Adam McLean is a writer, publisher and artist. He is well known as being an expert on alchemical symbolism and for organising the alchemy website. He also has a great interest in the artwork of modern tarot and is a technical artist making facsimile oil paintings of alchemical and other subjects. He has recently set up a website to document surrealist painting.
www.alchemywebsite.com
surrealism.website
studioandgallery.co.uk
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The best way to experience alchemy and its archetypal symbols is to experience the spiritual awakening (aka-Self Realization process) for one's self. Be cautious and count the cost. This is a long, arduous, and agonizing process that takes decades to complete. The Nigredo or "Regression in Service of Transcendence" phase is all about owning, facing, purging, and integrating your repressed unconscious shadow or dark side. This phase took me 23 years to complete (it's different for everyone). The next phase Albedo is when the Solar aspect and Lunar aspect of the Self (Soul) enter the sphere of consciousness. The Lunar is dead, dark, stale, depressive energy, It is exhausting. This alternates with the Solar aspect, which is literally hot like the Sun and which is golden Light. These higher energies agitate the brain and adversely impact cognition. What is actually happening in this phase is that the Soul is shedding its karma and its deepest wounds. After each release of dark energy, the Primal Wound opens and Light and energy from the Causal body enter the sphere of consciousness. This is not imagination..this is real. Human beings really are reincarnating spiritual beings and we do not originate from Earth. The Lunar and Solar alternate like this for quite awhile until they join together as One. This is Soul Realization. The Rubedo is the final stage and it is called "Integration". Here, the Higher Light and Consciousness of Spirit fill the Soul. The whole thing can take 30 years or more. I have been on this path for 25 years. As hard as it is, it is the real deal. This is real authentic spirituality and enlightenment. Peace. Apologies for posting a book but its a complex subject.
I will be in bruges this month and want to see this work!
Is this the hidden iconography of the Hanged Man in the Tarot?
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Are you still selling lots of your stuff on Amazon? I could have sworn I saw a link on your homepage but I can't see it anymore.
Yes. I have a series of over 80 translations of key alchemical writings. www.alchemywebsite.com/bookshop/Alchemical_translations.html
Very Instructive, Bravo !
the image of the man and the woman are not two people but one meal and female of one person
This might look like a flask but it might be the sores of a river?
In the video, there is a drawing which features snakes getting out of 2 mouths, on 2 sides of a triangle. What does it mean?
4:40 Mirror it downward. Star of Reph. and the true story.
Hello Adam, do you have A Treatise Anget Magic on audio book or in your channel, I couldn’t find it. Thanks so much ☀️😀
It is not suitable as an audiobook.
Beautiful reading.
Thank you!
Lovely.
Nice
Thank you so veyr much for this. As my love of Surrealism grows, my frustration with Breton and his Authoritarian Surrealism increases.
I just wanted to say how much I appreciate you recording this and how invaluable it is all these years later. Breton seems such a fascinating and important, yet incredibly frustrating figure. He brings to mind Marx, whose work is essential and necessary, but whose rigid and not entirely liberatory views contributed to the First International falling apart. Bretonic Surrealism in this way can be seen as analogous to Marxism, while the more generalised and decentralised Surrealism being akin to anarchism. I find it extremely interesting and truly baffling that Breton went to such pains to codify Surrealism, making a petulant deal about who was officially in or out of the gang, for such a revolutionary and disenthralling movement. Regardless of him seeming insufferable on the matter, particularly when it comes to the hypocrisy I have come to associate with social media crusaders (of which I am a reformed penitent) who castigate those whose views don't align with theirs, unless a bond of affection or admiration grants a figure immunity, as with Dalí and others' conscious and personal development (to the utter consternation of my autistic sense of justice), I adore his work and his conceptualisation of Surrealism as "Mad Love". I always admired Lucy Parsons’ description of anarchism and believe more of its application to the soul of Breton's Surrealist impetus: “The philosophy of anarchism is included in the word “Liberty,” yet it is comprehensive enough to include all things else that are conducive to progress. No barriers whatever to human progression, to thought, or investigation are placed by anarchism; nothing is considered so true or so certain, that future discoveries may not prove it false; therefore, it has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, “Freedom”: Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully. Other schools of thought are composed of crystallized ideas-principles that are caught and impaled between the planks of long platforms, and considered too sacred to be disturbed by a close investigation. In all other “issues” there is always a limit; some imaginary boundary line beyond which the searching mind dare not penetrate, lest some pet idea melt into a myth. But anarchism is the usher of science-the master of ceremonies to all forms of truth. It would remove all barriers between the human being and natural development. From the natural resources of the Earth, all artificial restrictions, that the body might be nurtured, and from universal truth, all bars of prejudice and superstition, that the mind may develop symmetrically.” Lucy Parsons, The Principles of Anarchism (~1905-1910) Perhaps I have a bit too much of the Dada in me. I do feel an impetus to have Engels’ On Authority (1874) republished with no change beyond the cover showing him with googly eyes and the text categorised as the sensational satire it most surely is. I thoroughly look forward to continuing the course! Thanks again x
I appreciate this video. Thank you 🙏
Rex Mundi
Thank you so much! Would you consider doing a video of the other parts of this scroll?
You may be interested in my Study Course on the Ripley Scroll, available on Amazon.
Did you write the Book of Aquarius?
No.
anyone watching this baked af rn?😂💛loved the video btw!
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I pray that Adam Mclean drinks from the holy fountain and does not leave us before he has given a sign. No one has done more to save this perfect art than he. Thank you so much for you relentless labour and kindness I would not have found half of these works without you.
Trying to rationalize what cannot be rationalized...
Soo much insight poured out here
“ in those days before Constantinople fell they went out to them disguised as men “
Thank you.
Excellent. Many thanks for sharing.
il dipinto esoterico, una singola foto su instagram, che cambia le sorti del mondo ... il cervello rettiliano, o quantistico, o cristico, che prende altre velocità, per tarpare i danni e far andare avanti la società, con un milione di persone in meno a fine anno ... quelle persone esistevano dentro un quadro, non erano degne, di essere presenti e approcciabili liberamente, in maniera naturale, in quanto degli alchemici, dei pediatrici, dunque degli eterni bambini, per non dire bamboccetti ... il dipinto che rivela al mondo i segreti, i santi col teschietto magari, le fattezze facciali che cambiano, le specie umane intermedie, non più sapiens ... quello che è bene mostrare forse, ma se si mostra, in maniera accennata, simbolica, bonaria, assolutamente da non strumentalizzare, perché sennò a qualcuno arriva una atomica in testa ... la testa, che va usata bene, sennò va spenta, e per sempre anche ... questo nel dipinto non spiegano, non compare, cosa fa il cristo ad esempio di bello ... pulizia, pulire dal superfluo, e il cristo è superfluo ...
I enjoyed this video and I love his voice only wish the audio was louder❤🧡💛
You just became my favorite new channel
Your voice is so soothing
Adam I absolutely love listening to alchemical allegories recited by you. Your voice & the pace at which you read then makes listening a true joy. Thankyou sir!
Quem veio pelo Tiago Tamousaskas?😊
Thank you
The Second Coming... Onset of AI can be " The vast image out of Spiritus Mundi"
Heck yeah dude! This is just what I was looking for! Thank you!! Now I don't have to explain it myself because I would of done a crap job lol
Thank you I have more sense with this than any other, and see clearly how stories are created and distract. My interest is between the body and outer for health and well being blessings ❤
I find it completely unbelievable the amount of time that's gone into this. First the original author taking time to compose the music, poems and lithographs. Then, also the time you took dear sir to colour the pictures and record each fugue. True reflection has to come from delighting in this multimedia experience. It's impossible so much time and effort has gone into this, that no one can justify for me the idea that alchemists were unsuccessful. The difficulty is in decoding the true meaning. I hope I'll be able someday to know half as much
Narration is incredible and so relaxing. Thank you.
Oh, fortuitous timing.
What do any of these pictures mean? I dont understand
Can somebody tell me what the philosophers stone is?
Yes, quite a few people probably could. The problem is, you need to be able to comprehend it, and to do so, you may need to seek. Some say the stone is your mind, some say it is red, some say black, others say white. Perhaps it is meteoric, perhaps it changes colour? The answer is in the interplay between two opposites.
I notice that your own book, The Alchemical Mandala, was shown alongside various books imposing various erroneous systems on alchemy. I'm assuming this was unintentional- or have you had a change of heart regarding this book?
The Alchemical Mandala book was written from 1978-1983, over 40 years ago. My perspective on alchemy gradually evolved during the 1980s as I gained access to and read my way into the original writings of the alchemists. The Alchemical Mandala does provide my detailed analysis of the symbolism found in alchemical emblems, and is still worth reading if one avoids being drawn into the metanarratives.
There seemes to be an issue with the volume
That wall of art is beautiful
This is a wonderful and amazing video that I believe is the most accurate interpretation I have come across from one of these esoteric alchemical illustrations. Thank you dearly Adam, as you have helped deepen my understanding of the Great Work. This is invaluable wisdom as I'm sure we both know and I cannot show enough gratitude.