Keys to the Kingdom of Alchemy

The transformational fire burning within Erik for many years has been a passion for substances and processes integral to ancient technologies, along with their applications towards health and well-being, social evolution, and psycho-spiritual reconnection. This ultimately led to a profession as a researcher ... and to the collateral study of alchemy, visionary plants and the hidden history of humanity as personal interests. Some have labeled him an alchemist, mystic, shaman, researcher, writer ( ... plus a few things inappropriate for a public forum ), but mostly Erik is just passionately fascinated by life's unbounded multiplicity of expression.Erik is as comfortable in triple-canopy tropical rainforest or the high Himalayas as he is in the lab. He spends his time (between travels) at his home in the Indian Himalayas or on a tiny coconut island in the gulf of Thailand with his wife Sunisa and daughter Ayla.

Keys to the Kingdom of Alchemy is a decoding of the chemical reaction encrypted in Basil Valentine's The Stone of the Great Philosophers - The XII Keys. This new interpretation primarily addresses operative alchemy. Apart from operative aspects however, a tremendous amount of rich allegorical storytelling and masterful conceptual blending reveals the author of The XII Keys to have been a highly educated polymath fluent in not only alchemy but also Christian mysticism, Greco-Roman mythology and Perennial Philosophy. Such a complete package in a single author is certain to be of interest to professional researchers and alchemy enthusiasts.