The Five Forgotten Elements: Astonishing Alchemical Knowledge with Steven Young

Steven Young is the author of "A Fool's Wisdom" and creator of Hedflux. In his second InnerVerse appearance, Steven brings a lively revival of knowledge, including the forgotten gnosis expressed by alchemy's quintessential elements. Topics include practical alchemical applications for life, elemental qualities and the encoding within their respective symbols, refuting the periodic table and atomism, and a lot more.

In this second conversation with Steven Young, author of A Fool's Wisdom, InnerVerse dives into the alchemy half of his book: why alchemy deals in real sensory phenomena while atomism deals in abstractions, how 2,000 years of Aristotelian elemental physics formed the worldwide scientific consensus until the 17th-century atomic revival, the fire element as the Great Mover and the salamander as its generative spirit, the dark night of the soul as the negredo stage of alchemical purification, the water element as primary (hydrogen and oxygen are produced from water, not the other way around), the Earth as a hermetically sealed terrarium with a fixed water supply, the four element symbols and their correspondence to tarot and gender, fractality and hylomorphism as Aristotelian physics, and health understood through elemental imbalance where inflammation is excess fire and medicine is literally medi-sin.