Alchemy and Its Metaphors

Yen: Technology can distort and create a distorted version of what's actually going on inside the mind, or outside it. I think if you were to put yourself in someone who, day in and day out, was not using an iphone,. but was instead a working with the base materials and with metals and chemicals - this would be the primary way that they would also think about the mind. This would be their telephone, their television, their computer. These would be the ways that they might then self reflect. Well, ye. It's apparent that witnessing chemical reactions suggested to people some kind of deep, underlying, spiritual reality," he says.