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Salvation is not an evidence-based intervention
In this episode we discuss a memoir of a mental health support worker who works with clients in the most deprived areas of London. We consider the issues arising from its author's deep interest in esotericism and the occult, and his attempts to redress what he perceives as the repressive shortcomings of the UK mental health system by resisting consensus models of mental health intervention and incorporating into his daily duties elements of magick and spirituality.
The book providing the basis for discussion is: The Human Experiment by David Stokes. No date, publisher, or location is given. The ISBN is 9781521944493. More information about the author and his other works is available from https://tinyurl.com/3p9fyf8p (amazon.co.uk, accessed May, 2024).
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3. Subjectivity is only a body that hasn't yet formed
40:57Our book, this time, is by a meditation master and former NASA engineer, who presents a mental technique for alleviating all forms of physical and emotional pain. We describe and explore his method, its origins, and confront the question of how it could possibly work, if, as its author insists, it's a mental technique that involves neither imagination nor visualisation.The book providing the basis for our discussion is: Robert Harry Hover (2004). Internal Moving Healing Manual of Instruction: Stopping Your Pain & Other Unpleasant Things. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse. The ISBN is 9781418438852. The book is available for sale at: https://tinyurl.com/34vr96dh (amazon.co.uk, accessed June, 2024).An interesting article about the author and his work, by someone who had personal contact with him as a teacher, can be found at: https://tinyurl.com/mrjk5mkn (hokku.wordpress.com, accessed June, 2024).Support the podcast by joining my Patreon at: https://patreon.com/oeith. Buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/oeith or https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dbarfordG. Or you could send me a lovely book from https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/1IQ3BVWY3L5L5?ref_=wl_share.1. The problem with the damned is that they tend to stick around
35:16In this episode we set some parameters for the podcast as a whole, concerning the kinds of relationships that occultists might have with books and reading. The book under discussion concerns contemporary paranormal investigation: we consider some of the specific characteristics of the author's approach to communicating with the dead within this cultural context, and the light it casts upon possible dynamics in the relationship between the living and the dead, particularly around issues of judgment and identity, and how this might challenge or contradict mainstream assumptions.The book providing the basis for discussion in this episode is: Into the Darkness: Conversations with the Dead by Angel Rae (Fort Wayne, IN: Dark Moon Press, 2017). More information about the book, the author, and her other works is available from https://tinyurl.com/26wbe4py (amazon.com, accessed April, 2024).Support the podcast by joining my Patreon at: https://patreon.com/oeith. Buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/oeith or https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dbarfordG. Or you could send me a lovely book from https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/1IQ3BVWY3L5L5?ref_=wl_share.