Originally aired as Salon #226 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "Newton himself was a man with a foot in two worlds. He was a thorough-going occultist. His alchemical experiments and notebooks were voluminous. And yet he was one of the founding members of the Royal Society." "History itself is a kind of…"

No one can read it. It is truly an occult book." -Terence McKenna According to Wikipedia, the Voynich Manuscript has been described as "the world's most mysterious manuscript", and so far it's secret code has never been

"What we would call manic depression, despair, and that chaotic, near psychotic state of unbounded hopelessness is the precondition then for the alchemical work." "An angel chartered modern science. It's the alchemical angel, which will not die. It returns again and again..."

I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it