Authorship & Ongoing Research
My work lives at the crossroads of spagyrics, earth systems science, animism, and cultural history. I write to explore how ancient frameworks of relationship can inform modern ecological thinking. And how science, when re-rooted back into a lens of relationship, it becomes more encompassing to reality rather than less.
This body of work is ongoing, as I am.
Rather than publishing single conclusions, I am developing a continuum of inquiry. Papers, lectures, and conversations that evolve as the questions deepen. My research focuses on living systems: how matter organizes, the spagyric process, phytochemistry and the bioavailability of plants. How intelligence emerges through relationship, and how ecological imbalance mirrors cultural and psychological fracture.
This page serves as a living archive of some of that work.
Current Papers & Essays
These writings represent active lines of research and synthesis. These have been edited down into a blog form compared to their entire length for ease.
Solve et Coagula: Alchemy as Earth System Science
An exploration of the alchemical principle of dissolution and reformation as a description of planetary metabolism. This paper bridges classical alchemy with the carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, and feedback loops described by Gaia Theory, published in 1970 by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis taking the point that alchemy functioned as an early ecological science rooted in observation rather than abstraction.
The Wound of Separation
Adapted from a longer narrative work originally developed for storytelling and lecture contexts, this essay traces the historical and philosophical rupture between humans and the living Earth. It examines the rise of mechanistic science, the suppression of animistic worldviews, and the ecological consequences of viewing nature as inert matter rather than kin.
Spagyric Extraction and Phytochemical Complexity in Herbal Medicine
Drawn from an excerpt of a larger book-length manuscript in progress written by Maureen (Mo) Judith, this paper explores the historical development and practical chemistry of spagyric preparations and herbal medicine through the lens of modern phytochemistry. It examines how traditional spagyric processes, like fermentation, distillation, calcination, and then reintegration alter phytochemical availability, mineral solubility, and metabolic interaction in ways that extend beyond simple extraction.
Positioning spagyrics within both historical alchemical practice and contemporary biochemical understanding, the essay challenges reductionist models of herbal medicine that prioritize isolated compounds over relational complexity. It argues for spagyrics as a process-oriented approach that mirrors plant metabolism and ecological cycles, offering a framework for understanding herbal medicine as transformation rather than separation.
Paper is currently closed to viewers but will reopen
Conversations & Oral Scholarship
Much of my work exists in spoken form through lectures, interviews, and long-form conversations. These dialogues function as oral scholarship, allowing ideas to be tested, refined, and shared in real time.
Podcast Conversations with Mountain Rose Herbs
An interview exploring spagyrics, alchemy, and ecological medicine. These conversations bridge chemistry, history, and practice, emphasizing alchemy as a living, Earth-based science rather than a symbolic or mystical abstraction.
Research in Progress
I am currently developing several long-form research projects, including:
A manuscript examining alchemy through the lens of chemistry, Gaia Theory, ecological and planetary systems
A synthesis of spagyric practice with modern chemistry and biochemistry
A historical analysis of the suppression of animism and its impact on scientific epistemology
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I share these perspectives openly because living systems do not arrive fully formed. They grow, adapt, and refine through relationship.
This page reflects a body of work in motion.