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flanerieoconnorFirstly- an interview/playlist that I recently came across, and very much enjoyed:
https://shwep.net/2020/12/30/esoteric-island-discs-angela-voss/
(from the website of the Secret History of Western Esotericism podcast, which I discovered after following a link on, I believe, one of the Magic Monday comments awhile back. I'm only a couple of episodes in, and I'm not sure it would be to everyone's taste- it definitely seems to be on the scrupulously academic side of things, and to fairly strictly quarantine any actual consideration of whether or not "TSW"- but so far, it seems pretty good at giving an in-depth, rigorous, historical overview of the sources of "western esotericism")
Secondly, I'm curious about peoples' experiences with Pathworking- I've only just started, working with the 32nd path, and, given my poor visualization skills, it's unsurprisingly been a struggle. One of the difficulties I'm having conceptually is how repeat journeys down the same path are supposed to work. With each pathworking, I can remember the content of previous ones- where I get tripped up is in wondering whether I should expect something new and spontaneous every time, or whether each journey builds on previous ones, with the content remaining consistent from one trip to another but changing in focus and growing in detail by accretion? (typing this now, I feel like the second is more realistic, but I'm curious if others have run into this mental block, and and if so, how they've handled it? In general, I know that I have a probably unreasonable expectation that things should just magically and spontaneously unfold or appear before me, while instead, when something does come up in my imagination, it feels artificial or "made-up". I suspect this is normal, and that I should instead be focusing on the "mind as an interface", the experience that even the things I "make up" come from *somewhere*, and are thus, in a sense, valid imaginal experiences, but worrying about this sort of thing tends to take me out of the experience...)
https://shwep.net/2020/12/30/esoteric-island-discs-angela-voss/
(from the website of the Secret History of Western Esotericism podcast, which I discovered after following a link on, I believe, one of the Magic Monday comments awhile back. I'm only a couple of episodes in, and I'm not sure it would be to everyone's taste- it definitely seems to be on the scrupulously academic side of things, and to fairly strictly quarantine any actual consideration of whether or not "TSW"- but so far, it seems pretty good at giving an in-depth, rigorous, historical overview of the sources of "western esotericism")
Secondly, I'm curious about peoples' experiences with Pathworking- I've only just started, working with the 32nd path, and, given my poor visualization skills, it's unsurprisingly been a struggle. One of the difficulties I'm having conceptually is how repeat journeys down the same path are supposed to work. With each pathworking, I can remember the content of previous ones- where I get tripped up is in wondering whether I should expect something new and spontaneous every time, or whether each journey builds on previous ones, with the content remaining consistent from one trip to another but changing in focus and growing in detail by accretion? (typing this now, I feel like the second is more realistic, but I'm curious if others have run into this mental block, and and if so, how they've handled it? In general, I know that I have a probably unreasonable expectation that things should just magically and spontaneously unfold or appear before me, while instead, when something does come up in my imagination, it feels artificial or "made-up". I suspect this is normal, and that I should instead be focusing on the "mind as an interface", the experience that even the things I "make up" come from *somewhere*, and are thus, in a sense, valid imaginal experiences, but worrying about this sort of thing tends to take me out of the experience...)
