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15 total mentions.
6 talks with query:
"coincidentia oppositorum"
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Lectures on Alchemy

...ll to see. In discussing alchemy we will meet with the concept of the coincidentia oppositorum, the unity of opposites. This is an idea that is completely alien to ...

1998 4
aka Nothing Lasts

...l alternative to all this Aristotelianism, there is what’s called the coincidentia oppositorum. I found this very useful. It’s a psychedelic idea, a Jungian idea an...

1994 3
Unfolding the Stone - Making and Unmaking History and Language

...t’s opposite. It’s not either-or, it’s both-and. They called this the coincidentia oppositorum. This is the coincidence of opposites, the union of opposites. This i...

1991 3
Hermeticism & Alchemy

...oving toward a fusion with this alchemical mystery, which is, then, a coincidentia oppositorum. The words used to describe the alchemical goal can be used to descri...

1992 2
The Invisible Landscape (Peer Review)

...pposites and as such the only way they can be unified is in a kind of coincidentia oppositorum. A union of opposites where the identity of each element is still ful...

1985 2
Imagination in the Light of Nature

...ties for choice are opening up all around us and yet, it's a kind of 'coincidentia oppositorum' there is also great risk, great anguish, great uncertainty about whe...

1992 1