Category: Spirituality
Could Mystical Ecstasy be a Cure for the Zombie Apocalypse?
I spent two years, nine hours a day facing two flickering screens, squirming in a chair in a windowless office in the […]
Power and Submission: The Emperor and The Hanged Man
When the Emperor pops up in a reading, or in your life, it can sometimes be signal of greatness. In my last […]
Powers vs. Beings
Our modern science acknowledges a Supreme Power, an Invisible Principle, but denies a Supreme Being, or Personal God. Logically the difference between the two might be questioned; for in this case, the Power and the Being are identical.
Why We Need Urban Shamans
Shamans and mystics are important because they are interpreters of microclimates within our communities. Shamans cultivate their own personal relationships with the divine, with the fundamental principles of life. Their ability to find meaning within the mysteries of the universe, rather than through sanctioned books and renowned figures, necessarily destabilizes authoritarian power structures.
Weird Music: Saint Judee Sill
Here’s to all the artists of the world who are able to create so much to love, somehow, while they’re blazing through all the turbulence in the atmosphere of human history.
This Picture Reveals Your True Nature
When we practice looking closely (and then looking closely again, and then again) at a text, or a painting, or person, we can begin to see beyond the categories we normally ascribe to that object. We start to see its suchness, its uniqueness in all the world. We begin think about its history and context. By looking closely, whole new worlds, both interior and exterior, begin to open up, and we can start to make connections between all things, which is the essence of the psychical project.
Medium As Performer
“‘Modern Spiritualism’ had, after all, started in the United States when the Fox sisters discovered in March 1848 that the spirit of […]
Performer As Medium
“The performer sees herself as a medium the spirit passes through.” – Joan Jonas, 1982
Totems – An Introduction
Spirit is in everything. The totem is a reminder, a token for the guide. The layered meanings called in through the ambiguous totem lead us through the porthole of the imagination and into the spirit world.