Ideas, Blog Posts, and Journal Entries:
Ghosts, Nature-Spirits, Elementals: non-corporeal consciousness.
What if we suspend disbelief and consider other forms of consciousness beyond our own? Dion Fortune’s “Applied Magic” invites us to explore non-corporeal intelligences, challenging
Fruit of the Poisonous Tree
The complex issue of colonial knowledge and culture.
I have been enjoying reading and writing my series on Dion Fortune’s ‘Applied Magic’ in anticipation
The Unknown, the Unmanifest, & the Nonexistent
In ‘The Three Kinds of Reality’, Dion Fortune defines the space in which we exist, and in which occultists practice; the unknown, the unmanifest, and
Podcasts, Interviews, and Audio Experiments
Video-Essays and Short Films
“How to Tame a Man: Origins of Beauty and the Beast” traces the popular fairytale Beauty and the Beast to its origins through mythology, folklore, and literature. This video essay examines the symbolism of the “animal bridegroom” motif and how stories of taming the masculine have been woven into our collective unconscious for centuries. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Disney’s modern adaptations, this essay examines how these narratives reflect shifting social and gender dynamics, while revealing the enduring fascination with transformation, love, and power.
A visit to the Museo Leonora Carrington in San Luis Potosi, Mexico in Feb 2022.
Leonora Carrington was an artist often associated with the surrealist movement though she never labelled herself that way. Carrington was born in Morecambe Bay Lancs, April 6, 1917, but spent most of her adult life Mexico. She died there May 25th 2011.
