Nicki Scully - Planetary Healing: Spirit Medicine for Global Transformation

For Luke Scully, A planetary healer of cosmic proportions

October 14, 1967 December 26, 2004

We choose to believe that Luke faced the tsunami with fearless wonder, which is how he embraced all of life, and how we will remember him.

PLANETARY HEALING

Planetary Healing offers a strategic plan to more effectively redefine the path of human evolution. The books guided shamanic journeys induce a state of calm consciousness expressed as -EEG brain activity. Its informative and nurturing insights offer readers an opportunity to actively manifest new positive and empowering futures that benefit humanity, Mother Earth, and all of life.

BRUCE H. LIPTON, PH.D., CELL BIOLOGIST AND
BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BIOLOGY OF BELIEF

One cant even begin to turn the opening pages of Planetary Healing without becoming fully engaged. The storytelling alone is magnificent, as Nicki and Mark share their personal journeys into the realm of alchemical healing. Their intention for their readers is nothing less than transformation at the deepest level. And they deliver on this promise, giving tools and practices to foster a deeply personal and planetary healing journey for each individual willing to be a catalyst of change. Theyve created a true wisdom book, fabulously interesting, inspiring, and utterly transformative.

ROSEMARY GLADSTAR, HERBALIST AND AUTHOR OF
ROSEMARY GLADSTARS FAMILY HERBAL

Nicki Scully and Mark Hallert give us tools and resources to take a quantum leap in our evolutionary intelligence as we collectively move through the narrows of planetary challenges. It especially lends itself to joining with others in going through the visualizations together.

JUSTINE WILLIS TOMS, COFOUNDER OF NEW DIMENSIONS
RADIO/MEDIA AND AUTHOR OF SMALL PLEASURES

Planetary Healing is a treasure trove of teachings and spiritual practices for transforming ourselves and the planet. Nicki Scully and Mark Hallert reach in to the wealth of their life experiences with great passion to share with us vital information for our survival. Great work!

SANDRA INGERMAN, AUTHOR OFMEDICINE FOR
THE EARTH AND AWAKENING TO THE SPIRIT WORLD

Alchemical Healing opened the gateway to individual work in shamanic healing. Now, in Planetary Healing, Nicki and Mark offer visionary processes to heal Gaia and move the planet and its spiritual transformation.

NORMANDI ELLIS, AUTHOR OFAWAKENING OSIRIS

Grab your paintbrush and set up your easel. This book is more than a museum of the past and a fantasy of the future. It is a call to action, to cocreation. Its messageDont despair; create a new realitygoes beyond the usual ways of approaching the current ecological crisis. It skillfully guides us to effective ways to enhance our relationships with ourselves, others, and our planet. Come! Add your strokes of love and healing, joy and yearning, to the canvas. Dream a future perfect. Weave a web of wholeness.

SUSUN S. WEED, AUTHOR OF WISE WOMAN HERBAL SERIES

Planetary Healing brings to life the tapestry of the inner realms as a path to conscious evolution and transformation for the self and the planet. Nicki Scully and Mark Hallert provide a rare opportunity to look into the inner workings of their spiritual journeys, sharing personal stories, rites of passage, and practical tools that inspire and invite the reader to awaken the healer, visionary, and mystic within.

DANIELLE RAMA HOFFMAN, AUTHOR OF THE TEMPLES OF LIGHT

Nicki Scully and Mark Hallert are authentic loving examples as true planetary healers and visionaries. Their fierce compassion and loyal dedication to their work together has carried them through many powerful shamanic journeys on the path and has led them to an ultimate truth that permeates the pages of this book.... Their Spirit Medicine is a soothing balm for a troubled world that is finally ready to remember that the healer lives within all of our hearts.

LINDA STAR WOLF, AUTHOR OFVISIONARY
SHAMANISM AND SHAMANIC BREATHWORK

Acknowledgments

Mark and I give blessings and gratitude for each other every day of our lives. We are deeply appreciative of each other and of the amazing process of creativity with which we have been gifted.

First we would like to give thanks to Inner Traditions, Bear & Co., and especially Jon Graham for holding space and giving us continued encouragement for this project ever since Alchemical Healing was published in 2003.

Deep gratitude goes to our editors, Mindy Branstetter and Jaya Walsh. With your care and thoughtful attention to details and clarity, you have transformed our rough-cut stone into a lustrous jewel.

During the twenty-five-plus years we have compiled material, there were countless people who helped and supported us in the creation of this book, including students all over the world, other Alchemical Healing teachers who contributed, our staff over the years, and our family and friends who tended us and gave us space to do the writing during times when their attention could have been spent on other, equally pressing matters. This includes (but is not limited to) Jeya Aerenson, Roland Barker, Anita Bermont, Gloria Taylor Brown, Bo Clark, Normandi Ellis, Christine Fehling, David Groode, Steve Harter, Charla Hermann, Julie Knouse, Liisa Korpela, Dea Lisk, Tanya Priest, Kathryn Ravenwood, Chris Tice, Kay Cordell Whitaker, Imani White, and many other of our friends and cohorts.

Particular thanks to David Groode and Gloria Taylor Brownyour keen vision ever on the ballyou kept reminding us of the importance of this book. Toward the end, it was Gloria who showed up and helped us put our records in order, a task that required way more skill in organization than either Mark or I possess. Thank you again, Gloria.

Indigo Ronlov responded when I called for help, my back too impaired to continue at the computer, and became my scribe for several months, assisting me to prepare the first draft to send to Inner Traditions International. Thank you.

When Diana Wells came to work for us, little did we know how much her skill and experience as an editor would help us to prepare and format the manuscript. Thank you Diana.

Once the first draft was completed, I tentatively showed it to Joan Borysenko, Normandi Ellis, Drs. Mitch and Lori Stargrove, Elizabeth Emmons, and Dr. Reuben Paul Wolff. I offer gratitude to them for their comments, suggestions, and enthusiasm.

Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., graciously discussed Intelligent Evolution with us in chapter 18 and offered additional information, explanations, and studies cited, helping to bring our DNA and cell biology science up to date. Thank you.

When I needed a song to go with the Making Spirit Medicine ceremonial journey, Alexa MacDonald wrote the music and lyrics, went out on the road with me to perform it, then recorded it for the CD that appears with this book. The music was produced and created by Roland Barker. Deepest appreciation for the fine work you both did.

We wish to give our extra special heartfelt thanks to all the spirit guides, animal totems, plant allies, ancestors, and deities that gave their gifts and guidance in support of this book. And finally, to Thoth, our primary teacher and muse, we say, Thank you.

SPECIAL NOTE TO READERS

Although this book suggests experiences that can result in healing, it is not meant to give exact recommendations for specific illnesses, either physical or emotional. This book explores a variety of alternative possibilities that are meant to be used as adjunctive approaches to conventional modalities and are not intended to replace recognized therapies or medical diagnosis and treatment. It is suggested that readers approach these guided journey meditations with caution, for they, as with any deep explorations of the psyche, can sometimes catalyze emotional states of intensity.