Ep283: Seance, Summoning, & Goetic Demons - Duncan Barford 2
Duncan Barford is a occult practitioner, counsellor, and author of Occult Experiments in the Home.
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Duncan details the different categories of spirits and entities, ranging from ghosts to demons to angels to elementals and land spirits.
Duncan reveals his own encounters with these entities, recalls paradigm shifting fire kasina retreats with Daniel Ingram, and shares his own ideas about the importance and inevitability of working with the dead while on the spiritual path.
Duncan also explains the Goetia, a controversial system of summoning demons for personal gain; recalls his own and others’ experiences of the system; and reflects on what drives practitioners to seek tangible contact with the realms beyond.
00:00 - Intro
00:57 - Ontology of spirit entities
04:18 - How to categorise spirits
07:07 - Different spirit relationships
08:18 - Demonic entities and their demands
09:44 - What is the Goetic magickal system?
11:08 - Dangers of working with Goetic entities
13:48 - When Duncan used a Goetic demon for money
15:24 - Addictive quality of working with demons
16:55 - Goetia as magick of last resort
18:33 - Why do people work with Goetic demons?
21:41 - Duncan reflects on his Goetic rituals
24:43 - Barrier to entry for success in magick
29:37 - Duncan comments on the Enochian system
32:16 - Fey and fairies
33:28 - A challenging fire kasina retreat
35:18 - A powerful encounter with elementals and nature spirits
40:47 - Duncan reflects on his fire kasina retreats
43:59 - Encounter with Duncan’s guardian angel
45:27 - Why seek supernatural experiences after enlightenment?
47:49 - Shared magickal experiences with Daniel Ingram
49:52 - Duncan’s breakthrough and a compelling encounter with Spider Buddha
58:44 - Dreams as a portal
01:00:09 - Contacting the dead
01:01:31 - The hatred of the dead
01:02:27 - Death of Duncan’s father and dream visitations
01:08:25 - What the dead leave behind
01:10:18 - Helping the dead to let go vs judging them
01:14:15 - The fear of death
01:14:45 - Denying the dead
01:17:02 - We are accountable to the dead
01:18:53 - Carl Jung on relating to the dead
01:20:15 - Duncan’s affinity with the poet John Clare
01:21:18 - Duncan’s encounter with Badger
01:22:05 - The perfected dead
01:23:18 - Working with ancestors
01:24:55 - We live in a world of the dead
01:26:00 - Duncan’s advice for working with the dead
01:27:29 - Encountering the dead in the Odyssey and Aeneid
01:33:41 - The dead as bundles of karma
01:34:52 - National myths and history as propaganda
01:39:32 - Black Easter and occult means of obtaining power and influence
01:47:15 - Magick and politics
01:49:24 - Glory and honour
01:50:27 - Are magicians political?
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