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I define Alchemical Gnosis as using authentic alchemical preparations within the structure of Hermetic philosophy to bring about knowledge of and communication with your Inner Master. As in the East, Western Adepts have devised a set of disciplined practices and meditations designed to draw the seeker of understanding ever inward and upward. This podcast will delve into the little-known Hermetic science practices, meditations, products, and philosophy that make this possible. https://www.innergarden.org/index.php https://www.alchemywebsite.com/johnreid.html

  1. 10/22/2025

    Sustainable Transmutations: The Water Of Life

    Do you remember that scene in Dune where Stilgar took Lady Jessica to witness Jamis’s water reclamation by the Freman Deathstill? It was not just a physical reclamation of water for drinking and the things of life, it was more. It was the reclamation of every thing that Jamis experienced.

    10 min

  2. 09/10/2025

    Sustainable Transmutations: Sperm, Egg, and You Not!

    We are not what we seem, and our beginnings are not what we think. Souls mature in groups and thus we cycle through incarnations within the same soul-family or egregore. Soul families and biological families are separate things, though members of a soul family will from incarnation to incarnation at times be a mate, parent, sibling, cousin, or close family friend.

    5 min

  3. 09/03/2025

    Sustainable Transmutations: I like To Break Things Part 2

    Last week we signed off with the sentiment that ‘the universe is not rejecting you, it is mirroring you.’ What it mirrors is the frequency put out by our human instruments and that is a resonance soaked in fear emanating from the vast majority of us. There is a quote I came across in one of the Parachemy issues from Paracelsus College that went ‘in the beginning is what no one knows and every religion tries to teach.’

    7 min

  4. 08/27/2025

    Sustainable Transmutations: I like To Break Things Part 1

    It should come as no surprise that as an Alchemist, I break things apart that is the first step in the Spagyric method to break or separate a thing into what alchemy states are its essential or principal parts. The first thing to separate students from is their erroneous view concerning themselves, and the expectations that misaligned view engenders about the universe.

    7 min

  5. 08/20/2025

    Sustainable Transmutations No Need To Go To The Mountain Top Part 2

    It is said that a prophet is never recognized in their own home, but their mettle is surely tempered there.

    13 min

  6. 08/13/2025

    Sustainable Transmutations No Need To Go To The Mountain Top Part 1

    Last week we talked about how the reason for anyone ‘doing’ anything is essentially unknowable; at best we are left in theposition of having to accept or reject the credulity of theirexplanation. Indeed our judgments about the reasons for another’s ‘doing’ are projections of the whispers from those forgotten voices of ourselves. But how did we lose sight of the sources of those whispers?

    6 min

  7. 08/06/2025

    Sustainable Transmutations: Crazy People Mumbling On The Street Corner

    My mentor and I were having a light meal at a corner bistro just around the corner from apartment, he was sipping on his drink and I leaned back in my chair to just allow the moment to sink in. The day was glorious, a New York rarity in August that felt like late Spring or Early Fall, where the suns rays messaged you rather than assault with heat and humidity.

    12 min

  8. 07/30/2025

    Sustainable Transmutations: Not Broken Part 5

    Now, one would think that Athena would stand up for her priestess who had, according to all accounts, kept her vows and virtue intact. Yet the law can be harsh -- blind justice enforcing the need to seek conformity above all else, as well as preserve taboo, led to the conditions of a dehumanizing endeavor. It is under these circumstances that Athena created the Gorgon Medusa. So twisted and misshapen had she become by the blind application of law that to simply gaze upon her would cause any to be transformed into stone.

    7 min
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I define Alchemical Gnosis as using authentic alchemical preparations within the structure of Hermetic philosophy to bring about knowledge of and communication with your Inner Master. As in the East, Western Adepts have devised a set of disciplined practices and meditations designed to draw the seeker of understanding ever inward and upward. This podcast will delve into the little-known Hermetic science practices, meditations, products, and philosophy that make this possible. https://www.innergarden.org/index.php https://www.alchemywebsite.com/johnreid.html

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