Adam and I are hosting a workshop on September 16,17 in Boulder CO. We plan to work with astrology and breathwork to get into some new and interesting areas of the inner lives of participants. Here is some info on the event.

 

As Above, So Below.

Wiser words have never been spoken.

This hermetic axiom is hugely important when one approaches both astrology and breathwork.

Have you ever wondered if there were “external” inflences on your life or on your vision quests? This workshop will help you get a bit closer to understanding how closely related the stars are to your own inner wisdom.

This workshop features both Astrology and Transpersonal Breathwork (Stan Grof Method).

Your facilitators will be Adam Sommer of Exploring Astrology with Adam Sommer http://www.holestoheavens.com/ and Joe Moore of Breckenridge Breathwork http://breckbreath.com/ .

Friday we will have some introductory discussions about how breathwork experiences and astrology relate to each other. Saturday we will do breathwork accompanied by evocative music, expressive drawing and sharing circles for integration. Adam will be providing astrological insights to all related to their experiences during and after the drawing.

The workshop will run from 6-8p on Friday the 16th and 9-5 on Saturday the 17th.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. – A.N. Whitehead

The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence. – A.N. Whitehead

In this interview with Sam Webster we discuss the English philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead. Whitehead’s most famous for his lectures given at Harvard where he lays out process philosophy. This is a fundamentally different way of understanding reality than the standard Newtonian and Aristotelian way of viewing reality. It goes substantially beyond relativity theory and helps us make sense of mystical and magical experiences. It states that substance does not exist, only process exists.

People currently working in this field are Ervin Laszlo and John Cobb.

Sam and I discuss Whitehead in the context of Thelema, magic and paganism. It is a world view and philosophy that should help some people understand the work they’re doing in these fields.

Philosophy is as vitally important as ever.

Sam was previously a guest on episode 32 discussing his book Tantric Thelema.

If you have questions, feel free to reach out. 

http://samwebstermage.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_philosophy

http://www.processphilosophy.org/

http://www.ctr4process.org/about/process/

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/process-philosophy/

Music by Alex Beroza

Song – Shallow Water

Adam and I talk about an upcoming webinar that Adam is hosting with Renn Butler who is an archetypal astrologer and student of Richard Tarnas (author – Cosmos and Psyche). We also get into Chiron (comet / wounded healer), how Adam uses it in chart interpretation and how it may manifest itself in Holotropic Breathwork sessions.

Webinar with Renn Butler March 5, 2015 – 7pm MT 

Holes to Heavens (Adam’s website)

Twitter

Exploring Astrology in iTunes

Holotropic Breathwork

Music – DReam by Snowflake

In this super fun interview Thad and I talk about stuff all over the occult and psychedelic rainbow. A self described psychedelic occultist, Thad is a musician, painter, video artist, author, blogger, occultist and now curator of an art gallery. We have truck loads of common interests including Robert Anton Wilson, chaos and sigil magic, evolution of occultism and psychedelic cultures, and much more. Thad had some criticisms of A.Crowley in this podcast and he expands on them in this Disinfo article (Titled – Aleister Crowley was a Total Hack Magickian. Just my Opinion). I enjoyed reading his book The Galactic Dialog and I think many of you would really like it as well. Check it out on Amazon below. I think you will be hard pressed to dislike this episode. Enjoy and let me know what you think!

Links to Thad’s work

Galactic Dialog – Amazon

Facebook

Disinfo author page

Twitter

YouTube

SUPERVISITORS

 

 

More links

Abraham Von Worms – Ibis Press, 2006

Gary Lachman – http://garylachman.co.uk/tag/aleister-crowley/ –

Lashtal discussion of Lachman book – http://www.lashtal.com/forum/index.php?topic=6272.0

Robert Pollard

Proof of Heaven – Eben Alexander

Music – “Persephone” by snowflake featuring Vidian, Dimitri Artemenko

In this episode we discuss new and interested approaches to interacting with the mushroom, ancient origins of practices, courage, starting small and much more.

Kilindi Iyi on FB

The First Detroit Entheogenic Conference Group (Oct 31, Nov 1+2 2014 in Detroit, MI)

http://youtu.be/kZHHQQViDuo

Maraya’s Main site

We go all over the map with this interview. I loved recording with the fascinating and powerful Maraya and hope to do it again in the near future. Check out the links below for information on what we discussed.

Sorry for the audio quality. It does get better after a minute or two. The recording device was slamming the limits for the first minute of recording, but I was able to catch it shortly after it kicked off.

Cyborg Anthropology

Shit new age girls say – Maraya speaks.

Student of Process Work.

We even dig into Soul Retreival and possible dynamics of reincarnation.

www.marayakarena.com/

The Maraya Karena Show – YOUTUBES

Mystic Permaculture Project

Nick Meador – Twitter Reality Sandwich

Evolver Boulder

This episode of the Occult Sentinel podcast features Taylor Ellwood. He was one of the first guests on the podcast back in 2008. On this episode of the show he discusses his new book on manifesting wealth and an upcoming release which is an evolution on his older pop culture magick book. I hope many of you find this inspiring because I did. We don’t necessarily need to hold on to our counter cultural ideals and be poor in order to be empowered magical people. Poor also doesn’t necessarily need to mean financially poor. There are many ways in which people can be poor including a terrible work life, Interpersonal relationships and poor play life.

I hope you enjoy this episode of Occult Sentinel Podcast and share it with your friends!

Manifesting Wealth: Magic for Prosperity, Love & Health

Magical Identity

Pop Culture Magic

Immanion Press

Philippa Rees and host Joe Moore have a deep dive into Philippa’s book. South African and British narrative poet Philippa captures the beauty of the subject in wonderful prose. The concept was sparked by an unexpected and uninvited mystical experience followed by decades of revisions of the book. I loved interviewing Philippa and really want to know what the audience thinks. A few of my friends and family can expect a gift copy of this book in the near future.

Enjoy!

 

Philippa Rees wrote a book that is a rarity: it is on a controversial, actually hair- and eye-brow-raising subject, and it is totally sincere.  And totally insightful. If you the reader are as brave as this author, you are in for a fantastic ride.  Getting close to science as well as to God at the same time.  That’s no mean feat. Enjoy the ride – and the light! (Dr. Ervin Laszlo)

Philippa’s Website

Blog

Twitter

Amazon US

Aya Awakenings – Rak Razam

“The vine has spread her tendrils across the world and a genuine archaic revival was underway. My bags were packed, South America beckoned, and the ancient mysteries of the rainforest awaited. I wanted in on it…”

– Rak Razam

This is the 45th episode of the show released to the web on January 9th 2014.

This show features Rak Razam, a new guest to the show. Rak is a freelance journalist, author, film maker, and podcaster from Australia doing a lot of work covering the entheodelic community or psychedelic medicine communities around the world.

I just finished watching Rak’s newly released film “Aya:Awakenings”. It is a stunning film that pulls from Rak’s Book that is Titled “Aya: A shamanic Odyssey” and was newly released as “Aya: Awakenings – a Shamanic Odyssey”.

In this show we cover subjects all over the map including how the western magical practitioner may approach this area and practice.

How Shamans see Ayahuasca functioning on the health and healing of individuals.

Some of the metaphysics or cosmologies surrounding Ayahuasca Shamanism and much more. This was an amazing show to record, and I can’t wait to turn some more people on to his films. Rak will be touring North America with the film starting with New York on Jan 16 2014 and He’ll be in Boston on January 21.

 

Roy Ascott –  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Ascott

Jan Irving –  http://www.gnosticmedia.com/

Film Review by Benton Rooks – http://realitysandwich.com/215752/rocketship-into-the-void-on-aya-awakenings

http://www.aya-awakenings.com/

http://www.rakrazam.com

On Demand Film – https://vimeo.com/ondemand/ayaawakenings

Book – http://www.amazon.com/Aya-Awakenings-Shamanic-Rak-Razam/dp/1583948007/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389305112&sr=1-3&keywords=rak+razam

DVD – http://www.amazon.com/Aya-Awakenings-DVD-Rak-Razam/dp/1583948163/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1389305112&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=rak+razam

 

Rak Twitter – https://twitter.com/rakrazam

Film Twitter – https://twitter.com/AyaAwakenings

Ted was a past guest on episode 38 and in this episode we discussed the Western Esoteric Tradition and it’s impact to the world view of Philip K Dick. We discuss Umberto Eco, the various Alchemies of the Renaissance, Neo-Platonism, Initiation, and much more.

Ted Hand is a scholar doing research work on Philip K Dick and is also doing academic work on Renaissance Magic. His current academic work mostly focuses on texts from the 16th century, focusing on “Christian Cabala” between Pico della Mirandola and Giordano Bruno.

By Joseph Moore

 

Links

https://twitter.com/t3dy

http://renaissancemagic.blogspot.com/

http://pkdreligion.blogspot.com/

http://alchemicaldiagrams.blogspot.com/

http://englishunderredwoods.blogspot.com/