Serpent, Lotus and Rose

This is a wonderful talk on Animism, on possibly my new favourite podcast!

Animism is Normative Consciousness Listen to this episode from The Emerald on Spotify. For 98% of human history, 99.9% of our ancestors lived, breathed, and interacted with a world that they saw and felt to be animate. Imbued with lifeforce. Inhabited by and permeated with forces, with which we exist in ongoing relation. This animate...

A fascinating lecture on the Tantrik worldview, Dakinis, Witchcraft, spiritual predation and hints to how some of the terrifying dismemberment themes can be beneficial to the mystic.

Mythic Imagination Along the Silk Road: Female Deities of Power & Transcendence with David Gordon Like werewolves, female were-animals are shape-changers whose appearance alternates between that of a human woman—often identified as a witch—and that of one...