Category Archives: Shamanism
Hallucinating The Dead
View of the St. Oran Bell Tower (left) and field of standing stones, Columcille, PA. space The voices whisper everywhere in the boneyard barrow of my inner ear. Who are these murmuring folk reminding me I’m no good, no god, … Continue reading
Filed under Blue, Consciousness, Creativity, Devotions, Grief, Immrama, Mind, Myth and Archetype, Oran, Otherworlds, Poetry, Quantum World, Shamanism, the library down under, The Sea
Wind in the Trees: A Tale of Madness and Mystery
space Spring came early to the land; winter never just got a grip this year, for whatever reasons. Just about everywhere it’s greener and warmer than normal, for most a month ahead of schedule. Today in Orlando it was hot … Continue reading
The Quest
space Sixth Letter to a Dead Shaman For half of my life Your quest flowed underground, its ends unknown to me, its means so upside-down, the way a fool inverts a king’s gold crown into a potty of mired sounds. … Continue reading
Water Master
space For some reason which is not quite clear the wise man in Irish tradition tends to be begotten by the God in the sea. – James Carney, Studies in Irish Literature and History A Dee n a nusqui nexamail … Continue reading
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Labyrinth
space Shine a light in here and you’ll find a once-gearless hell now churning in in a labyrinth tooled to proceed to the always next yet never final shore: A shire of glass beds and deep blue wells where she … Continue reading
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Salt Psaltery
space Up from the shore the work ensues no longer lost to water. Or so it seems: the trial feels finished, psalmed enough inside the surf’s black mouth to caul all Hell in pinkest dawn. The day is calm … Continue reading
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Camera Obscura
space Why is it that cameras are forbidden in dreams? At least, that’s the word I’ve gotten for two nights straight, first when I wanted to take a picture of my wife sleeping bathed in early light from the sun’s … Continue reading
The Tiddy Mun
space Limpelty lobelty the Tiddy Mun haunts the lost wetlands of my words, grey but not ghastly, a ghostly blue phosphor who perambles lands I will never know though I’m ever drawn there here in the next foray into water’s … Continue reading
Filed under Archetypal Mythology, Art and Heart, Blue, Celestial events, Cognitive Science, Consciousness, Creativity, Culture, Devotions, Feral animals of the soul, Folklore, Forest Shenanagans, Mind, Mystery, Myth and Archetype, Natural Supernatural, Nature, Noir, Oran, Otherworlds, Poetry, Quantum World, Sexuality, Shamanism, Spirituality, The Dark
The Old Forest Road
space Taking a myth as one’s own is a way of reading opaque events. I have long believed that one’s personal history is simply a branch of a larger tree of mystery, the world’s larger soul re-written in the small … Continue reading
Filed under Alchemies, Archetypal Mythology, Art and Heart, Arthurian Romance, Celestial events, Consciousness, Creativity, Culture, Death, Devotions, Folklore, Forest Shenanagans, Grails, Grief, History, Madness and Mania, Mind, Mystery, Myth and Archetype, Natural Supernatural, Nature, Oran, Otherworlds, poetics, Poetry, Post-Christianity, Shamanism, Spirituality, The Dark, The Future, Voyagers
The Naked Singularity
space I. When a star collapses, spent of its fuel so much that it reverses pulse – refracting back all that once beamed — inversion mounts to a threshold beyond which everything dances behind darkest veils, canceling our ability to … Continue reading
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