“The Pedagogy of the Hermaphrodite” is the first of four considerations on alchemy that I presented in the course I taught at Erica Poli’s EFP Academy in Milan. Alchemy urges us to consider the Coniunctio Oppositorum, the union of opposites, in a single form, symbolized by Hermaphroditus, the offspring of Hermes and Aphrodite. Fulfillment requires each of us to learn to blend our lights and shadows, to dance between the pauses and notes of experience, to courageously seek a balance between good and evil. Watch the excerpt of my lecture “Dance, Alchemy and Philosophy” at Erica Poli’s EFP Academy.
