SUMMER SOLSTICE Mass Factory
"Frida Kahlo "El Sol y la Vida (Sun and Nature)" 1947"
A Attribute AND Performance In the company of PAM GROSSMAN
Date: Friday, June 21st
Time: 7:00-8:30(ish) pm
Admission: 20
On hand by Phantasmaphile
You requirement RSVP to phantasmaphile [at] gmail.com if you'd so to accompany, as space is limited
Solstices are perfect time to recalibrate and rebalance. The word
"solstice" comes from "sol" - the sun, and "sistere" - to stand still.
In this workshop, we'll demand time out of our prosperous schedules to be still so the sun, and oversupply up its golden magick. We'll learn ways to have available the sun with us and sweepstake upon its power whenever we take it, as well as other methods for upward our "yang". The importance for the
class is to recharge ourselves with overweight and solar energy, and to be grateful for the beginning of summer. Our time together tendency be plump with spellcrafting, meditation, and, of course, feasting!
Engross BRING:
-A bit of cooking or sophistication to plight
-Any altar bits and pieces you so. These can be
upmarket (Summery decor of any brand name is be grateful for), and/or accustomed bits and pieces which you'd so to carry charged
-A deficient candle and casing (votive or deficient encouragement candle, NOT a lofty taper)
-A abundant, moderate, or textile, as we tendency be conference on the stump (seats tendency be on view for individuals who take).
Note-taking is be grateful for. This workshop is open to men and women, novices and advanced practitioners parallel.
PAM GROSSMAN is an objective keeper, versifier, and lifelong learner of magical practice and history. She is the instigator of Phantasmaphile, a blog which specializes in art and culture with an esoteric or fantastical warped, and Link Editor of Abraxas Journal.
Her group art shows, Fata Morgana: The New Womanly Fantasists, Deem Chase, Alchemically Yours, and Sigils & Cipher carry been featured by such outlets as Art & Antiques Cache, Boing Boing, First Locking up,
Locking up Out New York, Legitimacy Sandwich, Juxtapoz, Arthur, 20x200, UrbanOutfitters.com, and Neil Gaiman's Quiver. She is a co-founder of Observatory, somewhere her propaganda aims to weigh up spirituality via a theoretical yet near direction.
Real MAGIC: THE Nature AND METHODS OF NEVILLE GODDARD
A Preamble BY MITCH HOROWITZ
DATE: FRIDAY, JUNE 28TH
TIME: 8PM
ADMISSION: 10
On hand BY: PHANTASMAPHILE
Neville Goddard (1905-1972) was one of the utmost bright and
intellectually initiation metaphysical teachers of the clutch century. His work, in print under the solitary pen-name Neville, was as unconventional as it was simple: the Barbados-born mystic argued that God is nothing other than "the human novelty. "Your care for and thoughts, Neville
educated, accord haziness to the world reply you; and this world can be misrepresented in the same way as you understand how to use the mental and tender states that twisted it.
Neville's philosophy is so well-built that utmost earn inhabit
immediately delicate to quarrel with it or shove it departure. Yet this undercover attention has been starve yourself growing in recognition. His theory, which he voiced in books and thousands of lectures, offer the utmost
grand and hum thought set up to come to pass from the culture of
mind-power metaphysics that swept America in the clutch century. Neville's
statements, beginning in the 1930s, deem good-looking (and earn)
band to topical product in quantum physics,
neuroplasticity, and other fields of study.
In this special tell and inauguration, acclaimed versifier and historian Mitch Horowitz ("Occult America")
explores the life and methods of this modern magus. Mitch shows how Neville's techniques for self encouragement are disarmingly simple, bracingly further, and, somewhat maybe, a great deal impactful for the unusual.
Mitch writes other about Neville in his talkative history of the positive-thinking run for election, "One Immature Emotion"
(Exceed, Jan 2014). This way in is the first town appetizer of individuals themes. In have possession of, Mitch explores Neville's accustomed history, which includes his hurried living in New York Town under the support of a mysterious spiritual "master" named Abdullah. The actuality and cooperation of Abdullah carry ache fueled pondering. As Mitch reveals, Abdullah was potential a real outline - who may even be restricted.
Israel Regardie wrote in 1946 of Neville: "Of all the metaphysical systems with which I am up to date, Neville's is the utmost magical." This
evening's inauguration not only parts the layer on the life, work, and accustomed history of this commanding metaphysical persona, but places of interest Neville's practical theory and techniques, which may import the key to everything truly strange for us today.
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MITCH HOROWITZ is vice-president and editor-in-chief
at Tarcher/Penguin, the rupture of Penguin books biting to
metaphysical literature. He is the notate of "Occult America" (Bantam), which received the 2010 PEN Oakland/ Josephine Miles Exempt for widely read property. His new book, "One Immature Idea: How Convinced Pondering Reshaped Novel Nature, "is
talkative from Exceed in January 2014. Horowitz a lot writes
about and discusses original spirituality in the declare media,
as well as CBS Sunday Daylight, Dateline NBC, All Ram Intended, "The Fringe Way Journal, The Washington Put up with", and CNN.com. He and his next of kin raise two sons in New York Town. He is online at: www.MitchHorowitz.com
JESSE BRANSFORD: Partnership THE FOURTH PYRAMID, AN OCCULT ART Start AT GALVESTON
DATE: THURSDAY, JULY 11TH
TIME: 8PM
ADMISSION: 10
On hand BY: PHANTASMAPHILE
In 2012, the performer and mage, Jesse Bransford,
was invited to put together an swearing in for the esteemed Galveston Actor Residency in Texas. The effect was his room of full spellcraft,
which he named "THE FOURTH PYRAMID." In GAR's words:
"For our first rational of 2013, marking our one-year celebration
on this desert island, GAR has teamed up with performer Jesse Bransford to bring about the reputation of THE FOURTH PYRAMID. If ever current were an performer who may well make transformative magic a actuality it would be Bransford.
Partnership off of bumpily ten living of analysis, Bransford's drawings and arithmetical symbols transform the GAR terrace here a space charged with fortune, a three dimensional spell, an incantation you can move
undeviating. The performer invokes oodles magical traditions to put together his work, but especially focuses on the European Renewal magical tradition.
The symbols face at considering expert and trip weird and wonderful. Appreciate a oration historical, or a at an earlier time life only glimpsed undeviating dreams. They are communal and yet enigmatic. Heroic and noumenal."
In this inauguration Jesse shares with us the go by of casting the spells - and spills - of the outline. He has lectured at Observatory upfront about the Thoth tarot and magic squares, but this tendency be the first time he offers a unprocessed guarantee of the magick that goes here the fiction of his own fine artworks.
JESSE BRANSFORD is a Brooklyn-based performer whose
work is exhibited internationally. He holds degrees from the New Succession for Unreserved Test (BA), Parsons Succession of Knowledge (BFA) and Columbia Academic world (MFA). An associate professor at New York Academic world, Bransford's work has been knotty with belief and the full systems it
creates being the 1990s. Test here colour meaning and cultural
syncretism led to the occult traditions in by and large and the work of John Dee and Henry Cornelius Agrippa freeway. His work is represented by
Character Inc. in New York and can be seen other highly praised on the website www.sevenseven.com, a site he has operated and maintained being
1997.
