The Hollow Path - Art & Magic

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 world. T...

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 my own practic...

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 lif...

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 applies th...

(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: with mystica...

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 respe...

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 are changing...

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 element of relati...

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 ... We explore toge...

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, and s...

A few years ago now, I had the great good luck to correspond with and then meet Irish Poet Paddy Bushe, first around our shared interest in the figure of Amergin from the Lebor Gabala Erann, and then further, our research and study of questions of Poetry and Place.  I asked Paddy to do an interview with me "for my podcast", which at the time never actually materialised. I am delighted no...

Another Fly-on-the-Wall Episode.  This is the introductory lesson in a course I started teaching at the Invisible College in Paris, and the Institute of Superior Mechanisms in Saint Ouen, in the Plague Year, 2020. It was a Masters Seminar, entitled Myth, Magic, Fantasy, and Faery - On the Origins of the Insular Imaginary. The idea was to trace the History of the Imaginal Heritage of Ireland and Br...

This time with the Mecha-Builder students, who are among the best and brightest that France has to offer ... Engineering is at the apex of French social and intellectual aspirations; and so, Engineering students are taught not only their craft and trade, but also Culture, Art, History, Language. And as these are the best students, often they are more equipped, both socially and intellectually, to...

The Hollow Collective Our name is Legion, for we are many. We are the Hollow Ones; there is nothing to us but a false surface, of pasteboard and plaster. We are simulacra. We are puppets. Porcelain dolls, wax dolls, corn dollies, Russian dolls, nested one inside the Other. We are empty. We are echoing. Within us is a heart-shaped hole. We are spaces waiting to be filled. We are tired of waiting. W...

This was my very last day. They didn't know it yet, but I did. My last day as a secondary school teacher. I knew I would walk out that door and not come back. This was a brilliant group of bicultural Anglo-French kids, and we were just getting to know each other. They had a reputation for being "troublesome", but I knew they just need the right kind of attention. We were studying He...