{"id":4296,"date":"2012-05-23T08:04:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T14:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4296"},"modified":"2012-05-22T22:13:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T04:13:42","slug":"dr-taverner-and-the-dreamer-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4296","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Taverner and the Dreamer’s World"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not Sherlock Holmes, it's Dr. Taverner<\/p><\/div>\n

Robert Moss, novelist and noted writing on dreaming, has a series of posts on his blog about Dion Fortune’s Secrets of Dr. Taverner.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 Supposedly, the occultist\/psychiatrist Dr. Taverner is based on a real doctor whom Fortune<\/a> knew in the early twentieth century, and the “secrets” are retellings of actual cases.<\/p>\n

\u00a0In my opinion, she succeeded beyond her ambition. The Taverner stories are both gripping and entertaining, and a valuable source of practical guidance on psychic protection and spiritual cleansing and many other facets of psychic well-being that are missed in our standard approach to healthcare and therapy. In its fictional wrapping,\u00a0The Secrets of Dr Taverner\u00a0<\/em>is a practitioner’s casebook, of the greatest value to subsequent practitioners. It is perhaps the most accessible of all Dion Fortune’s works for the contemporary reader.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I once suggested to Stewart Farrar that he adapt them for television\u2014how perfect for PBS’ Mystery<\/em> series<\/a>\u2014<\/em>and he agreed that they would work well on “the box.”<\/p>\n

Only, he said, the current leadership of her Society of the Inner Light<\/a> was very protective of the copyrights. Too bad. Stewart would have brought both his writing talent\u2014which had included dramatic scriptwriting<\/a>\u2014and a Witch’s experience to the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Moss, novelist and noted writing on dreaming, has a series of posts on his blog about Dion Fortune’s Secrets of Dr. Taverner.\u00a0 Supposedly, the occultist\/psychiatrist Dr. Taverner is based on a real doctor whom Fortune knew in the early twentieth century, and the “secrets” are retellings of actual cases. \u00a0In my opinion, she succeeded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[178,21,39,153],"class_list":["post-4296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dreaming","tag-england","tag-occultism","tag-television"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-17i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8000,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8000","url_meta":{"origin":4296,"position":0},"title":"“It’s Only a Tree. 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