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Jan Fries is a German occultist, freestyle shaman, He is a musician, artist, magician and author of several books. For other uses of this term, see occult (disambiguation). ... A shaman doctor of Kyzyl. ...


He lives in Frankfurt near the Taunus Mountains. Main Station Frankfurt Frankfurt International Airport For other uses, see Frankfurt (disambiguation). ...

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Biography

Jan Fries is credited with coining the term freestyle shamanism in reference to a style of magic that emphasizes trance and closeness to nature, but instead of roots in a shamanic tradition, draws from individual experience in a way akin to chaos magic. He notes the Zos Kia Cultus, Maat Magick, Taoism and Thelema as his chief influences. The Sorceress by John William Waterhouse Magic and sorcery are the influencing of events, objects, people and physical phenomena by mystical or paranormal means. ... An altered state of consciousness is any state which is significantly different from a normative waking beta wave state. ... The chaos star (called a chaosphere by some practitioners) is the most popular symbol of chaos magic. ... Zos Kia Cultus is a form, style, or school of magic developed by Austin Osman Spare. ... Taoism (sometimes written as and actually pronounced as Daoism (dow-ism)) is the English name for: Dao Jia [philosophical tao] philosophical school based on the texts the Tao Te Ching (ascribed to Laozi [Lao Tzu] and alternately spelled Dào Dé Jīng) and the Zhuangzi; a family of organized... Thelema is the English transliteration of the Ancient Greek noun : will, from the verb θέλω: to will, wish, purpose. ...


Works

Despite his German roots, Fries's books have so far all been first published in English.


English

  • Visual Magick: A Handbook of Freestyle Shamanism (Mandrake, 1992, 2001)
  • Helrunar: manual of rune magick (Mandrake, 1993 & 2002)
  • Seidways: shaking, swaying and serpent mysteries (Mandrake, 1996)
  • Living Midnight: three movememts of the Tao (Mandrake, 1998)
  • The Cauldron of the Gods: manual of celtic magick (Mandrake, 2003)

German

  • Visuelle Magie: ein handbuch des Freistilschamanismus (Ananael 1995)
  • Helrunar: ein handbuch der runenmagie (Ananael 1997 & 2002)
  • Seidwärts: Schütteltrancen, Wiegetänze und die Mysterien der Schlange (Ananael 2003)

Spanish

  • Magia(k) Visual: Manual de chamanismo estilo libre (Noctiluca 2003)

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See also


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Eilanders - pafg142 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (665 words)
Jan FRIES [Parents] was born on 12 Jan 1869 in Terschelling.
Trijntje FRIES was born on 28 Oct 1861 in Terschelling.
Jan ROOS was born on 25 Feb 1888 in Hoorn, Terschelling.
Jan Fries (2531 words)
Jan Fries is the author five books and several articles that deal with some very interesting free-form shamanic techniques.
Fries has written on several subjects, including the Tao and Rune magick, but this work shows a very good awareness and ability with Spare's techniques, cross-fertilised with some of the more well-known methods of shamanism and his own innovations; hence the subheading.
Fries knows that in order to be accomplished you need to know where your magick comes from as much as where you want it to take you, and his historical tracing of Celtic magick is knowledgeable and well-researched.
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