The Fertile Void
A 1-on-1 Mycelium Mentorship to explore the depths of consciousness through the lens of spiritual alchemy
Spiritual Alchemy is a powerful and transformative process that has been around for ages.
It is through this archetypal process that we can unearth and transmute some of the things that plague us the most, including trauma, density, illness, depression, anxiety, and beyond.
Spiritual alchemy helps us access that which is repressed, ignored, pushed down, avoided shows its face in the gestation of alchemy.
What is unconscious can accumulate, often resulting in symptoms such as depression and anxiety, insomnia, frustration, anger, disharmony in the body, and more.
This solitary journey is a great opportunity to go into the quietude of our inner temple, touch what is there, and use that material to offer to the fertile void, bringing forth the truth of your soul.
Join me on this 8 week guided study with some gentle help of our mycelial friends as we follow the path of spiritual alchemy.
What is spiritual alchemy?
Spiritual alchemy draws upon the physical process of transmutation where we turn lead (the unconscious) into gold (liberation or the essence of our soul).
Carl Jung has a large body of work surrounding spiritual alchemy and has called it “The Magnum Opus” or “The Great Work”.
In this transformative process of spiritual alchemy, the integration of the conscious and unconscious aspects of oneself come together, bringing forth a wholeness by allowing all parts of oneself (the lead and the gold) to be.
This 7-stage process involves liberating ourselves from our wounds, fears, habitual ways of being, outdated stories and beliefs by acknowledging them and integrating them into one’s being, often referred to as individuation, but also called integration and liberation.
Who this study is for
This study is open to all gender identifying beings who…
Are coming up against seasonal depression, anxiety & PTSD and want to learn about alternative ways to treat and heal yourself.
Have a desire to work with our plant allies in a ceremonial, intentional and respectful way, creating a safe set & setting that acknowledges and welcomes the subtle and feminine in all of us and all her big-ness.
Are curious to learn ways how to work with our plant allies to hold space for your repressed emotions and hard-to-hold experiences that talk therapy just can’t touch.
Feel like the depths of your being need to be pushed down and repressed to fit into your relationship, community, family, society.
Are tired of containers & communities that skip over or make wrong the “taboo” topics of eros, emotions, shadows, death.
If any or all of these resonate with you, then this mycelial study has been created for you.
After being a student of medicine for the last 13 years, and learning from indigenous elders and communities all over the world, I have come across a consistent need for all that is dark, subtle, soft, emotional, lunar, to be held in medicine spaces.
This space is NOT just for women, but it honors the feminine in all of us - something deeply understudied and met in our society.
And as a Psych*delic Therapist & Ceremonialist, I deeply desire to open this space.
Meet me in the folds of the mystery, where we will gather and explore our deepest inner realms while weaving a supportive web of support in a process of spiritual alchemy.
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
— Carl Jung
What is psycholytic dosing?
Considered to be similar to m*crodosing, "psycholytic" means "soul-dissolving," but I’ve also heard of it described as "ego loosening".
A mantra used with psycholytic dosing is "go low, and go slow".
It involves ingesting lower doses of mycelium & plants at a greater frequency where you are fully oriented to the experience, rather than in a macro-dose, or large dose journey.
Psycholytic dosing is slightly different from traditional m*crodosing, as the dosing is a bit larger and the effects of the mycelium or plants are quite perceptual, rather than m*crodosing’s sub-perceptual effects.
An experienced guide and well-intentioned set & setting is necessary for the space to allow for the benefits of psycholytic dosing to emerge.
Psycholytic dosing has been around for over 100 years, but has been highly neglected by our modern therapeutic world.
It is usually used in tandem with talk therapy and is often done when a person has a desire to gently loosen their defense mechanisms and explore repressed emotions and memories that may be wreaking havoc in their life and causing symptoms such as depression and anxiety and a general feeling of dis-harmony within.
Other benefits include an expansion of awareness, cognitive and emotional insights, shifts in perspective.
I love psycholytic dosing because it allows us to move at the pace of our slowest parts, and gently explore the depths of our beings without the harshness of a big dose journey.
What’s included in this container
Container for 3 low-dose mycelium journeys where you’ll be guided & supported to journey within your inner temple
7 weekly 1-on-1 calls via Zoom to support your process and dive into each week’s topic (based on the model of Spiritual Alchemy)
1 preparation & 1 integration call to onboard and offboard you from this container in a gentle way
Psycholytic dosing guidance including: the preparation, intention, protection, set, setting & integration
7 personalized integration prompts addressing each of the 7 stages of Spiritual Alchemy
Downloadable Harm Reduction & Dosing guide to make sure you’re held safely in this container
Recorded meditations to support each state of your process
Spotify playlists to accompany your journey supporting each stage of our group process
On-going voice message support from me via Signal for the entirety of the program and beyond
Please note: In order to keep this offering legal, I am not responsible for providing any substances to any participants in the group, and it is recommended you follow your local laws and guidelines.
Weekly Schedule
Each week we you and I will cover a different topic of the spiritual alchemy process. Each call will last around 1-1.5 hours via Zoom and will include a us diving into each week’s stage, preparatio and integration of your psycholytic journeys, and your individual process The weeks that are starred are the weeks you’ll be encouraged to do your self led journey. The idea is that each call provides a full container, preparation, set and setting and integration for your self-led journey.
Preparation Call
Week 1: Calcination
We’ll begin with a gentle descent into the darkness of winter, and begin to call forth that which is buried, hidden, the material of the unconscious. Often symbolized by fire and ash, by acknowledging our darkness, we often fuel the fire for the transformation of it.
Week 2: Dissolution*
We deepen into our inner waters to explore our fears around our deepest parts of ourselves, and create a gentle container for an outlet for repressed emotions pushed down in our psyche, which can be very cathartic as we free ourselves from the inauthentic defenses we create to hide behind.
Week 3: Separation
Often referred to as un-blending and associated with the element of air, this week will be dedicated to completing the process of purification, and stepping back from our habitual thought processes and trigger responses and start to sense our true essence, and how it differentiates from our acquired personality.
Week 4: Conjunction*
After the first three stages of purification, we begin our process of embodiment, working with the element of Earth. We begin to unify all we’ve discovered so far, as well as the body and spirit, as we begin to understand our inherent self, intuition and emotional intelligence.
Week 5: Putrefaction
Putrefaction is a process that describes the composting of one’s old self and the rebirth of one’s true Self. The first four weeks are all about transforming the shadow, the darkness, the in-authentic and un-true, and combining all the elements within us. This stage can be likened to the rebirth of the phoenix from its own ashes.
Week 6: Distillation*
In a distillation process, the essence of a matter is liberated. In Jungian terms, this stage is the assimilation of the shadow into our true self. At this stage, the conscious and unconscious aspects of the self are brought into harmony, creating the song of your true soul.
Week 7: Coagulation
Coagulation involves solidifying solidification of our true self and can be likened to healing from a wound as we feel ourselves to be independent and complete. This is a moment which we celebrate and acknowledge all that we are, as we connect more deeply to our true “gold” or essence than ever before.
Integration Call
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Meet your guide, Krystal
Krystal Penrose is an Integrated Psychedel*c Therapist Co-Founder of Kokoleka Collective, where she serves her mission of the re-emergence and re-membering of the ancestral and matriarchal, Earth and heart based ways of living and serving. She is dedicated to protecting and upholding the ancestral wisdom of cacao and other medicines, and pilgrimages regularly to Central & South America to continue building bridges between this wisdom and the modern world.
In addition, she has created Earth & Spirit Medicine, where she weaves Transpersonal Psychology, Ancestral teachings, Plant & Mycelial Wisdom, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Trauma Recovery work as well as Preparation & Integration into her 1-on-1, group, ceremony and retreat containers.
She was born in Detroit and is currently based on Kaua'i, Hawaii, and has been traveling extensively internationally for the last 15 years.
Questions?
Feel free to email me at hello.krystalpenrose@gmail.com.