Round the Herne

 To celebrate Halloween 2025, here's a recording of Shane Leslie's 1931 short story (or, really, two stories glued together) about spooky goings on. The weather is looking a bit high risk for anyone contemplating a besom ride later tonight.

 The discussion topic for the November meeting of the Suffolk Jungian Circle (online, 7.30pm on Wednesday 26th) is the Star Wars films and how they can be understood from a Jungian stance. The recording below is to kickstart talk, but I am only focusing on the original three films - mainly because I haven't kept up to date with the more recent additions. However, people joining in with the chat may wish to expand into the newer films. If you would like the link to join in the discussion, please let me know.

  A story for Halloween about awakening the Beast Within and the dangers of having an insatiable appetite for revenge (it's a hard path to run back from). It's always the quiet ones you have to watch out for...

 A recording for the October meeting of the Suffolk Jungian Circle (on 29th at 7.30pm, if you would like to be sent the link). This time we will be discussing Jung's views on parapsychology and some of the ways in which it can be understood within the realm of analytic psychology.

 There are quite a few stories told of the legendary Rabbi Loeb who lived in Prague during the 1500s. Several of them centre around his creation of a golem, an animated clay servant possessed of supernatural strength but unable to speak. This was recorded partly because my Jewish friends are celebrating Yom Kippur and partly because of the horrible terrorist attack on the Manchester Synagogue. I've always found the Jewish people I have known to be positive and supportive towards pagans, perhaps because they recognise a fellow minority religion that has often come in for violent suppression.  The nauseating level of anti-Semitism that has been building in this country for some years is deeply worrying. Not only do I worry about what will happen to the people I know (not to mention the much larger numbers of people I don't know), but I am also minded of what someone so famous I have forgotten their name called the Canary in the Mineshaft. When authoritarians get away with attack...