Mystery Tour (Holborn)-Jenni

On this trip we were introduced to Paul Purges, a former graduate in architecture.

With a general interest in most things creative, he put aside architecture and is now a doing various collaborations amongst being a DJ and traveling around the UK. Nice Guy.

We started off in a park near Holborn Tube St, then onto The Hunterian Museum (interesting place of studies in science, anatomy and surgery founded by John Hunter), where pretty much everything you could imagine was in a pickled jar, awesome! We then moved onto the Swedenborg Foundation, which was a bookshp downstairs but we were taken up some stairs to what seemed to be a study area, and were spoken to a bit about Emanuel Swedenborg (The Strange One). An all round genius, we were given a brief intro to his works and beliefs. Revealed to us was his ability to describe life hereafter based on his actual experiences in the spiritual realm. A highly organized heavenly life, universal speech, our entry into the nest world, and many other matters. Amoungst dealing with an understanding of his visions, he was a mathematician, a scientist, a poet, a musician, an anatomist, an astronomer, a metallurgist an engineer.....and so on....divinley inspired. I believed this to be an interesting introduction as its basis is that we are all driven by something....or is it someone?

I bought a beautifully illustrated story about his life leading from his apprenticeship and apparitions. A man of two worlds.

We then popped into an occult book shop, thereafter a stamp shop, finishing off the trail at The British History museum by being introduced to DR DEE (good DJ name) an astrologer for Elisabeth I, he also claimed to be able to communicate with angels, looking at surfaces to extract info. In a cabinet was placed what was called the Seal of God (a golden wax disc engraved with magical names and symbols) in between which he claimed to see visions of devine beings and formulate the unveiling secrets and language of the Universe. Trippy stuff.

From all this we had to make a collage of what we felt to be the summary of this journey. I personally found this trip to be something of much interest to me as I believe in always looking beyond things to find alternative meanings. Rounding the trip up we all said a few words defining our experience. Enlightening was one that came up alot.

We weren't really allowed to document this journey with photographs but I inevitably snuck a few in. Woops.