Shamanic Living Today: For the alchemists

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This is an ongoing US and global project to help enthusiasts, scholars, practitioners, and curious parties learn more about shamanic living in a contemporary culture. The space here is devoted to sharing info, experiences and opinions about all forms of shamanic expression covering shamanism's multiple permutations. Among subjects explored are traditions, techniques, insights, definitions, events, artists, authors, and creativity. You are invited to draw from your own experiences and contribute.

What is a SHAMAN?

MAYAN: "a technichian of the Holy, a lover of the Sacred." CELTIC: "Empower the people...by changing the way we think." MEXICAN APACHE: "Someone who has simply learned to give freely of themselves..." AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL: "...a teacher or healer, a wisdom keeper of knowledge... (who) takes people to a door and encourages them to enter." W. AFRICAN DIAGRA: "views every event in life within a spiritual context." HAWAIIAN: "...human bridges to the spiritual world and its laws and the material world and its trials..." QUECHUA INDIAN: "embodies all experience." AMAZON: "...willing to engage the forces of the Universe...in a beneficial end for self, people, and for life in general."

-- from Travelers, Magicians and Shamans (Danny Paradise)

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

For the alchemists

http://www.hermetics.org/pdf/alchemy/The_Great_Art.pdf
A TREATISE
ON
The Great Art
A SYSTEM OF PHYSICS ACCORDING TO HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY
AND THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE
MAGISTERIUM.
BY
Dom ANTOINE-JOSEPH PERNETY,
Benedictine Monk of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, Abbot of Burgel in
Thuringe,
Librarian of Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, etc.
EDITED BY
EDOUARD BLITZ, M. D.,
Doctor In Kabbalah, Doctor in Hermetic Sciences, Member of the “ASSOCIATION
ALCHIMIQUE DE FRANCE”: President of the Grand Council
of the MARTINIST ORDER, etc.
AGNZ
...
NEVADA, MISSOURI, March 3, 1898.