I... did not know that before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton%27s_occult_studies …pic.twitter.com/A2Pv9j0I24
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Imagine discovering the laws of motion then being like “ok now back to turning lead into gold”
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It's hard for us to appreciate, but at the time those two undertakings seemed much more similar than they do now. http://paulgraham.com/disc.html
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also this is an interesting interpretation I recently heard:https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1269211291391909888 …
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kind of like saying, just because you follow a bunch of anime avatar weirdos on twitter doesn't mean you necessarily subscribe to their kooky ideologies. sometimes (often?) it's the weirdos that point out things that orthodox tradition and structure miss
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
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In fact Francis Bacon was constantly talking openly about how following his scientific method would lead to the ability to make gold. Seemed to expect a few generations at most. He would be disappointed we here 400 years later still have no effective method to do that.
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a little crazy is good for the creative soul
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Also, even today the smartest people realize just how little we know and that there are many mysteries to the universe. It’s beyond arrogant to believe otherwise. We understand less about our universe than an ant on the sidewalk understands about our planet.
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i believe a part of the problem with this community is that it views alchemy and theology as "obvious wastes of time" instead of viewing them as necessary foundations that led to his scientific discoveries. Instead of calling them failed bets, call them incomplete works.
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the other part of the problem is the shallow understanding of the occult, religious, and spiritual topics, relegating them to a domain of frivolity at best, or dangerous ignorant superstitions at worst.
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What are our brightest minds pursuing or promoting today that will seem bizarre to folks 400...100...5 years from now? Given accelerating pace of change/progress/discovery I’d bet a good bit. What will be our alchemy, leeches, etc?
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