Valentine’s Sale : Spagyrics for Romance

Valentine’s Day is just a couple of weeks away, and although it can be a silly and perhaps shallow holiday of candy and cards, it can also carry meaning and be a chance to energize your love life.
Spagyrics of supportive herbs can help increase libido, support energy and function, or just connect with your love [...]

Flight : Our Spagyric Offerings

Welcome to the conclusion of our series on the spiritual practice of flight and the plants that support it!
In our first article, we talked about the legends and truths behind the witches’ flights, their brooms and ointments, and the tricky chemistry that practice entailed.
In our second article, we discussed Eastern legends of gravity-defiance, including flying [...]

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 [...]

Upcoming Lecture : Body, Spirit and Soul

Later this month, I will be presenting a lecture at the International Alchemy Conference in Los Angeles, October 23-25. The title is “Body, Spirit, and Soul: an Alchemical Philosophy of Nature”, and we will be discussing the three levels of being in Alchemical and Spagyric philosophy as well as our own work.
Modern science and philosophy [...]

Mercury : the Spirit of Spagyrics

This level of being is often the hardest to understand, as befits its Mercurial nature, but it plays a literally vital role in our Spagyric work.
As we discussed in our previous article on the Salt level, Spagyrics works with three different aspects of being in plants, each corresponding to a level of being in us. [...]

Fall Sale : Jing Tonics (ended 1/31/10)

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.
Our three treasures sale series continues with discounts on Jing tonics, support for the life essence in its many manifestations.
Unlike Shen, which can be cultivated through meditation and [...]

Late Summer Sale : Qi Tonics (ended 10/1/09)

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.
We are continuing our Three Treasures sale series this month with a special on Qi tonics to boost your energy and vitality for the busy summer months of [...]

Salt : the Body of Spagyrics

Our new Seaweed Spagyric led us to do more research into the mineral aspect of healing plants, studying it from an herbal perspective as well as working out how to best bring the mineral content of plants into Spagyric medicines. This got us thinking about the Salt level of being in Spagyric work, and wanting [...]

Boneset : new Spagyric for Flu

Although the most recent flu scare has passed, we realize there will always be newly-worrisome diseases to be aware of and prepared for. During this last scare, we did a great deal of research into herbal anti-virals and flu treatments, looking in particular at herbs used by the Eclectic and other natural physicians in the [...]

Seaweed : new Spagyric

We have had many requests over the years to work with seaweeds Spagyrically, and now that we live near the “garden” that they grow in (the ocean!) we have been able to work with some. The first seaweed Spagyric that we are offering is a Grapestone Spiritualized Essence, Gigartina papillata, a red seaweed with many [...]

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