Is There a Muse in the Onema?

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The on the archetype is something I've been in intimately involved with unconsciously at first in my 20s and 30s when I was projecting it on to women in romantic pursuits. And then later on in my 40s I mistakenly assume that the onema was also the muse but they were different archetypes entirely. It's of a very different guilt than the muses architect, but what I've discovered with this is personal to meI don't know if it's true for everyone else or any other artist. But in my own interactions with the onema she seems to be somewhat of a messenger between my conscious ego and the muses sometimes not always but sometimes she will serve as a kind of

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.

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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”