Alchemical Healing: A Guide to Spiritual, Physical, and Transformational Medicine (Paperback)

~ (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

“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 Spiritwalker trilogy

)

 “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 Loving What You Do

)

"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 Transformation )

“Nicki Sully’s Alchemical Healing is a welcome addition to Chopra’s 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 )

"Nicki Scully creates an elixir that inspires us to use the powers of the heart and 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. . . . 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 Loving What You Do )

"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., author of The Unfolding Self )

Product Description

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 • 20 b&w illustrations

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.

See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Bear & Company (September 30, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591430151
• ISBN-13: 978-1591430155
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #118,083 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

  Popular in this category: (What's this?)

  #84 in

  Books > Religion & Spirituality > Earth-Based Religions > Shamanism

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a practical guide, great stories., February 7, 2004

By	Roland Barker "just one" (Kapaa, HI United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book represents an amazing feat of synthesis and inspired understanding. What Nicki Scully has created with her Alchemical Healing work, drawing from the wisdom traditions of Ancient Egypt and Native America (and others, such as Reiki and Huna) is a comprehensive and integrated school of energetic healing and transformative inner work. This is not some trendy new age amalgam, but a lifework emerging from decades of dedicated practice, life experience and intuitive inquiry. The book is filled with Nicki's amazing experiences and applications of the work, and the moving stories of how this work came to her through life experience, master teachers and spirit guides.

Most importantly, this book is a practical guide containing exercises, practices, initiations and techniques for energetic healing that anyone can do. The initiations are a key (and in my experience, rare) feature of the book- simple rituals, when followed with conscious intention, that open doors to perception and energy, as well as forge inner connections to your own totems and guides. I can say from experience that these initiations create effective channels of communication and turn on energetic capabilities that persist and become reliable tools for all kinds of inner work. If you are interested in empowering your spiritual work with practical tools that go way beyond the merely psychological, this book can hook you up. For those unfamiliar with working with inner guidance, these initiations will be a revelation to the knowledge that more and more of us are awakening to: we have wise, compassionate, loving help available to us. We have spiritual companionship and partnership available to us.

Alchemical Healing covers a broad array of topics from basic healing techniques using the Universal Life Force, the Elements, and Spirit Allies. Self-preparation for the healer, including the initiations, invocations and forgiveness- a necessary step to releasing unhealthy attachments- are all fully covered. A large chapter covering specific techniques and application of the work as well as a truly essential chapter on healing ethics to round out the basic healing course. The advanced course introduces you to Thoth's Caduceus, the non-physical element Akasha, healing with sound and music, advanced practical techniques and self-healing. The final section gives you the spiritual heart of the work, which can be summarized as guidance, gratitude, compassion and love. Further, if you wish to work more deeply with Alchemical Healing, there is a list of authorized teachers and healers at the back of the book.

Clearly, I am impressed with and highly recommend this book, especially to those dedicated to a spiritual path and healers of all kinds. I have had a long-standing relationship to this work (as one of many collaborators to it's development), and it has been of inestimable value to my path of dedication to Spirit. It is an advanced work, that while clearly and non-technically written, might be too expansive for some new to spirituality. It challenges many cultural and religious axioms, but that is part of what makes it a pithy, substantial book and not some superficial feel-good that everyone will be comfortable with. A guaranteed mind-expanding read.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars absorbing, informative guide to healing and transformation, February 19, 2004

By	walks with lions (Mariposa, CA United States) - See all my reviews

You may wish to acquaint yourself with the inspired writing of an internationally known healer, Nicki Scully. We readers find, in Alchemical Healing, clear and practical descriptions of healing methods we can ourselves learn, in order to produce seemingly miraculous results without doctors' appointments and expensive prescriptions. Nicki makes no claim that alchemical healing methods should replace traditional medical care, however, and she has found that both often work well together.

Nicki Scully's courageous journeys to gain knowledge and practical experience of ancient healing techniques -- coupled with her eagerness to share them with people who can know her and her work through her books, lectures, teachings, and guided trips to Egypt, Peru, and Tibet -- are legendary. She works with healing allies: totemic animal spirit guides, crystals, herbs, sound, the elements of fire, air, water, earth, and many others. For her there is no narrow, right way to accomplish personal transformation and healing, and there are as many ways to do so as there are individuals on the planet. She covers many, but certainly not all, and emphasizes the ones she uses most in her own practice.

Her life's work is now beautifully put forth in Alchemical Healing. It is an amazing book -- electrifying and inspiring -- from Nicki's pertinent and fascinating personal story to healings of critical illness and injury through a number of modalities. The anecdotal stories of healing are often so stirring that they had me in tears.

The healing methods are described in detail, with exercises and initiation rituals for the reader, who may well wish to become a healer after reading the first one or two chapters of the book. The steps are easy to understand and follow, with essential details emphasized to ensure the safest, most positive results for the healer and individuals receiving the healing.

I expect to keep this book within easy reach as a treasured reference and guide for the rest of my life.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting blend of healing modalities, December 9, 2003

By	Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

This interesting work combines the techniques of energy healing and shamanism with alchemical principles in order to provide a practical guide to physical treatment, psychological counselling and spiritual transformation.

Many disciplines are integrated into the author's healing modality, including Reiki, Huna, elements, symbols and archetypes, plants, crystals, sound and colour healing. Distance healing and psychic protection are also discussed.

Other interesting topics include the ethics of healing, the blending of traditions, self-healing (especially where the healer is concerned), psychic surgery and how to obtain help from the spirit realm. There are many exercises, meditations and attunements throughout the book that teach the healer or prospective healer how to access the universal life force.

Alchemical Healing is a very thorough investigation of and guide to holistic healing that provides a cohesive programme despite drawing on so many different traditions and techniques. The book contains impressive black and white illustrations and concludes with two appendices and an index.