Astral travel, conversing with higher beings, and climbing the Tree of Life have been much on my mind recently, so I thought I’d make a guided meditation video to help get people started. If you enjoy this please like, follow, and subscribe on all platforms or buy us a coffee at
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In order to explain the religious beliefs I have developed over years of mysticism heavily influenced by the Western Mystery Tradition I thought I’d share this diagram:
Notice that unlike the many spurious attributions out there, I do not include the chakra system as equivalent to the tree of life. The chakras are part of the internal system and the crown chakra Sahasrara is not equivalent with the crown Sephira Kether. The system of yoga is a necessary prerequisite for traveling up the tree not a substitute for it. This can be seen in the attribution of the World trump, which symbolizes Kundalini awakening, to the first path leading from the terrestrial realm to the astral Sephiroth Yesod. Yoga is the practice that gives entrance to the tree, it does not subsume it. This is how religion should be practiced. Master yoga, and use the Tarot trumps to learn the riddles that are posed by the guardians of the paths. While astral projection can be learned and practiced to get some limited access to the astral Sephira; Yesod, Hod, and Netzach, this is essentially a dead end to further work, because astral projection occurs in a semi-conscious state and is over-shadowed by interference from the dream world as well as unprocessed impressions from daily life in Malkuth. In order to travel the tree with full consciousness, one must raise the Kundalini Serpent all the way up the spine and sustain it. This is not a small feat, and it is where many schools of yoga end. I would argue that it is the end of heaven-blindness and ignorance of the Source, but merely a beginning in the practice of mysticism. As such the diagram above is the only map one needs to explore higher dimensions through rigorous practice and devotion to Union with God.
On the latest episode of ‘Excuse me,what?’, they visit the people of the “psychic capitol of the world.”
Cassadaga, Florida, USA … a tiny, 57 acre, unincorporated community, built by a leader in the American Spiritualism movement, which peaked in popularity in the latter half of 19th century. This town has more psychic mediums per capita than anywhere else in the world, and quite an interesting past.
A Mr. George P. Colby was a famed, travelling Spiritualist medium (1848-1933). At the bright age of 12, he was baptised at a church in Minneapolis. Minnesota, and soon afterward, began to experience the abilities of clairvoyance and psychic healing.
According to him, he was visited by many spiritual guides, but the most clear and frequent called itself ‘Seneca’ and described itself as the spirit of a great Native American chief. George said that Seneca had told him as a child that he’d found a great Spiritualist community in the American South, and in 1894, that’s exactly what he did.
The Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Meeting Association was founded by George in December of 1894, and has remained something of a refuge for the psychically inclined ever since. It even found a place on the US National Registry of Historic Places.
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Another great tarot resource I’ve come across today, via the moderator of the Thoth tarot FB group I’m a member of is this clickable Kabbalah diagram at https://nofaithinthehumanrace.com/777/index.php?deck=crowley&show777=1&key=1
An interactive diagram of the Tree of Life, it will show the placement of the cards upon the tree, and give an in-depth overview of the cards and their meanings. I’ll be consulting this site daily as we work through the rest of the Trumps in our tarot series. Thanks to Bart Deleplanque
In looking for more background on alchemy and tarot I stumbled upon this podcast with Robert M. Place the originator of the Alchemical Tarot deck. An accomplished historian of the tarot, he goes into a lot of detail about how the tarot can be an alchemical manual, despite not being the ancient work of wisdom that some occultists believed. It’s a 2 hour program, but if you’ve got some time dive in, it is informative.