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We discuss The Necronomicon Mythos with author Donald Tyson who in the last several years has added
four significant texts to the magickal legacy and reality of the Necronomicon.
In A corner in the Occult we learned about the life of beloved weird fiction author H. P. Lovecraft
All this and more in this installment of The Infinite and the Beyond stay with us...
Announcements
(Background Music: Follow Me Darkness by The SpookShow)
Hello welcome back to the show and thank you to artist Leslie Fish for her Invocation to Cthulhu! From her
album Avalon is Risen. I can feel the looming legendary lavish presence of the terrifying, tenacious, exquisite,
and exemplary Elder God now.
Back on November 1st I had the great opportunity of joining Deirdre Hebert and Jasper (he is) on PaganFM to talk
about my many involvements and to just have a good time. If you missed my appearance on PaganFM or had
never checked them out, find them on iTunes or online at http://PaganFM.com/
Also Tara and I had the pleasure of making it down to Baltimore, Maryland to experience one day of FaerieCon
East, which Jason Pitzl-Waters of the Wild Hunt Blog and the podcast A Darker Shade of Pagan works for. Though
we only spent one day there it was a great time. I got to speak with Jason on two occasions and he's a really
friendly guy and I even got to meet up with Inanna Gabriel from Misanthrope Press who published the Pagan
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I also the wonderful opportunity to attend the Between the Worlds Conference that was held by the Assembly of
Sacred Wheel who are based in Delaware and can be found online at http://www.sacredwheel.org/btwplenaries.html It was a great opportunity to meet people and prominent authors in the Occult, Magickal, and
Pagan communities of whom some of which will be visiting us on the podcast in the near future.
On January 9th, I had the pleasure of being a guest on a new live show called Backpacking Through The Universe
hosted by the lovely Danielle Stimpson. Danielle and I talked for two hours about all sorts of things related to
paganism and the paranormal. If you missed my appearance on Backpacking Through The Universe, be sure to
check it out online because it will be available as a podcast download in the near future.
And last but not least. I have recently released a book online titled A Witch's Journey. A Witch's Journey is a
journal for 2013 beginning in March with the start of Aries and continuing into 2014 with the conclusion of
Pisces.
Beyond simply being a date book, A Witchs Journey offers the practitioner a complete writing
experience by offering a page for every day of the year. The text is 7" x 10" and 394 pages in length. It's a
beautiful looking book and I encourage everyone to check it out online at infinite-beyond.com where a you can
purchase a copy for yourself to use over the coming year. It will be found on Amazon.com, but if it's not too
much to ask buying through the show website does me a great service and it costs the same through the show
website as it does on Amazon.
In a moment we'll be speaking with author Donald Tyson about his writings and dealings with the Necronomicon
Mythos, but first a little fun.
Clip: Necronomanah!
Movie clips from
1. Evil Dead II (1987) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092991/?ref_=sr_3
2. Army of Darkness(1992) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106308/?ref_=sr_1
Opening Dialogue: Necronomicon Overview.
(Background Music: Cosmic Communion by Alexandre Falcao)
Read by Evil Chris Orapello
The Necronomicon is probably one of the most popular and sought after magickal texts to have never existed.
Featured in stories, art, music, graphic novels, clothing, accessories, documentaries, and films this once fabled
text of dark esoteric lore has, over the decades, managed to pushed itself out from the mythical ether of
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Tragically though
Lovecraft wouldn't have the opportunity to get to know his father because at the age of three his father suffered a
nervous breakdown while on the road in Chicago. He was then brought back to Providence and placed in Butler Hospital,
where he stayed for five years until his death on July 19, 1898 from a form of neurosyphilis. Perhaps as a means to cover
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Sound Clip
At one point the world was flat until Greek Astronomers challenged this notion and a spherical
understanding of the earth became more accurate as a result of their findings. Similarly at one point the Sun,
and other planets were thought to revolved around the earth, that is until Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo helped
to change this paradigm to reflect a heliocentric understanding of the Universe based upon their findings. In
both cases this shift in understanding did not happen quickly, easily or peacefully, but it happened none-the-less.
In retrospect at one point, as far as anyone knew, these two understandings, the flat earth and the earth being at
the center of the Universe, were facts of existence which were supported by ancient peoples, until new people
with different perspectives managed to reeducate humankind, through constant exemplification of their
findings. Similar to the current efforts of Intelligent Design Theorists and even Ancient Astronaut Theorists who
are simply trying to establish a paradigm shift which reflects their understanding of life and human history
despite the evidence against them.
In many ways Paradigms are hats we wear, that can be changed at will, if so desired.
Often times they are needed to be adopted in order for a magickal system to function as it should.
The reality inherent in spirits, deities, religions, and books of magick in many ways are rooted in a particular
paradigm that one can adopt. The adopting of a paradigm is an act of creation much like the shifting of a
paradigm is an act of destruction, however both processes may take months or years to fully complete
themselves.
Many of us were raised in a different religion, different than the one we are practicing now. At one time the
deities or cosmologies that we currently honor and recognize, did not exist to us then, as they do now.
The ability to shift paradigms does not entirely mean that those elements we adopt into our world view are
dependent upon us for existence because once we give them credence to exist in our reality, we can still be
subjected to them whether we are a willing participant or not. So, any separate paradigm or text we open or
work with becomes another aspect of our world view, and thus our paradigm.
Books like The Lesser Key of Solomon, the Grimoire Verum, or even the Necronomicon present us with
opportunities to expand our realities, but at varying costs because the realities of some individuals may not be
able to bear the load of what these and other texts present and contain.
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Show Summary:
In this episode we discuss The Necronomicon Mythos with author Donald Tyson who in the last several years has
added four significant texts to the magickal legacy and reality of the Necronomicon, with his own copy of The
Necronomicon, his novel Alhazred, the Grimoire of the Necronomicon, and his workbook The 13 Gates of the
Necronomicon all released by Llewellyn Publications believe it or not? In A Corner in the Occult we learn about the life
of beloved weird fiction author H. P. Lovecraft. We explore some fun and heartfelt music by our featured artist Leslie Fish
from her album Avalon Is Risen. I announce a contest that will conclude in episode #31 so checkout the announcement
later in this episode to hear all the details. And In the Essence of Magick, we discuss Magickal Paradigms. All this and
more in this installment of The Infinite and the Beyond!
Breakdown: (1:37:10)
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