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Sacred directionality: the celestial powers

Part II: cosmic powers as initiators and gateways for the soul’s journey
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Foundational Concepts

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Sacred directionality: the celestial powers
Part II: cosmic powers as initiators and gateways for the soul’s journey
 • Mark Nemglan
Sacred directionality: a primer
Part I: the ordered world and the cosmic schema
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Why we need to destroy all faeries*
*Metaphorically.
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The past isn't a foreign country - it's a failed state
Scientific, institutionalised authority hijacked history and now denies us a future. But we can reject those narratives by finding new sources of…
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The world between worlds: myth, archetypal memory and the imaginal realm
How the timeless realm of the imaginal became the modern otherworld
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A thought experiment: the island that embraced the otherworld
What happens when modern humans grow up without materialism
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A crisis of consciousness: recovering the numinous in an age of disenchantment
Why our reality excludes the otherworld, how it happened, and what we can do in response
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Mind everywhere: why the otherworld refuses to disappear
What if the otherworld is not an hallucination but real, and science is doomed to misread it?
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Beyond belief: ritual, materiality, and the ancestral mind
Why ritual lies at the heart of the things archaeology cannot fully explain
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Eldritch East Anglia

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Why St Edmund is unique amongst saints
An incorrupt saint who was also a king and a martyr, a hagiographic topography grew around his legend
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The gates to the kingdom
The enigma of East Anglia's great linear defensive earthworks
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The infamous Troston 'demon'
Some of our best examples of medieval apotropaic paintings and graffiti
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The Wodewose
Suffolk's unusual depictions of silvestres homines – the wild men of the woods
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Walking the Anglo-Saxon Hundred Lanes
They still carve through the landscape a thousand years after the Anglo-Saxons created them
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Rare depictions of East Anglia's saint
The church houses two extremely rare medieval works of art
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The Grundles: holloways and ditches
On the edge of Stanton lurks a deep and mysterious half-mile long trackway
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Burial site of Wuffinga kings
On the banks of the River Deben is one of the country’s most significant archaeological sites
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Suffolk’s atmospheric old minster
One of two remote East Anglian minsters - both located at 'Elmham'
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The vill of overlord King Rædwald
This is the power-base of the Wuffinga Saxon royal dynasty
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The remnants of an ancient gospel oak
It was planted in roughly 643AD, just 20 years after the burial of King Rædwald
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Lindsey Chapel
It’s thatched roof and simple plan evoke a much older building
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Exploring ancestral mind and consciousness through the places and landscapes they inhabited, with a focus on British prehistory. Otherworld studies, if you like.
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