English poet, mountaineer, and occultist
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El maestro José Figueroa García nis brinda en esta ocasión una visión fascinante de este periodo histórico , desde los magos negros nazis de las SS , los pilotos kamikazes del Japón a Dion Fortune y Alistair Crowley .
Bienvenidos a La Diez Capital Radio! Están a punto de comenzar un nuevo episodio de nuestro Programa de Actualidad, donde la información, la formación y el entretenimiento se encuentran para ofrecerles lo mejor de las noticias y temas relevantes. Este programa, dirigido y presentado por Miguel Ángel González Suárez, es su ventana directa a los acontecimientos más importantes, así como a las historias que capturan la esencia de nuestro tiempo. A través de un enfoque dinámico y cercano, Miguel Ángel conecta con ustedes para proporcionar una experiencia informativa y envolvente. Desde análisis profundos hasta entrevistas exclusivas, cada emisión está diseñada para mantenerles al tanto, ofrecerles nuevos conocimientos y, por supuesto, entretenerles. Para más detalles sobre el programa, visiten nuestra web en www.ladiez.es - Informativo de primera hora de la mañana, en el programa El Remate de La Diez Capital Radio. La Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (Aemet) ha actualizado la previsión en Canarias para los próximos días, destacando la presencia de calima hoy, viernes. Hoy les voy a recomendar una de las películas más importantes de la historia del cine que se estrenó en 1968, un año antes de que el hombre llegara a la luna: “2001: Odisea del espacio”, dirigida y bajo guión del genio del 7 arte en el siglo XX, Stanley Kubrick. Con la banda sonora del talentoso Richard Strauss que también es la banda sonora del programa de radio, El Remate de La Diez Capital radio, “Así habló Zaratustra” Hoy hace 365 días: 566 personas mayores esperan en los hospitales por una plaza sociosanitaria en Canarias. El Plan de Infraestructuras de Canarias tenía previsto crear 4.460 nuevas plazas sociosanitarias de 2017 a 2021, pero solo se crearon 517. Hoy se cumplen 1.091 días del cruel ataque e invasión de Rusia a Ucrania. Hoy es viernes 21 de febrero de 2025. Día Internacional de la Lengua Materna. El 21 de febrero se celebra el Día Internacional de la Lengua Materna con el objetivo de preservar y proteger todos los idiomas y dialectos que se hablan en todo el mundo. 1714.- Se crea la Real Armada Española, que aglutina en una sola institución estatal las diversas fuerzas navales existentes hasta entonces. 1915.- Se inaugura la Exposición Universal de San Francisco (EEUU), muestra que celebraba la apertura del Canal de Panamá. Tal día como hoy, 21 febrero de 1924, Miguel de Unamuno rector en la universidad de Salamanca, es destituido de su cargo por la dictadura de Primo de River y desterrado a la isla de Fuerteventura donde pasó cuatro meses. 1982: Manuel Fraga Iribarne es reelegido presidente de Alianza Popular. 1990: El ministro del Interior, José Luis Corcuera, y el presidente de la Generalidad de Cataluña, Jordi Pujol, acuerdan las bases para el despliegue de la policía catalana. Santos de hoy, Fortunato, Pedro, Damián, Severiano, Félix y Sérvulo. Deportaciones masivas, aranceles y la 'Riviera' de Gaza: el turbulento primer mes de Trump en la Casa Blanca. La Comisión Europea presenta su nueva visión de la industria agroalimentaria. La compraventa de vivienda crece un 10% en 2024 y la obra nueva cierra su mejor año desde 2013. Rubiales, condenado a pagar una multa por el beso a Jennifer Hermoso y absuelto de coacciones. Aparece asesinado de un disparo el exalcalde de Gandía y empresario Arturo Torró. Clavijo ve insuficientes las ayudas europeas a Mauritania para frenar los flujos migratorios. El presidente canario, "muy satisfecho", tras mantener una reunión con los ministros de Economía y Asuntos Exteriores del Gobierno mauritano en Nuakchot. Junts pone freno al acuerdo para el reparto puntual de los menores migrantes. Las dudas sobre si Cataluña debería asumir nuevas acogidas congela el proceso en marcha para elevar un texto al Congreso. El presidente del Cabildo de El Hierro rechaza la petición para que el Estado cree un hospital para migrantes. Alpidio Armas subraya que “no viene a mejorar nada” y que se trata con ello de pasar competencias autonómicas al Ministerio de Sanidad. Un posible acuerdo entre Garrido, Rayco García y Juan Pelayo retrasa la Junta del CD Tenerife- Se llevará a cabo el próximo martes; será necesario únicamente un 25% del cuórum. Detenido un vecino por el asesinato a cuchilladas de la suegra del alcalde de La Aldea de San Nicolás. En 1959 nace José María Cano, cantautor, de la banda Mecano. - Sección de actualidad con mucho sentido de Humor inteligente en el programa El Remate de La Diez Capital radio con el periodista socarrón y palmero, José Juan Pérez Capote, El Nº 1. - Sección de actualidad informativa en el programa El Remate al Director de Capital Radio Gran Canaria; Pepe Rodríguez. Detenido un vecino por el asesinato a cuchilladas de la suegra del alcalde de La Aldea de San Nicolás. Caso Valka. Carnaval de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Encuentro de primera división entre Las palmas y el Barcelona. - Entrevista en el programa El Remate de La Diez Capital radio con el especialista en temas deportivo, juan Antonio Quintero. Analizamos lo que esta sucediendo en el Club Deportivo Tenerife. - El maestro José Figueroa García nis brinda en esta ocasión una visión fascinante de este periodo histórico , desde los magos negros nazis de las SS , los pilotos kamikazes del Japón a Dion Fortune y Alistair Crowley. - Sección en el programa El Remate de La Diez Capital radio con Alberto Díaz Jiménez el Independentista.
Welcome everyone and thanks for listening. Please rate, share and subscribe to help fight the algorithm! On today's episode talk about "The Wickedest Man Alive" Alistair Crowley. Check out DailyPlanet.Club & become a member! Contact me at FranksCastles21@proton.me if you'd like to set up an interview! Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558045267571&mibextid=ZbWKwL Contact Jackie for your spiritual needs at: jackiereidspiritguide.com Instagram: @jackiereid_spiritualguide Leave comments/questions as well! Thanks everyone ❤️
He was known as The Beast and The Most Evil Man on Earth. But enough about Will Wiley, who joins the boys during their Satanic Panic series to discuss the outlandish life of The Master of Thelema, Alistair Crowley.
One of the most quoted figures in the world of the occult is Alistair Crowley, an early twentieth century writer and self-proclaimed prophet whose anti-Christian influence continues to this day. Perhaps Crowley's most popular phrase is this: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” Crowley taught and lived out a lifestyle marked by living under the sovereignty of one's self, rather than under the sovereignty of God. In today's world, Crowley's dictum is made manifest in so many different ways, and it's been adopted by those who have no idea who Alistair Crowley even was. Today, our kids are being encouraged to “be true to yourself”, and told to “you do you.” Is that really any different? Parents, your kids are growing up saturated in a cultural narrative that trumpets the self as sovereign. Teach your kids that a rightly ordered life is described by Jesus in Mark 12:30 where we read, “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.”
What do you wish I asked this guest? What was your "quotable moment" from this episode? What does it take to transition from a Catholic upbringing to becoming a chaos occultist? Join us on this enthralling episode of Your Average Witch as we sit down with Andrew Cox, the visionary owner of Nexus Occult Books and Oddities in Tucson, Arizona. Andrew opens up about his unique spiritual journey, from his early fascination with the supernatural—sparked by childhood favorites like Ghostbusters and The Exorcist—to his eclectic practice that fuses ceremonial magic and various forms of witchcraft. This conversation provides an intimate look at how Andrew's personal history and cultural influences have shaped his path in the occult, offering valuable insights for both seasoned practitioners and curious newcomers alike.Ever wondered about the secrets behind handcrafted scrying mirrors infused with materials from historically significant sites? Andrew reveals the transformative power of such tools, sharing stories of mirrors made with ashes from Alistair Crowley's Boleskine House and sand from the Pyramid of Khufu. We delve into how these unique ingredients have deepened his ritual practices, underscoring the importance of creating personal rituals and building genuine relationships with deities. Through Andrew's experiences, we explore the necessity of failure and patience in mastering the occult, evolving from casual interest to disciplined devotion.But the journey doesn't stop there. We also discuss Andrew's bold decision to leave a stable career in sales to open Nexus, a community-focused occult store. This chapter celebrates the courage to follow one's true calling despite uncertainties. Plus, meet Marcella Krol l, a tarot and oracle expert who has recently joined the Tucson community, bringing her wealth of knowledge and authenticity to Nexus. As we highlight upcoming events and influential figures in the world of magic, this episode is a treasure trove of inspiration, advice, and the importance of community in the magical journey.Follow Andrew and Nexus here: nexusoccult.com instagram.com/nexusoccultClick here to enter the sabbat box giveaway!Support the Show.Support the show and get tons of bonus content, videos, monthly spell boxes, and more at CrepuscularConjuration.com!Or become a paying subscriber on Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1777532/supportWant to see if you're a good fit for the show? (Hint: if you're a witch, you probably are!) email me at youraveragewitchpodcast at gmail.comFollow YAW at:instagram.com/youraveragewitchpodcastfacebook.com/youraveragewitchpodcastReview the show on Apple podcastspodcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-average-witch-podcast/id1567845483
Randy Walsh returns as guest for Feb's edition of the Paranormal Peep Show, along with guest host Ben Emlyn-Jones. Randy gives further information on why he believes the Apollo Moon missions were a fabrication. He also introduces us to the work of the Jet Prop Lab or JPL, and the founder of it, Jack Parsons, who by day was an expert in rockets but by night a secret Occultist who was inspired by Alistair Crowley. Randy also discusses the strange connections of the occult and magic with the JFK assassination, and how the Kennedy killing had parallels with the Lincoln killing. Also discussed are the idea of aliens on the moon, with remote viewing, and how maybe alien allies are hiding out on the moon looking out for humanity! All this and more on the Paranormal Peep Show with Neil Ward and Ben Emlyn-Jones.
On today's show, podcaster Bek Lover discusses the effect the immigration crisis is having on New York City, reflects on 16 years of Kosovo's independence, shares a message of unity for Christians, Muslims and Jews and comments on CBDCs, Tucker Carlson's Putin interview, Alistair Crowley, demonic entities and more. GUEST OVERVIEW: Bek Lover, was born in the USA, after his mother's family was hunted down by the communist regime in Albania, because his grandfather was an anti-communist fighter. His father fled the oppression that occurred in the now, non-existent country of, Yugoslavia, now the Republic of Kosova. Bek Lover, has lost a lot of people in his lifetime, from various situations, including the Kosovo War in 1999. He lost 30 people in a single day when they were massacred by the Serbian Military. He also was present during the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center. Bek Lover, uses his struggles, life experiences, and his connections to inspire people to never give up! The best way to help others, is to share what we know about this life through our own experiences. After getting back up, over and over, it is now Bek Lover's mission, to help other people, get back up to make a comeback! https://beklover.com/
From battering yourself to bettering yourself, Alistair Crowley, to a deep jungle walk living amongst the spirit talkers. And all of the 10,000 things. #Sand email us with ideas? ThoughtsAndPrayers@problematicast.com
We conclude our fascinating and informative conversation with Bill Schnoebelen, former witch, druid, freemason, satanist, and vampire. A lot of ground is covered, including Alistair Crowley, UFO's/Greys, weird Wisconsin (including a giant Wind-Walker encounter when Bill was a child), and much more. Bill gives some insight into health and food-related issues, as he is a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, too. We also talk how sin can defile a land and leave a spiritual mark, a stain, if you will, that reverberates through time until it is cleansed spiritual with God's help. Bill helps us understand discernment in spiritual encounters, even with Jesus, to know if it is a false spirit. Visit Bill's website and check out his books, videos, and teachings here: www.withoneaccord.org He also has an active youtube channel with LOTS of fantastic content: https://www.youtube.com/@WilliamSchnoebelen Please consider supporting our podcast with a monthly subscription as little as $0.99 (support link at the bottom). For Luke and I to create 4 episodes a month takes an average of 40 hours to research, record, and produce, sometimes more. If you find value in our work and would like to help support us, please click the DONATE link below. Thanks very much!! -Luke and Pete Other ways to support the show: Paypal: https://paypal.me/peteohlinger?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Cash App: https://cash.app/$PeteOhlinger Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/Pete-Ohlinger Feel free to contact us with any questions or comments for the show! Email us at: thedaysofnoahpodcast@gmail.com We'd love to hear from you! Thanks for listening- we appreciate each and every one of you out there. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe, and tell your friends and family about the show, and leave us a five-star review, which helps to spread the show to others! Make your own podcast! Try Zencastr and use my link https://zen.ai/NI7IGX671ZTuc5bEfWALQw to save 30% off your first month of ANY Zencastr paid plan! Original Music by BassManPete Cover art is of Mt. Hermon, site of the Watcher's descent, photo credit: By Almog - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2181987, and beautifully crafted into our logo by graphic designer Christine Forster (https://x.com/GfxChristine00?s=20) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thedaysofnoah/support
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What links Vajrayana Buddhism and Vajrayogini to Alistair Crowley and the neo-Platonists? A topic of speculation, desire and imagination, the Subtle Body, also known as the energy body, is an odd phenomena with deep roots in Taoism, Hinduism and Buddhism, but many are unaware that it has a rich history in European thought too. Simon Cox traces its roots in his recent work entitled The Subtle Body: A Geneology (Oxford UP, 2021). In our conversation we tackle multiple themes. Is it real or merely imaginary? Is it a feature of non-dual ontologies, or is more complex than that? Does Buddhism innovate the technology and practices of the subtle body? What happens to the subtle body in the New Age? Panpsychism, Monosomatic Normativity, Henri Bergson, Nietzsche, and much more. Simon Paul Cox, PhD, is an independent scholar and translator who works primarily in Chinese, Tibetan, and Greek. His research focuses on mysticism and the body. He is also a teacher of Chinese Martial Arts and collaborator at the Esalan Institute. He also has something common with me. Listen to the end to find out. Matthew O'Connell is a life coach and the host of the The Imperfect Buddha podcast. You can find The Imperfect Buddha on Facebook and Twitter (@imperfectbuddha). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
What links Vajrayana Buddhism and Vajrayogini to Alistair Crowley and the neo-Platonists? A topic of speculation, desire and imagination, the Subtle Body, also known as the energy body, is an odd phenomena with deep roots in Taoism, Hinduism and Buddhism, but many are unaware that it has a rich history in European thought too. Simon Cox traces its roots in his recent work entitled The Subtle Body: A Geneology (Oxford UP, 2021). In our conversation we tackle multiple themes. Is it real or merely imaginary? Is it a feature of non-dual ontologies, or is more complex than that? Does Buddhism innovate the technology and practices of the subtle body? What happens to the subtle body in the New Age? Panpsychism, Monosomatic Normativity, Henri Bergson, Nietzsche, and much more. Simon Paul Cox, PhD, is an independent scholar and translator who works primarily in Chinese, Tibetan, and Greek. His research focuses on mysticism and the body. He is also a teacher of Chinese Martial Arts and collaborator at the Esalan Institute. He also has something common with me. Listen to the end to find out. Matthew O'Connell is a life coach and the host of the The Imperfect Buddha podcast. You can find The Imperfect Buddha on Facebook and Twitter (@imperfectbuddha). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history
What links Vajrayana Buddhism and Vajrayogini to Alistair Crowley and the neo-Platonists? A topic of speculation, desire and imagination, the Subtle Body, also known as the energy body, is an odd phenomena with deep roots in Taoism, Hinduism and Buddhism, but many are unaware that it has a rich history in European thought too. Simon Cox traces its roots in his recent work entitled The Subtle Body: A Geneology (Oxford UP, 2021). In our conversation we tackle multiple themes. Is it real or merely imaginary? Is it a feature of non-dual ontologies, or is more complex than that? Does Buddhism innovate the technology and practices of the subtle body? What happens to the subtle body in the New Age? Panpsychism, Monosomatic Normativity, Henri Bergson, Nietzsche, and much more. Simon Paul Cox, PhD, is an independent scholar and translator who works primarily in Chinese, Tibetan, and Greek. His research focuses on mysticism and the body. He is also a teacher of Chinese Martial Arts and collaborator at the Esalan Institute. He also has something common with me. Listen to the end to find out. Matthew O'Connell is a life coach and the host of the The Imperfect Buddha podcast. You can find The Imperfect Buddha on Facebook and Twitter (@imperfectbuddha). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/buddhist-studies
What links Vajrayana Buddhism and Vajrayogini to Alistair Crowley and the neo-Platonists? A topic of speculation, desire and imagination, the Subtle Body, also known as the energy body, is an odd phenomena with deep roots in Taoism, Hinduism and Buddhism, but many are unaware that it has a rich history in European thought too. Simon Cox traces its roots in his recent work entitled The Subtle Body: A Geneology (Oxford UP, 2021). In our conversation we tackle multiple themes. Is it real or merely imaginary? Is it a feature of non-dual ontologies, or is more complex than that? Does Buddhism innovate the technology and practices of the subtle body? What happens to the subtle body in the New Age? Panpsychism, Monosomatic Normativity, Henri Bergson, Nietzsche, and much more. Simon Paul Cox, PhD, is an independent scholar and translator who works primarily in Chinese, Tibetan, and Greek. His research focuses on mysticism and the body. He is also a teacher of Chinese Martial Arts and collaborator at the Esalan Institute. He also has something common with me. Listen to the end to find out. Matthew O'Connell is a life coach and the host of the The Imperfect Buddha podcast. You can find The Imperfect Buddha on Facebook and Twitter (@imperfectbuddha). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What links Vajrayana Buddhism and Vajrayogini to Alistair Crowley and the neo-Platonists? A topic of speculation, desire and imagination, the Subtle Body, also known as the energy body, is an odd phenomena with deep roots in Taoism, Hinduism and Buddhism, but many are unaware that it has a rich history in European thought too. Simon Cox traces its roots in his recent work entitled The Subtle Body: A Geneology (Oxford UP, 2021). In our conversation we tackle multiple themes. Is it real or merely imaginary? Is it a feature of non-dual ontologies, or is more complex than that? Does Buddhism innovate the technology and practices of the subtle body? What happens to the subtle body in the New Age? Panpsychism, Monosomatic Normativity, Henri Bergson, Nietzsche, and much more. Simon Paul Cox, PhD, is an independent scholar and translator who works primarily in Chinese, Tibetan, and Greek. His research focuses on mysticism and the body. He is also a teacher of Chinese Martial Arts and collaborator at the Esalan Institute. He also has something common with me. Listen to the end to find out. Matthew O'Connell is a life coach and the host of the The Imperfect Buddha podcast. You can find The Imperfect Buddha on Facebook and Twitter (@imperfectbuddha).
A special Easter egg hunt; Physical v. Spiritual reality; Return of the Gods by Jonathan Cahn; The possession of America; The Dark Trinity; Baal; Ishtar; Molech; Sexual Sin; Cultural debasement; Abortion; Stonewall Inn; The Christopher Street Liberation Day March; Sarah Westall interviews Phil Catalino; NASA; JPL; Occult knowledge; The connection among Jack Parsons, L. Ron Hubbard, Robert Heinlein, and Alistair Crowley; UFOs, AI, and portals. Scriptures: Philippians 2:3; 2 Thessalonians 2: 9-11; Matthew 12: 43-45; Revelation 9:1; 1 Timothy 4: 1-3; Romans 1. The CBU Choir and Orchestra
The notorious Stanton LaVey passed away today at the age of 44. In remembrance here is The Dark Mark Show from 2018 featuring him as well as witchy comedian and podcast host Renee Watt. It's the Holiday Season and Dark Mark wanted to celebrate them in the weirdest way possible; by having the notorious Stanton LaVey and witch comedian Renee Watt join him on The Dark Mark Show There was good cheer all around as Stanton Renee and Mark talked about Stanton's grandfather Anton LaVey who founded the Church of Satan, how to celebrate winter solstice as a witch visiting a Christian household, Father Frost, Kate Bush, Dolemite, the blasphemy of Christianity, turning comedians goth, who really wrote The Satanic Bible, Alistair Crowley, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, spirit cooking, Sammy Davis Jr, and so much more…
In this week's episode, Patrick and Tommie discuss their trip to the Valley of the Dolls, follow the field spaniel, put a spell on Alistair Crowley, laud Dame Angela Lansbury, look for another Italian besides Columbus to celebrate, wonder if school kids still recite the Pledge of Allegiance, review the Midnight Club on Netflix, mock a pair of racists, rap about reparations, and name their favorite horror film monsters.
Dedicated to Olivia Newton John 9.26.1948 - 8.8.22Like all the archetypes discussed on this show, the philosophy of the Tarot tells us Strength is an inherent quality in all who ride the Wheel of Life. In this conversation, we explore themes Tarot artists feel drawn to share in their depictions of this force we call Strength, as well as our own definitions of what it means to embody Strength.Acknowledgments:Olivia Newton John (John Farrar, Xanadu), Solid Gold, ELO, The Police, The Beatles, Arthur E. Waite and Pamela Colman Smith, Alistair Crowley and Lady Freida Harris, Carol Bridges, Sarah Powers, Tarot of the Crone and Dark Goddess Tarot by Ellen Lorenzo Prince, El Goliath Tarot (Sinead O'Connor), Anima Mundi Tarot, Children of Litha Tarot, Esmerlize Wisdom of Field & Forest Tarot; The Heart's Electromagnetic Field Is Your Superpower: Training Heart-Brain CoherenceCorrection* Eliza discusses a social media post she made from the Xanadu movie soundtrack. The song/video was ‘I'm Alive'. To clarify, this song AND the title track from the film, ‘Xanadu', were both written, performed, and produced by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) mastermind, Jeff Lynne, not John Farrar. Apologies for any confusion!8th House Healers Podcast is:Eliza Harris: Owner, Host & Content Creator and Sarah Cole-McCarthy: Owner, Host & Executive Producer/EditorAll rights reserved Podcast webpage: 8thHouseHealers.comWork with Eliza/buy her deck: 8thHouseHealers.com/ElizaWork with Sarah: 8thHouseHealers.com/Sarah We'd love to hear from you! Send your questions, comments & suggestions to us at: 8thhousehealers@gmail.com. Podcast cover photography, ‘The Lovers', by Esmerlize (esmerlize.com)Original podcast theme music, ‘Languid Stars', by Dylan McCarthy (dylanmccarthymusic.com)Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/8th-house-healers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
With the biological agent on-board the Science Vessel LIMA wreaking havoc with the two Humans, Scientist Alec Jackson and Sgt. Alistair Crowley, it is up to Corporate Recognizance Policy Android Zachary Doppler to uncover the heart of the LIMA. None of them will be prepared for what they encounter. ----more---- The epic finale of our run of Green Tomb, a one-shot for the Scifi Horror RPG: Mothership published by Tuesday Knight Games. ps: Remember to stick around for the outtakes. ----more---- Music: "A Haunted House" and "Executioner" by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Obtuse Scientist Alec Jackson, Corporate Recognizance Policy Android Zachary Doppler and surly Sgt. Alistair Crowley, continue their investigation of the Axiom Industries Science Vessel: LIMA. They find uneaten food, clothes dumped on the floor, smashed computer consoles and a number of dead crew-members. . . . Well, sort of dead. . . . ----more---- We hope you enjoy Part 2 of our run of Green Tomb, a one-shot for the Scifi Horror RPG: Mothership published by Tuesday Knight Games. Ghosts of Gauntlgrym will be returning next week! ps: Remember to stick around for the outtakes. ----more---- Music: "Mega Heavy Suspence" and "A Haunted House" by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
MISSING PRESUMED… What happened to Connie Converse, Richey Manic and Agatha Christie? Having someone you love go missing must be heartbreaking for the ones left behind trying to pick up the pieces and never knowing if or when they'll return. This week on Eavesdroppin', we look at the mysterious disappearance of two musicians and the red-herring plot twist of Agatha Christie's real-life disappearance… But first, Geordie and Michelle start off with some ap-a-logies, namely for mispronouncing Coronappropriation! We share some AMAZING insights from Tameera the Modern Mystic about where your pets go when they die, why you need to let them go and why dogs sniff arses! All before Michelle raves on about the BBC seriese Back to Life and a funny little song she heard in an episode from Season 2… So… Who is Connie Converse? Why have we never heard of her? Is Connie Converse really her real name? When did Connie Converse disappear? And is she still missing? Why is Michelle singing? And why is she mid-level obsessed with this obscure folk singer? *Warning – don't expect any answers! Geordie then follows with the curious case of Agatha Christie… Why is her disappearance a little-known fact? Was it a hoax? Was she trying to punish her philandering husband? And what's with the loaf of bread? All this and more! Geordie then wraps up the episode by dipping her toe into the murky, sad waters of the disappearance of Richey Edwards AKA Richey Manic from the Manic Street Preachers… Did he jump off the Severn Bridge? Did he fake his own disappearance? Is he living in Goa? Did he run off to a kibbutz in Israel with the mysterious Vivian? Was he swept away in the Thai tsunami? Is he partying with Elvis? We'd like to think so but we'll never know… YOU LOVE US... and we love youse! Next week we talk about GHOST STORIES so get on it and send us your ghosty whosty stories and in the meantime… get Eavesdroppin'! *Disclaimer: We don't claim to have any factual info about anything ever, soooooorrrrrryyyyyyyy J Listen, like, subscribe, share etc… Listen here: www.eavesdroppinpodcast.com Or here: https://podfollow.com/1539144364 EAVESDROPPIN' ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/3BKt2Oy... APPLE PODCASTS https://podcasts.apple.com/…/eavesd… GOOGLE PODCASTS https://tinyurl.com/y5n33pys YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqcu... Or wherever you normally listen… #richeymanic #richeyedwards #podcast #comedy #missingpersons #connieconverse #agathachristie #missingpresumed #manicstreetpreachers #comedypodcast #mystery #missing #storytellingpodcast #eavesdroppin#missingperson #truelife #folkmusic #funny #podcastersofinstagram #podcasters #podcastlife #funnypodcast#strangebuttrue #supernatural #2birdsyakkin
Damon Jeffrey joins the show to discuss in-depth Alistair Crowley and his occult belief that inspired some of Jack Parsons occult rituals. Check out his show Seeker2Seeker Podcast, a fantastic look into spirituality, magick, and the occult. Thank you for listening! If you like the show, share this episode!!Coast 2 Coast Entertainment NetworkFacebook: UFO...No PodcastEmail Iwant2believe115@gmail.comThanks to our sponsors: Clarkston CBD Company, high-quality CBD products at the best prices. Use promo code UFONO to save 10%.Hells Canyon Cannabis Company. True live organic soil-grown craft cannabis. Ask for them at your Washington retailer.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ufonopodcast)
Damon Jeffrey joins the show to discuss in-depth Alistair Crowley and his occult belief that inspired some of Jack Parsons occult rituals. Check out his show Seeker2Seeker Podcast, a fantastic look into spirituality, magick, and the occult. Thank you for listening! If you like the show, share this episode!!Coast 2 Coast Entertainment NetworkFacebook: UFO...No PodcastEmail Iwant2believe115@gmail.comThanks to our sponsors: Clarkston CBD Company, high-quality CBD products at the best prices. Use promo code UFONO to save 10%.Hells Canyon Cannabis Company. True live organic soil-grown craft cannabis. Ask for them at your Washington retailer.
There was soooooo much Fortean news in December so its a big show and so split in two parts. Get in touch at forteannewspodcast@gmail.com in this episode: Australian Ghost Hunters, Poltergeists causing house move, Haunted wedding dress, Japanese tsunami ghosts, Celebrity hauntings, Haunted real estate signs, Ghoul's face, Mental hospital apparition, Castle Warden's ghosts, Exorcism of Emily rose curse, British Museum hauntings, Hexenkopf rock legends, Alistair Crowley's home, Australian ghost washing up, ghostly screams, Franklin hotel ghosts, Hull ghosts punch man, The most haunted beaches in Australia, Kostel Svateho Jiri ghosts in Czechia, Driskill Hotel ghosts, St James Hotel Ghosts, Daisy May Cooper EVP's, Ghost lady at the end of the bed, UFO review 2020, Haim Eshad and the Galactic Federation, Northern Island UFO's, Muston UFO in North Yorkshire, Rainbow UFO in St John Canada, Scottish red cloud UFO, Nordic EBE's, Space Station UFO, Cigar-shaped UFO's, Mexico city UFO, Yarmouth unexplained object, Chloe Ferry Alien Invasion, Abbotsford and Aldergrove UFO, Black triangle, NASA, Rendlesham incident, London Heathrow near miss, Wright Patterson Base Ohio UFO and ghosts, Capricornus god of sun rickia, all this and of course the humour and mad ramblings of James Koppert
In this ridiculous episode, Karli shares the horribly offensive adventures of Alistair Crowley and Jaz reveals her torrid love affair with the neighborhood squirrels. Meanwhile, guest Granison Crawford is not only a comedian but a human weighted blanket.
Doctor Alistair Crowley, singer Mekaria Jungdaso and priest of the Raven Queen Tulani’nix all find themselves in an inn in the town of Beregost. They stop in this sleepy town just for the night before continuing their way. What starts as a strange rumour becomes all too real when the group do a tarokka reading to lure the mysterious Madam Eva. Visit https://milestonerpg.com/strahd for read more about the characters and to find out what they look like.
In this episode, Seán is joined by Jonny Murray via skype. They chat about the haunted pubs in Belfast, the Freemasons connections with Belfast & the occult history there, women brewers accused of witchcraft in the Middle Ages and the conspiracy theory that David Bowie burned down Alistair Crowley’s house in 2016 and died a week later. Plus loads more spooky stuff! The beers sampled this week are the No Water Chocolate Orange Milkshake Milk Stout by Wild Beer and Platform 6.1 Impeccable IPA by Wickwar Wessex Brewing
https://tonywalker.substack.com/ (Subscribe here, support The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast and obtain exclusive content.) S0208: The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood We did the Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood as Episode 20, and there I said: Algernon Blackwood Algernon Blackwood was an English writer born in 1869 who ended up as a broadcaster on the radio and TV. His writing was very well received at this time and critics loved him. Even the great American author of weird tales HP Lovecraft cited Blackwood is one of the masters of the craft. Blackwood came from a well-to-do family and was privately educated despite that he was quite an adventurous man. He was interested in Hinduism as a young boy and his career was varied. For example, he ran a dairy farm in Canada and also hotel in the country. It became a newspaper reporter in New York City and was also a bartender and a model and also a violin teacher! All of this time, though he was always writing. He liked being outdoors and his stories often feature the outdoors. He was also interested in the occult and was a member of the hermetic order of the Golden Dawn along with such other characters is Arthur Machen and WB Yeats and Alistair Crowley. At one point he was a paranormal researcher for the British Society for Psychical Research and it is said that this story was based on a case that he investigated. The Empty House Structurally, the story is simple: our man hears of the house, he visits the house, he explores the house, weird stuff starts to happen, the ghost is revealed to be a replaying of a tragic scene from the house’s past, the protagonist is merely an observer. If he has an arc, it is the transformation of his attitude to his aunt from seeing her as a feeble old lady to a woman who is in some respects braver than he is. Blackwood lays on the dust, the shadows, the moonlight as well as scurrying beetles and some black thing that scurries off (probably a cat, maybe a rat in the dark). He does this well. We are taken right there. Michael Kellermeyer describes the story as an exploration of fear, rather than ghosts and I think that’s a good point. In that it matches some other stories like Marghatina Laski’s The Tower and H R Wakefield’s Blind Man’s Buff There’s a whole genre of ‘night in a haunted house’ stories. The Empty House Reminds me of a story I recently read from 1835, No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince by Ralph Adams Cram. That is much older, and more decadent. It’s worth a read though. In 252 Rue. Me Le Prince, as in this story, the person visiting the haunted house is merely a witness to past happenings. At least that was my take. Of course, that is like the Stone Tape theory of hauntings, which holds that the fabric of a building somehow records strong emotion and plays these scenes back as hauntings. It is also reminiscent of Blackwood’s own The Kit Bag, in that we have someone lurking out of sight who eventually is seen and in both cases they are the ghosts of criminals. The story also reminded me of Blind Man’s Buff by HR Wakefield, which we read recently , not to mention The Judge’s House by Bram Stoker, which we haven’t yet got round to. One bizarre incident in The Empty House is when he turns to see his aged aunt’s face is transformed into the face she had as a girl. He finds this horrific and turns from out, but I can’t see why it would be horrible and what purpose it has in this story. I had wondered whether she had been transformed into the murdered maid, but this does not seem to be the case. Blackwood with his stories of outdoor adventure and colourful employment history sounds very much like a man’s man and I am familiar with that archetype from my father’s attitudes and most of the rugby-playing chaps I knew. Blackwood’s stories, especially The Wendigo, are problematic for a modern audience because of their everyday racism. There is also a hint of misogyny, and ageism in his view that the aged aunt (I wonder how old she really... Support this podcast
It’s been a whole year, and we’ve been bringing it to you every week. Our very first episode started out with a body found in the woods and now our anniversary episode brings you secret societies. Nydia tells all about the infamous Molly Mcquires, who murdered for fair wages and better working conditions. Did they take it a little far? Dana brings us the Ordo Templi Orientis, a secret society led by Alistair Crowley, Satanism’s unofficial father. His poetry is music to our ears. Cindy shares the Bilderberg Meeting, a reunion of government heads in secret and the fodder for so many conspiracy theories. For dinner, Cindy cooked up a Sheppard’s Pie with the secret ingredient of Guinness Beer. It was a hearty Irish meal themed after Nydia’s story, and the Guinness gave it an earthy flavor. For dessert, we had a cheesecake filled chocolate bundt cake. The dark chocolate and cheesecake was a superb combination. Our wine this week was a Chateau Reynier Bordeaux Superieur. It’s a $13 wine that tasted like a $50 bottle. It paired well with our Irish fare. You can find the links to the stories and food photos on: www.winedineandstorytime.com Check us out on Social too!! https://www.facebook.com/winedineandstorytime https://www.instagram.com/winedinestorytime/ https://twitter.com/WDStoryTime or call us some time 6093003094Sound Credit:Squeaky DoorKnockFireworksCheeringRewind
Cutting Through the Matrix with Alan Watt Podcast (.xml Format)
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In the twilight of Haight-Ashbury counterculture, Llee Heflin, a freethinking follower of occultist Alistair Crowley, clashed with psychologist and psychedelic advocate Timothy Leary, both publishing books channeling the celestial voice of comet Kohoutek. We talk with Heflin about his experience publishing Crowley's tarot deck, taking mushrooms in the Puget Sound, and why Leary's book was symbolic of the end of the hippie scene. Original soundtrack by Naramata available on iTunes, Spotify and https://naramata.bandcamp.com/
Spirit cooking by Marina Abramovich which was started by Alistair Crowley. A book was written for recipes used which trigger as an aphrodisiac. Spirit cooking dinner parties (by doing it...
Our final discussion around The Black Rider continues from last week, as Martin and Sam get Burroughs quotes wrong (“Do what you will, that is the whole of the law” obviously being an Alistair Crowley quote, you idiot Sam, how did you miss that?!?), talk about the problematic autobiographical elements of the story, and what the lack of subtlety in this play means. Thanks for sticking with us through this very complicated season 15, and we’ll be back in the New Year with some... more accessible music. website: songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: songbysongpodcast@gmail.com Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: The Black Rider, The Black Rider, Tom Waits (1993) We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly.
“Cecil Hugh Williamson (1909-1999) is, I believe, one of the great unsung heroes of the twilight world of folklore and witchcraft. He is probably best known for founding the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle, North Cornwall, which he ran up until midnight on All Hallows Eve 1996; three years before his passing over in to the spirit world. Unbeknown to many however, this was just part of a colourful and magical career that spanned most of the 20th century. This included working in a Rhodesian tobacco plantation, the pre-war film industry, the British secret services and, most importantly, devoting his life to the study of traditional witchcraft”. Steve Patterson In 1996, whilst helping the then new owner Graham King in refurbishments to the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Steve happened upon a handwritten manuscript entitled simply ‘Witchcraft’ and containing an intriguing pot-pourri of esoterica from the hand of the Museum’s founder; Cecil Williamson. It is this manuscript which provides the basis for Steve’s book which includes a full annotated transcript of the ‘Witchcraft’ manuscript, a history of Cecil Williamson and the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, a treatise on Cecil Williamson’s vision of traditional Witchcraft – the practices and the philosophy of the wayside witches, an account of his meetings with Aleister Crowley and Gerald Gardner, and a controversial account of his witnessing of the birth of ‘Wicca’. The book is both a valuable reliquary of practices for the traditional witch, and a resource for folklorists and historians alike; telling the tale of a hitherto largely ignored, but hugely influential episode in modern occult history, and one of the great unsung heroes of the twilight world of folklore and witchcraft. A full annotated transcript of Cecil Williamson’s “Witchcraft” manuscript. A History of Cecil Williamson and the Museum of Witchcraft. A treatise on Cecil Williamson’s vision of traditional Witchcraft – the practices and the philosophy of the wayside witches. An account of his meetings with Alistair Crowley and Gerald Gardner, and a controversial account of his witnessing of the birth of ‘Wicca’. An amazing discussion with Steve Patterson about this incredible man, witch and occultist - Cecil Williamson. To know more about this and other books from Troy Books, please visit their website.
In this brand new episode of Glitch In The Code, I have the true pleasure of interviewing Mark Devlin who is a UK based Club and Radio DJ with over 20 years experience in the music industry, Music Industry Journalist and author of two of the best books on the Music Industry "Musical Truth" Volumes 1 and 2. In this podcast, Mark lifts the lid on the shocking truth about the corporate music industry and why the 'Rags to Riches" dream is nothing but a facade to cover how the industry really operates and who really gets to be a popular artists. The research goes back to the early 1900's and can be traced all through Rock N Roll, Psychedelic 60's music, Pop, Dance, Hiphop and the modern day auto tuned world. In the music industry it really is who you are related to, and not your talent. We discuss the terms 'Life Time Actor' and why certain artists are placed in certain positions of power to forward the corporate agenda's that power them. Mark details how the music industry and Hollywood go hand in hand and how the same 'false dream' traps so many young artists in, who have to compromise their values in return for fame and fortune. The Music Industry is steeped in Occult Rituals, Child Sexual Abuse, addictions, Mind Control and CIA/FBI operations. This is not the stuff of fairy tales, in fact it is the truth behind the fairy tales your have been fed. Links between Sony Music, Dave Geffen, Oprah Winfrey and Harvey Weinstein show the links between music and movies. The Beatles and The Rolling Stones openly celebrated the Satanic beliefs of Alistair Crowley who's Church of Satan has Sammy Davis Jnr as one of its key followers. The links go far and wide and no amount of cognitive dissonance can dance around the facts that there is something dark in the mix. As hard as this may be to take on board, to be a star in the music industry and Hollywood has very little to do with talent and a lot more to do with how far you are willing to go. Bob Dylan famously said "I made a deal a long time ago and I am keeping up my end of the bargain" when asked who the deal was with Bob replied "With the chief, with the man on this earth and those we cannot see". Myself and Mark both share a passion to tell young people that the life you see these celebrities pretend to have on stage, TV and screen is really the fake front to an often sinister and dangerous game and not one to aspire to. Artistic expression and creation has nothing to do with fame, you now have so many ways to promote and share your art that fame is not even a requirement but a debt that you will spend the rest of your life repaying. The list of casualties go on 2PAC, Michael Jackson, Biggie Smalls, Whitney Houston, John Lennon, David Bowie, Elvis, Prince, Amy Winehouse and hundreds more. All gone too soon. To find out more about Mark's incredible work follow the links below Marks Youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/markdevlintv Website https://djmarkdevlin.blogspot.com/ Spreaker https://www.spreaker.com/user/markdevlin Sound of Freedom - Conscious Music https://www.mixcloud.com/djmarkdevlin/ Marks Books http://musicaltruthbook.blogspot.com/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/djmarkdevlin To follow my work head over to Glitch In The Code Website for blogs, podcasts and documentaries with the latest in alternative research. https://www.glitchinthecode.co.uk/
It's the Holiday Season and Dark Mark wanted to celebrate them in the weirdest way possible; by having the notorious Stanton LaVey and witch comedian Renee Watt join him on The Dark Mark Show There was good cheer all around as Stanton Renee and Mark talked about Stanton's grandfather Anton LaVey who founded the Church of Satan, how to celebrate winter solstice as a witch visiting a Christian household, Father Frost, Kate Bush, Dolemite, the blasphemy of Christianity, turning comedians goth, who really wrote The Satanic Bible, Alistair Crowley, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, spirit cooking, Sammy Davis Jr, and so much more…
This week Badger helps us loosely define and realize magic in the modern day. Badger leads Reaper and Elf through the bullet points of modern magic essentials, the Wicca religion, and how Alistair Crowley influenced everything. Witch has lots to say, and we have a new BREWding question!
The Hermit's Lamp Podcast - A place for witches, hermits, mystics, healers, and seekers
In this episode T. Susan Chang plays host to interview me about my new deck from Llewellyn – The Orisha Tarot. We talk about my 18 year journey with the Lukumi tradition that brought me to this point. This episode is a deep dive into the how and why of this deck an dthe role the spirits have played in its creation too. You can see the deck and get it from my website here, Amazon, or at your local bookshop. Think about how much you've enjoyed the podcast and how many episodes you listened to, and consider if it is time to support the Patreon You can do so here. And you should go see all the good stuff Susan is up to here. If you want more of this in your life you can subscribe by RSS , iTunes, Stitcher, or email. Thanks for joining the conversation. Please share the podcast to help us grow and change the world. Andrew You can book time with me through my site here. Transcription SUSIE: Hello, everybody! You're hearing a different voice as the host of this week's Hermit's Lamp podcast. I'm Susie Chang, friend of Andrew, and Andrew has kindly invited me to come on the show in order to interview him about his new deck, the Orisha Tarot, since he obviously could not interview himself! [laughs] Normally, at the beginning of an interview, what I would do is introduce the guest, but since the guest is the host, I guess I'll just do a very cursory introduction of what I know about my friend, Andrew. As you know, he is the proprietor of The Hermit's Lamp, the store, which is a touchstone for all of us in the tarot community, and he is the voice behind The Hermit's Lamp podcast. He is an artist in his own right and a creator of beautiful works, decks, and he is also a priest in the Lucumí tradition, and we'll be talking about that some more. But the reason that we're here today is to talk about the Orisha Tarot, which is coming out from Llewellyn in September … What day is it? ANDREW: Basically, today, according to Amazon. SUSIE: For real! Fantastic! Yeah, this is very exciting. So, I understand decks are already shipping out, and I was also particularly interesting -- interested -- in doing this podcast because we're both Llewellyn authors. I've got a book coming out from Llewellyn on tarot correspondences just next month. So, shout out to Llewellyn for supporting the work of tarot lovers everywhere. ANDREW: Absolutely. SUSIE: Yeah! So the Orisha Tarot is officially out. Congratulations! ANDREW: Thank you! SUSIE: It's been many years in the making, hasn't it? ANDREW: Yeah, I mean it's … It's always one of those things. Where do you count that from? You know? SUSIE: [laughs] ANDREW: I signed my contract for it about two years ago, maybe a little bit less than that. So that's probably as good a time as any. But even at that point I had already made a dozen cards and had spent five or six years prior to that thinking about it and trying to figure out what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. So. You know? SUSIE: Right. And actually, I'd like to back up even further, to the beginning of your story in this tradition. And to find out a little bit. Because it's been about ten years, I think you said? Something like that? ANDREW: Ten years as a priest. SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: As of August. It was 2000 when I started getting involved in this tradition. So it's been about 18 years that I've been involved. SUSIE: Wow. So that's … Really, it's been a long journey for you. And I was listening to your wonderful interview with our friends at the Tarot Visions podcast, and I think you mentioned that you came into it through kind of a circle of friends who were exploring different esoteric traditions, and I kind of wanted to know a little bit more about what drew you. You mentioned that you were, you know, a friend had brought in his own explorations of Lucumí, and I wanted to, first of all, sort of talk a tiny bit about the context of Lucumí, since not everyone will be familiar with it, and also, a little bit more about your attraction to it. Now, as I understand it, Lucumí is a Cuban offshoot of the greater Yoruba African traditional religion, yeah? ANDREW: So, the story you get will depend a lot on who you talk to. Like many things. Right? SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: You know, so, at the time of the Atlantic slave trade, Yoruban wasn't really cohesive at all. That whole area was a bunch of city states and so on, right? SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: So, this idea that there was sort of one cohesive African traditional religion, or ATR, which these things spread from, isn't really historically accurate. You know? SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: If you came from, you know, the city of Ife, then, you know, your tradition slants in one direction, certain deities are, you know, held above others; if you come from Oyo, then, you know, that's going to have a different set of traditions and sort of a different kind of more primary veneration and tilting towards certain deities over others. If you're down sort of in the coastal parts of kind of western Africa, towards the south end of that sort of prominence, the way in which some of the Orisha are going to manifest, especially the water Orisha, are different than if you're sort of further north, or inland, or in other places. You know, and so … SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: It's important to understand that these sort of … All of these Orisha traditions and their diasporic manifestations, you know, as they found themselves in different countries, throughout the Caribbean and North and South America, they all varied depending on which groups of people were enslaved and brought over, which traditions survived, what happened in relationship to the indigenous culture that was present, you know, in Cuba indigenous culture was sort of pretty much wiped out, so there wasn't much inclusion of that into the traditions, whereas in other parts, you know, especially in South America, you know, some of those cultures continue to sort of live alongside and there's sort of more sharing of ideas. SUSIE: Yeah, it seems like in many of the diasporic manifestations, you see fates that have been heavily syncretized with whatever was going on locally. ANDREW: Mm-hmm. Yeah, and I think that, you know, the question of syncretization is always an interesting one, you know? SUSIE: Yeah. ANDREW: The story that some people like to say is that they were syncretized in order to conceal them and to prevent … SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: And to protect them and to allow them to practice covertly, you know … SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: And I'm sure that that's true in some ways. But also, you know, there's a lot of … In nonwestern approaches to magic and to spirituality, there's often a real sense of "hey, what's that guy good for? What's that spirit …?" SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: "What's that one going to do for me?" Whereas this sort of very practical notion of, you know, you come across somebody and you're like, "well, I read about this guy, what's that saint good for?" SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: And there's the syncretization that happens, for sure, but there's also the notion of like, having more spiritual people in your corner is not a bad idea at all. Right? SUSIE: Exactly, exactly. ANDREW: And so, so I think the history is interesting to try and unravel, but I think that we'll never really fully understand exactly what was going on with everybody involved. SUSIE: Exactly. And I think that, you know, people of faith kind of make faith work however they can, right? You know, it's sort of like you'll always have schools of thoughts that try to keep, you know, try to distinguish and separate and go towards a purist mentality in terms of practicing faith, and then there are others who'll say, well, we work with what we've got, you know? ANDREW: Exactly. SUSIE: Yeah. ANDREW: So, and so, to kind of answer your kind of like, about my lineage … My lineage, as far back as we know it, originates with this woman Monserrate, you know, she's the farthest back that we can trace that, and my lineage originates in Cuba and through those sort of Cuban traditions. So. Variations of the diasporic traditions, for sure. SUSIE: Right, right. So we're talking about … We're specifically talking about a tradition that came to Cuba through the slave trade. ANDREW: Exactly, yeah. SUSIE: And do … You actually have some reference to that in, I think, your Ten of Swords card. ANDREW: Absolutely. SUSIE: Which seems really appropriate, yeah. So, I wanted to know a little bit more about your personal journey, in terms of whether you yourself grew up in any kind of faith community, or whether you were … you know, did you have to rebel against one? did you long to belong to a faith community? What was that like for you and what was discovering this community like for you? ANDREW: So, I think that one of the best things that my parents did was not raise me with any traditions at all. SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: My parents weren't particularly religious, you know ... SUSIE: So what did you rebel against? [laughs] ANDREW: I didn't rebel against any- I mean I rebelled against everything. But we'll get to that. But what that meant was, you know, when I said to my mom, I want to go to the psychic fair and find some books on magic, when I was 12, my mom was like, okay. You know, when I like, picked out Alistair Crowley, she was like, sure, go ahead. SUSIE: Yeah. ANDREW: So, that meant that I like had a lot of space to really get involved and think about other things, you know? SUSIE: Yeah. ANDREW: You know, other than sort of when my parents split up and we started going to Anglican church, mostly I think because my mom wanted some community … SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: I didn't really have a lot of connection or experience with any kind of organized religion. But what happened was, when I was 14, I almost died in a car accident. SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: And after that I wanted to understand everything. And so, I didn't rebel against anything as such, but what I really wanted to know was, like, what does this all mean? Right? Like all of it. You know. At that point I'd already been reading tarot for a year … SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: I'd already been studying Crowley for a couple of years. It was already really invested in sort of a magical world view. And at that point then I just started reading everything I could get my hands on, right? So I'm like in grade 9 and 10, and reading Nietzsche and … SUSIE: Sure. ANDREW: Picking out, you know, people who can talk about these things. The youth group at the church was run by an ex-Jesuit, and so I would like corner him and be like "hey, tell me about this, tell me about that, tell me about this," and for the most part, people would indulge me and have conversations with me about it, you know? SUSIE: Mm-hmm. Was there another organized religion that you were drawn to? Before Lucumí? ANDREW: No. I mean, Crowley's work. You know? SUSIE: Yes. ANDREW: For me it was basically all about Crowley's work. SUSIE: And you were in the OTO? ANDREW: Yeah. When I was in my ... It wasn't until much later though. It wasn't until I was, you know, well into my 20s that I actually even considered … I was like, oh, maybe the OTO exists here in Toronto. Maybe I could find people. Mostly I just practiced independently and pursued and tried to talk to people. SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: Yeah. And then basically I left the OTO and the Armed Solace, which was another initiatory group, and moved into practicing Lucumí, you know? That was my journey. SUSIE: Yeah, yeah. And it's been, as you said, like an 18-year journey at this point. And, so that's something I wanted to sort of ask you about, in terms of doing the artwork, telling the stories, introducing the wider world to this tradition. You know, often when we are talking about faiths we didn't grow up in, you know, there's this question of whether it's your story to tell, or whether, you know, at what point do you become a representative? And so that's a question I have for you, at what point did you feel that you were invested enough or, you know, that you had a strong enough sense of belonging to be able to bring this to other people? ANDREW: Sure. So, there's a whole bunch of pieces to that answer. SUSIE: Mm-hmm. It's a complex one. [laughing] ANDREW: Yeah! We'll start with this. When you … When you become a priest, right? You become initiated into a lineage, right? So, you know, and when we talk about ancestors, the word we use most of the time is Egun. Right? We mean Egun to mean, ancestors by blood, and ancestors by initiation, right? SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: And so, you know, my Egun are those priests of the Orishas, going back to Montserrate and beyond, you know, and they're lost to history beyond that. And so, part of the conversation for me is, this is my lineage, this is my, these are my ancestors at this point, right? And this is something that we take pretty seriously within the tradition, right? Initiation and lineage are really significant. SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: And so that's part of the thing. Part of it is, although my parents did not practice this tradition, I am initiated into this lineage in a traditional way. SUSIE: So, so there's a difference here between blood lineage and spiritual lineage. ANDREW: But the word does not differentiate. We don't differentiate, right? So, if you … We could … You could get a reading, and, your traditional reading, and your reading could come in a good way or a bad way, depending on what's going on with you, from the Egun, right? SUSIE: Right, right. ANDREW: And when we're divining, if it's possible, we want to mark who that is, and we would ask, ancestors from the lineage, and ancestors from the blood line, and depending on what the reading came out as, it would guide us. And we could narrow it down, and be like, "Oh, yeah, the ancestors are upset with you, and in this case it's someone from your blood family, or in some other case it's somebody from your initiatory lineage," but we don't differentiate, the word means the same, right? SUSIE: Yes, I seem to remember reading something this past week about the idea that your, your, they're sort of one set, one bloodline sort of over one shoulder and spiritual guidance over the other, but they sort of combine and you need both. And I guess, you know, speaking about the outlook and cosmology of the faith, would it fair to say that, you come into this religion, but the religion itself proceeds from the assumption that everybody, no matter where you come from, no matter who your parents, or grandparents etc. were, has a relationship, or a potential relationship they haven't yet realized, with the Orisha? ANDREW: I don't think that that's actually true. SUSIE: Okay. So that's what I'm trying to get to the bottom of here. ANDREW: Okay. Before we come to Earth, we choose our destiny. We choose our Ori, right? Ori is sort of, not easily translated into one thing, but if you think of it as sort of your guardian angel, your destiny, and your higher self, all as one entity, that's probably a reasonable set of points to make sense of it, for people who have those ideas already. SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: And when you choose your destiny, before you come to Earth, it's sealed, right? SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: And so, we don't know what all it entails before we come, but if it's part of your destiny to get initiated into the Orisha tradition then opportunities will present themselves for that. It's not to say that you couldn't force them otherwise, but those wouldn't be in alignment with your destiny. And really, when we're talking about sort of initiation, and sort of connection, and those kinds of things, they really all ought to be dictated by either divination, or dictated by Orisha in possession of people, right? SUSIE: Yes. ANDREW: It's not really, you know. There are many people who will come, people will come and Orishas are like, "yeah, okay, we'll help you," right? SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: Or the people will come, and they'll be like, "no, you should go do something else," right? SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: Either direction, go over that way, go look at these people, you know, like go look at these other traditions. It's definitely not for … It's not meant for everybody, per se, and it's not closed in any, you know, in any particular way, although certain houses and certain, you know, lineages, might be more closed to outsiders than others, based on a whole bunch of different factors, but … SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: It's much more so that, you know, if it's part of your destiny the opportunity will arise, if it's not, then, you know, you might run into it, but they might say, no, you're good, go to the other side. SUSIE: Right. Well, this is interesting to me because I've noticed that there seem to be a lot of people who are clearly didn't grow up within the culture who have become drawn to this religion or some form of it, some form of the faith, and, you know, taken it on. And, it seems as though there is, you know, a certain openness to those who commit themselves, whether or not they grew up or had family or, you know, understood the culture. Right? ANDREW: Yeah, I mean I think that, I think that there are opportunities definitely for people to engage and connect with these traditions. And there are definitely practitioners around who are, you know, open to people who didn't grow up in these traditions and so on, for sure, right. SUSIE: Right, right. ANDREW: That's definitely a thing, and you know, I mean that, I think one of the things I see that's going on is that, certain people seem like they're looking for tradition, right? They're looking for … They're kind of doing something that doesn't have a long living history, and they're kind of looking backwards for, or looking around for those things that do, you know? SUSIE: Yeah. ANDREW: I think that's part of why the Tarot de Marseilles is sort of resurfacing. SUSIE: Right, right. ANDREW: You know, it's, I think that it's why the Orisha traditions are shifting and coming forward more. You know? SUSIE: Right. That's one of the things that … I guess that's why I was asking you so much about your own background in terms of, you know, working independently versus belonging, right? Because I think that that's something that a lot of us struggle with, especially those of us who grew up, you know, in an era where religious community isn't something that one takes for granted. ANDREW: Mm-hmm. SUSIE: Yeah. So anyway, I think that we should probably turn a little bit to the work itself. ANDREW: Well, let me finish answering … Cause we started with this question of me and sort of, you know, doing this deck, right? SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: You know, sort of … And we kind of started talking about the ancestral piece and drifted away, and there are a couple of other things that I want to sort of … SUSIE: Okay, good. ANDREW: So I mean, one of the things, like I did a bunch of things around creating and starting this process, and getting permission before I started this process, and certainly one of them was sitting with my elders and talking about what I wanted to do, and, you know, getting advice from them. SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: And certainly part of it was asking the Orishas themselves, asking Elegua for, you know, his blessing to proceed with this project. SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: And also, you know, sort of sitting down with people and sort of showing my art with, you know, with different people and people of color and so on to kind of consult with my choices around representations and so on, so. SUSIE: Absolutely, absolutely. ANDREW: I really wanted to, you know, you can never please anybody, and I'm sure there'll be some people who'll be upset by the deck, and well, you know, that's life. Right? But … SUSIE: Right. But it sounds as though you have a lot of support. At least within the community you have access to for the work that you undertook. ANDREW: Exactly. SUSIE: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Cool. So I wanted to talk a little bit about making a tarot deck, approaching a tarot deck, coming out of the various traditions you come out of. So I know that you started out with Crowley and the Thoth deck -- or, I know you pronounce it "Toth," [laughing] and also that your primary commitment as a reader for quite a while has been the Marseilles deck. ANDREW: Mm-hmm. SUSIE: So, how … Why did it seem like a natural choice to you to translate or to represent what you know from Orisha as a tarot deck? You know, I think a lot of people would say, well, you know, since there isn't an obvious 78 card structure, you know, number of deities, all the sort of correspondences that tend to underlie at least the Golden Dawn-derived decks, or the general tradition of tarot reaching back to the 15th century, you know, why, why do a tarot deck and not something more free form like an oracle deck? ANDREW: Well, because, one of the reasons why I made this deck was because I wanted to create a bridge between the people who have traditional experience with the Orishas, and people who have experience with the traditional tarot structure. SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: And I wanted to use that … those two pieces as a way of creating a bridge so that people could sort of have more understanding of each other. And of what's going on, right? SUSIE: Yeah, yeah. ANDREW: And so, I really, you know, I mean, I've got nothing against oracle decks, I mean I released one earlier in the year. But, in trying to think about something as large and expansive as the Orisha traditions, it really … Having a clear structure, like the tarot structure, allowed me to frame and set the conversation in a way that allowed me to finish it [laughing] cause otherwise … SUSIE: [laughing] Right, it's ... otherwise, how do you know when it's done? [laughing] ANDREW: Yeah, right? I mean, we divine with, you know, upwards of 256 different signs. SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: Each of those signs is as complicated or as a trump card, or as sophisticated as a trump card … SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: and then there's, you know, depending on who you ask, you know, a bunch of primary Orishas and maybe, you know, like even hundreds if you start getting into different paths and roads, it can expand infinitely in every direction, right? So. SUSIE: Mm-hmm. I'm curious in whether there's much crossover between the two communities, that you've noticed. I mean tarot, and Orisha. ANDREW: Sure, lots of people. I know lots of people who are initiated. You know, I mean, that sort of … syncretic piece, kind of "what can I do with this?", you know, that continues to be a problem with a lot of Orisha practitioners' lives, right? SUSIE: Yeah. ANDREW: It's more purely, just the Lucumí Orisha stuff. Many people practice some combination of, you know, Paulo Moyumbe, and espiritismo, and card reading, and, you know, other things, depending on who they are and what they feel is important and what they have access to. So there's not like … There's not a lot of hard rules … SUSIE: Yeah. ANDREW: About the Orisha tradition. Certainly not the tradition I practice. SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: I mean, definitely don't mix them in one ceremony. SUSIE: But it's okay if you practice them separately. ANDREW: If you go to church on Sunday, and then you tend your ancestral Boveda, and then you have some Orisha, and you go between them, depending on what you feel and need, it depends on where you go, it's a really common experience for a lot of people. So. SUSIE: Yeah, yeah, I'm glad you addressed that, cause that's something I was really curious about. You know, you don't dilute your practice by sort of mixing a bit of everything. On the other hand, you're one person, and, you know, if you're drawn to different practices, then perhaps you're drawn to different practices for different needs. ANDREW: Sure. And if the Orisha don't want you doing that, they'll tell you! For sure. SUSIE: [laughing] Right. ANDREW: They'll be like, "stop it!" SUSIE: That's not cool. Yeah. ANDREW: Yeah. SUSIE: So, a little bit about what people can expect when they're approaching the cards. Now, it's not like there's a particular Orisha per card. There's Orisha in some representations of some cards, some cards have concepts from Lucumí, some cards have one of the Odu on them, so, sort of like, how did you approach how you wanted to impart all of this information structurally into the deck? ANDREW: Mm-hmm. So, I really, I wanted to try and avoid what I had seen done in other decks in the past. SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: Not because it's wrong per se, but because it doesn't give the conversation enough meat. Right? You know a lot of decks would say, well, Shango is the king, and therefore, he's the emperor, and so when I draw the Emperor I'm going to draw Shango. SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: And that's fair, you know, I mean Shango is the emperor, he's the king of the Orishas. SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: But, but there's a lot more to it than that. What does that mean? In what way does kingship or power in that way show up in a variety of different contexts, and what are the different conversations that we could have, right? SUSIE: Exactly. ANDREW: And so, when I was sort of working with the trump cards, I wanted to embody the ideas that I see being behind, you know, behind the cards themselves: spiritual authority, earthly authority, fortune and chance, you know, like different things. I wanted to sort of embody those bigger ideas and kind of avoid kind of just a straight, this symbol = this symbol here … SUSIE: Yeah, I call that the matchy match. [laughing] ANDREW: Right? Exactly. SUSIE: Yeah, yeah, yeah. ANDREW: When I was looking at the number cards, which for me often represent sort of more the what and the how of life, right? I wanted to kind of focus more on stories, and those things that tend to be more about particular patakis, or stories or ideas from the lives of the Orishas and the lives of their practitioners and where that kind of overlaps and integrates with those numbered cards. And then when I got to the court cards, I wanted to, I wanted to really kind of explore the way the court cards can be sort of seen to line up with roles people might play in the community. Right? SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: So, when we're looking at those, we see … One of them, the Aleyo, the new person who's just coming to this tradition, who's ready to learn, and they're making an offering to, you know, the butcher, who is a very skilled and important part of the ceremonies in the community, to the elders who run the ceremonies, and the singers and the drummers and the artists and all of those things, so I kind of went through and sifted those ideas into where I felt they aligned with the court cards best. SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: So, the court cards then become really positions or roles one might find oneselves in, in religion, and over time, with the traditional idea of the court cards, over time we might [00:29:27]. Over time we might be, you know, we might play this role in this community and that role in another community. And so on. So. SUSIE: Right, right. And I think hat underscores what I think sometimes we forget about court cards, which is that we can be any of them, and we are any and all of them at different times. ANDREW: Mm-hmm. SUSIE: So, about that … A word you brought up just before, which I think is pretty important for us to discuss, the word Pataki, the story. So can you tell us a little bit about how that is contextualized within the faith and also, we should mention, that that is the name of the book that goes with the deck, Patakis of the Orisha Tarot. Yeah. ANDREW: So, patakis are the stories of the Orishas and their practitioners that are meant to be instructive, right? SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: The word parable, you know, is a way to maybe give a different word for it in English. SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: And, you know, especially when we're divining, right, we'll often give a proverb, and we'll often, you know, tell a story about the Orishas. And, this is part of this oral tradition of it, that we are expressing these ideas in ways that allow us to tell the person things, in ways that are easier to hold onto, easier to integrate, that give us some meat, rather than just saying, "hey, don't do this thing," which we might also say … SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: We might also tell the story of when one of the Orishas did that thing and what happened to them. SUSIE: Yes. ANDREW: "Oh yeah yeah, okay I see that. I shouldn't do that thing, cause this is gonna happen," right? There'll be a problem. SUSIE: There's something about these stories that's so human and relatable, right? You know? I mean is it not the case that the Orisha themselves were at one time human or before they became more than human? ANDREW: Well, that's a … That's a contested … Somewhat contested point of view. Many Orisha are what's known as urumole. They came from heaven. Right? They originated purely from spirit. SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: There are Orishas who are considered deified ancestors, Shango being one of them, you know, Oduduwa being another one. You know, there are these spirits, these people who led great lives and led their communities and so on, and became, you know, deified after their death. The question that comes up in those conversations, then, also is were those lives that Orisha descending and living on Earth for a period of time? SUSIE: Yes, right. Yeah. ANDREW: So, I mean, I think that it … I think that there's no clear answers to that. But in general, the majority of the Orishas did not start as human, but originated as part of the unfolding of creation, and then came to sort of live these lives and, you know, have these stories and experiences that we now understand. And also, when we're talking about some of these stories, I think that we also need to understand that some of them, and there's no easy historical way to say which ones are not, but a good chunk of them were probably stories about priests of those spirits. SUSIE: I see. ANDREW: Made these mistakes in their lives. It's like, "Oh yeah, you're Bill, the priest of Obatala who lived down the road …" SUSIE: [laughing] ANDREW: "Remember when you did this?" "Yeah, I remember," right? SUSIE: [laughing] Right, right. ANDREW: And those stories become, you know, part of the myth, right? Part of the lexicon of these traditions. SUSIE: Yes. I guess what makes me wonder, you know, what their relationship with mortality and humanity is, is because these stories, the emotions and the sort of currents that they represent are things that anyone can relate to. You know, there's jealousy, there's anger, there's, you know, there's infidelity, there's theft, there are things that you don't sort of in the same way that in the Greek mythology you see people, you see deities acting badly, right? Or in ways that show that they can make mistakes too. ANDREW: Definitely. One of my elders likes to say, you know, "They made those mistakes, you don't need to, okay?" SUSIE: [laughing] ANDREW: Right? But, you know. We're all human. We're gonna learn or we're not gonna learn. But we'll learn one way or another. Right? SUSIE: Right, right. So, a little bit more about deck structure. So, first of all, I noticed immediately that there were some sorts of ways in which your experience with tarot informed the deck. First of all, there's a little bit of a thought sensibility, in that your Strength and Justice are ordered in the way that the Thoth deck and the Marseilles deck do, rather than the Rider-Waite-Smith. I noticed that you have ordered it wands, cups, swords, disks, fire, water, air earth, which is a very hermetic thing. And the very fact that you call them disks also comes out of the Thoth tradition. But, I also wanted to know a little bit, for example, of ... I can sort of understand where the structure for the majors comes from, but what I wanted to know a little bit more is about the pips. Because your primary reading background comes from, as far as assigning meaning to the pips, I guess would be based in Thoth originally? I wondered if there was sort of more relationship …. Would someone who comes from a Rider-Waite-Smith tradition instantly recognize, or from a Golden Dawn tradition, instantly recognize the concepts in each of these minor cards? ANDREW: Well, I mean I think so. [laughing] SUSIE: [laughing] I can tell you that I certainly did. ANDREW: I mean, here's my hope about this deck. You know? SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: I mean, so, obviously, I started with the Thoth deck, and I read with that deck for many years, exclusively. But I also read a ton of books on tarot, right, during that time. And had a lot of conversations, especially once I started branching out in the communities more, and you know, I mean, I've read lots of books on the Waite-Smith tradition, and, you know, all of that sort of and a bunch of that older stuff, you know? SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: Hermetic or otherwise. So when I was, when I was creating this deck, there are … People who are reading the book, you'll come to some spots, you'll hit a few cards where it's like, you know, in the Marseilles tradition, people often think of this card this way, and I'll give a little bit of context, and then when you go and read it, it'll make a ton of sense. SUSIE: Yeah. ANDREW: And, that's really mostly because I could have, you know, I could have written ten times as much about these cards as I did. But Llewellyn said, you can only make the book [cross-laughter [00:37:02] SUSIE: Right, right. ANDREW: And, and I really endeavored to sort of kind of hold what I see as kind of the middle of the road on these meanings, right? I mean I didn't … the numbering is the numbering, and to me ultimately the numbering … I mean, this might be blasphemy from a hermetic point of view, but to me the numbering of the trump cards is really largely irrelevant. SUSIE: I think it's arbitrary, yeah. ANDREW: It's a historical precedent that's [inaudible at [00:37:30]. SUSIE: Although, although, Andrew, I think it's important that you made Elegua the Fool. I think, you know. ANDREW: For sure! SUSIE: Yeah. As the Orisha who comes first. ANDREW: For sure, yeah, yeah. But, but, you know, choosing Justice to be this number or that number, I'm like, eh. I almost never read the numbers when I read cards, because I just see the cards, right? SUSIE: Right, right. ANDREW: So, you know, this deck is really meant to be, you know, a kind of relatively even representation of tarot as it exists today, right? SUSIE: Yeah, yeah. ANDREW: And so, there's not … none of it's slanted too much one way or the another. There's no like "Well, you need to know that Crowley called this card the Aeon means, you know the goddess Nuit means this... SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: It's just not like that at all, right? SUSIE: Yeah, I mean, my sensation as I was getting to know the deck was really that it was about the stories, and which story fit which card best. ANDREW: Yeah. It's one of the things that I actually really … I wouldn't have guessed that I would have felt this was so important, but the feedback that I've gotten from the people who've gotten their books already, or gotten their copies already, who I shared advance copies with and stuff, is … including some non-tarot people who just are reading it because they really like me. SUSIE: [laughing] ANDREW: The feedback I keep getting is that the material is really accessible. And to me, that's like a really important thing. You know? I didn't want to make this difficult, I avoided using as much jargon, or like, you know, Lucumí words, as much as possible. I really, you know, I didn't get into hermetic philosophy particularly anywhere. You know there are all these branches and wings of my own personal experiences and practice, that I just brought them all down to the dining hall, I was like, "All right! Let's all have lunch to talk about stuff in a general way." SUSIE: [laughing] ANDREW: You know, it's hard to make that happen, so. SUSIE: Right. Well I think that, you know, I think it's really important for anyone coming to this deck to get to know the book, to read the book, really read the book, because it's, you know, it's 350 pages, it's real, it's got every single page not only has a story that's associated with the card, but also sort of breaks down the symbols that you included in the card, what its divinatory meaning might be, and sort of what the advice might be that goes with it. And I found that incredibly helpful in terms of, like, you know, if I came across a card where my own sort of tarot background wasn't making it immediately obvious to me what you were trying to do, I could just go to the book and it was really clear, you know, like within a minute. So, I think that it's … This is one of those things where … And I generally am not a person who believes that readers always have to go to the book, but I think it is really enriching and helpful to contextualize using what you wrote for this deck. ANDREW: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I think unless somebody has a strong living practice with like, you know, with a traditional Orisha practice, yeah, it might be hard to start just by looking at it … SUSIE: Yeah, yeah. ANDREW: Most people who come from those traditions and read cards, as well, then maybe they don't need the book as much, you know. It's always interesting as I share the images on the, you know, on social media and stuff, I get, you know, priests jumping on the thing, and like, "how you choose to represent this here! it's perfect!" you know? SUSIE: [laughing] right. ANDREW: They just get it, right? Because they have both of those pieces. But it's so nice to see people be moved to see themselves and to see the tradition in this way, which is really gratifying. SUSIE: Mm-hmm, Mm-hmm. Before we move off structure and start talking a little bit more about the art and the specific cards, is there a sort of through line in each suit that we should be looking for? Something that's going on in wands only, something that's going on in cups or swords or disks? ANDREW: That was … That was a notion that I abandoned along the way. You know, in making a deck there always comes this point where the reality check steps in, and you're like, this is the limit of what I can do, you know. SUSIE: Yeah, yeah. ANDREW: And the sort of the idea that there was sort of one through line for each set of suits, I didn't really, I couldn't really find it, and you know there are a couple other ideas about levels of detail and symbolic representations that I just realized I'd be spending another five years like hand-drawing beaded things all day… SUSIE: [laughing] ANDREW: I'm like, that can't happen. SUSIE: Right, and if … I mean there are certainly color and number correspondences you could have worked with but, by forcing it into you know, existing tarot structure or hermetic structure I think you would have been doing something that was not necessarily conducive to the most rich environment of reading these cards. ANDREW: Exactly. SUSIE: You know what I mean? Yeah, although, I'm looking at … I've sorted it out, separated my deck out, Ace, Cups Swords, sorry, Wands, Cups, Swords, I'm looking at the Aces, and there's definitely, I get at least just from my background, I get an elemental feeling off of those cards, you know, a fire, water, air, earth feeling, and even if that's not something that you intended to do or carried throughout the deck, there's still something there, I think. ANDREW: For sure. I mean, in making this deck it's definitely … A lot of stuff just emerged in the creative process. And although I spent a lot of time thinking and writing and making notes about what went where and why and so on, when I sat down to make the cards, a lot of stuff just emerged as part of that process, you know, from the news, from the creativity, by chance or whatever, my own conscious formulated it, so there's a lot of stuff in there that happened as I was making the cards, it wasn't necessarily fully thought out … SUSIE: But which is just part of you, as a reader and a practitioner. ANDREW: Yeah. I mean, you spend 32 years working with the tarot, right? SUSIE: [laughing] ANDREW: It's a lot of ideas in the back of the brain there that are trying to come out in one way or another. SUSIE: Right. So, let's talk a little bit about the way the cards look for those people who haven't been lucky enough to pick up their decks yet. It's a gorgeous production, first of all, I think you, you know … the artwork's just stunning, and Llewellyn did a great job, I think, as well. First of all it's a borderless deck, which, thank you! [laughing] That's … ANDREW: Llewellyn let me do something that they had never done before, which was: all of the titles are handwritten. SUSIE: Yeah! Yeah! ANDREW: [crosstalking [00:44:55] to the cards. They're not obscured, they're easy enough to see when you're looking … SUSIE: You can find them. ANDREW: [crosstalking] Off of the bottom. They fit in more with the artwork, so it's easier to kind of just look at the artwork, or just look for the title when you need to. SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: That was something that we had a bunch of conversations with … SUSIE: I think it was a brilliant choice. Because, you know, it really foregrounds the story of the art. The art fills the frame, you know, everything about it allows you to immerse yourself in what's going on in that picture, and then secondarily you, you know, check out whatever title it was so you can sort of match it up with your own tarot knowledge. But I really appreciated that and I'm really glad that they made that decision and you, you know, suggested it. And also, the colors are so saturated and so bold. So the texture and look that you were going for was based on Gwash, right? ANDREW: Well, so, actually, what I was … So, I used to paint in Gwash a lot, before I had kids. But, you know, having kids, and having a space to set up art, you know, a small, urban space, isn't really that easy, right? SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: So certainly, that's a piece of my sensibility and my aesthetic, but part of what I was really looking for was, you know, starting, it's hard to date now, but starting quite a while ago, I went from being super structured and really trying to sort of make everything perfect, to really kind of moving to a more gestural and looser way of working. And so, you know, this kind of comes out of that, you know, sort of move away from you know, sort of pursuing absolute realism to pursuing something else. And then, the other piece of the aesthetic is, you know, I wanted to include different pieces of symbolism, but I didn't want to make it look like the Thoth deck where there are so many symbols that you don't really know what to look at sometimes. SUSIE: Yes, yes. ANDREW: And so, one of the things that I decided along the way was, you know, there's a lot of use of textiles, especially in Africa and west Africa, and the Orisha traditions, there's a lot of use of textiles in making thrones, in making ceremonial outfits, you know, in making panuelos, which are these elaborate cloths that we put on top of the Orisha sometimes. And so I wanted to kind of have a reference to that without trying to like emulate it or create like, recreate specific patterns, but use that visual idea to create a space for that symbolic language to hold, right? SUSIE: Yes. ANDREW: For the use of number, and through whatever other symbols got added to those designs and so on. So. SUSIE: Yeah, I really picked up on the fact that the design sensibility behind this had that sort of sense of, you know, scope and flow and bold lines that you get in textile. And, you know, that's not something you always see in tarot, and so it was really kind of a relief to the eye to sort of not get too, I don't know, bound up in the busy? ANDREW: mm-hmm. SUSIE: Yeah. I think what we see is sort of a looseness of the line, and … But at the same time a real exactness in terms of what symbols you wanted to portray and the way that you foregrounded them in each card. So, so, you did this actually on an iPad, right? ANDREW: I did, yeah. I did all of this digitally. I've been working pretty much exclusively digitally for the last five or six years now, I guess, ever since … SUSIE: Yeah. And does that have to do with being busy, being a parent, you know, just trying to live life in addition to being an artist? ANDREW: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I mean I don't have a studio space, you know, I don't have … Toronto is apparently one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in, thanks for that, whoever's responsible for that … SUSIE: [laughing] ANDREW: But space is certainly at a premium. And, you know, the only space where I maybe could do more studio type work is at the shop, and I already spend lots of time at the shop seeing clients and doing other stuff. I don't really want to be at work even if it's sort of as a creative outlet. And the iPad, you know, it's always with me, and when I was making this deck , I would just be like, oh, I've got an hour, time to work on one of the cards a bit. You know? SUSIE: Yeah. ANDREW: Here's some writing. Or whatever. It's just, it's always at hand, it's super portable, and especially, I got an iPad Pro, like one of the big ones, and an Apple pencil, which finally I was able to make happen through the process and you know, it's the best thing ever, it's just … SUSIE: Yeah, and if you get interrupted, you can just save it, and pick it up later. ANDREW: And I'm sure, like from a production point of view too, you can work in layers, like in Photoshop … SUSIE: Yeah. ANDREW: It's a real treat. So all the backgrounds are their own layers and all the symbols SUSIE: That's great, yeah. ANDREW: The line work symbols and stuff. So if I make a mistake, if I change my mind later … SUSIE: Right, right. Plus it gives you more freedom. I mean if you're doing a background you don't want to just stop to make room for the foreground, right? ANDREW: Right? Yeah. All also, I just sent all the Photoshops to Llewellyn, and they asked me if they could take some of them apart and use pieces for making the box and other stuff, which they did, which is fantastic. I'm so delighted with it. It just, it allows for a variety of options in a way that traditional mediums just don't, you know? SUSIE: Yeah, I was really excited to realize that you did this in a digital format like that just because I didn't know that you could create art like this in that way and have it come out looking so good. You know? ANDREW: Mm-hmm. SUSIE: And the other thing is that I just, I thought it was really funny, that just practically speaking, that it made so much sense for you. This is one of my hobby horses, the idea of just how difficult it is to be both a parent and a practitioner, you know, just to live your life and try to do this work is a constant struggle. Like, you know, you're in the middle of a banishing ritual and some kid is like, coming through saying, Mom, I missed the bus! ANDREW: Yeah! SUSIE: I mean, it's like it's every day, you know, trying to make that work is tricky for a lot of us. So I'm glad you found a way to make this happen. ANDREW: Me too. SUSIE: Okay, so I'd love to, if you feel like it, I'd love to talk a little bit about specific cards. If you could just give me a second, I have to plug … My laptop's going to run out of charge. I just have to plug it in real quick. ANDREW: Yeah. SUSIE: Just, be right there. [pause] Okay, we're good. And I can strip that out of the tape, later on, if you want. Okay. So, let's talk about a couple majors. I wanted to return to the Fool card, cause I think that's super important, where you have Elegua, who is, I guess, you know I don't want to make the mistake of trying to do too much equivalency here, but he is the one who makes communication possible as I understand it. ANDREW: Yeah. Elegua is the Orisha we speak to first in every ceremony, because he opens and closes the ways, and Elegua is all of the communication everywhere, on every single level, right. If we think about the communication between every cell in your body is that communication between the parts of the universe, you know, nothing exists or could happen without Elegua being there to facilitate that transfer of information from one place to another. SUSIE: Right. Right. And so, I think, you know, that's what makes it so important and so appropriate that he's the first card in the deck. You have to, even to open your mouth, to gather the air to speak, you have to be there, right, although he also has a presence in a number of other cards as well. And what people will see, when they look at it, is, I guess the, a common representation of Elegua is the kind of stone or concrete head with the cowrie shells embedded in it, right? ANDREW: Mm-hmm. Yeah, when people … A common solution, a relatively common solution to troubles in people's lives is to receive what's referred to as the Warriors … SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: Which is Elegua, Ogun and Ochossi. It's an initiation that you don't have to be a priest to have. Anybody can receive this if it's marked or required. And they come into your life to help you fight your problems and overcome your obstacles and so on. And what there's actually, people are really accustomed to seeing these cement heads with the cowrie shells, but traditionally depending on your lineage, Elegua is … they have marked the path of Elegua, and there are many ways in which Elegua might be made. But I chose to make the one that people understand the most because I wanted it to be somewhat familiar to people, for sure. SUSIE: Right, and this is actually a symbol that ordinary people might have in their homes, right? ANDREW: Maybe. SUSIE: Yeah, yeah. Well, just real quick, after I got your deck, I had the craziest dream, where I dreamed that I got up and I went outside. And this was around midnight. And the UPS truck comes, [laughing] and gives me a package with my name on it, and I open it and I suddenly start to feel really strange like I'm high or I've taken something or ingested some kind of substance, like, just through opening the package. And then I was instantly transported into some kind of rite that was going on in my dining room. And Elegua was there. [laughing] And I thought this was, obviously this is not, I knew almost nothing before this week about this tradition, but, and I certainly have no way of knowing what significance that had or what, you know I certainly can't speak for the tradition in any way, but I thought it was, so interesting that, you know, my dream maker chose to take the delivery of your deck to me as this kind of mind-altering frame-shifting event. and then introduce, you know, this personification of communication, the opener of the ways, into the dream. ANDREW: Yup. Indeed. SUSIE: So I was very grateful for that experience. Okay. The only other major I really wanted to make sure we talked about was the Priestess card. ANDREW: Mm-hmm. SUSIE: Because it's not what people would ordinarily expect to see in a Priestess card, and I thought you could talk a little bit about what we're looking at and how it relates to the High Priestess we know and love. ANDREW: Mm-hmm. So, this is actually one of the cards that gave me the biggest trouble. SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: I spent a lot of time working on this card, they're a bunch of drawings that got scrapped along the way, because I was just like, no, nope, no, no, no, that's not gonna cut it, that's too simple, that's too this, that's too whatever, right? SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: You know, so what we see in the Priestess card, is we see a bunch of cowrie shells, right? SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: And the dillogun, or the cowrie shells, are you know one of the traditional tools of divination. For olocha, for priests in the way that I'm a priest, it's the way in which we speak with the Orishas. And, when we divine with the shells, we pray, and we invoke an opening with Elegua or whoever, for an Odu, for a sign, like a, the idea almost like a card to sort of … But those energies, those Odu, are the living unfolding of the universe, right? SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: So, they represent all of the knowledge that was and is and all of the possible knowledge of the future, or the possible unfoldings of the future. And so, those energies that arrive when we do a reading, and come to play in the life of the person who gets the reading done … It's actually a serious ceremony to get a reading. SUSIE: Yeah. ANDREW: It alters the course of your life, right? And, you know when we think of the Priestess or the Papess, right? SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: One of the things that we can talk about is knowledge, right? And it's deep metaphysical knowledge, right? SUSIE: Right. Which isn't readily accessible to you at a surface level. ANDREW: And, when we think about the Hierophant or the Pope as sort of the outer face of spirituality, the High Priestess is the inner face. She's the inner mystery of that, right? SUSIE: Right . ANDREW: And she is that knowledge which is hard to get to, that knowledge which is hard won, and that knowledge which is tied to a deep respect and a deep cosmic awareness of the nature of the universe, right? SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: And so this Odu and the method of divination and the process of divination, to me mirrors that, right? SUSIE: Correct. ANDREW: And so the shells become the mouth of the Priestess, right? And if we look at it in a sort of Rider Waite symbol, right? Cascarilla and the Ota, the black stone? SUSIE: Yes! ANDREW: They mirror, we use those in the divination process, but they mirror those two columns … SUSIE: The boas and jacim, yeah. ANDREW: The positive and negative vibrations that are in that sort of duality. SUSIE: And those are a kind of … Are they a yes/no kind of stand-in? ANDREW: Yeah, we use them and other things to ask specific questions within a reading. We each have … There's about a half dozen Ibo that all have ritual significance, and we use them in different ways depending on the nature of the question we're asking. SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: And then the other thing that's going on in this card is, usually people divine on a straw mat or a tray … SUSIE: Yeah. ANDREW: With cowrie shells. And some people use a wooden tray, maybe, but more often than not a straw mat. So, I wanted to create this idea of the straw mat, but then this idea that below it is this sort of cosmic opening, right? This connection to everything. SUSIE: Yeah. ANDREW: So, this is actually probably one of the most abstracted cards in the whole deck … SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: In that it doesn't really show an Orisha or a thing that is sort of easily connectable, but I think that it really represents a sort of, that depth of knowledge and connection, direct connection to the voice of creation, that I associate with the High Priestess and that you know I associate with this divination process. SUSIE: Yes. Now the Odu themselves, they're transmitted orally, right? It's not something that you just pick up a book, and not anyone can do it. ANDREW: Yes. If you're not a priest, you cannot do cowrie shells, right? SUSIE: Got you. ANDREW: There's no … The best thing we could say is that you don't have the spiritual license, and my elders would be quite clear, you know, you can do anything you want with these shells, but they don't speak for the Orishas, therefore whatever you get is irrelevant. SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: You know … SUSIE: So it's not like what we think of … As tarot readers, we just pick up a deck and anyone can give it a go, this is something that you really need to go through initiation and be crowned as a priest to do. ANDREW: And spend a long time studying, right? You know you need to understand that there are 256, technically 257 signs. Each of those signs has a specific hierarchical order of Orishas that speak in them. Each of them has proverbs, songs, ceremonies, offerings, taboos, patakis, and then each of those signs can come in ire, like the sign of blessing, or asobo, the negative sign, and then there are many kinds of ire and osogbo, and if you start to multiply those out, you start to realize how many different permutations are possible in this system . SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: It takes a very long time and a lot of study to really come to understand what all those things mean. SUSIE: Yeah, and is that something that … So, this is something that you might do as a priest, correct? ANDREW: Yeah. SUSIE: And did you internalize all of those 256, 257 signs or was it, is it an ongoing study? How does that work for you? ANDREW: There's no end to the study. [laughing] SUSIE: Right. [laughing] ANDREW: Like hermeticism. When do you know enough? SUSIE: Oh, you never know enough. No no no … [laughing] Right. Okay. Well that's really helpful in terms of getting into the card. Are there any other majors that you'd kind of like to draw attention to before we look at minors? ANDREW: No, I'm happy to take your lead. SUSIE: Great. And honestly I would like to go through every single card in the deck, and I was having a lot of trouble sort of singling out a few that might be interesting to talk about, but given our time constraints, we'll just focus on some. I was looking at … the Nine of Wands, we're kind of going in order here, Nine of Wands [static at [01:04:39] see in this card, it's so interesting, because as I understand it, from your story, this is a representation of Yamaya, or one of her avatars I guess … ANDREW: Yeah. SUSIE: And there's a shipwreck, or an underwater ship, and [static] got a knife, and the knife has clearly just been used. So, maybe you can tell us a little bit about that. ANDREW: Yeah, I mean, one of the things that people … In making the deck, I wanted to disrupt people's preconceived notions, right? SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: Of certain things. You know, like people, it's common for people to say, yeah yeah yeah, if you want love, go and talk to Ochún. Right? And Ochún will help you find love. SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: He might, it's possible, but sometimes [inaudible] Ochún in what context and so on and so on, right? But you know, Ochún also doesn't really dig people complaining very much, it's not a thing that she's really that into … SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: So, depending on the attitude that you're feeling about this, Ochún might also be irritated by you approaching her about it, it's very hard to say. SUSIE: Yeah. ANDREW: Which is why, you know, traditional practitioners divine, right? SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: Because the good answer is, in traditional divination, any Orisha that offers to help you with a problem can help you with that problem. SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: Whether we sort of generally associate that with being their purview or not, doesn't really matter, because if they say they're gonna help, they're gonna help, and you just say thank you, right? SUSIE: Right. ANDREW: And, so when we think about Yamaya, people think about Yamaya as a sort of loving mother energy, as a sort of always supportive energy, right? You know? SUSIE: Mm-hmm. ANDREW: We really sometimes people are sent to work with her when they need sort of grounding and stabilizing of emotions … SUSIE: Yeah. ANDREW: But, you know, Yamaya also has many roads and many avatars, right? So we're talking about, you know, Obu Okotu, it's not gentle, she's really a lot more like a shark, right? SUSIE: mm-hmm. And so, you know, the idea, the thing that people often say, is that when the ship wrecks, she grabs the sailors and takes them down to their fate, right? SUSIE: Yeah. ANDREW: And so there's this real sort of show of strength and power with her that isn't what we would normally associate with it, but which is 100 percent a part of her personality, or at least her personality on that path, right? SUSIE: Right. And I actually thought that this was … You know, the more I thought about it, the more it tied to my own understanding of this card. I mean when I think of the Nine of Wands, I think of someone who has been derived their strength from the vicissitudes of life, from the experiences of having suffered and having learned. ANDREW: Yeah. SUSIE: And I think that … I also think of it as a very lunar card, so that made it kind of feel familiar to me as well. But also, the fact that power has a personality and ruthlessness to it, as well. ANDREW: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean the Nine of Wands often turns up to speak of people who are strong clear incredibly competent, and sometimes hard for other people to relate to because of those things, right? SUSIE: Yeah. They've been through a lot. ANDREW: Yeah, for sure. SUSIE: Yeah. Okay. Fascinating. And plus, it's just beautiful. You see the body of Yamaya, but at first you may not even recognize that it's a human form because of the blue on blue, it's a very underwater card. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Looking at -- Oh, you know, one of my favorite cards of all is your Ten of Cups. And, which I did receive this week, once, and what I love about it is the story that goes along with it. So maybe you could talk about that a little bit. Sure. So when we were talking earlier in the podcast about picking your Ore or picking your destiny, right? This card represents that process, right? SUSIE: mm-hmm. ANDREW: You know, when everybody's hanging out in Orun, up on the other side, you know where we're all spirits, eventually, people for whatever reasons decide it's time to come back to earth. You know, decide it's time to come back down here, you know, to the marketplace, to hang out and party, to fulfill something they haven't fulfilled, whatever it may be. And when they make that decision, they go, as my elders described it, you go down the hall to this room where Adela, who is the Orisha who crafts these destinies, as a series of sealed gourds … SUSIE: And that's the picture that we see on the card, we see Ajala with the gourds. ANDREW: Yeah, I mean I think of it more as a person choosing their destiny. SUSIE: Oh, I see! ANDREW: But maybe. SUSIE: Could be. ANDREW: Adula, as far as I know, I've never come across any personifications of them … SUSIE: So this, so in your mind, this was the soul choosing which one. ANDREW: But, and we don't have a sort of super clear sense of karma or carry over from one life to another. It's not really … it's a mystery that we acknowledge that we don't fully understand, right? So you go into a room full of sealed gourds, and you pick something, and you really don't know, it could be horrible, right? It could be great, whatever. But if you've been good friends with Elegua, you know, and you've kind of kept good faith with him, maybe you reach out for something and he gives a little cough and says hey, not that one. SUSIE: [laughing] ANDREW: Don't take that one. Right? SUSIE: And I love this that you have this little sketch of Elegua under the table, you know, very quiet. Very subtle. Yeah. [laughing] Just giving you a hint. ANDREW: Yeah. So once you pick your destiny, you go back and see your creator, and then your soul goes into a body. SUSIE: And you can see in the background of the card, you can see the outline of the Earth, so this idea that you're outside the material realm at that moment, choosing your fate, yeah, mm-hmm. I think that's just really beautiful. And I think it's quite relatable to, you know, in a traditional sense to the Ten of Cups, which I at least think of as the end of a cycle, you know, I often think of it as the end of the complete sequence of minors in some ways, because if you go through correspondences it immediately precedes the Two of Wands. But there's also this feeling, you know when you see the family on the Rider-Waite-Smith Ten of Cups, of this sort of being, they're taking a bow. This destiny is finished! And we're looking towards the next. ANDREW: People … the belief is that people tend to reincarnate along family
Thank you for listening and remember, Mysteries Abound. Find us at: Twitter: @FabledPod Instagram: @fabledpod #fabledpod #mysteriesabound Join the conversation at our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fabledpod Humans love to make monsters. From Count Dracula to Jigsaw, we can’t help but give the creatures living in the dark corners of our minds some semblance of life. Whether that life is on paper and housed in the imaginations of the reader or seen on the big screen at your local cinema, we delight in frightening each other with the horrors we create and, at the end of our experiences with them, we take a breath and tell ourselves “That was fun but at least it wasn’t real.” And that’s true... right? What if the monsters that dwell in our imagination have the potential to be just that: real? Is it possible we can create our worst fears by focusing so intensely on them that they spring into existence, fully formed and ready to rain terror on us? Some think so, and this focus on our fears may have created the worst monster of all: Today, we discuss Slender Man. To get to where we need to go with this idea of what Slender Man may be, we need to travel back in time to the origins of Tibetan Buddhism and explore the idea of the Thought-Form, or Tulpa, which is also referred to as an Emanation in ancient scripts. Going back to the earliest days of Buddhism there have always been teachings that deal with the concept of time, reality, and what we really are as sentient creatures. These teachings on the nature of reality led some of the practitioners of Buddhism to develop the concept of the Emanation. An Emanation, or Tulpa, was an extension of oneself on a spiritual level, however, powerful Buddha were said to have been able to create individual Tulpas that could think and act outside the will of their creator. This ability to create an Emanation was an explanation in early Buddhism as to how some of the Buddha throughout history were able to travel to heavenly realms while their body remained here in this realm. The practitioners would meditate in such a focused way that they would literally create a projection or copy of themselves in the heavenly realm they wished to visit. Obviously the idea of the Tulpa is a deeply spiritual one to practitioners of different sects of Buddhism and is vastly different in practice to the Thought-Forms we will discuss shortly. However, for our purposes, it is important to note that people have been claiming the ability to literally create beings from nothing but thoughts for many centuries. As with most things, Western culture in the early 20th century took the teachings of the Tibetan monks and adapted the concept of the Emanation into the idea of the Thought-Form and brought it to America. These people, calling themselves Theosophists, or religious philosophers, were led by a woman named Helena Blavatsky and drew upon what she referred to as ancient knowledge from “The Masters”, or, ancient spirits whom she claimed to have a psychic or spiritual connection with. Theosophists believed that if groups of people focused their thoughts on a particular idea for long enough, it would manifest physically in our world. Another group who took the concept of the Tulpa and ran with it was The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. This group rose to some popularity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and included notable people such as Alistair Crowley, the famed magician, author, and occult leader, among its ranks and leadership. The HOGD was a group of like-minded people who focused their studies on such things as the occult, paranormal activity, and metaphysics as a way to understand the world around them and to practice magic that might benefit themselves. Among many things they are known for (mostly large orgies claiming to be for channeling some sort of universal magic) this group practiced a magic with the idea that they could summon some sort of psychic though-form being known to them as the Egregore. The Egregore, according to this group, could be summoned by particularly powerful people or collectively via psychic projection. Much like the following anecdote, this Egregore was also said to be autonomous and independent from its creators, like the Tulpa over time grew to be. Interestingly enough, the Egregore has also been used to explain the way a modern meme can spread and deliver ideas to masses of people simultaneously. As opposed to a physical being manifesting, an idea manifests in our collective conscience from the meme. At the same time the Theosophists and the Golden Dawn were appropriating the Eastern mythology for their own uses, a woman named Alexandra David-Neel (pronounced Nael) was studying Eastern religion in Tibet. Now, she claims to have seen a Tulpa in action while there, and some of her writings claim she even created one for herself. She writes of a portly monk often seen with her that, if she is to be believed, may have been her very own Tulpa. Her writings go on to discuss a sort of self-awareness the Tulpa gains as it ages which eventually lead to the creation attempting to disassociate, sometimes violently, from its creator in an attempt to keep itself manifested. Regardless of where you look into this subject, all parties involved (including the ancient scripts) warn of some danger with summoning Tulpa, and extreme caution must be taken when attempting to summon one. Now all of this seems like a lot to go over in such a short amount of time. The concepts of Theosophy can be difficult to wrap your mind around, so if you are interested in the subject of Theosophy, you can grab a copy of Blavatsky’s book “The Secret Doctrine.” It is a fascinating read. For more information on Tulpas, seek out books from Christopher O’Brien or scroll through the archives of a podcast called The Paracast. So how does this connect to The Slender Man, you might ask? Now that I’ve briefly explained the idea of the thought-form or Tulpa, You have just enough knowledge about the subject to continue on however I implore you to dig a little deeper into this subject. It will be worth your time. Our next episode will be available shortly and, dear listener, The Slender Man is coming. Be afraid. Fabled is a podcast for fans of Unsolved Mysteries, Lore, Slender Man, mysteries, mystery, Pokemon, creepypasta, creepy pasta, horror stories, horror, paranormal, ghosts, legends, myths, and stories.
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Puedes ver el video completo de esta conferencia en: http://television.mindalia.com/la-nueva-atlantis-por-colin-rivas/ La nueva Atlantis, por Colin Rivas, que tuvo lugar durante el IV Congreso Ciencia y Espíritu, en Junio de 2010. La nueva Atlantis: (Astro-teologia, alien Kabbalah, y el mundo espiritual) La transcendencia de las planetas y los astros, y cómo una élite se aprovechó para dominar al hombre prehistórico a través de la astrología y tras de una serie de cataclismos causados por agencias o entidades ajenas a la tierra. El culto hacia lo desconocido, el reconocimiento de deidades o fuerzas que ostentan un poder sobre nuestro destino, la instauración de ciertas creencias que carecen de un componente lógico, pero que por si mismas, se muestran capaces de moldear nuestro pensamiento. La magia, las artes esotéricas, el ocultismo, la invocación de los espíritus… Desde tiempos inmemorables, el hombre ha tenido que lidiar con toda clase de fenómenos y estados que escapan de un razonamiento lógico. Con ello, y confiado a pequeños “guetos”, o grupos de minorías calificados como secretos, científicos y ocultistas de la talla de Pitagoras, Da Vinci, Nostradamus, Isaac Newton, William Crookes, o el mismísimo “Alistair Crowley”, establecieron mediante consenso, la figura de una “Life Force”, o energía de la vida, capaz de animar no solo el cuerpo físico, sino también a la madre tierra. Y es que, partiendo de la premisa básica de que ningún elemento puede existir sino mantiene relación alguna con el espíritu que emana de la tierra, con su energía… ¿ Que debemos entender por el llamado “Eter”, y que influencia ejerce sobre la vida de los seres humanos? Ante dicho panorama, figuras como el magro negro por excelencia, “Alistair Crowley”, junto a las de John Lodge, confraternizaran de buen grado, en el nacimiento de una alianza, foco originario de toda clase de rituales e invocaciones de los espíritus del mal, demonios, y figuras angelicales, siendo a la postre, un reclamo más que solicitado por las familias reales, y la aristocracia integrada por Americanos, Noruegos, Italianos e Ingleses, entre otros. Pero…¿ Quién fue realmente Alistair Crowley, y que rol desempeñó en la proliferación allende de los mares, de la llamada ” Magia Negra “?… El Eter, la Magia Enokiana, las encantaciones apodadas como “Sigils” en el Antiguo testamento… Trataremos de aunar tras la raíces originarias de la magia, y de las sociedades secretas que veneran su poder. Para ello, contaremos con el testimonio de uno de los mejores arqueólogos del momento, y lingüista, Colin Rivas. Colin Rivas Colin Rivas es un hombre ordinario en busca de un conocimiento extraordinario. Colin, de 40 años de edad, padres Europeos y Profesor de la Universidad de California y estudiante independiente del conocimiento, se graduó en Arte, y Antropología Lingüística en las universidades de Santa Mónica y Northridge allá por los años 90, viajó y trabajó en diferentes países del medio oriente, europa y asia tanto como funcionario británico como de forma independiente. Es arduo y curioso de la investigación gnóstica y todo lo que encierra el conocimiento y simbología ocultas de nuestro planeta… ——————————EVENTO ORGANIZADO POR—————————— Miguel Celades http://www.cienciayespiritu.com ————————————INFORMACION SOBRE MINDALIA—————————— Mindalia.com y Mindalia Televisión son una ONG SIN ANIMO DE LUCRO Si te ha gustado este video, APOYANOS CON UNA DONACION: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=G58CS4AVKC6BU SUSCRIBETE AL CANAL DE YOUTUBE para no perderte ningún video: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=mindaliacom AYUDA A MINDALIA, SIN PAGAR NI UN SÓLO CÉNTIMO MÁS, CON TUS COMPRAS Y RESERVAS ONLINE: http://helpfree.ly/j20544 MILES DE VIDEOS de conferencias y entrevistas de interés en http://www.mindaliatelevision.com Participa en las CONFERENCIAS EN DIRECTO: http://television.mindalia.com/category/conferencias-en-directo/ -Puedes escuchar este y otros audios en Ivoox: http://mindaliacomradio.ivoox.com PIDE O ENVIA AYUDA http://www.mindalia.com – La Red Social de Ayuda a través del Pensamiento SIGUENOS EN REDES SOCIALES: -Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/mindaliacom -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindalia.ayuda/ -Twitter: http://twitter.com/mindaliacom -Pinterest: https://es.pinterest.com/mindaliacom/ DESCARGATE LAS APLICACIONES MOVILES GRATUITAS: Mindalia Multimedia https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=es.app.mindalia_television Mindalia Red de Ayuda https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=es.app.mindalia_ayuda&hl=es CONTACTA CON NOSOTROS: http://television.mindalia.com/contacto/ -Skype: mindalia.com ¿Tienes un video que te gustaría que publicáramos? Envíanoslo!!
Puedes ver el video completo de esta conferencia en: http://television.mindalia.com/la-nueva-atlantis-por-colin-rivas/ La nueva Atlantis, por Colin Rivas, que tuvo lugar durante el IV Congreso Ciencia y Espíritu, en Junio de 2010. La nueva Atlantis: (Astro-teologia, alien Kabbalah, y el mundo espiritual) La transcendencia de las planetas y los astros, y cómo una élite se aprovechó para dominar al hombre prehistórico a través de la astrología y tras de una serie de cataclismos causados por agencias o entidades ajenas a la tierra. El culto hacia lo desconocido, el reconocimiento de deidades o fuerzas que ostentan un poder sobre nuestro destino, la instauración de ciertas creencias que carecen de un componente lógico, pero que por si mismas, se muestran capaces de moldear nuestro pensamiento. La magia, las artes esotéricas, el ocultismo, la invocación de los espíritus… Desde tiempos inmemorables, el hombre ha tenido que lidiar con toda clase de fenómenos y estados que escapan de un razonamiento lógico. Con ello, y confiado a pequeños “guetos”, o grupos de minorías calificados como secretos, científicos y ocultistas de la talla de Pitagoras, Da Vinci, Nostradamus, Isaac Newton, William Crookes, o el mismísimo “Alistair Crowley”, establecieron mediante consenso, la figura de una “Life Force”, o energía de la vida, capaz de animar no solo el cuerpo físico, sino también a la madre tierra. Y es que, partiendo de la premisa básica de que ningún elemento puede existir sino mantiene relación alguna con el espíritu que emana de la tierra, con su energía… ¿ Que debemos entender por el llamado “Eter”, y que influencia ejerce sobre la vida de los seres humanos? Ante dicho panorama, figuras como el magro negro por excelencia, “Alistair Crowley”, junto a las de John Lodge, confraternizaran de buen grado, en el nacimiento de una alianza, foco originario de toda clase de rituales e invocaciones de los espíritus del mal, demonios, y figuras angelicales, siendo a la postre, un reclamo más que solicitado por las familias reales, y la aristocracia integrada por Americanos, Noruegos, Italianos e Ingleses, entre otros. Pero…¿ Quién fue realmente Alistair Crowley, y que rol desempeñó en la proliferación allende de los mares, de la llamada ” Magia Negra “?… El Eter, la Magia Enokiana, las encantaciones apodadas como “Sigils” en el Antiguo testamento… Trataremos de aunar tras la raíces originarias de la magia, y de las sociedades secretas que veneran su poder. Para ello, contaremos con el testimonio de uno de los mejores arqueólogos del momento, y lingüista, Colin Rivas. Colin Rivas Colin Rivas es un hombre ordinario en busca de un conocimiento extraordinario. Colin, de 40 años de edad, padres Europeos y Profesor de la Universidad de California y estudiante independiente del conocimiento, se graduó en Arte, y Antropología Lingüística en las universidades de Santa Mónica y Northridge allá por los años 90, viajó y trabajó en diferentes países del medio oriente, europa y asia tanto como funcionario británico como de forma independiente. Es arduo y curioso de la investigación gnóstica y todo lo que encierra el conocimiento y simbología ocultas de nuestro planeta… ——————————EVENTO ORGANIZADO POR—————————— Miguel Celades http://www.cienciayespiritu.com ————————————INFORMACION SOBRE MINDALIA—————————— Mindalia.com y Mindalia Televisión son una ONG SIN ANIMO DE LUCRO Si te ha gustado este video, APOYANOS CON UNA DONACION: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=G58CS4AVKC6BU SUSCRIBETE AL CANAL DE YOUTUBE para no perderte ningún video: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=mindaliacom AYUDA A MINDALIA, SIN PAGAR NI UN SÓLO CÉNTIMO MÁS, CON TUS COMPRAS Y RESERVAS ONLINE: http://helpfree.ly/j20544 MILES DE VIDEOS de conferencias y entrevistas de interés en http://www.mindaliatelevision.com Participa en las CONFERENCIAS EN DIRECTO: http://television.mindalia.com/category/conferencias-en-directo/ -Puedes escuchar este y otros audios en Ivoox: http://mindaliacomradio.ivoox.com PIDE O ENVIA AYUDA http://www.mindalia.com – La Red Social de Ayuda a través del Pensamiento SIGUENOS EN REDES SOCIALES: -Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/mindaliacom -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindalia.ayuda/ -Twitter: http://twitter.com/mindaliacom -Pinterest: https://es.pinterest.com/mindaliacom/ DESCARGATE LAS APLICACIONES MOVILES GRATUITAS: Mindalia Multimedia https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=es.app.mindalia_television Mindalia Red de Ayuda https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=es.app.mindalia_ayuda&hl=es CONTACTA CON NOSOTROS: http://television.mindalia.com/contacto/ -Skype: mindalia.com ¿Tienes un video que te gustaría que publicáramos? Envíanoslo!!
Puedes ver el video completo de esta conferencia en: http://television.mindalia.com/la-nueva-atlantis-por-colin-rivas/ La nueva Atlantis, por Colin Rivas, que tuvo lugar durante el IV Congreso Ciencia y Espíritu, en Junio de 2010. La nueva Atlantis: (Astro-teologia, alien Kabbalah, y el mundo espiritual) La transcendencia de las planetas y los astros, y cómo una élite se aprovechó para dominar al hombre prehistórico a través de la astrología y tras de una serie de cataclismos causados por agencias o entidades ajenas a la tierra. El culto hacia lo desconocido, el reconocimiento de deidades o fuerzas que ostentan un poder sobre nuestro destino, la instauración de ciertas creencias que carecen de un componente lógico, pero que por si mismas, se muestran capaces de moldear nuestro pensamiento. La magia, las artes esotéricas, el ocultismo, la invocación de los espíritus… Desde tiempos inmemorables, el hombre ha tenido que lidiar con toda clase de fenómenos y estados que escapan de un razonamiento lógico. Con ello, y confiado a pequeños “guetos”, o grupos de minorías calificados como secretos, científicos y ocultistas de la talla de Pitagoras, Da Vinci, Nostradamus, Isaac Newton, William Crookes, o el mismísimo “Alistair Crowley”, establecieron mediante consenso, la figura de una “Life Force”, o energía de la vida, capaz de animar no solo el cuerpo físico, sino también a la madre tierra. Y es que, partiendo de la premisa básica de que ningún elemento puede existir sino mantiene relación alguna con el espíritu que emana de la tierra, con su energía… ¿ Que debemos entender por el llamado “Eter”, y que influencia ejerce sobre la vida de los seres humanos? Ante dicho panorama, figuras como el magro negro por excelencia, “Alistair Crowley”, junto a las de John Lodge, confraternizaran de buen grado, en el nacimiento de una alianza, foco originario de toda clase de rituales e invocaciones de los espíritus del mal, demonios, y figuras angelicales, siendo a la postre, un reclamo más que solicitado por las familias reales, y la aristocracia integrada por Americanos, Noruegos, Italianos e Ingleses, entre otros. Pero…¿ Quién fue realmente Alistair Crowley, y que rol desempeñó en la proliferación allende de los mares, de la llamada ” Magia Negra “?… El Eter, la Magia Enokiana, las encantaciones apodadas como “Sigils” en el Antiguo testamento… Trataremos de aunar tras la raíces originarias de la magia, y de las sociedades secretas que veneran su poder. Para ello, contaremos con el testimonio de uno de los mejores arqueólogos del momento, y lingüista, Colin Rivas. Colin Rivas Colin Rivas es un hombre ordinario en busca de un conocimiento extraordinario. Colin, de 40 años de edad, padres Europeos y Profesor de la Universidad de California y estudiante independiente del conocimiento, se graduó en Arte, y Antropología Lingüística en las universidades de Santa Mónica y Northridge allá por los años 90, viajó y trabajó en diferentes países del medio oriente, europa y asia tanto como funcionario británico como de forma independiente. Es arduo y curioso de la investigación gnóstica y todo lo que encierra el conocimiento y simbología ocultas de nuestro planeta… ——————————EVENTO ORGANIZADO POR—————————— Miguel Celades http://www.cienciayespiritu.com ————————————INFORMACION SOBRE MINDALIA—————————— Mindalia.com y Mindalia Televisión son una ONG SIN ANIMO DE LUCRO Si te ha gustado este video, APOYANOS CON UNA DONACION: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=G58CS4AVKC6BU SUSCRIBETE AL CANAL DE YOUTUBE para no perderte ningún video: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=mindaliacom AYUDA A MINDALIA, SIN PAGAR NI UN SÓLO CÉNTIMO MÁS, CON TUS COMPRAS Y RESERVAS ONLINE: http://helpfree.ly/j20544 MILES DE VIDEOS de conferencias y entrevistas de interés en http://www.mindaliatelevision.com Participa en las CONFERENCIAS EN DIRECTO: http://television.mindalia.com/category/conferencias-en-directo/ -Puedes escuchar este y otros audios en Ivoox: http://mindaliacomradio.ivoox.com PIDE O ENVIA AYUDA http://www.mindalia.com – La Red Social de Ayuda a través del Pensamiento SIGUENOS EN REDES SOCIALES: -Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/mindaliacom -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindalia.ayuda/ -Twitter: http://twitter.com/mindaliacom -Pinterest: https://es.pinterest.com/mindaliacom/ DESCARGATE LAS APLICACIONES MOVILES GRATUITAS: Mindalia Multimedia https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=es.app.mindalia_television Mindalia Red de Ayuda https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=es.app.mindalia_ayuda&hl=es CONTACTA CON NOSOTROS: http://television.mindalia.com/contacto/ -Skype: mindalia.com ¿Tienes un video que te gustaría que publicáramos? Envíanoslo!!
Hablamos de Porno en los 70, conversamos con Eduardo Risso, organizador de Crack Bang Boom, Rodrigo habló de Alistair Crowley, Gregorio de Sables Laser, Freddy de nazis de ficción y Pablo estuvo.
Guest Lon Milo Duquette calls them the "Founding Fathers of Horror" and with good cause. Lon takes us on journey through true stories about Aleister Crowley, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Necronomicon and more. Alistair Crowley has been labeled the most evil man in the world. And to quote Lon: ""Horror is the literature of the damned; a demon-child art-form – conceived in the fertile depths of subconscious hell;". Indeed. This a is a good one to settle back with on a stormy eve with a beverage of choice.