Two former "bee-priestesses" investigate literary hoaxes and false spiritual lineages, starting with the Path of Pollen as termed in Simon Buxton's book, The Shamanic Way of the Bee. This one is personal. It is thorough, full of insight with side dishes of snark, laughs and a healthy dose of cuss words. We take the work seriously, but not ourselves...

My Alchemical Romance:

A podcast where two spiritually over seasoned women explore and investigate the lure of fraudulent magical books, self-styled gurus, hidden traditions and what it means, in reality, to follow a sacred path or what you believe to be a calling. Especially when you're paying money for it...

There are many religious, occult, shamanic traditions out there - often overlapping in their doctrines, beliefs, lore and practices. Offerings of magic in a chaos laced world are seductive, and never more so when the bond of community runs parallel.

We hold a fascination in the wellspring of belief and faith in the unseen. And more so the weave of how mystical knowing becomes the fabric of how a life is lived. But what’s often overlooked, yet as compelling, is when that weave is ripped apart.

Welcome! Who are we? What are we doing? Why are we doing it? Are we insane? Do we have enough biscuits to carry on?

Join us on our introductory episode where we give you the run down and the reason, where we beg and plead for your patience and forgiveness for our editing skills, and promise a whole buch of times that it'll be interesting, we swear!

Two brand spanking new "angry, mean girl" podcasters (that's us) are about to give you every excruciating detail of the Lore and Undoing of the UK's Mystery School; The Sacred Trust. We've dug deep into the Rise and Fall of it's founder, British shaman Simon Buxton, author of the fake autobiography The Shamanic Way of the Bee.

We've become investigative journalists, just for this! Join us! We're terrified and full of the aforementioned bisquits!

Part one of the information dense coverage about Simon Buxton's start as well as the beginnings of The Sacred Trust and the Path of Pollen. We talk a bit about what The Shamanic Way of the Bee is about. Plus: Early Staff Members & Bios, British Broadsheets Interview with Lewis, The Nektary & Nektars, The Melissae, The Sisterhoods, Early Interviews, The Liber Mantikos, The Serpent Flight of the Honey Bee, Vanishing of the Bees Documentary, Impersonal Use of S*xual energy, and More.

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