Starts on Friday 10am April 25, 2025. These three days of instruction are not just nine to five, Robert works as much as needed on experiments and teaching well into the night. Class size limited to twelve people.

A few tents are available here and a sleeping cabin, first come first serve. Snacks provided. There are also several nearby hotels as well as casinos and dining, such as the beautiful Indian Themed Tulalip Casino and Hotel with many great restaurants inside offering delicious local fare and seafood. Enjoy the beauty of the NW and the Tulalip Indian Reservation. There is also a trailer space that sleeps two as well as two teepee tents and ample grounds for bringing your own tent.

Classes are intensive. We encourage staying on site, as much teaching and lively discussion and checking of experiments goes on well into the night.

Refunds if cancelled within 3 days of your order. No refunds after, though credit can be given for a future class after three days minus a 10% fee.

This first in the series of classes introduces the History and Philosophy of the Alchemical Tradition and its practical application in the plant world.

Robert Bartlett, world-renowned author and lecturer on Practical Alchemy, offers his decades of experience, knowledge, and experimentation in this unique and informative Class. He has studied under Frater Albertus, Paracelsus Research Society SLC, completed his degree in Chemistry at Boise State and appointed Chief Chemist and Director of Research at Paralab, the commercial offshoot of the then established Paracelsus College, SLC, UT until its dissolution in 1984.

In these classes you are offered the experience of a Chemist of many years as well as a Parachemist of Alchemical techniques and Knowledge. Some of his successful students have been Sajah Popham, Evolutionary herbalism, Catamara Rosarium and Rosarium Blends, Phoenix Aurelius and many others, as well as Naturopaths and Acupuncturists, and other Alternative Practitioners that have enhanced their healing toolboxes.

You will learn how to separate the Three alchemical essentials from plants, known to the Ancients as the Salt, Sulfur, and Mercury, and to purify those essentials using a variety of techniques both traditional and unique, proprietary to our Classes.

You will also learn how to recombine those purified essentials into a medicinal agent with miraculous power, creating your own basic tinctures to fortify your body both subtle and sublime corresponding to the seven planetary energies affecting all living things.

You get practical hands on activities using easy-to-find materials and equipment so that anyone can do this at home, opening the way for a lifetime of powerful medicines at your disposal!

This class also serves as an intro to advanced alchemical works in the animal kingdom (no animals are harmed in this), as well as mineral and metals; these are long recognized as powerful agents in Ayurveda and Western Alchemy.