welcome to new connection where you can tune in and grow i'm your host vicky thompson you may be familiar with new connection magazine for conscious living which has been enjoyed by readers in the pacific northwest for more than seventeen years now we're excited to bring new connection to life in your home with our new talk show a new connection we welcome authors practitioners and visionaries to share new ideas for turning to help spirituality and personal growth today i'd like to welcome to new connection nikki scully who's well you have been a fixture in the community around egypt and the mysteries of egypt and tours to egypt how did you fall in love with egypt well and i have been in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight when the grateful dead played three concerts underneath a full moon the last being under total eclipse in one nine hundred seventy eight and i was privileged to get to go on that trip and i it was a pivotal moment in my life as you can imagine going to egypt going to egypt under those circumstances and witnessing and experiencing incredible magic and synchronicity at every turn and it was so in chanting so compelling that after i met this woman on top of the great pyramid one sunrise when we climbed to the top of the pyramid she decided to dispense with the usual formality of becoming friends and put together a business where we could come to egypt so we could further explore the magic we were back three weeks later while four times that year that's exciting so how many of you must have gone to egypt how many times and i would say close to forty wow and after the first four times in that first year seventy eight and seventy nine then i knew that i was to become a healer i didn't really know what that meant but it was in my explorations of egypt that i really got that and committed to do that and so by this bring of eighty one i had left the bay area and the whole grateful dead scene and moved to oregon with my children and immediately began studying healing and it was interesting because i was studying who know which is the hawaiian healing for yes in the study of when i discovered there were egyptian roots and somehow it was through this study of  huna that i discovered my egyptian healing roots and then for the next ten years developed to me again teaching be what turned out to be alchemical healing but it took me back to egypt so that when in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine i was ready to take groups to egypt i had already made relationships with the pantheon and was ready for the vsto of magical delights and adventures that were laid out for us and i have been ever since so you can see egypt quite a lot of what is one of your favorite places to go in egypt that has really just touched you and  was well of course i love the sinks and the pyramids as does everybody but their temples in egypt and the monuments that are still left standing have left us they they've left a legacy of encyclopedia instructions that are still valid today so everywhere i go any job offers a window into some deeper meaning of life that can be explored and looked at in accordance with the relevance of what we're going through today so for all of egypt and then there's the people of egypt and the warmth of the people and the incredible generosity and haase hospitality of the people of egypt there's a lot to love in egypt and so it sounds like also to you going to cairo the city of cairo and you had written an article for a new connection that shared just the richness of a journey to egypt a lot of people i think want to go to egypt to reconnect with their spiritual roots and to find them and i think most of us will find spiritual roots in egypt because egypt the civilization that we looked at last for so long i mean five thousand years that's written about and so the first thing we do you were just shown some images of us enjoying a sunrise on the gays a plateau looking out over cairo as the sun rose and then what it looked like to look at the pyramids with that early morning sun we're privileged to be able to do that by ourselves and to overlay here we are looking out waiting for the sun to rise and it's a very magical moment and it's in these moments of privacy that we are touched by egypt and touch by the ancients that it comes alive in another dimension for us and part of what we're striving for is to move in a one hearted one minded way in our groups that in our tours through egypt intending to touch those initial truths finding meaning in the old kingdom rites of passage the have said festival rides the renewal of pharaoh because today there are no time for charismatic leaders is over you know we have to step up and become our own inner authority we have to find that power that pharaoh used in ancient times to hold the energy for the entire empire we have to find that inside each of us individually in order to reclaim our personal and collective power so would you say that that is part of your purpose in being so connected with the egyptian mysteries absolutely i'm like a cartographer of the inner planes and there's nowhere like egypt for maps to find the assistance that we need to find the solutions to the problems that we're facing individually and collectively on the planet because the chaos and horror that's happening on the planet is truly a reflection of something that's happening inside each and every one of us that we haven't owned and embrace and so you joked bay were so strong in the knowledge of what they were conveying when they built those monuments and etched in their hieroglyphs and the images because they in with proper interpretations we can reconnect to our own divinity through finding and following those instructions and those maps so it sounds like the ancient mysteries can apply to our world today how do those ancient mysteries tie in into come to recognize our divinity and our connection with divine source and as we gain confidence in that as we develop that we realize that those archetypes still live within us that guidance is still inside us and when we walk with the knowledge of that and me illumination that that brings to us then we co create with spirit and we croak create with one another in a way that serves the healing of the planet and the development of conscious community on a family level a community level and a global level that will allow us to live the dream  how that works is that we are this is a new a modern iteration of the ancient all kingdom rites of renewal of the pharaoh that when we go through those rites of passage today we find our way we overcome the problems that face us we  we have to come to resolution within ourselves of the conflicts that we've been carrying forward and in that way lighten our hearts our hearts become as light as the feather  can from a single heart a light hearted one hearted perspective in communion with our fellow humans and with the other side of the equation with divinity in the form of our spirit guides or in the case of some might mean streets of egypt the actual pantheon of egypt itself and they become our cheerleaders and our guides and our support and the transitions which includes the death of the old the actual ship monic journey to relinquish the old to remember ourselves to become whole again to to piece together the fragmented parts of ourselves that we've forgotten and in that wholeness  reclaim the possibility of the fully realized to find him so it sounds like you know to gain that benefit you don't necessarily have to be to egypt and not everyone is going to be able to travel to egypt to benefit from that how that is so true how can people in oregon experience you know the bounty and the benefits of egypt well i think that that's probably the main purpose what starr wolf and i had in mind when we wrote was streets of egypt and that was linda starr of linda starr wolf my co author she's an incredible visionary very clear vision who had and i have a lot of experience with egypt when we came together and yet i could see so clearly right down to what the detainees were holding in their hands and what they were in their heads in the the ways that i could identify them and say ok well this is isis  speaking to us or this is a new bus or thaw and then she could bring in the visions that i could interpret and give context to those visions and we realized these were the haps had festival rights these were the old kingdom of renewal coming forth in a new way and so the book gives two rounds of in the shade sions and rites of passage that people can take they can share in their circles they can do on their own or share with a friend and or they can take the book with them to egypt so that they have a spiritual guide to enter egypt as they go through egypt but either way it allows you to connect to what the ancients were trying to tell us and remind us and and still is so strong today and so important well another way that people can journey and be a part of it even if it's from their own home is with a new book that you have coming out that you've also heard with linda starr wolf and that is the am a new base or that's the companion to the seanad mysteries of egypt that's where we've taken those incredible illustrations that chris walder  created to support the book and now this this piece of art that you're seeing now will be the cover of the new bus or call and it shows a new bas who is  great he's known as an underworld figure the the jackal goddess of the underworld but he's actually the opener of the way and he's offering us the key to a deeper understanding of ourself and the workings of our soul through working with the images of the thirty five cards that go with that and that combat and the companion book to the so in this particular illustration this is cards for five six and seven so the the bottom image is the god can assume and he is the creator god the rams had a creator god who is the potter who actually builds our bodies on the on his potter's wheel and so when you go through his right in the book or encounter his card it means you're up for getting a renewal of your body mind and spirit and your connections to the ancients through working with that particular arc then each of the art types in that composite takes you through a rite of passage where so now you see so back  source and with the larger picture of why we're here sounds very very powerful and the other tool that you often it's really powerful as well in a very practical application is alchemical healing yes that's the work that i learned when i moved to work and to become a healer and so what we did earlier is we did a healing together using the techniques about chemical healing and so it's based on a book that you wrote right healing a guide to spiritual physical a transformational medicine yes let's take a look at what you do practically with chemical healing ok we did a demonstration earlier let's look at ok i'd like to give you a short demonstration of alchemical healing and i understand you have some work related stress that has brought on some tension in your shoulders and can you kind of point to me where the pain is and talk about the degree of pain but i have tension probably through you know the upper part of my neck down through my shoulder here and you know starting at the other point there in the head that comes down to the shoulder is one side more intense than the other i would say my left side is mine tensely it's taken tight tension feeling ok so the first thing i do is just gather myself together call in the energies and the guidance that works with me and then i feel to see if i can connect to the source of the tension and i'll ask you if you can feel the presence of my hand and how would you describe that feeling if you use gentle unwon so the first thing i'm going to do is i'm going to just put my hand up it's like i'm holding it here but it's just entering another dimension and i'm asking for the spirit of an herb to help me and i'm calling on comfrey and i'm calling on our nick and i offer them  blast of love and life force energy for their families and then i feel them come into my hand it's almost like there's a weight there's a substance even though it's invisible and so i just put back and let the intelligence of the herbs just enter your body and begin to work and that is the first line of defense and the plant spirit medicine and then while the plants are doing their work i'm going to start feeling for trying to pull out the source of the tension and you might feel my hand almost as though with tugging like there's a magnet attached to it can you describe what that feels like i can feel a sensation up here and it it does it feels like when you see two magnets kind of like that it's like a gentle tug so i'm just gathering what i draw out and offering it to the earth with a prayer for its transformation into its highest potential and i'm just gathering i seem to definitely find more going the left side and then i draw that out and i offer it to the earth and then i refill because we never want to leave a vacant space one of the things about alchemical healing is that it's really very fast so you should already be feeling relief so can you describe what your shoulders feel like him now in this place up at the base of your head but it's interesting because i felt a release appear happening and coming down there's just a slight tightness here because it was very tight at the base of the spine my shoulders feel fabulous ok so i'm just going to move right with symbols and then i can use that element directly in that she says loosening things up and now it should come right out you want to describe what that feels like i can feel it flowing it's kind of flowing out in the top of my head and ok i'm going to follow ok do you feel any hint of that tightness or tension or pain anywhere in your head that shoulder it feels like it released very nicely  i think we managed to pull that off under the time we allotted for the demonstration and as i said alchemical healing is really fast and yet in this time we managed to introduce some of the principles basically how you put in you take out you refill you always give everything that you take out you have to give it somewhere to go you're responsible the conduct and all and i think it was a good demonstration of the speed and directness yeah i would say it was a very effective technique and what i especially liked about it was when you brought in comfrey and the herbs that you brought in and i thought that was a and get behind you and up and just feel what that's like and then you can let her do the heavy lifting and you won't have to go wonderful thank you so much my pleasure i'm really glad that the bear popped up into that demonstration because the bear is one of the most ubiquitous healing allies and i work with bear a lot and the what i was getting at with that bear is that if you can perceive the bear and invite her with an open heart to assist you sometimes it just takes feeling her holding you up coming up behind and hugging you and holding you up from behind and then you can relax in a way that you don't usually so give it a try the next time you feel that stress coming on and that tension when you're getting ready to do your tapings or whatever it is that rings and on and then just invite bear to come in and be with you and relinquish yourself to relax into her capable and strong body and let her hold you and notice what happens yeah i think that's a very powerful technique that i could sense it when he said the bear went there and i definitely want to use that but i think it's also something that others can use in of a practical way that when you're feeling burdened or overwhelmed that image is so powerful just so comforting and it's a strong ally and working with spirit our lives is a large part of alchemical healing as is you know everything from laying on of hands to psychic surgery what i'm finding really interesting is how as our technology is developing on the planet and the gas of price in oil is soaring and we want to travel less are able to phone bridge technology is coming in so i've been starting i only do maybe two intensive at home workshops each year in the summer and now i've started to develop these phone bridge telecasts tele classes and so if you can imagine doing a demonstration or with twenty or thirty people on the telephone where they're having an experience and being able to learn these techniques just as completely and with as full of experience as if we were sitting in class doing that i know you offer a cancer phone branch and then you also offer other classes as well right well the cancer from bridge i've been doing for more than three years on about a monthly basis so you would connect me to my website and out and get on my mailing list and you'll get an invitation so if you have cancer know anybody with cancer that's available and that said monica journeys dot com all the events and classes and private sessions are all listed on there from on it journey stuck on nikki it has been so wonderful spending time with you and talking about egypt i feel that we are just wrapped in the healing light of egypt so i am looking forward to hearing more from you when your book comes out thank you and thank you so much for having me you're welcome so i'd like to thank you all for joining us and invite you to join us next time a new connection where you can tune in and grow thank you