Deeper Down The Rabbit Hole

Author: Jason M. Colwell

  • Episode 130: Crucible Panel 2014: The Role of The Dead in Magic

    Episode 130: Crucible Panel 2014: The Role of The Dead in Magic

    Listen Live Nov. 4, 2014 8pm EST www.para-x.com

    Direct from Crucible 2014:

    The Role of the Dead in Magic: a panel discussion featuring multiple talented Occultists from Crucible 2014! http://www.crucibleconvention.com/
    Featured panelists Andrieh Vitimus, Jason Miller, Arthur Moyer, Maggi Setti, Andrei Freeman, Shawn Knight, and Alex: moderated by Jason M. Colwell!

    So join us for a an hour of shared experience from the front lines “The Role of the Dead in Magic” taped live at Crucible 2014 this week on Deeper Down The Rabbit Hole.

  • Episode 129: Crucible Panel 2014: The Role of Religion in Magic

    Episode 129: Crucible Panel 2014: The Role of Religion in Magic

    Listen Live Oct. 21, 2014 8pm EST www.para-x.com

    Direct from Crucible 2014:

    The Role of Religion in Magic: a panel discussion featuring multiple talented Occultists from Crucible 2014! http://www.crucibleconvention.com/
    Featured panelists Jason Miller, Arthur Moyer, Maggi Setti, Andrei Freeman, Shawn Knight, and Alex: moderated by Jason M. Colwell!

    So join us for a an hour of shared experience from the front lines “The Role of Religion in Magic” taped live at Crucible 2014 this week on Deeper Down The Rabbit Hole.

  • Episode 128: Tim Shaw Discusses Dogma of… Me

    Episode 128: Tim Shaw Discusses Dogma of… Me

    Live Tue. Sept. 23rd, 2014 on Para-x.com 8pm EST

    Jason M. Colwell is very happy to welcome fellow Para-X-Network show host The Rev. Tim Shaw! In this episode we discuss Tim’s newest book, The Dogma of… Me.

    The religion of Spiritualism can be traced back in Tim’s family to the late 1800?s.   He is an Ordained Minister, Psychic Medium, Reiki, Spirityalist, and Energy Healer as well as Paranormal Investigator.

    Tim also enjoys Backwoods Primitive Trekking,  Flintknapping, and Urban Explorering.  He is also a skilled Traditional Leatherworker, and also enjoyes Historical Re-Enacting, and Writing.

    Rev. Shaw is the host of the acclaimed Internet Radio Show Black Cat Lounge,  heard each Thursday at 8PM EST on the Para-X -Radio Network.

    Tim has co-authored with folklorist Mason Winfield, Rob Lockhart, and John Koerner ~ “Haunted Rochester” which is available through Barnes & Nobles as well as Amazon. His book entitled “The Ghosts of Buffalo; Spirits, Murder And Mayhem In The Nickel City” has been released by Schiffer Books and is also available through Amazon.  Tim has contributed a chapter in Marla Brooks wonderful book “Animal Spells And Magick”.

    Tim Shaw’s writings have appeared in such magazines as TAPS Para Magazine, Haunted Times,The Fort Niagara Journal, Light Bridges, The Courier, Civil War Gazette, Wilderness Way, The Camp Chase Gazette, Military Images, On The Trail, as well as many others.

    Tim has also been featured on The SyFy Channel’s Ghost Hunters (The Well of Horror), The Discovery Channel’s Ghost Lab (The Betrayal/Fort Niagara),  CBS Radio (The Wake Up Call, By The Soul, For The Soul, and The Psychics Next Door), Paranormal NY,  Half Yard ProductionsGhost Ops (Fort Mifflin/William Howe), and Core Productions Doctumentery John Zaffis, The World Within.

    Producing LIVE Internet Radio and Podcasts is a hobby that Rev. Tim really enjoys.

    Tim is a professional psychic reader however he devotes much of his time participating in fundraisers and charity events.

    Tim’s personal website is theblackcatlounge.net, he may also be contacted via the following:
    BlackCatLounge1@Yahoo.Com
    or
    Ideal Event Management
    Contact Marc Tetlow: 413-478-4150
    www.idealeventmanage.com

  • Episode 127: Andrieh Vitimus Discusses Entity Creation, Fire Magic, and His Coming Webinars

    Episode 127: Andrieh Vitimus Discusses Entity Creation, Fire Magic, and His Coming Webinars

    Tue. July 1, 2014 8PM EST on Para-X.com

    Jason M. Colwell welcomes Andrieh Vitimus back to the show as a special guest to discuss the huge projects he has stepped away as co-host to undertake. Not only is Andrieh working on another Masters Degree, but also big esoteric projects at the same time.

    Andrieh Vitimus is author of the modern magical classic Hands on Chaos Magic: Reality Manipulation Through the Ovayki Current, also published in Magick on the Edge anthology, the Manifesting Prosperity anthology, The Pop Culture Anthology and the Best of Konton Magazine anthology. Vitimus is holds the highest initiatory rank in Haitian Vodou, that of Hougan Asogwe, is a Usui and Karuna Reiki Master, and NLP practitioner and a licensed hypnotherapist.  Currently, Andrieh Vitimus is faculty at Peter Carroll’s Arconorium College and has taught at conventions across the Midwest including Starwood, Sirius Rising, Babylon Rising, Convocation, Real Witches Ball, various Pagan Prides and more.

  • Episode 126: Frater Barrabbas Discusses Magical Qabalah for Beginners

    Episode 126: Frater Barrabbas Discusses Magical Qabalah for Beginners

    Tue. May 20, 2014 8PM EST on Para-X-Radio.com

    Jason M. Colwell welcomes Frater Barrabbas to the show to discuss his latest book Magical Qabalah for Beginners.

    Frater Barrabbas Tiresius has been practicing ritual magic and studying the occult since his late teens, having by now accumulated over thirty-five years of experience. He has a bachelors degree in Linguistics and has had a long and distinguished career in the high tech industry. He began his occult vocation as an Alexandrian witch, being initiated and trained during the mid seventies and developed his magical expertise combining the methodologies of classical Gardnerian witchcraft with the Golden Dawn system of ceremonial magic. He is always expanding his spiritual field of inquiry and has studied Magic, Yoga, Qabbalah, Tarot, Astrology, ancient history, theosophy, philosophy, psychology and numerous other related subjects. His personal spiritual beliefs and practices also include forms of Gnosticism and Hermetic Magic.

    Frater Barrabbas has been described as a pragmatic practitioner of ritual magic, which he distinguishes in his writings from ceremonial magic. Although he has studied occult traditions of the past and found much in them to respect, he is not a prisoner of them. Frater Barrabbas believes that the occult traditions of the West, known as the perennial philosophy, must be constantly updated and made relevant to the current age. It is his mission and ambition to modernize and establish ritual magick as the principle tool of spiritual achievement in the 21st century. Frater Barrabbas follows a tradition of creative innovation begun by MacGregor Mathers and Aleister Crowley, and continued by Dion Fortune, Israel Regardie, Franz Bardon and Alex Sanders, honoring and studying those who brought the practice of magic into the twentieth century.

    In 1986, Frater Barrabbas and a handful of occultists in Kansas City formed an occult organization for the propagation of ritual magick called the E.S.S.G.(Egregore Sancta Stella Gnostica). It was the task of writing a common liturgy and grimoire of rituals that honed his skills of translating his extensive knowledge of ritual magick into a form useful to others. The lore of the Order of the Gnostic Star (E.S.S.G.) has well over a hundred rituals and other articles that cover the full spectrum of ritual magic, from Elemental Magic, to Theurgy and Archeomancy. Yet this lore was deemed too advanced for the mass market, so he wrote other manuscripts to build a bridge that would allow intermediate students of magic to develop their skills in order to master the lore of the Order. The Mastering the Art of Ritual Magick series represents the first product of that literary distillation, and he has since written many other books and articles, including his first published book, Disciple’s Guide to Ritual Magick.

    Frater Barrabbas has sought in both the organization of the E.S.S.G. and in these various writings the most efficient method of training the individual magician. For without a complete development of the abilities to write, perform and analyze the results of ritual magick, a magician cannot plumb the psychic depths of the collective unconscious nor attain the vistas of sublime spiritual realization. Frater Barrabbas believes that unless individuals master the techniques of ritual magick, they can’t consider themselves magickal adepts.

    Simply put, without a thorough experiential knowledge of magic there can be no magicians. Frater Barrabbas has dedicated himself to the promotion of the practice of ritual magick as the Western method of Yoga and as the tool for the future development of Western Spirituality.

    Magical Qabalah for Beginners: A Comprehensive Guide to Occult Knowledge (For Beginners (Llewellyn's)) by Frater Barrabbas
    Magical Qabalah for Beginners: A Comprehensive Guide to Occult Knowledge (For Beginners (Llewellyn’s))
    by Frater Barrabbas
    Link: http://amzn.com/0738732443
  • Episode 125: Convocation 2014 Panel Discussion: Finding the Purpose in Your Vocation

    Episode 125: Convocation 2014 Panel Discussion: Finding the Purpose in Your Vocation

    Tue. May 6, 2014 8PM EST on Para-X-Radio.com

    Jason M. Colwell moderates a panel of all star occult speakers and authors at this years Convocation Convention 2014.  Andrieh Vitimus, Kia Dragon, Lady Belladonna, Kerr Cuhulain, Corvis Nocturnum, and Matthew Venus engage in a discussion of topics based around finding your vocation and it’s purpose.  Embracing your vocation and connecting with purpose is no easy task. This is what our own angel that forces Judgment demands.

    energy

    Advanced Energy Work for Beginners

    Beginning Informational Sorcery 

    Recorded Lecture with Transcript ebook  ( Lecture from Convocation 2014 )

    Andrieh Vitimus presents a different model of energy work using simplified techniques that beginners to advanced practitioners can use to augment their personal practice. We will cover techniques but more importantly, how to think about energy work. Using best of breed cognitive science, metaphysics and experimental work, Andrieh demonstrates methods that can transform any aspect of your life. Expect the lecture to challenge both perspectives of “everything is external” magic and “It’s is all in your head” magical theory.

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  • Episode 124: Candelo Kimbisa Discusses Palo Kimbisa

    Episode 124: Candelo Kimbisa Discusses Palo Kimbisa

    Tue. April. 22, 2014 8PM EST on Para-X-Radio.com

    Andrieh Vitimus and Jason M. Colwell welcome Candelo Kimbisa to the show to discuss Palo Kimbisa.

    Born in 1967, Candelo Kimbisa had a connection to the unseen world from the very beginning, from the basement seances in the Bronx which formed his earliest childhood memories to late night listening to Casey Kasem and Dr. Demento on Boston’s WRKO.

    When his family moved from Boston to Miami in 1977, Candelo became a fan of local shock jock Neil Rogers, noting:   “I had bought my first car, a little square Chevy… but it only had AM radio! Maybe that’s where my passion for talk radio started…”

    Though a gifted student, Candelo soon fell in with neighborhood gangs and spent his late high school years “running the streets,” eventually becoming initiated into Palo Mayombe (an Afro-Cuban shamanic religion based on the beliefs of Central African tribes) as a way to seek protection from the law:

    “I met this lady… on an elevator.. [who] looked at me with these penetrating eyes and gave me a reading right there on the spot..  ‘Your path is not to be selling drugs…” she told me. “Your path is not to be dirtying your hands.” Being a young hoodlum at the time, I took it as ‘the spirits don’t want me to work’… but of course I knew deep down inside what it really meant!”

    Sentenced to Federal prison in 1998 on a drug trafficking charge, Candelo he found himself reevaluating his life, eventually getting his GED and scoring in the 90th percentile on the test. In search of constructive outlets for his time, he subscribed to a mindfulness correspondence course, beginning a practice which he continues to this day:

    “I actually started a Buddhist meditation group there [in prison], we had use of the chapel twice a week…” recalls Candelo.  “We were doing that and one night I remember laying down in bed and in the middle of meditation, my body started dissolving like it was in the transporter beam in Star Trek…  I was lifted into outer space, my body dissolved, and then the molecules reassembled themselves… that’s the only way i can describe it. It was that experience that said to me ‘this [meditation] is a beautiful science’ – it was life changing.”

    Simultaneous with his journey into meditation, Candelo continued to grow as an African spiritualist, teaching other inmates how to honor the spirits of deceased slaves who haunted the prison:

     “I remember towards the end of my stint… I had a corner room [which] were popular amongst the inmates because they had some degree of privacy… So I someone asked me to ‘sell’ him my room, and I sold it for $300. So I moved my boveda [ancestral spirit altar] first, and at 2 or 3 in the morning, we hear hair-raising screams, and he came running out of his room, and towards mine… and he said a big black woman came and pulled him out of his bed, and said he didn’t belong there!

    Now this was in Yazoo, Mississippi, which is surrounded by cotton fields… the Indians called it the “river of death” and it’s a very active, highly charged spiritual place. I had to explain to him a little but about spirituality and then he finally left a cup of water for that spirit, and the nightmares stopped!”

    Released in 2005, Candelo found himself adrift and in need of a new teacher, and what he found began to increase his sense of personal mission.

    “I had always been part of the problem… and now I knew I had to be part of the solution… It wasn’t like I had a new spirituality, it’s always been there… but now I really, really,really wanted to help people…. Not only did I know I could never sell drugs again, but  I also became much more serious.”

    With a renewed sense of purpose, Candelo began to work with community clients as a healer and diviner, eventually coming into contact with producers from KDCL, an internet radio station hosting various shows on paranormal topics. He was soon offered a guest spot, and eventually his own show; recalls Candelo, “after prodding, I finally got up the guts and I did it…. I was nervous as hell, I’d never done radio!”

    Today the “Art Bell of Palo Mayombe” lives in Southern Florida with his wife, where he’s writing a supernatural novel based on Palo and the ATRs. Calm and at peace, he chuckles at his youthful errors, nothing that “everything in life happens for a reason… but sometimes it takes a powerful shock to change your course and find your real mission in life.”

    His thousands of fans and loyal listeners will definitely agree that he has!

    Candelo’s Corner broadcasts every Monday from 8-10PM, EST. The call-in line is 917-889-7526.

    Candelo is an accomplished painter who is also available for spiritual consultations.

  • Episode 123: Peter J. Carroll, one of the founders of chaos magic.

    Episode 123: Peter J. Carroll, one of the founders of chaos magic.

    Tue. March. 25, 2014 8PM EST on Para-X-Radio.com

    Andrieh Vitimus and Jason M. Colwell will interview Peter J. Carroll.  That’s Right.  Peter J. Carroll.   Peter will come on the show to discuss his new book, Epoch, the knights of Chaos, the Arcanorium and Chaos Magic.

    Peter Carroll wrote the seminal classic Liber Null and Psychonaut and spawned an entire movement which had tremendous influence ( whether directly admitted or not) on all of the occult circles in the modern era.  His later books focus in on time magic but

    He maintains a personal website at specularium.org and acts as Chancellor to Arcanorium College arcanoriumcollege.com.

    A modest Inclusion of his accomplishments include:

    • Past Grandmaster of the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros
    • Chancellor of Arcanorium College
    • Acting Marshall, Knights of Chaos
    • A Bard of Dobunni Grove
    • He is also a Millionaire with his own business.

    Full Discloser:  Andrieh is a teacher at Peter Caroll’s University The Arcanorium College)