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
Magic
Magic are those willed actions we create in our UltraSubjective Hyperspace where we meet the divine and become adepts in the unsane – the realm between insanity and sanity where creation happens
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
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 Introduction to the Landscape Magick Project This project began rather innocently. On a hillside at Monte Pocilgais in the eastern Algarve there is an unusual formation of large grey stones, old carob trees and stone oaks, lying above a seasonal river and contrasting visibly with the reddish geology around it. We began simply by … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology, the Foundation at Pocilgais
When Magick Lacks Yoga
On 'Un prince de Belzébuth' and the image that colonises inner space The book 'Un prince de Belzébuth. La mort d’un sorcier' by Jean Lorédan (1853 -1937), with a preface by the famous student of magick and the occult Louis Pauwels, and the accompanying image of Hell attributed to the Italian painter Andrea Orcagna, do not … Continue reading When Magick Lacks Yoga
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