Paracelsus, the Alchemist I became interested in Paracelsus through studying Jung's essay on him. But it was only after decades of studying math, physics, psychology, and philosophy that I began to appreciate just how much he exemplified the highest principles of the healer, the scientist, and human being. I learned much from Jung's writings, but he was never a role model because his devotion to his ego distorted his judgment on the most important implications of his work. Paracelsus, on the other hand was a being that I could happily look up to as a role model in many ways. I developed this admiration in full recognition of the fact that he was wrong about many things. For example, his theory of signatures cannot be universally true. This theory states that if an herb, or any object of nature, is a remedy for an illness, that fact is revealed in some way by its appearance. There are some other of his theories ...
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