is there a real difference between alchemy and chemistry?

Question

I know chemistry is like the stuff you learn in school, but what exactly is amchemy? I haeard s is something you do spiritually or something idk? can someone give me some good info on this?

Answer 1

Alchemy was the "science" that was used to try and convert lead into gold. It was false but it eventually led to chemistry. Alchemy was based on the four element, fire, water, earth, and air. They believed that everything was made of those four elements and you just had to find the right combination.
BTW, gold was made from lead but the scientist had to use a cyclotron and the cost was far more that the gold yielded.

Answer 2

Alchemy was an ancient precursor to the modern chemical sciences -- it was one of the earliest systematic investigations into nature. Alchemists were trying to find the "Philospher's Stone", a magical substance that was supposed to be able to, upon contact, transmute lead or other base metals into gold. In the search for this mystical substance, they would smelt ores, distill substances, mix compounds, and carefully record their activities so they could reproduce them IF they ever succeeded.

Of course, they never did find the Philosopher's Stone. But those alchemical records and observations became the background for what we now call chemistry.

Answer 3

Alchemy is often thought to be changing one element into another, such as lead into gold. But basically, it's an attempt to combine all sciences into one. Alchemy was practiced for many centuries, and eventually developed into modern science. Today's interest in alchemy is purely historical. And yes, it did involve some spirituality and mysticism.

Answer 4

I think alchemy was what people studied in medieval times, back when people didn't know about chemistry. It involved potions and magic, and finding a way to turn lead into gold, etc. Chemistry came around after people started noticing molecules and elements. That's what I've heard, anyway. Hope that helps.

Answer 5

alchemy is a psuedo science. Most alchemists were concerned with turning lead into gold and making an elixer for everlasting life. Alchemy is more "magical" than chemistry

Answer 6

Alchemy was the search for chemical means of converting base metals to gold. It didn't work, but it did lead to cool chemical discoveries which lead to modern day chemistry.

Answer 7

Alchemy is when you try to make gold out of other combinations of metals...(not a "true" science since the feat has never been accomplished).

Answer 8

Alchemy was actually general systems dynamics and cybernetics, the science and engineering of all practical knowledge. Alchemy is alive today in the Yahoo Group, Alchemy61. And, Google "a quickened astral light", with which lead can actually be transmuted into gold. Here's more: It is said that Jesus "descended into Hell and on the third day arose from the dead". Crucifixion forces what is called today "holotropic breathing". Dr. Stanislav Grof replaced LSD with holotropic breathing. LSD awakens brain use beyond the normal 10% by blocking the inhibitory neurons. Holotropic breathing, and other muscarinic nervous system stimulations, awaken the brain by overriding the inhibitory neurons. The neurons of the parasympathetic nervous system are called "muscarinic" for their stimuilation overriding the inhibitory neurons like the hallucinary drug muscarine. The major plexuses are called "chakras" in yoga. Stimulation, called "kundalini" in yoga, spreads in any particular nervous system. In the case of the muscarinic nervous system the stimulation spreads to the brain and there awakens more the 10% brain use. The biggest muscarinic nerve is the vagus nerve. It doesn't pass through the spine, but, its main trunk emerges from the brain in the roof of the nasopharynx. Advanced yogins have cut the ligature that holds their tongues down so they can put their tongues up the back of their noses. This act is called the "khechari mudra", in English, the "fig gesture". This act causes so much vagal stimulation that the heart stops by vagal syncope. The yogin can then stay in suspended animation for any chosen length of time and voluntarily withdraw his tongue to "resurrect". The blood stays oxygenated during the khechari mudra. Houdini did this in some of his feats. But, with the "water board" of the Gitmo Baptism, the intent is to fill the nasopharynx with water, enough just to put the candidate for initiation into what Dr. Stanislav Grof called "perinatal matrix three". Is there any other Hell? Very often those who resurrected from what seemed to witnesses as death, had a homeopathic reaction from death such that the brain woke up with more than its normal 10% use, so that, this actually "hyperlife" state was called, the world of the dead, the Underworld, Hell, etc. The mind is very powerful to materialize its visualizations as reality in the Underworld. Can anyone control all their thoughts? Things go wrong. as soon as the candidate wishes he were someone else, "zap" he body switches into that someone else, where he no longer has the more than 10% brain use, and is weak again. But, he doesn't belong in anyone elses body, so, as soon as that body sleeps or dies, it's into another body he goes. And, on and on and on, going backward and forward in time in body after body, into everyone he has ever seen, for about a hundred years duration. This was called the "aioniu amartematos", an aeon of failure", in the original Greek Bible, translated into English "etenrnal damnation". But, Jesus Christ, being God, body switched into everyone who ever was or ever will be, and on every probability timeline. That's why He is always in you and I. This is real. The awakened brain accesses the multidimensional universe that people with only 10% brain use, at any time, are unaware of. It doesn't have to be that extreme. Perinatal matrix one is euphoric. In perinatal matrix two, the "Knowledge of Good and Evil", as one goes into this fifth dimensional direction, the brain gets more and more powerful to travel in the sixth dimension to the probability timelines corresponding to imagination. Dr. Stanislav Grof, in his "Adventure of Self Discovery" said that this was the real sacrament of Baptism, but, it was also what Adam and Eve did with each other, "eating" the fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil" that constituted the "original sin" so that the Cathars made this thier sacrament of "Unbaptism". Other related stimulations are condemned as "witchcraft", called in the Koran "blowing on knots". It's all how far you go that determines its arbitrary worth to various classes of society. It has been the most suppressed secret in the world. Dr. Grof is the first to get away with making it somewhat public. But, every Christian has the right to understand the crucifixion. It must be common public knowledge for justice.