AUTHOR'S NOTE: In the past, all of my self-initiated involvement with the Astral Plane (formally called "scrying" as distinct from involuntary "dreaming" and out-of-body "astral travel") was done using a tarot trump card as a prompt to incite creative visualization when entering the "spirit vision," a technique known as "path-working" on the Qabalistic Tree of … Continue reading It’s Scrying Time Again
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Astral Access: Surface Tension and the Suspension of Disbelief
AUTHOR'S NOTE: The belief in communication with spirits is often based on the assumption of an invisible world that exists behind or above mundane reality, and these contacts are said to occur along frequencies or "channels" that can be accessed through the psychic faculties. This is the Astral Plane of the mystics and the Formative … Continue reading Astral Access: Surface Tension and the Suspension of Disbelief
“Everybody Needs the Light” (or “Poking Holes in the Veil”)
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I was just listening to In the Light, Led Zeppelin's mystical minor masterpiece (despite the alliteration, it didn't quite make me go "mmm" with aural pleasure), and I came across the opening quote that appears in the title. I was reading Ethan Indigo Smith's The Tao of Thoth at the same time (multitasking … Continue reading “Everybody Needs the Light” (or “Poking Holes in the Veil”)