VYS0028 | Psychic Jizz - Vayse to Face with Stephanie Quick - Show Notes
Handing on a plate to Hine and Buckley the most potently inspired episode title in Vayse history is teacher, researcher, blogger and "the Julia Child of Sex Magic", Stephanie Quick. In an intense and varied conversation Stephanie takes Vayse through her near death experience, complete with a fall through the starlit sky, disembodied consciousnesses and sky-scraper sized entities, she talks about how to start off your own run of synchronicities and the conversation weaves itself around Carlos Castaneda, Gurdjieff, how to not lose yourself in your spiritual practice or join a cult... and, speaking of cults, enter the glowing orange 16-bit pineapple... Recorded 10 August 2023
Stephanie Quick Links
Steph’s blog, Ghost Dog is a Mystery Box (https://stephaniequick.home.blog/)
Steph on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/lunarose.bsky.social)
Steph on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/dashing_eccentric/)
Steph on Twitter (https://x.com/WanderinBritchz)
Steph on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/stephanie.qich)
Steph’s YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@stephaniequick2683/videos)
Introduction Links
Lovecraftian horror - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovecraftian_horror)
Julia Child - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Child)
Sex magic - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_magic)
Cheese Board Collective - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_Board_Collective)
Chez Panisse, Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chez_Panisse)
Alice Waters - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Waters)
An Introduction to Western Sexual Mysticism, New Dawn Magazine article (https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/an-introduction-to-western-sexual-mysticism)
Refuge in Buddhism - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refuge_in_Buddhism)
Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordo_Templi_Orientis)
Coven - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coven)
Steph, the West Coast, and the ‘Spiritual Marketplace’ Links
Fresno, California - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresno%2C_California)
Bigfoot, Chupacabra, and…Fresno Nightcrawler? Walking pants bring Fresno freaky fame (https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article219755195.html) - Fresno Bee article
The Fresno Nightcrawlers - sceptical, humorous (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnCuPHAW1I8)
North Fork, California - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Fork%2C_California)
The Chukchansi People - Coarsegold Historical Society article (https://coarsegoldhistoricalsociety.com/the-chukchansi-people/)
Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picayune_Rancheria_of_Chukchansi_Indians)
East Bay - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Bay)
Oakland, California - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland,_California)
Berkeley, California - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California)
University of California, Santa Cruz - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California%2C_Santa_Cruz)
Napa, California - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napa%2C_California)
Tibetan Buddhism - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_Buddhism)
Zen (Buddhism) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen)
Understanding the Spiritual Marketplace - From Monopoly to Open Access - Patheos article (https://www.patheos.com/blogs/spiritualitychannelseries/2016/10/understanding-the-spiritual-marketplace-from-monopoly-to-open-access/)
Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion (https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691089966/spiritual-marketplace) by Wade Clark Roof
Lupus Psychosis and Brain Inflammation - Lupus Corner article (https://lupuscorner.com/lupus-psychosis-and-brain-inflammation/)
Aphasia - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia)
Yoga - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga)
Archangel Michael (channelled messages) - Sanada website (https://sananda.website/category/archangel-michael/)
Pick‘n’mix: the 21st Century approach to religious affiliation, Walls Come Tumbling Down blog article (https://wallscometumblingdown.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/picknmix-the-21st-century-approach-to-religious-affiliation/)
How did Steph find her way into weird stuff? Links
Strangely Enough (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254947.Strangely_Enough) by C.B. Colby - Goodreads page
C.B. Colby - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._B._Colby)
Jersey Devil - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Devil)
Near death experience - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience)
Lidocaine - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidocaine)
Bardo (liminal state between death and rebirth) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo)
Keith's Excellent Detective Work (gods bless you, Keith) - Based on SQ’s mentions of her age now (61) and at later events, I reckon the exhibition she must have gone to was ‘Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet’, held at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, in 1991. There is an exhibition catalogue available. Not sure if it’s worth including, but there’s a link to it here on Abe Books (https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/wisdom-and-compassion-the-sacred-art-of-tibet/used/)
I couldn’t find anything else specific to that exhibition that wasn’t behind a pay-wall or on a subscription site, but here’s a short video trailer for that museum’s similar exhibitions:
San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Tibetan Buddhist exhibitions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh2yRQjaPyA)
Tanka - Wikipedia Page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanka)
Sand mandala - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_mandala)
Tibetan Sand Mandala (construction and destruction) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzSi5sbSfZc)
Synchronicity - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity)
Steph’s Near Death Experience Links
Coma - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma)
Meningitis - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningitis)
Meningitis Research Foundation (https://www.meningitis.org/) - Excellent charity
Near death, seeing dead people may be neither rare nor eerie - AP News article (https://apnews.com/article/5a33106183af4d22a51172e35e9104d5)
PMH Atwater website (http://pmhatwater.com/)
Psychopomp - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopomp)
Last rites - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_rites)
Anointing of the Sick in the Catholic Church (Extreme Unction) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anointing_of_the_Sick_in_the_Catholic_Church)
Auto-immune disease - wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmune_disease)
Bronchoscopy - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronchoscopy)
Robert Monroe - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Monroe)
Mindfulness - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness)
Whitley Strieber - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitley_Strieber)
A Wild and Wonderful Dialogue between Whitley and UFO Master Greg Bishop...and Gru! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5VtkR4ysb8)
George Gurdjieff - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gurdjieff)
Fourth Way (Gurdjieff) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Way)
Gurdjieff sensing exercises (https://www.endlesssearch.co.uk/exercises_sensing.htm)
Alien abduction - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_abduction)
Biocentrism Posits That Death Is Merely Transport into Another Universe - Big Think article (https://bigthink.com/articles/biocentrism-posits-that-death-is-merely-transport-into-another-universe/)
Heaven - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven)
Jung, Flying Saucers, and the Anxieties of Our Time (UFOs as mandala symbols) - Psychology Today article (https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/dreaming-in-the-digital-age/202012/jung-flying-saucers-and-the-anxieties-our-time)
VYS0024: Between Being Real and Not Real - Vayse to Face with Nathan Paul Isaac (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0024)
Is Consciousness a Fundamental Quality of the Universe? - Sci News article and video (https://www.sci.news/othersciences/psychology/consciousness-fundamental-quality-universe-07291.html)
Are we really made of 'star stuff' and what does that even mean? - Space article and video (https://www.space.com/we-are-made-of-star-stuff-meaning-truth)
Steph’s encounter with skyscraper-sized entities and its impact on her spiritual practice - Links
Rinpoche - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinpoche)
Kensington, California - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington%2C_California)
Ewam Choden Tibetan Buddhist Centre, Kensington website (https://www.ewamchoden.org/)
24 years on retreat (Judith Skinner) - The New Fillmore article and ‘On Retreat’ documentary trailer (https://newfillmore.com/2019/06/01/24-years-on-retreat/)
Tathāgata (Buddhism) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tath%C4%81gata)
The X Files - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files)
The X-Files (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_D3ysY_QCA)
Allen Greenfield on Twitter (https://twitter.com/allengreenfield)
Secrets of the Real Black Lodge Revealed! (https://bookshop.org/p/books/secrets-of-the-real-black-lodge-revealed-olav-phillips/20509167) by Allen Greenfield and Olav Phillips
Black and White Lodges, Twin Peaks - Wikipedia page section (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks_(fictional_town)#Black_and_White_Lodges)
Empire State Building - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building)
Grey alien - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_alien)
Marian apparition - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_apparition)
Emergency medical technician (EMT) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_medical_technician)
Plaid Moon Rising - The Flannel Man - Birdy Magazine article (https://www.birdymagazine.com/text/werewolf-radar-the-flannel-man-by-nate-balding/)
Ontological security - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_security)
Meditation for awareness - Headspace article (https://www.headspace.com/meditation/awareness)
Shavasana (Yoga) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavasana)
Sacred Space: How to Make an Altar in Your Home - Chopra article (https://chopra.com/articles/sacred-space-how-to-make-an-altar-in-your-home)
Leslie Temple Thurston - website (https://www.corelight.org/leslie-temple-thurston/)
Native American religions - Britannica.com (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Native-American-religion)
Sweat lodge - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_lodge)
Astrology - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology)
Acupuncture - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acupuncture)
Acupressure - Wikiepdia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acupressure)
Wuxing (Chinese Philosophy, Five Element System) - Wikipedia Page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxing_(Chinese_philosophy))
New Thought - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought)
Synchronicity, the Sandown Clown, and Psychic Jizz - Links
Anthony Nine on Twitter (https://twitter.com/spaceweather9)
Synchronicity - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity)
AP Strange - website (https://www.apstrange.com/)
AP Strange on Twitter (https://twitter.com/AProdigiosus?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
The Sandown Clown: Exploring Sam, the Isle of Wight’s surreal 1973 encounter, On the Wight article and videos (https://onthewight.com/the-sandown-clown-exploring-sam-the-isle-of-wights-surreal-1973-encounter/)
Our Strange Skies podcast, 151: Clowning Around with Stephanie Quick & AP Strange (Sam, the Sandown Clown) (https://audioboom.com/posts/8373390-151-clowning-around-with-stephanie-quick-ap-strange-sam-the-sandown-clown)
How To Induce Synchronicities, Stephanie Quick blog post (https://stephaniequick.home.blog/2019/01/23/how-to-induce-synchronicities/)
Radio Misterioso - Greg Bishop bio (https://radiomisterioso.com/greg-bishop/)
Quick and Ray – A Psychic Influencing Experiment - Radio Mysterioso post (https://radiomisterioso.com/2016/11/23/quick-and-ray-a-psychic-influencing-experiment/)
(Lama) Kunga Rinpoche - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunga_Rinpoche)
Buddhist Symbols - Faith Inspires article (https://faithinspires.org/buddhist-symbols/)
Synchronicity and symbols as the base level of magic and entity encounters - Links
VYS0026 | It's a Wand-erful Life - Vayse to Face with Douglas Batchelor Pt. 1 (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0026)
VYS0027 | Batchelor of Dark Arts - Vayse to Face with Douglas Batchelor Pt. 2 (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0027)
Birdwatching - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdwatching)
Bird symbolism - World Birds article (https://worldbirds.com/bird-symbolism/)
Bird vocalisation - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_vocalization)
Paramecium - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramecium)
Robert Monroe - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Monroe)
Dodechahedron - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodecahedron)
Chakra - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra)
Spreading the weird word, sweeping statements, and the teacher-trickster - Links
Julia Child - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Child)
What Magic is This? website (https://whatmagicisthis.com/)
VYS0024 | Between Being Real and Not Real - Vayse to Face with Nathan Paul Isaac (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0024)
VYS0025 | Truth with a Capital "T" - Vayse to Face with Sequoyah Kennedy (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0025)
VYS0010 | Amazing Stories - Vayse to Face with Dr Allen H Greenfield Pt.1 (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0010)
VYS0011 | Weird Tales - Vayse to Face with Dr Allen H Greenfield Pt.2 (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0011)
AP Strange - website (https://www.apstrange.com/)
George Gurdjieff - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gurdjieff)
Teacher as trickster on the learner’s journey - Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning article (https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ854900.pdf)
Whitley Strieber - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitley_Strieber)
Communion (book) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communion_(book))
Project Archivist podcast (https://projectarchivist.podbean.com/)
Sex Magic with Allen Greenfield - SQ blog post and link to podcast audio (https://stephaniequick.home.blog/2020/05/27/sex-magic-with-allen-greenfield/)
Carlos Castaneda, Amy Wallace, and Steph’s Rules for Sex Magic with Others - Links
Carlos Castaneda - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Castaneda)
Trickster: The Many Lives of Carlos Castaneda, podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trickster-the-many-lives-of-carlos-castaneda/id1543278419)
Destructive cults - Wikipedia page section (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult#Destructive_cults)
Amy Wallace - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Wallace)
Sorcerer's Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda by Amy Wallace - Goodreads page (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/623197.Sorcerer_s_Apprentice)
Sorcerer's Apprentice : My Life with Carlos Castaneda (https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31580133594&searchurl=an%3Dwallace%2Bamy%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3Dsorcerers%2Bapprentice%2Blife%2Bcarlos&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1) by Amy Wallace
Irving Wallace - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Wallace)
Rodeo Drive - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodeo_Drive)
Florinda Donner - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florinda_Donner)
John Lennon - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon)
George Lucas - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lucas)
Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley)
My Rules for Sex Magic with Others - Stephanie Quick blog post (https://stephaniequick.home.blog/2019/09/15/my-rules-for-sex-magic-with-others/)
Steph’s recommendations - Links
Women of the Paranormal Vol I (https://alexmatsuo.com/women-of-the-paranormal/) by Alex Matsuo
The Spooky Stuff podcast with Alex Matsuo (https://alexmatsuo.com/podcast/)
The Spooky Stuff with Alex Matsuo on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMatsuo/videos)
Personal Pans podcast with Vanessa Walilko (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/personal-pans/id1596186864)
Pan Paracon/Personal Pans on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@PanParacon/videos)
Vanessa Walilko’s Jewellery and Wearable Art (https://www.kalibutterfly.com/)
Necronomicast podcast (https://www.necronomicast.com/)
Some Other Sphere podcast (https://someothersphere.podbean.com/)
Church of Mabus Radio on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@churchofmabusradio1774/videos)
John E.L. Tenney’s website (http://weirdlectures.com/)
Eric Wargo’s website (https://www.ericwargo.com/)
*Vayse *
Vayse website (https://www.vayse.co.uk/)
Vayse on Twitter (https://twitter.com/vayseesyav)
Vayse on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/vayseesyav/)
Music From Vayse - Volume 1 by Polypores (https://vayse.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-vayse-volume-1)
Vayse on Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/vayse#checkoutModal) Special Guest: Stephanie Quick.
