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Wall Piece IV (1985), a kinetic sculpture by George Rhoads. This complex meehanieal art form can be viewed as a metaphor for the molecular apparatus underlying electron transport and ATP synthesis by oxidative phosphorylation. (1985 ty George Rhoaeh)... 

Fig. 2.t Climbing the ladder and developing vertigo as a metaphor for the problematic situation of the domain of miero-maero thinking in ehemieal edueation... 

As in the case of Fludd, Boehme s Christ was a metaphor for his own spiritual experiences and he employed alchemical terminology in order to describe these sacred moments of illumination. He regarded the purpose of life as being the effort to harmonise the oppositions within and without the human being, uniting them with God the Light. 

This Volume Contains the Works of the Pseudonymous Eirenaeus Philalethes, an Alchemist Purported to Have Discovered the Philosopher s Stone. First Printings of These Tracts Appeared Between 1654 and 1683. This Is the First Collection of All Contemporaneously English Treatises of Philalethes. Only Two Tracts Remain Unpublished in English. More Then 300 Years After the Publications of the Rich Works Contained Herein the Identity of Eirenaeus Philalethes Is Still Secreted in a Labyrinth of Circumstantial Clues. The Mysterious, Nearly Mythological Author Stands As the Perfect Metaphor for the Enigma of Pseudonyms and Symbolism of the Hermetic Practices. Philalethes Is the Latinization of the Greek and Translated "Lover of Truth."... 

An illustrated foray into the hidden truth about the use of psychoactive mushrooms to connect with the divine. Draws parallels between Vedic beliefs and Judeo-Christian sects, showing the existence of a mushroom cult that crossed cultural boundaries. Contends that the famed philosophers stone of the alchemist was a metaphor for the mushroom. Confirms and extends Robert Gordon Wasson s hypothesis of the role of the fly agaric... 

Surrealist artist Max Ernst defined collage as the "alchemy of the visual image." Students of his work have often dismissed this comment as simply a metaphor for the transformative power of using found images in a new context. Taking a wholly different perspective on Ernst and alchemy, however, M. E. Warlick persuasively demonstrates that the artist had a profound and abiding interest in alchemical philosophy and often used alchemical symbolism in works created throughout his career. 

The example of the human body as a metaphor for the economy (lines 41-43) suggests that... 

Mercury is the alchemical symbol for consciousness because the metal mercury, quicksilver, is used to coat glass to make mirrors. The mirror, in both Eastern and Western traditions, is often used as a metaphor for the inherently pure and transparent nature of mind, pure awareness, the light of Primordial Consciousness. It is in the mirror of human consciousness that God beholds God. 

Though not by Cloitre and Shinn. Black, Models andMetaphors, 37 quoted by Richard Boyd, "Metaphor and Theory Change What Is Metaphor a Metaphor For " 356408, in Ortony, Metaphor and Thought, 357. 

Chemical form became biological in Laurent s metaphor of the chemical "tree" "I have searched if there does not exist in all parts of a same chemical tree, something analogous to this mother cell, in a word a nucleus common to all compounds of the same series. "25 Like so many chemists, Armstrong could not resist the military metaphor, for example, in describing the chemistry of camphor "Whatever the agent, the attack is always delivered from the oxygen center and. .. the direction in which the attack becomes effective depends on... 

The periodic recurrence of cell division suggests that globally the cell cycle functions like an autonomous oscillator. An extended model incorporating the sequential activation of the various cyclin-dependent kinases, followed by their inactivation, shows that even in the absence of control by cell mass, this sequence of biochemical events can operate as a limit cycle oscillator [145]. This supports the union of the two views of the cell cycle as dominoes and clock [146]. Because of the existence of checkpoints, however, the cell cycle stops at the end of certain phases before engaging in the next one. Thus the cell cycle looks more like an oscillator that slows down and makes occasional stops. A metaphor for such behavior is provided by the movement of the round plate on the table in a Chinese restaurant, which would rotate continuously under the movement imparted by the participants, were it not for frequent stops. 

The memory of the picture cannot be forgotten it is a metaphor for the senselessness and the horror of war. While it was painted to protest atrocities in a long ago war, it is as relevant today as the recollection of the horrors of September 11. Perhaps it should be shown to all those who contemplate starting a war. Would it be worth it to have another Guernica ... 

You look at me sideways. "That s impossible. I haven t even started working on it yet." I tell you that that gift box is a metaphor for all the things in life that you want but don t have yet. 

Another author claims that presently—at our own fin de siecle, exactly a century after the Symbolists first pioneered the provocative idea—Alchemy has once again become the perfect metaphor for alert artists currently attempting to describe a baleful postmodernist, contemporary condition. According to William Dunning,... 

The Philosopher s Stone is a metaphor for finding value in the other, the disenfranchised who are often ignored or discarded by a foolish society. Alchemists believed the Philosopher s Stone was the most precious of all things, constantly overlooked by us all. When past societies favored one group, they often discarded others as worthless. When postmodern society finally began to perceive value in once-discarded groups, it echoed the metaphor of the Stone. 

As I mentioned in other chapters, Proust was a fascinating writer, best known for his seven-volume work. In Search of Lost Time (older English translations have used the title Remembrance of Things Past). The novel draws heavily on the Proust s own life and experiences, but he made sure that the main character also had experiences that Proust never had. Most of the book s characters were metaphors for actual people he had encountered in real life, and the characters often combine traits of several different friends or lovers. The closeness of the novel to his life is revealed on two occasions near the end of the novel, when he mentions that Marcel is the first name of the narrator. 

The DMT universe can overlap ours in various ways. For example, a DMT psychonaut, with his eyes open, may see a being perched on a tree in our world. This is a level 1 merging of realities, with the being from the DMTverse superimposed on the tree from our universe. In a level 2 blending, the psychonaut can walk through a forest and around a lake in the real world and see an unrelated forest and lake in the DMTverse, with no correspondence to the real universe except that a forest and a lake exist. In this level 2 blending, it s as if the subconscious brain sees our traditional world but creates a DMT metaphor for it. A lake in one world is a lake in the world beyond. 

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