Alchemy Z ~ Waking Within Blog

Dear New Friends in Phoenix and Tempe, We just had a very busy week. Personally, work weekends through Wednesday and am having a wonderful time with my new home, job and business in Tempe. I never really knew much about Mill Ave and ASU until week before last. Another new thing for me is the orbit bus system with all of it's planetary names. I found myself asking fellow riders about their birthdays and held one conversation in which I went so far as to purpose the idea that the first days of Mercury Retrograde would likely be the days when the "Orbit Mercury" bus has the most issues with it's normal route. We may never know, but there is one thing for sure: Mercury is returning to normal from now to Dec. 19th. 2012. It's still in the awkward phase after being in "retrograde." So if you didn't know about retrogrades now is the time to learn but first understand the term "direct." A planet goes or is "direct" when it's t...

Dear Phoenix Residents, This post announces our newest classes and location in the heart of downtown historic district of Phoenix Arizona. Please come to our Numerology/Cards of Destiny event on November 27th, 2012 at 6pm-9pm. Contact 619-663-4844 for more reservation info. We'll be gathering at the Burton Burr Central Library at 6pm which is located 1221 North Central, Phoenix AZ. 85007 Personally I was introduced to the Cards of Destiny a long time ago, well about 6 years ago, and I was quite tickled to learn that I was a Jack of Hearts in the system. Oddly enough my card is fixed and doesn't progress the same way that other cards do within the system. I was told by our newest edition to the Astrology team that this card is fairly lucky even though it's often associated with Sacrificial Love. _Hugh T Alchemy WakingWithin@gmail.com  AlchemyZ.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= How much faith do you have in astrology? How much do you know that your b...

 We ar back!!!! Join us for the new season of episodes starting this week and starring all new guest hosts as well as old favorites. -Hugh T Alchemy Listen to internet radio with EntheoRadio on Blog Talk Radio

The following has been shared with me through Facebook. I know that it's a little long but I felt amazing and changed after reading this. Additionally, I had a recent dream about studying the Dagara Tradition and  it's very funny/weird that someone shared this with me. Hugh T Alchemy _______________________________ What a Shaman Sees in A Mental Hospital In the shamanic view, mental illness signals “the birth of a healer,” explains Malidoma Patrice Somé. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such to aid the healer in being born. What those in the West view as mental illness, the Dagara people regard as “good news from the other world.” The person going through the crisis has been chosen as a medium for a message to the community that needs to be communicated from the spirit realm. “Mental disorder, behavioral disorder of all kinds, signal the fact that two obviously incompatible energies have merged into th...

My medicine flute for ceremony in F#minor. -Hugh

I've been staying with friends on a powerful medicine path and re-evaluated what it is that I am connected with. How my power is free or constrained. -I walk with my medicine tracking my power. Hugh T Alchemy

Have you read this novel? Dune is one of the must reads for anyone growing up in this era of transformation and technology. It was created by Frank Herbert in the 1960s and it still has meaning (in addition to some of the highest ratings for Best Sci Fiction book and audio book). Personally I've read every Dune story written by Frank Herbert and many of them written by his son Brian. I've chosen a few quotes for you below that seem to represent the changes that have come to news during the Obama administration 2012. Many of these quotes have something to do with the opinions or observations of the characters. These are selected from Book 4: God Emperor of Dune. Personally I love this book and intent to re-read it because originally I disliked it due to cynicism of the main character Leto II. Enjoy, Hugh T Alchemy The following quotes come from a collection assembled by the fine author at  nightsolo.net  please visit his site for the complete works of Dune quotatio...

Ska Maria Pastora, the Shepherdess or Salvia Divinorum is a sacred entheogenic plant of the peoples of Mexico in the mint family. It was used long ago, mostly likely, by the Maya, Zapotec, Aztec and Omec. Many modern Indigenous groups still use Salvia Divinorum through a process of chewing rolled leaves at night time for healing and divination. Modern descendants of the Maya and Zapotec as well as Mixtec and Oaxacan peoples still utilize this plant today. Most often we hear that they use it as a substitute for the Magic Mushrooms (Psilocybe Cubensis and Psilocybe species) during the seasons when the mushrooms are not fruiting.  Salvia Divinorum is an easy plant to cultivate and can be very sustainable and rewarding to the Shamanic Herbal enthusiast. It is primarily probagated through cuttings but lately the plants that many of my friends keep are sprouting flowers and eventually seeds. These are sensitive plants and, I believe, need lots of loving care. If provided a safe...

Dear Mr. Stamets, I’ve been a huge fan of yours for many years now. I am writing to you today because I think your extensive knowledge and experience can be an asset regarding my vision to save Lake Atitlan, the third largest freshwater lake in Guatemala. This lake was said to have been written about by Aldous Huxley where he referred to this lake as “the most beautiful lake in the world”. As an active mushroom cultivator and amateur mycologist I paid special attention when you publicly made statements about how to solve the problems in the Gulf with the recent oil spill utilizing mushrooms and hair to absorb the petro-waste and have it consumed by voracious mycelium. I feel that Lake Atitlan can be saved with the aid of fungi. In 2009 it came to the attention of the locals that cyanobacteria had been growing and blooming in the water. It is three years later and the lake is in dire need of cleansing. Many of the people who depend on the lake for fishing and everyday life have develo...

I have a few simple demands from creator this lifetime. I would like to teach and travel doing works of Shamanism and Alchemy I would like to be safe and free of religious persecution during my life of work (on Shamanism and Alchemy) I would like to learn many languages and speak them with friends at a fluent level as I travel and teach. I would like to create several books and learning programs that better people through sharing the things that I've learned throughout my shamanistic working and alchemical projects. I would like to travel to and be safe and prosperous in the countries of Japan, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Mexico, Argentina, Madagascar, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Australia, Wales, and New Zealand. I would like to heal the place of unrest between humans and the environment. I would like create mushroom projects for healing the planet, cleaning the environment and feeding good food to huma...

When I feel inclined and often times when I am conducting a ceremony among friends with the medicine of the peoples of this land, I am most moved my the ancestors of this land. I have both the blood of the Cherokee and the Zapotec natives of America. I eat the food grown of this land and Mexico and because of growing up around the American South West, I have been influenced by the remainder of the people that were settled here first. As an assignment in High School for extra credit I was able to attend a Pow Wow in San Diego. This dancing and chanting opened my eyes and I was lost in some ancient stream of genetic information that I then did not know what to do with. After years of exploring human consciousness, spirituality, rites of passage, and mystical initiations, I am now well through mapping the tip of the "iceberg." I've had the honor of attending and build many sweat lodge ceremonies of different teachers. I've researched the lives of great tribes of Nort...

I'm a great mushroom enthusiast and an admirer of Eco Warriors like Paul Stamets. I felt it necessary to post the following videos explaining how incredible the force of mushrooms are on this planet Earth. Please enjoy my favorite Ted Talk by Mr Stamets:  I believe that this was the first time I ever saw Paul:  This is a great short video on Morel patch making:  Fungi were the first species of life on this planet to come on land from the Ocean of Evolution:  If you enjoyed these videos, please subscribe or send me a comment. Also Paul has some amazing books that I totally recommend. The best book by him that I have read is "Mycelium Running." By the way, there are legal magic mushrooms out there (in the states that is). Check out Gold of Sunshine for the  Amanita Muscaria , a mushroom long steeped in tradition and history. Sincerely, Hugh T Alchemy

I am going now, without plans to return. I will pass through the lands of my heritage and great many of the spirits of the Maya. This is the year of the quickening, the curtain fall and the great awakening. I won't be unreachable or unattainable, I'll just be on a voyage. When I arrive O how I intend to build and create: For my family and future generations I will plant and gather resources of natural things and good and growing things. We will create and Olive tree grove, a cacao tree plantation, myco-scapes and mushroom bio remediation, and several tea plant gardens with various aged trees/shrubs of the camillia sinensis species. I feel the future is seeking deliberate actions that orient humans and nature on this planet as strong allies or else co-existence will cease. Thus considered, we are conceiving to create at complete seed and spore bank with totally sustainable structures powered completely through environmental systems (solar, wind, water...). I've sou...