Combines shamanism, alchemy, and energy medicine to create a unique healing modality • Explores how to turn the base substance of who you are--the dark mystery of your subconscious--into the alchemical gold of knowledge and enlightenment • Includes techniques of distant healing and working with power animals and plant, mineral, and elemental spirits • Shows how to utilize the Universal Life Force to reawaken inherent healing abilities Alchemical Healing brings together innovative techniques of shamanism and energetic healing with the principles of alchemy, creating a practical form of physical healing, therapeutic counseling, and spiritual growth. The author provides ways to integrate spirit and matter, to develop communications between divinity and humanity, to retrieve knowledge, and to influence physical reality in order to achieve healing and transformation. With simple directions, readers are guided through attunements and empowerments that access the Universal Life Force energy and a five-element system for healing themselves and others. They learn powerful techniques, such as psychic surgery, distant healing, and how to work with power animals and plant, mineral, and elemental spirit guides. Alchemical Healing presents a sacred journey into the most profound principles and mysteries of creation. It offers both an art form and a spiritual path that develops one’s ability to co-create the future with the wisdom of the spirit world. “Richly detailed with experiential methodology and esoteric wisdom, Nicki Scully’s Alchemical Healing illuminates the path of the modern medicine woman in these times of tremendous change. A great read!” ― Hank Wesselman, Ph.D., anthropologist and author of The Journey to the Sacred Garden and the Spiritw “In Alchemical Healing, Nicki Scully creates an elixir that inspires us to use the power of the heart and the power of spiritual healing for our lives and the health of others. I loved it!” ― Sandra Ingerman, author of Soul Retrieval and Medicine for the Earth “Nicki Scully is not just ‘talking about’ alchemical healing, she has lived it. She is a master translator of a myriad of healing systems and generously empowers us to awaken to our own inherent healing abilities.” ― Justine Toms, cofounder of New Dimensions Radio and coauthor of True Work: Doing What You Love and L " Alchemical Healing presents a sacred journey into the most profound principles and mysteries of creation." ― Leading Edge Review, Fall 2003 "Her book is a valuable resource for anyone looking to heal both self and planet." ― Paul Andrews, Whole Life Times, October 2003, Vol. 25 No. 10 "Stories of rock and roll and shamanism weave through this comprehensive and clear guidebook to healing yourself and others." ― Whole Life Times, February 2004, Vol. 26 No. 2 "I highly reccomend this book. . . . Nicki Scully's teachings can awaken the divine force in you." ― Susan Dobra, Magical Blend's Natural Beauty & Health, February 2004, Issue 91 “Artist, philosopher, traveler, alchemist, and healer, Nicki Scully has healed herself and brought the light of healing to everyone around her. Alchemical Healing is rich and whole-hearted, practical and inspiring. I could not put it down.” ― Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., author of Shaman, Healer, Sage “A lifetime of wisdom breathes inside these pages. If you could read a book that would change and charge and heal your life, wouldn’t you? Nicki Scully has the Rx. She’s got the mojo. This is the book.” ― Normandi Ellis, author of Awakening Osiris: The Egyptian Book of the Dead “Here is a masterful work that provides clear instructions as to once and future ways of healing self, other, and planet. Here is alchemy at its best and most comprehensive. The reader is charged with delight in new possibilities growing out of ancient knowings. Scully gives us a book that is to be savored as well as used.” ― Jean Houston, Ph.D., author of Jump Time and A Mythic Life “Nicki Scully is one of most innovative healers on the planet. In Alchemical Healing , she shares what she has learned about physical and spiritual transformation. The information and concepts are supplemented with exercises, meditations, and visualizations that serve to put them to immediate use. The anecdotes are helpful, and bring a touch of humanity and humor into this fascinating brew.” ― Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., co-author Extraordinary Dreams and How to Use Them “ Alchemical Healing is a living bridge to ancient wisdom, a golden gift to all who would begin the Great Work of personal and global transformation. Using the terminology and operations of alchemy, Nicki Scully presents a bona fide and universal system of initiation and healing.” ― Dennis William Hauck, alchemist and author of The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy for Personal Transformatio “Nicki Sully’s Alchemical Healing is a welcome addition to Chopra’s Quantum Healing and deals specifically and forcibly with new insi