Inspiration Of Change

Imagine if you could transform one object to another object of greater value. The idea is what dreams can be built on, magically creating wealth in our lives. As children, our story books are filled with the idea that there was a way to create wealth out of something that appeared to have no value. Jack and the beanstalk traded items of value for worthless seeds that would grow to a beanstalk that would lead to riches. The goose that laid golden eggs, and endless stories of genie's granting wishes.

If only we could truly change what appears to be worthless to that of greater value. Back in the middle ages and during the Renaissance a philosophy was developed that believed that there was a way to develop a method to transmute base metals into gold. They further believed that had to be a universal cure for all diseases and a way to prolong life itself. If only we could have magical powers such as this to transform something common into something special, the ability to mysteriously transmute one thing to another ...WOW!

Although the physical process of alchemy has never materialized the concept of this type of change, the idea was later revisited in the twentieth century as a metaphor of human psychology. Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, although some might consider him more of a philosopher, explored and combined alchemy, astrology, sociology, literature and the arts into his works. Jung saw alchemy as a representation of the psychological process of transformation.