“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” ~ Gustav Mahler.
From Simon's misadventures with a not-so-traditional Shipibo treatment for tinnitus, to the connection between spirituality and madness, this episode is a ride through all things weird and wonderful at the fringes of spiritual scholarship with Julian Vayne.
Julian's obsession with group ritual practice began within the Western Esoteric Tradition when he was 16. Since then he has worked in ceremony with practitioners from many different lands and lineages, as a senior member of the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros and widely recognized as one of Britain’s leading occultists.
Today, Julian is the author of books, essays, journals and articles in both the academic and esoteric press, including Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony (2017). He sees his work as part of the process to help re-imagine an earth-centered, non-dogmatic, open-source spirituality.
Julian is one of many experts on Onaya's new 6-month Psychedelic Mentorship Training programme, which Simon outlines at the start of this episode. For more information and to enroll in the next cohort, visit Onaya's website and use the code 'INTHROUGH10' for a special 10% discount.