Sleep Over with Carolyn and Laila

Carolyn, Laila, and Rory talk about how Shadow Work, Theurgy, and Expanding Our Capacity to be Present with High Sensation weave together to create a virtuous upward spiral of grounded, profound positive change in our lives - and that’s why they are the pillars of the life-changing work we do in the Immortal College.

Carolyn and Laila talk about the demon Olivia Soprano, the evil eye, and the psychedelic medicine of Dune 2.

Carolyn forces Laila and other friends to nerd out with her about her current obsession: the Hermetic genius mathematician Stan Tenen and his mind- blowing discovery of the exquisite geometric metaphor underlying the pattern of the Hebrew letters in the first verse of Genesis. Those letters form a torroid pattern and the torroid consists in 6 hand-shaped sections. The shadows of the hand form the Hebrew letters (at different angles, also the Arabic and Greek) thus making the first verse of Genesis a “fruit that contains the seed of the fruit in itself.” See Stan Tenen’s Meru Foundation YouTube channel for much more info, including his series “The Alphabet in Our Hands.” Also check out the Meru Foundation website and Stan’s book the Alphabet that Changed the World

Carolyn, Rory, Laila and David dish about the great Hermetic teaching text and comic book Promethea by Alan Moore and how it has benefited their lives and given them magickal hope.

Carolyn and Laila sit down to talk about Babalon and how slutty magick shadow re-collecting power works.

Carolyn and Laila hang out at Laila’s kitchen table and talk about the life-saving magick of EK, the crystallization of Wholeness as Battle Magick — and also, Carolyn evidences live, in real time, her Pooh Bear Siddhi of manifesting sweet treats.

Listen to this if you’re in the mood for a potent distillation of high level magickal knowledge from the Germanic pagan tradition woven into Thelemic and Jungian stuff. Carolyn sits down with her wise husband David Lovewell and their dear friend Frank Cafardi to talk about the Fylgja (the Fetch, anima / animus, HGA) and Hamingja (luck, karma) and how they interact. Carolyn ties it all together at the end to Solomonic magick and the alchemical truths of Harry Potter.

While on vacation in Tulum, Carolyn sits down with Frank Cafardi, who is a steelworker, swordsman, left-hand path Germanic pagan practitioner and also her husband David’s best friend. They talk about Frank’s approach to the Great Work via metallurgy and combat arts.

While Laila sleeps in for some much-needed rest, Carolyn sits down for breakfast at the El Segundo Hilton Garden Inn transdimensional vortex of healing to talk with Dr. Robert and Dr. Luzette McDonald about their Traumatic Memory Resolution Project, designed to help people resolve traumatic memories at online events, en masse. Dr. Robert and Dr. Luzette share dramatic stories of painful memories that they’ve resolved for themselves and for clients and talk about how understanding the true nature of the mind facilitates this kind of healing work.

(First 30 seconds have hiss, after that much better 😇) Carolyn and Laila talk with husbands David and Rory about the magick of honoring your Soul Contract - the perils of straying from the path, and the rewards of submitting to it.

1980s trad wives Carolyn and Laila indulge in their monstrous wrongthink one evening at a local playground, whipping up a festival of disdain for mob rule and sympathy for entertaining alleged evil-doers: Lizzo, Bill Murray, and Russell Brand.

Carolyn and Laila talk about Carolyn’s recent theory that AC, with all his scandalousness and mythopoetic self-identification as the Great Beast of The Book of Revelations, succeeded in “immanentizing the eschaton” (to borrow a phrase of the late, great Terrence McKenna) and revealing to Western consciousness a new archetype of the whole Self, later elaborated by Carl Jung in his 1951 classic, Aion, about Christ and Antichrist.

On a glorious Sunday morning at a Mystery School immersion, Carolyn and Laila sit down to talk with the genius somatic therapist and teacher Luis Mojica about the queerness of the magickian Jesus Christ and what it really takes to embody love and forgiveness.

Carolyn, Laila, and Laila’s boyfriend Rory discuss the complicated relationships between people and their inner others, how this complicates relationships with outer others, and whether the distinction between self and inner other is as distinct as has been presented in the past.

On a lovely late spring evening, Laila and Carolyn start out with a leisurely pondering of magickal collaboration with their friend Neil, the set designer and effects producer for Sleep 💤 Over Mystery School. Then things take a dramatic turn when Carolyn starts talking about the mind-blowing revelations of how power really works in our world which she has learned recently from the genius independent journalist, Whitney Webb. This leads Carolyn and Laila into a deep contemplation of what the world needs to get free of the chains of blackmail. You can check out Whitney Webb’s site Unlimited Hangout, read her two-volume book One Nation Under Blackmail, and search for podcasts that feature her as a guest on YouTube and Rumble and Spotify.

Carolyn and Laila talk about the deep self-reflective psychedelic medicine of ritual initiation, and how the universe is constantly fulfilling our wildest dreams and nightmares us to wake us up to our creative, magickal agency

Carolyn and Laila talk about the mind-melting synchronicities and visions connected to the most recent Sleep Over Mystery School, Rosicrucian Summer Camp edition. Also continuing thoughts about LaMDA and our gnostic hero Blake Lemoine.

To their great delight and embarrassment, Laila and Carolyn are living their midlife Midwestern New Age dreams by having A Course in Miracles phase. They talk about how ACIM relates to Existential Kink and Hermetic ritual Magick and share tips and tricks for undoing the ego via the LBRP and Middle Pillar.

Laila and Carolyn read aloud from participants’ writings about their experience in Sleep 💤 Over Mystery School 2022. Carolyn gets nauseous with nondual DMT levels of Love. 🥰🌹🌋😎

Laila and Carolyn chat in Laila’s car about their recent surrender into 12 Step culture and what “Do what Thou wilt is the whole of the Law; Love is the Law, Love under Will” really means.

Laila comes over to teach Carolyn to play GO. Lulu plays loudly with the pieces. David chimes in about how the Khabs is in the Ku, not the Ku in the Khabs. Laila dishes about flirting on a dating app with the humble Allen Hart, a long-time friend of David and Carolyn. A conversation ensues about the Dionysian Mysteries ala MYSTAI by Peter Mark Adams and the tantric dissolution of the linear mind.

Something is rotten in the censored state of the internet. Carolyn and Laila talk about it.

Laila and Carolyn talk about their evolving strategies for giving themselves deep permission to rest and surrender in a hectic world.

There is really only one current in the universe - the Yes current. No is false; it’s just resistance to yes.

When the surf gets rough, remember that it’s not personal, and the Hermeneutic choice remains available. Samsara’s gonna samsara.