The Sālikah Alchemist

Reflections and contemplations that bridge ancient spirituality and modern psychology for the awakening of self and society.

ThāL Mohammed ThāL Mohammed

Metaphysics of Awakening the Heart: The Faculty of Truth-Seeing in Christian and Sufi Mysticism

What if the heart is not just an emotional center but the axis of perception itself—the mirror through which we know what is true?

In this reflection, I trace the metaphysics of the heart across Christian and Sufi mysticism—drawing from St. Teresa of Ávila, Al-Ghazali, Jungian psychology, and the esoteric teachings of al-Buni and the Chishti tradition.

The heart is not a metaphor here. It is a living organ of truth-seeing—a vessel of Divine presence and a site of both rupture and return.

We explore how the spiritual journey unfolds within the heart through layered states of longing, surrender, ego-death, and mystical union.

This is not a call to idealism. It’s a reckoning with our humanity. In a world that often abandons the soul for spectacle, to awaken the heart is to remember who we are—and who we are not.

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Jesters, Jinn, & DMT Entities: Encounters with Archetypes and the Unseen

What if what you saw in the depths of altered states wasn’t just your imagination? What if some visions weren’t symbolic—but real?

This journal delves into the murky intersections between DMT entities, Islamic cosmology, and archetypal psychology. We explore jinn not as fantasy or superstition, but as part of the broader architecture of consciousness—where dreams, trauma, and mystery collide.

Drawing on personal visions, ancestral memory, and transpersonal frameworks, I offer an integrative reflection that resists the romanticism of New Age spirituality and the reductionism of modern psychiatry.

With humility and discernment, we open a door—carefully.

The ego is worse than 70,000 demons.
— Habib Umar bin Hafiz

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Healing the Soul (1): Islamic Psychology and Transpersonal Therapy for Mental Wellness

Mental health is soul health.

This journal bridges Islamic Psychology and Transpersonal Therapy, challenging the medical model’s grip on human suffering and reclaiming ancient frameworks of healing. Drawing on Islamic cosmology, Sufism, and the transpersonal tradition, I explore what it means to treat the whole self—beyond symptoms, beyond identity labels, beyond Western binaries of science and religion.

The soul is constantly in alchemical refinement, on its way to enlightenment—knowingly or unknowingly—towards the Divine.

Whether you’re a seeker, therapist, or someone simply questioning the limitations of modern mental health models, this piece invites you into a conversation that is long overdue.

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The Nature of Madness: Psychosis or Spiritual Awakening?

What if losing your mind isn’t the end—but the beginning?

This journal is a reckoning with the blurred line between madness and mysticism. It explores the terrain of spiritual emergencies, visionary states, and altered consciousness through the lens of transpersonal psychology, lived experience, and ancestral insight.

Is it psychosis? A call from the soul? A test? A transformation?

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. — Joseph Campbell

Written for clinicians, spiritual seekers, and anyone walking the edges of reason and revelation—this piece is a call to reimagine healing as a sacred process, not just a clinical fix.

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Self-Love vs. Ego-Love

The Fine Line Between Inner Nourishment and Narcissism

Self-love is a sacred act—until it becomes a performance.

In this journal, I explore the blurry terrain between true self-compassion and ego inflation. Drawing on Sufism, depth psychology, astrology, and the rise of wellness culture in the Age of Aquarius, we ask: What does it really mean to love the self?

Self-love comes from expansiveness. Ego-love contracts.

From shadow work to spiritual vigilance, this is an invitation to move beyond spa days and surface affirmations—and into the deeper, sometimes uncomfortable territory of soul-tending.

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How Dream Analysis Reveals the Hidden Depths of Our Unconscious

Dreams are not random. They are mirrors of the soul.

This journal journeys through the symbolic terrain of dreams—drawing from Jungian psychology, Islamic tradition, and Sufi mysticism.

Dreams can carry warnings, truths, and archetypal messages—sometimes subtle, sometimes terrifying. The question is not what they mean, but how we learn to listen.

Open your eyes, for this world is only a dream. — Rumi

Whether you're a seeker, a clinician, or simply curious about the mysteries of the night—this piece invites you to treat your dreams with the reverence of revelation.

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Shadow Work: When Your Un-lived Life Looms

The parts we reject don’t disappear—they wait.

This journal is a deep dive into the inner darkness we all carry—and often avoid. Drawing from Robert A. Johnson’s Owning Your Own Shadow, Jungian psychology, Sufi wisdom, and personal reflection, it explores how wholeness requires us to reclaim both the “gold” and the grief we’ve buried.

To heal the world, we begin with our own shadow.

To make light is to make shadow; one cannot exist without the other. — Robert A. Johnson

If you’ve ever felt stuck, disillusioned, or like parts of you are still waiting to be lived—this one is for you.

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Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Virginia Woolf