybe it's true. So that's like a stark example of this idea of transmutation of something literally turning into something else. But then we can get more subtle with it, right? Um maybe like for example let's look at a like a very basic spajeric process like a spajeric tincture in this simple process you know you extract an herb with some alcohol and you burn the plant material afterwards

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:14:07

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Transformation vs Transmutation Explained

let's say alkali mineral salts and largely acidic active constituents which you have extracted um from the plant. they're opposing one another and then when you combine them together new compounds are created as a result of that. So I think an argument can be made there that there has been a transmutation. Is it the be all end all like you know the process is not finished at that point you know this is not the philosopher stone but this is a step along the way perhaps this is a you know a

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:14:42

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Transformation vs Transmutation Explained

first step of transmutation cuz chemically speaking it's like something has turn like there are many things that turn from one thing into another thing. That argument can get quite nuanced though, right? You know, as we dive deeper and deeper into it, it's harder. It It's less of a clear example than if we turned lead into gold. But I think it bites on the same kind of um stream. And it also this topic it it speaks to the argument in alchemy of whether man people can can do better than nature like like there's idea that there's kind of this relay race going

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:15:28

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Transformation vs Transmutation Explained

on where nature brings things to a certain point of evolution and then it creates consciousness in this varying degrees and eventually something like humans um picks up the job, you know, like in a relay race takes the baton and then carries on evolution further. Um there's that that idea, but then there's also the opposing idea that no, nature cannot be superseded that um you know that this is all fakery essentially that you know alchemists um you know they're they're mimicking

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:16:03

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Transformation vs Transmutation Explained

nature um but they're not doing as good of a job uh or they can't do as good of a job. And then there's the in between idea that you know nature does things perfectly and that when humankind understands those lessons that humankind can do it equally to nature. Right? So there's kind of like again there's a tree of prima here where there's like some people say it's wrong, some people say it's right, and some people say it's somewhere in the middle. this idea of transmutation

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:16:36

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Transformation vs Transmutation Explained

um or even just evolution um in general. Um so there it's it's an interesting topic and one that again I haven't quite landed on. I often don't really take a hard stance on anything. It's I think it's you know you wait five minutes and your best idea five minutes ago is is is trash. You know when you learn something else and I just keep experiencing that over and over again. So I find it really difficult to to latch on to one thing is true or false. But you know to to come

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:17:07

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Transformation vs Transmutation Explained

back to your question those are the basic you know principles of transmutation versus transformation. One is the process of change and the other is the process of one thing turning into another. I want to ask you Ike well first if you have any thoughts on that. Second, since he mentioned evolution, I'm curious if maybe you can share your perspective on evolution versus adaptation. Well, the first thing that I that kind of comes to mind when based off of what Daniel said was um I thought long and hard about this um and I've I've allowed my experience to really guide me and

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:25:14

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Evolution, Consciousness & Nature vs Humanity

the fittest and you know adaptations eventually leading to what is claimed to be transmutation, right? You know, one animal turning into another. We got, you know, like be like weird mammal creatures like like turning into whales and all, you know, actual changes of like like one species to another. I mean, yeah. I mean, can you believe that the [ __ ] dinosaurs, you know, turned into like chickens? Chickens and birds, you I just think to my every every time I see like a bunch of seagulls like flocking over uh you know a ripped apart McDonald's bag of stale fries

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:32:55

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Evolution, Consciousness & Nature vs Humanity

episode in and of itself I was thinking almost uh evolution's perhaps the integration of adaptation I think that's a good way like I think it goes back to your other question. It's almost synonymous with uh transformation and transmutation, right? Transformation is like adaptation and transmutation is evolution, you know, and like you just said, Sky, it's like, you know, when or I made the example too. It's like you know if something is done once okay maybe that's a tempor a temporal uh adaptation to a situation but if that is repeated over and

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 0:00

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Intro & Guest Introduction (Daniel Wisman)

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:30

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Kratom, Plant Variability & Energetics

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 2:40

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Metals, Ores & Energetic Potency Debate

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 6:00

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Alchemical Truth, Experimentation & Subjectivity

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 7:15

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Geography, Environment & Mineral Formation

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 12:00

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Crystals, Memory & Mineral Consciousness

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 14:20

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Crystal “Seeding” & Alchemical Terminology

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 17:00

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Purification vs Opening Metals Explained

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