#052 - Egregores & Enlightenment with Mark Stavish | Glitch Bottle

Mark Stavish is the Director of Studies for the Institute for Hermetic Studies and a life-long student of esotericism with more than 35 years of experience in comparative religion, philosophy, psychology, and mysticism with emphasis on Western spiritual traditions He is also the author of the excellent blog VOXHERMES. In this episode, Mark shares about his tome entitled “Egregores: The Occult Entities That Watch Over Human Destiny.” Mark shares about what an Egregore is, how to create, maintain and destroy or “deflate” and egregore, how egregores relate to Solomonic and ceremonial magic, the concept of esoteric discrimination, how NOT to crucify ourselves as magicians to the pillar of severity and he talks about his relationship with Dr. Joseph Lisiewski and more.

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[Metta]

This has given me a lot to think about and reflect on.
Thankyou.
May all beings be happy well and peaceful. ❤

[That_Freedom_Guy]

I agree about No discipline, no freedom. I often write, that there cannot be freedom without responsibility. They are usually mutually exclusive. But speaking metaphorically all engines direct and control duel forces and reciprocal energies.

[Pzikodandy]

Hi Alex! I'm now reading Child of the Sun from Mark Stavish and I would really like to ask you to invite him again and talk about his published materials, what's the right order to read it, since he has Study Guides, Monographs and other general books... It would be great to listen to him talking about the approach they use in the IHS for those materials. However I'm practicing some of his techniques and i find them very useful for steady development, very peaceful and I think he makes a lot of sense in general, I really enjoy his work, very uplifting!!!

Thanks Alex! You are a magnificent interviewer, I love your work, I really appreciate it!

Kind regards from Mexico City! 🌞

[thebanished]

Like Mark's Straightforward approach

[LadHusbandDad]

This was one of your best interviews! Mark is a fresh realistic no-nonsense breath of air in the insufferable know-it-all community of occultism full of inflated egos.

[chrislanier]

This is my second time listening to this one. I'm in the process of working with the exercises in his book "Between the Gates." I think Mr. Stavish knows his stuff and I look forward to seeing him on again. This is one of the better interviews with him that I've heard. Great job.

[bradable]

Another insightful podcast by Glitch Bottle. Planetary Times is a pretty decent app you can place on your smartphone for each planetary hour via speaking. It even gives the info for what zodiac sign the moon is in at that particular time. I got to work on my time management and slow things down a bit. Egregores sounds interesting and will get a copy of this.

[BaraCerna]

HERE FOR IT. SO many truth bombs people are not ready to hear <3 Love it

[Cosmic_Mage]

This interview was great! “Straight, with no chaser!” Thank you.

[chloebell]

this was by far the BEST interview I have listened to in a long while...spot on - amazing information and thought provocative dialogue!!

[Phoenix-wlpf]

Best one I have listened to so far. Thank you.

[isaaccardin]

Hearing this interview has been highly validating of my own experiences. Really glad I listened to this. Great interview

[cronecrone]

Just finished "Egregore...". Great insight

[silkweaver]

This interview is on so many levels what I needed to hear tonight.

[smr]

Egregores are not my cup of tea. That said, this has to be one of the greatest interviews in the Glitch Bottle. Can't wait to hear him again.

[curtisbeasley]

Excellent interview. I'd love to ask Mr Stavish point blank if he thinks that the spirits from the Key Of Solomon are egregores. If so, then the obvious implication there would be that this technology was not given to humans by angels or higher non-human entities but instead smart humans figured out a way to make servitors a long time ago and created a system for putting them to practical use.

[hermitfool]

Thank you. Very insightful interview :)

[Keldaj]

can we get more in-depth interviews with people on Enlightenment, and the Nature of it on the podcast?

Maybe a Glitch Bottle "enlightenment" series, or a Glitch Bottle: Enlightenment Roundtable with Multiple guests all speaking on the characteristics of Enlightenment and how to spot it's nature in society, how to approach someone who may be enlightened but doesn't have a clue, how to understand if you may be enlightened and can't understand why you are so different than others....things like that.

[TheMichalus]

I needed to hear this today. I listened to parts of it twice.

[isaaccardin]

What he says about arch angels has been my experience as well. They do have an agenda and it has solely to do with the evolution of consciousness. Working with arch angels will always come with some kind of spiritual lesson.