Julian Vayne is an occultist and author of numerous books, essays, journals, 'zines and articles in both the academic and esoteric press. A regular speaker at events, and facilitator of retreats and workshops, his work is informed by chaos magic and lineages within Wicca and Tantra. <br /><br />Julian is a co-organizer of the psychedelic conference Breaking Convention, and sits on the academic board of The Journal of Psychedelic Studies. <br /><br />Julian facilitates psychedelic ceremony, as well as providing one-to-one psychedelic integration sessions and support. He is the author of the celebrated Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony. Since 2011 he has been sharing his work through The Blog of Baphomet and is the curator of the Youtube series My Magical Thing.<br /><br />In this episode we discuss psychedelic entities, the purpose of ritual in relation to psychedelics and the significant case for psychedelics as medicines. <br /><br />The thumbnail art is by the great visionary artist Alex Grey whose work we briefly touch on. <br /><br />As always, there is an open invitation to send me your experiences. I’ll leave links below, you can either email me or leave me a phone message.<br /><br />If you like the show and want more Spirit Box in your life, join the Patreon and the podcast Discord. It’s the price of a cup of coffee and you get all the shows early and a host of other glorious perks.<br />Ok that’s enough preamble on with the show<br /><br /><br />SHOW NOTES: <br />Julian’s Website: <a href="https://theblogofbaphomet.com/category/julian-vayne/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://theblogofbaphomet.com/category/julian-vayne/</a> <br />Julian’s books: <a href="https://amzn.to/2BN8sQ7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://amzn.to/2BN8sQ7</a> <br />My Magical thing: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6TWW-5KTelMMe4xW77TpFQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6TWW-5KTelMMe4xW77TpFQ</a> <br />Alex Grey: <a href="https://www.alexgrey.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.alexgrey.com</a><br />Video samples from <a href="https://www.videvo.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.videvo.net</a><br /><br />Keep in touch?<br />TWITTER - <a href="https://twitter.com/spiritbox3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/spiritbox3</a><br />SUPPORT - <a href="https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox</a><br />PODCAST - <a href="https://anchor.fm/spirit-box" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://anchor.fm/spirit-box</a><br />Music by Obliqka<br />...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGdZpyvaK6o" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGdZpyvaK6o</a>