I am honoured that my first 'human' shamanic teacher Willow agreed to be a co-conspirator for our newest medicine trail. The foundations of all my Spirit Work are grounded in my year-long one-to-one training and continuing friendship with her. It is a juicy treat indeed that she wove for us, and one I am eager to encourage you to see what would happen if the shoe or boot did fit...
Willow is a Shaman, a Hedgewitch, Tree Witch, a Wisewoman and Druid. She is also a Shamanic Teacher of Healing and the Old Ways.
Willow loves nothing more than to be deep in the mysterious Wildwoods connecting to ancient Ancestors and the magic and mystery. She is a Mother of 2 and Grandmother of 6...who delight in her magical nighttime fairy tales! You can find out more about her on her website -www.shamanicwillow.co.uk

Wild Hearts Sipping Crooked Headstone Tea

In this meditation, Joost invites you to get in touch with a simple, kind of dumb love and kindness, letting go of the identification with intelligence and intellectualism and becoming a kind of teddy bear. Re-integrating this is like being a teddy bear in a mech suit.

Teddy Bear In A Mech Suit - on simple, kind of dumb love

*Note: This is the Free Content version of my interview with Michael Eisenberg. To access the entire episode, please consider becoming a Tier 3 'Garden of Arcane Delights' member on Patreon, or you can purchase this full episode for a one-time fee. 

My guest this month is Michael Eisenberg. Taken from Metapsychosis: Journal of Consciousness, Literature, and Art, Michael describes himself as “an avid, deep listener of Acousmatic music. Many people know this music under a myriad of names such as Electro-Acoustic, Musique Concret, computer music, music for loudspeakers etc. but I prefer to call it Acousmatic because that term seems, to me… the closest I can get to the “classical” definition of experiencing sounds completely divorced from the physical, mechanical, technological gestures that produced them. Sounds for sounds sake, organized in a manner that is meaningful on some level, usually the imaginal to the listener. My project is to overlay the so-called esoteric idea space, both ancient and modern on top of this music and discover connections, correspondences, sympathies and synchronicities that may aid in making suggestions on how to listen to this music.”

In this discussion, Michael introduces acousmatic music, the history, the ideas behind the genre, and how it differs from other sounds such as ambient/atmospheric film music or soundscapes, for example. He calls this “music for loudspeakers, not performance,” although the genre has expanded to include performances known as “diffusions”. 

Michael also discusses his thoughts on how this music acts as a bridge to the Mundis Imaginalis, an esoteric concept taken from Persian/Sufi teachings and brought to the West by scholar Henry Corbin. He then talks more about his project, in collaboration with the Metapsychosis Journal, called “Acousmatic Crossings.” The music featured in this ongoing project strives to “break down the holding cell of what’s inside all of us. Our innate imaginal faculty, our inner genius jail breaks out of its unconscious black iron prison—the prison imposed by modernities infatuation with the degraded image… and begins to dream.

Acousmatic Crossings presents some of the artists creating in this space today.  We have received a plethora of works, some from artists well established in this realm, many from artists new to me, all bursting with an intrinsic and untaught ability to transport you, the listener beyond the fields you know.

If you choose to explore these zones, there is only one simple prerequisite, a prerequisite that all of us have access to.  And that is to simply use your cognitive imagination.” 

During the course of our conversation, Michael generously offered to curate a list of creators and albums for us to explore. Please find a selection listed below in the program notes, along with several journal articles and essays taken from the Metapsychosis Journal. 

The full curated list will be put in a separate post on Patreon as it is very long! You can find it at: www.patreon.com/RejectedReligion. 

PROGRAM NOTES:

Michael Eisenberg | Metapsychosis

Acousmatic Music as a Bridge to the Mundus Imaginalis | Metapsychosis

Acousmatic Music as a Divine Map | Metapsychosis

Acousmatic Crossings:

Acousmatic Crossings | Metapsychosis

Acousmatic Crossings: Cinema for the Ears—and An Epiphany of Spheres | Metapsychosis

And, if any of these connect, why not follow the series over at the Metapsychosis Journal? Here is a link to the landing page that will be updated every two weeks as new pieces by artists who have submitted their work are published: 

Acousmatic Archives | Metapsychosis

Micheal is always available for chat, questions, love letters (or hate mail) and can be reached at meisenberg307@gmail.com. If you’d like to leave any comments on the pieces published over at Metapsychosis, you can be assured that he'll respond fairly quickly.

Music and Editing: Daniel P. Shea
End Production: Stephanie Shea

Patreon T3 Free Michael Eisenberg from Metapsychosis Journal: Acousmatic Music

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RR Patreon Tier 3- Ike Baker on his book, Ætheric Magic: A Complete System of Elemental, Celestial, & Alchemical Magic

A poem that narrates Pwyll's journey as he leaves the known world after his mistake and agreement to change places with Arawn Lord of Annwn in the Isfyd, or Underworld 

Opening the Doors: Episode Two: Pwyll Enters the Isfyd - A Poem

A shard retold from the Mabinogi - the fateful meeting of Pwyll and Arawn in the forest clearing. A queer reimagining of myth as intimacy, pact, and transformation.

Pwyll,  Arawn and the Clearing

Avec Tetrasomia, je m’appuie sur la rencontre avec les territoires de la ville de Brest, du Finistère Nord et les imaginaires qu’ils portent, notamment autour des marques des éléments sur les paysages.
Je joue sur des passages entre image fixe et création acousmatique pour expérimenter comment faire image avec peu de sons, tout en créant des archipels sonores flottant dans le silence.

tetrasomia_final_v2

The Dharmagarage is an online community focused on daily shared meditation practice and imaginal practice. To join, get in touch via dharmagarage.utrecht@gmail.com or ping @vervoort_joost on Twitter, where @dharmagarageu also exists.

Queering the old Welsh myths. Shards of story, broken open — spoken with a contemplative voice, raw and unadorned.

Increasingly our world demands more and more of us, not just our time but our essence, the core of who we are. What if there was another way to be? What if there was a remedy, a tincture of stories that could encourage us to take just a moment back, to close our eyes and remember when we sensed what was around us with awe and wonder, when we could smell and taste the magicks in the air. And what if in this stoppedness, this holding, we were also able to hear the whisperings, the longings of our hearts? 
What then? 
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New tracks tagged #imaginal