The Hollow Path - Art & Magic

Oct 13 2024 15 ep. 69 mins 13
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Poet and Scholar Malachas Ivernus talks to all the Good Folk about Art, Magic, Culture, Literature, and how to Re-Enchant the World

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Episode 14 - Rosie Whinray - A Room of One's Own

Oct 13 2024 95 mins  
This episode of The Hollow Path features one of our absolute favourites, Rosie Whinray: artist, writer, magician, and Wizard of Wellington! We start off with a really fascinating discussion of what it means to be a Wizard, and how one might be called to such a path; of how such a vocation interacts with and depends on one's Place, one's Community, and a whole way of being in the wo

Episode 13 - Lee Morgan - Dreams from the Witch-House

Oct 03 2024 61 mins  
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

Episode 12 - Vic Hyland - The Direction is not the Destination

Sep 26 2023 92 mins  
Vic Hyland is a consummate artist: musician, songwriter, teacher, community-builder, spirit-medium, dowser, trickster and sage - a veritable Renaissance Man! I'm so pleased to have him on to talk about his new book, Music, Magic, and NLP, which is an incredible compendium of Vic's ideas, theories, techniques, and a thread of personal memoir in which he recounts his rich and strange

Episode 11 - Darragh Mason - A Vocation of Spirits

Jun 30 2023 91 mins  
It's a genuine pleasure to welcome Darragh Mason to The Hollow Path in this episode. His podcast, Spirit Box, has become one of the most profound and thoughtful reflections on how our lives are intertwined with Spirit, and the Spirits, the Otherworld, that is out there. Darragh has a soft-spoken and wise manner mixed with an incisive and searching intelligence and curiosity, and he

Episode 10 - Georgia van Raalte - Vectors of Initiation

Jun 29 2023 70 mins  
(from her online bio)"Dr Georgia van Raalte is an academic researcher whose work focuses on mystical and esoteric literature, as well as an esoteric theologian and an author of emic esoteric texts. She is also a poet and an artist as well as a practising occultist and a pagan Priestess. Her academic research, artistic practice, and magical work are all concerned with initiation: wi

Episode 9 - Harriet Nwyfre Sams - Object Lessons

Jun 05 2023 91 mins  
In this episode, I speak to Harriet Nwyfre Sams, who is an archaeologist, a therapist, a scholar, and a Druid! There's a very rich discussion here, particularly on the "beingness" of Objects ; how we may, from an Animist perspective, begin to question the very concept of an "inanimate" object, and rather to deal with the objects and materials things in our lives with respect, to be

Episode 8 - Thea Wirsching - The Stars Are Right

May 22 2023 79 mins  
Today's guest is Thea Wirsching, author and academic, Astrologer Extraordinaire and creator of the American Renaissance Tarot Deck! Thea works at the intersection between literary studies, magical and visionary working, and the weavings of Fate through the Stars and the Cards ... We had a wonderful discussion about the ins and outs of the Academy, and how things have changed and ar

Episode 7 - Amelia Hogan - The Song a Living Thing

May 19 2023 69 mins  
Amelia Hogan is an Irish-American singer and musician, someone who carries the culture of sean nós (Old Style) singing, encountering and interacting with this older way of being : her performances are deeply spiritual and enchanting, casting a spell of communion with the Song and enabling the audience to enter into this relationship for themselves. Amelia and I discuss this vital

Episode 6 - Melinda Reidinger - In The Groves of Symbols

Apr 22 2023 62 mins  
On the occasion of the release of her book The White Deer, we welcome Melinda Reidinger to the podcast. Melinda is a scholar, a translator, a professor, and a writer of that liminal intersection between Myth, Magic, Folklore, Anthropology, Art History, Eco-criticism, Sociology, and History. Basically, she has set up her camp right at the Crossroads where we most like to linger ...

Episode 5 - Passion Play

Apr 08 2023 62 mins  
What do we do with these Christian stories, myths, traditions, festivals, we who are now Apostate? We who are now Atheist, or "Nons"? We who are now Pagan, Animist, who renounce all religion, and practice a spirituality that is no Organised Religion at all? How do we deal with the damage it has done? How do we salvage that which is worthwhile in it? How do we come to terms with it,