Month: November 2022

Visitation

I woke in despair and dereliction and put a hand to my heart to comfort myself.

The goddess came. She that is both lover and mother. It was her hand against my heart. I no longer comforted myself. She comforted me.

I was relieved, but then sensed where she was taking me, and I was filled with dread. Even as she held me, she showed me how everything would be taken away, and all that I feared most would happen.

She said: Though it all passes, I shall hold you.

I saw how the fullness of being held is the same as the emptiness of everything taken away.

She said: Held by me, emptiness is fullness. Emptiness and the loss of everything are held in the light of my perpetual embrace.

Some Other Sphere

I have been listening to Rick Palmer’s Some Other Sphere podcast for quite some time and was delighted when he invited me on as a guest.

Rick strikes me as a true Fortean, as the range of topics covered by the podcast suggests: the paranormal, magick, occultism, folklore, cryptids. Recent guests include paranormal investigator Evelyn Hollow, and Rev. Peter Laws (speaking on the links between his passion for horror movies and his religious vocation).

Our conversation explores the intersection between psychology, magick, and spirituality, covering topics such as the nature of mind and reality, the Abramelin working, and the limits of psychology.

Rick has a lovely, gentle conversational style and comes up with some strikingly original questions as the basis for our discussion.