The Great Work: Alchemy and the Power of Words – Paul Kingsnorth

Writing is the monumentally complex operation whereby experience, insight, and imagination are distilled into language; reading is the equally complex operation that disperses these distilled elements into another person’s life.

Our thoughts, feelings, processes, and unconscious beliefs have an energy that is hidden in the work. This unseen, unmeasurable force gives each piece its magnetism. A completed project is only made up of our intention and our experiments around it. Remove intention and all that’s left is the ornamental shell.

Words and their meanings have weight in the world of matter, shaping and reshaping realities through a most ancient alchemy.