ABRAXAS, 7 × 7

AOI, the bark remembers before the mouth.IOA, the stone drinks the black milk.OAI, a wing folds inside the root.No angel arrives, only pressure.No demon speaks, only sap.The old knot opens without opening.Abraxas counts by wounds. First, the goat path loses its name.Second, the fig shadow changes owner.Third, the dry grass writes in insect.Fourth, the hollow … Continue reading ABRAXAS, 7 × 7

Working with Abraxas: A New Kind of Inner Report of a Modern Magus

There is something happening in the world of hermetic and magical practice right now. More people than ever are working with sigils, evocation formulas, and inner transformation practices. YouTube channels, online communities, and a growing number of books are bringing these ancient arts into the twenty-first century. At the same time, universities are taking Western … Continue reading Working with Abraxas: A New Kind of Inner Report of a Modern Magus

New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology

A Complete Series Index On the south-facing slope of Monte Pocilgais, in the eastern Algarve hills between the parishes of São Brás de Alportel and Moncarapacho, there is a grey stone oval approximately fifty metres long and twenty metres wide. The stones are materially foreign to the local geology. Old carob trees and stone oaks … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology

New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology, part 5: A Practical Guide to Entering the Stone – Six Phases of Deepening Attention at a Charged Landscape Site

Preliminary Note This guide is written for the stone oval at Monte Pocilgais, but its principles apply to any site where a charged landscape presence has been recognised and prepared through repeated attentive visits. It is not a ritual in the theatrical sense. It is a protocol of attention, a sequence of practices that progressively … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology, part 5: A Practical Guide to Entering the Stone – Six Phases of Deepening Attention at a Charged Landscape Site

New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology, part 4: The Anima of the Stone – From Chthonic Presence to Enchanted Moura, A Three-Stage Journey Across Six Thousand Years

When visitors sit inside the grey stone oval at Monte Pocilgais, what they encounter is rarely a single, clean experience. It is layered. Something is felt before anything is seen. A weight gathers before any image forms. An atmosphere precedes any thought. Only later, if at all, does the presence begin to acquire a face. … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology, part 4: The Anima of the Stone – From Chthonic Presence to Enchanted Moura, A Three-Stage Journey Across Six Thousand Years

When Psychology Studies the Occult Without Ever Going In

Where is the essence... A new paper in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences maps, with considerable care, the historical traffic between Western esotericism and psychology. The author, Júlia Gyimesi of Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, published "How Psychology Can Benefit From the Academic Study of Esotericism" in 2025, and traces … Continue reading When Psychology Studies the Occult Without Ever Going In

New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology, part 3: The Beings Between Two Hills – Alportel, Moncarapacho, and the Stone Oval at Monte Pocilgais

Monte Pocilgais sits almost exactly between two parishes with old names and long memories. To the north lies São Brás de Alportel. To the south lies Moncarapacho. Both appear in the field notebooks of Ataíde d'Oliveira (1842–1915), the Algarve scholar who spent the final decades of the nineteenth century walking village to village, sitting with … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology, part 3: The Beings Between Two Hills – Alportel, Moncarapacho, and the Stone Oval at Monte Pocilgais