I’ve recently published a new book which sums up my thoughts so far on the nature of enlightenment or awakening, and on how it is attained. The material in the book first appeared as short articles on the website Open Enlightenment (which is now defunct), but has been reworked and revised into four medium-length essays [...]
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The Truth of Reincarnation
Posted in Consensus Reality, Meditation, tagged Aristotle, God, karma, Plato, rebirth, reincarnation, Rudolf Steiner, Thomas Aquinas on June 6, 2011 | 8 Comments »
We mustn’t judge There are two kinds of metaphysical propositions: implicit and contingent. The contingent type enter experience when some condition is fulfilled. The implicit type are already available to experience, although our understanding may prevent us from realising them. Only the implicit variety is valid, in the sense that what is not already available [...]
Facetiously Answered Questions
Posted in Consensus Reality, Meditation, tagged awakening, enlightenment, psychology on May 12, 2011 | 6 Comments »
The following are my responses to questions from a psychology student, who is currently researching people who claim to have experienced awakening. How is your life different from before, after your experience of enlightenment? Not much at all to an external eye, I’d guess. What’s your mood like? How is your mood different from before, [...]
Against A Unified Theory of Strangeness
Posted in Consensus Reality, tagged aliens, cryptoterrestrials, djinn, Guiley & Imbrogno, high strangeness, Jacques Lacan, John Keel, Mac Tonnies, mothman, ultraterrestrials on April 26, 2011 | 11 Comments »
There is a trend toward unified theories of strangeness. I recently mentioned The Vengeful Djinn, whose authors suggest: ‘the djinn could be the hidden source of the diversity of paranormal events everywhere’ (Guiley & Imbrogno, 2011: xxi). The Cryptoterrestrials by Mac Tonnies is another recent text in a similar vein: ‘Could “fairies” and “elves” – [...]
The Rite of Morpheus and the Powerlessness of Prophecy
Posted in Astral, Consensus Reality, tagged Enochian magick, Fukushima, Japan earthquake 2011, nuclear incident, prediction, prophecy, tsunami, vision on March 14, 2011 | 6 Comments »
The Rite of Morpheus I took three dessert spoons of valerian root and added them to one and a half litres of filtered, boiling water. Covering the pot, I kept it at a rolling boil for twenty minutes, with the window open and the extractor fan running because valerian badly stinks. Next I added three [...]
Pod Tart
Posted in Consensus Reality, tagged Benjamin Grundy, Martin Poole, Mysterious Universe, podcast, The Information on February 4, 2011 | 5 Comments »
My mellifluous tones have featured recently on two podcasts. A few weeks ago I was interviewed by Martin Poole, whose podcast The Information covers a range of esoteric subjects, often with a local, Brightonian slant. In Part One we discussed Chaos Magick and sigils; the nature of magick; meditation; and the connections between magical and [...]
There’s A Certain Slant Of Light
Posted in Consensus Reality, Drift, tagged Emily Dickinson, Irthlingborough, poetry, video, winter solstice on January 10, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘There’s a Certain Slant of Light’ has always fascinated me with its use of subtle perception to evoke metaphysical sensations. Through the ineffable feeling of a winter afternoon, Dickinson points to imperceptible dimensions of experience beyond the world. Or that’s my understanding, at least. There’s a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons [...]
A Field of Dreams
Posted in Consensus Reality, Drift, tagged dreaming, Gaston Bachelard, Irthlingborough, psychogeography on August 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If I’d had audio the recording would have included distant thunder, the pattering of sporadic rain, breezes amongst leafs, and intermittent cheers from the football stadium at the edge of town. It was a Saturday afternoon in August. Warm, but interrupted by showers running on an automatic cycle every thirty minutes. I was walking in [...]
Alone With Ghosts
Posted in Consensus Reality on July 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It’s been quiet around here for the past month because most of my energy has been going into another project – a paranormal charity fund-raiser for Halloween. More details are available from the video link that currently appears in the sidebar, or from clicking on this very tasteful web banner.
Snapshots of Uriel
Posted in Astral, Consensus Reality, tagged angel, archangel, ghost, spirit photography, Uriel on June 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My digital camera is very cheap and nasty so that I can always carry it around without worrying if it gets lost or broken. But sub-standard kit also has a magical advantage, in that it’s often easy to upset it or make it malfunction. I’m still not sure what really happened the time it produced [...]
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