INTERNATIONAL ALCHEMY CONFERENCE

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 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. His latest book is Real Alchemy. Website: www.byregion.net/profiles/spagyricus.html .

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 and South America. Thom received his doctorate in psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego in August 1979. The theme of his dissertation was published in ARCHE in an article entitled The Cosmology of Chance. Dr. Cavalli has been in private practice for twenty years. In that time he has been licensed as a psychologist, marriage, family, child therapist and a Qualified Medical Examiner. He has provided many seminars and workshops to community agencies, industry and private organizations. These include 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 American Psychological Association, the Orange County Friends of Jung and the California Psychological Association. Dr. Cavalli has appeared on national television, interviewed in Prague, and recorded on radio at the University of California, Irvine. Thom is currently working on a new book that explores the various dimensions of darkness and the nigredo experience. For further information, visit his website, www.AlchemicalPsychology.com. His office is located in Santa Ana, California, and he can be reach via email at illavac@hotmail.com.

DANIEL COATEN is a practicing alchemist, qualified and experienced Western medical herbalist, clinical aromatherapist and lecturer who has a passion for herbal pharmacy/extraction research and botanical alchemy. He is the founder of Elixir Herbal Botanical Pharmacy and Extraction Supplies, which is based in the United Kingdom, where he produces a small selection of herbal skin-care products as well as supplying equipment and materials for distillation/botanical extraction. Daniel also produces and teaches workshops nationwide in the UK on the practical small- scale production of essential oils, distillate waters, and topical base products to both practitioners and individuals (see www.aromatherapy-studies.com for more information). He was a representative for the National Institute of Medical Herbalists by invitation of the South Korean Government in 2006 to their annual International Herb Conference in Namwon, South Korea. Promoting awareness of western herbal medicine and demonstrating distillation/herbal extraction techniques. He has been a guest speaker at the International Federation of Professional Aromatherapists, the International Holistic Skin Care Association and most recently at the National Institute of Medical Herbalist to name a few. He is also a member of these professional bodies as well as the International Alchemy Guild (IAG). He is an author of the book entitled Making Your Own Essential Oils and Skin-Care Products published by the Low Impact Living Initiative (see www.lowimpact.org for more info). His published articles are in In Essence (journal for the International Federation of Professional Aromatherapists) and the International Journal of Clinical Aromatherapy. He is knowledgeable in growing/cultivating medicinal herbs and mushrooms (mycology), and is experienced in beekeeping, shamanic healing and practical alchemy laboratory techniques. Daniel’s ethos is 'self sufficiency' and he enjoys nothing more than being able to connect with and follow the process of botanical alchemy from seed to final product, witnessing the metamorphic magic that is plant medicine making. For further information, visit his website www.elixirherbal.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. Website: www.AODA.org. More information is available from Kat Sanborn at kat@paxtempli.org .

DR. BARON GUDNI GUDNASON VON THORODDSEN (Ph.D.) is a spiritual alchemist and teacher. He began his quest for deeper knowledge as a young man and at an early age was initiated into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in England. He continued his study of the Hermetic teachings at a secret school in Salzburg, Austria, that taught alchemy in the old way; a Christian Kabbalah school in Bern, Switzerland; a Kabbalistic alchemy school in Madrid, Spain; an astrology school in Cairo, Egypt; a shamanic alchemy school near Alexandria; a Tantric school in the Congo, at other esoteric schools in Romania and Sweden, and studied other traditions at several schools in Tibet, India, and Japan. He also studied the ways of traditional human culture and was awarded degrees in business and psychology, and he is the recipient of many humanitarian awards. After 16 years of study, Gudni founded his own school and is now a respected international teacher of the Hermetic arts. Rocky Mountain Mystery School, 83 Galaxy Blvd. Unit 3, Toronto, M9W 5X6, Canada (Phone: 416-625-3470). World Headquarters: Rocky Mountain Mystery School International, Honbu Dojo, 3-31-11 New Life Center, Nishiwaseda Bekkan 2nd Floor, Nishiwaseda, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo 169-0051, Japan (Phone: 81- 3-3205-0777). Email: ggudnason@rmmscanadianhq.com. Websites: www.rmmsint.com and www.fratergedrm.com

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 Immortality Finally Revealed," 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) and would welcome inquiries on those subjects.

DR. STANTON MARLAN (Ph.D.) is the author of The Black Sun: Alchemy and the Art of Darkness and other works on alchemy. He is a world-renown Jungian psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist in private practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University and a training and supervising analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. He is a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of New York and a licensed psychoanalyst in that state. He is also President of the Pittsburgh Society of Jungian Analysts. He holds diplomates in both clinical psychology and psychoanalysis from the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is the past Editor of the Journal of Jungian Theory and Practice, a member of the editorial board of Spring Journal, and is one of three co-editors for the Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion. He has published numerous articles on Jungian psychology and alchemy and is the editor of Salt and the Alchemical Soul (Spring, 1995) and Fire in the Stone: The Alchemy of Desire (Chiron, 1997). He is the author of the widely acclaimed book, The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness (Texas A&M Press, 2005) and most recently has written a chapter entitled "Alchemy" for The Handbook of Jungian Psychology: Theory, Practice and Applications, editef by Renos Papadopoulos (Routledge, 2006), and an article "From the Black Sun to the Philosophers Stone" in the Alchemy issue of Spring Journal, 2006. Dr. Marlan has studied practical alchemy with Dennis Hauck, and holds the Alchemist certification from Flamel College. He is a member of the International Alchemy Guild (IAG).

DR. WERNER NAWROCKI is a medical doctor and alchemist from Frankfurt, Germany. He has practiced medicine since 1974 and served as a professor at the University of Frankfurt for ten years. He was initiated into alchemy by Frater Albertus in 1979 and began teaching alchemy in Europe and Australia in 1984. Dr. Nawrocki is a true practicing alchemist and holds many international patents for his alchemical remedies. In the last ten years, he has expanded his alchemical research into cosmetics and food supplements, and his groundbreaking work in alchemy is respected throughout the world. He is a popular lecturer who holds public seminars on laboratory alchemy and was a featured speaker at many major conferences, and has held workshops with the late Manfred Junius. Dr. Nawrocki is the author of Transformation: Secret of the World, which is available in the German, Spanish, and Russian languages. Email: star@Dr-Nawrocki.de. Websites: www.Alchemie-Seminare.de; www.Dr-Nawrocki.de; www.DrNawrocki.de; www.Charismon.de; and www.Spirituelle-Medizin.com. He will be lecturing on Secret of the World: Alchemical Transformation.

MICAH NILSSON and PAUL BARTSCHER are practicing alchemists and plant spagyricists. Paul is a practicing alchemist specializing in spagyric medicine. Micah (shown at left) is an herbalist and laboratory alchemist with 15 years experience in the Work. She has taught at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland and at Bastyr University in Seattle. In 1989, after her own herbal healing experience, she began to study herbs intensively. That same year, she met her husband, Paul Bartscher, who had been studying Western esoterics and alchemy. Her knowledge of the healing qualities of herbs complemented Paul's knowledge of the alchemical work with herbs' subtle properties, and each of them had the knowledge the other needed to go forward on our path. Since then, the couple has worked to share what they discovered in the ancient texts and in their own laboratory. They also teach alchemy as a lens for viewing Nature with greater depth, appreciation, and respect. Their goal is to educate people about the philosophy and practice of alchemy as a way of connecting with the sacred living intelligence of Nature through her plant beings, which are the subject of spagyric work and the bridge between us and the natural world. Through this work, alchemical energies are linked from the planetary archetypes above to our personal microcosm within, the plants themselves becoming preparations which hold together this chain of being. Their company, Al-Kemi, was founded in 1991 to research and put into modern practice the ancient healing work of the original alchemists, who considered themselves Philosophers of Nature because their method of work consisted of observing Nature's operations and then applying them in the laboratory. They have continued that ancient lineage by providing discriminating clients with a complete alchemical and spagyric apothecary of products to promote health and longevity at all levels of being. They work with everything from physically healing herbs to shamanic and sacred plants for dreamwork, journeying, meditation, energy work, yoga, and more. Al-Kemi, PO Box 451, Walterville, OR 97489 USA. Phone: 541-345-3456. Email: alkemi@al-kemi.com. Website: www.Al-Kemi.com

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.

NICKI SCULLY has been teaching healing and shamanic arts, and the Egyptian Mysteries since 1983. Techniques from her Alchemical Healing form are used internationally by thousands of practitioners. She is a lineage holder in the Hermetic tradition of Thoth and maintains the Lyceum of Shamanic Egypt. She is ordained as a priestess of Hathor by Lady Olivia Robertson, co-founder of the Fellowship of Isis. During her first tour of Egypt with the Grateful Dead in 1978, Nicki experienced an epiphany on the top of the great pyramid, and realized that her purpose in this life is to bring forth the hidden shamanic arts of Egypt. Drawing on the knowledge she has gained through decades of study and practice, she enlightens and uplifts all whom study and travel with her. In the late '80s, Nicki founded Shamanic Journeys, Ltd., and has been guiding inner journeys and spiritual pilgrimages to Egypt, Peru, Greece, and other sacred sites. Nicki lives in Eugene, Oregon, where she maintains a comprehensive healing and shamanic consulting practice. Nicki is in the process of launching her new school, the Alchemical Healing Academy, which will have programs on via phone bridges and at several campuses through the U.S. and Europe. She welcomes you to study with her at her beautiful garden center. She is the author of Alchemical Healing: A Guide to Spiritual, Physical, and Transformational Medicine and other books. Her latest book, co-authored with Linda Star Wolf, is Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt: Awakening the Healing Power of the Heart. Website: www.AlchemicalHealing.com. Email: office@shamanicjourneys.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, and his wife TAMARA STADLER is also a noted musician and performance artist. Gary's 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

ALQUIMIA (pronounced “Al-kee-mee-ah”) means alchemy in Spanish, and it is also the name of a remarkable performance artist who incorporates the magic of alchemy into her music. Singer, composer, multi instrumentalist, and sonic innovator Alquimia has brought a rare ambient influence to Celtic, electronic, and neo-classical vocal music. Following a major label pop career in Mexico, she has performed in the United Kingdom and Europe at venues and events including the Festival of Mind Body & Spirit, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, and London South Bank. Now based in London, and singing in various languages including English, Gaelic, Latin, French, Mayan, Nahuatl, Spanish, and Italian, Alquimia uses her voice to create multilayered choirs and electronic vocal soundscapes - described as "an ethereal chorale of great beauty" by Audion UK. Website: www.myspace.com/alquimiamusic

MARK JENKINS is a leading figure in Britain’s electronic music scene. He creates soundscapes based on astronomy, cosmology, and alchemical themes with track titles including "The Stone" and "The Eight-Fold Way." Alchemical music can take us through unknown dimensions into the alchemy of the mind and the spirits --.wherever we find our spirits, from gothic temples to enlightened paradises. Alchemical music can take us to heaven -- wherever we find our own "heaven." Mark’s recent performances in the United States have included capacity shows at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, and on the nationally syndicated radio show Echoes. Websites: www.myspace.com/markjenkinsmusic and www.MarkJenkins.net.

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. 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.

MATTHEW PETRONKO is a student of the great mystery. He has studied in both eastern and western traditions, as well as the somatic and relational. He has the fortune of being a celebrant in the emerging Alchemical Fire Circle Tradition and a participant in the Vegas Vortex since 2002. Matthew is actively discovering value in individuals, businesses and communities, through his private practice in the Bay Area.

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PAUL HARDACRE and MARISSA NEWELL have been publishing books, CDROMs and e-zines since the start of this century, first with poetry and art publishers, papertiger media (www.papertigermedia.com), and more recently with their esoteric, occult and arcane book publishing company, Salamander and Sons (www.salamanderandsons.com). Paul is a widely published poet and editor, and alchemist. Marissa is a visual artist and graphic design professional with an interest in life’s mysteries. Both are widely traveled, having spent time during the past few years in Myanmar, Singapore, Pakistan, Hong Kong SAR, Indonesia, China, New Zealand, Ireland, the Netherlands, the United States, Italy, India, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos PDR, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka. Originally from Brisbane, Australia, Paul and Marissa have resided in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, since early 2004. More at www.paulhardacre.com and www.marissanewell.com

SPARROW MORGAN is a photographer, artist, and model interested in the alchemy of the arts. Her website is at www.SparrowMorgan.com.

Duane Saari is an alchemist, a member of the International Alchemy Guild and editor of the Alchemy Journal, an online publication dedicated to revealing the contributions of alchemy to all dimensions of our lives. Raised by a devout Roman Catholic mother and an equally devout atheist father, Duane has been a seeker of the meaning of life from a very young age. This journey has taken him through several careers including teaching, consulting, management and work with federal and state governments, not for profit organizations, businesses and around the globe 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. www.AlchemyLab.com/journal.htm

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. TERI OWENS has a Master's degree in Herbal and Chinese Medicine and worked in the healthcare field for many years as a critical care and ER nurse in the Chicago area. She is a partner in an herbal business called Laughing Lady Bug Botanicals, whose goal is to make herbal spagyrics available to the general public. Website: www.LaughingLadyBug.com

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 .

EPOCH TIMES is a progressive publication on Chinese culture and health practices that is now the most widely distributed newspaper in the world, publishing in 17 languages in 40 cities in 28 countries worldwide. Free info and issues. http://en.epochtimes.com/language.html

ALKEMI will be offering a wide selection of genuine spagyric tinctures and alchemical preparations, as well as other products. Free samples of their world renown tinctures. www.Al-Kemi.com

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 and TAMARA STADLER. www.Heartmagic.com