March/April 2024 Alchemical Voice
Spiritual magazine with articles full of wisdom. We start with Sue Penney sharing her experience as being a Medium, following her wealth of experience working with crystals. Shaman, John Sjovik writes a short story called 'Don't Panic' and a longer one on Mathematics & Spirituality - fantastically written! For those that are in the UK, learn about getting better care at home for your elderly loved ones from Joannah Bishop. Julie de Vere Hunt blesses us with her deep knowledge on The Rise and Fall of the Serpent. Dream Builder and Life Coach, Carol Coggan continues her article on Energy, Vibration and Love. Energy Psychologist Martin Lewis shares Seven Words of Abuse - very enlightening! Hannah Gauss has a lovely allegory The Azure River. Our new writer, shaman and energy healer Erica Lowe has written a lovely article on Coalescence. And for all those Empaths out there, check out our Empath article right at the back of the magazine by Shaman Alchemist Jovi Hoonjan. We have courses, workshops, products for you too.
Spiritual magazine with articles full of wisdom. We start with Sue Penney sharing her experience as being a Medium, following her wealth of experience working with crystals. Shaman, John Sjovik writes a short story called 'Don't Panic' and a longer one on Mathematics & Spirituality - fantastically written! For those that are in the UK, learn about getting better care at home for your elderly loved ones from Joannah Bishop. Julie de Vere Hunt blesses us with her deep knowledge on The Rise and Fall of the Serpent. Dream Builder and Life Coach, Carol Coggan continues her article on Energy, Vibration and Love. Energy Psychologist Martin Lewis shares Seven Words of Abuse - very enlightening! Hannah Gauss has a lovely allegory The Azure River. Our new writer, shaman and energy healer Erica Lowe has written a lovely article on Coalescence. And for all those Empaths out there, check out our Empath article right at the back of the magazine by Shaman Alchemist Jovi Hoonjan. We have courses, workshops, products for you too.
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<strong>Alchemical</strong> <strong>Voice</strong> - L2M - Issue 25<br />
Is it the absence of “something”? Is “nothing” an entity<br />
that can be measured? Can one set of nothingness be<br />
less than another set of nothingness?<br />
And is “zero” and “nothing” really the same thing? Both<br />
are expressions and there is always a risk that we get<br />
lost in language. The human language, its words,<br />
grammar and syntax, is really a blunt tool for describing<br />
life, existence and the world around us. However, with<br />
due consideration of the way we humans express<br />
ourselves, “zero” is a number in mathematics,<br />
represented by the numeral 0, whereas “nothing” has a<br />
more philosophical quality to it.<br />
Zero is not a prime number. Neither is it a composite<br />
number. There are not any unique factorials that<br />
multiplied with each other would give you zero (unless<br />
one of them is zero).<br />
A line of thought that is common for most of us, is that<br />
each concept or subject has an opposite. We talk about<br />
light and darkness, good and evil, God and the Devil,<br />
sound and silence, safety and danger etc. The division in<br />
opposites is something human beings do, in order to<br />
better understand the world around us.<br />
We find it hard to talk about “something” without<br />
acknowledging the opposite of “something”, which we<br />
could call “nothing”.<br />
There is a line which I have heard in several movies: “it<br />
is what it is”. Those words actually agree with the Greek<br />
philosopher Parmenides (5th century BC) who claimed<br />
that emptiness actually is something. With reference to<br />
the quoted movie line, Parmenides would only talk<br />
about “it is”, not “it is not”. He maintained that you can<br />
only talk about that which is, not that which is not.<br />
Also, remember the famous quote from Archimedes,<br />
who said that “nature abhors a vacuum”. Any space will<br />
immediately be filled with something.<br />
Another aspect that should be kept in mind is that many<br />
features of what we call reality are simply a<br />
consequence of certain conditions on planet Earth. Our<br />
understanding of reality also reflects the biochemistry<br />
and physiology of us as human beings, with our five<br />
natural senses and the limitations we inhabit as an<br />
expression of our species.<br />
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