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


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

Lavavoth
Jun 10, 20245 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, 20247 min read


"River Phoenix" Astral + Precognitive Visitation October 31, 1993
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 Journey Through Time: Lockerbie Bombing, Past Life Death in Germany, and Hans's Past Life Shadow
Nothing would prepare me for what I would endure when I found out about Pan Am 103 exploding over Lockerbie Scotland.

Lavavoth
Jul 28, 20219 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


Preface to Blind Love: Fascism, Then & Now
This book has been years in the making, taking dozens of twists and turns that have mirrored moments in my current and past life.

Lavavoth
Sep 8, 20175 min read


Blitzed Baby! Psychedelic Marines, Subterranean Dreams & the Heroin Epidemic
A personal reflection on heroin's allure, its devastation in Vermont, and the haunting contrast between youthful idealism and lived reality—woven through cultural memory, historical drug use in WWII, and a playful what-if imagining of soldiers on LSD instead of meth.

Lavavoth
Aug 4, 20174 min read


Latest Photo Acquisitions: GIs, Bombed-Out German Cities & Panzers
After being haunted by the Brandstätten images in December, I decided to purchase original photographs of WWII bombed out German cities.

Lavavoth
Jun 7, 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...

Lavavoth
Jun 6, 20173 min read


Avoiding “The Night Porter” Trap (and Website Updates)
Although Blind Love is an edgy and provocative illustrated novel full of “Nazi heartthrobs,” it is actually about the resistance movement.

Lavavoth
Mar 27, 20173 min read


Occupied Flesh: 1940 - 1945 The Erotic Years as a Mirror to My Spirit Union
The Erotic Years, 1940 – 1945 is a controversial picture book depicting trysts between Nazi soldiers and French women in occupied France.

Lavavoth
Feb 24, 20172 min read


Ghosts of Berlin, Part 2: The Berlin Wall
Haunted by Berlin’s war-torn past, I met the uninvited spirits of soldiers near the Wall.

Lavavoth
Dec 26, 20163 min read


Ghosts of Berlin, Part 1: The Flak Tower
When I prepared for my trip in February, I knew, given its intense history, that I would inevitably run into a spirit or two...

Lavavoth
Dec 22, 20164 min read


Brandstätten: Setting Germany Ablaze
Exploring the devastation of German air raids, the complexity of German Genocide, and how history’s shadows linger in memory and past lives.

Lavavoth
Dec 18, 20165 min read


“It Was Great Fun!”: Antique Photo Collection, Hitler Youth Haircut & the Unbearable Thousand-Year Reign of Fascism
Connecting with the ghosts of soldiers—via artifacts, photographs, and past lives—to confront fascism, past and present.

Lavavoth
Dec 16, 20166 min read


From Prussia (and Beyond) with Love: Searching for Hans's Face in the Portraits of Others Leads to Unexpected Photo Collection
Collecting these photos was a spiritual and aesthetic quest to get as close to Hans's doppelgänger as possible.

Lavavoth
Dec 15, 20165 min read


He intoxicates her: A Love Story Inspired by the Psyche & Eros Myth
Cupid is a dark angel, and he also reminds me of a dark superhero. He wears his heart on his sleeve, just like the artist.

Lavavoth
Aug 15, 20103 min read
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