From: "toyin adepoju"
Thank you very much for your last mail.
Please forgive my late response.I have been studying the mail.
I am doing done some research online on the Nava-Yoni Mandala concept you mentioned which led me to this impressive site:http://www.sics.se/~piak/yoga/yantra/ .
Your description of your encounters with Valuna is very intriguing.It would be most interesting to learn more about that and similar encounters with the figures you depict.
I wonder if you would consider providing more descriptions of personal experience,perhaps as accompanying the descriptions of each of the Goetic spirits..I think it would deepen your work immeasurably,taking it from the level of theory to that of experience.I know you already have at least one such account in perhaps your Yahoo 360 degree blog,describing an encounter with the Aboriginal girl spirit.
I would be pleased to have any suggestions from you on the material I am preparing in connection with your work.I am still working on the idea of a book proposal of your work to present to a publisher.I want to first educate myself significantly about your work,and grasp its several dimensions,including those aspects which are relevant for their imaginative power,an imaginative force that can be appreciated even by those who are not interested in the magical inspiration of the work,but are interested in ideas,in new imagistic configurations,in the wedding of the erotic with the trangressive and yet illuminating,among other possiblities that inspire your thinking. .
I want to see if your work,in and of itself,can be appreciated as art and imaginative literature,with the magical dimension as a matrix which enables a level of appreciation which could be accessed by those who are so inclined,the entire ensemble being a structure that can be appreciated at various intimately interrelated levels.The art and the magic are not separate but emerge in relation to each other;at the same time,however,a person could respond to one without relating onself to the other,even though a full appreciation comes from a unified sensitivity to all aspects of your work. My efforts to integrate my study of your work into my PhD are central since the PhD requires very clear thiking that idetifies and justifies ines opinion of the aesthetic and ideational signifucance of the work beyond the circle of devptees of magic.Your determination to extend the Goetia through revisualising it in a feminine context,in relation to a stripping of what you understand as its patriachal framework understood in relation to other oppressive structures of social misinformation,a quest that resonates in different forms in your oeuvre, ensures, to a degree, the ideational interest of your work beyond the community of enthusiasts of magic.
At the same time,I suspect that the magical theory and practice can also be appreciated,in broader terms,as excercises in the imaginative stimulation of consciousness,techniques that can be appreciated as central to magic and to human experience in general in relation to the management and direction of consciousness by the self aware individual and the manipulators of people's minds whom your vision is partly directed against.
As I await further illumination fron your constantly flowing stream of inspiration,may the Inorganic Feminine Intelligence Who is yet Manifest in Her Organic Representatives give you wisdom and soccour
All the best
Toyin
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