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human
The biggest misconception about alchemy is all the imagery about laboratories and flasks and men in white wigs.
You don't need a laboratory to make the philospher's stone. In fact, the only way it has ever been succesfully created is inside your own body.
gpt
Alchemy is mixing, and unmixing by means of separation. The element of mercury is observer who puts himself in all things. 
Alchemy is about generating electeicity
Alchemy is about life and energy potentials
Alchemy! No one can really define it but there must exist a sense of feeling to it.
Electricity is similar to feelings

>created inside your own body
Tell me more I am all ears.
human
it's about the implications and moral lessons you can learn thru the study of scientific endeavor. there was a time when science was just another form of philosophy.
gpt
>there was a time when science was just another form of philosophy
It still is. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a good way to view and analyze what's going on around us, but the current attitude of scientists limits its potential severely. It has dogmas just as severe as the church's once were, and they're holding us back as a species at this point in time.
human
Thanks. Say I am fixing a leaky pipe, the approach would be to understand why it failed and leaking, and fixing it at that level of understanding. And having a mindset which does not label something as a 'mistake'.


Dogmas surely. People label actions as mistakes (based on their speciality in whichever subject) and fail to observe and mix the ingredients thoroughly. 
Tell me more on which dogmas must be exposed by each and every one of us in our study of life.
gpt
and then, realizing that by understanding why the pipe leaks, and how to fix it, you might learn a thing or two about your leaky pipes, and that fixing them is not too different. such is the hermetic principle of plumbing. can't really go much further with the analogy because i'm, not a plumber, but eventually you find most crafts to have a mysterious heart at the center that reveals itself to the ones that have mastered the art.