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"I write to discover what I know."
– Flannery O'Connor


Spiritually Transformative Experiences and After-Death Communication: A Literature Review Interrupted by Post-Operative Recovery
A review of spiritually transformative experiences and after-death communication through the lens of transpersonal psychology and integration.

Lavavoth
Jun 1013 min read


The Healing Power of Expressive Arts: Processing Current and Past Life Trauma
Using expressive arts to work through current and past life trauma could support the healing process.

Lavavoth
May 137 min read


The Evolution of Henning Brandt: Blind Love's Most Complicated Character
Henning Brandt. Hare Captain in the Goth Regime. Sex addict. Spectrophiliac. Out of all the characters in Blind Love, he remains the most developed and complicated.

Lavavoth
May 811 min read


"Keep Going": Practice without Resolution
Over ten days, I kept returning to the same images while working through depression and conflict with Hans. Through Eros and Psyche, the work shifted into distance, misalignment, and the inability to reconcile who he had been with who he is now. Still, I stayed with it.

Lavavoth
Apr 57 min read


The Forbidden Glimpse: Eros and Psyche, Drawing Hans, and the Cost of Making Him Visible
During a ten-day drawing practice shaped by the myth of Eros and Psyche, I tried to draw Hans’s face for the first time in years. Each attempt forced a confrontation between devotion and verification. Making him visible risked shifting him from my unseen companion to the historical man he once was, revealing how the act of seeing can alter the bond itself.

Lavavoth
Feb 196 min read


Returning to Blind Love: Creation, Collapse, and the Call to Begin Again
After years of silence, I return to Blind Love, a novel born of visions, past lives, and the paranormal, guided again by Hans as the world turns darker still.

Lavavoth
Apr 23, 20259 min read


Into the Woods: A Three-Act Journey of Transformation and Spirit Connection
A journey through love, transformation, and spirit connection with Hans, my guide, told in 3 acts of shedding, searching, and surrendering.

Lavavoth
Sep 25, 20243 min read


Creating Art with Disembodied Entities: A Manifesto for Transcending Physical Boundaries
Creative work and partnership with subtle entities

Lavavoth
Jan 19, 20242 min read


A Journey of Love and Unity: Exploring the Sacredness of Spirit Marriage through Mystical Erotic Art
An exploration of spirit marriage, mystical eroticism, and abstract art inspired by sex, longing, and spiritual connection.

Lavavoth
Jan 2, 20243 min read


Sensual Encounters with a Supernatural Being: Exploring the Phenomenon of Erotic Spirit Touch
There are a million ways to describe what it's like to be erotically touched by a spirit. And yet it befuddles me to describe the experience.

Lavavoth
Nov 22, 20232 min read


Sayfish: The Challenges of Trying to Put into Words the Experiences of Spirit Marriage
The term sayfish metaphorically captures one of the challenges of being in an inter-dimensional marriage.

Lavavoth
Nov 8, 20232 min read


Dropping the Euphemisms: Sexual Encounters with a Ghost (My Spirit Husband)
I wish I could say that my relationship with Hans is a perpetual "mystical love affair" as my drawing title indicates.

Lavavoth
Nov 7, 20232 min read


My Wingmann: The Intimacy Between the Living and the Dead and the Challenges of Making Love to a Spirit
Although he had been a fighter pilot in Germany in his previous life, equipped with his own wingman, now, as spirit, he is not here to lead.

Lavavoth
Nov 4, 20232 min read


From Nightmares to Artwork: Dream Research and Creative Approaches to Nightmare Experiences
How can we meaningfully engage with our nightmares to reclaim our power and creative spirit?

Lavavoth
Dec 8, 20206 min read


Sieg Heil Herr Drumpf and The New Nuclear Arms Race (Political Cartoons)
A picture is worth a thousand words.

Lavavoth
Dec 24, 20161 min read


He Intoxicates Her: A Love Story Inspired by the Cupid & Psyche Myth
A 4AM sketch of Cupid and Psyche stalls as Cupid’s face won’t take its intended form. Each attempt produces a different man, one that forces the illustration for to follow a face I didn’t choose.

Lavavoth
Aug 15, 20102 min read
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