Normandi Ellis is an Arch-priestess of the Fellowship of Isis, a clairvoyant Spiritualist minister and an internationally known teacher. She is the author of 12 books, most notably the spiritual classic Awakening Osiris, based on the hieroglyphic text of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. For over 25 years Awakening Osiris has been a touchstone of the spiritual tourist through Egypt and was described as an essential text for the spiritual pilgrim. Her other works in the Egyptian mystical tradition include Dreams of Isis: A Woman's Spiritual Sojourn, Feasts of Light: Celebrations for the Seasons of Life based on the Egyptian Mysteries, Invoking the Scribes of Ancient Egypt (with Gloria Taylor Brown), Imagining the World Into Existence: A Manual of Ancient Egyptian Consciousness and her original Egyptian hymns collected in Words on Water. Her most recent forthcoming book with Nicki Scully is The Union of Isis and Thoth: The Initiatory Practices of Ancient Egypt (Dec 2015).

A sought after teacher of the mysteries, she also teaches as creative writing, having received advanced degrees for her creative work and journalism. Her award-winning fiction includes Sorrowful Mysteries and other Stories, Going West and Fresh Fleshed Sisters. She is the recipient of writing fellowships, including those from The Kentucky Foundation for Women and the Kentucky and Colorado arts councils.

Normandi is a Spiritualist minister and certified medium missionary through the Indiana Association of Spiritualists. She teaches in the Metaphysical School at Camp Chesterfield (Indiana) and offers clairvoyant circles private consultations on the phone or in person, and online classes.

Rev. Indigo Rønlov M. A. holds a master's degree in Ecopsychology from Naropa University, is a lineage holder in the tradition of Thoth, a priestess dedicated to serving Ma'at, and a Minister of Walking Prayer with the Center for Sacred Studies. She is a student, practitioner, and teacher of Alchemical Healing and the Egyptian Mysteries. Indigo has been assisting Nicki Scully and Normandi Ellis on tours to Egypt and during retreats for several years, and now teaches classes and leads tours of her own. Additionally, she bring deep shamanic experience, herbal studies, past life regression, and much more to her medicine bag. It is Indigo's intention to live life in service to the healing of our planet and all who reside here. More about her can be found on her website: Sacred Witness.

Indigo’s many trips to Egypt inspired her to develop The Zahra Foundation. She is dedicated to be in service to share with woman and youth about the value of handwork, especially when items are created from reclaimed and recycled materials. Working with the challenges of ubiquitous plastic waste has already made a difference for those with whom she has shared. The Zahra Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit—all donations are tax deductible.

Testimonials from Normandi's last trip to Egypt

In a time when human consciousness longs to remember itself into being, Egypt invites those ready to share her mysteries. Her mysteries remain hidden to travelers merely there to check the "Egypt box" off their bucket list. However for those individuals innocent in their longing, quiet and still enough inside to "see" rather than look and to invite the mysteries to reveal themselves without need for mental interpretation -- for those individuals Egypt offers herself with no holding back. And it's these individuals who bring hope of peace and truth back to the temples and the land. It's these individuals who walk in the safety and love of the hearts of the Egyptian people. If you dare walk this way, let your feet take you into your own longing of remembrance. Go to Egypt. I knew every second I was held and safe! I was welcomed home.
—Deborah, Spiritual Leader, Nine Gates Mystery School

I have a new sense of fertility in darkness -- that death and birth are mutual bedfellows having a deep conversation. This is what I came to Egypt for. The personal dies into a zone inhabited by the gods. Arms raise to the heavens. I emerge into my becoming.
—Sandy, PhD, California

Thoth speaks:

The ibis and the ink pot – these are blessed. For as the ibis pecks along the bank for a bit of food, so the scribe searches among his thoughts for some truth to tell. All the work is his to speak, its secrets writ down in his heart from the beginning of time, the god’s words rising upwards through his dark belly, seeking light at the edge of his throat. We are made of god stuff, the explosion of stars, particles of light, molded in the presence of gods. The gods are with us. Their secrets writ only in the scrolls of men’s hearts, the law of creation, death and change inscribed in the blood and seed of man’s love. In the beginning and at the end, the book in opened and we see what in life we are asked to remember.

—From The Speeches, Awakening Osiris by Normandi Ellis