Deeper Down The Rabbit Hole

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  • Episode 55: Donald Tyson Discusses The Demonology of King James I

    Episode 55: Donald Tyson Discusses The Demonology of King James I

    Live Tues. May 1, 2012 on Para-X-Radio.com

    Andrieh Vitimus and Jason M. Colwell are joined by Donald Tyson to discuss The Demonology of King James I, his research on King James I and a work penned by the former King of England entitled Demonology.

    King James I, is one of the most influential people in religious history.  He commissioned the King James Bible, the first full English translation of the Christian Scriptures.  Written directly by his own hand, Demonology, shows that he believed himself to be an instrument of God.  King James believed in a literal Satan and that his mission was to seek out and kill “witches”, who he believed acted directly as Satan’s ministers . He was convinced that they had tried to cast spells to kill him on numerous occasions.  King James I, declared all magical practices to be unlawful and of the direct power of Satan;  Unlike Queen Elizabeth I, who reigned just before him and believed magic to be a natural ability that she only outlawed in the context of being used for criminal acts. The misconceptions made about magic and occult practices in Demonology, have been a part of Christian thought ever since and the effects are felt in our community to this day.

    Donald Tyson is a Canadian from Halifax, Nova Scotia.  Early in life he was drawn to science by an intense fascination with astronomy, building a telescope by hand when he was eight.  He began university seeking a science degree, but became disillusioned with the aridity and futility of a mechanistic view of the universe and shifted his major to English.  After graduating with honors he has pursued a writing career.

    Now he devotes his life to the attainment of a complete gnosis of the art of magic in theory and practice.  His purpose is to formulate an accessible system of personal training composed of East and West, past and present, that will help the individual discover the reason for one’s existence and a way to fulfill it.

    Donald’s personal website may be viewed at http://www.donaldtyson.com

  • Episode 54: Jason Robinson Discusses Urban Exploration and Paranormal Investigation

    Episode 54: Jason Robinson Discusses Urban Exploration and Paranormal Investigation

    Live Tues. April 24th, 2012 on Para-X-Radio.com

    Andrieh Vitimus and Jason M. Colwell are joined by one of Jason’s long time partners in crime, Jason Robinson of the Ohio Exploration Society, to discuss past adventures in both Urban Exploration and Paranormal Investigation!

    OES Founder Jason Robinson has always had an interest in the unknown and unexplained.  He enjoyed watching television shows like “Unsolved Mysteries,” and later “Sightings,” and enjoyed hearing other people’s stories about the strange things they had experienced.  It wasn’t until Jason was attending college at Denison University in 1998-99, that his interest in the paranormal was further solidified when he had his first personal encounter with the paranormal…an unseen hand that touched his shoulder one night as he typed a paper in his dorm room.  In the spring of 2000, Jason purchased his first digital camera, a simple 1-megapixel point-and-shoot (a pretty nice camera at the time).  That is when he discovered an emerging hobby known as Urban Exploration.  Jason decided to check out a few abandoned graveyards and old buildings, taking photos along the way.  A few of his close friends decided to join on his adventures and the Ohio Exploration Society was formed, thus combining Jason’s interest of abandoned locations and history with his interest in the paranormal.  Throughout the past 12 years, the OES has often passively, or sometimes actively,  investigated the locations they explore.

    Founded in the summer of 2000, the OES is a group of urban explorers who visit both well-known historical locations and those forgotten with time.  Members of the Ohio Exploration Society research and photograph locations that include everything from abandoned buildings to rural cemeteries to ancient Indian mounds to wonders of nature.  They publish their research and photos on the Ohio Exploration Society website in an attempt to preserve the history and the memory of these important sites.  Within the website you’ll find videos that were shot on location, 360º interactive panoramic photos, thousands of digital photos and the stories behind the places we’ve visited throughout the years.

    In addition to documenting Ohio’s forgotten and historical sites, the Ohio Exploration Society offers paranormal investigations to property owners free of charge.  Unlike some paranormal groups (or fan clubs) who emulate what they have seen on paranormal television shows, the OES has developed their own investigative techniques.  The team focuses on physical research by using video recorders, digital cameras, audio recorders and other equipment combined with historical research to document paranormal events.

    You can see the OES’s huge online collection and contact Jason Robinson at http://www.ohioexploration.com

     

  • Episode 53: Deborah Lipp Discusses The Way of Four

    Episode 53: Deborah Lipp Discusses The Way of Four

    Andrieh Vitimus and Jason M. Colwell are joined by Deborah Lipp to discuss her elemental magic text The Way of Four.  Join us as we talk about practical elemental magic in theory and practice.

    Deborah Lipp is the author of five books: The Study of Witchcraft,  The Elements of Ritual,  The Way of Four,  The Way of Four Spellbook  and The Ultimate James Bond Fan Book.  One of these things is not like the others.

    Deborah became a Gardnerian Witch in 1982 and a High Priestess in 1986,  and has been teaching Wicca and running Pagan circles ever since.  She’s been published in many Pagan publications,  including newWitch,  The Llewellyn Magical Almanac,  Pangaia,  Green Egg,  and The Druid’s Progress,  as well as Mothering Magazine.  She has lectured at numerous Pagan festivals on a variety of topics.

    As an active  “out of the closet”  member of the Pagan community,  Deborah has appeared in various media discussing Wicca,  most notably on the A&E documentary Ancient Mysteries: Witchcraft in America.  She has also appeared on MSNBC,  in The New York Times,  and in many smaller TV and print sources.

    In “real life” Deborah is a technical writer.  She lives in Rockland County,  New York,  with her son,  Arthur,  and their cats,  Callisto and Fanty.  Deborah reads and teaches Tarot,  designs wire-and-bead jewelry,  solves and designs puzzles,  watches old movies,  hand-paints furniture,  and dabbles in numerous handcrafts.

  • Episode 52: Deeper Down The Rabbit Hole’s One Year Anniversary! Year In Review and Mystery Guests!

    Episode 52: Deeper Down The Rabbit Hole’s One Year Anniversary! Year In Review and Mystery Guests!

    Andrieh Vitimus and Jason M. Colwell discuss some favorite moments from the past year of shows. We will also be joined by some mystery guests as they call in to join the fun!

    Some of our favorite shows!

    Episode 2: Bringing the Spirits to You

    Episode 6: The Art of Glamour Magic in Business, Love and Success

    Episode 11: Woman of Power with Guest Jaq D. Hawkins

    Episode 13:  Starwood 2011, Fae Shamanism, and the Ganesh Miracle

    Episode 14: Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole Online Ceremony Of Transformation

    Episode 15: Guest Curtis Davis and Culture Shock: Magic across the Racial Divide

    Episode 29: Online Ceremony of Ancestral Communion

    Episode 30:  Guest Susan Leybourne, Internationally acclaimed medium on Mediumship

    Episode 41: Andrieh and Jason Discuss Crossing Over Paranormal Investigation Techniques With Magical Ritual

    Episode 43: THE GODFATHER Lon Milo Duquette

    Ancestral Vodou Transformation in Jackson, MI Event Date: Saturday, 19 May 2012 – 11:00am
    http://andriehvitimus.com/content/ancestral-vodou-transformation-jackson-mi

    To pre-book for the event please call the Wandering Owl at 517-782-2780
    Participents recieving a White baths MUST be pre-booked this before May 9th.

  • Episode 51: The Rev. Tamara L. Siuda Discusses Reconstructional Kemetic Religion

    Episode 51: The Rev. Tamara L. Siuda Discusses Reconstructional Kemetic Religion

    Tamara L. Siuda joins Andrieh Vitimus and Jason M. Colwell to discuss her work in Khemetic Religion.  Tamara is the founder and current head of Kemetic Orthodoxy and the House of Netjer.   She is known formally within her faith as Her Holiness,  Sekhenet-Ma’at-Ra Setep-en-Ra User Hekatawy I,  Nisut-Bity of the Kemetic Orthodox faith and uses the honorific Reverend outside of the faith to indicate her position as clergy.  She is also a Mambo in Haitian Vodou.

    Siuda graduated from Mundelein College (now part of Loyola University) in Chicago in 1991.    She subsequently enrolled in the Egyptology program at the University of Chicago,  obtaining a master’s degree in Egyptology with a concentration in Philology in August 2000.   She also earned a master’s in December 2007 through the Coptic Studies program at Macquarie University in Sydney,  Australia.

    Siuda founded the group which would become Kemetic Orthodoxy in 1988 after an experience during a Wiccan initiation ritual in which she is said to have been called by the ancient Egyptian deities to revive their worship.   She left Wicca and began study and worship in ancient Egyptian religion with friends and students.  In 1993, this group of people had grown substantially, and gained legal recognition as the House of Netjer Kemetic Orthodox Temple.   In 1999, the House of Netjer, and the Kemetic Orthodox Faith, were granted 501(c)(3) status.

    In October 1996,  following what is believed to be divine approval via oracles and ritual,  Siuda traveled to Egypt and underwent coronation rituals and assumed the religious title of Nisut,  meaning “Authority” or “Incarnation”.    In this capacity she is considered to be the mortal carrier of a divine spirit, by way of an aspect of the god Horus,  known as the “kingly ka.” In this capacity,  Siuda provides spiritual guidance and leadership for members of Kemetic Orthodoxy.  Devotees of Kemetic Orthodoxy often refer to Siuda as Hemet, meaning “servant” or “majesty.”

    Siuda represents the House of Netjer in the World Interfaith Congress.

     

     

  • Episode 50: Corvis Nocturnum, Starr Morgayne, and Hydra M. Star discuss Walking the Path of the Ancient Ways

    Episode 50: Corvis Nocturnum, Starr Morgayne, and Hydra M. Star discuss Walking the Path of the Ancient Ways

    Occult researcher and Gothic fantasy artist E. R. Vernor,  best known to his fans under the pen name Corvis Nocturnum, Starr Morgayne, and Hydra M. Star join Andrieh Vitimus and Jason M. Colwell to discuss the new anthology: Walking the Path of the Ancient Ways: A Collection of Magic by Various Pagan Authors. In this wonderful new book, Pagan authors from various backgrounds share their story on being pagan in the modern world.

    Corvis Nocturnum/E.R. Vernor is a May 2010 graduate with Presidents List Honor Roll from Brown Mackie College, with dual associates degrees in Business Management and Criminal Justice.  He is the co-founder and publisher of Dark Moon Press, author or a growing list of his own solo titles, as well as an accomplished editor returning rare, out of print occult books back to the community. Corvis owned an occult shop for several years while he maintained office as the Vice President of the Fort Wayne Pagan Alliance, a faith tolerance organization and acted as Vendor Director/Coordinator for Pagan Pride Day in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  He has done lectures at various events all over the Mid-West. In his free time he enjoys oil painting fantasy, Pagan, and Gothic artwork.

    Starr Morgayne is a writer for Dark Moon Press.  Her book.  Bewitching Beauty: Bringing out your inner Goddess, naturally is available at www.darkmoonpress.com.   She
    has contributed to various anthologies and been featured in Embracing the Darkness: Understanding Dark Subcultures as well as several radio shows.  To contact the author,  email darkmoon@darkmoonpress.com.

     

    Hydra M. Star at a very early age developed a deep interest in demonology,  the paranormal,  and the occult.  A long time member of the Church of Satan and practicing witch,  Ms. Star has never let go of this passion for things that go bump in the night.  Rather then turn away from the darker side of nature and herself,  she has allowed it to fuel all her creative endeavors. A dark fiction writer,  columnist, book reviewer,  and poet,  Ms. Star?s work can regularly be found in both Horrotica and Twisted Dreams Magazines as well as within the pages of a forthcoming collection of her short fiction;  Prior to the Empire.

     

  • Episode 49: Joy Wedmedyk Discusses Shamanism

    Episode 49: Joy Wedmedyk Discusses Shamanism

    Live Tuesday 8pm EST on www.para-x-radio.com

    Ocha priestess of Yemeha Joy joins Andrieh Vitimus and Co-host Jason M. Colwell to talk about Shamanism.  Joy is one of the best mediums within in the Cleveland area and has studied with many native American Teachers.

    Joy Wedmedyk (Iyalocha Omi Lasa) has studied Mediumship, Divination, Symbolism, and Shamanism for over 35 years. Initiated in Regla de Ocha (called Santeria), Native American and African Shamanic Traditions, she is an accomplished Medium and Shamanic practitioner. Joy opens the way for healing through her connections to the Spirits and Ancestors. Joy was a source for Drawing Down the Spirits by Filan and Kaldera.

    She is a serious and effective healer, while being willing to speak her mind and be a proponent of devotion, practice and initiation.  She has over 35 years of public speaking, festival,  and client work.  Her spirits are currently pushing her to write a Ocha book which details the multitude of healing that comes from correctly understanding the uplifting process that engaging with the Orisha can be.

    She can be reached at http://holywatersbotanica.blogspot.com/
    and http://www.omilasa.com/

  • Episode 48: The Rev. Selena Fox Discusses Religious Freedom

    Episode 48: The Rev. Selena Fox Discusses Religious Freedom

    Andrieh Vitimus and Jason M. Colwell welcome The Rev. Selena Fox to the show to discuss religious freedom and the issues that are still faced in America today by those who do not choose to follow the most popular of mainstream religions.

    Selena Fox is a psychotherapist, teacher, writer, photographer, ritual performance artist, and Priestess. She is founder and co-executive director of Circle Sanctuary, an international Nature Spirituality resource center headquartered on a 200-acre Nature preserve in southwestern Wisconsin, USA.

    Selena received her M.S. in Counseling from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and graduated cum laude with a B.S. in psychology from the College of William and Mary in Virginia in 1971.  She received additional training in psychology at Rutgers University, Parkway Hospital, and various conferences and training programs.  She is a member of the American Psychological Association, American Counseling Association, Association for Transpersonal Psychology, and American Academy of Religion.  She is a spiritual counselor in private practice.

    Selena has been a Wiccan priestess and Pagan artist since 1973.  Her approach to spirituality emphasizes Nature communion and blends together ancient and contemporary European and American folkways, Wiccan traditions, multicultural shamanism, and transpersonal psychology.  She is one of America’s best known Pagan elders, networkers, and civil liberties activists.  She is founder of Circle Network, Lady Liberty League, and the Pagan Academic Network.

    She is author of Goddess Communion Rituals and Meditations and When Goddess is God.  She also has created several music and guided meditation tapes.  She is founder of the quarterly journal, CIRCLE Magazine, and sourcebook, Circle Guide to Pagan Resources. She was a consultant for Time-Life Books’ “Mysteries of the Unknown” series.