The Invisible River — Part II
Interview with Maestro Temini Isaac Boatright
(Temini — Nahuatl word for sibling)
Hosted by Hugh T. Alkemi
For ENTHEORADIO / The Alkemi Show
INTRODUCTION
Hugh: Hello and welcome. This is Hugh T. Alkemi of ENTHEORADIO, soon to become The Alkemi Show for human transmutation.
I’m here with a very special friend, a brother, Temini, and a teacher friend of mine who is offering some amazing work.
May I introduce Maestro Temini Isaac Boatright. You’ve met him before on our show. Introduce yourself a little bit, Isaac.
Isaac: Welcome to the show. Welcome to the interview. Hey, thank you for having me.
I’m happy to be here. I am a participant in the mystery. I’m a student and practitioner of alchemy and the healing arts, sorcery and magic, herbalism, and many other things.
I’m an artist and a teacher.
PERSONAL HISTORY & ENERGY
Hugh: When you first presented this concept to me, you suggested there was this metaphor you titled the workshop after: The Invisible River.
It seemed like an opportunity to consider all the paths taken in the future and the past, and all of the intentional energy that we are.
Would you go deeper into energy, memory, and personal history for people who are new to these ideas?
Isaac: Functioning as a human being, we tend to have a story — an identity.
In reality, we are awareness — pure awareness.
The way awareness flows and focuses determines how much energy, how many options, and how much agency we have.
If someone lives a long time and accumulates a lot of story, it can weigh them down.
The great thing is that we don’t have to believe in our story for it to still exist and be useful.
This is what it means to become lucid in the dream of life.
RECAPITULATION
Hugh: The way I see it is like walking the same path through a forest repeatedly. Eventually the ground becomes impacted.
The forest itself is wild and full of possibility, but repetition creates grooves.
What I hear you saying is that there’s an opportunity for new growth when we stop walking the same path over and over again.
Isaac: The main technique we’ll practice together at The Invisible River intensive is called Recapitulation.
It’s a way of going over the path of your life and undoing it rather than continually doing it.
In Recapitulation, we give back the energy of other people, places, and times while bringing our own energy back through the breath.
It’s simple:
In through the nose.
Out through the mouth.
Sweeping the head gently side to side.
You revisit experiences through sensation rather than narrative.
BRANCHING & ALTERNATE TIMELINES
Hugh: Another fascinating idea from the intensive is Branching — the idea of working with unlived lives and roads not taken.
Why do certain missed opportunities continue to haunt or shimmer for us years later?
Isaac: Those lingering experiences still carry energy.
The Branching meditation allows you to consciously dream those possibilities.
You revisit the moment in trance and branch into another timeline to experience what that alternate life may have felt like.
CLOSING
Hugh: This material works with inner psychology — the light and shadow aspects of ourselves — but also edges into magic, sorcery, and shamanism.
The intensive takes place June 28th and 29th in Cottage Grove near Eugene, Oregon.
For now, this has been Hugh T. Alkemi and Isaac Boatright.
Be well. Live well.