Nightshades is the record of one remarkable magician\'s exploration of the inverse regions of the Tree of Life.
Jan Fries Nightshades comprises 72 intense drawings prefaced by an explanatory essay detailing the background and genesis of this ultimate magical adventure..
Our island is not the opposite of the world-ocean, it is simply a tiny and comprehensible part of it.
All and Nothing are present everywhere.
The Dayside is a tiny island of experience in a huge ocean, the Nightside, full of currents, island chains and continents of the possible and impossible.
The Nightside is not simply a reflection of the dayside with a few confusing and spooky bits thrown in.
But when you reach the Nightside it doesn\'t work like that.
It looks symmetrical.
Both of them connected by the voidness that makes them possible.
On the other hand the chaotic world of uncertain and incomprehensible mysteries.
Like the pretty picture of the Tree of Life it has its scenic cites, its hotels, restaurants, shopping opportunities and highways in between.
On one hand the radiant world of colours and forms, more or less thinkable, reasonable and meaningful.
Some assume that we are dealing with a simple polarity.
Before the light began to shine, the night was there.
It\'s so much older than the Dayside.
Or maybe it\'s just one needs Or maybe it\'s just one needs the use of an all-embracing rather than a limited kind of identity and self-identification? The Nightside is always with us.
The correct attitude is said to be one of self or ego-less witness.
The Nightside aspect requires some care and alertness in case of accident.
Liber 231, apparently started life as a text within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, as an exercise to develop astral and trance abilities or perhaps in other more elaborate rites.
Aleister Crowley\'s Liber 231 provides the map and Kenneth Grant\'s Nightside of Eden a travelogue.
Nightshades is the record of one remarkable magician\'s exploration of the inverse regions of the Tree of Life
