Duncan Barford is a podcaster, writer, and psychodynamic psychotherapeutic counsellor
living in West Sussex, UK.
Lured into occultism by some unsettling Ouija board experiences as a teenager, which he
was never quite able to shake off, in the mid noughties he became a co-host of The Baptist's
Head, a blog that mixed the practicality of chaos magick with the aims and experiential
outcomes of mysticism and spirituality, leading to a trilogy of books in 2010, co-authored with
Alan Chapman, which have recently been updated and re-released in a single volume.
He took a break from solo blogging and writing to train as a counsellor, but returned to
occulture during the covid pandemic with a solo podcast, Occult Experiments in the Home,
which explores, through personal experience, the interface between magick, spirituality, and
the paranormal.
His website, containing details of his other books and podcasts, can be found at
https://oeith.co.uk.
Duncan Barford has been a guest on 1 episode.
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VYS0039 | Try Not To Be A Dick Shall Be The Whole Of The Law - Vayse to Face with Duncan Barford
June 19th, 2024 | Season 2 | 2 hrs 1 min
duncan barford, mental health, occult experiments in the home, the baptist's head
After a 3 month break, Vayse returns for an interview with a person who inspired the podcast before it was even a podcast - writer, podcaster and psychodynamic psychotherapeutic counsellor, Duncan Barford. Duncan's book Occult Experiments in the Home was a major influence on Hine and Buckley's views on magick and mysticism but for this interview they zero in on aspects of his career as a therapist, focusing on mental health and how this can affect and be affected by the occult and occult practices: Why do so many prominent figures in magick seem to have mental health issues or addictions? Where do you draw the line between mystical experience and mental health disorder? How do you maintain a magical practice when your mental health isn't good? Is it safe to have a magical practice at all? and most importantly... what kind of deep-seated psychological damage is preventing Hine from remembering the name of Duncan's new book? (Recorded 12 June 2024)