Alchemy Z ~ Waking Within Blog

"Most discipline is "hidden discipline" designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why...leads inexorably to paradox. How traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite." -Heretics of Dune

Tonight while out on the town for Cinco de Mayo, myself and my friend (switchboard operator Lori) interviewed Sara Huntley on EntheoRadio. (http://www.entheoradio.com/) Sara is a visual artist, art teacher, makeup artist, dance teacher, fire spinner, and contributing author to the MAPS (http://www.maps.org/) bulletin. I included some the art that she contributed by being true to her passion and inspired by psychedelic and entheogenic culture. Sara's art can be found at http://www.myspace.com/machineagemaya The interview went great and Sara is a peach! Sara even knew about Frank Herbert and the Dune series which really excited and tickled me. I nearly started dropping phrases that only Dune nerds would know (like the spice must flow and kwizat-hateract). I encourage you to listen the the interview and I assure you that it gets better as we go on late into the show...especially after having such incredible difficulty with getting Sara on the line. That interview was very in line with...

Dear Great Spirit, I am reaching out to you with my thoughts and prayers because lately and several times this year (and last night) I dream of Snakes...venomous snakes with rattles at the end of their tails...many times they don't pose a threat to me...but rather they are stretched out in passage of the landscape on the dreamworld. I feel asleep last night reading about divination and praying as usual (everynight that I sleep in my bedroom) with my emeralds and my stibnite to the coyote spirit of the Money of this Nation of the people of the Corn, and to the wolf spirit of Abundance and Collaboration....I remind myself that the YOU are coming, Great Spirit, to play the game of giving and receiving and prosperity with my person and my passion... ...my tiny twin bed near my bearded dragons terrarium, in my humble room in Cardiff California, blinks in an' out of existence as my eyes draw heavy and my muscles give out...in a last ditch effort (effort! so not taoist of me!) to reac...

Transmission from within "The Matrix" You are slaves and I know only because I am writing from the slave pits, where we are Duracell batteries and forced to earn countless sums of money for the government, the legal systems and the credit companies! I know that if I dedicated myself to it I could see what the priests of the Vatican see! The shaman of the Santo dame church see it too! They see herd mentality, sheep, hardworking slaves and they do nothing directly. These organizations like the Illuminati, step out of the light and into the shadows behind the scenes being played out. So many of my fathers and teachers teeter between being shameless pushovers and honorable thieves. As I have learned from my fathers, as I remember now as I sit in the courthouse, it's better to outsmart and do as the law makers due in Babylon: Create loopholes in lost laws based on their creator's hypocrisy! Maybe this is the turning point when I the alchemist give up my possessions because...

Dear Friends, Tonight we begin our series of conference calls and thus tonight marks the beginning of International community, education and sharing. As a result of this global change, I felt it necessary to communicate some key points. 1. Our community is an education based organization in which we never turn someone away, although we always ask for a donation or trade for our teachings/teachers. Thank you for whatever you give/offer in advance. 2. Please visit our website http://www.meetup.com/alchemy/ to pay through that medium or visit paypal.com and select the "send money" option and enter "TheSacredSpiral@gmail.com" or "Omtrev@gmail.com" if you are able to make a donation. (Suggested $5 but anything is welcome! If you cannot donate please email us and let us know so that we can send you the conference call information) 3. 11/24/09 at 6pm PST The Intro to Shamanism and Ethnobotany series is a special one and to be part of it from the beginning is an ...

An Entry created on the New Moon of November 2009. Monday the 16th in the 11th month about four days after recovering from the flu. Hello Yogis and Alchemists, Tonight is the New Moon. It is void of course until after 6pm tonight, therefore a meeting at 7pm would be timely! So there are lots of changes occurring in our community and with the seasons of San Diego. I have personally been involved in helping friends move, cleaning old stagnate energies out of homes and offices and bodies. I have been sick twice (like many of my friends and fellow citizens of America) with the flu. And yet, my resolve remains steadfast towards creating consistent gatherings, mastermind meetings and conference calls, and including many many more people in our communal vision for peace, healing, and self discovery. I promise that myself and several select teachers are working around the clock and holding an amazing alchemical space for 2010. Thus, tonight's meeting is about sharing and gathering us in a ...

Dear Friends, As you may know, I sometimes fill the shoes of an Oracle and have been seen at special occasions doing readings (usually with Cards) for people. Just over the weekend past, I did a few readings at Radiance Festival for friends and others who were intrigued with this intuitive form of information. I read with the Animals Divine Tarot by Lisa Hunt primarily and I wanted to share with my friends the meaning of a card that continuously came up on Saturday night (Oct. 10th, 2009): The World (Gaia, a Greek Goddess, Major Arcana Card #21) Symbols: Recognizing and embracing all living things as an important part of universal balance is a reflection of truly becoming in tune with one's being. The snake represents rebirth, renewal, and intuition. The spirals are symbolic of the creative life force. Its eternal rotation echoes the eternal cycle of the seasons, life, death, and rebirth. Leaves are indicative of the universal life pattern: rejoice in their budding and mourn their ...

Dear Friends, It is an evening of initiation, reflective healing, and friendly masters. It's also the evening before the moon goes full in September 2009. I am pleased with my choices as of yesterday after completing my class on Frankincense at the Library last night when I took feelings to action by taking private retreat in the mountains near Lake Hodges. I am on Vision Quest and staying at a place where I do landscaping while the residents are off at Burning Man. Much to my dismay, several months ago, I learned that my Lunar cycle is transmuted from Manifesting Generator to Projector. Almost momentarily after interpreting this information, I recognized that I do this crazy shift around the full moon, and especially as of late, I have noticed that it's better to be by myself and sleep completely alone for the utmost healing. So many visions came to me this morning in my rest. When I awoke, it was slow to return to this world but none-the-less, I went for a swim and reached ou...

Dear Friends, It have been a fun and abundant summer. You may have noticed that our meetup.com/alchemy group schedule has grown full and furthermore my own schedule is left with sparse sections of time for myself. Although, I am fully present everyday, creating something new and revealing something old and alchemical to my friends or students. I have being reading novels, learning languages, and studying reference manuals vigorously everyday...except for that delicate time of balance and discovery when I am on the road traveling the coast of California or the Spiritual South-west (without A/C in my car mind you!). I hope to release more tales of my understanding, awareness, and travels this summer and very soon. Know that I am working intensely on an awareness I have never had before, maybe something that only a few have ever had. I don't remember my childhood (it's a haze between doses of ADD medicine) but every time I set out on the road, I fun myself reaching into the dark v...

My Dear Friends, Thank you for being patient with me as I move through the different levels of my process (all of which have been "out of my comfort zone" as you may be aware from status updates). The truth of the matter was that I planned to journey to Peru between June and July and instead ended up in Sante Fe with wonderful community and a very supportive teacher. Shamanism and shamanic ideas are ripe and alive here. I have really enjoyed my experience here, usually in retrospect because of all the discomfort. I sense that I am learning exactly what I am ready for. I have processing so much. More than I could have ever imagined here. To my amazement, learning divination (which was what I planned on doing) has become this very HUMAN process of finding clarity and feeling into my past, my family, my future intentions with Business and Community, my ancestors, my daily body pain, and the healing of my ancestors. I have chosen to look at the Teachings I embrace and embody and ...

The first thing that is lost when you cook something is its' water content. Our bodies are between 60% and 70% water. Vegetables and fruits are loaded with water, and it is structured water that better facilitates our biological processes. Cooking denatures the proteins in our food, rendering them harder to digest and utilize. Cooking destroys 50 percent of the protein in our food. Between 50 and 80 percent of the vitamins and minerals are also destroyed. Pesticides break down into more toxic compounds, which are more easily assimilated into our bodies. Oxygen is lost and free radicals are produced. Most importantly, enzymes are destroyed when food is heated above 118 degrees. Enzymes are the catalysts of every chemical reaction in our bodies. Without them, there can be no cellular division, immune system functioning, energy production nor brain activity. No vitamins or hormones can do their work without enzymes. There are two different types of enzymes in our bodies, metabolic enz...

Dear Friends, We are so very happy as our community expands and the feeling of separation from "all that is," retreats. Our new sense of closeness allows us to create compassionate changes in the world. One member of our community is currently running a sale on yoga apparel! Check out Bodacious Living as all clothing is now 50% off and all gifts 30% off. Celebrate the changes by helping Bodacious Living with Spring cleaning! This weekend you are invited to join us for Yoga on the beach and Brunch! Sitara (Cindy) is teaching a donation based yoga class after which we will have a community brunch at our friend Nico's restaurant Crepes and Corks . To join us: rsvp on meetup or show up in front of Crepes and Corks 1328 Camino Del Mar. Del Mar, CA 92014 on Sunday @ 11am. Two free gatherings and opportunities to experience DoTerra essential oils next week: Free Aromatherapy meeting and business demo by Sacred Spiral (Tuesday night at 7pm, call for details and location in Del ...

Check out these photos of me having fun at Torrey Pines in my Prana Yoga gear.

...my dear friends, hope as always that this note finds you well in body, mind and spirit! have been spending the last few days and - for that matter the final days of my trip - here in puerto morelos on the mayan riviera...and what a delight it is to be in this cute little community just south of cancun! so grateful to have come, hang out with good friends and let time run through my fingers without much of an agenda! and off time I needed after letting go of my mom who returned safely to germany. a short but very nice visit with a friend on st helena island in the low country outside savannah, ga, was quite inspiring and brought me back to my world...teaching yoga and taking class, partaking in a video about yoga and movement and having fun doing it! what a delight! back to miami for a week-end of south beach...beautiful people around me, good food, plenty of drinks and the wonderful company of a good friend...and all of this between the pool-side lounge beds at the delano and the mo...

Dear Friends, A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you. I've disappeared from myself and my attributes, I am present only for you. I've forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I've become a scholar. I've lost all my strength, but from your power I am able. I love myself...I love you. I love you...I love myself.--Rumi Last Saturday morning (after an evening of dancing with friends at Claire De Lune), AromaYoga went off as a celebration of love and joy! There were around 60 people in attendance at LuluLemon in La Jolla. Our most gracious praises to Cindy and Trevahr introducing AromaYoga to the community. Students at Del Mar Palm Tree Yoga are getting to know and practice Trevahr's Tai Chi Yoga every Saturday and therefore advancing their practices in a wonderful way. A special thank you to those students who have followed us from place to place and to all who practice reg...

Dear Friends, It has bee more than a month but I still remember the vision and the emotion to follow with supreme clarity. I am so grateful, and I am found in this world and I know my tribe with clarity of love and heart as all of my being pours out of my chest into the arms of the beloved. It was on the Friday after New Years day (western) sometime around midnight and I was sharing the evening with my beloved Kunti and listening to Snatam Kaur at my brother Dave's house in Cardiff, CA. I had a vision of Egypt...and I started crying but not in a controlled way...just water pouring out of my eyes and energy of love pouring out of my heartspace. I saw my chest open up and send light up to God and almost instantly light returned from the heavens to snuggle and nest in my heartspace. I cried and Snatam sang... "I bow my head to God. And God took all of me. Every imperfection - God took all of me. And every day God lives And breathes Through me Oh, my Beloved! Kindness of the heart...

Dear Readers, This is an interesting subject as many of our community members have been with us for more than two years now and have likely noticed some name changes or at least spelling changes among members. Has anyone noticed that these occurrences are rather frequent or at least fairly predictable? The latest name change (spelling) was our director for Waking Within Yoga and community member Trevahr (formerly Trevor Ryan). There are several reasons for these changes and will elaborate on a few person specific ones and then further explain astrological and numerological reasoning: Trevahr (or sometimes Trevaar) is an Egyptian name. Trevor is an angelo-saxon word or name referring to "settlement" or "large static community," just as Trevahr also refers to "settling or grounding with others." Both of these name are powerful names for business and community as you may or may not have noticed in the tendancies of the "trevors" around you in yo...

In the fall of 2008, I was feeling as whipped by storms – in my case, emotional storms -- as the coastal pine trees that surrounded me on Neptune Ave near the shores of Leucadia's Stone Steps beach. Barely aware of my environment as I struggled inwardly, I brushed away the spirit tears that dropped from the pine needles above me. My business partners' voice rang clearly through my cell, "For you, Trevor, regeneration is defined as a loss of your old path, and the spontaneous fulfillment of the void created in that loss through a new inspired idea." . The pine needles were dripping with water as if the tree itself were a rogue cloud. My business partners' voice rang clearly through my cell, "For you, Trevor, regeneration is defined as a loss of your old path, and the spontaneous fulfillment of the void created in that loss through a new inspired idea." Like all new beginnings, this one started with an end. An end to former beliefs as my true path beca...

Dear Friends, Love forever! Love is Free! I hope you are ready for the Changes that are bound and determined to be in our life over the next 3 months. We are packing up for this Weekend's retreat to Mammoth Mountain, the first of many more Donation Based spiritual retreats. If you are going with us, how exciting it must be to take this journey into ourselves and to begin the process of Alchemy and Waking Within. For everyone in our local community, I know that you will be in Good Hands with Sitara as she is teaching on Saturday at Yoga Swami and Palm Tree Yoga in Del Mar. Sitara will be present for me on Monday 9am Class at Yoga Swami so have a fun and amazing Flow! You may call us if you need directions to the Carpool for the Donation Retreat Tomorrow. We will be meeting at the Library at 1pm in Carlsbad (for the first carpool) on Dove Lane or at my Home in Vista (for the second carpool. 212 Washington Street, Vista CA. 92084) 760-713-6710 (or if you are dr...

My Experience in Healing With Your Crystal Grid. On Wednesday July 30 th during the afternoon hours, I experienced and was introduced to a new form of healing work that was facilitated by Healer, business partner, and dear friend Christiaan Sun. I came to visit Christiaan at his home where the healing work took place during a sunny afternoon in Encinitas and was greeted by a most pleasant scene. Christiaan's home is a lower level apartment behind a house located in a lust ranch yard of fruit giving trees. His complex which I assume is shared with like minded individuals is encircled with trees that provide a barrier like energy for privacy and to enclose his salt water pool. I immediately felt the healing energy coming through the trees and plants and of course the location. So we talked for a couple of minutes about his background and Christiaan explained to me about the time where he was learning from a therapist who developed a form of Yoga (partner yoga or Acrobat...