c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…unnamed. But I suspect the czech alchemist Johann Valentin Andrei as probably being the person behind this, because Andrei and Michael Meyer were people who definitely were old enough to have been involved in Dee's earlier visits and have then just been…
…a neutral course. When he realized that Frederick and Elizabeth had gone off to Bohemia, to their court, to be with Michael Meyer and Gerhard Dorn and Johann Andre and all these guys, and to patronize these alchemical presses and astrology and all this…
…the city was the 19 year old Rene Descartes, who would grow up to be the great proponent of modern french materialism. Michael Meyer, one of the last great synthesizers of the medieval alchemical vision, died in the siege of the city and Frederick was…
…by a series of theorems. He built up this hieroglyphic monad, and he initiated a couple of young men named Johan Andre and Michael Meyer into the mysteries of the hieroglyphic monad. Well, then he was able to get out of Bohemia and he went back to…
…in Bohemia, had set out to lay the groundwork for an alchemical revolution in central Europe. And he had made Johan Andre and Michael Meyer his agents in this plot. And it was a plot, a plot to meddle with european history and to turn the Protestant…
…the church would be the establishment of an alchemical kingdom in central Europe. The target, then, of the attention of Michael Meyer and Johann Andrei. And a number of these alchemists became the young Frederick. He's called Frederick the elector Palatine.…
…winter king and queen were driven from Prague and the city fell to catholic forces. The alchemical presses were smashed, and Michael Meyer, who was like the prime minister of this scene, was murdered in an alley of Prague, and the entire alchemical dream…
…these two confront themselves in a back alley of burning Prague and carry on a debate about the future of Europe before Michael Meyer falls to the sword of Descartes. Well, that may be apocryphal, but what is not apocryphal is that this hapsburgian army,…
…role in the Golden dawn, collected. There are about 40 alchemical texts, and all the greats are in here. Lull, Villanova, Michael Meyer, Basil Valentine Kramer, Edward Kelly, and so forth. The place to begin, I think, is obviously with the question, who is…
…welded into one individual. There are other cases like this off and on over my lifetime. I'm working on a play about Michael Meyer, who was a great alchemist, and it's a complicated story, but I'll just give you a little bit of it. Anyway, Michael…
…Meyer, who was a great alchemist, and it's a complicated story, but I'll just give you a little bit of it. Anyway, Michael Meyer was the greatest alchemist of his age, and he was implicated in the rosicrucian enlightenment and so forth and so on. And…
…Now I guess it must have been well known among Terence's close associates that he'd been working on a play about the alchemist Michael Meyer, but that was the first time I heard about it myself, and unless there's a copy on his hard drive, which I…