Conner and I met for the first time at Treadwell’s bookshop in London, where I joined him in conversation to mark the launch of his wonderful first novel, Hawk Mountain.
I was delighted to accept his recent invitation to appear on his long-running and immensely wide-ranging podcast, Against Everyone with Conner Habib.
It was the perfect way to spend a Saturday afternoon, chatting with Conner over Zoom down in the shed. “Surely he’s not going to use all of that?” I thought, after we’d finished. But he did. Pretty much.
The conversation circles around the place of magick in spiritual development. I had trouble sleeping that night, worried I’d said too much, and concerned I had wandered into areas that would provoke a negative reaction. After listening to the episode, I wondered where on earth that anxiety had come from. But something I noticed (connected with those feelings, no doubt) is how Conner presents his ideas and opinions on magick and spiritual development in a more direct way than I’ve heard him in the past. He has actually spoken on his podcast himself about self-censoring sometimes things that parts of his audience might consider too “woo”.
There seems little restraint in this episode, however. I hope it sounds to others as it sounds to me, like two people talking openly and honestly.
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