Welcome to Apophenia’s Garden
A short story behind this publication
18 years ago, so it is written, a group of magical practitioners somehow witnessed the birth of a new goddess named “Apophenia”. Their work, Pete Caroll’s book “Apophenion”, the opportunity to participate in group magical Apophenia workings online at the Arcanorium, and what I discovered through my own work with her, have all inspired me. On 26th May 2023, I celebrated her 18th birthday by beginning this publication.
Over the past decade of working with the current of Aphophenia, my appreciation and fascination for the mysterious capability that each of us have of ‘perceiving’ any meaning in anything at all, has grown immensely. Working with Apophenia has boosted my intuition, brought greater clarity, radical insights and has improved my ability to express ideas that unveil what we call reality. The wisdom of Apophenia has helped me in business, creativity and relationships. It has also nearly cost me some dear friends who didn’t like having their illusions pricked. I find myself busting to share some of my musings, just in case there’s something useful somewhere, but mainly because it’s an itch that badly wants scratching.
The word “Apophenia” most commonly gets used to describe the perception of meaningful connections in seemingly unrelated things. By conceiving of this as a goddess, we now have a powerful spiritual being with whom we may seek knowledge and perhaps power in relation to this capability.
So what to call a space to grow, cultivate and discover novel and useful meaning within the seemingly abstract or unrelated?
The original name I felt inspired to use for this publication was “Apophenia’s Garden”, as depicted in the illustration above. But it felt like quite a long URL, so I initially opted for something a bit shorter - “Apophenium”, as in “gymnasium” or “planetarium”, (not to get confused within the book “Apophenion”).
I figured out how to change the domain and setup a redirect, so now the publication has it’s originally intended name and lives here at “apopheniasgarden.com”.
In this space, I intend to share a collection of novel, and hopefully useful works of writing, imagination, art and magick, to inspire anyone who dares to be inspired.
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- Tris
Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.
Believe nothing. Entertain everything.
