Tibetan Breathing and Shem Angels

This series of posts are a recap and re-analysis of “Angel Alchemy Project, ” my 1-month-only-Patreon project during April 2024. During this month, which included a weekend ayahuasca retreat, I documented 20+ Shem Angel workings. At the end of April, I had to turn off the Patreon, or else it would keep charging people, so links go Google Doc copies, with screenshots of comments from the posts as well.

I didn’t set out to experiment. In fact, I just wanted to do the Shem ritual (remember, readers of this newsletter have a 40% off code: AGILEMAGICKANGEL) I’ve been doing for years, because it had always given me radical results.

But the energy in my body felt stagnant. Like, there was a parking brake that got pulled up. And when I feel this sort of uncomfortable, sputtering energy, I know that I need to shift gears. And without much angst, I thought, “well, let’s try new stuff in the ritual.”

You know how chefs will be eating something and then all of a sudden they’ll be like “why don’t we combine this flavor with that flavor?” This is similar to my process; my brain is taking all my previous experience and sifting it together with current experiences and sometimes, there’s a combo that excites me.

To me, this is one of the most practical aspects of creativity. Sure, some people are birthing completely new and unique downloads into the world. But for the rest of us mere mortals, creativity is the mental space to try new combinations of existing things. But to even have that space, we need to protect it from perhaps the most anti-creative emotion of all: shame.

I especially like what I wrote in the post: