Scully - Alchemical Healing

For my beloved husband, Mark Hallert, who shares with me a magical partnership that is forever in service to the healing of our blessed Mother Earth, and All Our Relations.

Into my alchemical vessel I set my intention to create this book, and the various ingredients began to reveal themselves. Many people provided contributions without which this book would never have been completed, and for which I am deeply grateful.

The special influence and knowledge of a number of teachers were initially poured into my sacred cauldron: among them were Nadia Eagles, Martin High Bear, Oh Shinnah, Bethel Phaigh, and Rolling Thunder. The prima materia was retrieved with the help of Brian ODea.

Eye of newt and toe of dragon were provided by many teachers and seers extraordinaire, including Roland Barker, Gloria Taylor Brown, Bo Clark, Dr. Christine Fehling-Joss, David Groode, Charla Hermann, Christine Payne Towler, Mira Sophia, Chris Tice, Kay Cordell Whitaker, Imani White, and Reuben Wolff.

As I continued to stir the cauldron, other magi helped me hold the container as other ingredients were added. These include the entire Thoth Lineage, with special support and input from Anita Bermont, Kalita Todd Contasino, Gayle Clayton, Danielle Hoffman, Liisa Korpella, Bambi Merryweather, Joan Porter, Kathryn Ravenwood, and Laura Strobel.

When the moon waxed full and the stars aligned, the editorial input of Tina Rosa and Christine Coulter helped the mixture to coalesce. The great wordsmith, Normandi Ellis, then tasted the brew; she shared her arcane knowledge and helped me to craft the body of the text.

A number of people sampled the first essence, and their contributions helped to purify and refine the distillation, and pushed me to make it better: Jay Moore, Ben Emmons, Elizabeth Hallert, Dennis William Hauck, Gary Leikas, Sharon Sinclair, Friedemann Schaub, M.D., Ph.D. and others who are previously mentioned.

Color and spice were added with the illustrations of Scott Fray, and the beautiful cover painting of Isis by Willow Arlenea.

No work of alchemy is complete without the infusion of Spirit, for which I have to thank my extensive healing team: Comfrey and all the plant medicine allies, Bear, the Crone, Cobra, Kuan Yin, Anubis, Sekhmet, Isis, Spider and all the spirit guides and helpers who have upheld Alchemical Healing and assisted in the healing work.

Two sorceresses from Inner Traditions Bear & Co., project editor Laura Schlivek and copy editor Victoria SantAmbrogio, stepped up to the cauldron and with their own ladles stirred, shaped, and molded, and, as the earth shook and the black dog howled, we pulled forth this book.

My husband Mark Hallert, the true visionary in the family, touched every page with his insight.

And finallywords cannot convey my appreciation for my mentor and teacher, Thoth, the true architect of Alchemical Healing. It is my heartfelt prayer that these pages express the truth of his wisdom.

PRAISE FOR ALCHEMICAL HEALING

Nicky Scully presents a detailed, very useful compendium of transformational practices from the esoteric alchemical traditions. A wise and wonderful book to be savored, sure to bring great benefits to those who practice and apply these methods.

RALPH METZNER, PH.D., PSYCHOLOGIST,

AUTHOR OF THE UNFOLDING SELF

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, wouldnt you? Nicki Scully has the Rx. Shes 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 and includes excercises, meditations, and visualizations that serve to put the information to immediate use.

STANLEY KRIPPNER, PH.D., CO-AUTHOR OF

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 TRANSFORMATION

Nicki Sullys Alchemical Healing is a welcome addition to Chopras Quantum Healing and deals specifically and forcibly with new insights based on ancient wisdom on just what you need to do to let the healing process occur.

FRED ALAN WOLF, PH.D.,

AUTHOR OF MATTER INTO FEELING:

A NEW ALCHEMY OF SCIENCE AND SPIRIT

High praise for Nicki and this excellent book! Nicki, herself a healed-healer, brings to this offering her experience, wisdom, and personal passion for creatively addressing all forms of dis-ease, along with a fierce dedication to supporting others in the process of awakening and developing their healing hearts and hands. This is a powerful and timely book that supports resolution of the challenging issues of our time through our own offering of healing to All Our Relations.

BROOKE MEDICINE EAGLE,

AUTHOR OF BUFFALO WOMAN COMES SINGING AND

THE LAST GHOST DANCE

Nicki Scully may well be one of the great alchemical practitioners of our time. A medical intuitive, teacher, and healer, in Alchemical Healing she shares her own fascinating healing journey, then in step-by-step journeys, initiations, and exercises, provides readers with the tools necessary for using this ancient system of healing. A truly remarkable book that enables the reader to not only understand but to practice alchemical healing.

ROSEMARY GLADSTAR, HERBALIST,

AUTHOR OF HERBAL HEALING FOR WOMAN AND

FOUNDER OF UNITED PLANT SAVERS

HEALING IS BY NATURE an alchemical process. With clear intention and resolve, we can use our adverse situations to help us grow spiritually, emotionally, and even physically, which opens up a myriad of possibilities regarding how we choose to live our lives and how we relate to one another and the world.

All people have inherent healing abilities that, for the most part, are not recognized or acknowledged in our culture. Although our population has burgeoned since the industrial revolution and the advent of modern medical technology, many of the simple, effective, and free or easily affordable cures have been lost and largely forgotten. Western culture suffered a severe setback in this regard during the Inquisition, when healers were considered heretics and burned at the stake. In our rush for freedom in the New World, we assumed that the original inhabitants of this land were primitives, and in our arrogance, laid waste to thousands of years of cultural and spiritual development that had preceded us here. Regardless of our race or where we came from, most of us have been cut off from the wisdom of our ancestors for so long that we need help to remember ourselves. It is time to reclaim the power and pathways to knowledge that are buried deep within our psyches and our DNA. Within us dwell all the memories of our ancestors, and the ability to more fully comprehend new mysteries bursting forth from our unfolding universe. We are all mystics and sages waiting to remember what weve misplaced.