This presentation will discuss the transformation of practice following an intense period of deep grief, the experience of which became a life-altering portal. Grief, conceptualised as an ecological entity; A dense, heavy, and strangely shaped interconnected system with connections to past experiences, past lives, former selves and beliefs, that awakened previous encounters that only through the process of astral projection have been understood and processed. Grief has provided a framework of psychic threads that connects practice with time, earth, space, and the liminality of being and not-being. 

Combining techniques learned through becoming an initiate of the gnostic aural tradition of Hermetics, and recording her own iterations of astral journeying Annabel has constructed a realm within the astral plane. This realm is an ecosystem of subconscious and unconscious imagery, composed of landscapes, sacred spaces, and psychic destinations that represent Akashic pathways. At its heart lies a temple containing ‘doorways’ that lead to these otherworldly spaces, each tied to elements of grief, healing, and transformation. The work is an alchemical process, blending the personal ecology of grief with the wider ecological narrative of interconnectedness, healing and renewal. 

By meticulously documenting visions, encounters, and events within these journeys, Annabel’s practice bridges the material and immaterial, creating a compounded reality where the ecology of grief unfolds as a transformative process, inviting deeper connections between self, ecosystems, and other realms.

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