The Gypsy Scholar introduces the Musical Essay series:
"The Shamanic Journey to the North Pole Star & The Golden-Age Arctic Homeland"
Preface to the "Shamanic Journey to the North Star & Golden-Age Arctic Homeland" musical essay series: "The Nostalgia For A Lost Paradise or Golden Age in the Archaic Myth of the New Year."Click here
Thematic Images of Precession of Equinoxes for North Pole Star & The Golden-Age Arctic Homeland
The Ancient Sky-Story of the Zodiac and the Cosmic Gods Mithras, Phanes and Aeon
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The Ancient Sky-Story of Arthur and the Great Bear: "Arthur's Chariot"
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Thematic Images for the Shamanic & Hermetic Journeys to the North Star
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North Star star-maps ancient and modern
Thematic Images for Alchemical Ascent via Axis Mundi to North Star
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"And your stairway / Reaches up to the moon." (Van Morrison - 'Vanlose Stairway')
From "The Shamanic Journey to the North Pole Star & The Golden-Age Arctic Homeland." "In Norse mythology and in much of Siberian shamanism, the cosmos is three-layered. In the upper world, images such as climbing a central tree, mountain, rainbow, ladder or stairway; ascending into the sky on smoke; flying on an animal...." "The following quotation from a literary critic will serve to connect the tradition of shamanic ascent with a previous musical essay series on the theme of 'The Troubadours and the Beloved,' which discussed the romance tradition of the medieval troubadours: 'Romance … eventually takes us into the great Eros theme in which the lover is driven by his love to ascend to a higher world. This ascent is full of images of climbing or flying, of mountains, towers, ladders, spiral staircases, the shooting of arrows, or climbing out of the sea on to an island'."
Thematic Images for the Paradisiacal North Pole Star & Golden-Age Arctic Homeland
Hyperborean Idyll (Norman Lindsay 1923)
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Thematic Images for the Paradisiacal "Sailing Into the Mystic": Hyperborea's Lost Gardens of Apollo
Apollo, god of poetry and music
Apollo and the Muses
Apollo/Apollon, god of Hyperborea
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Click on image to access Special Presentations pagefor the thematic images of Sailing Into the Mystic, North Star & Sailing to the Northern Arctic Paradise, Going Down to the Crossroads Leading to the Arcadian Groves, Elysium & Arcadian Fields.
For link to the Terence McKenna website, Hyperborea: The Alcemical Garden at the Edge of Time, click on image above.
A fun video which contains the quote from Nietzsche on the "Hyperboreans" the Gypsy Scholar read on the air.
Thematic Images (photos & paintings) for Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)
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"Aurora Borealis" (Church)
"Aurora Borealis" (Silapasuwanchai)
Aurora Borealis poem
"Aurora Borealis By Ship" -Sailing Into The Mystic
Thematic Images For the Arctic Night-Sea Voyage to the North Pole & Star
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Thematic Images for North Star (Polaris/Stella Maris)
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North Star Arctic Paradise
Northstar (Dulac)
North Star wonderment
Wonder at the stars: the mercy of the fallen
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