My Alchemical Romance

Chelsy Usher & Marie Lloyd

Welcome to My Alchemical Romance a True Crime Podcast with an esoteric warp. We are two ex-bee priestesses and shamanic detective agency digging up spiritual frauds and crimes. We also like to laugh at everything, including ourselves, with little patience for faff, spiritual commerce and grift. *The Rose Gives the Bees Honey Illustration by Johann Thedore de Bry

Season 1

  1. Episode 3

    Episode 2 | Pt 1: Visible Darkness

    We're back! Part 1 & Part 2 of Visible Darkness were going to drop together, but instead they'll be a couple days in between while we add some outside video resources to part 2- so not to worry, the rest of is coming shortly. In Visible Darkness we finish up the recap of Buxton's growing public "biography" and begin venturing into some "behind the scenes" events and secrets that students and the general public were not privy to. We also highlight the reviews and rising whispers online about plagiarism and fraud and what some of the faculty found out, years before this all came to light. Then, Marie dives into detail about what some students were being told behind closed doors and how it was held back from a broader audience- which creates more questions than answers. Visible Darkness marks the opening of door that has been long closed and from here on- for quite a few episodes and for most of you, this will be previously unheard info. Below are all the links for this and some for part 2, with more included in the next drop. Shaman’s Drum Review by Timothy White 2004 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DAHY7dUuWeaZm4X_qjAm6yuo2jkJ5ciu/view New Age Fraud & Plastic Shamans (also searchable, use “Simon Buxton” etc) http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=530.0 Scriptus Gydja Review https://scriptus.gydja.com/the-shamanic-way-of-the-bee-simon-buxton/ Sky River Brewing Mead Website  https://web.archive.org/web/20000614060909/http://skyriverbrewing.com:80/history.asp Bad Witch Blog with Ross Heaven https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/06/i-ask-ross-heaven-what-is-authentic.html%20 BeeGarth Comment  https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/4152532055090335650/7684877476002807000 Buxton Vs. Heaven Court Cases: https://www.ipo.gov.uk/t-challenge-decision-results/o16407.pdf https://www.ipo.gov.uk/t-challenge-decision-results/o03709.pdf Pollen Path & Ritual Deer Hunt https://sacredtrustinfo.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-pollen-path-indigenous-appropriation.html 2015 Secret Plagiarism (Steiner, etc) https://sacredtrustinfo.blogspot.com/2023/08/plagiarism-of-modern-or-living-authors.html Marie Lloyd’s Substack https://substack.com/@marielloyd8

    1h 49m
  2. Episode 4

    Episode 2 | Part 2: Visible Darkness

    Hi there, Here is part 2 of Visible Darkness! Please enjoy while we puke and scream from anxiety!  Part 2 follows on directly from the end of Part 1 with Marie finishing giving you the official Path of Pollen lore as delivered to her in 2023 by Ariella Daly and her notes from several interviews with both Simon Buxton and Naomi Lewis, over many years at The Sacred Trust. We discuss who the faculty actually was for better understanding and we also circle back to tell the story of the day Chelsy first spoke about the “first round” of plagiarism in The Shamanic Way of the Bee on social media (links to all the story highlights below), the aftershocks, and the first statement we received from Simon. We end with the introduction of a woman who offers to facilitate the Zoom call interview with Chelsy and Simon.  It’s too early to form opinions about whether we should be saying all this- so hold on- because after the next special episode (which will leave us horizontal with angst and The Fear) we cover the zoom call and the subsequent, explosive discovery that has made everything else this far seem like peanuts. You’ll probably change how you feel about it all twice an episode.  We laugh and joke quite a bit as we're getting through all of this- because we have to. The truth is it was all and still is  painful and sometimes infuriating- but man, have we learned a lot. We’ve left all posturing, concerns about whether we can sell you something later, and breath-y , spiritual good-girl, sing-songy ways of speaking at the door.  Please continue to write in with comments and history. If you’d like to be interviewed later in the series- let us know! My Instagram Story Highlights 2023 Start: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18006746200889506/ Part 2: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18062153104423903/ (more highlights there) 2015 Secret Plagiarism (Steiner, etc) https://sacredtrustinfo.blogspot.com/2023/08/plagiarism-of-modern-or-living-authors.html You can see a screenshot of the statement briefly put on the website in 2023 here: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQFs-R9tG3TEqt9-8iBBhJZbjOqrVR0IBhYcfHfYYwTE5ZsWyw6N5kIqcGrZ09_Tv0AZF7V_ehLVlw_OXBBs457tlgvVpZVkPt3Y_gHN95w25iWLB8jQnqIj0gpMNyh9ECDbIo1FkXYEP2QAIG_7NVDpe1cuUP0eC5kWEy7-as4pmeVH9J-zxjwt-8CuUa/s1600/PHOTO-2026-05-12-17-43-57.jpg Scriptus Gydja Review https://scriptus.gydja.com/the-shamanic-way-of-the-bee-simon-buxton/ Pollen Path & Ritual Deer Hunt https://sacredtrustinfo.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-pollen-path-indigenous-appropriation.html Marie Lloyd’s Substack https://substack.com/@marielloyd8

    1h 52m
  3. Bonus

    April Update: Adrenaline & Evidence

    EDIT: re-uploaded after a little clean up! We are recording Episode 3: {We’re Gonna Need A} Bigger Boat (yet again!) on Tuesday. Marie and I will be back by the end of next week with a An Even Bigger &  Better Bigger Boat.  In 2023 I monologued on Instagram, while shaking like a an leaf and trying to remember to breathe,  to bring you the news of what I thought was a lot of plagiarism (the good ol’ Beginner Playg). And I’m about to regale you with a slightly more sophisticated terror-filled update, by me but from us both! Have a listen. (Visit here for those original stories and look for the other highlights for records of the months of chaos) https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18006746200889506/ Strap in! Here be Dragons! Batten the Hatches! The only way out, is through!  Abandon all hope, ye who…actually no, I think you’ll eventually get some hope back from this, we did! What I’m saying is that it’s going to be an intense couple of episodes. Episode 3, will be a pretty meticulous ride up to the top of the Roller Coaster. Then we’ll scream, wave our hands in the air,  and barf as we rocket perilously to the ground for Episodes 4-5, wondering WHYYYY.?!? Straight into the upside down loop-de-loop for Episodes 6-7 (probably).  If you like twists and turns mixed with exhaustive factoids (and tea), HIGHLY RECOMMEND getting to the other side of this amusement park ride. Things will look so different from start to finish, and I have a feeling there will be some new discoveries while we are recording- I’m even making a field trip to hear a tip-off.  PS: I mention that it was “just me and marie” and a handful of women behind the scenes that were encouraging. In terms of being in the 24/7 recon and research mode, that is mostly true. We did have a couple of people reach out with some key data- but they are 007s and mustn’t be named (007 is a funny occult AND spy reference which is relatively obscure so I want you to know that I’m clever). Also we had The Group Chat.  A mysterious collective with 2 other women who were in it with on the day-to-day. We still have a dedicated GC and I wouldn’t have stayed sane without the 11/10 jokes (and research) that is in it everyday.  Enjoy a visit to the web archive and explore internet history (and so, so many books)! https://web.archive.org/ ~~Extra Credit Reading~~~ Rewatching the Instagram stories I mention- and 142 weeks ago, a very nervous me addressed my tiny following, chest pounding, and revealed "Things That Shall Not Be Said". I said in one of the 100+ frames:  “Once again, I don’t want to hurt anybody…It’s crazy to me that my shedding light on someone else’s mistake could paint me as a bad person- but I’ve seen that happen [with this] and I’m prepared”.   Two years later- SUPRISE SURPISE, I absolutely was not, in fact, prepared. Upon meticulous review; now having the understanding of our work, the experience, the chaos, the soft-launch verbose brutality of Instagram-famous Spiritual Women ™; many of us have come to recognize the textbook signs of Cult behavior and mistreatment. We’ll add some material about Preemptive Narrative Control and (the long-lasting) effects of the insidious DARVO tactics many have been coming to terms or reconciling with.

    19 min
5
out of 5
3 Ratings

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Welcome to My Alchemical Romance a True Crime Podcast with an esoteric warp. We are two ex-bee priestesses and shamanic detective agency digging up spiritual frauds and crimes. We also like to laugh at everything, including ourselves, with little patience for faff, spiritual commerce and grift. *The Rose Gives the Bees Honey Illustration by Johann Thedore de Bry

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