Author Blogs

As an author, I seek to use this website to discuss my books and the esoteric and occult in general. I strive to offer inspiration to my regular readers and casual visitors alike.


 

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Beware the Lorelei Rock: A Warning on the Single Market

The perils and pitfalls of the Single Market - and why Britain should never rejoin.   more  

The Office of the Holy Spirit

Reverence of the Holy Spirit was important to Martinez de Pasqually, who understood that the liturgy of the Church contained spiritual power. He recognised the authority of the Chu...  more  

The Shining and the 23 Enigma

In Stanley Kubrick's 1980 movie ‘The Shining’, we see how malefic influences are concentrated and gathered in The Overlook Hotel, itself a metaphor of the world we occupy, beset by...  more  

William Blake and Jacob Boehme: An Alchemical Union

Audio script of a paper presented live to Sapere Aude on 22 December 2024  more  

Parenthood, Death, Continuance

As we age, there is a sense in which we also begin to feel closer to the dead, as if the passing of time makes the veil between our world and theirs increasingly thin.   more  

Jacob Boehme and the Problem of Pain

Boehme's metaphysical experiment is important because it presents a God who understands our suffering and embraces both the Dark and Light Worlds, albeit a Divinity where no evil m...  more  

The Ghosts of Ecton and the Haunting of William Hogarth

Excerpt from the author's book 'Time Slip Phenomena: The Ghosts of the Trianon, The Legend of Lucy Lightfoot and the Haunting of William Hogarth'. A curious instance of a time sli...  more  

Hammer's 'Dracula' (1958) and the Occult Doctrine of Reintegration

In the 1958 Hammer Horror classic 'Dracula', starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, Dracula is finally defeated when he becomes transfixed by the shape of a cross while sunlig...  more  

L'alchimie de William Blake : Les trois principes de l'essence divine et l'allégorie de la condition spirituelle de l'ho...

Ce livre explore en profondeur le lien entre ces deux visionnaires. L'auteur dissèque méticuleusement la peinture à la détrempe de Blake, « Allégorie de la condition spirituelle de...  more  

The Montélimar Time Slip - Hoax, Myth or Paradox?

Was the Montélimar Time Slip (sometimes called "the Case of the Vanishing Hotel") an urban myth, hoax or a genuine time slip event? Or might the psyche exist in a state of relati...  more