This month, we honor the efforts of Monarch Visionary Lena Miller, Ph.D, recently adorned by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the most influential people of the city. Dr. Lena Miller is the co-founder and CEO of Urban Alchemy, a nonprofit employment social enterprise that provides returning citizens with meaningful and impactful roles in addressing homelessness and its resulting chaos in city neighborhoods through a peaceful transition to spiritual empowerment.

For millennia, alchemists and mystics have enduringly sought out the secrets to the Universe, namely the power to harness the primordial elemental forces in pursuit of spiritual mastery. In alchemy, which studies our divine relationship with nature, the philosopher’s stone is a mythical substance believed to have the ability to transform base metals into gold or silver, and to generate the elixir of life, honored as Amrit in Sanskrit. Alchemists see it as the most perfect substance attainable and a symbol of divine illumination, heavenly bliss, and perfection of the human soul, capable of curing illnesses, prolonging life, and inspiring spiritual revitalization.

The philosopher’s stone, first mentioned 4,000 years ago in ancient stone carvings, is believed to be a common substance, to be found everywhere in plain view but hidden from common sight. The quest for the stone, described in the Magnum Opus, encouraged alchemists from the Middle Ages to the end of the 17th century to examine in their laboratories numerous substances and their interactions. This quest thereby provided a deep body of elemental wisdom that ultimately led to the sciences of chemistry, metallurgy, and pharmacology.

Within the delicate balance wherein worlds collide is where the hidden power lies, for secret wisdom is bestowed upon those who devotedly serve its intention to harmonize. As the resonance of our living word attunes to the radiance of the heart, that is when the veil between worlds shall part. Urban Alchemy was founded in 2018 to deliver a long-term, enlightened approach to cure the soul-wrenching paradigm of homelessness, crime, and challenging street conditions faced by communities throughout the nation.

Urban Alchemy’s Ambassadors program places high numbers of practitioners with lived experience and trauma-informed conflict de-escalation training on some of the neighborhood’s most problematic blocks to help mitigate conflict, keep streets and sidewalks clean and passable, and connect the homeless to housing and services. More than 90% of practitioners are formerly long-term incarcerated and/or have experienced homelessness themselves.

Revitalizing those in need through purpose in service, Urban Alchemy provides a pathway for opportunity. As a bridge between two extremes, Urban Alchemy serves as a conduit for the alchemical transformation of the human soul. Urban Alchemy Practitioners leverage their ever-evolving emotional intelligence and leadership skills to empathize and de-escalate, helping create safe, clean and housed communities, while developing their own personal spiritual growth through embodied compassion in the toughest neighborhoods and streets.

Dr. Lena Miller sensed the calling as early as she can remember: “I always felt a clear signal, a presence, a knowing. I was fascinating by anything spiritual.” Dr. Lena Miller shares that “to pick up the pattern is the presence, and in the presence is the communication.” Which made her question: “What is this? What is this that we are all feeling?”

Dr. Lena Miller started her first nonprofit at 23-years old, and at the inception of Urban Alchemy, she states: “I felt like I wanted to come out of the closet. Everything I touched turned to gold… We have lost our ability to attune, to receive our messages, the ongoing intelligence and consciousness of the creator. This is where our power comes from. It’s out there.”

Envision an awakened species biorhythmically orchestrated in sacred heart service to actualize Universal Harmony, fueling an Inner Flame that unleashes the dormant powers of the divinely inspired mind to psychically penetrate into the cosmic mysteries of Mother Earth’s ancient Kundalini Shakti bio-resonance celestial frequencies.

The Middle Ages of the Medieval Period, known as the Dark Ages, was marked by difficulties and calamities including famine, plague, and war, which significantly diminished the population of Europe. Yet, from the accumulated suffering of the many centuries of profound strife sprung a seasoned heart rooted into the depths of the Earth to fruit the wisdom to carry us forth. Following the Middle Ages, the Renaissance was a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic flourishing that promoted the rediscovery of classical philosophy, literature and art, including the restoration of Hermetic and Platonic foundations to European Alchemy.

There is no doubt that we are now amidst a collective rebirth as global emotional and mental instability as well as economic and planetary resource inefficiencies guide us inwards to leverage the ancient wisdom stored within the Earth’s crystalline memory streams, the planetary field of consciousness, that was harnessed by ancient civilizations to wield the intelligence of the cosmos.

“In alchemy, all things are evolving but considered to be exposed to a wave of energies becoming involved in matter as well, and thus subject to hindrances and impurities from matter not ready or mature enough to evolve beyond a certain level (corruptible matter). As a result the energies of life are weakened and the energies of matter predominate when it is the energies of life which should predominate. The alchemist believed that by understanding Nature’s laws and applying them with Art, that it is possible to remove hindrances to the evolutionary wave so that the energies of life can predominate and lift the subject toward perfection.” – “Real Alchemy A primer of Practical Alchemy” by Robert Allen Bartlett

The Urban Alchemy Ambassadors program empowers resurrected souls to walk the streets as stewards of hope, with the level of compassion of those who have been risen to guide fallen spirits through the fire of transformation. A spiritual organ, the heart is replenished with the astral light of the Heavens, received through the pineal gland’s inner eye, channeled as we root into the Earth to deliver power to the people. Radiantly embodying the sweet nectar of our transfiguration, we nourish those in need with the ancient wisdom to inspire illumination. Sealed on the forehead by the illumination of inner sight, we transform the darkness of our environment through the power of the Cosmic Christ.

Emotional frequencies of love and truth are a contagion that threaten the collapse of hierarchies that feed off the soul’s division, for once kindled, the flames of hope alchemically reveal the true reality of our glorious unity. As the frequency bandwidth expands between our collective heart’s current, our senses expand to reveal the mystical mysteries hidden within and before us. A wealth of wisdom flows beneath our feet, accessible to those whose hearts beat with the rhythm of the Earth’s celestial bio-frequencies.

Currently operating in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Portland, Austin and Birmingham, Urban Alchemy’s unique approach supports the formerly incarcerated in transforming the stone in their hearts to gold, engendering a deep sense of worthiness that radiantly beckons others forth to question their darkened reality as a deeper truth is risen from within the Earth to uplift them. Hope cries out for love and acceptance from the depths of every soul.

As more cities investigate Dr. Lena Miller’s success, the police force has become her greatest advocate. In January 2024, the Stanford Ethnography Lab published a report celebrating the drop in crime in the Urban-Alchemy-served neighborhoods of San Francisco where Urban Alchemy marches in-step with law enforcement agencies, city departments and community organizations to harbor peace amongst the chaos in the streets. The study reported that crime rates at Urban Alchemy-served intersections dropped by 52% over the course of the year, and drug crime rates dropped by 80%. 

“The flip-side of trauma, is that as you survive, you develop this super power, called emotional intelligence. The more that you have to learn to read your environment, so that your survival is dependent upon it, the better you get at it. People in prison, in particular, are able to develop this skill, to be able to read people’s energy. People have become so good at concealing their intentions, but your life could be in jeopardy if you can’t read it.”

Dr. Lena Miller continues: “We are the largest community-based public safety, also known as alternatives to the police, in the country. We are employing individuals returning home from former life sentences. The symmetry of the organization is mind-blowingly beautiful, and our largest supporters are the police. We are going to use our gift, because these are the times we are living in, and we know how to use it.”

“My sense of God is my wonder about the Universe.” – Albert Einstein

From the Latin ‘in’-‘telos’-‘gero,’ meaning “to accomplish the inner goal,” the evolution of intelligence is contingent upon spiritual service. Our self-awareness and higher comprehension evolve as we develop conviction in the voice that speaks from the depths of our heart, surrendering our resistance to the power of love as we come together for the values that drive our existence. The self-fulling prophecy of the Second Coming of the Christ is birthed inside as we rise in alignment with the fire-born vision that is our birthright.

The sanskit word for the heart chakra is Anahata, meaning unstruck sound. As the heart expands into fulfillment, it’s beat stills to an effervescent electromagnetic auric pulse of golden radiance from which seeds the tree of life overflowing with healing frequencies to activate the gifts of heightened awareness and divine senses in service of humanity’s peaceful co-existence. Rising to higher states of evolution perceivable only to those whose senses are in attunement, we rapture through our Solar Heart’s Ascension into a Universe illumined by spirit.

According to the Ideos Institute of Pasadena, California, Empathic Intelligence is “a pursuit of knowing. It is a practical and powerful process of gaining new insights and empathic understanding that leads to ideas unconsidered or deemed impossible in its absence. Unlike other intelligences, it relies not only on the accumulation of data or knowledge, but the unique ability to understand, and then act upon, the experiences and perspectives of others without negating one’s own in the process.”

The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus believed fire to be the fundamental material that united all things, including all other elemental forces, and saw the world, itself, as an “ever-living fire.” Indeed, it is the electrical fire of the heart, risen by the Passion of the Christ, known as the Kundalini Shakti in Sanskrit, that activates the cosmic bio-frequencies of the organ system, the chakras in Yogic philosophy – each relating to a different elemental aspect. Empaths, who are activated by service, ascend into higher consciousness states to penetrate the many veils of perception. The nectar of illumination, Amrit, also known as the spirit molecule, DMT, is synthesized and metabolized in the brain as the body’s electrical system rises to higher vibrations. The spiritual gifts of service are rewarded to those who are devoted to the transformation of spiritual planes from terrestrial to celestial.

Guided upon a blossoming vision, the golden hearts of empaths can sense those in kind, as, endowed with a divinely-inspired mind, we perceive through each other’s inner eye. To cross the veil to the higher realms, in receipt of our divine inheritance, we must walk a path of celestial resonance, for it is the will to serve that activates our divine intelligence.

Urban Alchemy’s HEART program, which stands for “Homeless Engagement Assistance Response Team” is a community-based public safety initiative designed to respond to non-emergency situations involving homeless individuals, often by deploying practitioners with lived experience of homelessness to de-escalate situations and connect people to necessary resources; essentially acting as an alternative to police intervention in such scenarios. Rather than aggressively combating homelessness, the program prioritizes compassion and understanding to connect with people in crisis on a deeper level.

Dr. Lena Miller shares: “Our strength in rapid implementation came from the prison experience, from people having structure and knowing how to work together. We have transferrable skills, meaning that you don’t have to throw away your past, you don’t have to be ashamed of it, or pretend it didn’t happen. Everything that happened to you made you who you are today. In prison, structure keeps you alive.”

Whether we are born into wealth or despair, within every soul’s vessel rests an unrealized purpose that, as actualized through selfless service, becomes our life’s greatest affair. To realize one’s eternal mission is the greatest experience; to bestow this gift marks the characteristics of true leadership. Guiding souls out of their darkness, wayshowers establish a path for salvation through spiritual empowerment. Illuminating the demonic cords of spiritual enslavement, flamebearers awaken higher sense within the blind-hearted, inspiring the alchemical transformation through the embodiment of ancient spiritual wisdom for the healing astral light to liberate their anchored perspectives.

Those whose hearts are pure serve as a portal through which others can soar, to pierce the veil and sense beyond their sickness and behold the glory of their true condition, their true wealth as the Lord’s golden cherubim. “There’s a way we can all do better and it’s out there, it’s no longer a secret. I asked myself all the time ‘Why are they so disrespectful, so greedy and so ugly about things?’ It’s bad, we shouldn’t be doing stuff like this. There are better ways to do things, and I do not know why we are not doing a better job. The alarm has been sounding for a long time. Treat people with respect, when people have been affected by trauma, don’t scare them more or yell at them; be kind, be patient, make their surroundings beautiful,” shares Dr. Miller.

Righteousness is contagious. Dr. Rupert Sheldrake introduced the concept of morphogenic fields to describe the gravitational, electromagnetic, and quantum matter fields that emanate from every cell, organ, and organism. These fields are interconnected across all space and time, all sentient creation. Through acts of kindness, love and compassion, the genetic cellular structure of humanity rises across the fields of the Earth, creating ripples across space-time. This resonant field activates our genetic expression, including collective thought fields, even across the fluid structure of time. This field, which many feel as their calling, resonates through the senses, permeating through dense matter to gradually shift structures. As one steps forward, many shall be called to follow.

Ancient civilizations harnessed this field of consciousness that runs through the Earth’s ley lines as power generators and consciousness field amplifiers, witnessed in the remnants of ancient temple and pyramid sites, which were also in alignment with the celestial consciousness of the star system, channeling divine cosmic frequencies into the Earth’s planetary intelligence. As our etheric spirit emerges from the carbon structure of our form, we connect with this rich resource of power, wisdom, consciousness – the planetary kundalini shakti – that flows throughout time as a rainbow river of cosmic light, evolving with the universal orchestration of life.

Through valiancy and righteousness, as we attune to this field, not only do we heal, we evolve, not only within ourselves, but across our ancestral lineages and across the planetary kingdoms. The further we transgress from the source of Universal unity, the more powerful the calling draws us, creating emotional and mentality calamity until we tear down the walls between us, clearing the resistance for the force to work through us.

Will we learn how to carry ourselves? Will we remember the teachings stored within our flesh? Will we harness the power we stand on to serve those who cannot yet behold their worth to witness the glory of an illumined Earth? As hearts unite, invisible walls dissolve. As the will to serve is realized, the force within creates through our eyes.

For more information on Urban Alchemy visit: https://urban-alchemy.us