Walking the Wizard’s Path

This episode contains violent and disturbing imagery, listener discretion is advised.

I recount a visionary experience where I release a bound spirit. I examine the motives for binding such a spirit and given a second vision that tells me this story is not yet over. Our guided meditation examines your magical resume.

On a ferry I cross paths with folks who are stuck between their pasts and the abyss. Our guided meditation is a journey by water.

News of a co-worker’s death prompts freelance spirit work, why I think it’s a bad idea to keep spirits of the dead around you. Our guided meditation examines your relationship to the realm of spirits.

Sigils, cockney accents, pork pies, ale, sadness and suggestions how to behave in a cemetery

I relay a time when Venus shown her magnanimity upon me to puzzling and humorous effect. Our guided meditation examines the question "what signals are you are putting out?"

Are you neutrally receiving information for others or are you pushing specific outcomes into existence? Our guided meditation examines if that is a line you have crossed.

Did you come into this life with magical gifts? Do you believe you are a blank slate, free to create your life any way you choose? Then we have two concepts that will throw a wrench in your world view! Our guided meditation asks “is there unfinished business that needs attending to?”

Problematic art gets redistributed, devotion is questioned, a method discovered. Our guided meditation asks “What are you giving form to in your life?”

An unexpected declaration at a discussion group leads to an uncomfortable question about identity. Our guided meditation examines what narratives we have built our lives around and if they still serve.

A visit to my hometown raises questions about the goals we set for ourselves. Our guided meditation examines if the goal you have chosen is an achievable one using curious metrics.

I discuss why I didn’t eat meat and the need for an “I don’t know box” in magic. Our guided meditation examines the question “What are you cognitively putting out with the trash?”

We move beyond our thoughts and feelings and address the importance of our bodies in magic. Our guided meditation introduces us to our own bodies and we see what it has to say.

We examine the preconceptions students bring when they start a magical path. A glimpse of future episodes is given. Our guided meditation examines the question “what preconceptions hold you back from magic?”

How an experience at a bar led me to my magical path. I discover what evocation is. Our guided meditation examines the question “was there ever a time you discovered you were NOT the person you thought you were?”