[g8way8:Conjunctio of Soul in the Furnace of Alchemical Fire

[Of the Philosopher’s Stone] … It is something that behaves like imagination and matter without ever doing damage to the ontological status of one or the other. This sounds like pure pathology in the context of modern thinking because we expect things to stay still and be what they are and undergo the growth and degradation that is inimical to them, but no, the redemption of spirit and matter means the exteriorization of the human soul and the interiorization of the human body so that it is an image freely commanded in the imagination.

- Terence MckennaLecture on Alchemy