She Continues
For a few months, I’ve been jamming with Agathos Daimon. Agathos Daimon has a complicated history as far as human expressions of practice go, but I have found myself most drawn to AD in their trans-planetary, more universal aspect—even trans-celestial. Some expressions of AD focus on the Helios aspect: Agathos Daimon as an expression of […] … Continue reading…Snakes and Altars
In this post, I compare several concepts of Australian Aboriginal cosmology to specific topics in western spiritual practice, focusing in particular on faerie queens and related beings. In making this comparison, I am not claiming in any way that westerners should start aping Australian practices. I would argue instead that we can glimpse western practices […] … Continue reading…Faerie Law
I want to talk about invisibility mysteries.[1] Typically, when we consider “spirits” within a western context, we define them as non-physical beings compared to our physical existence. I propose that thinking along a hidden-to-visible axis is more fruitful than a non-physical-to-physical one. As regular readers know, I’ve recently been reading Jeremy Naydler, and it was […] … Continue reading…Visible Appearance
I often wind up having several things come together in my mind. Recently for me, I found myself putting Goethe’s “active seeing” beside the “interiority of matter” and Naydler’s addressing of ancient Egyptian thought and language in his Shamanic Wisdom of the Pyramid Texts. The result is that I have found myself trying to think […] … Continue reading…The Titans + The Flies
I have been making my way through Jeremy Naydler’s books on ancient Egyptian religion, magic, and cosmology. His Temple of the Cosmos is a compelling book, but I recognized that Naydler collapses distinctions between Old, Middle, and New Kingdom thought even as he expresses a teleological belief that Egyptian thought “matured” over time into its […] … Continue reading…Kings and Messengers
It is a commonplace that ancient Egyptian religion and magic—and the Egyptians themselves—were “obsessed” with death and the afterlife. After all, we have all these mummies and tombs and Books about the Dead and Osiris being reborn and so on. However, while we like to distinguish the physical world from the spirit world and often […] … Continue reading…Shadow Magic