January/February 2023 Alchemical Voice
In this edition, you can read Sue Penney's chanelled poem, all about Imbolc, crystals that will support you through fear and protect you from EMF. Shaman John Sjovik has written some insightful articles 'The Old Stove' and 'Spiritual Encounters'. Read Jeanne Witt's continued life story 'Spirits in the Wall'. Julie de Vere Hunt talks about 'The Great Pyramid, Giza Plateau'. Carol Coggan continues to support you through her wonderful messages from the Angels. Karam Pentland was driven to write an article on Fear after she nearly lost her life and was put into an induced coma for several weeks. Energy Psychologist talks about the importance of Sleep. Julie Adams enlightens us with her article on Gnostics. Catch up on Part 6 of The Mighty River and the Grandmothers written by Richard Pantlin. We have courses advertises to enhance your spiritual development and lots of complementary health support. Enjoy our free online magazine and please share!
In this edition, you can read Sue Penney's chanelled poem, all about Imbolc, crystals that will support you through fear and protect you from EMF. Shaman John Sjovik has written some insightful articles 'The Old Stove' and 'Spiritual Encounters'. Read Jeanne Witt's continued life story 'Spirits in the Wall'. Julie de Vere Hunt talks about 'The Great Pyramid, Giza Plateau'. Carol Coggan continues to support you through her wonderful messages from the Angels. Karam Pentland was driven to write an article on Fear after she nearly lost her life and was put into an induced coma for several weeks. Energy Psychologist talks about the importance of Sleep. Julie Adams enlightens us with her article on Gnostics. Catch up on Part 6 of The Mighty River and the Grandmothers written by Richard Pantlin. We have courses advertises to enhance your spiritual development and lots of complementary health support. Enjoy our free online magazine and please share!
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<strong>January</strong>/<strong>February</strong> <strong>2023</strong> - Issue 18<br />
ALCHEMICAL VOICE<br />
LOVE 2 MEDITATE<br />
I N A S S O C I A T I O N W I T H L I K E - M I N D E D B U S I N E S S E S<br />
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Spiritual<br />
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Shamanic insights<br />
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The Great Pyramid,<br />
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Messages from the<br />
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CONTENTS<br />
A L C H E M I C A L V O I C E<br />
Hello Readers!<br />
A warm heartfelt Happy New Year to you! I do hope you had a wonderful Christmas break and<br />
managed to refrain from over-indulging!<br />
Now is the time for manifesting, for attracting those things you want to have in your life from<br />
<strong>2023</strong> onwards, and of course let us just add here - "for your highest good". Within this edition, you<br />
will find wonderful workshops and courses that will provide you with knowledge, tools and<br />
techniques on manifesting and protecting yourself to support your spiritual journey.<br />
Enjoy browsing!<br />
Jovi Hoonjan<br />
Publisher<br />
W H A T ' S I N S I D E<br />
Poem and Imbolc<br />
Sue Penney<br />
<br />
The Old Stove<br />
John Sjovik<br />
<br />
Crystals to help you<br />
with Fear<br />
Sue Penney<br />
<br />
Crystals to help you<br />
with EMF<br />
Sue Penney<br />
4<br />
8<br />
16<br />
17<br />
Spirits in the Wall<br />
Jeanne Witt<br />
<br />
The Great Pyramid,<br />
Giza Plateau<br />
Julie de Vere Hunt<br />
<br />
Message from the<br />
Angels<br />
Carol Coggan<br />
<br />
Spiritual Encounters<br />
John Sjovik<br />
18<br />
22<br />
26<br />
30<br />
Fear<br />
Karam Pentland 38<br />
<br />
Sleep<br />
Martin Lewis 42<br />
<br />
Gnostics<br />
Julie Adams 46<br />
<br />
The Mighty River &<br />
the Grandmothers:<br />
Part 6<br />
Richard Pantlin 52<br />
Front cover winner:<br />
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Photographer and make-up team - AKAJ<br />
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SOUL VERSE POEM<br />
Sue Penney<br />
WINTER<br />
Slowly take a careful step<br />
The air so cold about your neck<br />
The breath escapes in clouds of white<br />
The glistening snow a wondrous sight<br />
As you see the world transformed<br />
By beauty such your heart is warmed<br />
Even though the air is chill<br />
The sight does make you stop, grow still.<br />
The earth so hard each step rings out<br />
Your wary tread a thunderous shout<br />
The crunching of the flakes beneath<br />
As feet descend on frozen leaf<br />
How such beauty can astound<br />
When we pause and look around<br />
A gift that's sent from up above<br />
To share with those we truly love.<br />
A Soul Verse reading is a message channelled by<br />
Sue in poetry form from spirit. These readings<br />
are totally unique and can be combined with a<br />
healing treatment.<br />
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Sue Penney<br />
Soul Verse<br />
www.soulverse.co.uk
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Poetry that is wonderfully insightful and full<br />
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Available on Amazon<br />
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IMBOLC<br />
A time for ritual and celebration<br />
Sue Penney<br />
Imbolc or Candlemass this year will be on 1st <strong>February</strong><br />
until sundown on 2nd <strong>February</strong>. It is a time for honouring<br />
Brighid, the goddess of the hearth. There are so many<br />
different ways that you can celebrate this time of year,<br />
either on your own or with a group of friends or family. It<br />
is a time for purification and new beginnings.<br />
At this time of the year, we are usually fed up with the<br />
cold dreary, and dark days and are looking forward to the<br />
coming spring. With days starting to get lighter you could<br />
focus on the aspect of Brighid as a deity of fire and fertility<br />
or you could be more guided to look at the cycles of the<br />
season.<br />
Whatever you decide it just needs to feel right for you.<br />
A l t a r<br />
To set up your altar for Imbolc you can focus on the<br />
colours of this sabbat which are traditionally red green and<br />
white, cauldrons or chalices are also associated with<br />
Brighid as are corn dolls and baked goods, especially seed<br />
cake.<br />
Brighid is also a goddess of poetry so you could place a<br />
poem that you have written on your altar. Candles are<br />
definitely required for this sabbat, you could also try to<br />
find them in the colours mentioned above.<br />
Always place your altar in a place that is visible to you<br />
daily, it does not need to be a large space, a window cill<br />
will do. However, if you are lighting candles then make<br />
sure that nothing is likely to be close to any flames.<br />
F i r e<br />
Imbolc is often celebrated with fire, what is not to love<br />
about a bonfire in the cold and dark of a winter night?<br />
You can make this fun with children and friends by<br />
toasting marshmallows over the flames. As this is also a<br />
season of new beginnings you can write your wishes for<br />
the month or year ahead and place this into the fire for the<br />
smoke to take those wishes up to the heavens to get<br />
blessings from the gods and goddesses.<br />
Always set your intention when you do this for the wishes<br />
to come true.<br />
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C a n d l e R i t u a l<br />
This ritual is best performed outside if possible.<br />
You can light candles as you make wishes for your friends<br />
and family as a very basic ritual or you can do something<br />
more formal. You may wish to use the following ritual to<br />
help you manifest a goal that you would like to achieve in<br />
the year ahead:<br />
Requirements<br />
4 tealight candles in white, red, or green<br />
something to light them with<br />
your intention of what you would like to achieve in the<br />
coming year written down on a piece of paper<br />
A cauldron or heat proof bowl to safely burn the piece<br />
of paper in<br />
A glass of water or some sand to douse the flames if<br />
necessary<br />
As you light the first candle you can say...<br />
Though in winter we still be<br />
New life stirs the dark I see<br />
Light the second candle and say...<br />
I call in light as the sun grows strong<br />
And days from short do now grow long<br />
Light the third candle and say...<br />
Inspiration, wisdom too<br />
Are stirred up now with all things new<br />
As you light the final candle, envision all of the flames<br />
joining together as one and feel a sense of purification as<br />
the energy increases.<br />
Then say...<br />
I call upon these flames so bright<br />
To banish darkness with their light<br />
Cleanse and purify my soul<br />
And help me manifest my goal<br />
Place the piece of paper into the flame of one of the<br />
candles and put it into the caldron or deep heat-proof<br />
bowl to burn. Make sure that you carefully watch the<br />
paper as it burns to ensure that it is safe and I would have<br />
some water or sand nearby to douse the flame should it<br />
start to escape from the bowl.<br />
Sue Penney<br />
Soul Verse<br />
www.soulverse.co.uk<br />
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THE<br />
OLD<br />
STOVE<br />
T<br />
he old stove stood alone in the<br />
forest, reminiscing of times that had<br />
been. It used to be surrounded by a<br />
house, proudly on display, bringing<br />
warmth and joy to the people who<br />
lived there.<br />
Now the house was gone and the people had moved<br />
beyond the veil. The stove had a story to tell but alas, no<br />
one to tell it to.<br />
Sadly, sometimes also people turn into old stoves. They<br />
have warmth to give and stories to tell but no longer<br />
anyone to care for or tell stories to. We see them sitting on<br />
a bench in a park. We see them clutching a book in the<br />
library. We see them in the supermarket, selecting groceries<br />
for one.<br />
John Sjovik<br />
Shaman Healer<br />
www.shamaqi.com<br />
Maybe you can think of a person like that? Why not put the<br />
kettle on and invite that person for a nice cup of tea and<br />
enjoy a story or two. Life is about exchanging love and<br />
warmth. It is about listening and talking. It is about sharing.<br />
Now go to the kitchen and put the kettle on...<br />
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Clear blockages in your energy fields<br />
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Hi Readers<br />
My name is Emma and I started this beautiful spiritual journey<br />
when I was studying massage in Australia back in 2008. That<br />
bought me right up to where I am now working as a remedial<br />
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I also offer Reiki, Indian head massage, pregnancy massage and<br />
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You can find me at Durham House Chiropractic Clinic in both<br />
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You can also book directly on the website. Hope to see you<br />
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CAROL COGGAN<br />
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You can either have a full reading by email only<br />
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CRYSTAL TO HELP<br />
WITH FEAR<br />
<br />
If you were to listen to the media, which I try to avoid at all costs,<br />
we are either going to be bombed in our sleep due to the ongoing<br />
hostilities in the world, starve or freeze to death because of the<br />
huge increases in the cost of living.<br />
Whilst most of us just simply shrug our shoulders and have a<br />
'what will be will be' attitude others can become almost paralyzed<br />
with fear and anxiety from the constant worry of all that is going<br />
on around them.<br />
Apart from staying away from the daily news, newspapers, and<br />
media of all kinds what else can we do to help with the increasing<br />
waves of anxiety and fear that plague many of us?<br />
Crystal wise the best stone by far to help with both fear and<br />
anxiety is Amethyst. This stone, which also happens to be my<br />
birthstone, has so many positive attributes. It is great for dealing<br />
with addictions, probably because a lot of these will stem from<br />
fear or anxiety. It soothes the soul and calms the nerves too.<br />
Amethyst is great for dispelling negative energies and brings<br />
clarity and peacefulness to the waking mind.<br />
To aid a restful night's sleep try placing a piece of tumbled<br />
amethyst in each of the four corners of the bed. If you are<br />
suffering from anxiety, stress or fear then try wearing a natural<br />
amethyst pendant for some extra protection.<br />
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Issue 18<br />
CRYSTAL TO HELP<br />
WITH EMF<br />
We are constantly surrounded by Electro Magnetic Fields, but<br />
why is it considered to be harmful and what can we do about it?<br />
From signal towers to the electricity in our homes, it is part of the<br />
modern world and we can rarely go anywhere to totally escape it.<br />
It has been shown by research that frequent exposure to EMF<br />
can cause a multitude of reactions from fatigue to depression,<br />
headaches, sleeping problems, nausea to skin tingling.<br />
How can using crystals<br />
help protect you against<br />
exposure to EMF?<br />
Crystals have been used since the beginning of human existence<br />
to ward against bad energies, sorcerers, etc and now they have<br />
been shown to protect against the effects of the electromagnetic<br />
smog that constantly surrounds us. Some, especially those with a<br />
high iron content can block and protect the mind, body, and soul<br />
from EMF.<br />
The best crystals to use are Hematite and Black Tourmaline both<br />
of these crystals are also extremely grounding and absorb and<br />
block negative energies.<br />
Other great crystals to consider are Shungite – which being 98%<br />
carbon means it packs a he punch in absorbing the bad vibes and<br />
Pyrite which also gives you a great energetic boost.<br />
Try wearing a bracelet made from these crystals and experiment<br />
on which one works best for you.<br />
Sue Penney<br />
Soul Verse<br />
www.soulverse.co.uk
<strong>Alchemical</strong> <strong>Voice</strong> - L2M Issue 18<br />
SPIRITS IN THE<br />
WALL<br />
Jeanne Witt<br />
Have you ever experienced that feeling like<br />
you are being watched? Well, I certainly felt<br />
like that all the time in my house, and leaning<br />
over the bath years ago to wash my hair was<br />
completely nerve-racking, not being able to<br />
see BEHIND ME!!<br />
I walked into the the lounge to pick up my<br />
son's toys, his toy Simon was always working<br />
on it's own, or was it? As I entered the room<br />
something caught my eye, on the wall to my<br />
right. As I looked I saw a skull shape, the more<br />
I looked the clearer it became, eyes formed<br />
looking at me, then the flesh, hair and<br />
garments. I called to my husband to look at<br />
the wall, he saw nothing!<br />
This wall in the house became full of faces! I<br />
took photos but nothing showed, just the<br />
plain wall paper. "Look at the wall, what can<br />
you see?" I'd say to visitors, the reply was<br />
always the same... "Nothing?" So, after few<br />
months of this I thought I was going mad, or I<br />
had a brain tumor? I began to draw the faces.<br />
I couldn't concentrate watching television as<br />
the faces were just staring at me, their eyes<br />
sometimes moving, or their facial expressions<br />
changing.... this is just not happening I told<br />
myself. Maybe I'm heading for a nervous<br />
breakdown and this is the first sign, seeing<br />
things that are not there?<br />
We had a free paper back then called The<br />
Star. Looking casually through it, I saw an<br />
advert for an "Open Circle" at the local<br />
Spiritualist church. Somehow this really struck<br />
a cord in me to go, maybe I could talk to<br />
someone about what's happening to me, or<br />
maybe I'd be told to see my doctor!!<br />
I spoke to the leader of the circle and<br />
explained my situation, he said come along<br />
next week and bring your pencil and sketch<br />
pad. So I did.<br />
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I was very nervous, the open circle was big,<br />
and I'd never experienced anything like it<br />
before, let alone meditate. Once the<br />
meditation was over, the leader asked me to<br />
draw any faces that I could see?... I looked<br />
around the church... nothing, simply nothing<br />
happened. Ahh well, I am going mad in that<br />
house for sure, I thought, when suddenly, a<br />
face appeared in front of me on the carpet,<br />
then another on the wall, I quickly sketched<br />
them, I think I did about six drawings in all.<br />
The leader got up from his chair, took my<br />
pictures, looked through them, and said<br />
nothing! He then proceeded to show my<br />
pictures to the sitters in the circle, and to my<br />
utter amazement, every picture was taken,<br />
because I had drawn a face they had<br />
recognised! The leader said, "Do you know<br />
what you are doing?" I replied "No". He said,<br />
"you're a medium and you need to channel<br />
your ability properly". I started to cry in sheer<br />
relief, I explained about my HOUSE!<br />
From that moment on my life changed. I was<br />
invited into several different closed spiritual<br />
development circles, one with people who<br />
were very experienced at trance and rescue<br />
work, and my interest developed towards<br />
spiritual healing.<br />
A portal was closed down in my house, but<br />
rescues continued to come, especially during<br />
my SNU healing training years. It was during<br />
those years that one day, when I returned<br />
from picking my son up from school, we<br />
found his upstairs bedroom carpet<br />
completely covered in dried tree leaves!<br />
What on earth did this mean? How on earth<br />
did the leaves get there? We don't even have<br />
a tree in our garden!<br />
Little did I know that this was the start of the<br />
Elemental Kingdom arriving in my life, next in<br />
this HOUSE!<br />
Jeanne's spiritual training includes: SNU trained Spiritual Healer, Reiki<br />
Master Teacher, Shamanic Reiki, Crystal Therapist, M.M.A.N.F Master in<br />
Mantic Arts New Age Foundation, Two articles Spirit & Destiny magazine<br />
Based in Farnborough.<br />
jeannedewitt@sky.com<br />
https://www.spiritual-holistics.co.uk/
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ONLINE SHAMANIC GUIDED MEDITATIONS<br />
Love 2 Meditate and Martin Lewis<br />
<br />
SPIRIT DANCE<br />
Dance to this guided meditation in the<br />
comfort of your home...<br />
Spirit Dance has an attractor frequency<br />
of 821 LoC (Levels of Consciousness).<br />
It is a wonderful exploration and<br />
investigation of oneself!<br />
Learn about who you truly are, accept<br />
yourself and move into who you want to<br />
be - feel whole and complete again and<br />
be The Powerful You!<br />
This moving meditation is 1-hr long and<br />
takes you on a journey through your 8<br />
chakras, to help you to realign and<br />
balance each one, so you can ultimately<br />
bring in your missing soul parts.<br />
In the shamanic communities it is<br />
believed that any time anyone goes<br />
through a traumatic experience, a part of<br />
their soul leaves them. Spirit Dance helps<br />
you to call them back.<br />
Movement and music helps to get the<br />
energy flowing and enables practical<br />
application of the kinesiological process.<br />
<br />
To purchase:<br />
www.love2meditate.com/store/p92/spirit-dance-moving-meditation<br />
<br />
jovi@love2meditate.com<br />
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Energy healing using crystals<br />
and Reiki<br />
Meryl McArthur<br />
Crystal Cave Healing<br />
Winchester<br />
www.facebook.com/CrystalCaveWinchester<br />
VARIATIONS ON A THEME<br />
Martin Lewis, West Berkshire Kinesiology<br />
'Variations on a Theme' is 22mins long piece<br />
of music that works on your 11th chakra -<br />
Pathwork to the Soul.<br />
The eleventh chakra is your ability to<br />
acquire advanced spiritual skills (travel<br />
beyond the limits of time and space,<br />
teleportation, bi-location, instantaneous<br />
precipitation of thoughts and telekinesis).<br />
The eleventh chakra is the spiritual library<br />
of the individual, containing all that he or<br />
she will need to operate as a divine human<br />
being. Work on this chakra is much like a<br />
librarian in a library, putting things in order<br />
but not changing anything that is found.<br />
www.love2meditate.com/consiousness-music<br />
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<strong>Alchemical</strong> <strong>Voice</strong> - L2M Issue 18<br />
The Great Pyramid<br />
Giza Plateau<br />
EGYPT<br />
The Oldest of the<br />
Seven Wonders<br />
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NOTHING can<br />
prepare you for<br />
your first sighting<br />
of the Great<br />
Pyramid.<br />
The oldest of the Seven Wonders of<br />
the Ancient World, and the only one<br />
to remain largely intact.<br />
12 km to the west of Cairo is the Giza<br />
Plateau. Here at Giza stand four<br />
remarkable structures constructed in<br />
stone. Guarding the plateau is the<br />
Great Sphinx, the oldest sculpture on<br />
the planet, to the west of this<br />
enormous statue are three stone<br />
pyramids of colossal size.<br />
Egyptologists believe the Great<br />
Pyramid was built as a tomb for the<br />
4th Dynasty pharaoh Kufu built in the<br />
26th century BC over a period of 27<br />
years. However, no body was found<br />
inside the pyramid.<br />
"Kathleen and her team had<br />
arranged a private visit on<br />
our last evening – 22.2.22<br />
(22 is associated with Mary<br />
Magdalene and even my<br />
hotel room number was<br />
2222)."<br />
Initially standing at 481 feet (146.5m),<br />
the Great Pyramid was the tallest man<br />
made structure in the world for more<br />
than 3,800 years (the Eiffel Tower is<br />
taller). Over time, most of the smooth<br />
limestone casing was removed, along<br />
with the capstone (on the top is a 24<br />
foot square platform).<br />
The Great Pyramid was built by<br />
quarrying over 2 million large blocks<br />
weighing 6 million tonnes. Primary<br />
limestone from the Giza Plateau was<br />
used. Other blocks were imported by<br />
boat down the Nile: white limestone<br />
from Tura for the casing, and granite<br />
blocks from Aswan, weighing up to 80<br />
tonnes, for the Kings Chamber.<br />
Even today scientists are puzzled how<br />
the construction of the pyramid was<br />
achieved.<br />
Until around 1990, it was thought the<br />
Great Pyramid contained only the<br />
King’s Chamber (10), the Queen’s<br />
Chamber (7), the Grand Gallery (9), the<br />
Grotto (11) and the Well (5). They have<br />
since found four more rooms and<br />
three more rooms off the Queen’s<br />
Gallery.<br />
I was on a tour led by bestselling<br />
author Kathleen McGowan who is<br />
researching a book on the women who<br />
shaped Egypt for 5000 years (including<br />
Mary Magdalene).<br />
Kathleen and her local team had<br />
arranged a private visit on our last<br />
evening – 22.2.22 (22 is associated<br />
with Mary Magdalene and even my<br />
hotel room number was 2222).<br />
Entering the pyramid through the<br />
‘Robbers Tunnel’ (2), after a short<br />
distance we started to ascend steeply<br />
through a narrow tunnel (6). As we<br />
moved into the Grand Gallery (9) I was<br />
almost bent double – it was hot and<br />
cramped as we climbed a long wooden<br />
plank with handrails. I was relieved<br />
when I emerged into a small<br />
antechamber where I could stand up<br />
before entering the Kings Gallery.<br />
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Guarding the plateau is<br />
the Great Sphinx, the<br />
oldest sculpture on the<br />
planet, to the west of<br />
this enormous statue<br />
are three stone<br />
pyramids of colossal<br />
size.<br />
All the measurements in the Great<br />
Pyramid follow sacred geometry. The<br />
King’s Chamber is a square root of 5<br />
room – a perfect 1 by 2 by squareroot-of-5<br />
room. The floor plan is a<br />
perfect 1 by 2, and the height of the<br />
room is exactly one-half the diagonal<br />
of the floor. The room is made up of<br />
100 stones on the walls and ceiling,<br />
with a large black granite sarcophagus<br />
towards one end.<br />
I sat on the stone floor with my back<br />
against the sarcophagus and waited for<br />
the rest of our group to settle<br />
themselves. What followed could only<br />
be described as a cosmic trip. As I<br />
meditated, I found myself travelling<br />
through the universe at high speed.<br />
Timeless, formless, weightless, ‘blissed<br />
out’, in awe of the majesty and wonder<br />
of the universe – beyond words.<br />
When I returned home I did some<br />
research. It came as no surprise to me<br />
that the Great Pyramid was thought to<br />
be a portal to other realities.<br />
The Right Eye of Horus Mystery<br />
School was taught only once and not<br />
written down anywhere. It was purely<br />
an oral tradition, though its primary<br />
components are evidently etched on a<br />
single wall under the Great Pyramid<br />
that leads into the Hall of Records.<br />
High up on a wall is a Flower of Life<br />
measuring about four feet in diameter;<br />
beside it are 47 other images in<br />
sequence, which are the images of the<br />
chromosomes of Christ consciousness,<br />
the level of consciousness we are<br />
moving into now.<br />
Ascension and resurrection were the<br />
absolute purpose of the Great<br />
Pyramid.<br />
Yeshua and Mary Magdalene both<br />
underwent initiation here...<br />
www.marymagdaleneslegacy.com<br />
Julie de Vere Hunt<br />
www.marymagdaleneslegacy.com<br />
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SHAMANIC ALCHEMIST<br />
balancing vibrational energies<br />
Helping you to<br />
release the past<br />
change belief systems<br />
feel more complete<br />
bring yourself into alignment<br />
We visit past lives that could be the<br />
source of a current issue.<br />
We clear emotional and physical<br />
pains carried over from many<br />
lifetimes.<br />
Jovi Hoonjan<br />
jovi@love2meditate.com<br />
www.shamanicjoy.co.uk<br />
Based in Fleet and Basingstoke<br />
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<strong>Alchemical</strong> <strong>Voice</strong> - L2M Issue 18<br />
CAROL COGGAN<br />
Transformational Life Coach<br />
A MESSAGE FROM<br />
THE ANGELS<br />
I always ask the Angels when I sit down<br />
to write these articles, what do you want<br />
me to say? Just as before an Angel card<br />
reading the general question is asked,<br />
what do you want this person to know<br />
today?<br />
An Angel card reading is either a one card<br />
reading, where we ask the Angels what they<br />
want this person to know today, it is the here<br />
and now.<br />
A three card reading is a card for the past, one<br />
for the present, and one for the potential<br />
future. The card for the past is self-explanatory,<br />
as is the card for the present.<br />
Both cards may only be one aspect of the<br />
person’s life, and of course the present is in the<br />
here and now. The future card is not set in<br />
stone, it is just guidance from the Angels, that if<br />
the person continues the way they are and<br />
doing what they are doing, then this future will<br />
materialise. If you do not like the future card,<br />
then you have to change what you are doing in<br />
the here and now.<br />
So many people ignore the here and now, and<br />
are always looking to the future, the next good<br />
business deal, the next thrill and excitement, or<br />
even worrying about the next bill. So what do<br />
the Angels want me to share with you at the<br />
start of the New Year. It is about the here and<br />
now, it is about gratitude and love.<br />
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The Angels are reminding you that you are a<br />
spiritual being having a human experience.<br />
What you focus on you manifest/create in your<br />
life. So if you focus on the here and now,<br />
consider what you are thinking about. This is<br />
your focus for creation. If you focus on<br />
gratitude, then you will create more of what<br />
you are grateful for. If you focus on negativity,<br />
then you will get more negativity.<br />
Be very aware of your thoughts in the here and<br />
now, focus on gratitude and focus on love. The<br />
Angels, Archangels, and Universe operate on<br />
love.<br />
They love you unconditionally. They<br />
do not judge you.<br />
If you think about the here and now, think<br />
about today (and do this every day). You<br />
cannot influence the past but you have today.<br />
You may not be here tomorrow, but you are<br />
here today. The Universe has enabled you to<br />
wake up, and you are breathing and living<br />
today.<br />
Today will be affected by your thoughts, so at<br />
the start of each day be grateful for waking,<br />
and be grateful for everything around you.<br />
What is there for you to be grateful for? Your<br />
home? The food on your table? The fresh air?<br />
Your sense of hearing to hear the birds? Your<br />
ability to see everything? Your partner? Loved<br />
ones? As you keep your focus on what you are<br />
grateful for (don’t think about what you lack)<br />
you will find that your “energy“ rises, your<br />
outlook expands and you “feel” better.<br />
You may still have bills to pay or health issues,<br />
or 101 different circumstances to cope with,<br />
but focusing on what you do have and what<br />
you are grateful for, enables you to raise your<br />
energy and bring your focus back to the here<br />
and now.<br />
Today.<br />
If you “hear” judgement that is your own ego<br />
talking to you. The Angels and Archangels are<br />
always loving.<br />
The Angels today want you to live in the here<br />
and now, be grateful for all the positives in<br />
your life, and express your thoughts and<br />
feelings from a position of love. The kind word,<br />
the good deed, the helpful comment. As you do<br />
this daily you will be focusing on love and<br />
gratitude and so create more of the same. Your<br />
life will be increasingly filled with love,<br />
gratitude and abundance.<br />
Always ask the Angels, Archangels and<br />
Universe for their intervention and love each<br />
day. WOW!! What a day you will have, and<br />
many more of them, surrounded by your Angel<br />
army. The Angels send their love.<br />
www.carolcoggan.co.uk<br />
hello@carolcoggan.co.uk<br />
+44 (0)781 806 5514<br />
Based in Guildford, Surrey<br />
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EDEN PEOPLE<br />
Based in Guildford & S.W. Surrey, we have over 20<br />
years’ experience of supporting peoples’ wellbeing<br />
for body, mind & spirit; and we are here to enhance<br />
and support this. We are a not-for-profit<br />
community group.<br />
Below is information on our activities, contact us to<br />
join our mailing list so you can get priority access to<br />
book into sessions.<br />
Get in touch<br />
info@edenpeople.org.uk<br />
www.edenpeople.org.uk<br />
https://linktr.ee/EdenPeople<br />
FB: @eden.people.uk<br />
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Body Blessing & Positive Postures Sessions<br />
This is a physical, spiritual, and emotional activity that<br />
connects body, mind and spirit. It centres on who we<br />
are, how we are and where we are in the present<br />
moment. Spoken positive words about & over areas of<br />
the physical body encourage the participant to<br />
understand their uniqueness and the importance of<br />
their body.<br />
As we move or create a stance or position during the<br />
session the person connects inwardly (spiritually &<br />
emotionally) to the outward physical; and this can<br />
bring about new thought or feeling from the<br />
participant regarding themselves, others and the<br />
world.<br />
Designed to support your mental health, physical<br />
health, spirituality, wellbeing and positive thinking<br />
towards self, others and the planet<br />
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LifeWalks Sessions<br />
This is a physical, spiritual, and emotional walking activity that<br />
connects body, mind and spirit. As we engage with the<br />
‘outdoor space’ around us we can sense, learn, receive, and<br />
understand more about ourselves, the world around us<br />
physically, spiritually, and emotionally. It centres on who we<br />
are, how we are and where we are in the present moment.<br />
As we walk, talk, think, rest, breathe during the session the<br />
person connects inwardly (spiritually & emotionally) to the<br />
outward physical; and this can bring about new thought or<br />
feeling from the participant regarding themselves, others and<br />
the world.<br />
Designed to support your mental health, physical health,<br />
spirituality, wellbeing and positive thinking towards self,<br />
others, and the planet<br />
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These meditation sessions are shaped to<br />
help participants rest, relax, and find new<br />
depths of peace for the mind, body and<br />
spirit.Good for those who may have<br />
anxiety, restlessness, negative feelings,<br />
lack of motivation or self-worth.<br />
Differing Meditational activities focus on<br />
creativity, the natural world, breathing,<br />
imagination, use of the senses and tactile<br />
interaction.<br />
Designed to support your mental health,<br />
physical health, spirituality, wellbeing and<br />
positive thinking towards self, others, and<br />
the planet<br />
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Booking is required for all events<br />
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Text: +44 (0)7866247919<br />
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<strong>Alchemical</strong> <strong>Voice</strong> - L2M<br />
SPIRITUAL<br />
ENCOUNTERS<br />
Chance meetings with spirits in every day life<br />
John Sjovik<br />
Most people will sooner or later come across a<br />
Being in spirit form. That Being can be a nature<br />
spirit, an animal spirit, a human spirit or another<br />
form of spirit.<br />
Many people feel at home in a forest, near the<br />
ocean or when visiting a garden. For various<br />
reasons, we often feel drawn to certain types of<br />
places. When we are in those places, we sometimes<br />
sense a connection not only to the place, but to a<br />
certain aspect of it. The place speaks to us. We<br />
even feel that someone or something is trying to<br />
communicate with us.<br />
When we tell people about our excursion, we often<br />
say that it was “as if the trees talked to me”, or that<br />
we could hear “whispers in the waves” of the<br />
ocean. It is as if our love for the place contributes<br />
to attuning us to the energies or vibrations of that<br />
place, so that we become able to pick up shifts and<br />
changes in those vibrations. We begin to hear the<br />
“voice” of the place speaking to us.<br />
When we visit a place that is new to us, we should<br />
greet the land and pay respect to the local spirits.<br />
Go for a walk; observe trees, plants, animals. It is<br />
also a good idea to notice and acknowledge signs of<br />
people who have lived there. I am not only thinking<br />
of buildings, but also of stone walls, fields that were<br />
once ploughed, streams that were once dammed<br />
up.<br />
Eventually, we will become more adept at tuning in<br />
to the vibrations of a place, the energies and local<br />
spirits. That is when we can have unplanned<br />
encounters with local spirits, beings or deities.<br />
Those beings will be attracted to us. They will sense<br />
our ability to be in tune and they will approach us<br />
to make contact. It is a good idea to have at least a<br />
basic understanding of the spirit world and how it<br />
might manifest itself.<br />
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It is also good to have some insight into how to<br />
protect yourself and your personal energy against<br />
spirit intrusion and power loss. Please look for<br />
advertisements in <strong>Alchemical</strong> <strong>Voice</strong> Magazine for<br />
practitioners who can offer training or advice on<br />
how to protect yourself. You can also contact the<br />
publisher, Jovi Hoonjan for a guided meditation on<br />
protection against unwanted energetic intrusions.<br />
There are many meditations on her website. Here is<br />
an example of one that could help you, this<br />
shamanic meditation is called Protection Shield<br />
https://www.love2meditate.com/store/p41/protect<br />
ion_shield.html<br />
Windmill Hill and a Neolithic tribe<br />
In 2015 I visited Avebury in Wiltshire, England, to<br />
see the famous standing stones and to explore the<br />
region. The B&B I was staying in was not far from<br />
Windmill Hill. I put a packed lunch and a thermos of<br />
hot coffee in my backpack and I walked along lovely<br />
footpaths and fields until I arrived at an area with<br />
interesting archaeological features from prehistoric<br />
times. There were ditches from the Neolithic Era<br />
and burial mounds from the Bronze Age.<br />
I hiked to the top of one of the burial mounds and I<br />
put my blanket there to relax on and enjoy my<br />
lunch. It was as if the surrounding area was speaking<br />
to me and there was a soft murmur in the air.<br />
In spite of the burial mounds and the ceremonial<br />
nature of the area, I could sense the vibration of<br />
village life. The spiritual footprint of ancient life<br />
lingered and brought out memories from another<br />
time.<br />
As I was sitting there and taking in the vibrations of<br />
the past, I began to notice the outline of people in<br />
the distance, on the other side of the ditches. There<br />
was a movement and a curiosity and then a lone<br />
figure broke away from the crowd and began<br />
walking towards me. It was clear that he kept his full<br />
attention on me. He was dressed in a simple brown<br />
robe, yet had an air of authority about him. He<br />
stopped some distance away and then he spoke to<br />
me.<br />
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He found it astonishing that I could see not only<br />
him but the entire group of people, his tribe. All of<br />
them could see me and it was clear that somehow<br />
there was a portal in the web of time, temporarily<br />
connecting their time with mine. The man<br />
continued speaking and he said that he sensed that<br />
I had unusual spiritual abilities and had the making<br />
of a great village medicine man. He was amazed<br />
that he was now communicating with a holy man<br />
from the future. The entire group was excited and<br />
the man, as their leader or chief, invited me to pass<br />
through the portal and join them in their time.<br />
The chief told me that I would enjoy special<br />
privileges, be allocated a wife and be given my own<br />
hut to live in. In return, I would handle all spiritual<br />
matters for the tribe, heal the sick, forecast the<br />
future, perform divinations and communicate with<br />
the spirits to invite them to bring good fortune to<br />
the tribe.<br />
I felt completely overwhelmed by this meeting and<br />
by the remarkable invitation to time travel to the<br />
past and continue my existence there. I also felt<br />
afraid and vulnerable by being face to face with a<br />
local chief from the late Neolithic period. He<br />
stretched out his hand and asked me to join him<br />
when he returned to his tribe.<br />
With as much grace and gratitude as I could muster,<br />
I respectfully thanked him but told him that I belong<br />
to my time as he does to his. There is a reason why<br />
we live in the period and setting we were born into<br />
and it is not for me to change that. The man smiled<br />
at me, indicated that he understood and respected<br />
what I meant, uttered a blessing and turned around<br />
to return to his tribe. As he was walking back, he<br />
and all the people in the distance slowly faded away<br />
and vanished out of sight. The learning I came away<br />
with from my encounter with the Neolithic group<br />
on Windmill Hill is that there are potential portals<br />
between worlds, gateways between one time and<br />
another. Any dealings with such portals are<br />
connected with a certain level of danger. You suffer<br />
the risk of losing yourself in time; to no longer know<br />
where you actually belong. “Time travel” is a very<br />
serious matter and should be avoided unless you<br />
have extensive training from a qualified Shamanic<br />
practitioner or someone with equal skills.<br />
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The Woman in Black<br />
When I was living in Oslo, Norway, I used to<br />
participate in Reiki group healing sessions. A<br />
number of Reiki practitioners met regularly. We<br />
would split up into smaller groups and take turns to<br />
give and receive healing. Someone would lie on a<br />
bench and five or six people would stand around the<br />
bench and give healing simultaneously.<br />
One evening we met in rooms that used to be a very<br />
elegant apartment in a building from the late 19th<br />
century. When it was my turn to receive healing, I<br />
lay down on a bench but decided to do an “out of<br />
body” walkabout in the apartment. Carefully and<br />
with great focus I climbed out of my body and<br />
gently walked over to the wall. Standing there, I<br />
looked around the room. I saw my own body on the<br />
bench that I had just left. I saw other people around<br />
the room, busy with the Reiki work.<br />
Then I noticed a woman with a small dog, standing<br />
by the window. She looked quite stylish and wore<br />
an elegant black dress, long coat and small hat, all in<br />
the style of the early 20th century. All of a sudden<br />
she twitched when she realized that I was looking at<br />
her. She communicated with me and said, “Can you<br />
see me?”<br />
I confirmed that I could clearly see her as well as her<br />
little dog. She was surprised and told me that this<br />
was the first time that anyone could actually see<br />
her. Usually, people would pay no attention to her<br />
or to her dog, as she would remain invisible to them.<br />
She became quite excited and she began asking me<br />
questions. The first thing she wanted to know was<br />
who all those people in the room were, what they<br />
were doing and why they were in her apartment. I<br />
began trying to explain to her but then I realized<br />
that the ongoing healing session was coming to an<br />
end and I had to hurry back to my body before I was<br />
supposed to “come to life” and climb off the bench.<br />
So I apologized to the woman in black and rushed to<br />
my body and climbed back into it. When I had<br />
stepped off the bench, I looked back to the window<br />
but the woman and her dog were nowhere to be<br />
seen.<br />
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The following days, I tried to do some research<br />
about the building. I found that it had been built<br />
around 1890 and that the whole neighbourhood<br />
was quite fashionable at the time. However, I failed<br />
to find any information about the individual people<br />
who had lived there.<br />
One day, a couple of weeks later, I was sitting by<br />
my desk in the office at work. I took a small break<br />
and thought about my encounter with the spirit of<br />
the woman in black. Then all of a sudden she was<br />
standing next to me, together with her dog! She<br />
had sensed that I was thinking about her. In her<br />
mind, I had called her to come visit me. She seemed<br />
happy and she said hello to me. I felt surprised and<br />
somewhat anxious. I tried to signal to her to leave<br />
me in peace but she lingered. It was as if she found<br />
me unique and did not want to let go. She was very<br />
happy to have found someone who could actually<br />
see her and communicate with her.<br />
I focused really hard to convince her to “go into the<br />
light”. Then I left the room. The woman was gone<br />
but I feared her absence was only temporary.<br />
Sometime later, I visited a friend who helped me to<br />
finally convince and assist the woman to stop<br />
wandering in limbo and to journey back to the<br />
source, where her spirit was supposed to be.<br />
The learning I came away with from my encounter<br />
with the spirit of the Oslo lady, was to be very<br />
cautious and watchful about the behaviour of<br />
spirits.<br />
There is a constant risk that they will become<br />
“attached” to you, quite literally. Having no body<br />
themselves, they can easily find you radiant and full<br />
of energy and that is quite irresistible for them.<br />
They could become a permanent follower, a<br />
shadow who follows you everywhere, happy to<br />
have found a friend in you. But by being near you or<br />
even attaching themselves to you, they can access<br />
your energy and drain you.<br />
Be careful what you invite into your life and<br />
consider some kind of “spiritual protection” to ward<br />
off too close attention by spirits.<br />
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Ghosts trapped in time<br />
One of my favourite vacation destinations in<br />
Sweden is an island called Öland, situated in the<br />
Baltic Sea, close to the coast of mainland Sweden.<br />
The island is stretched out and almost shaped like<br />
an exclamation mark. Near the southern end, there<br />
is a stone wall right across the island, from the west<br />
to the east. It was built in the 1650s by order of the<br />
king Karl X. The wall was most of all a manifestation<br />
of royal might. To build it, local farmers had to<br />
devote manpower to daily work on the project.<br />
Prisoners had their sentences changed to hard<br />
labour to work on building the wall. The project<br />
caused hardship, privation, sickness and even death<br />
for many people.<br />
In the late summer of 2015, I visited Öland and<br />
decided to pay a visit to the wall and the location<br />
where it meets the sea on the west side of the<br />
island. It was a warm summer evening. I was walking<br />
along the beach and I turned around to take a look<br />
at what was left of the wall. To my amazement, I<br />
saw a young man standing close to it. He was<br />
dressed in very old-style clothes, greatly worn and<br />
in tatters. He looked tired and confused. I had not<br />
spotted him until now and I realized that he was a<br />
spirit, a ghost. When he saw me looking at him, he<br />
became excited and turned around to a young<br />
woman who was standing some distance behind<br />
him, looking a bit wary and hesitant. He spoke to<br />
her and said, “He can see us!” Then he looked past<br />
her and shouted “There is someone here who can<br />
see us!” I saw a growing crowd of people slowly<br />
moving towards me as the young man said “Maybe<br />
he can help us?”<br />
All of this was happening very fast and quite<br />
unexpectedly. I felt scared and anxious about what<br />
to do. At the time, I had not had much training in<br />
how to deal with encounters with spirits or ghosts.<br />
So I decided to back away from them and then I<br />
turned around and ran as quickly as I could back to<br />
my car and drove away. I stopped in a café and<br />
tried to calm down over a cup of coffee and a<br />
cinnamon bun. I felt as if I had failed those poor<br />
spirits. They were trapped in time and suffering.<br />
And I had panicked and abandoned them.<br />
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The building of the King’s wall caused trauma and<br />
soul loss. People got sick and many died<br />
prematurely. Their untimely deaths resulted in<br />
spirits becoming lost and unable or unwilling to<br />
move into the light, to transcend into “heaven”. The<br />
ghosts I met by the wall were a few of those lost<br />
souls trapped in time.<br />
Two years later, I returned to the same place. This<br />
time, I performed a ceremony and managed to<br />
facilitate the journey to the afterlife for many lost<br />
souls, ensuring their safe return to their ancestors<br />
or to source. When I had finished my work, there<br />
was a feeling that the air had cleared and that peace<br />
had returned.<br />
The learning I came away with from my initial<br />
encounter with the lost souls in southern Öland was<br />
to be attentive to my intuitive “reading” of a place,<br />
to develop and trust my subconscious to sense that<br />
there can be something in a place, a local vibration,<br />
an energy and indeed local spirits. I also learned to<br />
not be afraid of encounters with local spirits, but to<br />
view them with compassion and love. As long as I<br />
am properly protected and guarded I am always<br />
safe. It is important to avoid taking any action that<br />
you do not have the proper training for. The task at<br />
hand could easily become overwhelming and you<br />
risk causing damage not only to yourself but also to<br />
the spirits you are trying to help.<br />
Final thought<br />
Be happy if you encounter a spirit. Be grateful for<br />
the privilege. Be gentle, compassionate and<br />
respectful. But keep your distance. Do not send out<br />
any invitations. Use whatever protection you have.<br />
If you have had no training or instruction on how to<br />
stay safe when meeting spirits, then try to imagine<br />
yourself being filled with protective light. Imagine<br />
that you are shielded.<br />
Every encounter with spirit is an opportunity to<br />
learn. And keep in mind that every such encounter<br />
happens for a reason.<br />
John Sjovik<br />
Shaman Healer<br />
www.shamaqi.com<br />
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FEAR<br />
Supporting yourself through fear when you are ill<br />
Karam Pentland<br />
Fear is not an emotion that I have felt much of in<br />
my whole life!<br />
From the beginning of 2022, fear took center stage<br />
and I was forced to experience it in its entirety. The<br />
feeling I had was that I was plummeting from a high<br />
mountain to a deep dark cavern with a blindfold on<br />
and my hands tied behind my back!<br />
Let me share my story with you... I nearly lost my<br />
life through illness.<br />
In March 2022, I was hospitalized with pneumonia<br />
and sedated for several weeks. When I was<br />
eventually brought out of sedation, I was informed I<br />
had lymphoma.<br />
Fear took over me! I had absolutely no control over<br />
my life anymore.<br />
I stayed in fear until only recently when I was<br />
informed I was safely in remission. This moment in<br />
time was when I was able to see some sort of<br />
future for myself on this beautiful planet with my<br />
beautiful family and friends...<br />
<br />
A rational fear occurs when<br />
there is a real threat of death.<br />
There is always a fear that the lymphoma may<br />
return, but life is for living and I can’t live in a state<br />
of fear forever, otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to<br />
function.<br />
I've attempted to put into words the reason for the<br />
fear. The fear I felt wasn't anything to do with<br />
death but a really strong sense of "I have so much to<br />
live for, I have things I need to do!"<br />
I was deeply grateful for the love and support of<br />
my beautiful friends and family - they got me<br />
through my dark days.<br />
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Although I had complete support, I just couldn't<br />
shake off the fear. The fear of not knowing what<br />
was going to happen. I had to accept exactly where<br />
I was before I could move on.<br />
I hope that my experience can support those who<br />
find themselves in a similar predicament.<br />
Take one step at a time, and try not to look at<br />
the bigger picture, because that can be scary!<br />
Take your medical appointments and treatment<br />
one at a time, so you don't feel overwhelmed.<br />
Look at other ways you can get support, there<br />
are so many wonderful complementary<br />
therapies out there. See what you are<br />
personally drawn to.<br />
I am truly blessed, I have my husband of 30 years by<br />
my side. I am, by nature, a very independent person,<br />
so although I had my husband to lean on, I always<br />
wanted to do things for myself.<br />
<br />
Then comes the healing process<br />
of your mind and body!<br />
<br />
Having been sedated for so long meant I had lost a<br />
lot of muscle mass. My head was still full of the<br />
nightmares that I had when I was under sedation.<br />
Talk with your family and close friends about<br />
how you feel. My loved ones helped me to put<br />
my nightmares into perspective and we even<br />
laughed about them together. It helped me so<br />
much to share what was going on in my head<br />
and now I am happy to say that these have<br />
faded into the distance.<br />
As well as being independent, I have always held a<br />
positive outlook on life and I have always made the<br />
most of life! I used to love meeting up with my<br />
family and friends. I loved keeping busy. And most<br />
of all, I loved to support others in their personal<br />
times of need.<br />
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Create a new routine. I started to build my new<br />
life that included regular simple exercises and<br />
small chores. Although I couldn't do much, I<br />
made sure I had a plan to do something every<br />
day. I started to feel my independence coming<br />
back and this really helped my energy to lift<br />
up.<br />
It wasn't easy to do anything initially, having been<br />
in the hospital for so long.<br />
I have made so many<br />
massive improvements mentally.<br />
I can see the future and<br />
I am going to be in it!<br />
The fear I am processing at the moment is that I will<br />
not be able to get my physical strength back to<br />
what it used to be. My lungs are weak and have<br />
scarring from the pneumonia. So whenever I<br />
attempt to do anything, I get breathless and it<br />
hinders my progress...<br />
However, thinking about it rationally, I know I am<br />
being impatient... If I put things into perspective<br />
and reflect on exactly how far I have come, I can<br />
see that I have actually made great progress:<br />
I can walk further<br />
I can complete more chores<br />
I can visit friends and family<br />
I am living!<br />
Plus I live in Cornwall, a wonderful stunning part of<br />
the World.<br />
Seriously, time is a great healer!<br />
I will continue to take things one day at a time and<br />
visualise things I want to do and want to have in my<br />
life in the future. I love being here and I will enjoy<br />
every moment.<br />
I'm so happy to have been given the opportunity to<br />
share my story with you.<br />
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SLEEP<br />
The balm of the hurt minds<br />
Martin Lewis<br />
A survey taken in March 2020 about the state of<br />
people's sleep quality - post-COVID - found that<br />
fewer than 1 in 10 people report they are getting<br />
"very good sleep" at night. This ‘coronasomnia’ has<br />
led more and more people having difficulty falling<br />
asleep and staying asleep, and perhaps more<br />
worryingly this has led people to increase their use<br />
of sleep-inducing medicines.<br />
The same survey found that the proportion of<br />
people reporting "very poor sleep" doubled from<br />
5.4% in the autumn of 2020 to 10.1% in <strong>January</strong><br />
2021.<br />
Why is this? Is the effect of the COVID pandemic<br />
still an issue? ...or is it something else?<br />
It has been suggested that multiple factors could be<br />
driving this drop in sleep quality. Daisy Fancourt,<br />
PhD, and colleagues found people with lower<br />
household incomes, with mental or physical health<br />
conditions, lower levels of education, and those<br />
from ethnic minority backgrounds were more likely<br />
to report "very poor" sleep quality, with stress<br />
being the most likely factor.<br />
Hence this suggests that it is not just COVID that is<br />
the problem. On-going fear and anxiety due to the<br />
economic downturn, the cost of living, war,<br />
including significant changes in sleep quality, sleep<br />
patterns, and sleep disturbances, can and do have<br />
widespread and long-lasting negative<br />
consequences on physical, mental, and emotional<br />
health.<br />
According to Louise Hay,<br />
a virus is a ‘lack of joy<br />
flowing through life’, and<br />
emotional ‘bitterness’<br />
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From a kinesiological point of view, the crown<br />
chakra relates very well to this ‘corona-virus’. As<br />
Louise Hay pointed out in her ground-breaking book<br />
‘Heal Your Body’ a virus is a ‘lack of joy flowing<br />
through life’, and emotional ‘bitterness’ - or anger<br />
and disappointment at the way one is being treated,<br />
leading to a ‘lack of sweetness’. This can lead to<br />
‘revolving thought patterns’ or worry - literally a<br />
‘corona-virus’ that will cause sleepless nights!<br />
However, from a physiological point of view, a<br />
recent study in the Journal of Experimental<br />
Medicine did show that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that<br />
causes COVID-19, can bind to neurones and cause<br />
metabolic changes at a cellular and mitochondrial<br />
level. Therefore it is possible that the virus itself can<br />
affect the relevant neurotransmitters, and therefore<br />
the areas that control sleep in our brain, and the<br />
effect will be a change in sleep patterns as a result.<br />
(see more about mitochondria in <strong>Alchemical</strong> <strong>Voice</strong><br />
Issue 17 - Nov/Dec 2022). It is also known that<br />
sleep has an important role in supporting the<br />
immune system.<br />
So... the question could be: which comes first? - or<br />
maybe it is more accurate to ask: what causes what?<br />
Shakespeare called sleep "the<br />
balm of hurt minds”. While this<br />
is true, it also suggests that a<br />
hurt mind is going to find sleep<br />
somewhat challenging!<br />
What to Do?<br />
Sleep specialists appear to agree that for people<br />
with insomnia, the mitigation of stress through<br />
relaxation techniques is more beneficial than<br />
medication.<br />
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They recommend good sleep hygiene as the best<br />
means of obtaining restful sleep, including regular<br />
bed and wake times, limited exposure to stressful<br />
news, reduced consumption of alcohol and<br />
stimulants such as coffee or caffeine drinks,<br />
avoiding use of electronic devices in bed or near<br />
bedtime, and a healthy lifestyle, including diet and<br />
exercise.<br />
They also frown on self-medication with over-thecounter<br />
aids, because these products may not be<br />
addressing the underlying issue, as noted before.<br />
Tetyana Kendzerska, a professor at the University<br />
of Ottawa, suggests that: “medications such as<br />
melatonin, and short-term treatment with hypnotic<br />
agents such as zolpidem (Ambien), eszopiclone<br />
(Lunesta), or zaleplon (Sonata) should be used only<br />
as a last resort.<br />
Medications, even over-the-counter medications,<br />
all have side effects, and if one is taking a<br />
medication that has stimulants in place, such as<br />
pseudoephedrine in antihistamine combinations,<br />
they can potentially contribute to, or exacerbate<br />
any underlying sleep disorders”.<br />
"It is also foreseeable that there may be an increase<br />
in individuals who may require professional<br />
guidance to taper off from sleeping medications<br />
started or increased during the pandemic.<br />
While some of these sleep problems may be<br />
transient, it should be a high priority to ensure they<br />
do not evolve into chronic sleep disorders,"<br />
Kendzerska and colleagues wrote.<br />
MARTIN LEWIS<br />
www.appliedmetaphysics.co.uk<br />
kinesiology@hotmail.co.uk<br />
+44 (0)7968 740550<br />
Newbury, Berkshire<br />
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GNOSTICS<br />
Path of Knowledge<br />
Julie Adams<br />
<br />
Gnosis is a Greek word which means ‘insight’, an<br />
intuitive process of knowing oneself. And to know<br />
oneself is to know human nature and human<br />
destiny.<br />
Gnosis was a path of knowledge, not a<br />
religion.<br />
Gnostics directed the Mystery Schools of the Near<br />
East in antiquity. The Mysteries were schools of<br />
paranormal knowledge, not religious institutions.<br />
Gnosis is relevant here as it describes the Universal<br />
Truth, what something is, rather than an idea<br />
conceived from what is observed. All religious<br />
traditions acknowledge the world is imperfect. Few<br />
are able to account for all the pain and suffering<br />
that exists in our world.<br />
Gnostics believe the world is flawed because it was<br />
created in a flawed manner. Gnostics believe there<br />
is a true, ultimate and transcendent God, who is<br />
beyond all created universes and never created<br />
anything.<br />
Gnostics taught that the true mind of human<br />
beings, nous authenticos, is part of the cosmic<br />
intelligence that pervades nature, but due to the<br />
intrusion of the Archons, this ‘native mind’ can be<br />
subverted or even occupied by another mind.<br />
Gnostics believe within all of us is a fragment of the<br />
divine essence from the true God, referred to as<br />
the divine spark, the I AM.<br />
The basic gnostic myth refers to Aeons,<br />
intermediate deific beings who exist between the<br />
ultimate true God and ourselves. The Aeons and<br />
the true God comprise the realm of Pleroma<br />
(Fullness), the totality of divine powers.<br />
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Sophia (Wisdom) is one of the aeons who, from her<br />
own volition, emanated a flawed consciousness<br />
called the Demiurge.<br />
The Demiurge then created Earth and all living<br />
things which are also flawed. In effect, humanity is<br />
the product of a cosmic error! The Demiurge was<br />
also the creator of the Archons or rulers to keep<br />
humanity in order.<br />
In the classical Mediterranean world, an Archon was<br />
the governor of a province, or more widely, any<br />
religious or government authority.<br />
The Gnostics suggested that the mentality of the<br />
Archons ‘cannot be rectified’ – Archons have no<br />
ennoia, or no will of their own (intentionality).<br />
Gnostics considered envy to be the signature of the<br />
Archons, as well as the key human failing that makes<br />
us vulnerable to their intrusion. I would include<br />
bitterness as well.<br />
Human nature mirrors the duality found in the<br />
world; consisting of a perishable physical<br />
component made by the false God, the Demiurge,<br />
and a fragment of the divine essence from the true<br />
God, referred to as the divine spark, or the I AM.<br />
The gnostic’s mission is to liberate that divine<br />
spark.<br />
Human beings are often unaware of this divine<br />
spark within them. The Demiurge and his Archons<br />
are intent upon keeping men and women ignorant<br />
of their true nature and destiny. All our earthly<br />
attachments keep us enslaved to these lower cosmic<br />
rulers.<br />
Death releases the divine spark, but unless<br />
the individual has attained gnosis prior to<br />
death, they will reincarnate back into the<br />
physical world.<br />
Fortunately, Messengers of Light, or Avatars, have<br />
been sent from the true God to assist us in our<br />
quest for gnosis. Jesus is considered the main<br />
saviour figure by gnostics.<br />
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In the gnostic texts Jesus speaks of illusion and<br />
enlightenment, not of sin and repentance. Instead<br />
of redeeming us from our sins, he comes as a guide<br />
to aid our spiritual understanding.<br />
When the individual attains enlightenment,<br />
Jesus is no longer their spiritual master –<br />
they become equal.<br />
Gnosticism encourages us to become a<br />
‘being in the world, but not of it’, with a lack<br />
of egotism, and a respect for the freedom<br />
and dignity of all other beings.<br />
In the fullness of time, with conscious effort, every<br />
spiritual being will be reunited with its higher self<br />
and be able to enter the Pleroma.<br />
Most gnostic texts are written in mythical form to<br />
convey a deeper, underlying meaning. A myth is not<br />
only a story, it is a statement made in symbols.<br />
The language of the unconscious is symbolic. A<br />
symbol speaks directly to the soul, even when the<br />
mind does not understand. When a symbol touches<br />
the soul there is a change. Every myth takes its<br />
origin in inspiration, from the Latin inspirare, a<br />
message from the spirit, the breath of life.<br />
The spirit speaks from the cosmos, and gives<br />
us answers to the unanswered. Meeting this<br />
spirit fulfils a destiny way beyond our<br />
material world and these texts are trying to<br />
show us the way.<br />
In Gnostic texts, the Archons are often referred to<br />
as the ‘Authorities’.<br />
In today’s world the Archons would equate to our<br />
world rulers, monarchy, big business, religion and<br />
offshoots of these.<br />
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Aristotle observed that the mark of a mature mind is<br />
to entertain an idea without accepting it, or ‘buying<br />
into it’.<br />
This form of analysis is referred to as ‘non-ordinary<br />
reasoning’.<br />
In effect, non-ordinary reason is just like<br />
ordinary reason, except that its subject<br />
matter is imagined rather than perceived.<br />
Gnostic seers were able to apply non-ordinary<br />
reasoning whilst in states of heightened perception<br />
to their observations of the Archons.<br />
They concluded the main danger we face with the<br />
Archons lies in their ability to deceive, especially<br />
about the nature and extent of their powers.<br />
As I said before, information or knowledge is power.<br />
If we know how the Archons operate, then<br />
we can reclaim the sovereign power of our<br />
spiritual intelligence, or Higher Self<br />
Development (HSD).<br />
The Nature of the Rulers (or The Hypostasis of the<br />
Archons) maintain the malevolent Demiurge and<br />
Archons are real and do exist, but when they are<br />
opposed vigorously by the children of the light, will<br />
be defeated.<br />
https://andromedaeffect.uk/<br />
theandromedaeffect22@gmail.com<br />
http://andromedaeffect.uk/2022/07/12/bl<br />
og-4-gnostics/<br />
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Anne Randall<br />
Spirit & Psychic Artist<br />
What does <strong>2023</strong> bring for you?<br />
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Anne is a spirit / psychic artist and<br />
accredited working medium. These are<br />
some of her latest portraits of spirit guides<br />
and loved ones in spirit.<br />
Contact Anne<br />
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THE MIGHTY RIVER AND THE GRANDMOTHERS<br />
In the coming editions of <strong>Alchemical</strong> <strong>Voice</strong> we will<br />
cover the following chapters of the full story for our<br />
present times from tens of thousands of years ago<br />
Part 1: Walking (May/June edition)<br />
Part 2: The mighty river (May/June edition)<br />
Part 3: “The gods are playing with us” (July/August edition)<br />
Part 4: Our Medicine Man speaks (Sept/Oct edition)<br />
Part 5: The Eagle calls (Nov/Dec edition)<br />
Part 6: “For the sakes of our children’s children’s children” (this edition)<br />
Part 7: The sticks for the Grandmothers<br />
Part 8: Gogogama speaks<br />
These stories originated in a past life experience<br />
SUMMARY SO FAR<br />
Kwekwe is an inspired leader and time spirit. He is leading us, his people, along the coast to where<br />
he believes the Sun God will be turning to our left when rising out of the sea instead of to our right.<br />
We reached a wide, mighty river with many small islands. We could not even see the other side of<br />
the estuary and decided to make camp. A group of elders designated one island with glee-glee trees<br />
and scrum-scum bushes as our sacred meeting place. Our medicine man Oo-oo-warawara stays<br />
there.<br />
He is telling the elders how the eagle spirit called him to climb rocks upstream. From the top, he saw<br />
in the distance wildebeest running from a spreading forest fire and finding a way to cross the mighty<br />
river: “We must climb those rocks to reach the river crossing before the Sun God’s fire reaches us<br />
here. I do not know if our strong men can help the eldest amongst you gathered here.”<br />
PART 6: "FOR THE SAKES OF OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN'S CHILDREN"<br />
I take a look around our circle. Most of the older men and women are sitting heads bowed looking at<br />
the ground in front of them. Some of the younger men are staring at Oo-oo-warawara openmouthed.<br />
I catch Kwekwe’s eyes and he gives me a tiny nod, before also looking to the ground.<br />
That is enough for me. The fire that has gone from Kwekwe’s spirit for now, has reached me.<br />
I stand up in the gloom of dusk and speak:<br />
“Elders, grandfathers and grandmothers, brothers and sisters, we have all heard the words of our gifted<br />
one. It is clear what we must do.<br />
“Tomorrow, we must prepare to continue our journey, for the sakes of our children’s children’s children.<br />
Now, go back to your shelters and your families. Tell them to get ready in the morning and all gather here,<br />
but first sleep well. We will need our rest before the tasks of the next day.”<br />
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The next morning, I am awake before the Sun God. In<br />
the dark, I rouse my wife and ask her to look after our<br />
wildebeest hides, gazelle-skin pouch with our sharp<br />
stones and to keep our three youngest children close. I<br />
must go and talk with some elders and then with all the<br />
grandmothers and grandfathers. I remember with<br />
sadness the grandparents of our own children. They<br />
were lost in the great floods before we started our<br />
walking, when our old leader was also killed.<br />
I soon find Guruguru, the older brother of our late<br />
leader. He has been quiet since so many of our people<br />
were lost when his brother failed to make the right<br />
rituals for the gods. But he has gained a wisdom and a<br />
knowing. He is sitting, chewing a long root for his<br />
breakfast, watching his younger woman chew some<br />
roots too and then give her chewed food to the<br />
youngest child who can barely walk.<br />
Guruguru notices me approach, stands and walks to<br />
greet me, knowing that we need to talk quietly, away<br />
from the others.<br />
“Brother Guruguru, did you and your family sleep safe?” I<br />
give the customary greeting.<br />
“We did, thank you, brother. And you and yours?”<br />
“We slept well and lion-free.”<br />
We both smile at the old sayings and I continue:<br />
“Brother, you were at the circle last night. You heard the<br />
words of our medicine man and I saw that you understood,<br />
like me, what our tribe must do today.”<br />
“Yes, brother, and my oldest woman was there too. We<br />
spoke afterwards and she is worried about her mother.<br />
This will not be easy, especially for the women.”<br />
“I know, but we must do it, for our children’s children’s<br />
children. Will you help me speak with the grandmothers?<br />
We must make it as easy as possible for them. And then<br />
the grandfathers will also accept it.”<br />
Guruguru nods and I go to find our oldest grandmother.<br />
As I thought, she has stayed on the sacred island after<br />
our circle, sleeping on the bare earth. She hears a twig<br />
crack under my feet as I approach and gently raises<br />
herself up from the ground, leaning back against a small<br />
tree. Oo-oo-warawara is in the background, gathering<br />
his little sticks and stones and bird feathers into his<br />
wildebeest pouch, muttering to himself – or perhaps to<br />
his spirits.<br />
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Gogogama looks at me and gives me a faint smile with<br />
her toothless gums. There is still a sparkle in her eyes<br />
and a sadness as she blinks at me. She has mothered six<br />
girls and five boys, although you can hardly believe it,<br />
looking at her skinny frame now. Eight of them are still<br />
with us and all with their own families now, living in<br />
three different kinship groups. Gogogama has always<br />
known which are the best plants and roots to eat – and,<br />
most importantly, when to eat them. But even she has<br />
struggled to know whether some of the plants in this<br />
land now are safe or poisonous.<br />
“Ririjojo, my son, good to see you awake with the early rays<br />
of the Sun God. May this day be blessed with the fruits of<br />
the sun, the rain and the earth for you and your family,”<br />
she croaks.<br />
“Grandmother,” I say.<br />
“Peacefulness be with you. How are your bones today?”<br />
“Son, my bones are heavy. Last night, they would not even<br />
carry this flesh back to the shelter with my firstborn girl.<br />
But I slept safe and well here on this, our sacred island for<br />
these times.”<br />
“Grandmother, wise one, you understand that we must<br />
leave this resting place today. We men must continue with<br />
our women and children towards the future that the Gods<br />
have promised for us – following the path that our<br />
medicine man was shown by the eagle spirit.”<br />
“Yes, you must. Spirit be praised.”<br />
We sit in silence.<br />
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