Charm the Water

I found an interesting podcast site called 'Charm the Water' run by Aaron David who refers to himself as "a Christian Hermeticist who has a great affinity for working with plants and minerals".

I was looking for some You Tube videos of Frater Ashen Chassan after listening to a recent podcast over at the 'Occult of Personality' site -

Frater Ashen Chassan

I had never heard of Frater Ashen Chassan before listening to the 'Occult of Personality' podcast, but this guy seemed interesting, as he was billed as a more "by the book" magician, and since I had written a recent post about a post I read at 'The Secret Sun' blog about two magicians who walked into a bar, one a traditional magician and one a more hipster chaos type magician -

Two Magicians Walk into Room81 ...

Two Magicians Walk into a Bar…

I decided to check out the more "traditional" magician Frater Ashen Chassan ...who was probably a black coffee drinker.
I tend to lean towards Chaos Magick myself, but to me everything is magick when you are a participant in this world/worlds and you are right in the thick of it whether you believe in it, or not. 

I was thinking of buying 'Gateways Through Light and Shadow', but I wanted to hear more about this "buy the book"... I mean "by the book" magician;-)

That's when I found this You Tube (below) of the podcast recording at the 'Charm the Water' podcast site.

But after I listened to Aaron David's talk with Frater Ashen Chassan I found he had also recorded a talk with Gordon White from Rune Soup, as well.
According to Aaron David he first got the idea to call his podcast 'Charm the Water' after hearing Gordon say the words on some podcast that Aaron had listened to.

Gordon was someone whose work I knew about.

Then I saw Aaron also had a talk with Red Pill Junkie, who I knew a bit about, and wrote a post about a few months ago at this link -

20(16 Miles?) U.F.O/O.F.U and Sneaky Sound Synchromysticism?

Sneaky Sound System - UFO

Episode 32 - Red Pill Junkie, Fortean Luchador

I was hooked on Aaron's interviews now and subscribed in iTunes on my iPod so I can work my way through the ones that looked interesting to me.

I liked Aaron's rant about self-righteousness and included it in my last post about the book 'Floodline' that I had just read -

Drowning in Ignorant Self-righteousness?

I liked the idea of water in a wishing well and if you look right back up to the top of this post you will see the shot used at the 'Charm the Water' podcast site of a shot looking up and out of a wishing(?) well.

Water is such a powerful element which we rely on to survive for even just a few days in this world, but it can also end our lives quickly, too.

Anyway, interesting site and check out the 'Charm the Water' You Tube page, too.

Ceremonial Magick sounds interesting, and I'll probably buy the book mentioned above and have a read, but I can't see myself getting into it, as it all seems a bit too complicated to me.
I'll stick to a magical smorgasbord of beliefs and shamanism, I think.