Alchemy Z ~ Waking Within Blog

Readers, Spring is here and I hope your spending time in Nature. My friends at Waking Within have been attending events and organizing hikes and drum circles and potlucks. Since last week marked the full moon, the first day of the Mayan new year, and the vernal equinox, (and Easter/Good Friday) the energy of community was super strong and still is. With a powerful new community based intention, I set out to help people know themselves in new ways and more importantly to know themselves in relationship with others. What path is better than this to establish world peace? So I am a Life Path 6 in numberology and I recognize that my compassion and ability to seek out balance in every situation will lead me to vast success and hopefully be a shinning example for others as the planet heals. Another item that I am researching and helping market is our ability to map your energy system and chart your personality through Human Design. The charts themselves are free...please go to http://w

Dear Readers, I am thrilled to have watched an inspiring documentary about Ram Dass yesterday, "Fierce Grace." In this documentary many references were made to psychedelics and how they opened the doors for people like Doctors Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass) and Timothy Leary to experience a spiritual oneness or personal god. Let go into greater detail in this blog as I wish to present an important point with regard to meditation. Dr. Alpert was born to a Jewish family and grew up to become a Professor at Harvard University. At Harvard University, Alpert would come to befriend and work with Dr. Timothy Leary. The two of them worked together on a project at the University that administered psychodelics to volunteers as part of a research study to find helpful medicinal uses for psychodelics. Soon after the project began to stir up contronversy, Harvard shut it down and fired both Dr. Alpert and Dr. Leary. The pair stayed together a while longer and commented that in th

Written on March 6th 2008 by my Friend who underwent the juice fast with me. -Trevahr "Living off juice for a week has been an interesting experience. Today is day 5 and I’ve noticed a radical change in my body. I wake up early in the morning feeling perfectly balanced in that I could either decide to stay in bed and take a nap or go hit the cardio equipment. When I walk through my house I feel weightless and I experience a gliding sensation. My skin feels firm and healthy, my attitude is always positive or optimistic and it has not been difficult for me to resist food. Resisting food is something worth talking about when it comes to a juice cleanse or fast. I had the preconceived notion that I would get very hungry by day 2 and seeing food would be a torture. As it turns out, I have no real need to eat food and seeing others enjoying their meals is a different experience for me now. I’ve realized the difference between wanting to eat, needing to eat, and how superficial cra

Readers, For the last few days (since Sunday) I have been involving my normal working life with a Juice Fast in order the detoxify and cleanse my body's systems. I am happy to undergo this journey on the premise of helping others go through this activity. Since I am a yoga teacher, I believe in making life and living a flexible experience. Juice fasting is new for me. In fact, at the maximum weight of 140 lbs, I have never wanted to fast because I was afraid of losing too much weight. I have to say it's day five and I am perfectly fine (and carrot juice has become my best friend)! So, I am absolutely recommending this sort of thing. Some of my other friends and associates from Waking Within are fasting with me and it feels great to have support. Most of the dreams and daily activites are shared experience and my friends and I talk everyday. So, before getting into the sales pitch stuff about how great this is, let me tell you more about days one through four. Day One: E