The inner space where experience, imagination and magick are made The room we never left Close your eyes for a moment. Do not try to meditate. Just look. There is a space in front of you. It has no walls. A memory appears in it, then a worry, then a face, then a judgement about … Continue reading Ultrasubjective Hyperspace: a new concept of the reality of our field of consciousness
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What Actually Happens When Someone Practices Magick?
From the study of texts to the study of real-time experienced Magick For a long time, scholars interested in magic, esotericism and occult traditions concentrated mainly on texts. This was understandable, because manuscripts, books, ritual instructions and doctrinal systems are what history leaves behind most reliably. They allow us to reconstruct how ideas moved through … Continue reading What Actually Happens When Someone Practices Magick?
The Day an Ancient God Became Visible
There is a particular kind of vertigo that comes from watching a manuscript become a book. One day it is a file on a screen, a private conversation between yourself and the god you have spent two years reconstructing. The next day it has a cover, a price, a ranking, and a place on a … Continue reading The Day an Ancient God Became Visible
Landscape Magick
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
Beyond Forest Bathing: What Happens When the Landscape Begins to Answer Back?
Forest bathing and ecopsychology have done something important. They have helped restore our capacity to slow down, step out of the relentless cognitive machinery of modern life and become present in nature again. That sounds simple, but it is not. Much of the time we move through landscapes without really perceiving them. A forest becomes … Continue reading Beyond Forest Bathing: What Happens When the Landscape Begins to Answer Back?
The First Blueprint how Magick could be created and how it works
Our central proposition is magick may become intelligible if we first understand how a trained mind gains access to a structured imaginal field, allows content to arise there, distinguishes reception from deliberate construction, and subsequently learns to operate within that field. A Blueprint for the Architecture of Imaginal Practice For centuries, descriptions of magical practice … Continue reading The First Blueprint how Magick could be created and how it works
Imagination as Interface: Western Esotericism and the Ultrasubjective Hyperspace
When the French scholar Antoine Faivre (1934–2021), one of the founders of the academic study of Western esotericism, tried to identify what was characteristic of esoteric thought, he did not define it by a particular doctrine, secret teaching or occult practice. Instead, he described a recurring form of thought. His model became highly influential in … Continue reading Imagination as Interface: Western Esotericism and the Ultrasubjective Hyperspace
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
From Magical Will to the Operator
E. W. Dobberkau on Imagination, Suggestion and the Experimental Formation of Experience Among the contributions to the first volume of the Zentralblatt für Okkultismus that speak most directly to the concerns of The Inner Laboratory is E. W. Dobberkau’s Magische Experimente der Willenskraft als Einleitung in den Okkultismus. The article appeared in 1907 in the … Continue reading From Magical Will to the Operator
When the Occult Still Meant a Research Program
Reading the First Volume of the Zentralblatt für Okkultismus, 1907 Screenshot Opening the first volume of the Zentralblatt für Okkultismus from 1907 means entering an intellectual landscape that has almost entirely disappeared. The journal carried the subtitle Monatsschrift zur Erforschung der gesamten Geheimwissenschaften, a monthly review devoted to the investigation of the entire field of … Continue reading When the Occult Still Meant a Research Program
