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


A Language of Our Own (Part 1): Examples of Electronic Voice Phenomena
Multiple EVPs from Hans, including ASMR sounds.

Lavavoth
6 days ago10 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, memory, and warning—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


The Quest for Spiritual Ancestry: A Journey Through Memory, Trauma, and New Beginnings
Exploring spiritual ancestry, a past life, and the call of the land, this journey uncovers hidden truths as I prepare to leave Vermont.

Lavavoth
Jun 10, 20245 min read


Into the Northern Wilds: A Journey of Aging, Spirit, and Sacred Land
A journey into sacred land, spiritual expansion, and aging as a return to the wild, guided by unseen forces and my spirit lover, Hans.

Lavavoth
Jun 5, 20244 min read


How Music, Lifestyle, and Film Shaped My Early Experiences of Sensing Hans
A journey of love transcending time: how films and music shaped my connection to Hans, my soulmate beyond death.

Lavavoth
Feb 18, 20246 min read


"River Phoenix": Synchronicity, a Visitation Dream, and Dream Research
Hans came through for the time during a visitation astral visitation on 10/31/93, shortly following his death.

Lavavoth
Feb 14, 202413 min read


The Verboten Love Affair
As I process what it means to be married to a spirit, the term verboten culturally enslaves my relationship with Hans and deems it demonic.

Lavavoth
Nov 5, 20232 min read


A Bombing and a Past Life
Nothing could prepare me for what I would endure when I found out about Pan Am 103 exploding over Lockerbie Scotland.

Lavavoth
Jul 28, 20214 min read


Writing on the Wall
Sad song by Bob Moses. The entire album, Days Gone By, is a requiem for the Surfside collapse + for my past life collapse trauma.

Lavavoth
Jul 4, 20211 min read


His Ghostly Presence in the Mirror: Using Creative Writing to Document Paranormal Encounters
If you are interested in writing about your paranormal experiences, consider using fiction as an option to disclose your story.

Lavavoth
Jul 3, 20218 min read


One Step Up, Two Steps Down: A Semi-Poetic Response to Nonlinear Spiritual Development
Resistant to the call, disdainful and intolerant of embarking on such a path, spirituality arrived like a sledgehammer.

Lavavoth
Mar 18, 20213 min read


The Race Dream and Hans
His desire for me to know his identity was apparent from the start, but I was not ready to confront his shadow.

Lavavoth
Nov 16, 20173 min read


Neurodivergence: Battling Dyslexia
Typing is akin to using an Enigma machine, especially if I over analyze the keyboard...

Lavavoth
Jul 11, 20173 min read


Transforming a Kriegsmarine Sailor into a Goth with an Aphrodisiacal Mensur Scar
Lavavoth | Death Tarot Card | © 2018 First phase of digital illustration and collage. Note the lace cascading from his sailor hat, an essential element. All Goths are required to wear Valkyrie-procured lace on their uniforms to manifest auspiciousness in battle. More on the scar in a moment. © 2017 Lavavoth. Original photo from the artist’s private collection (Stuart Archive). Original photo before edits (Stuart Archive). Guided by Ghosts, Grounded by Inquiry My art-making pr

Lavavoth
Jun 6, 20173 min read


Haunted Berlin, Part 2: The Berlin Wall
In Berlin, Germany, a visit to the Berlin Wall becomes an encounter with World War II soldiers moving through the field, appearing without warning.

Lavavoth
Dec 26, 20163 min read


Haunted Berlin, Part 1: The Flak Tower
In Berlin, Germany, the flak tower becomes a point of entry into a city where the past presses in and something unseen begins to surface.

Lavavoth
Dec 22, 20164 min read


Brandstätten: The Firebombing of Germany
Exploring the devastation of German air raids, and how the complexity of history’s shadows linger in a past life memory.

Lavavoth
Dec 18, 20165 min read


“Great Fun!”: Nazi Germany Photographs and the Unbearable Persistence of Fascism
Connecting with the ghosts of Nazi Germany via photographs to understand fascism then and now.

Lavavoth
Dec 16, 20167 min read


Antique Photo Collection: Searching for Hans’s Face in the Portraits of Others
Collecting antique photographs was a spiritual and aesthetic quest to get as close to Hans's doppelgänger as possible.

Lavavoth
Dec 15, 20165 min read
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