With the second edition of the book being published by Purple Parrot Publishing we've decided to visit the place where the whole idea of the book started at The Sanctuary of Healing, Langho, Blackburn on NLP Practitioner course with NLP in the Northwest. Had a great lunch at the Cafe and of course did some crystals shopping to satisfy our Kinaesthetic senses. The book is now available on Amazon This Pandemic gave some of us an opportunity to pause, learn more about ourselves.
Quite often I have seen posts on social media about being happy in your own company. I’ve read them, liked them and continued on living my everyday busy life. The thing is, once you accept, that you are alone in your own head, things are not that bad. The outside world can change and as we’ve seen it does change, sometimes dramatically over night. It’s nothing new, change is inevitable. On the other hand, what happens inside our heads is up to us. During this pandemic we have seen people crying as they cannot see their friends. We have seen people making the most of the situation, inventing new ways to communicate. We have also seen those working hard in the frontline. Basic way to survive is to adapt and build resilience. Nobody knows what the future holds and if you find yourself on the hospital bed where your friends cannot see you, you cannot spend the money in your bank account, cannot be in your lovely home or can’t go outside, all you have is your mind as a companion. Make sure it’s a good one. 16th century Prague was the Alchemists paradise, mainly thanks to the curiosity and vanity of the Emperor Rudolf II. So, there is not much of a surprise that Prague attracted many Alchemists especially when other countries where perhaps not so welcoming. Although the Emperor supported their search for the Philosopher’s stone, The Catholic Church was not so accommodating. To keep everyone happy, Alchemists had to work in secret, they used special symbolic language, their laboratories were skilfully hidden.
Recently I had the opportunity to visit such a hidden gem, the old house of Rabbi Loewe, now museum Speculum Alchemiae. After the floods in 2002 the workers discovered some hidden passages leading to this very house, revealing the long-lost Alchemy Laboratory in Hastalska 1, Josefov. Creating the lab in the Jewish Quarter was a very strategic move as Judaism was more open to occultism. Names like John Dee, Edward Kelly, Tadeáš Hájek z Hájku and Tycho Brahe were associated with this building. As the repair work continued more was discovered. Hidden in the cellars were ancient recipes in Latin and even a bottle with original content. The liquid was analysed, the recipes were translated and given to the Benedictine Monks. They are now producing a slightly modified version of those Elixirs which you can buy in the museum. As I’ve mentioned before Alchemists were the Masters of disguise so don’t be surprised that when you enter the building it looks like the old pharmacy. The secret lurks elsewhere… Just enter. |
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