Sleep Over with Carolyn and Laila

On a cacao and kava-fueled roll, Carolyn and Laila are still on the front porch with Hannah and Lulu, now talking about the sexxxxy wonders of the Hermetic classic, the Middle Pillar by Israel Regardie.

Carolyn and Laila hang out with baby Lulu and Laila’s genius artist sister Hannah Johnson and give the real real scoop on the pain / pleasure torus of genuine magickal manifestation work and what it really takes to raise your havingness level.

At their favorite tea shop in Pittsburgh, Laila and Carolyn talk about how god looooooooves to scroll the ‘gram of existence. It’s a bit loud when tea shop patrons get to talking around us, but hey, thems just the breaks of hanging out with Laila and Carolyn. ;)

It’s way way easier to find the divine spark within you when you realize it’s pulsing with the taboo flavor of your naughtiest impulses.

In this episode, Laila and Carolyn riff on their most foundational shared view - love is gross. It forgives everything, knows everything, is kind to everything, even the worst weirdest nastiest shit.

Laila and Carolyn talk about God’s total gross narcissistic love for Godself.

Carolyn and Laila talk about our existential predicament of being simultaneously totally alone as the great solo consciousness and simultaneously in full Union with all apparent others.

Carolyn and Laila talk about the possibilities of rejoicing in lucidity through sex and relationship.

How Carolyn’s and Laila’s respective saint mothers unwittingly taught them the New Aeon truth that Do What Thou Wilt is the Whole of the Law.

Carolyn and her dear friend Laila Bernhardt talk about how they met and got wise to the joys of the dreamlike fluidity (emptiness) of existence.

It’s Scorpio season! Death celebration time! How do we put down our negativity and surrender into ego-death sensations so we can live more abundantly?

Talkin’ ‘bout how to deal when you pull a scary card from the Thoth deck like “Cruelty”

I relate my story with how an Alchemical community was key to my growth, how I lost that community, and how and why I created WEALTH to replace it.

Reflections on the Orphic deity Phanes and it’s relation to Hermes, Aphrodite, the Logos, Jesus Christ, the Universe card and tips for the completion of the Great Work.

Here's a great, simple little ritual you can use any time you've slipped up on a practice that you've committed your word to (like the Alchemical Journal) and need to get back on track. 

A cool story about some fun synchronicities that I experienced surrounding the Prince of Wands to help inspire you in your Alchemical Journal Practice.  

Here I discuss an over view of the finer points of an evening Alchemical Journal practice: reflecting on the Tarot, astrology, and dreams of the day, finding a “most profound thought,” noticing what we’ve done to weaken a draining habit, setting intentions for the next day and updating our Habit Grids.

We greatly increase our chances of getting stuff done on our to-do list when we break those often amorphous to-do’s down into teeny-tiny next physical actions as part of our morning Alchemical Journal practice — here’s how.

Herein I discuss the practice of daily noting the astrological weather in one’s Alchemical Journal and how it helps us grow in the Work and navigate life more wisely.

Short answer: it’s a dynamic, potent deck like no other. It will make your Magick better. Long answer: For a long time I wanted nothing to do with the Great Beast (as Mr. Crowley liked to style himself) and then one day I realized.... my own inner guides had lead me to a place where I couldn’t avoid him and his work any longer —- and that this was a very good thing.

Herein I discuss pulling a Tarot card of the day and recording it in your Alchemical Journal — a simple and yet very exciting means of magical initiation and a fun story about what I learned about ritual via the Prince of Wands and Jack Parsons.

In magickal and alchemical literature we find reference to something called The Great Work. What exactly is it and how and why do we set out to accomplish it?

An overview of a simple Foundational Practice that can vastly improve your life with depth, wonder, and wealth.

A discussion of exactly what this strange thing “alchemy” happens to be and why it’s very very relevant and useful to us today.