A Practical Guide to Place, Perception and the Imaginal World Landscape Magick explores how a place can become more than scenery. It can become a field of attention, relationship, symbolism and encounter. This book develops a practical method for working with landscape through observation, movement, imagination, ritual and first-person inquiry. It brings together psychogeography, phenomenology, … Continue reading Landscape Magick
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New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 11: Psychogeography Before the Situationists: Debord, the Surrealist Root, and the Zones We Already Knew
Historical Foundation of the Psychogeography The word psychogeography has appeared in this series before, almost in passing, one frame among several offered in the Foundation post as a way of naming what we were doing at Monte Pocilgais. It deserves a fuller reckoning of its own, because the essay that coined it turns out to … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 11: Psychogeography Before the Situationists: Debord, the Surrealist Root, and the Zones We Already Knew
New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 10: Reading the Landscape with the Body
Movement, Thresholds and the Phenomenological Topography of Place Over the course of the New Landscape Holistic Project, a different understanding of landscape has gradually begun to take shape. What first presented itself as a study of unusual places has become something more precise: an inquiry into the way landscape is lived through the body, memory, … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 10: Reading the Landscape with the Body
New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 9: Being-in-the-Landscape: Body, Place and the Art of Dwelling
From Looking at Landscape to Being in Landscape There is a point in landscape experience at which looking is no longer enough. A place may first present itself through sight, through the slope of the land, the arrangement of stones, the form of a tree, the opening of a path or the quality of light, … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 9: Being-in-the-Landscape: Body, Place and the Art of Dwelling
New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 8: Phenomenology and Entering the Landscape: Memory, Imagination and the Participatory Field
A Phenomenological Approach to Natural Landscape Cognition A landscape is never encountered as a neutral arrangement of forms. The moment we step into a place, perception is already entangled with memory, expectation, bodily state and imagination, so that a forest which feels protective to one visitor can feel oppressive to another, a mountain can evoke … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 8: Phenomenology and Entering the Landscape: Memory, Imagination and the Participatory Field
New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 7: The Soul of the Tree: Breath, Reciprocity and the Living Landscape
A landscape begins to change when we stop experiencing it as scenery. Hereunder is a segment of our landscape at the Quinta Quixote, where the elemental of the tree can be seen with our imaginative eye... The stones, trees, paths, springs and contours of a place are ordinarily arranged by perception into a world of … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 7: The Soul of the Tree: Breath, Reciprocity and the Living Landscape
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 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
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