Alchemy Reiki

Alchemy Reiki is presented by Sherry Andrea of Sherry Speaks in a Master Manual that grounds the system in the written history of alchemy before it teaches a single practice.

That history runs from Chinese Taoist alchemy, where the manual quotes the sinologist Edward Chalmers Werner, a late member of the Chinese Government's Historiological Bureau in Peking, on Chang Tao-Ling, born in A.D. 35, through Egypt and the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus, reputed to have lived around 1900 B.C., to the Arabian adept Geber around 750 A.D. and on to the English alchemists Roger Bacon, Sir George Ripley, Edward Kelly and Thomas Vaughan.

The manual takes Ripley's position, that alchemy is a spiritual matter and not merely a physical one, concerned with the mode of our spirit's return to the source that gave it.

The practitioner's work is called transmutation, and the manual sets it out in three forms, on yourself, hands on with another person, and at a distance. An attunement process closes the manual.

What this attunement is intended to support:

- It is traditionally used to support inner transmutation, the alchemical idea of refining what is base in a person into something finer.

- Practitioners work with it on themselves first, since self transmutation is placed ahead of any work done for others.

- It is used hands on, with another person who has asked for the work and is present in the room.

- It is used at a distance, for people who cannot be there, by the process the manual sets out.

- It is used as a study as much as a technique, because the manual holds that the tradition itself is part of what is handed on.

What you receive:

- The Alchemy Reiki Master Manual as presented by Sherry Andrea of Sherry Speaks.

- A long history section covering Chinese, Egyptian, Arabian, European and English alchemy, with the Emerald Tablet as its central document.

- The three transmutation practices, self, hands on and distance, together with the attunement process.

Who this is for:

- Reiki practitioners drawn to the Hermetic and alchemical tradition rather than to a purely modern system.

- Readers who want the history and the source names alongside the practice, not just a set of instructions.

- Practitioners at Master level, or working toward it, who want a system they can pass on.

How it is used:

Work begins with self transmutation, so the practitioner is the first subject of the practice. From there the same work is offered hands on to someone present, or sent at a distance to someone who is not. The history section is meant to be read alongside the practice rather than skipped, since the tradition it describes is part of what the manual is handing over.