In this thought-provoking presentation, bestselling author Dennis William Hauck shows how the universal principles of alchemy are being recognized in the modern world. The most powerful tool in the alchemists' laboratories was their own consciousness, which they viewed as a force of nature that could be purified and focused. Modern science has confirmed the power of consciousness to shape physical reality in amazing experiments in quantum physics and parapsychology. This level of work by true alchemists, such as alchemist-mathematicians John Dee and Isaac Newton, went far beyond the foolish efforts of medieval charlatans who tried to change lead into gold by purely physical means. The stages of development of an alchemic consciousness are revealed in the deep symbolism of the alchemists' drawings, and their philosophical concepts come alive in stories and anecdotes from the author's diverse training as a mathematician at the University of Vienna and his apprenticeship in alchemy in nearby Prague. (Keynote Address at the International Alchemy Conference 2011 at the Long Beach Convention Center in California.

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