Alchemy Z ~ Waking Within Blog

   Dreaming in the Dark Times Series: Rediscovering Herbal Totlec Shamanism Classically I have been dreaming within my lifetime in this body from the earliest times in my memory. I have dreams that I remember from when I was 5 yrs old. I have paid close attention to these visions and how they relate to myself, my future and present reality, past lives and generic fire. I believe everyone dreams and in my family many people remember these nightly occurrences and they seem to have powerful meanings that have been handed down by my pure blood grandmothers on both sides Italian and Sonoran.  I’ve heard many stories for these ladies about their dreams, some of which included me. After many years of research into Lucid dreaming and meditation mind states, and adopting nagualismo aka Toltec Shamanism (generally Mexico area of the world currently), I believe we all dream every night often 7 dreams but only some of us remember these visions. If you are lucky enough to remember any...

During my years as a teacher of Metaphysics and the series Defense Against the Dark Arts, I have encountered questions from students about energy, energy cords or parasitic connections to others and energy vampires. I have read and listened to many opinions on these subjects and find the following blog re-post from Cedar Stevens to be honest and helpful. It conveys many things I have talked about and encouraged students to practice.  Please read the following before going on to read more of my own words on these subjects. Original is available here: Cord cutting is a ritual done to remove unhealthy energetic attachments between yourself and another person or persons. I believe that Diane Stein was the first to detail this protocol in her book "Psychic Healing With Spirit Guides and Angels." I will transcribe her tech and append a number of variations that may suit your occasion. This is well-worked magickal practice which has developed considerably since her writing. ...

For a brief moment last spring and winter, I was working for an excellent intention-ed start-up company called Takedo Panacea LLC as the prime formulator of a patented salvia chewing gum product. For several weeks in May 2013, I was surrounded by the various implements to generate a new recipe for the world in the realm of psycho-spiritual development. As a chemist and a magician in my personal life and a walker of shamanic paths and priesthood, I felt very empowered and very much in struggle with my employment. I may have been hired because of my organizational skills and my dedication to EntheoRadio as an education tool but the work of creating a suitable capsule for the spirit of the Shepherdess was a truly shamanic challenge and vision quest all on its own. The first lesson was that she (Salvia Divinorum, Ska Maria, La Pastora, The Shepherdess) was really real and very much alive in every form of salvia from the chemical extracts to the leaves and the living plants. In the pas...

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