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The Alchemy of Tattooing
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The Alchemy of Tattooing

Tattooing as Ceremony, Transformation, and Ancestral Remembrance

“Every tattoo is a prayer written into the skin. The body becomes the altar, the skin becomes the scroll, and your story is honoured as sacred — it is transformation.”

 

The art of tattooing has always been more than skin deep. For our ancestors, it was sacred: a mark of identity, initiation, and connection to the unseen. Over time, this knowledge was suppressed, forgotten, and misunderstood — yet the memory remains, waiting to be awakened.

 

The Alchemy of Tattooing is the book that brings this wisdom back into the light.

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What the Book Reveals

 

Within these pages, you’ll discover:

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    •    Tattooing as Ceremony – how every marking can become a rite of passage.

    •    The Resonance of Symbols – the hidden vibration carried by lines, shapes, and designs.

    •    The Power of Intention – why what you bring into the session matters as much as the design itself.

    •    Ancestral Remembrance – how tattoos connect us to those who came before.

    •    The Transformation of the Self – tattoos as a living imprint of healing, growth, and empowerment.

 

This is not just a book about tattoos — it’s a transmission of sacred knowledge for those who feel the deeper call of markings on the skin.

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Who This Book Is For

 

This book is for:

    •    Tattoo collectors who sense their markings mean more than art.

    •    Artists seeking to deepen their craft with spiritual and ancestral context.

    •    Healers, seekers, and wisdom-keepers looking to understand tattooing as an ancient practice of transformation.

    •    Anyone ready to reclaim tattooing as a living ceremony.


 

Why I Wrote This Book

 

For nearly four decades, I have walked the path of tattooing — from traditional artistry to the sacred, ceremonial practice it has become in my hands. Along the way, I witnessed the power of tattoos to heal, to awaken, and to change lives forever.

 

The Alchemy of Tattooing is the culmination of this journey. It is an offering — to the ancestors, to the craft, and to you.

The Alchemy of Tattooing is available now.

Step into the remembrance of tattooing as ceremony, initiation, and ancestral connection.

 

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"A revelation. The Alchemy of Tattooing restores the soul to the practice that the modern world has tried to strip bare"
Sophie Clarke

"Finally, someone has written the book that reveals tattooing's sacred truth"
James Holloway

The Path to Coherence
How Clearing, Alignment, and Sacred Tattooing Rebuild the True Self

A book for those who can feel the ancient pull beneath their skin.

 

A book for those who know they carry weight that doesn’t belong to them.

 

A book for those who are ready to return to who they truly are.

 

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THE OPENING TRANSMISSION​

 

You are not broken.

You are not lost.

You are not behind.

 

You are simply carrying what was never yours.

 

The world teaches us to fix ourselves by adding more —

more knowledge,

more discipline,

more spiritual performance,

more tools,

more expectations.

 

But real transformation begins with removal.

With clearing the emotional debris, the ancestral imprint, the survival patterns, and the noise that has shaped you since childhood.

 

Only then does coherence return.

Only then does the inner compass speak.

Only then can the true self step forward.

 

This book is the map back to that self.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

 

The Path to Coherence reveals a four-stage journey that guides you out of fragmentation and into a grounded, embodied, ancestral return:

 

1. CLEARING — Letting Go of What Is Not Yours

 

Release inherited emotional weight, lineage trauma, and survival identities.

 

2. COHERENCE — Restoring Your Internal Architecture

 

Bring the field, the breath, and the nervous system back into alignment.

 

3. CONNECTION — Remembering Your Ancestral and Mythic Identity

 

Awaken the lineage behind you and reclaim the self beneath the noise.

 

4. CREATION — Anchoring the New Timeline Through Symbol and Skin

 

Use sacred tattooing as an ancient technology of transformation.

 

This is not a book about tattooing.

This is a book about becoming.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

 

This book is for those who feel:

    •    the heaviness of ancestral wounds

    •    the quiet grief of not recognising themselves

    •    the desire to live with purpose and clarity

    •    the pull of ancient memory and myth

    •    the longing for ceremony, symbol, and depth

    •    the sense that they are meant for more

    •    the knowing that something inside them has been asleep

    •    the intuition that they are ready to return

 

If you have ever felt the presence of your lineage,

if you feel called by symbol or sacred marking,

if you know your transformation is overdue —

 

you are the reader this book was written for.

WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE

 

Inside The Path to Coherence, you will:

    •    understand why you carry emotional weight not your own

    •    learn about clearing inherited patterns

    •    reconnect to your identity beyond trauma

    •    meet the mythic self that lives beneath your skin

    •    explore the energetic architecture of the human field

    •    understand how sacred tattooing anchors new identity

    •    discover how to move into a new timeline

    •    learn to embody your truth with strength and calm

    •    feel your ancestors rise behind you

    •    experience the return to coherence

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Explore Sacred Tattooing

Learn about the ceremonial process behind the transformation.

PREVIEW / FREE FIRST CHAPTER

Encounters
A Life Between Worlds

 

A True Story of the Unseen World

 

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There are moments when the world opens — and nothing is ever the same again.

 

Encounters is the true account of my journey into the living mystery behind the visible world.

What begins as subtle awareness unfolds into direct contact with forces older than civilisation,

revealing the thin veil between the seen and the unseen —

and the intelligence that moves beneath it all.

 

This book is not fiction.

Every story within it is real.

Only names have been changed. Nothing else has been altered.

 

If you have ever felt watched in the forest, sensed a presence move through the room,

or wondered whether consciousness extends far beyond the human mind… this book will speak to the part of you that already knows.

 

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A Journey Into the Hidden Architecture of Reality

 

Across these pages you’ll enter a world where:

 

Light forms assemble in mid-air — responding to presence, attention, and inner coherence.

Ancient beings of the wild return — revealing their purpose, their lineage, and their role in human evolution.

The land itself becomes a teacher, guiding, correcting, and communicating through signs, omens, and direct intervention.

Ceremony opens the field between worlds, allowing dialogue with intelligences who have walked beside humanity since before memory.

Mystery becomes map, showing the deeper structure of fear, consciousness, and the forgotten abilities still dormant within us.

 

This is more than a memoir.

It’s a transmission — an unfolding of experiences that challenge the boundaries of the possible

and invite the reader to reconsider what reality actually is.

 

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Reflections Beyond the Encounters

 

Each encounter concludes with a reflective exploration of the experience —

examining the spiritual, esoteric, and metaphysical teachings revealed through what unfolded.

 

These reflections draw out the deeper currents behind the encounters:

how consciousness operates beyond the physical,

how the land communicates,

how fear, memory, and perception shape reality,

and how ancient intelligences continue to interact with the human field.

 

Together, the encounters and reflections form a complete transmission —

experience paired with understanding, mystery balanced with meaning.

 

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Who This Book Is For

 

• The seeker who senses more behind the fabric of reality

• The sceptic who has experienced something they can’t explain

• The spiritually curious

• The mystic and the grounded realist alike

• Anyone who has had their own encounter — and stayed silent

• Readers of folklore, paranormal history, metaphysics, and spiritual awakening

• Those who feel called by forests, storms, ancient places, and the unseen

 

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If You're Looking For:

 

• A true story that reads like myth come alive

• A spiritual book grounded in lived experience, not theory

• A narrative that is atmospheric, and unsettling

• A reminder that the world is layered with intelligence and memory

 

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© 2020 SHANE COLEY TATTOOER

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