Alchemy Z ~ Waking Within Blog

Readers, As a Priest in a Neo-Shamanic Order of Alchemists, often times I am challenged along this path and much of my practice and teaching faces strong tests of faith, courage, and trust. Recently my main student of the OSS 7 day training had an accident in which he chipped his tooth.  Now it's important to know that your subconscious thoughts (and some powerful conscious thoughts) affect your reality and all that comes into your life. So when I received a text message from my student who is very interested in this retreat that he may have to back out due to his dental work, I do what any great teacher with Coyote Medicine (aka Jackal Medicine in Africa) by taking the following perspectives:  What's this text really saying? Where is the fear based creation? Where's the breakthrough? How can I show compassion and still make a stand against this student's fear? What within myself is afraid to teach him? What ritual actions and prayers do I need to make i...

14 shamans were recently killed!!! Read the original article: http://www.peruviantimes.com/05/report-14-shamans-killed-in-loreto-region/13843/ _________________________ Take Action Please ask authorities to immediately address these atrocities and prevent further murders. Contact one or more of the following: Office of the President of Peru President Ollanta Humala Secretary General Luis Chuquihuara Chil Minister of Justice Francisco Eguiguren Praeli Email: secretariageneral@presidencia.gob.pe http://www.presidencia.gob.pe The US ambassador to Peru in Lima Her Excellency Rose M. Likins Embassy of the United States Avenida La Encalada cdra. 17 s/n Surco, Lima 33, Peru Phone: (51-1) 618-2000 Fax: (51-1) 618-2397 General email: LimaACS@state.gov The Peruvian ambassador to the US His Excellency Harold W. Forsyth Embassy of Peru 1700 Massachusetts Ave., N.W Washington D.C. 20036 Phone: (202) 833-9860 to 9869 Fax: (202) 659-8...

So the topic has come up clearly amongst my students and friends whose interested around psychedelics and altered states has finally peaked into practice: Is vomiting good for you? Is it healthy to throw up? Do the medicines considered Purgatives, have negative effects that throw the body off to the point of dysfunction? Do magic mushrooms have negative/toxifying effects when compared to someone else's so called cleaning medicines (ayahuasca and peyote)? _____________________________________________ My teacher and I went round and round today in speculation of herbs and healing as it relates to the body's psychoactive breakthroughs and potential healings. As he spoke, so many memories reminded me of how my primary medicinal study had been with mushroom medicine as it was originally involved with yoga, the rig veda, Christianity, the garden of Eden, and Aryan or Brahman Shamanism (not just psychoactive shrooms but all fungi). We talked about the mellow and medicinal effect of m...