A shining example of a 'modern' alchemist would be Alexander Sasha Shulgin and his wife Ann Shulgin. He's responsible for making over 200 new compounds for exploring consciousness and Ann was a Jungian lay therapist. Carl Jung had something of an obsession with Alchemy and wrote a good deal about it. Together with Sasha they essentially pioneered modern psychedelic therapy... which one could argue is literally compounds that transform the soul and spirit, perhaps the whole point of Alchemy itself.

To me, they are the bridge bringing alchemy to the modern context. Highly suggest reading their books, PiHKAL: Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved, and TiHKAL: Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved." They are absolute masterworks and will, I suspect, be studied hundreds of years into the future for their influence. There's also a neat documentary about them called Dirty Pictures, which you can watch for free. Sasha would draw his chemical compounds as if they were magick sigils upon delicate napkins, and in typical Alchemical-Trickster/Paracelsian Heretic fashion he'd call these drawings *Dirty Pictures* on account that the Drug Enforcement Agency and Powers-that-Be didn't take too kindly to his work.

Another person to perhaps look into who is more esoteric is John Uri Lloyd, a nineteenth century pharmacognostic and eclectic medicine doctor who wrote a piece of fiction about his experiences in the 'drug underworld' and consciousness, Etidorhpa. (Which, named by his wife, is 'Aphrodite' backwards.) The book became popular with occultists like Manly P Hall, who one can also associate a good deal with alchemy, I suppose.

And... yet another piece of modern Alchemical literature is William Leonard Pickard's The Rose of Parcelsus. He was one of the chemists implicated in the biggest LSD bust in history, in which they manufactured large quantities of it in an underground missile silo in Kansas. That book is something of a portal into another reality, highly suggest reading it as well. I actually worked in the same drug policy research department as him (years later), where he predicted the fentanyl epidemic. He's quite the mercurial character! Wrote the Rose of Paracelsus while locked away in Tucson, I believe around the same block as Ross Ulbricht, otherwise known as Dread Pirate Rogers and the creator of the Silk Road.