Book of Shadows 2 (Diary)

Front Cover

 

Sky blue book with gold pen bordering top left and right. A Venus and my symbol through the word Book of Shadows in the center with a pentacle in gold. There is a Tai symbol and then the word Vol 2 and then a pentacle and the crucifix, an ankh. Historic day with Enniscorrod then to left to right the planets are listed and then there’s a combined Mars Venus symbol and some Enochian writing below this. Below this is a gold band decorated and it says Do Not Open — with a red pentacle on top the gold.
Inside Cover

 

The falcon flew east, the falcon flew west,
The falcon flew up and over the forest,
She flew up and she flew down,
She flew over an orchard brown,
In that orchard there stands a hall,
Covered all over with purple and pall,
In that hall there lies a bed,
Covered all over with purple and red,
On that bed there lies a knight,
His wounds bleeding by day and by night,
From his wounds one half is water,
The other half blood,
At the bed’s foot there lies a hound,
Lapping the blood as it daily runs down,
A maiden sits beside the bed,
Sewing upon a silver thread,
At the bed’s head there stands a stone,
Corpus Christi written thereon,
By the bed’s head there flowers are thorned,
That never so blossomed since Adam was born,
Corpus Christi Carol, that hath borne
My maye away.

 

Below this is a Tai Chi symbol with the word Taichi. On the right inside cover there are some fake Chinese characters and the word Book of Shadows in italics.
Note: The book begins with me asking questions and then I write down some interpretations which I was copying from a book. I will not include the interpretations on the basis they would mean simply copying somebody else’s writing.

 

Q/ Will I get the dream tonight?
A/ I Ching static 26

 

Q/ Is it worth trying my television idea?
A/ I Ching static 61

 

Idea: I could write something for television, then hire a video camera and shoot it and send it to Channel 4. Also I could try and draw horse winners to either go abroad or stay in London.

 

Q/ Would it be ok to use dreams on horse races with the view to a holiday?
A/ I Ching static 14.
Date: Saturday 8th July 1989
Time: 8 hours 25 minutes
Mood OK 4.7   Vividness 7.1

 

I was on stage playing guitar and singing to children.
I showed Geoff a magazine of flats from an estate agents. I told him I was thinking of buying one and he said I’d never afford it. Then I went to the bookies and I put loads of money on and won thousands. I looked in the magazine and saw something to do with 2%.

 

Note: This is interpreted here using various books, dream interpretations, symbols, numerology and even palmistry.
Date: Sunday 9th July 1989
Time: 10 hours 2 minutes
Mood okay-ish 4.4   Vividness 6.4

 

I was in the kitchen when I felt a presence.
Then I was in an office working.
Then I dreamt I was drawing a cartoon. Then I saw a king. Then I saw a man outside with some bees which were stolen for, I think I stole them.

 

Oops! I just remembered another dream (?same day)

 

I was at Ann’s house and I got a letter about my book or something, from a publishing house. It was thick as though it had a contract in it.
Q/ Should I buy a flat and if so should I ask Darren to live with me?
A/ I Ching static 12
Date: Monday 10th July 1989
Time: 7 hours 25 minutes
Mood, not bad. Vividness 3.3

 

I was in the bank and this girl walked in and the cashiers quickly hid the money. Then we walked out under the [unreadable, possibly spiraling] bridge and we got to a railway that had no trains on. The rails held things up with electricity or magnetism or something. The girl urged me on but the power threw me off course and I fell into a lagoon.
Second attempt I made it. The girl made me take a firework with a nuclear flare.
Then I was in my bedroom reading a book of poetry. Then I read a green clear plastic plaque dedicated to a man from the 23rd century. I sold it to a boy for a pound.
Then I was singing a really powerful song on a piano and I started crying.
Then I was in Euston station trying to buy some food with an access card but I spoke my name wrong so the man wouldn’t accept it.
Then I was walking home from school and I had to make a detour.
Then Mum made a model castle and covered it with a green cloth. Ann trying to help but did it wrong so I shouted at her and she started crying. Then I did some magic.
Geoff came round and asked me for his belt back.
Date: Wednesday 12th July 1989
Time: 8 hours 39 minutes
Mood bad 2.2   Vividness 3.1

 

I was walking along with a sombrero hat on and a donkey and I got run over.
Then I saw Mrs Thatcher crying. She took off her clothes and I realised she was a transvestite.
Date: Friday 14th July 1989
Time: 14 hours 23 minutes
Mood okish 3.9   Vividness 9.2

 

I was lying on the sofa and suddenly my soul flew out my body (which was left behind). I was flying so fast I felt wind rushing past my face. I came to stop over a field then I woke up. (Extremely real).
Date: Saturday 15th July 1989
Time: 8 hours 53 minutes
Mood okay-ish 2.9   Vividness 2.2

 

I was in a massive skyscraping building. I saw some kids with their teacher pressing different buttons.
Date: Sunday 16th July 1989
Time: 4 hours 26 minutes
Mood okish 4.1   Vividness 2.4

 

I was playing strip poker. Then I was looking at a film of a church, graveyard and the camera (the film was photographic negative with 1982 as the production year). [It might be 1902]
Q/ Should I finish my novel and make a go of it?
A/ I Ching 22
Date: Monday 17th July 1989
Time: 9 hours 17 minutes
Mood okish 3.9   Vividness 7.9

 

I drove all the way to Birmingham and then didn’t have enough petrol to get home.
I was walking along a car park listening to a couple rowing. The woman was complaining that she was too old. I got in their coach full of old people, I sat next to an old woman. Then a man started a fire and an ambulance turned up and took us away. We went through the countryside and there were barriers keeping us out, but we just smashed through them.
Then I was dropped off at the entrance to elaborate underground tunnels. Outside there was a grey cat that I knew was a god. I tried to cover it with a grey piece of cloth, but the cloth had an eye space cut out and turned into a cloak. A dog helped me get past it. First I came to a man drinking whiskey. He attacked me but I used karate to beat him. Then a girl joined me. Then we came to a tunnel with an orchard in which was full of [unreadable, could be bees]. I took a detour but soon got back on route. In the end I got out the labyrinth and won a prize.
Date: Friday 21st July 1989
Time: 9 hours 8 minutes
Mood bad 2.6   Vividness 7.3

 

I was watching TV when I had my name announced and realised I’d won an art competition. The results were read out by a well-known artist who commented on my work and invited me to stay in her mansion. She said she’s in the car and we could stop off in Aberdeen.
Then I was at Ann’s house and I had a bell made out of pottery/clay.
Then I was driving along in this mini car with the girl. We’ve been taking video film. Inside a house I saw my sister and asked her if she knew what setsuko is and she said a biscuit filled with liquid.
Date: Saturday 22nd July 1989
Time: 7 hours 15 minutes
Mood okayish 4.2   Vividness 7.3

 

I met an Oriental friend and took her home. She sat in the lounge and Mum went mad. I asked if I wasn’t allowed friends. Then I went shopping while she watched TV. At the shops I went in an arcade and saw a boy I used to know who emigrated to Japan. We played a game of electronic cards, then I got the shopping and went home. The shopping was so heavy that I had to keep putting it down. Suddenly I felt angry because I knew Brian would be home and was probably shouting at her.
Date: Sunday 23rd July 1989
Time: 6 hours 25 minutes
Mood okayish 4.4   Vividness 4.9

 

I was in the supermarket and Ann bought some special reduced biscuits at a bargain price.
Date: Monday 24th July 1989
Time: 7 hours 43 minutes
Mood okay-ish 4.1   Vividness 4.9

 

There was a bee in the bedroom and it was frightening me.
Then I was going up some stairs in a hotel in London.
Then I was at home and I left a secret photograph on a radiator and Ann looked at it. I went upstairs and was angry and shouted. Brian came upstairs and went for me but I used Mum as a shield and he beat her up and raped her. Then I saw a diamond time crystal lying on the bed.
Date: Tuesday 25th July 1989
Time: 7 hours 25 minutes
Mood bad 3.3   Vividness 8.4

 

I saw a woman go to the police and say she’d been attacked by a gorilla.
I had an electronic keyboard and I told it what to play and it would play it. Then I opened it up and found a silver cat (big cat) or leopard and it was inside.
Then I was in the lounge and I pulled a cat’s tail off and I wrapped it in a blanket and gave me some bread to eat. [Sic]
Then I was by a railway bridge and I had to go miles across tracks trying to get out. There were ladders up the bridge and they were too high or not high enough. Then I stopped walking. I was totally alone feeling peaceful and excited. On my left was a pile of sand and on my right was a clear, slow moving river. Then I saw some things go by: a big glass bottle, a glass cross, a glass crystal, a glass sword, and a black scarf.
Then I made a white candle and lit it at home. Ann came down and shouted because she thought I’d burn something, so I showed her the candle and she was okay.
Date: Wednesday 26th July 1989
Mood okayish 3.9   Vividness 3.9
Time: 8:20 am

 

I was looking in the occult shop window and I saw a sword, clock, radio and lots of necklaces hanging up with Celtic helmets on (miniature, egg shaped with horns). 2:30
Date: Thursday 27th July 1989
Mood okish 4.0   Vividness 5.8
Time: 5 hours [unreadable]

 

I’d been arrested for doing a secret water ritual and I thought myself interviewed on the news on TV.
Then I was in the shop and I bought a piece of wood with numbers on one side and an alphabet on the other. I also saw a woman buying pencils. Then I saw a woman buying pencils. [Sic] I went to pay and found a five pound note so I gave it to charity.
Date: Friday 28th July 1989
Time: 8 hours 13 minutes
Mood okish 4.8   Vividness 3.3

 

I was in the garden looking at three white flowers placed in a triangle (tulips).

 

Time: 1:10 am — Thought

 

I feel absolutely awful, it’s come from nowhere. A deep set depression which darkens my thoughts. I want to kill myself but to do so I’d need to be drunk and there’s only one bottle of champagne in the cupboard and it wouldn’t be enough to give me the guts to take my own life. A friend came round about a week ago and took about 20 headache pills in front of me for a joke and he was fine so I think if I did it I’d use a razor on my wrists. But the thought of each drip falling to the floor, my life ebbing away with each plink, terrifies me. I want to disappear, I want to be gone, I don’t want to exist, but I’m alone. Who wants to be alone when they die? I don’t want silence eating away at my existence as I cease to be.
I have a vision of hell. I kill myself but everything goes black, then I wake up and I’m a baby. Back in the same cold world. There’s no escape from this stupidity of people. I know that even if good things happen around me I’ll still feel bad because of a general dissatisfaction, what’s the point in anything if I’ll always feel bad. I’m 100% sure that if I had more drink here I’d end my life now. Reflection, a mirror becomes a razor when it’s broken. I’d feel better if I had something specific to feel bad about, but I don’t. I hate the red girl even when I’m ignoring her. The hate is for me but the love is for god. She thinks her lies hide everything but I can see it all. She lives in the dream, basing life on appearance, but karma will teach her. She’s probably smiling now for her painful hatred but my hurt will show to the lord and he will allow me to repay her kind while he anoints my head. Bless the red girl, bless the red girl, for in doing this I love her and this pleases the lord, and her life amounts to nothing except a momentary happiness in all things, one day she’ll see this but it will be too late, refusing to repent in the pits of hell.
God be with me. (She’ll never know him).

 

I was in an old vintage car with Mum driving through the dead of night in the forest. We broke down. I got out then looked down a valley and saw the lights of the town. Suddenly another car came in the opposite direction [sic] and it veered off the road illuminating a line of trees. I went back to our car and I saw two Nazi Germany soldiers having a candlelit dinner.
Date: Sunday 30th July 1989
Time: 4 hours 55 minutes
Mood bad 3.8   Vividness 7.3

 

I was in my bedroom and I took an overdose of pills and I died and saw two bright golden lights of heaven.
Then I was in the shop and I asked an assistant for a pencil for my daughter. She gave me a multicolored biro but it was leaking so I gave it back and she got mad and told me I’d broken it on purpose.
Then I was in the supermarket and I was sharing a trolley with a woman and she got mad and tipped the contents all over the floor. I started shouting and smashed a box of eggs on the floor.
Date: Tuesday 1st August 1989
Time: 8 hours 27 minutes
Mood bad 3.9   Vividness 7.8

 

I made a song and became famous dog then I went to a shop and my friend burped (?tobacco shop). The reporter asked for an interview. I took a vow of silence and ?saved a deaf boy’s life and a dog’s life. Then I had to clean the lounge, Hoover and video. Then I watered a geranium.
Date: Friday 4th August 1989
Time: 9 hours 3 minutes
Mood bad 2.8   Vividness 7.3

 

I came home from the shop with a hacksaw and I used it to enter a crashed plane I came across. I went in singing and a man told me he was my new flatmate and I knocked lots of ornaments off the shelf. Then there was someone in the kitchen cooking. Then a boy said he was doing the same exams as me and that I’d missed some but that I could easily catch up. I asked him what the price was and he showed me a badge with two planes on. Then someone chucked water into my cooking fat and I went mad and broke a plate.
Date: Monday 7th August 1989
Time: 5 hours 10 minutes
Mood bad 1.9   Vividness 6.8

 

I was walking along a strip of marble with all the years I’ve been alive (1971–1989) carved in gold.
Date: Tuesday 8th August 1989
Time: 7 hours 23 minutes
Mood bad 2.2   Vividness 7.5

 

I was in the Japanese school and I stood up and saw I wanted to sit with a particular person so I called their name but three people had that name, so I had to pick one. I then got expelled because I had a forged passport. When I got home there were rubbish bags all over the lawn with a tramp running off with a bottle. There was a bag which school had sent on with my keys inside.
Date: Thursday 10th August 1989
Time: 8 hours 2 minutes
Mood bad 3.3   Vividness 7.4

 

I was Irish and in Ireland and I got lost and I had this blind man with me and we came to a river and he jumped in to get to the other side but I wouldn’t go so he came back and I saw a complete set of China on the floor. Then I met this woman who invited us to her house and I told her I was a Protestant. I went to bed and on my bedside table I saw a kind of clock with a timer which vibrated, it had a picture of Nostradamus on it and inside I could see staples.
Date: Friday 11th August 1989
Time 7 hours 32 minutes   Mood bad 2.2   Vividness 8.0

I was in the army and a sergeant major went mad at me and I told him I was going to go camping in South Africa. Then I saw a massive black plane coming toward me. The room I was in turned into a control room. A woman hid my [unreadable]. I picked up a rocket launcher but a man stopped me. Then a black nurse said with all the money the defence cost they could have vaccinated lots of children. Then I saw my friend and we went to town. We saw some soldiers in an ice cream van and we told them we were cadets. I tried to shoot a pigeon but missed.
Date: Monday 14th August 1989
Time [unreadable]   Mood bad 3.9   Vividness 6.6

I was at home and a girl came and gave me some matches that were pink candles. Then this boy called for me and my boots made a mess on the carpet. Then we went out and he collapsed.
Date: Thursday 17th August 1989
Time 8 hours 1 minute   Mood bad 3.3   Vividness 6.6

I was moving house and in a taxi outside my dead uncle asked for a photograph I had in my pocket. Then I read a newspaper.
Date: Friday 18th August 1989
Time 10 hours 10 minutes   Mood bad 3.3   Vividness 8.1

I was in the cinema and I picked meat (steak) and ice from a glass on the floor.
Then I went to a library and helped the boys steal a kind of special stamp collection but we got caught and I had this man make this art thing which was in the shape of a circle with parallel forks.
Then I saw a doctor tell another doctor he was going to deliver a baby with asthma and he wanted to let the parents know.
Then I saw a teacher resign. I looked up and saw a church steeple with a clock on it that said six o’clock.
Then I went shopping at the local shop and me and this boy and girl all went out to a concert. We went home and a boy asked me if he could borrow a book of mine and I said no.
I was in a concert singing to the audience.
Date: Saturday 19th August 1989
Time 7 hours   Mood 2.9   Vividness 6.1

I was climbing around inside a warehouse looking for a jacket or blazer. Then I saw a comedian. Then I found a broken alarm clock with the price tag 7.99 on it. It was playing on the radio. I went out and walked opposite the traffic and then a wildcat attacked me but I got free.
Date: Sunday 20th August 1989
Time 8 hours 12 minutes   Mood low 2.6   Vividness 7.4

I was living by the sea and I saw someone drowning in a storm so I used a windsurfer to try and save them.
Then I saw a barmaid wearing lace.
I was in bed and I saw a cheque on the floor.
Date: Thursday 31st August 1989
Time 8 hours 27 minutes   Mood bad 1.9   Vividness 7.3

I was in the library and I got a book by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Then I saw a boy who said his mother had died and he wanted to kill himself. He told me to look after his dogs.
I had rotten teeth so I brushed off the rot.
Date: Friday 1st September 1989
Mood bad 1.7   Vividness 5.4

I was in a park as a policeman and some gangsters dressed up as policemen and locked us up. One policeman thought it was too much and hung himself. I pushed open a window and climbed out. One of the gangsters attacked me but I won.

[So now there’s a series of entries which is called PSI — some kind of psychic experiment I was recording or training. I can’t remember what I was doing, but it shows my interest at the time. I didn’t include the following entries as they’re just a bunch of numbers with no explanatory context.]

Date: Sunday 24th September 1989
Mood bad 1.9   Vividness 4.3

I was in the shop and ?diluted spices, jade and I bought some gold.
Date: Tuesday 26th September 1989
Time 9 hours 12 minutes   Mood bad 1.8   Vividness 6.8

I was listening to a song on the radio but someone stopped it and told me it was banned. I looked in the sky and the clouds were in the shape of a bottle.
Mum was ironing and I told her to look in my bedroom but she didn’t dare because there was magic there.
Then I saw some people gambling and someone trying to cheat.
Date: Thursday 5th October 1989
Mood bad 1.8   Vividness 5.0

I received an embarrassing letter.
I was on a boat going down the river and I picked things off the riverbed; they were a silver ashtray and a plate.
Date: Friday 20th October 1989
Mood bad 2.0   Vividness 6.4

I was in a train station and I bought a ticket to Coventry. I went the wrong way but eventually got on the train. It was really crowded but I found a seat. I got out by these fields and ate some chocolate. There were tree stumps and piles of cut wood around me. I saw Mum.
Date: Saturday 21st October 1989
Mood bad 1.9   Vividness 5.8

I got given a banjo/guitar. I was overlooking a big lake with televisions on it; the middle television had me on it.

[Note: there are more records here of psychic training and breathing exercises etc.]
Psychic experiences — strange green flashes all around me last night in the bedroom.

Date: Thursday 26th October 1989
Mood 1.8   Vividness 6.6
Date: Friday 27th October 1989
Mood 1.9   Vividness 6.9

I was in a motorbike race. Then I went to the shops and bought an account magazine. I was on a boat and came to learn the time but ball bearings were missing.
Date: Friday 27th October 1989
Mood 1.9   Vividness 7.1

It was my birthday and my niece bought me a present and I started to go mad. I had a drink made out of some flowers and went to bed.

Question: If I go to the London fair on Saturday after the will I get cramp?

[Note: I asked this question of various oracles including dominoes, numerology, tea leaves, tarot and geomancy. There are two hexagrams for the I Ching: 60 and 38.]

[There’s an undated dream here that Mum gave me some antidepressants.]

[There’s another full page here of me asking the same question repeatedly to various oracles — will I get cramp if I go to London? I think it shows my health problems manifesting even back then.]

Date: Friday 10th November 1989
Mood bad 1.9   Vividness 5.4

My tooth fell out.
I was at Mum’s house and she was in debt so I left and went to live as a fortune teller. Then a man gave me a walking stick.

Question: Shall I go to London tomorrow and what will happen?

Date: Saturday 11th November 1989
Mood bad 1.8   Vividness 7.7

I had a row with Ann and walked over her sweets/candy. Then I met this woman. I hated her at first, but we had such a laugh I ended up crying with joy. Then I went driving with Darren and had a crash. Then I went shopping and met a rasta. Then I had a fight, but he helped me. Then I went home and Ann had scratches down her arm in the shape of squares/a grid.
Date: Sunday 12th November 1989
Mood bad 1.0   Vividness 7.1

I was in a market and I burnt something and admitted it.
Then I was at school running up some steps, but I saw a teacher so I ran down again.
Then I was a spy. My friend was shot so I took him to the mortuary, or abattoir, I can’t remember which, and he was a corpse.
Date: Tuesday 14th November 1989
Mood bad 1.9   Vividness 7.4

Q: What will happen when I open the pyramid?

I saw a ?burglar in my garden who was a ?witch. So I ran after her but she got away. When I got out in the alley I saw dead black cats everywhere. I went in and an old woman was there. I was bored. Then a woman came round with a mug book with photos of criminals and I told her all I knew.

Q: (same)
A: I Ching 46-30   39-17

Q: Shall I go with Darren?
Date: Wednesday 15th November 1989
Mood 1.9   Vividness 2.1

I saw a girl sing in a tent. I spoke in a cockney accent.
Date: Thursday 16th November 1989
Mood 1.9   Vividness 2.1

I was looking after hundreds of rabbits, then I saw a ?much.

[Note: there is a hand-drawn horoscope inserted here; I had taught myself how to calculate this.]

Q: Should I go away with Darren?
A: I Ching 37-14

Date: Saturday 18th November 1989
Mood badish 1.9   Vividness 7.8

Me and my friends were going out, but they changed their minds at the last minute. Then I had a play fight with Darren but accidentally knocked some acid over his face and his head turned into a fish’s head. I also accidentally shot another boy. Then they went away and a girl came and told me it was OK; they’d had plastic surgery and now they looked normal again. Then I went to the bathroom and put on a big tie.
Date: Sunday 19th November 1989
Mood bad 1.6   Vividness [unstated]

I was on holiday in the hotel at night. I went to the toilet with a red and green torch. It was Halloween. My family were playing cards.
Next day they played ping-pong and the balls were stuck on the roof, so I picked them off.
I was in town in a very busy market and I saw a friend who dropped chewing gum all over a towel, so he had to pay for it. Then I saw a display put out by the cinema showing how many tickets had been sold; it said groups of 10, 5, 1, then I woke up.

Q: What will happen in the next week?

Date: Saturday 25th November 1989
Mood bad 2.0   Vividness 3.3

My friends were in my bedroom and I was in Geoff’s bedroom and I saw two white horses run past and then there was a slight bump between a car and a police car and it chased it.
I was in an airport and a man said he wanted to go to Peru and he heard it was ?an Inka? ?Africa? So could I tell him where the phone was?
Date: Friday 8th December 1989
Mood bad 2.2   Vividness 7.3

I saw a banana get justice (?bananaman!)
I was trying to climb some stairs and there were ducks everywhere. The stairs led to a bridge which stopped short of crossing it. On one of the steps there was a nest with ducklings in it. A woman came to me to remark on how nice they were.
Then I was at home and had a massive glass of coke.
Date: Saturday 9th December 1989
Mood bad 2.3   Vividness 7.7

I was in a shop and I picked up a leaflet about a castle in the black forest and I decided to go there. The shop was fairly empty and I went past lots of snooker tables. I picked a pink ball and it had fallen in half. I went upstairs and I was back at school. There was a girl limping. We told her friend she’d hurt her heel and her name was Girl and Bobby and if she cares about her future she will have to change.

Q: Shall I do the planned ritual?

Date: Monday 11th December 1989
Mood low 2.0   Vividness 3.1

I hung a bell from my belt.
Date: Wednesday 13th December 1989
Mood bad 1.2   Vividness 5.8

Me and my friend were counting out loud; we got to 110.
My other friend told me he saw a magician/conjurer in a pub and everything went wrong and it was really funny. Then on the TV I saw the planet Venus.

[Note: another hand-drawn horoscope appears here and other notes about astrology, also a lot of calculations. I was beginning to use predictive astrology in my life, something I’ve kept up.]

Date: Thursday 14th December 1989
Mood bad 2.0   Vividness ?6.6

Geoff bought some videos and tapes up from [unreadable] but they were the wrong ones.
A friend had been offended by a shop assistant so I went and put on a Beatles for Sale tape and hid a knife in my pocket.
I was at a friend’s house and people kept coming to the door but we ignored them, then the postman came and put through a parcel of ?red books.
I dreamt I could touch my toes.

Q: Will my new business idea work?

Date: Friday 15th December 1989
Mood bad 1.9   Vividness 8.7

I was in an arcade thing. I was going to try and win a geisha doll but thought I’d do it later. Then I watched some tennis. Then my friend played an arcade game called ‘Vietnam’.
Then I went to live on a farm.
Two friends came round and Simon gave me his jacket and told me he’d swindled me. Then I did my tarot cards and everybody fell asleep on them. I put the fool and the devil on Simon. I went upstairs and there was tinsel everywhere and I practised Buddhism.
Then I was in London on a tube train and she missed her stop. We got off at a railway bridge and I went into a shop. I bought a pen, cigarettes and lots of fish. When I went to pay a man said if I’d let him catch them, they would have been bigger. Then he went to the counter to get some bigger fish and started skinning them, but he did it wrong and messed up. Then some of the staff went on strike because they ran out of coffee/hot chocolate/cocoa.

Q: Shall I do my tape idea?

Date: Saturday 16th December 1989
Mood bad 0.9   Vividness 7.8

My friends came round and set fire to a piece of paper and it scorched ?or left soot on the table, but it came off.
I was walking around the streets looking for a way home and I saw a royal king procession/parade come past on horseback. Me and Geoff went to talk to a stable girl and I got a psychic impression/vibe that she recently used ?paint, so I asked her and she said she had. Then Geoff took her to a restaurant which was packed and he had a hamburger and chips.
Date: Sunday 17th December 1989
Mood bad 1.9   Vividness 3.3

I was insane. I knocked someone over accidentally in a dream. I met a tramp and saw my photo in the paper with dyed blonde hair telling me to ring a number.
Date: ??? 1990
Mood bad 2.2   Vividness 6.2

I was trapped on the stair by three large angry bears. Jason and Simon were trapped with me. I used a staff to hit them with and ran out the front door after turning a key. Then Simon got out and got his leg trapped in the door and one turned to a hook and he said it looks like the devil’s ?leg. I told him to go back and get my diary.

Divination

Date: January 4th 1990

Q: Shall I go and get a job tomorrow?
Q: What will be the result when I can use the astral plane proficiently?

(Next day)

Q: Shall I start my tape business idea?
Date: Friday 10th January 1990
Mood okay 4.4   Vividness 5.6 (interrupted)

There was a widower staying at our house called Son Won or Sun One. He said he lived upstairs and was very rich. He looked upset so I sent off to an advert in the paper for a cure.
The police rang me up and asked me to go to the station because my sister was in trouble.
Date: Sunday 12th January 1990
Mood 1.2   Vividness 6.7

I was at Mum’s house and Brian made a tape. My friends, including Simon, came to call for me so I got ready. I had a separation. Mum was mad at me. I saw bottles of medicines and pills in the bathroom. I found a small container of gas (helium) and sniffed it because I thought it might be laughing gas. Then I told Mum I was going out.
Date: Tuesday 14th January 1990
Mood 3.3   Vividness 6.1

I put a gun in my magical box.

Q: What will be the effect if I continue with my present magical workings?
A: I Ching 39-28

Q: When I fully understand it shall I get a [unreadable]?
A: I Ching 27-4

Q: Shall I go ahead with my business idea on the 26th as planned, what will be the result?
A: 27-24
Date: Wednesday 15th January 1990
Mood 1.3   Vividness 8.8

I had a friend who is selling cars. Then I saw Paul McCartney with a bandage over his eyes.
Then I went to a thief’s house. I got a glass of ginger. People were amazed when I made bubbles appear by magic.
Then I was at school with the job of chancellor, it was in the Grosvenor. There was a murder and I had to go to the toilet. The police made me sign a register. I went upstairs to the toilet and it turned into a library. There was an Oriental girl and I brought her out.
Then I was out at night and I was walking home with an old man. He showed me a shortcut and I got to his house.
Date: 10th January [unreadable] 1990
Mood bad

Q: Shall I go and get a job today, what will be the result?
A: 50 static (s)

Q: What will be the result if I become involved in rituals with Jason Pake?
A: 35-23

Q: What will be the result if I get involved in rituals with Simon Hamilton?
A: 25s

[When giving I Ching answers I’m going to use S to designate a static hexagram because that’s the convention I use nowadays.]

Q: What will be the effect if I start visualizing for a new job and home?

[I’m not including answers for all of these questions because I’ve written more than two hexagram numbers for some of them and I can’t remember the method I used to use to get the hexagrams back at that time.]

Q: If I try and move out, is it the best course of action for all involved?
A: 12s

Q: What will be the effect if I do the ritual I’ve just written with Jason later?
A: 36-12
Date: 11th January 1990

Very strange experience while meditating. I was concentrating on the throat chakra when I heard a young girl’s voice recite the four times table, very loudly, then I felt strange pressure in my head and chest, as though someone was pushing on them.

Q: What does my strange clairvoyant experience herald for the future?
A: 42s

Q: Shall I put Brookside on now?

[This is a little bit humorous because Brookside was actually a TV soap opera I used to love at the time.]
Date: Friday 13th January 1990
Mood bad 2.4   Vividness 6.6

I was in a shopping centre and I looked at a massive shelf stacked high to the sky packed full of food.

Q: Has Simon Hamilton stolen my pyramid?
A: 40-16

Q: Will I soon achieve astral projection, and if so, what will be the effect?
A: 15-62
Date: Monday 15th January 1990
Mood bad 2.1   Vividness 7.1

I was driving along a road when my car flew up about 20 feet into the air as did the car in front of me. I came back down and took a sharp corner and bumped into some railings. I managed to keep on going and the car turned into a bike.
Then I came home with a boxer. He told me some of my money was missing. My brother asked if I wanted to learn boxing, but I said no and me and Frank went to play snooker.
I bought some custard in this shop and I didn’t have enough milk.

Q: What will be the result if I do the candle ritual to get cramp?
A: 14s

Q: What will be the end result if I continue my magical training?
A: 55-41
Date: Tuesday 16th January 1990
Mood okayish 3.3   Vividness 6.3

I was in Russia on a beach with the sea out. Some soldier was following me and I went up to the bank, but another one pushed me down. They tried to mug me, but I fought them off.
Then I was at home practising with the sword and we were looking after an orphan.

Q: What will be the result if I go downtown and look for a job?
A: 64-35
Date: Wednesday 17th January 1990

I opened up a letter and Mum had sent me some cheques back because I’d written them wrongly. Then two ?boys ran in.
Then I was in the Chinese fish and chip shop and asked for fish and chips.
Date: Thursday 18th January 1990
Mood bad 0.9   Vividness 7.2

Me and Simon went into a hotel together and I ?lit a candle at reception. Then on the stairs I met a young girl and I read her palm. Her lifeline was made up completely of crosses.

Q: What should I do about the row I’ve had with Ann?
A: 38-9

Q: Shall I get a job and move out?
A: 1s

Q: What will be the effect if I move out immediately into a guest house, then start looking for a job?
A: 57-64

Q: Should I still work towards trying to be a prophet and what will be the results if I do?
A: 42-25

Q: What will be the result if I start visualizing getting a job in China, or oriental countries?
A: 59-46

Q: Cramp?
A: 60-41

[I keep on talking about getting cramp and as I’m doing this transcription I’ve remembered that was my codeword for the magic I was doing at the time to meet a partner as well as move out and be independent. It was an earlier ongoing attempt before I created the main seven month long magical working that changed my life forever.]

Q: Should I continue my exercises as I am now doing and what will be the result?
A: 27-3

Q: What will be the result if I go to Jason’s tonight?
A: 31-62

Q: What will be the result if I visualize a house for me to live in?
A: 2-7

Q: What’s coming to me and what will happen to me between now and the end of February?
A: 41s
Date: Sunday 21st January 1990
Mood ok 4.4   Vividness [unstated]

I was on a hill looking down at a castle and President Bush was there making a speech. Suddenly someone ran at him but the CIA chased her and hit her with a willow branch. Then I was on a beach and I saw a singer/actor come out of the sea and I recognised her as an assassin.

Q: If I visualize the home for me to live in will it work?
A: 36-29

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Important correction noted — Jason’s surname is **Pike** throughout, not Pake as we had it in previous batches. I’ll update the memory now and use Pike going forward.

Good. Now here is the full confirmed change list:

1. “January 1989” → 1990, no flag
2. “white people the dust” → “wiping the dust”
3. “invoke annivers an incubat” → “invoke Anubis and incubate”
4. “Date colon on” → “Date:”
5. “to stay a mum’s” → “to stay at Mum’s”
6. All “Jason Pike” — correct spelling, no flag
7. “a fairground I thinking” → “a fairground, thinking”
8. “January 1989” → 1990, no flag
9. “land Simon” → “lend Simon”
10. “astral pane” → “astral plane”
11. ?tours — leave as-is
12. “result I I went” → “result if I went”
13. “somone’s” → “someone’s”
14. “went bad because someone fab burned” → “went mad because someone’s fag burned”
15. “keeping telling e jokes” → “kept telling me jokes”
16. “doke” → “joke”
17. “work throught” → “work through”
18. “latter” → “letter”
19. “hear” → “heart”
20. “Grovsner” → “Grosvenor”
21. “pounds sand” → “pounds and”

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Q: Does that mean that I should do it?
A: 41-61

Date: Wednesday 24th January 1990
Mood ok 4.2   Vividness 6.7

I was in a car park and I drove off in a white BMW after wiping the dust off it.
Then I was at home looking at the laundry basket.
Then I was on the bridge over a river watching a football in the water with an old man. I realized I was in Bristol and looking at a fairground, thinking how nice the people are.

Q: What will be the result if I invoke Anubis and incubate a dream to show me where my crystal pyramid is?
A: 3-20

Q: What will be the effect if I incubate a dream in my pyramid tonight?
A: 18-50

Q: Will the dream I have induced lucidity and if so what will be the effect?
A: 17s

Q: What will happen and be the result when I go to the spiritualist church tomorrow?
A: 7-21
Date: Sunday 28th January 1990
Mood 4.7   Vividness 7.7

I went to stay at Mum’s house with Yas and Geoff and there was a party. The party ended and we were all outside to wait for the bus. When it came there wasn’t enough room and we all had a fight. I think I got shot.
Next day I woke up and was walking around the house and I accidentally woke Mum up. Then I put on a bangle but it was too big and where I used to keep my pyramid there was a massive 2 foot ring. I picked it up and put it down.
[Note: there’s another sentence written above this text in the overhead margin which says: Ann said my stuff had been left in a circle.]
Me, Mum and Brian all went shopping and I saw Mum’s new neighbours. I hid and told Mum they were evil and never to trust them. Then, right in the middle of the shopping centre, I saw an author, but I had to wait for the evil neighbours to leave until I could go and talk to him.
Then I was in Abington Park shooting targets with a friend. He wouldn’t let me have any more pellets because they were too expensive. Then he showed me a large dart and I think I pricked myself with it.

Note: this dream was incubated with Jason Pike to induce lucidity. Although lucidity didn’t happen we both dreamt of Abington Park without any suggestion that the other would do so.
Date: Monday 29th January 1990

Q: What will be the result if I teach Jason Pike esoteric training and should I do it?
A: 51s

Q: Does that mean I should do it, and teach him?
A: 57s

Q: Will Jason use the occult knowledge for good, bad or to escape?
A: 54-62

Q: What should I do next in regards to my relationship with Jason Pike?
A: 12s

Q: What will be the result if I use two wishing candles next new moon, one for somewhere to live and one for cramp the moon after?
A: 31-52
Date: Tuesday 30th January 1990
Mood 5.0   Vividness 7.9

Jason, Simon and two other friends came to see me in bed in the garden which had turned into a hospital. One of the friends hit me. Then I looked at the sky and the clouds moved and made shapes like chemical structures. There was a very large Christmas tree and on one branch the 12 months of the year were written and December was marked out.
Then I was on the river bank listening to music.
Then I was at school. I was doing maths and I got told off for not doing enough.
Then Gina Ross and Simon gave me a present. I can’t remember what she gave me but Simon gave me a pyramid and I thanked them.

Q: Will my pyramid induce lucid dreams now I’ve infused it with the moon?
A: 39-11

Q: Would it be in accord with the cosmos to tell Simon how to induce lucid dreaming stage one?
A: 59-41

Q: Should I lend Simon my spellbook and if I do will he abuse it or cause harm?
A: 23-20

Q: Will my body of light technique work soon, if so with what results?
A: 23s

Q: What will be the result of my fast?
A: 16-2

Q: What should be the next goal on my spiritual path?
A: 10s

Q: Will my projection exercises work, if so what should or could I do for benefit with them?
A: 48-3

Q: Will my unicorn crystal work — produce lucid dreaming?
A: 31-49
Date: 2nd February 1990
Mood ok 5.1   Vividness 2.9

I was at a Beatles concert and there was this stupid man who had taken John’s place. I looked down and read the programme. Then Ringo came up and played the trumpet but he was only miming.

Q: Now I’ve discovered a new technique in my projection technique [sic] what will be the result?
A: 7-4

Q: Once on the astral plane and all the ?planned pathworkings have been taking plus other ?tours will result in development of psychic faculties?
A: 20-39

Q: House?
A: 58-60

Q: What would be the result if I went into a garden business with Jason?
A: 25-17

Q: Would I find someone’s house to stay in as I wish while gardening if I use [unreadable] visualisation?
A: 27-42

Q: If I am helpful and good every day and visualise house every day with ?falcon and ritual, will I be successful?
A: 53-4
Date: Tuesday 5th February 1990
Mood 3.1   Vividness 7.3

I was at Ann’s house and she went mad because someone’s fag burned the curtain.
Then I was at Mum’s house and I wanted to use the phone but they wouldn’t let me. Brian lifted the phone up and there was a last will and testament there. Then he ate some raisins and I ate some nuts and I saw some chimps/monkeys/apes in football gear.

Q: What will happen to me today?
A: 1s

Q: What will be the nature of this important ?event?
A: 44-47

Q: What will happen today if I go to Abington Park to read?
A: 30-52

Q: Will what I’d like to happen happen today?
A: 59s

Q: What will be the result if I try to discover my past lives through dreams?
A: 51-10

Q: As down
A: 9s

Q: What will happen to me today?
A: 56-53

Q: What should I do today?
A: 1-58

Q: Is it correct to make the astral plane my main goal at the moment?
A: 17-49
Date: Thursday 8th February 1990
Mood 3.0   Vividness 5.7

I was poor so I had to sell some of my things. I used the money to buy about 200 packets of seeds. When I got to the till there was a new girl being trained so I sat and waited but a friend came and kept telling me jokes. I laughed but it was forced. I remember the joke was about ?loopings.

Q: Is my falcon visualisation beginning to work?
A: 14-34

Q: What will be the next significant thing to happen to my life?
A: 1-60

Q: If I get on the astral plane and work through the books I plan to work through, what will be the result?
A: 31-51

Q: As down
A: 63-60

Q: What will happen to me today?
A: 38s

Q: What should I do today?
A: 22-36

Q: What will be the effect if I do my past life ritual tonight?
A: 50-52
Date: Monday 12th February 1990
Mood ok 3.9   Vividness 3.1

I was in a bookshop and a girl talked to me. I got home and I found a letter in my pocket from the girl.
Date: Tuesday 13th February ?1989
Mood ok 4.0   Vividness 7.3

I was on holiday on a boat. I stopped at a shop and bought a 99 ice cream.
Then I was in hospital and there was something wrong with my heart. The doctor said I would need an operation. He gave me a blood transfusion. Then I was in the Grosvenor and I saw an old friend, Steven Pinder, with a bag from Wellingborough. He told me he’d been away and had borrowed fifteen pounds and he gave me it back. I thanked him, then walked off.

Q: What will be the result of my continuing astral projection exercises?
A: 25-1

Q: What will be the end result of my continuing falcon visualisation?
A: 58-30

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Q: What will be the result if I do the planned ritual tomorrow and with a wishing candle on the new moon for the same effect?
A: 34-56

Q: What should be my next goal in life?
A: 8-20

Q: What will be the next significant thing to happen to me?
A: 6-59

Q: Will I learn to project before Jason Pike?
A: 39-12

Q: What will be the result if I try to discover my past lives through dreams tonight?
A: 28-50

[Note: after these interpretations there are two hand drawn pictures, I think of dreams although they are not directly attached to any one.]

Q: What will be the result if I keep trying for a house?
A: 64-12

Date: Thursday 15th February 1990
Mood ok 4.9   Vividness 4.7

I was in the occult shop and I kept trying to get a book about the I Ching but the shelf was too high.
Then I sent off for a leaflet about historical Victorian era.
Then I crossed a busy road and looked at a signpost.

Q: What will happen to me today?
A: 46-7

Q: Once I project the first time will it become easier all the following times to accomplish?
A: 33-12

Q: What would be the effect to my projection work if I didn’t see Jason and Simon any more?
A: 35-40

Q: Is my projection plan sensible and what would the effect of it be?
A: 11-19

Q: What does the experience I’ve just had herald?
A: 61-60

Q: Will I be able to project at will before March?
A: 51-54

Q: Will I be able to project at will by April 1st [unreadable]?
A: 3s

Q: Will I learn to project astrally at will by next week?
A: 13s

Q: Am I progressing in my projection techniques and what will come of them?
A: 19-11

Q: What will be the result if I send my dream idea to the papers/magazines?
A: 44-28

Q: Will it work if I just send it to the Echo?
A: 27-61

Q: If I send articles to the Chronicle like the rest — ?dreams and after to interpret them — will I be successful?
A: 58s

Q: If I do it gradually could I get a regular column?
A: 26-9

Q: Please can I have some general advice?
A: 16s

Q: Should I pay attention to what Jason Pike says?
A: 64-26

Q: What will be the effect when I get my soon-to-come sound tapes?
A: 47-28

Q: What will be the result if I send my story to ten or so different papers and magazines?
A: 29-37

Q: What will happen to me on Monday, today, tomorrow?
A: 27-19

Q: What will be the next significant thing to happen to me?
A: 40-47

Q: Will my projection exercises succeed?
A: 19-11

Q: What would be the result if in the future I do magnet rituals?
A: 49-55

Q: What should I do when Gabbs comes round?
A: 62-13

Q: What will be the result of my friendship with Gabbs?
A: 18-52

Q: What should I do about the fight with Simon and Jason and Gabbs still knowing me?
A: 9-52

Q: What will be the effect when I’ve burnt my wishing candle?
A: 44-33

Q: If I do rituals to help me learn projection, what will be the result?
A: 24-8

Q: What should I do about Simon?
A: 37-8

Q: What will be the result if I do my planned ritual?
A: 44s

Q: What will be the result of the ritual I’ve just performed?
A: 36-8

Q: What will happen when I’ve ?lit my visualising candle?
A: 13-17

Q: Will Simon and Gabbs split up in April, if so what will happen to them?
A: 58s

Q: Will I be asked for help if Gabbs and Simon split up again, and what will happen?
A: 50-14

[The back cover has something unreadable in the top right corner.]

BACK COVER

I
Corpus
Body, substance, flesh, trunk, rose, person, individual, structure, body politic, corporatia

Christi
Christ, Christian, Christianity

OUTSIDE BACK COVER

There is a large, hand drawn tai chi symbol in marker. Above this it says: ‘Chronicle of the mystical journeys of [My name].’

Below this it says ‘Book of Shadows.’ Below this is another tai chi symbol. To the left it says: ‘The seals of this book are cursed. Do not open. PRIVATE.’