Spirit Box

For episode 73 we’re joined by Wren Collier. Wren is a ritual magician and an avid scholar of the paranormal, having been obsessed from an early age with the anomalous and the occult. He is a skilled creator and maker, crafting beautiful magickal tools. He is also a keen gardener and mushroom cultivator and has created an online calculator utilizing the New Aeon English Qabalah. We talk creativity and magick and finding animism in one's garden and Wren’s remarkable Astral travel experiences and the importance of dreams. In the Plus show we discuss dreaming further and get into crypto-wizardry and technology more broadly, as Wren takes us through the creation of his New Aeon English Qabalah Cipher tool and his initial thoughts on the Hellier. Show notes: https://twitter.com/liminalbird https://www.naeq.io https://liminalroom.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changing_Light_at_Sandover https://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9781590208625 Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spiritbox TWITTER - https://twitter.com/spiritbox3 SUPPORT - https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox PODCAST - https://anchor.fm/spirit-box Music by Obliqka

Dr Maria Vivod is an Ethnologist and anthropologist from Serbia, with an interest in Visual Anthropology. Today we discuss the subject of one of her short documentary films and accompanying paper “The Fairy Seers of Eastern Serbia” The fairy-seers of Southeastern Europe are usually women who fall into trance through dancing on special days in a year and are able to communicate with women-like creatures from the supernatural world. During the process of communication with the fairies the fairy-seers can prophesy future events. The fairy-seers also bring messages to the living from the behalf of their deceased relatives. Similarly, they can give advice about how to heal an ill individual or they can proceed to the treatment of the ill individual after consulting the fairies. These illnesses are usually a form of a fairy-illness – a disorder which has its origins in a curse or a spell of the human-offended fairies. The subject of the film we discuss is Ivanka, she is a Vlach woman from eastern Serbia. She sees her ‘sisters’ since her early twenties and is able to communicate with them on three exact days of the Christian orthodox calendar: Epiphany, Palm Sunday, St.Peter's Day.  This trance was Ivanka's last. You can find a link to the film in the show notes. In the Patreon Plus show we discuss Dr Vivod’s own remarkable consultation with the Fairy Seer and the funeral rites of the Vlach people and the views of the relationship with spirits of the dead. Dr Vivod explains the process of curse removal through a process called ‘melting fear’ and an extraordinary rite called a ‘Black Wedding’ wherein the young who have passed before their time are symbolically married so they can wed on the other side. Show Notes: https://independent.academia.edu/MariaVivod https://www.academia.edu/video/lg4Vrk Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spiritbox TWITTER - https://twitter.com/spiritbox3 SUPPORT - https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox PODCAST - https://anchor.fm/spirit-box Music by Obliqka

For episode 71 we welcome Jason Miller. He has written five books including the now classic Protection and Reversal Magick and he teaches  a number of courses online including the Strategic Sorcery Training Course, The Black School of St Cyprian, and The Sorcery of Hekate. In his 20’s he was initiated into a Coven that worked Witchcraft along the lines of Mastering Witchcraft, joined the Ordo Templi Orientis, and the Chthonic Auranian Temple. In his  mid 20’s he took his  first Tantric initiation into Vajra kila ya. He devoted the next several years to the study of Tantra and Himalayan Magic in general. Eventually he moved to Nepal in 1999. In Nepal he spent a lot of time at the Cremation grounds of Pashupatinath meditating and on one occasion he got a glimpse inside a normally closed structure and saw an extraordinary sight, he had the presence of mind to take a photograph. You can see that photo here. In the Plus section we discuss the nature of the separation between the east and west thinking and whether it is actually that different. We also discuss the Phurba, the razor nail of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Bön, and Indian Vedic traditions and the remarkable origin of Jason’s relationship with Hekate. Show Notes: https://www.strategicsorcery.net https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My-w83GDNNw https://www.darraghmason.com/index/G0000pGwmgJT8Tyc  Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spiritbox TWITTER - https://twitter.com/spiritbox3 SUPPORT - https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox PODCAST - https://anchor.fm/spirit-box Music by Obliqka

For episode 70 we are joined by martial artist, researcher and mystic Michelle DeVrieze discussing her research paper into the hidden predator behind the missing 411 phenomena and its relationship with archetypes and initiation.  Are we dealing with a self-serving, predatory race using an advanced form of psychological warfare that’s terraforming our reality through the human mind? Or is this predatory intelligence an aspect of some elaborate alchemical process, which, on a macro scale, maintains our reality’s harmonious balance? Michelle uses a unique premise to test her hypothesis that being an Intrinsic Data Field analyser or IDF.  We wrap up the show discussing the benefits of getting punched in the face. I should add we mean in a controlled environment. Now, it cuts out at the 23 minute mark so watch out for that and Michelle was quite ill at the time so forgive any croaky voices.  In the plus show we go through each of the question tables on the nature of the Predator via the IDF machine which is where the rubber meets the road so miss out.   Enjoy!   Show Notes: https://www.instagram.com/michelle.devrieze/ https://www.phoenixaurelius.org/about-idf https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/lightning/types/ http://www.missing-411.com/about/ Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spiritbox TWITTER - https://twitter.com/spiritbox3 SUPPORT - https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox PODCAST - https://anchor.fm/spirit-box Music by Obliqka

For episode 69 we welcome EFT practitioner, Reiki healer and Tarot reader, Hand of Nikara to the Spirit Box.  In this episode, she shares her experience with Ayahuasca and what she has learned over the years as a result of the trauma she went through during her 2014 Ayahuasca ceremony.  Her journey through the world of ceremonial magick has shown her the necessity of learning how to protect one's own energy, especially when it comes to plant medicines of this kind. In the Plus show our guest describes her path through dissociation and healing, also the impact of the LBRP and meeting other people who have had similar experiences.    Show Notes: To hear more about her Ayahuasca experience and trauma recovery in depth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyf_dkfQrxo&list=PLjVNjJWvlaSEzu5j2oNtx9D2PmEtXPxiN Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hand.of.nikara/ Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spiritbox TWITTER - https://twitter.com/spiritbox3 SUPPORT - https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox PODCAST - https://anchor.fm/spirit-box Music by Obliqka

A few weeks back I was talking about the Puck Fair in Killorglin, Co Kerry, in the southwest of Ireland. For those of you not familiar with the fair, essentially is a Lughnasadh adjacent festival where a wild billy goat is caught on the mountainside the goat is brought back to the town, and the Queen of Puck, traditionally a schoolgirl from one of the local primary schools crowns him King Puck. They are then paraded around the town looking down on their subjects from a kind of mobile tower that looks a lot like a medieval siege tower without the protective cladding to the delight of a rapturous crowd. It reads a bit like the start of a folk horror screenplay, doesn’t it? And to be fair, it should because there is some pretty heavy pagan fertility symbolism laced through this event. There are some adult themes in the show as we also get into overlordship or Kingship depended upon male claimant making love to the territorial goddess and some of the wilder accounts of Kingship rites as laid out by Giraldus of Wales, that involve the consumption of the marriage to the land in its most literal sense. . Show Notes:  Puck https://puckfair.ie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlq9z1hnH7I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zCRh78StwY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqD8MZHC5Lw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhmLF0r2nEw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Murray Anu https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230841.Mythic_Ireland https://exemplore.com/paganism/The-Magic-of-The-Morrigan-Alluring-Anu https://thenewpagan.wordpress.com/2013/10/31/danu-great-mother/ Geraldus of Wales https://twitter.com/erik_kaars/status/1243884746280747008?s=20 http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/topography_ireland.pdf Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spiritbox TWITTER - https://twitter.com/spiritbox3 SUPPORT - https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox PODCAST - https://anchor.fm/spirit-box Music by Obliqka

For episode 67 it is my great pleasure to welcome author Peter Grey. Peter is also the co-founder of iconic occult publishers Scarlet Imprint and joins us today to discuss his new book ‘The Two Antichrists’. “The Two Antichrists is a monograph by Peter Grey on the figure of Antichrist in a post-Christian and progressive Thelemic context. Opening with considerations on the future of witchcraft and its relation to radical ecology, Grey returns to the Babalon Working of Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard, and considers a series of little examined texts from science fiction and the outer fringes of Scientology which form a ‘Babalon Apocrypha.’ By reading across these sources, the familiar story is revealed to have hidden depths and dimensions. Exploring the role of Antichrist in relation to Parsons and Hubbard, Grey provides insights into the initiatory drama of Thelema: of Satanic rites, Abyss and Angel. The Two Antichrists observes the long shadow cast by the monolith of Scientology, and Parsons’ eclipsed sodality The Witchcraft. Looking to the future, he envisions an emergent space witchcraft, infused with the spirit of Do What Thou Wilt. The book concludes with a series of non-denominational rituals and revised Antichrist workings. The work is a fusion of inspiration, research and ritual, from which Grey draws the first lines of his vision of witchcraft in the dusk of our world. The work stands as a companion to Lucifer: Praxis (forthcoming 2022), and continues the trajectory initiated with The Red Goddess and pursued through Apocalyptic Witchcraft. The work was completed on Winter solstice 2020.” Enjoy Show notes: https://scarletimprint.com

For episode #66 we are joined by Jake Kobrin. Jake is a visionary artist and tattooist he is also the founder and designer of a jewelry and fashion brand called Medicine Dragon Designs, and is a DJ and musician, as well as a published writer, speaker, and podcaster. Jake’s work is psychedelic, unusual, dark, beautiful, and elegant. His work seeks to illuminate experiences which Jake has had that are outside of the realm of normal waking consciousness, moving into numinous and visionary realms with natural ease. He considers himself an "interdimensional midwife and conduit" believing that the role of the artist is to be able to move outside of themselves and to act as a conduit for higher consciousness to move through them. In this way he says, "I do not claim authorship for any of the works of art I have painted. I am a channel for Great Spirit to create through me." He is one of the few visionary artists with a formal classical art education, having studied classical realist drawing and painting in Florence, Italy at the Angel Academy of Art. Besides painting and tattooing, he is also the founder and designer of a jewelry and fashion brand called Medicine Dragon Designs, and is a DJ and musician, as well as a published writer, speaker, and podcaster. Enjoy Show notes: https://jakekobrin.com https://medium.com/@jakekobrin/how-psychedelics-changed-my-life-41d800f1b5d8 https://twitter.com/JakeKobrin https://jakekobrinartcourses.thinkific.com https://www.instagram.com/_.kobrin._/   https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/quarantine-sessions-with-jake-kobrin/id1518751858 Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spiritbox TWITTER - https://twitter.com/spiritbox3 SUPPORT - https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox PODCAST - https://anchor.fm/spirit-box Music by Obliqka Sponsorships: off for this episode

For episode #65 we are joined by author and esoteric researcher, Anthony Tyler.   We discuss the dualistic nature of good and evil and how definitions fade from different perspectives. We discuss Jungian archetypes with regards to evil and whether evil is subjective or objective.   Diving deeper we discuss what it is that ‘evil’ entities get from attacking human beings and the nature of possession.   In the Plus show, we discuss perception of the relationship between environmental pressures and religious beliefs and Anthony goes into Memetics as the study of the mind virus.   Enjoy,   Show notes: https://www.divemind.net    https://twitter.com/divemind667 Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spiritbox TWITTER - https://twitter.com/spiritbox3 SUPPORT - https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox PODCAST - https://anchor.fm/spirit-box Music by Obliqka

To give you an idea of what the podcast Patreon is like I've compiled this show from some of last years bonus content from the community. Yes, I'm on the hard sell... The 'Man in black' is a figure that has come up a few times in the podcast not least as an adversary in the guise of 'Old Nick' or in a more modern context the MIB phenomenon. In this bonus show, I'll talk about how this figure is represented in both Irish folklore and in Irish mythology as the 'Fear Dubh Dorcha'. The stories I have gathered are from Duchas.ie.   "These stories feature the common themes of the 'Dark horseman' trickster that leads the protagonist awry and is quite unnecessarily cruel and spiteful on travellers he meets along the road. ... things take a darker turn and the human visitor gets an unpleasant supernatural brush with death.     The stories propose that the reason for this unnecessary cruelty is a grudge the fairy folk has against humanity, much like the Djinn. I then briefly discuss the startlingly similar origin myths of the Fairies and Djinn."   All these pieces have been gathered from the rural communities of Ireland via numerous folklorists and cataloged meticulously. I'm in their debt, it was a privilege to read through these handwritten stories and testimonies.    Anyway, hurry along the road this dark night, lest you cross paths with the 'Man in black'. https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox