Just as our Brothers and Sisters in the East, Western Adepts have devised a set of disciplined practices and meditations designed to draw the seeker of truth ever inward and upward, and bring about the inner spiritual regeneration of our being and enhancement of our senses.
These practices also parallel the vision quest of indigenous peoples of North and South America. The Western Initiate makes use of the spiritual connections between terrestrial and celestial objects, especially between plants and the planets. The herbal preparations used in Alchemical Gnosis do not contain psychoactive compounds that work through the chemistry of the body to bring about interior sight. Yet these herbal preparations do allow the user to safely and consciously enter the spirit world, and experience its reality and share in its knowledge and inspiration.
Instead of throwing the aspirant into the sometimes life-threatening explosion of hallucinogenic illumination, alchemical medicines of the soul set up a nocturnal astral dialogue between the seeker and their Inner Master.
Alchemical Gnosis is the process of using Alchemical Medicines of the Soul with conscious intent, within the paradigm of Hermetic philosophy, with the goal of stimulating the development of the human body's spiritual energy centers, in order to establish knowledge of, and communication with, your Inner Master.
These specially prepared alchemical substances help facilitate your inner journey. They will not do the work for you. Many people are offering quick fix and instantaneous results in this or that new method. As legions that have gone before you have experienced, their effectiveness leaves just as instantly. Alchemy is a life process and life takes time to bloom to perfection. Even a child prodigy that amazes everyone with whatever spectacular gift they posses must practice and work to hone and refine that which is latent within them. Even the instantaneous miracle of alchemical transmutation has behind it years of labor and experiment necessary to attain the final event.