copenhagen qabalah

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morten's qabalistic bio

I was brought up in a home that was formally Christian, but we were living an atheist life. I had never been into contact with anything else than my thoughts when I discovered long distance running at 12 through my class mate Kurt Poul Jensen. Running became a passion and brought me into contact with my senses. I used to relax and listen to electronic music when preparing for races, and two hour runs with my walkman made me reach trance-like conditions. Nobody told me about energy, it just felt terrific.

For five years in my teens, I dated Maria, whose Mother, Tove Arnkilde was a breath and muscular therapist and opened my doors to the magick of the divine. I spent hours discussing spiritual issues with Tove and browsing her bookshelf of spiritually oriented literature. Especially the works of Jes Bertelsen made sense to me, his intellectually structured jungian-yogic-christian approach to human spiritual growth, extending the Jungian concept of Individuation into the spiritual realm. Later, while studying, I discovered the works of Carlos Castaneda, whose description of knowing behind language what we couldn't contain within it, made me discover my own sense of inner strength.*

I read Fritjof Capra's "The Turning Point" and felt very strongly that somewhere existed a universal system describing the current of human and personal evolution. In the evening, the 2nd of November 1988, I felt a tremendous energetic impulse enter my aura, and I had a vision of a this philosophical system. It was structured around the duality of Light and Time, symbols of Unity and Dispersion, respectively, and one burning question was the position of language in this structure - including the status of the structure as such. I spent eight months working on a thesis on paradigms, trying the sustainablity of my newly found concepts, with useful guidance from philosopher (and marathoner) Steen Nepper Larsen. I was as close to ego-inflation as one can get, but I was high flying. My thesis ended up ill structured, but the discussion with my censor, OIe Fogh Kirkeby, on the status of language raised the combined evaluation to a maximum.*

During the summer of 1990, while being in tremendous shape, my running was severely disturbed by asthma. I couldn't do intensive workouts or competitions. The doctors told me that it could not be cured, only relieved through medication. One of my running companions, Alfredo Lee, treated me with Shiatzu, the Japanese acupressure system, and healing. I could physically sense the magnetic energy being moved in and around my body during each healing session. In about six months the astma was gone. I was overwhelmed by the fact and soon embarked upon a magical journey of my own. *

In the early and mid ninities, I toured the spiritual communities of Copenhagen. I especially enjoyed the weekly "Light Meditations" offered by Latifa Katja Wöhler's Centre for Trance and Shamanism at Amagerbrogade, which is based on the moroccan shamanistic tradition.

A breakthrough came when I entered Alis Ballin's course in angel magick. Alis' brochure differed from the alternatives in the sense that it was black-white, and showed a few christian and alchemical symbols. Somehow I was attracted to this kind of work. The course itself was a quite powerful experience, as I felt for the first time the impact of archangelic currents. I went to other courses with Alis, each of them characterized by tremendous levels of energy - like working in a microwave oven. Alis recommeded me reading about the qabalah, especially Dion Fortune's book. I soon realized that this was exactly what I had been searching, the system of which I had seen the contours a few years earlier.*

The evening before the break into a new milennium, December 31st 1999, I decided to build a website on the qabalah. 18 months of hard work, evenings and weekends of browsing, reading, writing and meditating on qabalistic symbols has brought me in closer contact with this great work of humanity. I feel deply endebted to the people who have thread the paths from which we all benefit today.*

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