ANGELA'S SYMPOSIUM 📖 Academic Study on Witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism, magick and the Occult

#astraltravel #astralprojection #astral

What is the Astral Plane? Astral Projection in its origins, the Theosophical Society and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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REFERENCES

Crow, J.L. 2013. Accessing the Astral with a Monitor and Mouse: Esoteric Religion and the Astral Located in Three-Dimensional Virtual Realms In E. Asprem and K. Granholm, eds. Contemporary Esotericism. London, New York: Routledge, pp.159–180.

00:00 Introduction: What is Astral Travel

00:51 Contemporary conceptions

01:45 Historical origin and theoretical roots

03:15 19th century origins

04:13 The role of Cartesian dualism

07:21 Two types of Astral Travel

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#ostara #pagan #wiccan

A talk on Paganism, Wicca, the Spring Equinox and Ostara from an academic and Religious Studies scholar.

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FURTHER READINGS

Harvey, G. (2000) Contemporary Paganism: Listening People, Speaking Earth, NYU Press.

Hutton, R. (2019) The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft, Oxford University Press.

Sermon, R. (2008) ‘From Easter to Ostara: the Reinvention of a Pagan Goddess?’, Time and Mind, Routledge, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 331–343.

Strmiska, M. (2005) Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, ABC-CLIO.

00:00 Introduction: Quantum Sauce

01:31 Dr Adam Booth introduces Dr Puca

04:08 What is Paganism

09:50 Common principles in Paganism

20:43 Other principles

22:47 Wicca

28:51 Ostara and the Spring Equinox

29:31 Ostara rituals

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#paganism #comics #pagan

Paganism in comic books. Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison and narratives in line with a Pagan belief system or worldview.

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Granholm, K. 2016. The Occult and Comics In C. Partridge, ed. The Occult World. London: Routledge, pp.499–508.

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#comics #occult #chaosmagick

Magic and esoteric themes in Comic books. Hypersigil and Chaos Magick to turn stories into reality.

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REFERENCE

Granholm, K. 2016. The Occult and Comics In: C. Partridge, ed. The Occult World. London: Routledge, pp.499–508.

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REFERENCES

Baker, P. (2016) ‘Austin Osman Spare’, in Partridge, C. (ed), The Occult World, 1 edition., London, Routledge, pp. 303–307.

Miles, C. J. (2006) ‘Journey into the Neither-Neither: Austin Osman Spare and the Construction of a Shamanic Identity’, Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 54–83.

Woodman, J. (2003) ‘Modernity, selfhood, and the demonic : anthropological perspectives on “Chaos magick” in the United Kingdom’, Ph.D., Goldsmiths, University of London [Online]. DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.00028683 (Accessed 23 June 2020).

00:00 Introduction: Austin Osman Spare’s influence on Magick-practising traditions

01:00 Collaboration with Dr Sledge of Esoterica

01:42 Aleister Crowley’s influence

02:53 Psychologically oriented Magick

03:39 Sigils

04:48 Spirits as archetypes

05:37 Chaos Magick prefigured

07:08 The Kia

08:15 Connection to Shamanism?

11:02 The journey of Neither-Neither

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#stregheria #strega #italian

Is the Strega tradition founded by Raven Grimassi representative of Italian folk magic, vernacular healing or cunning folks? The influence of Wicca, Charles Leland and Aradia - the Gospel of the Withes - on Italian American reinterpretations.

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REFERENCES

Magliocco, S. 2009a. In search of the roots of Stregheria: Preliminary Observations on the History of a Reclaimed Tradition In: L. Del Giudice, ed. Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans. Springer.

Magliocco, S. 2006. Italian American Stregheria and Wicca: Ethnic Ambivalence in American Neopaganism In: M. Strmiska, ed. Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, pp.55–86.

Magliocco, S. 2009b. Italian Cunning Craft: Some Preliminary Observations. Journal of the Academic Study of Magic. (5), pp.103–133.

Puca, A. 2020a. Indigenous and trans-cultural Shamanism in Italy.[Online] Ph.D., University of Leeds. [Accessed 26 February 2022]. Available from: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/28331/.

Puca, A. 2020b. The Impact of Social Media on Italian Shamanism and Folk Magic. Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR). 22, pp.55–70.

Puca, A. 2019. The Tradition of Segnature: Underground Indigenous Practices in Italy. The Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions. (7), pp.104–123.

00:00 Introduction: Why I avoided this subject

02:51 What is Stregheria?

04:55 A Wiccan based US-Italian religion

08:11 Raven Grimassi

08:56 Aradia

10:01 Summary

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#rosicrucianism #rosicrucian #rosycross

Rosicrucian history and historical developments in the 18th century, the influential role of the Order of the Golden and Rosy Cross, the interest Goethe took in Rosicrucianism and the connection with Freemasonry.

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REFERENCE

Edighoffer, R. 2006. Rosicrucianism II: 18th Century In: W. J. Hanegraaff, ed. Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism. Leiden, London: Brill, pp.1014–1017.

FURTHER READINGS

McIntosh, C. 1992. The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason: Eighteenth-Century Rosicrucianism in Central Europe and its Relationship to the Enlightenment. Leiden ; New York: Brill.

Yates, F. 2015. The Rosicrucian Enlightenment 2nd edition. Routledge.

00:00 Introduction: The Order of the Golden and Rosy Cross

01:10 First mentions of the order

02:51 The literature predates the society

05:10 German order founded

07:15 Goethe joins the order

08:13 The back story

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#astrology #horoscope #occult

What is Astrology and how does it relate to magic and esoteric practices? Academic overview of the historical developments that influenced contemporary astrology.

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Hammer, O. (2006) ‘Astrology V: 20th Century’, in Hanegraaff, W. J. (ed), Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism, Leiden, London, Brill, pp. 136–141.

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#rosicrucianism #rosicrucian #occult

What is Rosicrucianism?

The early history of the Rosicrucian order, Christian Rosenkreuz, the three manifestos.

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REFERENCE

Edighoffer, R. 2006. Rosicrucianism I: first half of the 17th century In: W. J. Hanegraaff, ed. Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism. Leiden, London: Brill, pp.1009–1014.

FURTHER READINGS

McIntosh, C. 1992. The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason: Eighteenth-Century Rosicrucianism in Central Europe and its Relationship to the Enlightenment. Leiden ; New York: Brill.

Yates, F. 2015. The Rosicrucian Enlightenment 2nd edition. Routledge.

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#kink #masochism #spirituality

BDSM can entail perceptions in the dominant and the submissive conducive to the spiritual or religious journey of the individual.

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Baker, A.C. 2018. Sacred kink: finding psychological meaning at the intersection of BDSM and spiritual experience. Sexual and Relationship Therapy. 33(4), pp.440–453.

Charles D’Avalon, A. 2020. Pain and Power: BDSM as Spiritual Expression. Inquiries Journal. 12(11).

Fennell, J. 2018. “It’s All About the Journey”: Skepticism and Spirituality in the BDSM Subculture. Sociological Forum. 33(4), pp.1045–1067.

Glucklich, A. 2001. Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul. Oxford University Press.

Robertson, A. 2017. Beating the Boundaries: An Exploration of BDSM as Religioning.[Online] London: The Open University. [Accessed 7 January 2022]. Available from: https://www.proquest.com/openview/2f9178336eff89cd5fb942b6c01ab67e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=51922&diss=y.

00:00 Introduction: Magick a transformative tool that affects one’s life

01:32 BDSM, Top and Bottom defined

02:28 The private dimension of religion

03:06 The beneficial impact of BDSM

04:38 Sacred Pain

07:23 Disintegrative and integrative pain

11:01 Visionary experience

12:56 A sense of the Numinous

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