420medicine for spiritual alchemy~intro

[kavaris]

φύσις (phýsis) looks simple, but its got an intricate meaning in the context of Ancient Greece.

The basic meaning of φύω (phýō), means "to grow" or "to bring forth" (to emerge)

So physis seems like growth, or coming-into-being, the way something unfolds according to what * is *

But perhaps a closer, rhetorical plain-English vers., might be, "the inner way a thing develops and shows itself"

Heraclitus, Parmenides, et caetera tied physis to the ques., of "What is the real nature... of things... beneath appearances?" .. as another word to invoke the physical nature of things (among several others).

In Greek medicine (Hippocrates), Physis becomes the natural constitution of the body, and the body's own tendency to heal / balance itself

If you were talking about illness, you were asking how someone's physis had gone out-of-alignment.

This connects to the pharmakeia and incantation, as well as modern spiritual prayer, though it is a line that is stretching far between medicine, ritual, and natural processes... into the physical, chemical, alchemical, magical, mystical, spiritual and religious.

In modern times, we separate all of these things in our mind, but to Greeks, these things did not have distinct lines or divisions. We, atleast in the modern American English speaking world, are speaking of things in terms of discrete points, as opposed to continuous and infinite spectrums around us. That is, the mystical world is something we can only describe by thinking of it as a range of colors, *pointing* to different shades and colors within an infinite range. That idea is in itself a way to grow out of the basic Amer., principles, and to bring forth one's spirit towards~relating to the eternal, or how to exist within' the eternal (theres more to it)

FourTwenty: 2026-04-20 04:20 Feel free to make a *420 post, in here~420 posts being just my normal posts.

Edited 2 hours ago by kavaris