Alchemy Z ~ Waking Within Blog

  Article: Mold and Sage Series: Dreaming in the Dark Times Many times growing up in Southern California have I communed with White Sage (Salvia Apiana). It grew in my hometown. It grows on the property that my family and I own in Aguanga, CA. I learned to pick it and bundle it before I was fully initiated into manhood (sometime between my first sexual experience and my first sweat lodge with a Lakota Medicine woman). I recently made some Dreaming Jaguar smokes at my old job site (Happy High Herbs/Rainbow Bliss Botanicals in Tempe AZ) and included white sage but wasn’t able to continue making them because of the popularity of this herb and the trouble keeping it in stock. I really just included it for flavor then. I had forgotten all the dreams I had of the sage fields before. In the last week, for the first time in many human years, I returned to my family land and the sage fields. I made offerings of guardianship and good will towards the sage plants on my land and collected a mo...

   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...

In this series of articles, I will follow up about what a microdose is and how to dose with magic cactus or mescaline and conclude with a discussion of Paul Stamets and his recommendations for microdosing that seem to be a little popular and very experimental this year 2019 in the US. What is a Microdose - two definitions (theirs and mine): Microdose: A very low dose of something.  (In psychedelics this might be grams or micrograms) Microdosing , or micro-dosing , is a technique for studying the behaviour of drugs in humans through the administration of doses so low they are unlikely to produce whole-body effects, but high enough to allow the cellular response to be studied. In my experience with these two (Shrooms and San Pedro Cactus) and a secret third medicine (Salvia Divinorum and Microdosing) that I have acted as a guardian for the micro-dose is generally less than a gram for dried mushrooms and probably a fresh 8-ounce cup of juiced San Pedro (not cooked down for c...

Power Animal journeying is a practice that I learned to teach both directly from the founder, Michael Harner and several of his students. Its a practice that seems to be associated with sober journeying and music. Most shamanism is about altered states and consciousness changes, so don't think that because no drugs are generally used in this practice that you will not experience visions or a feeling of connectedness with the universe, nature and telepathy with animals and spirits. All things are connected and all things have vibration. Power, personal and shared, as well as healing One friend put it like this: Just like everything else in physics, energy resonates at a natural frequency. Animals can mirror those frequencies and since they are more simple creatures, we can use them for guidance if we become off in our frequency. There are several basic journeys to begin a shamanism interested person on their path. One of the best is the journey to the shamanic underworld t...

Let's throw a party and have a holiday. Or rather a Holy Day and Festival. Our community vision is one part yoga somatic mantra, breathing and asana or vinyasa and two parties up all night festival drinking tea to celebrate and psycho-spirituality project our intentions, healing visions and manifestations into our lives as a reality now for our local community and tribe. We'll need help from yoga leaders, chanting vocalists, musicians (live), spiritual circle facilitators, shamanic pathwalkers (and talkers), meditators, chefs and herbalists, and more. This is an all night "shut in" for spiritual growth and emotional development. Dress will be optional, limited and comfortable. Tickets are offered at an 85 us-dollar value with a few work trade and food contribution discounts available. Event will take place in Tempe, all off a Saturday night to a Sunday morning, starting at 6pm to 7pm, doors lock at 9pm and reopen after breakfast 11am the next day. No one is re...

Continued from "When Salvia Speaks, I Listen." In the next recipe attempt, I started to use inner guidance and personal shamanistic herbal teachings on the next recipe. Turns out that my lessons as a Mushroom Shaman, taught me how to move next. The Mazatec people of Mexico commonly use Salvia Divinorum but mainly when the Psychoactive (Psilocybin) Mushrooms aren't available. An elder brother on the shamanic path once asked me if I used copal or another resin (like frankincense and myrrh) to incense my mushrooms before ceremonial consumption, and explained to me how it was traditional and made their medicine stronger. Bingo! That was what Ska Maria Pastora wanted, she needed more than just chewing gum mix, she needed a mate, a partner to synergize with and relate to while being trapped in this gum form. Some Indians/Native Americans use or proclaim that it's important to use a masculine or mate plant in a shamanic recipe or combination for various plants and fung...

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...

Shamanic Journey and Healthy Potluck Come experience a shamanic drum journey into the lower world and non-ordinary reality states! November 5th, 2011 at 530PM-8pm $20/person & $30/couple To RSVP Pay Online 4805 Mercury Street suite B , San Diego CA 92111 _________________________ This Experience includes: Ø Drumming, visual imagery and guided meditation Ø Lower World Journeys and Non-Ordinary reality healing and symbolic messages Ø Journey will include a visit to the fabled Well of Remembrance to reclaim lost power. NOTE: Eat only lightly before class and bring a yoga mat or something else to recline on. After we’ll have a potluck dinner. Two-hour event will include: Lower World Journeys and Non-Ordinary reality healing and symbolic messages. Material for this class is all-levels and based directly from the book by Michael Harner entitled "The Way of the Shaman." Journey will include a visit to the fabled Well of Re...

I was first introduce to astrology when I was a teen. It seems both intriguing to me and simplistically mathematical. At the time, I was in every honors math class that my high school could offer. Eventually, in later years I realized that different systems of astrology made differences in prediction and personality, and some could be considered less accurate while others more. In my early 20's, I was introduced to both the Cards of Destiny system of midpoint astrology, Vedic Astrology (Jyotish), and Human Design. My yoga instructor training which took place in Encinitas CA near the famous site of Paramahansa Yogananda's Temple and Gardens was located (and area locally called "Swami's") introduced me to Vedic Astrology. Due to the intensity of my classes, I learned about Jyotish for the first time from Ernst Willholm who would later prove to be influential as a teacher and truthsayer. In fact around age 25, I was again exposed to one of Ernst's students by...