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The Art of Drama and Blowing your Trumpet.
Announcing the self as an archetype in the formal presentation of Astral Wanderings and addressing the Tylers/Guardians on the Threshold thereof. Continue reading
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Grimoires.
Of making, the construction of The Book Of Shadows, The personal written Gnosis and the Grimoire of each Individual. Continue reading
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Books (An Ode to a Old Bookshop)
An Ode to Books, To dusty Bookshops, to antiquated libraries and the shelves of the inquisitive. Continue reading
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The Chaldean Oracles (i-xxx)
An overview of 30 of the ‘slokas’ from the so called;- “The Chaldean oracles” from the perspective of channelled insight without subjective construction. Continue reading
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Tale of the Jinn’-Rumi
The Tale of Amal. Unwritten and Oral tradition reception of discourse with ‘Rumi’ as recounted from lucid Dream work. Continue reading
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Daily Writing Prompt ~20th Aug (What do you love about where you live?)
In many respects I am in the antithesis of where I should be. I should be in the middle of nowhere amongst nature, or in a creepy shack in a liminal wood, or perhaps a house of mystery with hauntings and past atrocities aplenty. I live in West London in what’s called the Avenues. I… Continue reading
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The Solar Eclipse of 1996 on Aleister Crowley’s birthday.
Revisiting old work as created in decades old ‘Book of Shadows’ and meditations upon the qabbalah. remembering the younger self. Continue reading
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Daily writing prompt 19th Aug (What positive emotion do you feel most often?)
The quest to learn. It’s like a burning desire that will never get quenched. Learn guitar, you’ll always find new scales or new rhythms and genres to learn, learn art and there’s always a new technique. Who wants to be a master knowing it all, it would be like having so much money there is… Continue reading
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Cut and Paste/ Reworking and recreate.
A brief Introduction to The Art of the Montage, The Cut and Paste works, where plagiarism becomes original work of expression. Continue reading
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The Man Who Knew Everything (and wrote it all down)
A tale where Fact is embellished with artistic licence. The Man who wrote everything down and recounted everything by the same said book. Continue reading
The Random musings of a nobody. “Dagenham Dave”, is slang for someone one stop short of Barking (mad), though more contemporarily refers to any wayfaring and carefree person. Dagenham is a town to the eastern side of London (Luds Dominium) that was first recorded in a Barking charter in 666a.d. as the town of Daeccanham. Daecca is an ancient man’s name meaning ‘bright’ or ‘famous’ . Ham is short for Hamlet.
Dave is short for David, Hebrew for ‘Beloved’, My Surname ‘Wenborn’ derives from old English meaning of the Winding Stream.
Contents:-
1/ Book Reviews.
They’re not reviews as such- to recommend or asway, I neither seek to promote nor condemn, more my personal reflections on the books I read. In that respect it’s a subjective thing. I write the reviews as it instils in the mind, like writing down your dreams on waking, the right to remember.
2/ Short Stories and Tales
Short stories borne from imagination, dreams, thoughts and wanderings. Too large to be written in my journal of shadows.
3/ Full Books
Books that were once published elsewhere, I have full copyright on these, and of course given here freely.
4/ Magazines and Articles
Small snippets and articles that may or may not have appeared elsewhere, and information not included in Journal of shadows.
5/ Poetry
A small selection of poetry. Like song, I create as a means to an artistic diary.
6/ WordPress Challenges
Wordpress (where this website is hosted) offer up a daily prompt for people to answer, sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t.
I do not accept donations or offers, bribes etc, and do not advertise or am paid to promote anything either. All donations should be sent to either of the following ;-
Zarach ~ Helping Children living in poverty
Street Talk ~ Helping women trapped in prostitution and trafficking
Email at the following ;-
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