the Cultural Alchemy of Lovevolution: Shamanatrix Missy Galore reporting on the 2009 International Alchemy Conference

Attending the International Alchemy Conference in Los Angeles last fall, was truly a healing experience! In the same way that informational medicine is the future of healing (sending new information to areas in the body that are poorly performing so as to re-inform our cells of their true capacity), so too is the Cultural Alchemy of Lovevolution: healing society by redefining our relationship to ourselves and the world we live in. Alchemy provides insight and information to realign our heart and mind with the divine, showing the interconnection of all life, spirit, mind, and matter.

“As above so below” is the most famous Alchemist saying I know. Ahead of the curve, Alchemists intrinsically understood the fractal nature of the universe centuries before the concept of fractals was ever articulated. Turning lead into gold is their most famous experiment. The superficial read is materialistic, but, that misses the main point of Alchemy’s mission: transformation and purification; in understanding the way the material world works, we gain understanding of ourselves; in transmuting lead to gold, the Alchemist synchronously purifies her/his soul!

Considered from the physical standpoint” alchemy is “the attempt to demonstrate experimentally on the material plane the validity of a certain philosophical view of the Cosmos” writes H. Stanley Redgrove in his book Alchemy Ancient + Modern. ”Alchemists always speak of their Art as a Divine Gift, the highest secrets of which are not to be learnt from any books on the subject; and they invariably teach that the right mental attitude with regard to God is the first step necessary for the achievement of the magnum opus.’

The Cultural Alchemy of Lovevolution is being created with the positive intentions of Seekers, Sages, Alchemists, Artists, Economists, Healers, Physicists, Business and more; all working to co-create Lovevolution from their unique perspective

The 2009 International Alchemy Conference, produced by the International Alchemy Guild with the Modern Mystery School @L.A.’s convention center, was the largest gathering of Alchemists in more than 500 years. “With movies like The Secret and What the Bleep? providing captivating glimpses behind the mysteries of life, the Third Annual Alchemy Conference, continued the quest for knowledge by assembling a field of internationally renowned experts for lectures, workshops, demonstrations, networking and discussions behind the positive changes afoot all around us” says Dennis Hauck, co-president of the International Alchemy Guild and conference founder. “The Turba Philosophorum ("Assembly of the Alchemical Philosophers") is an influential twelfth-century Latin manuscript that brought together the best thinkers and the key concepts of the alchemical tradition in a single volume. The International Alchemy Conference carries on that tradition.”

We all know the story of Issac Newton under the apple tree, gathering his scientific insights thru meditative stillness in connection to G*d, but did you know that he wrote more on Alchemy than any other subject? Though closeted during his lifetime due to the persecution of Alchemy’s followers, we now know Issac Newton as perhaps the most famous Alchemists that ever lived.

As we approach peak oil, 2012, the end of the Mayan Calendar and the direct alignment of Earth with the black hole in the center of our galaxy, we all feel the world changing. “I believe that we are living in a special moment in human history,” says keynote speaker Chilean economist, Dr Alfredo Sfeir-Younis. “The challenge is to shift and question is where shall we shift? We need to get out today from a number of fallacies like: economic growth now, environment later; lets have more wealth and do social justice later. This alchemy is defunct and this conference should come and let the world know that we are creating a new alchemy of collective destiny: from an individualistic, materialistic stance, to look at humanity in a collective way. We need to move from the material to the spiritual.” It is this Alchemical spell I call the Cultural Alchemy of Lovevolution, where science, spirituality, and philosophy all agree, its time we transmute ourselves, transform society and live in peace and love.

“That’s what we need” says Theresa Ibis conference organizer and Teacher at the Modern Mystery School. “We need everybody playing their part, because its not gonna happen from expecting our governments to be the ones to do it for us. We have to do it! If we want to create that Shambhala and that golden age, it is about every single person who has a purpose on this planet, and Every single one of You do, to Awaken to that! to remember what that is and to Be that change You seek, to give your gift to the world!”

The combination of information seeded infinite inspiration. It was amazing to experience the interdisciplinary confluence of Wisdom calling us to action in a Cultural Alchemy of Lovevolution where one moves beyond isolating individualism to understand themselves anew as a unique part of a giant whole including all scales and dimensions of life in the universe: Many luminaries believe we are evolving into homo luminous, a more spiritually grounded balanced version of homo sapiens. In Alchemy, science, spirituality, and philosophy all agree -- its time we work on ourselves to heal society and live in peace, joy and love.

Throughout the weekend the resounding call to action, empowering all people to live their truth and engage their personal power to create the best NOW one can imagine, nurtured all present. It is time this mission went worldwide! May the Culture Alchemy of Lovevoltion catalyze our daily lives as the Hopi prophesize “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for”
The Cultural Alchemy of Lovevolution needs You!


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