I caught a leaf and I liked it! Read more about leaf showers, rustlers, and poets’ attempts at figuring autumn out: ”At one point we approached an active rustler. We could actually see how the leaves were falling. I decided to try my luck and extended a hand to the sky. Yes, I caught one! I caught an orange leaf. Maybe it wanted to fall to the ground and wither away, but I felt that I at least temporarily ”saved” it as I looked at it closely and then put it in my pocket. A strange kind of joy; a poetry of the moment in union with outer nature. Does it ever get better than that? Monday morning, a walk through the park: cold, sunny, and crispy – perfect autumn. In the park the tree crowns were ablaze in yellow, orange and red. And there it was: a big rustler. I placed myself beneath it and literally showered in leaves for more than a minute. Echoes of boyhood and receiving snowflakes on my tongue. Now my hand moved here and there, gently grabbing what had been let loose from the...

A Patreon push of some 2000 magical posts! ”We have so much material at the Patreon I hardly know where to begin: pilgrimages, oracular techniques, sex magic, shamanic initiations, tarot suggestions, stories from our rituals, working with people like Genesis P-Orridge, Anton LaVey, and Kenneth Anger, psychedelic experiences, looking at creativity from a ritual perspective, adapting witchcraft to contemporary times, cut-ups as magical technique, writing itself as magical technique, meditations, runes, talismanic film- and music making, etc. There’s just so much! Of course there are other things as well at the Patreon: what we do and why, and what’s up this particular period/week? We are very close to two thousand posts at this moment, so as you can imagine there’s a whole lot there: photos, films, private stories, news, recommendations about other good people, and so on. If you want to check out real magic right here, right now, look no further.” #23rdmind #vanessasinclair...

Hello America! I’ll be on Coast to Coast AM live on Tuesday Midnight (PT, second half of the show), talking about my book MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MAGICIANS: Hello Germany! And later in the week it’s time for OCCULTURE in Berlin, where I’ll be lecturing and signing books. Home #occulture #meetingswithremarkablemagicians #coasttocoastam #innertraditions #carlabrahamsson

In my An Art Apart post today, I write about how art changed a hundred years ago as a result of the dissolution of civilization post WW1. And about my wife’s excellent book on the subject – THE CUT IN CREATION: ”I wonder where the John Heartfields and Hannah Höchs are today? Or even the Gysins, Burroughses and Ballards? There is surely more fodder than ever to ritually scrutinize? Or perhaps the simulacrum plague fever induced by AI has made everyone complacent and lazy? Prompting ”write a text in the style of a William Burroughs cut-up” or ”create an image in the style of John Heartfield” just isn’t the same thing as actually doing the work, is it? ”Where has all the magic gone?”” #cutups #dada #surrealism #thecutincreation #renderingunconscious #vanessasinclair #anartapart #carlabrahamsson