The Reality of Spirits (Paranthropology)

Entity encounters and the therapeutic effect of the psychedelic mystical experience

Anna Lutkajtis

All usual warnings about psychedelic usage apply.

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Sleuthing An Immortal Goddess

Gabriel Roberts

She said to me as she tread across the roof of the dome, “Of course it’s me, dummy!  I’m she who dances to keep the world full of splendor.”  

Her implications meant that without her dancing, all beauty in the universe would disappear and be lost forever.  I was not allowed to see her, but could only see the imprint of her foot as it tread, like the wind leaves its imprint on dunes.  

As she tread across the dome, the roof rained all the fine jewels as they fell toward me like floating feathers, dripping pearls like milk.  The vision waned and I returned to my LSD state, which was beginning to fade and told Albert and Macy about my experience.

She told me that she had called me to the wilderness in order to set my path in motion, that it was what I needed to hear at the time.  She also said that this was just my rite of passage, that the real work was just beginning and I was finally ready to take a much bigger voyage. 

I told David Metcalfe and Dr. Aaron Cheak about my experiences and was shocked to hear that my experience with the divine feminine was a dead ringer for visions of Tara...

Jo Hickey-Hall is joined by author, Patrick Harpur well known to many for his book, 'Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld'.

https://www.harpur.org/x1Daimonic.htm
https://www.harpur.org/patrick.htm

Here we talk about Patrick’s family’s relationship with the Otherworld and whether an openness to the existence of fairies aids the potential for personal encounters. We ponder the eccentricity of our modern western culture in denying the existence of daimons and Patrick offers ideas about which gods may be ruling us at this time.

The Whisky Rant: When We Met The Neighbours

Gordon White

Does it not fascinate you that there was a first sorcerer, a first shaman, a first act of magic?

There is considerable, understandable interest in how our art tumbled down from Egypt and Greece. Both civilisations irrevocably changed the shape of western magic.

But taking a macro view, an overemphasis on these two regions is rather like coming into the cinema for the last five minutes of Return of The King. Shouldn’t we be curious about what happened in the rest of the trilogy?

Homo erectus kicked around for almost two million years, our fully-modern brains are 200,000 years old. 

And yet in the archaeological record there is a time before burial and a time after it.

Somewhere along our journey we acquired a spirit world.

The Whisky Rant: When We Met The Neighbours

Gordon White

A brief quote which points to something I was thinking,

The anthropologist Donald E Brown says “the seeking of altered states of consciousness is a human universal”. In fact, it’s not just a human universal, we share it with vast parts of the animal kingdom.

... which is to say, humans are not necessarily unique in these respects - I briefly had a thought about animal magic as one aspect which might exist, as well as animal mourning. Though I'm on speculative territory with the mention of magic, I'm not sure we can easily draw a line and categorically rule it out.