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ROBERT ALLEN BARTLETT is a practicing alchemist and author. A natural born scientist, Robert's interest in geology and the sciences in general prompted him to construct his own home laboratory when only 9 years old. Roberts interest in the ancient use of natural materials lead him to the study of alchemical works at the age of 12, and it has become his lifelong passion. In 1974, he left San Jose State University to pursue an intensive course of alchemical study at the Paracelsus Research Society (later Paracelsus College) under the guidance of Dr. Albert Reidel (Frater Albertus). During this time, Robert lived in central Idaho where he performed personal research on botanical materials and worked underground mining antimony (an important alchemical resource). By 1976, at the prompting of Frater Albertus, Robert returned to college at Boise State University to complete his degree in chemistry with the view of working at the newly formed Paralab, a commercial offshoot of Paracelsus College. During this time Robert was also employed as a geochemical assayer for the mining industry. In 1979, he received his B.S. degree chemistry and immediately began work at Paralab as Chief Chemist. Working closely with Frater Albertus, Robert developed a wide range of mineral and metallic preparations following Western and Eastern alchemical traditions for applications in alternative health care. Later, he was selected by Frater Albertus to become a Director of Research at Tristar, the future vision of Frater Albertus which would combine the Paracelsus College, Paralab, and a Healing Arts Center into one complex. Unfortunately with the death of Frater Albertus in 1984, both the college and Paralab closed its doors and the Tristar dream was never realized. Robert’s pursuit of alchemical research never diminished, as he continued his chemistry career as a research scientist for new ceramic materials, then later as the Chemistry Department Manager for a large materials testing laboratory. In this new environment, he was able to document and perfect alchemical experiments using the very latest in scientific instrumentation. Robert is currently living in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and two daughters where he has been teaching classes and giving workshops on practical alchemy since 2002. He has currently been working closely with Bastyr University in Kenmore Washington, presenting Herbal and Medical Alchemy to the Community. He is an instructor with Flamel College and will be presenting the Spagyrics Workshop at the conference. He also produces a line of spagyric and homeopathic mineral salts under the Terre Vitae label, as well as the Eagleheart spagyric tincture line, taking over for Paul Randak. He has produced two books, Real Alchemy, a Primer of Practical Alchemy, and his latest, The Way of the Crucible. Both books available at www.LuLu.com. His website is www.RealAlchemy.org.
PHIL
CAMPBELL and ANNIE ARONSON
have decades of
musical and spiritual experience, including alchemy, astrology, drumming, magick,
music, tai chi, tao, tarot, yoga. Their workshops have been enthusiastically
received at the Ancient Ways Festival, San Francisco Free Folk Festival and
other venues. Their band is called "Hobbyhorse," and their music often carries
alchemical meaning. For instance, their song "Fire and Snow" is about Moll Dyer,
a woman who was persecuted as a witch in Leonardtown, Maryland back in the late
1600's. According to legend, Moll Dyer was a mysterious woman who lived alone
and had knowledge of herbal healing. During a harsh winter, the townspeople
became suspicious of her and accused her of being a witch. They came to her door
one night and set her house on fire. Moll fled to the nearby woods. She
collapsed on a rock, balanced one hand upon it, and raised the other while
calling a curse down upon the town. A young boy found her the next day. On the
rock was burned an impression of her hand and knee. In 1975, a historian located
the site where her house may have been. Not far away was a large 875 pound
boulder with what looked like the marks of Moll's hand and knee. Our song brings
to life Moll's last moments when she is trapped between the extreme elements of
fire and snow. Phil is currently an alchemy student at Flamel College. The
Alchemical Secrets of Music Workshop is taught by Phil and Annie. Read an
Interview with Phil. Read an
Interview with Annie. Email:
annie@hobbyhorsemusic.com.
More music and information is available at
www.hobbyhorsecafe.com.
DR. THOM CAVALLI (Ph.D.) is a practicing Jungian psychologist, writer, artist and teacher. He is a member of the Alchemy Guild and the Hermetic Society. Dr. Cavalli’s breakthrough book, Alchemical Psychology, Old Recipes for Living in the New World (Putnam 2002), has become available in Europe, South America and recently, in Korea. Thom received his doctorate in psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego in August 1979. His dissertation work was a phenomenological study of the trickster archetype, alchemy and the use of mind-altering drugs. The theme of his dissertation was condensed and published in ARCHE in an article entitled The Cosmology of Chance. Dr. Cavalli has been in private clinical practice for over twenty-five years. In that time he has been licensed as a psychologist, family therapist and a Qualified Medical Examiner. He has provided many seminars and workshops to religious, magical, academic and community groups on Jungian and Alchemical topics. Organizations that have sponsored Dr. Cavalli’s presentations include the first International Alchemy Conference, the Esalen Institute, the Philosophical Research Society, the University of California at Irvine, the California Graduate Institute, the Scottsdale Center for the Arts, the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, the Bowers Museum and the American Psychological Association. He has appeared on national television, interviewed by an independent filmmaker at the Alchemy conference in Prague, and recorded on radio at the University of California, Irvine. Recently back from exploring the major mythic sites of ancient Egypt, Thom is currently working on a new book that explores the Egyptian God of the Dead, Osiris, the god’s myth and alchemical meaning. For further information, visit his website, www.AlchemicalPsychology.com. His office is located in Santa Ana, California where he can be reached by calling 714.731-3238 or email at illavac@hotmail.com.
DR.
PRADHEEP CHHALLIYIL is a
biochemist who
works as a senior scientist at Genetic-ID Inc., which develops techniques to
detect genetically modified organisms in food. He
received his doctoral degree in cancer biology, and is known for
identifying a novel anti-cancer compound from the plant Cleistanthus
collinus. This important discovery was patented. In 1997, and Dr.
Chhalliyil was the
recipient of the Anna Gold Award for the best cancer research in India.
He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute
in Buffalo, New York, and then moved to Genetic-ID Inc. in Fairfield, Iowa, where
he
lives with his wife Priya and son Pranav. He is the author of Journey
to the Source,
a book about decoding the matrix trilogy (www.matrixjourney.com).
He is also the founder of the Sakthi Foundation (www.rightawareness.com).
He lectures at various conferences on
consciousness studies and focues on
combining both ancient and
modern scientific knowledge. His recent talk at
Yale University was well received by the academic community. (http://www.sacaaa.org/SAC%202008%20Proposed%20Program.pdf).
Email:
pradheepkumar@hotmail.com.
DR.
BRUCE FISHER (Ph.D.)
worked as a professional chemist and college professor for 40 years,
having received a B.S degree in chemistry at the University of
Pennsylvania in 1952 and a Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry from M.I.T
in 1957. His professional accomplishments include the development of a
new artificial kidney dialysis membrane, as well as several new
synthetic polymers and specialty elastomer compounds, for which he
received numerous patents. He also worked at the Advanced Research
Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense in the area of
ballistic missile defense and reentry phenomenology. He retired in 1995
to devote his energies to teaching, lecturing, and writing on
philosophic and metaphysical topics, and is the author of over 20 books
covering such diverse topics as spiritual alchemy, kabbalah, occult
anatomy, St.-Germain, Pythagorean numerology, the Gurdjieff teachings
and music as the expression of the soul. Several of his books are in
Joost Ritman’s Biblioteca Hermetica in Amsterdam. He has been a student
of the ancient wisdom teachings for over 30 years, and has the unique
ability to integrate Eastern mysticism and Western occultism with modern
scientific views. He was for five years a regular lecturer at the
Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, founded by Manly P. Hall,
as well as involvement in several Rosicrucian organizations. He resides
in Prescott, Arizona with his wife, Suzanne, who is also a teacher and
student of music and metaphysics.
http://myweb.cableone.net/subru
JOHN
MICHAEL GREER is one of the world’s leading Hermeticists and
author of more than a dozen books on the Western mystery traditions. He
began studying with the Golden Dawn in his teens and followed the
"golden thread" of esoteric teachings into a wide range of subjects from
martial arts and Asian mystical traditions to environmental science and
sacred geometry. John graduated magna cum laude from the
University of Washington with a degree in the Comparative History of
Ideas, and his first book Paths of Wisdom: Cabala and the Western
Tradition was released by Llewellyn in 1996. Believing that many
modern esoteric groups had lost contact with sacred Nature, he began
studying in the Druid tradition and is now the Grand Archdruid of the
Ancient Order of Druids in America. He is also a
practicing geomancer and devout student of
sacred geometry. Among his many books are Inside A Magical
Lodge, Earth Divination & Earth Magic: A Practical Guide to
Geomancy, Natural Magic, The Encyclopedia of Natural Magic,
The New Encyclopedia of the Occult, Learning High Magic,
Druidry: A Green Way of Wisdom, and Encyclopedia of Secret
Societies. Interview at
www.twpt.com/johnmichaelgreer.htm.
Email:
info@aoda.org.
Website:
www.AODA.org.
DENNIS
WILLIAM HAUCK
is a
practicing alchemist, author, consultant, and lecturer
working to facilitate personal, institutional, and global
transformation through the application of the ancient principles of
alchemy. He writes and lectures on the universal principles of physical,
psychological, and spiritual transformation to a wide variety of audiences
that range from scientists and business leaders to religious and New Age
groups. Hauck's initiation into alchemy took place while he was in
graduate school in mathematics at the University of Vienna, and he has
since translated a number of important Latin and German alchemy
manuscripts dating back to the fourteenth century. A gifted speaker on
Hermetic and esoteric subjects, Hauck has been
interviewed on nearly three hundred radio and TV programs including such
popular national shows as "NPR's Morning Edition," "Sally Jessy
Raphael," "Geraldo," "Art Bell's Dreamland," "CNN Reports," and "Extra."
An instructor in the Alchemy Home Study Program, Dennis has initiated over 300 students
into the ancient art. His latest books are The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy for Personal Transformation
and Sorcerer's Stone: A Beginner's Guide to Alchemy.
His latest work The Complete Idiot's Guide to Alchemy is due out
from Penguin in April 2008. He is currently working on a full translation of Gottlieb Latz' epic
work Alchimia and First Matter, a revealing study of the
mysterious "essential ingredient" in all alchemical work. Websites:
www.AlchemyLab.com,
www.Alchemergy.com, and
www.AlchemyCode.com.
ART KUNKIN was
the editor of Essentia, the quarterly alchemical journal of the
Paracelsus Research Society in the 1980s. After completing the seven
year alchemy course in Salt Lake City with Frater Albertus, Art became
president of a mining company and then, after the passing of Manly P.
Hall, became president of The Philosophical Research Society in Los
Angeles. He is a former Professor of Journalism at the Northridge campus
of California State University. Art founded the Los Angeles Free
Press in 1964 and has edited it since then. He has edited many other
publications including Whole Life Times, The Realist and Ancient
Wisdom For Modern Living. Art has studied meditation with Tibetan
Buddhists and Tibetan alchemists, Islamic Sufis, Hindu Yogis, Jewish
Kabbalists, Gurdjieff groups, Hawaiian Kahunas and Christian Mystics for
more than 40 years. For five years in the late 70s he was co-partner
with Andrew DaPassano of "The Way of The Magus" meditation school in Los
Angeles, which at its peak taught a Tibetan alchemical meditation to 300
students every week. Art has visited the laboratories of alchemists in
many European cities. He presently is on the advisory board of The
Institute of Mentalphysics, a 400 acre meditation retreat in Joshua
Tree, California. Art is the author of the eBook, Alchemy: The Secret
Of Life Extension, the contents of which are detailed on
his website:
www.alchemyrevealed.com.
The website also includes a Gnosis magazine interview with Art titled
"Practical Alchemy and Physical Immortality" as well as an excerpt from
the Time-Life book "Secrets of The Alchemists" about Art's laboratory
work. Art can be reached at
artkunkin@gmail.com
and 760-333-5416. He is interested in coordinating research on the
Secret Fire and the three forms of The Philosopher's Stone (Herbal,
Mineral, and Animal Stones) and would welcome inquiries on those subjects.
Andrew Minkin studied alchemy at the Rose-Croix University at age 21 and was Publicity Director for the Philosophical Research Society under Art Kunkin. Andrew is the architect of Archaeus Design Systems, applying 21st century tools to the traditions of antiquity. He has spoken at the Master Astrologers community in Southern California and has studied several different astrological traditions. He has a degree in the History of Religions form Pomona College.
John H. Reid III is
a practicing alchemist who studied with Hans
W. Nintzel and Russell House. From a young
age, John was fascinated with the sciences
and occult subjects. He was trained as a
Medical Laboratory Technologist by the U.S.
Air Force, after his tour of duty john
worked as a baker, photographer, and
phlebotomist. He has been a practicing
spiritual and practical laboratory alchemist
for over 20 years. His first book "The Minor
Opus" was aground breaking presentation of
the actual alchemical process used in making
a plant stone that exactly followed the
phenomenological descriptions given by the
old masters as to the changes of the
philosophical matter undergoes during its
gestation. This text of the book was later
placed on the web on Adam Mcleans alchemy
website (www.alchemywebsite.com/johnreid.html)
to serve as a basis for a course in
practical plant alchemy for thousands of
people from around the world. "The Minor
Opus" has been translated into the German
and Czech languages with a Spanish edition
to come out in the near future. Johns second
book Alchemical Gnosis Yoga of the West
found at
www.AlchemicalGnosis.com gave detailed
instructions on how to use the products made
in "The Minor Opus" to increase ones
spiritual evolution. See interview with John
Reid at
http://www.triad-publishing.com/stone19a.html.
John currently lives in upstate New York on
a farm where he grows many of the herbs used
in making his plant stones and where he
maintains his large alchemical laboratory.
He also teaches alchemy classes through
Spagyria, Inc. Institute of Parachemistry
found at
www.Spagyria.com and sells his plant
stones and other spagyric/alchemical
products through
www.GoldenVessels.com John may be
reached by writing to info@spagyria.com ,
spagyria@GoldenVessels.com, or by calling
845-789-1264.
Duane
Saari
is an
alchemist and member of the International Alchemy Guild. He is the past editor
of the Alchemy Journal, an online publication dedicated to revealing the
contributions of alchemy to all dimensions of our lives. Duane has been a seeker
of the meaning of life from a very young age. This journey took him through
several careers including teaching, consulting and management to sacred and
energy grid sites in the United States, Europe, Egypt, as well as tribal
villages in Papua New Guinea and the Philippines. His initiation into alchemy
however began with a life changing experience in 1977 while a member of a TORI
community. Since that time, Duane, has completed an alchemical apprenticeship
with a practicing alchemist, researched the history of alchemy and conducted
workshops on the application of alchemy principles to our everyday world. He is
currently writing a book that explores what alchemy can tell us about the earth
changes currently taking place. His company, Ouroboros Cycle, applies the
process of continuous creative renewal to the transformation of our personal and
organizational lives. Duane is the Master of Ceremonies for the 2008 Alchemy
Conference. He can be contacted at
DuaneSaari@hotmail.com.
GARY
STADLER is an alchemical
artist who weaves his magic in many
ways. He is a professional craftsman
and glassblower and designer of
original distillation equipment. He
also reproduces many of the medieval
alchemists’ glassware, including
retorts, alembics, and pelicans.
His alchemy pieces are featured at
www.Crucible.org/distillation.htm, and his
essential oil distillers range from tabletop home
units to giant commercial units.
Gary is also an alchemical
architect/artist as demonstrated in
his amazing Inner Mind
exhibit at Burning Man that can be
seen at
www.Heartmagic.com/inner_mind.html. But perhaps Gary is best known as a
New Age composer and lyricist. His
songs have been described as a page
from a fairytale book, evoking both
a delicate and delightful innocence
and the deep wisdom and mystical
grandeur of the fairy night. His
premier album, Fairy of the Woods
is a collection of enchanted
Celtic compositions that brings
legends and myths of Fairy folk to
life. Vocalist Laura Drew (also
known as Singh Kaur or Lorallei)
lent her voice to Stadler's 1998
album Fairy Nightsongs. In
2000, Gary began working with singer
Stephannie and the well-known Celtic
Harpist Lisa Lynne for his third
album Fairy Heartmagic, which
was the Runner Up in the World Title
category at the International New
Age Trade Show in 2001. Gary¹s
fourth album, Reflections of
Faerie, was released in 2003,
and his fifth album, released in
2004, is a collaboration with
harpist Lisa Lynne and vocalist
Wendy Rule. His most recent releases
are the instrumental Fairy
lullabies and Sounds of the
Soul, a meditative/spiritual
piece. More on his music can be
found at
www.Rhapsody.com/garystadler. Website:
www.Heartmagic.com
TIMOTHY
"KC" WILKERSON graduated the
Prima class at Paracelsus College in Salt Lake City in 1984 under the guidance
of Dr. Riedel (Frater Albertus). Since then he has endeavored to refine his
herbal alchemical artistry entirely on his own. He is the lab manager and sole
alchemist with the fledgling company Laughing Lady Bug Botanicals. Their goal is
to make herbal spagyrics, as well as other herbal products, available to the
public. Plans are also being considered to open a practical laboratory teaching
facility in Southern Indiana.
Here is a personal statement from KC: "The
Paracelsus College closed shortly after Frater Albertus crossed the veil. Since
then I've been forging along with my alchemical experiments for 20 years, mostly
on my own. In all that time I only met one person who had any idea of what I was
talking about regarding alchemy. It's always been my dream to make
spagyrics available to the public. I tried to start a company in 1988, and again
in 2003, but I couldn't get the financial backing I was looking for. I couldn't
find anyone who understood the benefits of herbal spagyrics. Now, with this
conference, suddenly I'm among people who believe in the work and who are
actively pursuing the hermetic path. The work is no longer a guarded secret. I
feel this will help to educate society and bring in more people interested in
the work." Website:
www.LaughingLadyBug.com
ALCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE ARTISTS
MORGANNE
BAUM has
been teaching, playing, and studying various drums for over 15 years,
including African, Middle Eastern, Celtic, & Japanese Taiko techniques.
In addition, she is a composer for piano and voice. She is an
Alchemical
KATLYN
BREENE
JEFF
"MAGNUS" McBRIDE
has been voted Magician of the Year by
Hollywood's Magic Castle. He is a performance magician, alchemist and educator
in ritual theater, known around the world for his extensive magical work with
masks. Jeff has been seen on many TV specials, including: ABC's Champions of
Magic, NBC's Worlds Greatest Magic and PBS's The Art of Magic and
is
featured in the newly released television documentary
A Magickal Life: Jeff
McBride.
He has also been seen on the Discovery Channel's
Mysteries of Magic, where Jeff served as a consultant on shamanism and
ritual magic. He is also one of the judges in the VH1 series Celebra Cadabra.
Jeff is also a founder of The Mystery School of Magic, the McBride
Magical Arts Center, and the Vegas Vortex. He has been facilitating Fire Circles
at festivals throughout the world for over a decade.
“Magic is about transformation,” Jeff says. “It reminds us that
everything changes – including ourselves.”
ABBI SPINNER McBRIDE
is a renowned musician and teacher of alchemy,
percussion, hand-drumming, dance and magic. She is a High Priestess of the
Family of Fire, and a highly skilled firecircle facilitator. Her creative
abilities in music, poetry, dance and choreography are much in demand at
conferences across the country. For the past decade Abbi has worked with Jeff
McBride, traveling through the United States, Europe, Asia, Indonesia, Africa,
and South America as a dynamic part of his performance as live music director
and lead assistant. Currently she is a vocalist and co-writer with Zingaia, a
top selling world fusion group operating out of Las Vegas. She also has released
two CDs of original music, Songs from the Center, and Enter the Center, and will
have her new CD, Fire of Creation available soon!
For more information, visit
www.McbrideMagic.com.
ALCHEMISTS, MEDIA, and ATTENDEES
(If you would like your bio or networking information included on this page, please send it to Conference Coordinator Justin Riley at info@alchemyconference.com.)
KAREN
BARTLETT was born in New York City and grew up in an
Italian/Lithuanian family. Her grandmother immigrated from Italy and was
a Strega (Italian Witch) who taught Karen folk magick. On the Lithuanian
side, her aunt was a Gypsy who read Tarot cards for family members and
taught her and her sister the art. Karen was initiated into Welsh
Traditionalist Wicca at the age of 14 by the late Eddie Buzinski
(co-founder of the Welsh Tradition) along with Lady Rhiannon (of
Brooklyn's Warlock Shoppe in Brooklyn which later became Magickal Childe
in NYC). At 16, Karen became the youngest High Priestess ever. She was
soon hired by the late Herman Slater (author and proprietor of Magickal
Childe) to teach classes on pagan rituals. Karen went on to learn Karmic
Astrology from Larri Mangum, an astrologer and teacher at the Gurdjieff
Center in New York City. Later, Karen moved to Washington and taught
classes at the Avalon Wellness Center in Marysville. After meeting
her husband, Robert Allen Bartlett, Karen was initiated into alchemy and spagyrics. She has been doing astrology charts by hand (no computer!)
for many years. Today, she does consultations that incorporate cell
salts into her astrological readings to bring a great source of body
balancing to the health deficiencies indicated in the Natal chart.
Email: spirithorse322@aol.com.
To reserve your exhibit space, go to Vendors.
CRUCIBLE BOOKSTORE - The conference bookstore will feature hundreds of discounted alchemy books, audio tapes, DVDs, labware, tinctures, elixirs, and other alchemical products. All credit cards accepted. www.Crucible.org .
SPAGYRICUS COMPANY - This progressive company offers genuine spagyriuc tinctures and other alchemical products. They produces a line of spagyric and homeopathic mineral salts under the Terre Vitae label, as well as tincture blends under the Eagle Heart label.
www.byregion.net/profiles/spagyricus.html .
DR. THOM CAVALLI will be signing books, including his breakthrough book, Alchemical Psychology, Old Recipes for Living in the New World. www.AlchemicalPsychology.com. His office is located in Santa Ana, California, and he can be reach via email at illavac@hotmail.com.
Elixir Herbal Botanical Pharmacy and Extraction Supplies will be offering herbal skin-care products as well as equipment and materials for distillation/botanical extraction. www.elixirherbal.com.
CLARITY PUBLISHING and DR. BRUCE FISHER will be offering booksignins and a wide selection of esoteric books. http://myweb.cableone.net/subru
DENNIS WILLIAM HAUCK will be doing booksignings and taking orders for his new book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Alchemy due out from Penguin in April 2008. www.AlchemyLab.com,
Paul Rendak is a practicing alchemist and spagyricist. He is a former student of Frater Albertus. www.Crucible.org/rendak.htm
Duane Saari will be offering collections of the Alchemy Journal of which he is editor. www.AlchemyLab.com/journal.htm
SCIENTIFIC GLASS COMPANY will be offering alchemical distillation equipment, as well as CDs of the transformative music of GARY STADLER. www.Heartmagic.com
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