January/February 2024 Alchemical Voice
Happy New Year to all our readers! This is a spiritual magazine, non-religious. We have so many eye-opening articles for you this year. Here's a list of what we have in this publication. Sue Penney talks about spreading love and kindness and which crystals will work for you this season. Shaman John Sjovik has written a short article on How to Find the North Pole (sound familiar....?) He also has written a lovely thought provoking article called Betwixt and Between. Learn about how a Death Doula can help with Joannah Bishop. Hear about how special the Dogon tribe and the nommos are with Julie de Vere Hunt. Our lovely dream builder/life coach Carol Coggan talks about Energy, Vibration and Love. Energy Psychologist Martin Lewis explains what the Levels of Consciousness are. Our final article on the Ayurvedic doshas - Kapha by Claire Sparks. Jovi Hoonjan writes about what a Shaman Alchemist can offer.
Happy New Year to all our readers! This is a spiritual magazine, non-religious. We have so many eye-opening articles for you this year. Here's a list of what we have in this publication. Sue Penney talks about spreading love and kindness and which crystals will work for you this season. Shaman John Sjovik has written a short article on How to Find the North Pole (sound familiar....?) He also has written a lovely thought provoking article called Betwixt and Between. Learn about how a Death Doula can help with Joannah Bishop. Hear about how special the Dogon tribe and the nommos are with Julie de Vere Hunt. Our lovely dream builder/life coach Carol Coggan talks about Energy, Vibration and Love. Energy Psychologist Martin Lewis explains what the Levels of Consciousness are. Our final article on the Ayurvedic doshas - Kapha by Claire Sparks. Jovi Hoonjan writes about what a Shaman Alchemist can offer.
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<strong>Alchemical</strong> <strong>Voice</strong> - L2M - Issue 24<br />
John Dee claimed that the purple crystal was given to<br />
him by the archangel Uriel, so there was a very clear<br />
connection to the spirit world.<br />
By the proper use of mirrors and crystals, preferably by<br />
someone trained in alchemy and divination, one could<br />
access divine help from the spiritual world. However,<br />
there were risks connected to the use of such tools.<br />
Nicholas Culpeper eventually decided to get rid of<br />
Dee’s crystal, as he sensed the presence of a demon,<br />
which used the crystal as a gateway to enter the<br />
physical world of humans, in order to haunt Culpeper,<br />
access his personal energy and thus weaken him. There<br />
is even a document from the 1650s, still existing, where<br />
Culpeper describes his ordeal and challenging<br />
encounter with the demon. This is an example of how a<br />
gateway, in this case facilitated with a crystal, could<br />
work in both directions between worlds.<br />
Intentions and Shamanism<br />
One of the basic rules about Shamanic journeying is to<br />
set a clear intention. The idea is that you need<br />
something similar to a road map in your spiritual work.<br />
Otherwise you might end up like Christopher Columbus<br />
who did not know where he was going, did not know<br />
where he had arrived and did not really know where he<br />
had been when he finally returned home to tell the tale.<br />
Yet... Shamanic work or any kind of energy work<br />
involving the otherworldly is not a logical process. Any<br />
intention comes from your mind. It is based upon an<br />
intellectual operation. Is a logically created intention a<br />
good starting point for your metaphysical work? Does a<br />
word create pictures? Or is it the other way around?<br />
Maybe both ways at the same time, like an oscillation of<br />
energies, logical and emotional, rational and esoteric,<br />
changing value by each oscillation.<br />
Practitioners of Shamanism typically speak about<br />
Ordinary Reality and Non-Ordinary Reality.<br />
In Ordinary Reality, everything we learned in school<br />
applies. The knowledge passed on to us by our teachers<br />
about mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology is<br />
valid. Newtonian mechanics, gravity and Quantum<br />
physics are all valid in Ordinary Reality.<br />
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