Flight : Magic Carpets & Kung Fu Leaps

In our first article, we were inspired by the season, and talked about witches as practitioners of shamanic flight in Europe. We looked at their legendary flying ointment from a chemical perspective, and learned about its properties and dangers.
Shamanic flight is not confined to archaic Europe, however, and examples of the phenomenon are common around [...]

Summer Sale : Shen Tonics (ended 7/8/09)

Note that this sale has expired; we’re leaving the post up so that the information about these Spagyrics is available. To see what’s currently on sale, click here.
Shen is a concept that you may have heard us talk about, and which you may be familiar with from Traditional Chinese Medicine. Like so many TCM concepts, [...]

New Green Amber Spagyric

We’ve been really enjoying our explorations of Amber lately, studying it from a cultural, historic, and healing perspective, and working with it in our lab. Our newest Oil of Amber is from a rare green variety, found in Chiapas, Mexico. This amber actually has a green tint in the sunlight, and both the raw chunks [...]

Dreamflights & Travels

Reports from the last Oneironauticum are posted over at Urban Dreamscape, and it sounds like it was intense and productive for everyone!
The dreamers took our Dreamtime Somalixir, a combination of Spagyrics to facilitate lucid, deep, and meaningful dreams. The reports are that it worked very well, and the dreamers were happy with the intensity of [...]

Amber : the Electric Fossil

Revered since ancient times, Amber has been used in jewelry, medicine, and trade for thousands of years. Homer, Aristotle, Plato, and Pliny the Elder all mentioned Amber in their writings, and it was prized more than gold in ancient Greece.
Amber washes up from deposits in oceans and seas around the world, and the Greeks believed [...]