Occult Training, Human Development, and the Problem of Definition In the preface to his Geschichte der Magie of 1844, the physician and magnetic practitioner Joseph Ennemoser formulates what may be read as the central premise of his entire work: “Die wahre Magie liegt in den geheimsten innersten Kräften unseres Geistes.” True magic, he argues, lies … Continue reading The Persistent Promise of Higher Knowledge
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Jung, the Self, and the Inner Laboratory
Where analytical psychology meets a modern esoteric psychology Carl Gustav Jung’s Aion is one of his most difficult and ambitious works. Its subject is not merely the unconscious, nor even the familiar Jungian themes of shadow, anima, animus, and projection. Its deeper concern is the Self: the elusive psychic totality that includes the conscious personality … Continue reading Jung, the Self, and the Inner Laboratory
Reality Shifting Is Real. You Were Taught the Wrong Direction: an Ancient Magick Protocol
https://youtu.be/kQbESu3XLzU?si=HDHPjk33m_voyN0k Reality Shifting, Barefoot: An Ancient Instruction There is a practice sweeping through the younger generation called reality shifting. You write a script of the world you would rather live in, lie down, repeat your method, and try to wake up elsewhere. Whole online communities are devoted to it, and most adults either mock it … Continue reading Reality Shifting Is Real. You Were Taught the Wrong Direction: an Ancient Magick Protocol
Sonic Mandalas
Breath, Vowels, Abraxas, and the Gestural Phonology of Altered States Some esoteric formulas are not meant to be translated. They are meant to be voiced. This is the point modern readers often miss. We approach ancient magical words as if they were damaged sentences. We ask which language they belong to, whether they are Greek, … Continue reading Sonic Mandalas
New Landscape Holistic Project Part 6: The Place Calls First – The Magick Megalithic Circle at Pocilgais
Elemental Encounter, Bardon’s Soul Mirror, and the Ethics of Landscape Magick From Stone Phenomenology to Elemental Encounter This series (now with 6 parts) began with a simple but difficult decision: not to decide too quickly what the stone formation at Monte Pocilgais is. It may be a natural accumulation, an agricultural clearance cairn, a collapsed … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project Part 6: The Place Calls First – The Magick Megalithic Circle at Pocilgais
New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology: the Complete Serie Index
Magickal Landscape Phenomenology - Introduction 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 … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology: the Complete Serie Index
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
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
