{"product_id":"an-alchymical-odyssey-michael-boughn-9781581772548","title":"An Alchymical Odyssey: The Book of Uncertain Volume 2","description":"Following A Hyperbiographical User's Manual (The Book of Uncertain Book 1), An Alchymical Odyssey (The Book of Uncertain Book 2) dives deep into the processes of bios\/zoe that constitute something called \" a life\" . The \" journey\" implied in the process leads back \" home\" even as it traverses a range of experience. That process can be identified with the Alchymical notion of the opus, a work of continual spiritual transformation (clarification), an ongoing ordeal that moves through different states, including nigredo (disintegration), albedo (purification) and rubedo (instauration) over and over until it eventually results in the chemical wedding that produces the philosopher's stone. It also echoes with a sense of Odysseus's long journey home through multiple dangers and temptations. As Alchymy imagines its central struggle in terms of the relation of male and female figures, the King and the Queen, and their eventual union, so too does Odysseus's eventual successful return to Penelope figure a union, or re-union, as the image of an achieved spiritual wholeness. The concern is with psyche, but psyche in James Hillman's sense as something beyond the person, something persons particip\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Boughn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1581772548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781581772548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Station Hill Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Michael Boughn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49002303226111,"sku":"9781581772548","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/an-alchymical-odyssey-michael-boughn-9781581772548","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}