The Hollow Path - Art & Magic

For this episode we welcome Lee Morgan, one of my absolute favourite writers and teachers on Witchcraft. Decades of experience as a practitioner and writer have resulted in an amazing body of work. Books on Traditional Witchcraft such as A Deed Without a Name, Standing and Not Falling, and Sounds of Infinity have gained praise and interest worldwide, and have been central texts in my own practice and discovery of my path. A series of contemporary novels charting the path of a protagonist, Christopher Penrose, on his path from youth to experience, encountering the world of Witchcraft and the Weird, meeting his Others, coming into his power. A medieval "epic-ballad", The Gusty Deep, tells a story of those Outsiders of the woods and wilderness who gather around the semi-mythical figure of Robin Goodfellow, and gives a profound insight into what the life of a Witch-Clan might have once looked like. A most recent study, People of the Outside, poses uncomfortable and thought-provoking questions about the Old Ones, the people before modern humans, and how we bear their genetic and ancestral inheritance within us.

Here, we concentrate particular on the work in fiction, and how it weaves together with one's life and magic, on the occasion of a new revised edition of the Penrose novels.

Lee's work and sorcerous offerings may be found here: https://www.leemorganbooks.com/ and one would do well to follow the tangled, enchanted threads found therein.

NOTE: Lee mentions, at one point, the recent experience of having been diagnosed with and recovering from a brain-tumour! I did not pick up on this subject in the interview, as we have discussed it before, and he has spoken about it publicly, but I believe it merits further exploration. I hope to perhaps, in a future episode, have Lee on again to explore this, and ideas around it, of diagnosis, divergence, disorder, pathology, and their relation to magic and the weird. To be continued ...!

The image for this episode is a detail from the cover of one of Lee's novels, Wooing the Echo, created by Rebecca Rose (@nine.things.unseen on Instragram).
The title music, as ever, is "Far from Portland", by Lau.

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THE HOLLOW PATH IS A MEETING OF MINDS AND HEARTS, TO FOSTER EXHANGES AROUND MAGIC, ART, ENCHANTMENT, CULTURE, POLITICS, AND POETICS ...
RE-ENCHANTMENT. RE-WILDING. RE-MEMBERING.
RESISTANCE.