Once a year, I run an eight week online interactive course for individuals who are studying Timothy Leary's eight circuit brain system. In the course, there's a whole section where we enter into chapel perilous experience and how to recognize it,. How to identify finding ways to go into it, how to escape it. So it becomes its own kind of practice, the entering and escaping of chapel perilous. There's a number of ways to go about that.
In this episode, we chat with underground film maker, professional astrologer, paratheater ritualist, teacher, writer, forest walker, dreamer and no form engineer Antero Alli on Chapel Perilous, paratheater, and the Eight Circuit model.
Antero Alli:
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“Chapel Perilous is a stage in the magickal quest in which your maps turn out to be totally inadequate for the territory, and you’re completely lost. And at that point you get an ally who helps you find your way back to something you can understand. And then after that for the rest of your life you’ve got this question: Was that ally a supernatural helper, or was it just part of my own mind trying to save me from going totally bonkers with this stuff? And the people I know who’ve had that kind of experience, very few of them have come to an absolutely certain conclusion about that.” -Robert Anton Wilson, “Maybe Logic”