About

I tried everything outside me. Nothing changed.

The Way of the Alchemist is a YouTube channel and community where I teach Radical Awareness, after 8 years learning from monks, yogis and shamans. I help you manifest when life doesn't go to plan, by dissolving energetic blockages through Radical Awareness. I write and teach as the Alchemist.

Where it started

For a long time I looked for the answer outside myself. At one point a friend and I went on what I can only call a healer tour. We saw shamans in the middle of dancing rituals, blind healers who said they could feel where energy was blocked, and people who apparently spoke to angels. We did full moon rituals and eclipse rituals. Looking back, some of it was ridiculous.

One healer said something that stayed with me. Even if all of these things worked, they couldn't fix what was inside me. That part was my journey.

The loop

I'd try something, feel amazing, then wait. Nothing would happen, so I'd go looking for the next thing. I was stuck in a loop of doom.

I quite literally did everything except look at the mind.

From a recorded talk

Then a friend asked me, why don't you just stop trying? I didn't want to hear it. But it made me look at the part I'd been avoiding.

You attract what you are

I'd always taken that phrase to mean the outside, so I worked on how I looked and came across. What it really meant was my energy. Inside, I didn't trust life. I was in survival mode, controlling everything. I write more about that on you attract what you are.

What changed

I started sitting with what I felt instead of running from it. Over time a lot of things opened up. Old contacts got back in touch. Work opportunities came in. People offered to help. The best job I've had came to me without me even applying, at a time when I'd stopped needing it so badly. Mostly, the weight I'd been carrying stopped holding me down.

It still comes up

I'm not floating above it all. This is still true for me:

Sometimes I feel tired. Sometimes I feel like, how much more is there to go? Sometimes I have no faith in life, and, uh, it just comes up. We're all human at the end of the day.

From a recorded talk

When it comes up, I sit with it like anything else.

Find me

I keep my personal life private and teach as the Alchemist.

Questions people ask me

Who is the Alchemist?

I'm the person behind The Way of the Alchemist. I write and teach as the Alchemist. I spent 8 years learning from monks, yogis and shamans, and these days I teach Radical Awareness on YouTube and in The Alchemists.

Is The Way of the Alchemist connected to the novel The Alchemist?

No. The channel isn't affiliated with the book or its author.

Do you guarantee results?

No. I can't promise what will show up or when, and I'm wary of anyone who does. What I can do is show you the practice that changed things for me.