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James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish Barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, a visual artist, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution. His website is http://www.jamestunney.com.
In this reboot from 2020, James acknowledges that he is approaching this topic as a mystic and a scholar, but not as a practitioner of ceremonial magic. He reviews various historical cases of conjuring, particularly that of John Dee, the court astrologer to Elizabeth I. He points out that laws against conjuring were established by Elizabeth's father, Henry VIII. He describes various dangers associated with conjuring, including possession. Tunney contrasts the magical practice of conjuring with the mystical journey that necessitates letting go of egotistical attachments.
(Recorded on October 10, 2020)
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LINKS TO SOME OTHER BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS INTERVIEW:
James Tunney, The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution – amzn.to/2ugamVh
J. Tunney, Ireland I Don’t Recognize Who She Is — amzn.to/2UZfExY
J. Tunney, Blue Lies September – amzn.to/3ak4NFt
Hestleton, Wiccan Roots: Gerald Gardner and the Modern Witchcraft Revival – amzn.to/2Dq1wsY
Shakespeare, The Tempest – amzn.to/2T61drs
Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus – amzn.to/2H8QCcF
Symonds, Pope Leo XIII and the Prayer To St. Michael – amzn.to/3k3FSed
Steiner, The Archangel Michael: His Mission and Ours – amzn.to/3kaAXYP
Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages – amzn.to/3dzkH1j
Underhill, Mysticism – amzn.to/2T4GLHK
Underhill, The Column of Dust – amzn.to/353kpMc
Martin, Hostage to the Devil – amzn.to/3j29wze
MacGregor Mathers, The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage – amzn.to/2HeTTax
Gary Lachman, Aleister Crowley – amzn.to/3o26b6Y
C. S. Lewis, How to be a Christian – amzn.to/3kbajiB
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings – amzn.to/37glnqZ
Peter J. Carroll, Liber Null & Psychonaut – amzn.to/2FGDCL2
Phil Baker, Austin Osman Spare – amzn.to/3j8NBGC
Graf, W. B. Yeats: Twentieth Century Magus – amzn.to/37iyXdM
Evans-Wentz, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries – amzn.to/2YsOl1Y
Harper, Yeats's Golden Dawn – amzn.to/37fOZEZ
Peter Kingsley, Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic – amzn.to/355Be9q
James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish Barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, a visual artist, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution. His website is http://www.jamestunney.com.
In this reboot from 2020, James acknowledges that he is approaching this topic as a mystic and a scholar, but not as a practitioner of ceremonial magic. He reviews various historical cases of conjuring, particularly that of John Dee, the court astrologer to Elizabeth I. He points out that laws against conjuring were established by Elizabeth's father, Henry VIII. He describes various dangers associated with conjuring, including possession. Tunney contrasts the magical practice of conjuring with the mystical journey that necessitates letting go of egotistical attachments.
(Recorded on October 10, 2020)
For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see newthinkingallowed.com/Listings.htm.
Check out the New Thinking Allowed Foundation website at http://www.newthinkingallowed.org. There you will find our incredible, searchable database – plus, this is where people can subscribe to our FREE, weekly Newsletter and can download a FREE .pdf copy of our quarterly magazine.
To order high-quality, printed copies of our quarterly magazine: NTA-Magazine.MagCloud.com
Check out New Thinking Allowed's AI chatbot. You can create a free account at awakin.ai/open/jeffreymishlove. When you enter the space, you will see that our chatbot is one of several you can interact with. While it is still a work in progress, it has been trained on 1,600 NTA transcripts. It can provide intelligent answers about the contents of our interviews.
If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to friends@newthinkingallowed.com.
To download and listen to audio versions of New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our new podcast at itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/new-thinking-allowed-audio-podcast/id1435178031.
Download & read Jeffrey Mishlove's Grand Prize essay in the Bigelow Institute competition, Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death, go to bigelowinstitute.org/docs/1st.pdf.
You can help support our video productions while enjoying a good book. To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on amzn.to/3LzLA7Y (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.)
To order the second book in the New Thinking Allowed Dialogues series, Russell Targ: Ninety Years of ESP, Remote Viewing, and Timeless Awareness, go to amzn.to/4aw2iyr
To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: UFOs and UAP – Are We Really Alone?, go to amzn.to/3Y0VOVh
To order a copy of Charles T. Tart: Seventy Years of Exploring Consciousness and Parapsychology, go to amzn.to/4oOUJLn
To order The Mystery of the Trapped Light by James Tunney, click here: amzn.to/3cPLRR4.
LINKS TO SOME OTHER BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS INTERVIEW:
James Tunney, The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution – amzn.to/2ugamVh
J. Tunney, Ireland I Don’t Recognize Who She Is — amzn.to/2UZfExY
J. Tunney, Blue Lies September – amzn.to/3ak4NFt
Hestleton, Wiccan Roots: Gerald Gardner and the Modern Witchcraft Revival – amzn.to/2Dq1wsY
Shakespeare, The Tempest – amzn.to/2T61drs
Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus – amzn.to/2H8QCcF
Symonds, Pope Leo XIII and the Prayer To St. Michael – amzn.to/3k3FSed
Steiner, The Archangel Michael: His Mission and Ours – amzn.to/3kaAXYP
Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages – amzn.to/3dzkH1j
Underhill, Mysticism – amzn.to/2T4GLHK
Underhill, The Column of Dust – amzn.to/353kpMc
Martin, Hostage to the Devil – amzn.to/3j29wze
MacGregor Mathers, The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage – amzn.to/2HeTTax
Gary Lachman, Aleister Crowley – amzn.to/3o26b6Y
C. S. Lewis, How to be a Christian – amzn.to/3kbajiB
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings – amzn.to/37glnqZ
Peter J. Carroll, Liber Null & Psychonaut – amzn.to/2FGDCL2
Phil Baker, Austin Osman Spare – amzn.to/3j8NBGC
Graf, W. B. Yeats: Twentieth Century Magus – amzn.to/37iyXdM
Evans-Wentz, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries – amzn.to/2YsOl1Y
Harper, Yeats's Golden Dawn – amzn.to/37fOZEZ
Peter Kingsley, Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic – amzn.to/355Be9q
