Two former "bee-priestesses" start their podcast journey by picking apart a false lineage they were once a part of and helped unravel. It will be deeply investigative, full of insight and also full of snark and laughs and a healthy dose of cuss words. Can't take yourself too seriously.

My Alchemical Romance:

This is a podcast where two spiritually over seasoned women explore and investigate the lure of magical books, hidden traditions and what it means, in reality, to follow a sacred path or what you believe to be a calling.

There are many religious, occult, shamanic traditions out there - many overlapping in their doctrines, beliefs, lore and practices. Offerings of magic in a chaos laced world are seductive, and never more so when the bond of community runs parallel.

We hold a fascination in the wellspring of belief and faith in the unseen. And more so the weave of how mystical knowing becomes the fabric of how a life is lived. But what’s often overlooked, yet as compelling, is when that weave is ripped apart.

Welcome! Who are we? What are we doing? Why are we doing it? Are we insane? Do we have enough biscuits to carry on?

Join us on our introductory episode where we give you the run down and the reason, where we beg and plead for your patience and forgiveness for our editing skills, and promise a whole buch of times that it'll be interesting, we swear!

Two brand spanking new "angry, mean girl" podcasters (that's us) are about to give you every excruciating detail of the Lore and Undoing of the UK's Mystery School; The Sacred Trust. We've dug deep into the Rise and Fall of it's founder, British shaman Simon Buxton, author of the fake autobiography The Shamanic Way of the Bee.

We've become investigative journalists, just for this! Join us! We're terrified and full of the aforementioned bisquits!

Part one of the information dense coverage about Simon Buxton's start as well as the beginnings of The Sacred Trust and the Path of Pollen. We talk a bit about what The Shamanic Way of the Bee is about. Plus: Early Staff Members & Bios, British Broadsheets Interview with Lewis, The Nektary & Nektars, The Melissae, The Sisterhoods, Early Interviews, The Liber Mantikos, The Serpent Flight of the Honey Bee, Vanishing of the Bees Documentary, Impersonal Use of S*xual energy, and More.

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In part 2 of The Architect, we continue laying out the Simon Buxton's public evolution through his interviews and articles. After a freshly recorded intro and chat, letting you know whats on the way- we graft in the convo we were having in Part 1. We're setting up the beginning of the Sacred Trust, Simon's journey, the teachers, and what the Path of Pollen is about, the glands, the alchemy and the magic. We're still in the details of how exactly this cult began and how the story shifted over time- the slippery slope of layers of lies, touching on euroccentric shamanic practices in America, "keeping bees", and much more. We discuss the pollen method in more depth- all leading up to the day when things took a turn toward absolute madness. Check the Link for image of the time when you could be penpals with "Devorah Schlockel" and "Fionulla Tremenheere" the imaginary Melisae.

Vanishing of the bees! Creating the inner laboratory, Nektars, Maternal Magnetic! Shamanic way of the Bee! Sex Magic! Masons! Occultism! Enjoy my really bad edits and dubs!

Also a Note: In Part one we rant about "Oral Documents" and want to acknowledge that this concept does exist a little bit, out in the world, and has some merit on it's own- we stand by Buxton's "oral documents" as being total chaff. And not very well thought out in hindsite.