Opening the imagination - expressing the heart
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Opening the imagination - expressing the heart
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Where did the idea for 'Spirit of the Stones' come from?
Dunno. I never go looking for these things. Never. Try to live an ordinary life with an ordinary job, and by and large manage that. But every now and again Something 'bothers' me and I have to write. No choice in the matter. Maybe it was an echo of the Earth God thingy which has always lurked in the background of my psyche. But I just knew that I had to do this book, and use the image of Edward Duke as the 'hook' to get the themes across. Then it's just a matter of sitting at the keyboard, looking up at the heavens and saying: "Come on you bastards. .."
You have encourage ed readers to send you more of their own experiences. What sort of response?
Absolutely bugger all, to be honest.
Have you noticed any changes in attitudes in occult writing over the years?
I'm always astonished by what sells and what doesn't. I've never earned more than a couple of hundred quid a year in royalties, before tax. Spirits of the Stones was rejected by every esoteric publisher in the country before Kerri Sharp, my editor at Virgin, saw something she liked and fought to get it accepted, though her bosses won't commission a follow-up. I've long since given up trying to analyze these things, and just turn them out as and when the inner contacts come through.
You've always maintained a low profile. Is this deliberate or are you just a shy person?
Deliberate. But I'm not shy! Although the magick is in my head and heart all the time it's a very private thing, and writing books on magick embarrasses me. If I had my time again I'd rather be a plumber, I think. I wish I'd chosen a pen-name when I first started out, like Basil Wilby has with his 'Gareth Knight'. You see the Alan Richardson who writes on magick is someone that I have to meet up with every now and again, and I don't particularly like him. He's far smarter than 1 am, can be acid, sometimes cruel, and a real poser who can give brilliant lectures. But sometimes when I glimpse him I think: What a tosser! To me who writes this, however, the thought of spending an evening in company with people who want to talk about deep esoteric issues is the most dreadful and boring thing I could imagine.
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