Haunted Minds
If we can haunt the forests, and they can haunt us, then what about our art, our ideologies, our faith? … Continue reading…Haunted Minds
Travel Magic
Settle in: I’m going to talk about travel magic, the unconscious layers of my recent trip, and Saint Teresa’s The Interior Castle. … Continue reading…Travel Magic
Translation Mysteries
I am sitting in the Lebanese restaurant that is my go-to when I think I can talk the roommates into going. It’s late afternoon, and the sun is just at a point where I have to lean in at the table to get out of its blinding. A window is open ahead of me, and […] … Continue reading…Translation Mysteries
Properties & Sympathies
I have an operation coming up that is one-part astrological talisman, one-part spirit fetish, and one-part pulling Stuff from the Depths closer to my incarnate life here on the skin of the world. The impetus for this project emerges out of working with the decans and, after a point, very specific things that started to […] … Continue reading…Properties & Sympathies
Forest Mind
It’s warming up here now, and spring is around the corner—next week, in fact. And I get cooped up indoors during winter because (1) it’s cold and (2) everything goes to sleep. The trees stand tall but dormant, leafless, swaying only in stronger winds. I can look up at them casting silhouettes against the twilightening, […] … Continue reading…Forest Mind
Imaginal Materials, Ritual Dramaturgy
I recently read Alexander Cummins’s new A Book of the Magi from Revelore, but this isn’t a review of that book. However, I was reading it as I was also pondering Jeffrey Kripal’s work, Paul Weston’s work, and I have a head full of witchy, imaginal, otherworldly stuff otherwise. Anyway, as I’m reading Cummins with […] … Continue reading…Imaginal Materials, Ritual Dramaturgy
Gardens of the Soul
In his Defense of Poetry (1595-ish), Philip Sidney compares the world of Nature to the worlds created by the Poet: Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection [to what is supposedly true and factual], lifted up with the vigor of his own invention, doth grow, in effect, into another nature, in […] … Continue reading…Gardens of the Soul
Clear & Bright: Jinn Sorcery, Paul Weston, & the Hyperthick
In which I review Jinn Sorcery, talk about Paul Weston, and the hyperdimensional everything … Continue reading…Clear & Bright: Jinn Sorcery, Paul Weston, & the Hyperthick