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[autopoetic]

I've been inside a fairy tale called The Golden Key for about a week now. It's the subject of the last essay of my BA. Appropriate, I think.

I have found my golden key. I'm not sure I've fully uncovered the iron chest though. In alchemy, iron is associated with Mars - instinctual affect, drives, aggressiveness. But the casket is a distinctly

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[kegel_exercises]

alchemy is an interesting subject i've never understood.

[autopoetic]

Jung wrote a crapload about it, but none of it is very clear. The basic idea, as far as I understand it, is that the alchemical process is the process of growing a soul, uniting consciousness and the unconscious, and so on.