The philosophical roots of this process are found in all the spiritual traditions of humanity. Spiritual healers and mystics have practiced these techniques for ages as a part of the universal cycle of prayer and healing meditation. However, because such techniques were often couched in obsolete doctrinal values and mythical imagery, much of their relevance is lost to modern humanity.

Alchemy presents some of the universal archetypes and meditative processes in a way that allows the Seeker to create her own mythology, her own experience of these spiritual forces within the subconscious mind.

Etheric Plane Communication allows us to complete our communications with others without the need for face-to-face confrontation. The EP is that universal ocean of feeling, which unites all beings through their emotions and subconscious images. Using this plane to communicate allows us to bypass conscious resistance, ego-battles, and shyness. We can even cross the borders of death to complete communications.

Running and Changing Incidents is the process of releasing the trauma and pain of past emotional experiences in order to free us from bitterness, regret, and loneliness, and those preconceived notions of how the world has “always been” and thus “will always be.” This includes the rescue of one’s own inner child from the trauma, neglect, and negative programming of the past.

Working with the Inner Child is a very special way of tuning into our special emotional needs and making ourselves able to meet those needs from within by becoming a loving parent to this Child, rather than depending on a supportive person outside to take care of us, or burying our lonely Child beneath a hard-boiled brittle exterior. This process may include the discovery of new inner parents and the building of new memories of a happy childhood.

The journey may also include meeting the Inner Mate, who is both our own ideal lover, and a contra sexual parent for our Inner Child.

Finally, the methods for contacting our True Guides and using their power to unite all the disparate elements of the subconscious mind through Conference Room technique into a powerful force for the Transformation of our world and us.

Alchemical hypnotherapists have extensive training in work with pain, injury, and illness, and have achieved remarkable results in these areas, but always under the supervision where possible, of medical doctors and in adjustment with appropriate medical treatment

In some forms of Hypnotherapy, the client is put into a very deep trance, so that his conscious mind is blanked out and his subconscious completely dominant. It is best for the client to be in a medium-level trance, where the conscious and subconscious minds can coexist. The client can vividly feel what he experiences in trance, yet at the same time speak out loud in a normal voice.

This allows for both the therapist and client to guide the trance journey together more effectively. It also allows for a deeper conscious assimilation of the material. Thus conscious understanding and assimilation is of far greater importance than merely achieving a deep state of trance.

If the client has had previous experience with Hypnosis, or any other form of trance work such as Meditation, he may already have a favorite form of induction, and if so, this can be altered.

Massage, Acupressure, and other forms of bodywork are excellent trance induction methods, and can be profitably combined with Alchemical Hypnotherapy. For example, if a client receiving a massage has a certain sore place on his body which reminds him of a traumatic incident in his past, the therapist can combine the technique of Running and Changing Incidents with the Massage to remove the traces of trauma from the body and replace them with the bliss of the rescued state.

I stop all trance induction if the client begins to show signs of emotional agitation. At the point that emotional expression begins (tears, sobs, shaking, laughter, etc.), then I move directly into the Alchemical processes.