She Continues
Years ago, I had experimented with some “classic” chaos magic praxis about “personal demons”: trying to exorcise those parts of myself that have gone rampant and demonic, negative thoughtforms, etc. As I was talking about this with a friend the other day, I thought I would revisit the topic with the benefit of more experience […] … Continue reading…Reforming Demons
It has been a May of sun and high sky thus far, and as my schedule opens up for a couple of months, I have had the chance to venture forth again. Despite the bugs biting—the mosquitoes seem rather darker and larger than I remember when I was younger—the wind and trees and sky and […] … Continue reading…Border Crossings
I hear more horror stories about how people (often white men, but not always) abuse, threaten, and otherwise treat trans women, & I feel myself imagining myself in revenge fantasy worlds, project these monsters onto the rest of the world. And I notice that I’m erecting a fantasy world around myself that is enclosed, an […] … Continue reading…The White Man’s Glamour
Reading the intro to Joan Chodorow’s book on Jung’s writings on active imagination (Jung on Active Imagination), & Jung apparently—from my perspective—engaged in inner pathworking, trance projection, etc., using the simple methods Fries has pointed to. Jung sought to frame these experiences as (seemingly) wholly psychological, though he apparently noted the “energy” & pathos unleashed […] … Continue reading…[NB] Jung & Spare
After a point, I also began asking myself why directions matter in the first place. And as I pondered these questions, a constellation of ideas began to coalesce. Those ideas include sacred space, enclosure, and ultimately disenchantment & disciplinary discourse. … Continue reading…Directionality, Enclosure, Space