What if fire, water, earth, and air explain everything modern science can’t? PhD nuclear physicist Steven A. Young decodes the forgotten Aristotelian framework of the four classical elements, the practical science hidden beneath 2,000 years of atomism.
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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.
In the Plus+ Extension Steven breaks down an archaic piece of alchemical art, the mystical potency of sage, the relationship between salts, soul, and drugs, the esoteric defenses of alchemical writings, the three levels of the great work, immortality and the subjugation of time, bizarre qualities of mercury, metallurgy, and antiquitech.
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Steven A. Young on Substack
Steven Young on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLbnsZv-LqkLZA3ikdXI0Dw
“A Fool’s Wisdom” - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZ1W85GN/
https://www.innerversepodcast.com/season-11/steven-young-elements
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