Episode 24: Sarah Elkhaldy - The Alchemist: Integrating Consciousness in the Modern World

 Guest Bio

Sarah Elkhaldy, known as The Alchemist on YouTube, offers higher-dimensional guidance through spiritual awakenings. Highly claircognizant, her intuitive abilities and deep insights into the nature of reality create energetic transmissions that activate her audience on a soul level. Her videos are renowned for requiring multiple viewings to fully absorb their profound wisdom. Widely recognized as a leader in spirituality and the esoteric arts, Sarah's work bridges the higher with the lower, the outer world with the inner world. With an online community of hundreds of thousands of awakening souls, she assists humanity's evolution.  

- YouTube: @officialthealchemist  

- Energy Healing: alchemicalenergyhealing.com  

- Instagram: @the.alchemist  

- Community: thealchemist.community  

- Gaia Show: Mystery Teachings with Sarah Elkhaldy (via Gaia.com)

Setting

Recorded remotely with Smoke joining from Milan, Italy, at 3 AM local time (still on West Coast vibes after a last-minute flight), and Sarah from Southern California. The conversation flows like a late-night spiritual deep dive, blending Sedona's energetic retreat memories with Milan's worldly hustle, emphasizing the integration of awakening into everyday life.

 Summary

Smoke welcomes Sarah Elkhaldy, reflecting on their Sedona retreat connection and how her teachings provided a framework for his own awakening experiences. Smoke shares his entrepreneurial background, M&A work helping founders transition amid personal awakenings, and his journey from a "blank slate" to integrating consciousness with the physical world. They discuss soul retrieval, fragmentation from trauma, inner child healing through awareness, and the obscure "in-between" spaces of spiritual growth. Sarah explains her evolution from scripted content to unscripted insights on nihilistic depression and matrix disconnection. The dialogue explores Gurdjieff's Fourth Way, Enneagram shocks as energetic infusions (not just dark nights), natural law, subtle vs. gross energies, and the fun of embodying characters while staying aware. They touch on plant medicine's role in jarring the ego, paths like Jnana (knowledge), and pitching consciousness to leaders. The episode closes with gratitude, humor about Jehovah's Witnesses, and Sarah's sign-off: "Infinite love and gratitude."

Learnings

- **Soul Retrieval and Integration**: Prepare the body and energy field for retrieving fragmented soul aspects; dissociation hinders full embodiment, requiring grounding like roots in soil.

- **Inner Child and Awareness**: Sitting with pain or shadows without resistance dissolves them—consciousness withstands nothing when fully present.

- **Gross vs. Subtle Energies**: Master emotional and mental "gross energies" to perceive subtler ones; unchecked reactions keep us mechanical and animalistic.

- **Shocks in Awakening**: In Gurdjieff's Enneagram, shocks are external energies propelling transformation, not just crises—think Zen masters disrupting habits for ego destabilization.

- **Bridging Worlds**: Integrate spirituality into "real" life (e.g., business negotiations) by creating space between stimulus and response, turning leaders into conscious pillars.

- **Paths Vary**: Awakening isn't one-size-fits-all—plant medicine, knowledge (Jnana), or tough love all serve, but respect others' journeys without judgment.

 Universal Truths

- Consciousness integration is the era's challenge: Be in the world but not of it, embodying finer energies amid physical distractions.

- Awareness transforms: Nothing withstands sustained, non-resistant presence—shadows, traumas, and egos dissolve under its light.

- Fragmentation is common: Trauma causes soul loss, but retrieval invites wholeness when we're open vessels.

- Reality is fractal and limited: Our perceptual bandwidth is narrow for a reason—focus on reconfiguring what's accessible rather than grasping everything.

- Waves of Awakening: Humanity evolves in ripples, with early wavers guiding later ones, shifting roles as passions align.

 Examples

- Smoke's soul retrieval in a plant medicine ceremony: After childhood trauma and compartmentalization, forgiving and opening invited his soul back, feeling God's presence—echoing Ivan Rados' teachings.

- Sarah's shamanic preparation: Three sessions to ready her body for soul integration, avoiding incomplete retrieval due to dissociation.

- Zen Shock Moment: Thomas Merton's awakening during a tea ceremony when the master abruptly gulped his tea, shattering formal expectations to reveal "no one path."

- Mark Gober's Natural Law: Sarah repackages aggressive teachings positively to reduce resistance, honoring the call for broader dissemination.

- Times Square Observation: Smoke stays peaceful amid chaos, witnessing mechanical behaviors as a "science experiment," embodying contemplative presence.

Smoke Trail Threads

- Connects to Episode 11 (Ivan Rados) on soul loss/retrieval and consciousness as health—Smoke references Ivan's book for framing his experience.

- Echoes Episode 10 (Dani Brooks) on trauma healing and heart-mind coherence, expanding to inner child work and non-resistance.

- Builds on Episode 22 (Mark E. Walker) and Episode 23 (Robert Vera) by blending faith-driven innovation with esoteric arts like Gurdjieff's Fourth Way.

- Ties to Episode 20 (Solo on Gratitude/Journaling) and Episode 21 (Solo on Empathy vs. Compassion) through practical integration of awareness in business/leadership.

- Aligns with the Consciousness Guide's mindset shifts and spiritual practices, emphasizing subtle energies, non-attachment, and transcending polarities.