The Four Symbols for the Elements are shown below the Alchemical Figures above, from Johann Daniel Mylius’ Philosophia reformata (1622)....

This Mythopoeic Monday sees post #400!  Huzzah! In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it is fitting to have an explicitly religious post...

It's always fun when your readers are interested in something you are interested in, and perhaps even more fun when it's a reade...

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Tarantulla Nebula from the Hubble Spacescope, Courtesy of NASA. One of the basic human responses is wonder.  It's an inner state, ...

The images of Zeno of Citium and Confucius provide two strongly contrasting images of the sage from two classical societies that valued the ...

People make all kinds of claims, constantly.  The ability to analyze claims and exchange them in fair and civil ways does not seem to be thr...