Alex Sumner's Blog, page 62
September 28, 2011
Ask A Wizard: Is Magic Real?
Filed under: Occult Tagged: evocation, goetia, I Put A Spell On You, Screamin Jay Hawkins, vlog, Youtube
September 20, 2011
Alex Sumner: Media Pundit (PLEASE SHARE)
In which I effectively present my "video resumé" to the world's media. I am ready willing and able to provide expert opinion to journalists in need of copy on the subject of the Occult – I imagine this will be of especial importance as we are in the run-up to Halloween. I can talk at length (or as required) on Witches, Satanists, Vampires, Werewolves, Ghosts, Goblins, bizarre magical ceremonies, paganism, etc. Please use the Contact Alex link to send me a private message!
Filed under: Occult Tagged: BBC World Service, CNN, Daily Mail, daily telegraph, Ghosts, hallowe'en, journalism, new york times, newspapers, paganism, radio, samhain, Satanism, television, The Sun, USA Today, vampires, Washington Post, werewolf, Witches
September 14, 2011
Rugby World Cup 2011 (vlog)
In which I use my powers of astrology to predict the probable winner of the Rugby World Cup 2011, taking place in New Zealand. I actually did this by drawing up a chart for the day of the match, and then looking at the transits formed with the natal charts of the coaches of six of the world's leading Rugby teams.
Filed under: Occult Tagged: astrology, Australia, england, France, Graham Henry, Italy, Marc Lievremont, Martin Johnson, New Zealand, Nick Mallett, Pieter De Villiers, Robbie Deans, Rugby Union, Rugby World Cup 2011, South Africa
September 13, 2011
The Demon Detective – now available via Amazon as well
Artwork © the author 2011
For those who prefer to do all their shopping via Amazon, my new short story "The Demon Detective
" is now available there as well – exclusively for Kindle.
Filed under: Publications, The Demon Detective Tagged: amazon, amazon.co.uk, Demons, goetia, Guy Shepardson, Kindle, murder, Short Story
September 10, 2011
The Demon Detective – New Short Story
Cover artwork © the author, 2011.
You now have the opportunity to read "The Demon Detective" – the first new material I have released since "The Magus Trilogy." This is a Dark Fantasy short story set in and around contemporary London, and is a tale of murder and demonolatry, featuring new character Guy Shepardson.
This is only available as an ebook. It can be downloaded from SmashWords for only $0.99 in all popular formats.
For more information and to purchase a copy please go here.
Filed under: Publications, The Demon Detective Tagged: Black Magic, Demons, goetia, Guy Shepardson, Kindle, murder, Nook, pdf, Short Story, smashwords.com, Sony Reader, The Demon Detective
101 Magical Uses For A Pendulum – Part One
A Pendulum. Probably more ostentatious than is strictly necessary but hey, I'm superficial like that!
Hey you sass that hoopy Alex Sumner? He's a frood who really knows where his Pendulum's at.
1. As A Radionics Machine
Radionics started out from the principle that a physician named Albert Abrams alleged he could diagnose a patient not by examining the patient's own body, but by examining a proxy to whom the patient was connected with wires. It then progressed to the
idea that one did not need wires, nor indeed another human to act as proxy, but a "Witness" (a lock of hair or other tissue sample from the patient), on the
basis that the original patient was somehow mysteriously connected to the Witness by some sort of subtle energy connection. This in turn led to the
development of so-called Radionics machines, which are not in fact machines at all in the sense usually understood but work by Cryptesthesia, i.e. the
operator knows when the knobs and dials are set in the right place when he or she experiences a kind of sticking sensation when running his thumb over a rubber disc.
NB: The knobs etc are not actually connected in the form of an electric circuit. Indeed, Radionics practitioners have themselves admitted that a Radionics machine does not so much transmit energy but bolster the belief of the operator.
A Radionics machine is thus a glorified Talisman made out of electronic components. The idea that Radionics can be used for healing is a difficult enough concept for skeptics, but what really gets me is the amount of money that such machines go for. A quick look on Google reveals that a typical gadget sells for $1750. That's $1750 for a device that does not actually do anything!!!
It therefore occurred to your humble blogmaster that given that the underlying principle to Radionics was basically the same as dowsing or pendulum divination, why not get rid of the Radionics machine altogether and use a Pendulum instead? I imagine that it would go something like this: you ask the pendulum "What is the first digit – is it 0 … 1 … 2 … 3… ?" etc etc, and then repeating for as many digits as you dowse to be appropriate. This is essentially what a Radionics machine does, the difference being that you can make a Pendulum from materials costing pennies, instead of having to pay out thousands of dollars.
(The pendulum belonging to your humble blogmaster actually cost a few quid, but that was only because I wanted something that looked nice!)
2. As a Telepathy Device
In the book Pendulum Power
the authors relate that they needed to get in touch with a bloke really quickly but they did not know where he was: this was back in the days before mobile telephones. Being experienced Radiesthesiologists and not knowing what else to do, they found a picture of the target and held a pendulum over it, willing him to call them. Fifteen minutes later he did so. He said that fifteen minutes previously he had had a sudden urge to get in touch – it had taken him that long to get to a phone.
This is of course merely anecdotal, but it has given me the following idea…
3. For Cosmic Ordering
IMO the authors of Pendulum Power did not exploit the full potential of their discovery of a new use for the Pendulum. Instead of using it to send a simple
message to one bloke, why not use it to send an Order to the Cosmos?
4. For Finding Ley Lines
I have written about this in my post The Ley of the Land.
5. For Contacting Dead People
INT. ENGLISH COUNTRY PUB. DAY.
In a busy pub, ALEX and his DRINKING COMPANION are amongst a party waiting for their food orders.
DRINKING COMPANION
Did you know that this is the most haunted pub in Britain?
ALEX
Really? Well let's have a look.
Alex takes a pendulum out of his pocket.
ALEX
I intend to use the pendulum to contact any ghosts that may be
in this pub. Can I do this?
ANGLE on Pendulum: it's rotating anti-clockwise.
ALEX (cont'd)
No? Oh well, that's my career as a medium at an end – for this
afternoon at any rate.
Alex puts the pendulum away.
DRINKING COMPANION
I wonder why though it's got the reputation for being haunted.
ALEX
Perhaps it's because they serve Spirits at the bar?
To be continued…
Filed under: Occult Tagged: cosmic ordering, Ley Lines, Pendulum, Radiesthesia, radionics, telepathy
September 5, 2011
Free Peter Aziz!
British-based Ayahuascero Peter Aziz
Disturbing news that a Shaman living in England has been convicted and imprisoned for supplying a class A drug. Peter Aziz is an Ayahuascero who has been conducting Ayahuasca healing-sessions in the West country for several years now. Ayahuasca – the Peruvian "Vine of Death" – is technically legal in the UK … but decocting it into an Ayahuasca Tea is not, as apparently this counts as supplying L-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), which in England is a banned substance.
This will come as disappointing news to Ayahuasca enthusiasts in this country, who will now have to travel abroad to Spain or Peru itself if they want to go on a healing session.
Your humble blogmaster whilst not a partaker himself is nevertheless acquainted with more than a few people who have gone on Ayahuasca retreats. The remarkable thing is that in most cases they have come back looking and acting healthier, and reporting beneficial changes, for example, resolution of various psychological issues, or being miraculously cured of long-standing illnesses such as allergies.
However, I have also heard of people who complained that some Ayahuasca sessions were run by people who did not know what they were doing, and hence the sessions did not go particularly well. Clearly, Ayahuasca should only be taken – if it is going to be taken at all – strictly under the supervision of someone who is thoroughly trained in it, e.g. by having studied extensively under Peruvian shamen. Which is ironic seeing as Aziz, who is one of the few British-based Ayahuasceros who is reputable in this respect, has just been banged-up in hokey.
Given that Ayahuasca apparently has therapeutic uses, we should be conducting scientific studies to see if it can be incorporated into mainstream medical practice, and establish a responsible methodology for its administration: not prosecuting Ayahuasceros who act in good-faith, such as Aziz. I do hope that Aziz gets out soon, preferably by having his conviction overturned.
Filed under: Comment Tagged: Ayahuasca, British Law, DMT, Guardian, l-dimethyltryptamine, Peter Aziz
August 26, 2011
August 22, 2011
QOTD: Israel Regardie
Israel Regardie
An Order is simply a temporary vehicle of transmission — a means whereby suitable individuals may be trained to awaken within their hearts the consciousness of the boundless Light. But sooner or later, it would appear that the initiates foster loyalty to the external husk, the shell, the organisation of grades at the expense of that dynamic spirit for which the shell was constructed. So often has it happened in the past. Every religion stands as eloquent witness to this fact. It is the fate which has overtaken the Golden Dawn. Practically the whole membership is fanatically attached to individuals conducting Temple work as well as to the mechanical system of grades of the Order. But when this piece of teaching and that document of importance is withdrawn from circulation, mutilated, and in some cases destroyed, none has come forward to register an objection.
Its Chiefs have developed the tyranny of sacerdotalism. They have a perverse inclination towards priestcraft, and secrecy has ever been the forcing ground in which such corruption may prosper. Obligations to personal allegiance whether tacit or avowed, is the ideal method of enhancing
the personal reputation of those who for many years have sat resolutely and persistently upon the pastos of the hidden knowledge. If by any chance the hidden knowledge were removed from their custody, their power would be gone. For in most cases their dominion does not consist in the gravitational attraction of spiritual attainment or even ordinary erudition. Their power is vested solely in the one fact, that they happen to be in possession of the private documents for distribution to those to whom they personally wish to bestow a favour as a mark of their
esteem.
Israel Regardie, What You Should Know About the Golden Dawn
Filed under: Occult Tagged: Aura of the Earth, Censorship, chic cicero, israel regardie, Lost Legacy Of The Golden Dawn, On The Resurrection Body, Rising On The Planes, tabatha cicero, What You Should Know About The Golden Dawn
August 16, 2011
The Ley of the Land (slight return)
Yesterday's post about Avebury garnered some very interesting comments (thanks to all concerned). I would like to share one further factoid which an astrologer friend first told me, which I could have mentioned yesterday but it slipped my mind at the time. It is this: Avebury's latitude is 51º 25′ 43″ N – which is the same number of degrees as the seventh part of a circle.
Immediately the Sumner Family Brain Cell prompted me to say: "Aha! So Avebury's position must be based on astrology!" My reasoning being that back in ancient times astrology and astronomy were the same thing. The ancients would have measured Latitude by comparing the angle between a true vertical (e.g. a plumb line) and the Pole Star. Hence it is entirely possible that the ancient builders of Avebury deliberately chose that site because of the particular angle.
This is of course speculation, but we should remember that the builders of Avebury did know their Geometry, so it would have been a simple matter for them to turn their attention Vertically to the Heavens, as well as Horizontally to the land.
This actually gives me a brilliant idea for further investigation. As I stated yesterday, Avebury is on at least one major Ley Line which passes through not just nearby Silbury Hill, but (thanks to correspondents pointing it out) places further afield, including even Carnac in Brittany. Hence, if my theory that astrological considerations played a part in choosing Avebury's location is correct, we should expect to find sacred sites where major Ley Lines hit latitudes of (e.g.) 72º, 60º, 513/7º, 45º, etc.
Filed under: Occult Tagged: astrology, Avebury, Carnac, Ley Lines
