Summary: Andy explains invocation, as distinct from evocation, two processes used in occultism and religion, and applies the idea to Christmas. He describes the festival as a shared calling-up of a seasonal spirit, using elements such as snow, the 24th and 25th, and communal celebration, and compares it with Halloween and other festivals. It ends with a clip of a cheesy Christmas song.
Author: Andrew T. Austin
Andrew T. Austin is a therapist, trainer and author. He qualified as a registered general nurse in 1992, with clinical experience that included accident and emergency (A&E) and neurosurgery, and went on to train in Ericksonian hypnotherapy, NLP (to trainer level) and Provocative Therapy with Frank Farrelly. He developed Integral Eye Movement Therapy Technique (IEMT), formalised as a training in 2008, and Metaphors of Movement. Both are included in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy (2015). He is the author of The Rainbow Machine: Tales from a Neurolinguist's Journal, prefaced and edited by Steve Andreas and published by Real People Press.