"Anise alcohol" - better known as anisyl alcohol, or systematically as 4-methoxyphenylmethanol - is commonly used in perfumery and occurs naturally in several plants. Of course, the bulk material will likely be synthetic (from p-cresol), even if anethole is a viable starting material.
All that said, I don't expect to be using this particular method in the foreseeable future
“There is a way of manipulating matter and energy so as to produce what modern scientists call 'a field of force'. The field acts on the observer and puts him in a privileged position vis-à-vis the universe. From this position he has access to the realities which are ordinarily hidden from us by time and space, matter and energy. This is what we call the Great Work."
― Jacques Bergier, quoting Fulcanelli