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Dream Mysteries: An Interview with Sarah Janes

Posted on May 12, 2023May 12, 2023 by TheCustodian

“My entire life has been guided by an enthusiasm for dreaming and the dream aesthetic…As a child, my intuition told me that lucid dreaming offered an opportunity to expand the human experience and transcend the mortal realm.” -from Initiation into Dream Mysteries: Drinking from the Pool of Mnemosyne (2023) by Sarah Janes For the ancients,…

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Sister Magdalena: The Sibyl of Córdoba

Posted on May 15, 2018October 8, 2020 by TheCustodian

“She is regarded as one of the prophetesses by several doctors of the Roman Church…” – from Dissertationes de sibyllis, earumque oraculis by Servaas Galle (1688). The infamous Eugenio Torralva captured the imagination of sixteenth-century Castile and astonished members of the royal house of Habsburg with his seemingly miraculous powers of premonition. He was not, however, the…

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Fantast in Focus: Darragh Mason

Posted on April 28, 2017February 2, 2022 by TheCustodian

FANTAST IN FOCUS: DARRAGH MASON “O’er space immense of seas and lands to go Will be your fate, and realms unknown explore Far as the confines of Earth’s utmost shore.” -from Jersusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso, trans. by  J.H. Hunt (1822). Darragh Mason is a photographer, writer, and occultist. His wanderlust has driven him to some…

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The Camisards: Rebel Prophets of Languedoc

Posted on March 10, 2017October 8, 2020 by TheCustodian

ODD TRUTHS: THE CAMISARDS, REBEL PROPHETS OF LANGUEDOC  “…the sect of the Inspired became so numerous that the valleys swarmed with them, the mountains were covered with them, and the dioceses…were overspread with such a number of prophets, that in the Cevennes and the lower Languedoc only, they were computed at eight thousand souls.” -from…

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Thomas Tryon, The Pythagoras of London

Posted on January 24, 2017October 8, 2020 by TheCustodian

ODD TRUTHS: THOMAS TRYON, THE PYTHAGORAS OF LONDON “Cast thy Eyes round about thee, and enter into the inside of Things, and with a silent distinguishing Thought, and earnest sedate Meditation, and Contemplation, behold the wonderful Operations of the serene silent magick Powers of the Coelestials, and also of the Terrestials…” -from The Knowledge of a…

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Jane Lead, Prophetess of a New Age

Posted on January 13, 2017October 8, 2020 by TheCustodian

ODD TRUTHS: JANE LEAD, PROPHETESS OF A NEW AGE “She, I believe, carried to its practical extreme the Paracelsian doctrine concerning the magical power of faith…” -from Hours with the Mystics, vol. II, by Robert Vaughan (1856). In April of 1670, Jane Lead (or Leade) had a vision that would change her life forever. While walking in the…

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The Enchanted House of Justinus Kerner

Posted on December 12, 2016October 8, 2020 by TheCustodian

“There were visions in the air, and dreams sitting on the staircases…”  -from Memoirs (1893) by Charles Godfrey Leland  “Kerner’s house is, perhaps, the most remarkable and peculiar in all Swabia…if we wish to receive or impart a right idea of Kerner, we must see him and describe him in his own house.” -from Justinus…

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The Adventures of Charles Godfrey Leland

Posted on October 14, 2016July 17, 2020 by TheCustodian

“You will remember that Albertus Magnus…adds emphatically, that the process will instruct and avail only to the few— that a man must be born a magician!” -from The Haunters and the Haunted by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1859). In 1870, Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton hosted a quirky American man of letters named Charles Godfrey Leland at his manor house in Knebworth, Hertfordshire. The two thinkers were…

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Two Mystics of American Jazz

Posted on February 29, 2016January 28, 2017 by TheCustodian

ODD TRUTHS: TWO MYSTICS OF AMERICAN JAZZ In its early stages, jazz was publicly scapegoated as The Devil’s music. Much like the moral watchdogs who would later comment on the Satanic nature of soul and rock and roll, anti-jazz writers were concerned about the perceived social degrading of Western culture and channelled their prejudices into hateful polemics. This…

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