I have now been interested in the supernatural/paranormal/occult for 50 years. In the 1960's, when I was a young child growing up with two much older siblings who were born in the 1940's, it was apparently quite usual for people to use the Ouija board at parties 'for a laugh'.
In the 'swinging sixties' people were very much in to New Age exploration. I remember watching the Apollo Moon landing, as well as all the other 'Apollo's' doing their bit for space discovery. The moon landing is subject these days to many conspiracy theories - like was it really filmed in a desert on earth and not on the moon?
We were a Christian church going family, however my mother and sister were avid library book readers and the author Denis Wheatley was one of the authors whose books they read. I was fascinated by the lurid pictures of derring-do on the front cover of these books, other shadowy goings on under the veil of normal living.
The Black Alchemist is a about a psychic quest to defeat a magician who is looking to create a 'Moonchild' type being deep in the south of England back in the 1980's. It is a completley true account and there are photos of the places and some of those involved. Strange artefacts s keep turning up as a result of psychic questing by a medium called Bernard M who was a friend of the author.
Tales of Occult Horror has a surprisingly good piece in it about the sinister and perhaps deadly Clapham woods in Sussex , Southern England- one of the haunts also of the Black Alchemist, where people have frequently gone missing including a priest who turned up dead. These are perhaps some of the dangers of the occult world, but the books make good reading.
For spells, rituals and enchanted items, I also have a secure website - Green Eye Emporia
