She Continues
A friend asked me my thoughts on reincarnation, and as I moved past the third paragraph, I figured I’d offer those reflections more publicly. (Take advantage of opportunities to write as they come, I suppose.) My thoughts on reincarnation are sundry. The truth, I suspect, varies widely and conforms to what you expect to find […] … Continue reading…Recycled Sunlight
My friend @stefficus and I talked about containers recently. I don’t just mean plastic storage bins, but containers including signs, decans, cosmological concepts, the universe, you, and more. Back a little over a year ago, I had written about humans as “hollow vessels,” and there I focused more on how we choose to fill ourselves: […] … Continue reading…Astral Vessels
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 have found myself pondering what even to call the “spirit world.” “Spirit world” itself, though perhaps a nice catch-all term, feels always unsatisfying to me. Of course, this isn’t a conundrum unique to me. Every system seems to struggle—or, simply, default to a preferred term—and that term winds up encapsulating a good measure of […] … Continue reading…Otherworldly Shores
If we can haunt the forests, and they can haunt us, then what about our art, our ideologies, our faith? … Continue reading…Haunted Minds
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
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
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
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
In which I review Jinn Sorcery, talk about Paul Weston, and the hyperdimensional everything … Continue reading…Clear & Bright: Jinn Sorcery, Paul Weston, & the Hyperthick