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  7. abwatt:

    Vegetable Alchemy, or spagyrics, is the art of raising and intensifying the energetic value of plant matter from its raw state to a heightened, purified and concentrated state of energy. Usually the plant matter is put through four stages in the most basic form of working, called Putrefaction, Maceration, Calcination and Cohobation.

    Others have described the process of making spagyrics with more accuracy than I’m prepared to do at this time, but this is basically my alchemical workshop. I don’t distill, mostly because it’s illegal and partially because it’s complicated and risky and expensive.

    But basic spagyrics requires little more than the tools in this cabinet drawer: an iron pan (and metal stirrer) for calcining, sealable jars for macerating and cohobating, a funnel with cotton balls for filtering, raw herbs as prima materia, and a mortar and pestle for initial preparation/powdering of the herbs.

    There’s another side to the operation, of course, the spiritual side. Without the spiritual side, you’re doing historical chemistry, not alchemy. Prayers before and after each step of the operation, both the work as a whole and the stages within it. The transformation takes place in the self, this way, long before it takes place in the material being worked upon.

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  10. transhistorical:

    On this day, June 16th, 1951, Louis Graydon Sullivan was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sullivan was the founder of FTM International and is considered the first trans man to die of AIDS. He had a difficult time acquiring hormones and gender reaffirming surgeries, as he was a gay trans man, something doctors had deemed impossible at the time. Sullivan was an avid researcher of trans* history, being a founding board member of the GLBT Historical Archive and writing a biography of Jack Bee Garland, a San Francisco Bay Area trans man who lived during the turn of the century. 

    Sullivan passed away in 1991 after being diagnosed with HIV in 1986, leaving behind a hefty collection of documents and newspaper articles.

    If you live in the Bay Area, you should check out Sullivan’s collection, which is easily accessible through the SF downtown library’s historical archives. 

    For more videos and information on Lou Sullivan, check out this article on OutHistory