The Path of Poisons online course

His­tor­i­cal and Anthro­po­log­i­cal Dimen­sions of Poi­son in the West­ern Tra­di­tion Intro­duc­tion Course Syl­labus Intro­duc­tion It seems the allure of Poi­sons is irre­sistible to us. Despite rep­re­sent­ing what is dan­ger­ous and for­bid­den, we can­not seem to ever escape their call­ing; poi­sons inspire some­thing primeval and pow­er­ful­ly seduc­tive, they offer us the chance to unveil oth­er­wise unfath­omable… Con­tin­ue Reading →

La Senda de los Venenos curso online

Dimen­siones históri­c­as y antropológ­i­cas del Veneno en la Tradi­ción Occi­den­tal Intro­duc­ción Con­tenidos del Cur­so Intro­duc­ción Parece que el encan­to de los venenos es irre­sistible para el ser humano. A pesar de rep­re­sen­tar lo que es peli­groso y pro­hibido, parece que nun­ca podemos escapar de su lla­ma­da; los venenos inspi­ran algo prim­i­ti­vo y poderosa­mente seduc­tor, nos… Con­tin­ue Reading →

Pyrene, Awaken Once More

This week­end we attend­ed the sec­ond edi­tion of L’Homme Sauvage fes­ti­val, in the French region of Occ­i­ta­nia. We nev­er thought it would be pos­si­ble, but this edi­tion was even bet­ter than the first one. Every­thing seemed to col­lide per­fect­ly: the peo­ple, the per­for­mances, the loca­tion, and a feel­ing that gave cohe­sion to it all, orches­trat­ed… Con­tin­ue Reading →

Reading Suggestions on the Poison Path

In all hon­esty, it has been real­ly hard to write this post: it has tak­en us more than 2 years. We have nev­er been real­ly fond of read­ing lists, and thus we expect this arti­cle will not be seen like that. We have received lots of enquiries regard­ing rec­om­mend­ed books in herbal­ism and the Poi­son Path… Con­tin­ue Reading →

What we lose and what we find in Slumber

Exis­tence often ignores our per­son­al agen­da. The events that take place in our lives make us col­lapse and we feel like every­thing pre­vents us from mov­ing for­ward as we had pre­vi­ous­ly planned. Our life and our path are sub­ject to that of oth­ers and to those things that we do not expect, to the Inevitable.… Con­tin­ue Reading →

Awakening the territory, building the link between the seen and the unseen: the sorcerous mystery of L’Homme Sauvage

On Sep­tem­ber 29th we start­ed a jour­ney to L’Homme Sauvage fes­ti­val, held in the small town of Aspet, in the French Pyre­nees. As we have men­tioned sev­er­al times, Occvl­ta is now estab­lished in the Cata­lan Pyre­nees, an area called Pal­lars Sobirà, so it was real­ly easy to get there, just need­ing to cross one moun­tain… Con­tin­ue Reading →

A Ritual of Harvest

Autumn is here. Not astro­nom­i­cal­ly, not “offi­cial­ly” here, but there is always one day when you can feel the vibra­tions of autumn in your bones, in the trees, in the wind. And that time came last Thurs­day. I left home to do the last har­vest before the Dark Half of the Year (dur­ing that time… Con­tin­ue Reading →

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