Close your eyes in a dark room and wait. At first, nothing. Then, almost imperceptibly, something begins to move. A shimmer at the edge of vision. A pulse of light that seems to come from nowhere and everywhere at once. Geometric patterns that appear, rotate, fold into themselves and dissolve. You are not imagining these. … Continue reading What Shape is Inner Space? Is it Hyperbolic?
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
New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology, part 2:The Moura at the Bottom of the Spring: A Story from São Brás de Alportel and the Living Landscape of the Eastern Algarve
There is a spring in the parish of São Brás de Alportel that has a name older than the town itself. It is called the Fonte do Mouro, the Spring of the Mouro. The name has survived centuries of conquest, conversion, and forgetting. The water still rises from the same place it always did. And … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology, part 2:The Moura at the Bottom of the Spring: A Story from São Brás de Alportel and the Living Landscape of the Eastern Algarve
New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology – part 1: The Beings in the Stone, A Historical Perspective
Long before the vocabulary of psychogeography, phenomenology, or esoteric psychology existed, the people of Portugal knew that certain stones were inhabited. The figure at the centre of this knowledge is the Moura Encantada, the Enchanted Moura, one of the oldest and most persistent beings in Portuguese and Galician folk tradition. She is beautiful, she is … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology – part 1: The Beings in the Stone, A Historical Perspective
New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology, the Foundation at Pocilgais:
https://youtu.be/gcbx8753wQw?si=A8CXg626ZSH4Gqn1 Chapter One: The Oval on the Hill Around a large oval stone structure in the landscape of Monte Pocilgais, we intend to explore the genius loci of the place, its psychogeography, and the first steps toward a conscious landscape practice. This is more than tree-bathing, and more than landscape architecture. It is an attempt … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology, the Foundation at Pocilgais:
The Inner Demon Is the One Who Says “I”
We usually imagine inner demons as dark forces hidden somewhere inside us, waiting to be discovered, named, healed, or defeated. The language is everywhere now. People speak of facing their demons, releasing their demons, transforming their demons. It sounds courageous, but often it remains at the level of a story we tell about ourselves. In … Continue reading The Inner Demon Is the One Who Says “I”
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