Jan Fries on seidr and trance technique: shaking, swaying, and serpent-power methods for reaching altered states, drawn across Northern European and comparative sources. Full text on the Internet Archive.
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Jan Fries
German occultist and author associated with "freestyle shamanism": automatic drawing, trance, and self-directed technique over fixed systems. Fries's books include Visual Magick, Seidways, Helrunar, and Cauldron of the Gods.
Jan Fries on "freestyle shamanism": trance, breathwork, and freehand automatic drawing as a route to sigils and vision, built from Zos Kia Cultus, Thelema, and Taoist sources rather than a fixed system. Full text on the Internet Archive.