Working the Soul

The chapters of this book were created over a period of ten years either in the form of articles, lectures, or introductions to other works. Each of them deals with issues and images central to traditional alchemical concerns. Some approach alchemy form a psychological perspective, others from a mythological, and yet others from a metaphysical. Ponc has grasped the essential psychological insight of the masters he evokes Paracelsus, Jung, Ker nyi, Eliate and the traditions he joins astrology, alchemy, mythology, kundalini.