History and Myth Podcast Interview

Nice to have been talking to Amanda Bradley of Mystic Waldorf in New Zealand about my new book during the time of the full moon and eclipse. It's inevitable in doing this round of promo interviews that I will repeat myself but I'm trying to bring something a bit different into each one, depending on who I'm talking to. I do also go a little beyond what is included in the book.

Glastonia Aegyptiacus now available in UK paperback.

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It’s the 25th anniversary of me moving to Glastonbury today, so very nice that this arrived. Previously only available in Kindle format, now in paperback in UK. 114 pages.

The extraordinary 80s adventures of Andrew Collins in the Glastonbury Star Temple that led to his investigation of the Giza plateau have been featured in my books before, particularly Avalonian Aeon. There was so much material in that book that I sometimes felt that it would be good to isolate this classic psychic questing material and let it stand on its own. So here is the directors’ cut. Everything that was in Avalonian Aeon is here again along with material originally left out for reasons of space.  There are also new details. Most notable is the inclusion of a visualisation often used by Andy that came from the Giza visions of legendary psychic Bernard G of what he called the Crystal Chambers that lay beneath the ground.  And it’s great to feature artwork by Bernard from that time on the cover. This remains for me the greatest magical mystical story I’ve ever heard. It blew my mind to pieces when I first learned about it from Andy in 1988 and going back over it I was glad to see it still felt the same. 

  

Starting with the medieval Essex mystery of the Knights of Danbury, an expansive odyssey leads to the Glastonbury Star Temple, a secret Knights Templar ceremony, Black Alchemy, and a Hermetic blend that reveals the Morphogenesis pattern and process understood and used by a lost culture before the pyramids.  Here is the epic psychic quest at the root of Andrew Collins later work and the initial inspiration for his investigation of ancient hybrid strains of humanity.

This release is timed to resonate with the 35th anniversary of the climax of the narrative, the 30th anniversary of my own involvement with this material as told in Avalonian Aeon, and the 10th anniversary of that books publication.

Rune Soup Book Launch

My latest book was undoubtedly kick-started by my previous appearance on Rune Soup in Dec 2019. Very satisfying to effectively launch it from there now. Talked with Gordon yesterday, the 15th, 6 months on from the anniv of the Tor death of Abbot Whiting, the time when Boris was in the area and my brain went into overdrive. It's a satisfying cycle. And with the arrival of the book, all kinds of further weirdness has occurred featuring Jung and Robert Anton Wilson. I talk about it all here.

History and Myth now available

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(There's a good Look Inside sample there)

My new book is now available. The timing is very satisfying. It was 6 months ago this week that BoJo visited Wells on the exact anniversary of Glastonbury Abbey's Abbot Whiting’s trial there  and my brain went into a Henry VIII comparison.  The resulting brainstorm was seemingly finished twice before the eventual ending. I have 2 sections written during the lockdown and reflective of the Glastonbury depths stirred by this strange times. 

From the back cover:

HISTORY AND MYTH

The writings of historians reflect the trends of the times in which they were written. This in turn can make a difference to how a society understands itself and the events it experiences and the responses it makes to them.

Here is a Glastonbury-centred consideration of history from the perspectives of Arnold Toynbee and Titus Livius, of mystical experiences, cycles, portents, and of astrology.

Includes:

The Oddity of British Prime Ministers.

The Great Conjunction Cycle 1284-1518-2020:

Capricorn Pan, Cronos Saturn, Pluto Hades.

Glastonbury Abbey.

Henry VIII, William Rufus, Edward I, Edward III, Richard III.

Richard Whiting, St Dunstan, Frederick Bligh Bond.

Joseph of Arimathea King Arthur, Virgin Mary, the Holy Grail.

Lord of Misrule, the Fisher King.

The Pursuit of the Millennium and Extinction Rebellion.

Book of Revelation template, Romance of the Golden Age,

 Age of the Holy Spirit.

Dissolution of the Monasteries, Pilgrimage of Grace, Peasant’s Revolt,

 Anabaptist Munster Rebellion, Gordon Riots, Brexit.

Glastonbury Plague Diary.

The Victoria Park Lughnasadh 2012 Olympic Caper:

 a Psychogeographical Feast.

Featuring:

Boris Johnson, Jan Bockelson, William Blake, James Joyce,

Joachim of Fiore, Frances Yates, Marsilio Ficino, Margaret Murray,

Albrecht Durer, Scipio Aemelianus, Marguerite Porete.

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UFOlogical Interview with Zelia Edgar on Just Another Tin Foil Hat

Great to have a UFOlogical chat with Zelia Edgar of Just Another Tin Foil Hat. We covered the psychic questing roots with the 1974 Aveley abduction and 1976 Sunderland family case that feature in my Avalonian Aeon and Atargatis. and expanded out from there. I felt nostalgic recalling how I got into the work of John Keel and Jacques Vallee when I was in my twenties and it’s very encouraging to see people like Zelia enthusiastically devouring the classic works and pondering the high strangeness conundrums.

Just Another Tin Foil Hat Paul Weston  

Dion Fortune podcast inteview video

My book The Occult Battle of Britain was delivered to my home a year ago today. It’s excellent to note the symmetry of this video being posted in synch with that.

In the hours leading in the time of the full moon over the last weekend I had the chance to chat across the airwaves/ethers from Glastonbury to Steiner enthusiast Amanda Bradley in New Zealand.

We discussed the life and work of Dion Fortune. I lingered awhile on the big events of 1940 and how I made my own connections to them in the nineties. This included me discussing how the 1940 Glastonbury material was used by me on the night of Princess Diana’s funeral with the imagery adjusted for the occasion.

I also had a bit to say on Rudolf Steiner, his visit to Tintagel and Archangel Michael.

In conclusion I noted how intriguing it was to be making a Glastonbury New Zealand connection with such subject matter when Robert Felkin had launched a branch of the same magical order that Dion Fortune had joined in New Zealand.

Green Stone conference Michael Line video presentation

Here is a video of my presentation at the October 2019 Green Stone 40 conference.

The material is taken from my book The Michael Line, the Qabalah and the Tarot.

It deals with a leyline journey inspired by the potent ideas of landscape qabalah and tarot. These ideas were based on an earlier psychic questing episode from 1981 which is also explained here.