Author: jason.triefenbach
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Darkening of the Light
Welcome, dear ones. The days grow ever shorter, and the branches bare their souls as the earth is littered with ruby leaves all along my street. Nylon webs sprout from the eaves of houses and purple lights twinkle as we approach the first station of the so-called Holiday Season. Although I haven’t crafted a horror…
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Rites of Kinship
~ With help from my new cane I made it to the summit of my favorite volcano today, for the first time in over a year. I arrived to the park an hour before sunset, and spent most of the intervening duration sitting on my collapsible stool, facing West, chanting solar-chthonic names to honor the…
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Robert Rubin’s “Anubeon”
~ I was recently offered a glimpse at the forthcoming magical text The Anubeon by esoteric author and teacher Robert Rubin of Magick.TV. He sent me the book’s introduction and first chapter in pdf form, and I printed them at home for ease of handling. The text is poetic yet written in a straightforward style, and…
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Barbarous Tongues
a journal of arts and esoterica Friends, Patrons, Collaborators! I’m truly ecstatic to finally share with you my newest project, BARBAROUS TONGUES: A Journal of Arts and Esoterica! This publication has taken a large portion of my brain space and energy for the past year and then some. It is the primary reason my blog…
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The Dumbering
_ “Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451. It’s been around half a year since my last post – I…
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In Heaven
~ ~ I hope this quick note finds you well, dear friends! Many of us, I’m sure, are saddened by the passing of filmaker and creative auteur David Lynch. His great wit, insight, and mastery of existential dread and magical realism will be enshrined as a touchstone of our cultural heritage and a defining example…
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Superfunding the Sacred
This paper attempts to synthesize my personal understanding of ecological devastation enacted upon a particular site – Onondaga Lake – and to correlate my reflections on this case to further develop my thinking on concurrent issues of restoration, empathy, and the personhood of non-human beings and landscape features.
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Coupled Systems
As some of you may know, there is an Ecstatic Agendas channel over on Youtube. My attention to that medium has been sporadic at best, but I hope to pick up my pace and regularity on the platform. In fact, I have posted two videos this week. The first is a short account of a…
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Among the Dwarves
All photos Jason Triefenbach and JM Kamp In my body It is midnight The spray Of black waterfalls Resounds One year ago this week I had the opportunity to visit Iceland with my spouse. In addition to taking in the natural beauty of the island and the quirky culture of its people, I engaged with the…
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Gateway to the Rest
It’s been a busy summer; full of procrastination, yard work, and Irish whiskey. As Spring term at my university came to its proper end, I drafted a To Do list three pages long. Thankfully, after checking off a few items in the first week, I haven’t looked at it since! I was in my former…
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Breaking New Ground
Egad! I realize suddenly: it has been three months since last I cast a cursed composition into this blasted blogosphere! This despite writing more in the past half a year than probably ever before in my life. While I’ve been away, my attention has been devoted almost exclusively to classwork, and I am becoming somewhat…
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Scavenged Rituals
In review: Scavenged Rituals Issue V1N3 released Autumn 2023, available from Portland Button Works and The Spiral House Shop I recently came across an online discussion stating that the Foundation for Shamanic Studies Europe has begun denying entrance to pagans and witches (1). Meanwhile, The Serpent’s Key, an esoteric supply shop in Hanover Pennsylvania, has endured…
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The Hekataeon (review)
This is a quick writeup done off the cuff, based on a customer review I posted to Miskatonic’s site with a typo I can’t correct. So here’s a slightly different draft of what’s written there. Another full post is coming soon! Happy Solstice! – Jason The Hekataeon – Medea (green) edition by Jack Grayle. Grayle…
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Green Dream Threshold
. One morning, as I woke, I was led toward Henbane by an unseen guide. I tell that story HERE, and by the end of it I’d got my hands on some ink – specifically this Verdant Inks Green Blood Henbane from Rosarium Blends. That was in the Summer- the vial arrived and sat unopened into Autumn…
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JT and the Chthonic Daimonic
This is an account of spirit contact during a weekend trip to the woods that my darling life-partner treated me to recently! The following takes place at night, in Western Oregon, in a popular state park. The park is situated so as to protect the remains of an ancient forest now surrounded by farmland and…
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As the Crow Flies
“We may only be subordinates / but we hear everything All your closed door conversations / we’re always listening We sense frequencies you’d never hear / or think to pay attention to” – Ezra Furman (1) Greetings, Comrades! The rain is finally here, and with it come the short days of silver light filtering gently…
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Jumping In Place
August 2023 “I am a rock… I am an island… – Simon and Garfunkle (1) Protective talisman from from Papyri Greco Magicae VII The Greek Magical Papyri In Translation, Ed. Hans Dieter Betz (2) … In a society… All of us ride in- and sometimes even pilot– our own personal spheres of influence. We use…
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Herbarium Tremens
_ Fullness and Satiety to you my lovely friends. Tonight we have our front door open, and the sound of crickets is echoing in from the dark. This above is a cupful of Borage petals and seeds – I have been drying them through the Summer as my plants drop them. This is a generational…
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