We saved this interview with Dr. Sandra Huber to start the new year right. Sandra talks about the tactics involved in teaching 900 students, and she talks about channeling and automatic writing, feminist practices and night industries. Using the Thoth Deck created by Alistair Crowley and Lady Frieda Harris, we ask How Can We Serve? And the card's answer is Lust. Sandra says: "I can only be of service if I know myself. I can only know myself if I let myself desire, and let myself be, and let myself unfold into the crazy world with all my electricity and all my failures and faults and vulnerabilities and loves and truths, all of that, bring all of it. Not just the stuff that is polished and beautiful and ready to be presented and grammatically correct and upright and condoned and given an A or a check mark. Bring all of the mess and chaos. That's what lust is bringing. That's what the goddess Babylon is bringing. And that's what artists bring. We bring our mess. Inside that mess is coiled our desire."
Sandra Huber is a writer, researcher, and educator. She teaches at Concordia University and holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities with a specialization in contemporary witchcraft. She wrote Assembling the Morrow: A Poetics of Sleep (Talonbooks, 2014). Lately she is trying to find more time for astrology, cats, and sunsets.
The induction for automatic writing which Sandra mentions in this episode is available here, along with excerpts from her new book-in-progress:
https://sandrahuber.com/spirit-scripts-exercises-and-workshops