A Castle in Canada - Revisited

Matriarchy versus Patriarchy (13)

Matriarchy versus Patriarchy (13)

In my book Pageturners, I wrote about the bizarre events that happened to me in the 1990s that I called ‘A Castle in Canada’. After some three decades I could be frank about some aspects, yet still remain discreet about others.

I’ve also written briefly about them for a German comic, illustrated by John Hicklenton.

And they inspired me to write the trilogy Sha, illustrated by Olivier Ledroit and originally published in France. We had a very successful Kickstarter campaign at the end of last year to publish an English language edition for Sha book one, and it will be available soon, shortly after we fulfil the orders to our backers, which is scheduled for the end of this month.

But, back in 1996, I originally gave a talk about those events at London’s Psychic Questing Conference, which was so popular they invited me back to do it again the following year. This was filmed and I’ve shared the video, below. My talk gives more details on those supernatural events while they were still fresh in my mind.

I gave similar talks at other venues – London’s pagan Talking Stick, for example – but then I decided to stop. It would have been easy for me to go on a circuit, polish and extend my talk, maybe bring out an accompanying book, but that would have been against the whole ethos of what happened. I was talking about real people who had died, often under terrifying and desperate circumstances. In my view, it would have been disrespectful to their memory to continue using these true-life tragedies as part of an ongoing theatre show.

So I didn’t continue.

Now, after the passage of years, it seems reasonable to return to them, not least to show more about the nature of the Muse and her enemies the Archons. I used different names to describe these forces, but they’re easily identifiable as Matriarchy versus Patriarchy.

It’s a fixed camera, I’m afraid, but I move around the stage, so that helps. And there’s a scene where I can’t find Carcassonne on the map projected on the screen behind me! This town was in the heart of the Pays Cathare, where thousands of Cathars (Gnostics) were massacred by Catholic Crusaders. It’s where the awful phrase, ‘Kill them all and let God sort them out’ comes from.

My looking for Carcassonne on the map caused the audience and my friends and family much amusement. It made me chuckle again when I saw it!

Enjoy!

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