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The Shapeshifting Tarot Guidebook
To buy the deck, click here: The Shapeshifting Tarot on Etsy A note from the creator This is a deck of 78 cards, each one a unique...
Sebastien Clermont
Sep 21, 202465 min read
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Creative Process - Dance of Muses
In the course of making this painting, like it often happens, my mind wandered places that are quite strange and interesting; one could...
Sebastien Clermont
Oct 23, 20232 min read
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Creative Process - The Gardener
I completed this piece yesterday after working on it for about a month, on and off. Despite its small size, the level of detail involved...
Sebastien Clermont
Oct 16, 20232 min read
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Aghori
The boy pondered whether it was possible for two opposing things to be true at once. In his state of decay, he was somehow receiving a...
Sebastien Clermont
Oct 14, 20222 min read
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The Serpent
He said, "I killed the beast, that part of me is dead" And I laughed and yanked his stomach out of his mouth I pulled him around town...
Sebastien Clermont
Aug 5, 20221 min read
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Night Poems
You bit off more than you could chew and regurgitated a world yet to be formed rains of frogs and flowers Febrile neon fingers touch...
Sebastien Clermont
Jul 12, 20221 min read
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Conversing with Mind at Large
I understand now The need for regeneration, passing by destruction Obsessively reenacting the drama of nature on the playing field of...
Sebastien Clermont
Jun 14, 20221 min read
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Ode to my Liver
From the vantage point of a temperate gargoyle I felt my senses start to undull The abstinence produced a high My body so used to the...
Sebastien Clermont
May 13, 20221 min read
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A counsel
Remember the riddle you were asked before you were born Why are you here, but to learn and report back To a Sphynx who may be wise or mad...
Sebastien Clermont
May 13, 20221 min read
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Good Times in Babylon
You dig but can’t find a bottom Touching shapes in a dark room A blind expanse of mystery at the nucleus The thing that keeps you...
Sebastien Clermont
Jan 27, 20221 min read
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Enantiodromia
I chose a particular form of masochism that ritualizes pleasure and transmutes it into pain. It has lodged itself so deeply into my brain...
Sebastien Clermont
Dec 21, 20211 min read
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This is a drunk poem
You are the great blocker I once communed with the mind of nature but now it stays mute You are the great protector You shelter me from...
Sebastien Clermont
Dec 2, 20211 min read
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The Gardener
What happens when you notice something unfathomably wrong growing from a good source, like a fruit of death upon the tree of life? Do you...
Sebastien Clermont
Nov 24, 20212 min read
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Eros, Thanatos, Kairos
Eros Your most romantic moments come from what some describe as hookup culture. You cherish the juvenile excitement, isolated in time and...
Sebastien Clermont
Sep 22, 20216 min read
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The Guru
When I met him again he was no longer the most powerful man in the world. His presence was that of a harpooned whale; the aura of a...
Sebastien Clermont
Jul 24, 20212 min read
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Anamnesia
Gnosis is the Greek word for “knowledge” or “insight”, an ancient idea that seems relevant to spirituality as it exists in today's world....
Sebastien Clermont
Jul 22, 20213 min read
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Day / Night
We never really sleep. A spontaneous flashback came several months after an entheogenic experience I had one night. It was a remembering...
Sebastien Clermont
May 26, 20212 min read
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Skinner Box
Somewhere in the world there is a rat in a cage who is scratching at a malfunctioning button with its tiny paws. The scientist who set up...
Sebastien Clermont
Feb 8, 20213 min read
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Vertigo
There's a vertiginous quality to life that we spend much of our waking hours trying to keep in check. To have sprouted from the earthly...
Sebastien Clermont
Feb 4, 20213 min read
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A breach
He had been swimming in the guts of life, among putrid amoeba and choking tentacles. As usual, Grace then showed its face through the...
Sebastien Clermont
Jan 26, 20212 min read
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