Psycho-Aetheric Alchemy

by David Chaim Smith

The Psycho-Aetheric Alchemy series presents innovative new works utilizing esoteric symbol systems established in David Chaim Smith’s Lightning Flash of Alef books, published between 2017 and 2023. Volume One bears the title of the series and is based on a set of 72 concise contemplative passages presented in numbered sections, accompanied by details and images from the extended body of esoteric cartographs from 2006 until present. 6x9 inch paperback 25 images

112 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2023

About the author

David Chaim Smith was born in 1964 in Queens, New York. His early career was as a visual artist throughout the 1980s. In 1990 he began an immersion into the root sources of Alchemy and the Hermetic and Hebrew traditions of the Kabbalah. In 1996 he abandoned visual art for a total dedication to spiritual practice, from which came a unique blend of practical mysticism and creative innovation. This blend coalesced while working with an obscure thirteenth-century text called The Fountain of Wisdom, which he mapped out diagrammatically in notebooks during his ten-year hiatus from visual art. The resulting symbol vocabulary served as the basis for his 2006 return to art, generating the content for several books. He currently lives in the suburbs of New York City with his wife, Rachel.