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Hi Dan,
I’m afraid i can’t find the disc containing the article at the moment, it may be lost as i have moved home 3 times since it was written, and I’m afraid it may have got lost along the way. There was a version on the F.O.T.N site, but sadly the link to that and other articles is currently disabled.
HernesSon wrote:Guys. Hope you’re all doing well.Many years ago at the PQC’s, Richard Ward did a couple of fringe talks (both the same material I believe) on the magical reality of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.
I am keen to hear this again as I can’t recall an awful lot about it. I came in half way through as another lecture ran over. Has he published any articles on the subject? I understood to did an article for the FoTN website????Any help would be very appreciated. Tx.
Dan
Hi,
I have had one article on the subject published in the now defunct Talking Stick anthology. The idea was too put out a book at some point, though that remains in a half completed state due to changes in magical and literary directions. I’m not even sure i still have the disc! oops!
I am interested in the fact that they may be an article on the Fields of the Nephilim site, and wonder if it may be the Talking Stick article, and i’d just forgotten about it. I will look into that!
Justin Woodman’s material is well worth a look, he shares a lot of my ideas on the subject and we communicated often at the time I wrote my article, quite a few years back! If i can find the article on disc, i will look at the possibility of posting it on here, with Simon’s permission of course!There have been cases where placebo drugs have actually cured some illnesses where conventional drugs have failed. It is undoubtedly the faith of the patient that effects the cure, as they have been told that the placebo is a new wonder drug.
I think the phenomena of apports/ artifact retrieval works in a related way. From personal experience i have found that if there is doubt within the mind on the part of those who might expect to find an artifact that may be an apport, it probably won’t happen. I have personally been on quests where self-doubt creeps in and the artifacts that may have been psychically glimpsed, do not materialise. I believe that somehow the faith of the group allows the item to materialise through collective belief that it will at a certain time and place. I can’t provide any hard evidence on why it happens, although Quantum Physics/ Mechanics is starting to provide a few possible clues.In many cultures where canabalism is practiced, it is part of a ritual to embue those eating the flesh with some embodiment of power from the person eaten. There are also the tales of warring tribes taking heads not just as trophys, but to gain some sort of power.
It is thought that BA is now dead, and that his ashes were scattered in a Sussex churchyard by his nephew. My friend and colleague David picked up on this a while back. I have visited the place he picked up and it fits his psychic description. As there is no plaque or memorial thats where the matter was left. There have been a few “copycat” incidents of a BA style, but whether they were carried out by individuals in any way connected to BA will have to remain a matter of conjecture.
Hi all, just to follow on from Yuri’s answer on protection methods. I find it works well to use protection that relates to the general ‘theme’ of the quest.
For example, if i am involved in a quest involving Christian Saints, and something happens to warrant a psychic protection, i will call on a saint, probably one that is pertinent to the quest, or has the particular attributes to protect in a specific way against a specific threat. If the quest involves Ancient Egyptian archetypes, then i would perhaps call on Horus (particularly if the percieved threat involved Set). This way there is no breaking of the subject thread of the quest which could otherwise be disrupted.
At the end of the day, as Yuri rightly says, the protection you psychically give yourself is only as good as your personal belief in it. Therefore, a Christian calling for protection will probably use God or a saint, as that is where his strongest belief is, just as a thelamite will get more from the spirit of Crowley or Bennett.
Have also been interested to see the contraversial topic of drugs and questing. I firmly believe that they merely increase perception of the psychic realm, and the key is the state of mind of the individual at the time. The psychic realm is accessable from the mind alone, but some people find they need to give it a ‘kick start’. That said, there are dangers with certain drugs, and they can be more of a hinderence.However, as we know shamans have been using them to access the spirit world for thousands of years with presumably, little bad effects. It helps i’m sure that it has always been a part of there culture, and are usually taken as part of a long ceremony, designed to create the right state of mind in the individual for psychic contact.Re Supernaturalist’s question on what happened to Crowley’s abbey. As far as i know it still stands on the hillside just on the outskirts of Cefalu. I saw a film about Crowley just a few years back in which a researcher went there. There were still traces of Crowley’s infamous murals, although not as much left as when Kenneth Anger made his film of the abbey many years earlier. The place is in a much delapidated state and i’ve heard that the landowner is not particularly keen on visitors there.
Nice to see the pictures of Godstow again Yuri, they evoke some good memories. I hope this might prompt others to post some of their questing material on the site, as it would be great to hear what other people have been up to.
Simon,
Sorry to post same intro 4 times, came up debug error, so didn’t think it was submitting! Am a bit of a technophobe but will get used to it!Hi, prompted by my good friend Yuri’s comments, i suppose its about time i introduced myself to PQ.com.
My name is Richard Ward, I am an Essex based researcher interested in all things esoteric, and have been actively questing since 1989. I am glad there is now a site dedicated to this pursuit.
I started questing seriously after reading “The Black Alchemist” in 1989 and going to one of Andy Collins’ talks on the subject. I was hooked! Since then I have enjoyed working with Andy on a number of quests from the early 90s on. My good friend Yuri prompted me to join the site by posting some of the Oxfordshire material relating to his ‘three crowns’ quest that took us to many sites, Godstow and Binsey included.
I hope more people will follow Yuri’s lead and make the site more active.
