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Episode 10 -Magic and Mysticism with Stephen Tanham

In the latest episode of the Magical World of G. Michael Vasey podcast, I talk with a founder of the Silent Eye School of Consciousness – Stephen Tanham.

Steve is a mystical teacher, writer, poet and prolific photographer. He is a founding Director of the Silent Eye School of Consciousness, a not-for-profit, international distance-learning organisation that provides a mentored path to deep and practical spiritual consciousness. The Silent Eye programme works on the basis of a three year internal journey across an inner landscape mapped by a spiritual version of the enneagram.

The Silent Eye’s mentored journey may be considered in three stages as:

– Understanding our selves – the character;

– Alignment of self with the spiritual;

– Opening the faces of Spiritual Love.

Steve’s spiritual path to the Silent Eye includes growing up in a Rosicrucian family and rising to become the leader of the local affiliated body, then Regional Monitor, and finally Grand Councillor for the North of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

A desire to widen his knowledge of the Western Mystery Tradition led to seven years of service with the Servants Of the Light, (SOL), headed by well-known author and magician Dolores Ashcroft Nowicki. Steve ended his days with SOL as a member of the ARC – Administrative Resource Council, where he was responsible for taking  the School’s lesson systems into the internet age. He is a Third Degree Initiate of the Servants of the Light- its highest honour.

In 2012, Steve left SOL to establish his own school – The Silent Eye, soon to be joined by co-Directors Sue Vincent and Stuart France. The Silent Eye has students (Companions) on four continents. Its website is www.thesilenteye.co.uk.

Steve lives in the English Lake District with his wife, Bernie, a cat and a dog. His books are available on Amazon (UK and International).

In the podcast, we discuss magic versus mysticism, growing up in a Rosicrucian family, how an interest in Qabalah led him to the Servants of the Light and how he helped organize the administration of that school and how and why he set up the Silent Eye along with Sue Vincent and Stuart France. It’s an open and honest discussion. Please do listen in and share it on social media.

You can find out more about Steve by visiting his Sun in Gemini blog at and the Silent Eye at its website. I also interviewed Sue Vincent in Episode 2 of this podcast series.

Steve is also the author of a number of books that can be found on Amazon. In particular, I can recommend his book – The Beast in the Cafe – as one that captivated me.

 

 

 

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Felling Sheepish

For years, I have churned out books, music, poetry, photography, thoughts, podcasts, videos and goodness knows what. I’m not sure I ever built much of an audience or following except maybe around my paranormal books. To be honest it never used to bother me that much – I’m an addicted creator – an artist who cannot help himself. I always thought I would make a few bob off of the back of the content I produced and maybe one day, I could ease up a bit and live off of my creativity and hobbies.

Unfortunately, I like many others never saw the shift to free stuff. People simply expect stuff for free now… or pretty much close to free. And then there is Amazon that on the one hand opened the world of publishing to everyone but, with the other, took all the profits. I sell books for 2.99 and see only a small part of that sales price. I could make a little on running ads on my websites – but adblockers have put paid to that as well. Every which way you turn….. but I churn on and have even added a podcast series now.

Where am I going with this? Why do I feel sheepish?

Well, I make a reasonable living so you know I just basically put up and shut up making nothing on stuff I liked to do. It’s a hobby after all. I enjoy it. Then as I hit 60, I thought well, I’m going to have to keep the day job til I drop because books and stuff generates only net expense. (ex wife had and already spent my private pension). I was aware of Patreon and platforms like it where people support you with small monthly sums in return for stuff. I dismissed it.

But recently, I realised this could be another way to help pay the cost of generating better content. This could be the way to afford the website upgrade I want to do and…. maybe it could be an alternate way of getting paid for books, photos, blogs, podcasts and so on. EVERYONE else seems to be doing it even if I feel sheepish copying them.

So….. I set up a Patreon account. Check out my page and see if you might like to support my future efforts. Like I said, I have no following or fans that I can appeal to – but I will give it a try and maybe I will be surprised.

Here is my page – check out what I got to offer for a small monthly payment.

And thanks – for looking.

As I state there…

I’m always creating things – blog posts, books, photos, poetry, podcasts, music and magic. I cannot help it! I must have an outlet to create. These days, artists and magicians must rely on the goodwill of the world to make any money with their art. The world has essentially moved to a content for free or virtually free model and those who suffer are the artists and magicians. So I decided to do what others do and seek sponsors on Patreon.com –  People to support my passions – my magic.

Will you?

My passions-

Podcasting on magic, the paranormal and general weirdness at The Magical World of G. Michael Vasey podcast

Collecting paranormal stories via Myhauntedlifetoo.com

Reviewing strange books on magic and the paranormal via strangebookreviews.com

Making music – find it at all online music stores

Taking magical photos

Blogging and writing poetry on garymvasey.com and garymvasey.net

Writing books of poetry, about the paranormal, magic and other strange topics.

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Episode 9- Dr. Andy Cooper and Helios

Tonight a new episode of the Magical world of G. Michael Vasey is available. It features Dr. Andy Cooper, founder of the Helios School of Esoteric Sciences. If you do not know Andy, he is a Third Degree Initiate of the Western Mystery Tradition and the Founder and Director of Studies of the Helios School of Esoteric Science. He personally trained for many years with Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, the former Director of Studies of the Servants of the Light School of Occult Science (SOL).

His lineage comes from Dion Fortune, the founder of the Society of the Inner Light, through Ernest Butler, the founder of the Servants of the Light and Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, the now retired Director of Studies, who took over the mantle of leadership from Ernest Butler when he retired.

Andy holds a B.Sc in Electrical Engineering, a Ph.D in Esoteric Studies and is a certified trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), a Reiki Master and an initiate of the Huna tradition of ancient Hawaii. Andy lives and works in the magical town of Glastonbury, UK and is the father of two grown-up children.

In our discussions, Andy relates how NLP got him started in the magical world and defines what NLP is. Among other topics, we talk about the issues that sometimes surround initiation and how the Helios’ school takes a different approach to minimize them. He discusses why he started the school, what its’ aims, objectives and methods are and how to join up if interested. He emphasizes how the school uses NLP and other techniques in its approach. we also touch on the idea of devotion and the Lords of Light. Andy is a very experienced magician and it is interesting to hear his views and benefit from his experience.

Please do listen in and share the podcast.

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My Best Sellers – July

Every month, I go through various reports and tot up my book sales. I sell around 300 books per month at the moment which is significantly down from the heady days of a few years ago. Not complaining however.

[image error]So in July, my best selling book by far was in fact my latest True Paranormal tales book…. – The Scary Best of Myhauntedlifetoo.com.  So it is a compilation of some of the most popular stories submitted there by me and others. Lightly edited for readability and with a cover photo I took myself. It sells around 60 books a month right now and is almost a consistent Amazon.com top 50 player in certain categories. I think, in part, it is that that keeps it selling. You can also buy merchandize with the front cover image on them – The hoodie looks great!

The second best for sales in July was another long-term favorite – Chilling Tales of The Black Eyed Kids. This one continues to sell month in, month out and has totted up 1300 sales since release. It is actually a compilation of Your Haunted Lives 3 – The Black Eyed Kids and a shorter book of stories that is no longer available stand alone. The Black Eyed Kids book also sells well and has totaled 1500 copies since release.

 

Meanwhile, my last book, Chasing the Shaman, is also continuing to make a few sales. As this is a different genre, I am very pleased with the take up of this book helped by a couple of very nice 5-star reviews during the month. However, to my surprise, the 3rd best selling book of July is an old one – God’s Pretenders – and it achieved its position via audiobook sales as well!

Unfortunately, my book sales are not enough to be my only income…. so I am writing two more to join these and other titles that I hope will see the light of day this year.

You can find all my books on Amazon at my author page. Here you will find a mixture of poetry, novellas, ghosts books, books on magic and more……

 

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What if Nothing is Real?

Anyone that knows me will know I am not content with mainstream explanations. I will go away and read the science – the papers written by scientists and usually peer reviewed to boot. They will also know I am interested in reality and what it is probably down to two things that happened to me as a child. The first was having this vision that I wasn’t really here but attached to what you would now term a virtual reality machine. The second was the little green man that jumped out of my wardrobe mirror, shot me and then jumped through the window. I can hear one of two of you murmur I may not be quite sane. OK but do bear with me.

[image error]If you get into physics – quantum physics in particular – it becomes apparent rather quickly that nothing is what it seems and everything is vastly confusing. There may be billions of parallel universes and it may be that the observer decides on what happens to them. It may even be that none of this even exists unless there is an observer. This is something that prompted me to write the novella – The Last Observer – as it seemed to me that magic – the real kind – is a way to play with reality. Magic? I hear you say….. mad as a hatter. Let me tell you, if you read some quantum physics you would also be mad as a hatter. It has that effect.

Then there is the idea that actually everything we see, touch, feel and so on is empty space. There is actually nothing there…. an atom – it’s a nucleus and electrons spinning around it. It is barely a thing – it is almost entirely … well, nothing. Space. No thing. Probe deeper than that and those particles become nothing but energy or is it data?

[image error]Almost any topic that I look at these days and drill into deeply enough ends in a similar result. Take COVID-19 and the pandemic. Right, well start looking at PCR tests – these are the tests used to determine if someone is infected. The more you dig, the more you can find that not only is the test probably not suited for such a use but it may not be measuring COVID-19 at all. You will find along the way that at a MINIMUM… MINIMUM! 20% of all test results are false positives. That means that out of 10 million supposedly infected globally, at least 2 million NEVER HAD IT! In fact, if you drill into tis with an open mind, COVID-19 seems to evaporate into an irrational fear. Just like the solid chair you are sat on is actually nothing at all, so does this whole pandemic evaporate into nothing at all as well.

Yes, I know. People tragically died, people have been sick. It is as real as the chair at the level of your day to day consciousness. But what exactly is that anyway? Consciousness? Hmmmm – try researching that particular thing and like grains of sand in your hand, whatever you thought it was will eventually drain away until you are again left with nothing, nothing at all.

So. What if my little vision when I was a kid was a glimpse of reality. What if this is all an illusion created by us individually and collectively? A Virtual Reality in which we, the master and creator had forgotten that was our role. What if we are the Gods but somewhere along the line we forgot?

[image error]What if COVID-19 and the pandemic was just a creation of our combined consciousness out of control because we had forgotten how to use the controls. Or, what if it were the creation of a cabale of those who hadn’t forgotten and now use us as energizers of a matrix-like reality of their making? Sounds like Sci-Fi…..

But you know what. The more I go down this rabbit hole. The more I believe that.

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Episode 8 – Parasitic Entities From Hell….

A couple of years ago on a night train across Germany, I had an old hag experience. Since I could see the entity after escaping sleep paralysis, I was puzzled. How could that be? The experience terrified me and led to an investigation of the phenomenon that resulted in my book – “Basic Instinct: Erotic Paranormal Contact:: The Old Hag and the Mysterious World of Sleep Paralysis” .

 

In this episode of the magical world of G. Michael Vasey, I use material from the book to explain why I think that parasitic entities exist and feed on our fears. Be careful what you yearn for….. it may just manifest!

 

As I state in the show, I am not the only person expounding such an idea. Anthony Peake suggests likewise in his book – The Hidden Universe: An Investigation into Non-Human Intelligences  and I quote material from the website – www.Montalk.net as well.

 

Listen in to this and other creepy episodes……

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Intro music – It’s not right by G. Michael Vasey

Outro music – It’s my Life by G. Michael Vasey

All music – G. Michael Vasey

Music available at iTunes, Spotify and other music stores.

© G. Michael Vasey

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Synchronicity with Anthony Peake

[image error]In the latest episode of The Magical World of G. Michael Vasey, I talk with Anthony Peake and the whole interview turned into one big synchronicity. As we discussed the recent paranormal investigation series Hellier, we found more and more aspects of synchronicity.

As I said on Facebook, Yesterday evening I talked with Anthony Peake for my Magical World podcast series. On Friday, I had noticed a post by Anthony referencing a paranormal show called #Hellier. I ended up binge watching 15 episodes of it over the weekend marveling at how much of the flow of their activities mirrored my own (as I have began to document in the book Chasing the Shaman). Little did I know that as I planned the interview with Anthony which I wanted to focus on Synchronicity, it would become one big synchronicity itself and centered around Hellier……. it was a pretty amazing experience and one you can share in the podcast…

Anthony is a writer who deals with the edges of human consciousness. He has written books on life after death, astral projection, the nature of time, DMT and much more and over the years has gradually migrated towards the paranormal and magic. He has developed interesting hypotheses to explain many facets and aspects of the human experience that make a lot of sense to me.

Listen in as we go deeper and deeper into the strange magical world of synchronicity. You can find out more about Anthony and his books at his website and Amazon.

Here is the podcast episode description..

I welcome Anthony Peake, a writer who deals with borderline areas of human consciousness. In what turned out to be an extraordinary interview, we discussed Anthony’s areas of interest before getting into the topic of synchronicity. The entire interview ended up feeling like pure synchronicity as we discussed the recent paranormal investigation show – Hellier – and its impact upon us both. Even more compelling was the tie in to Anthony’s own work as well as my own. Listen in for a true treat of synchronicity at work.

You can learn more about Anthony Peake at his website . You can also find out about his books on his Amazon authors page and even interact with him at his facebook page.

Among the books mentioned in the podcast are the following – please do take a look –

Is there life after death? 

The Daemon – A Guide to Your Extraordinary Secret Self 

The Hidden Universe 

G. Michael Vasey, Chasing the Shaman and The New You (How to Create Your Own Reality) are also available on Amazon.

Intro music – It’s not right by G. Michael Vasey

Outro music – It’s my Life by G. Michael Vasey

All music – G. Michael Vasey

Music available at iTunes, Spotify and other music stores.

Read my review of Anthony’s first book – Is There life After Death 

© G. Michael Vasey

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Alan Richardson and Magic

[image error]In this episode, I was delighted to chat with British magician and prolific occult author – Alan Richardson. Alan talks about how magic has always been a part of his life, talks about his interactions with some of the magical personalities of our era and about his love of writing books on magic.

Alan has written books about Dion Fortune, Aleister Crowley, William Gray and others as well as a host of books on a variety of magical topics. You can find his books on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Alan-Richardson. Please do stop there and buy a book or two! Books mentioned in the podcast include The Old Sod, Sex and Light , The Templar Door, The Sea Priest , Dark Magery and by G. Michael Vasey, Chasing the Shaman and The Mystical Hexagram (co-written with SC Vincent) also available on Amazon.

Reviews of a number of Alan’s books may be found at www.strangebookreviews.com and a written interview conducted by G. Michael Vasey with Alan may be found at that site as well.

Intro music – It’s not right by G. Michael Vasey

Outro music – It’s my Life by G. Michael Vasey

All music – G. Michael Vasey

Music available at iTunes, Spotify and other music stores.

© G. Michael Vasey

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Black Eyed Kids – Scary Podcast episode today.

Today’s podcast episode of The Magical world of G. Michael Vasey is about the Black Eyed Kids and features guest Darren Marlar of Weird Darkness fame reading a story from one of G. Michael Vasey’s books on the topic.

Don’t miss this scary episode…. but don’t listen to it before bed either!

[image error]G. Michael Vasey talks about the Black Eyed kids using material from his books on the topic. Weird Darkness podcast host, Darren Marlar, is the voice talent for the audio versions of the books and he narrates a story too. Listen in to the strange phenomenon that is the BEK. What are they? Why are they here?

Tell me YOUR story at www.myhauntedlifetoo.com

Special Guest – Darren Marlar (https://weirddarkness.com/)

Chilling Tales of the Black eyed Kids and The Black Eyed Kids by G. Michael Vasey available at Amazon and other book stores (in audiobook format narrated by Darren Marlar!)

Intro Music – It’s not right by G. Michael Vasey

Outro Music – It’s my life by G. Michael Vasey

All additional music and content © G. Michael Vasey

Find his music at Spotify and other digital music outlets.

Twitter – @gmvasey

www.garymvasey.com

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Can You Help Him?

My boys live in Texas. Two of them lost their jobs as a result of this COVID thing. Neither received any iota of help from the Government there – no unemployment, no check for COVID relief, NOTHING. Too poor to afford computers, their access to the internet is limited. Too poor to pay hefty phone bills, their ability to stay on the line 3-4 hours waiting for a Government employee to actually answer the damned phone to help them is too expensive.

One of my boys, Liam, lives alone in Houston in a small one room apartment. His previous job paid more or less minimum wage and was a 2-hour bus ride away. He was let go. The only person he could turn to for help was me but I’m in no state to support two kids in the USA – not any more. I do what I can and I paid for the roof over his head and a little more to help while paying for my tax attorney to help him with the IRS in collecting the 2018 ant 2019 tax refunds and COVID payment he was eligible for but they wouldn’t give him.

[image error]Finally, he will get his 2019 refund …. in about 9 weeks time. We are still working on the other two. The IRS. An amazing organisation that appears to work against Americans in every respect. The issue – he needed to prove who he was!!??? And how should he do that? Yes – via a website he can’t access or a phone call he cannot afford. Amazing!

All the many problem facing the US of A come down to one thing – poverty. There are millions like my son living in poverty with no safety net and no one that cares. The Democrats I hear you say? Hell no. They gave up representing those that need them years ago in favor of marxist ideologies and revenge against Trump. There is no one looking after the poor in the USA and eventually, they will rise up…..

However, back to my point.

Liam found a new job. Its minimum wage but he was thankful and cheerful – I will learn some new skills Dad he told me cheerfully. But the painful truth is he is struggling. He has Asperger’s syndrome and he had major spinal surgery a decade ago. He needs help.

I am now back in Europe – 6,000 miles away. With no travel and disruption that is the lockdown, my ability to help is basically sending him a weekly check. Like all parents in this sort of dilemma, I am at my wits end. I want to help but I’m not able to….

So, I am asking you to help restore his faith in the good of humanity and mine too. You have loose change…. please send it to him to eat, to pay his rent and to pay his bus fare?

You can (its a facebook page)  donate here.

Even better, if you live in Houston, TX maybe you have a better job for him? Maybe you can point him in the direction of organisations I am unaware of that can help him?

If so, I am ALL EARS…. please let me know.

This is about a kid who really tries to be self sufficient who stays out of trouble and rarely complains. Let’s show him please that WE DO CARE.

Please share and let’s make this go viral….

Thanks,

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