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Home. If ascension spirituality can be summed up in one word, it is the word home. For many in ascension spirituality, the ultimate home is reunion with the source of all, merging with the godhead in eternal bliss. When working in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I wandered through an esoteric bookstore in Harvard Square. On the front table I came across an interesting book by Bob Frissell titled...

With the seventh and final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling, being released soon, much interest is growing in the media and public concerning magick, witchcraft and wizardry. With the huge buzz brewing, one has to wonder: how real, how accurate, is the magick being presented in the Harry Potter series?

Christopher Penczak, author of The Mystic Foundation, discusses the greatest spiritual blessing and greatest spiritual curse of our time, and offers a meditation exercise to work with the five elements and find balance in your life.

When most people think of holistic health, numerology doesn’t spring to mind. I know I didn’t think of numerology as a part of a balanced healing regime. At first glance, one wants to relegate numerology to simple fortune telling and associate it ...

Alongside writing and teaching witchcraft, I also teach classes on holistic health and alternative healing methods at local centers in the New England area. Most of my students don’t know my background as a Wiccan author, and just assume that I have ...

Reiki is one of the most popular, yet least understood, healing modalities. As a Reiki Master, I find myself educating people on Reiki and clearing up many misunderstandings. On a whole, people know Reiki practitioners are involved in a form of ...

A lot of pagan men find it tough to be a man in Wicca. The popular misconception of Wicca, one among many, is that it is a Goddess religion only for women. Such thoughts are simply untrue. Though there are some traditions that focus on the Goddess ...

By far the most important tool I’ve learned to use in my holistic studies has been the techniques of meditation. Though I started with an interest in more esoteric arts, I had a very wise teacher who emphasized that one must have awareness and ...

You are what you eat. We’ve all heard that a million times before, haven’t we? It’s a call to be conscious about our food choices. Our health is dependent upon the fuel our body has to create our lives. Eat healthy, vitamin rich foods, and you have ...

In the holistic world of the mind-body-spirit connection, we still tend to focus on the body in our healing practice. Body work, yoga, herbs and even crystals are physical therapies. They require action. If we don’t work with them, we don’t receive ...

Through yoga, I first had exposure to the Eastern traditions of spirituality. At the time though, I didn’t think of it as spiritual. I was looking for a form of exercise that didn’t involve lifting heavy weights or spending hours on a treadmill. I ...

As a practicing witch, I stand between many worlds. One of the first definitions that I learned from my teachers for a witch is a walker between worlds, like a shaman with one foot in the material and one foot in the spiritual. This is interpreted ...

The wisdom of the chakras permeates new age teachings, holistic healing, energy therapies and modern ceremonies. Its popularity is due to how practical, holistic and spiritually elegant this system of seven power centers is. Though it comes to the ...

As a public witch and teacher, one of the most frequently asked questions I get is about psychic attack. Is psychic attack possible? Can people really do curses? Are psychic vampires real? Are there harmful spirits? What can I do to protect myself? ...

From the popular 80’s sitcom, Designing Women, I heard the skeptical, shrewd, logical character Julia scold the more new age free-spirited Charlene with, “crystals are just rocks. Pass it on.” And at the time, I agreed with Julia. Crystals are just ...

So many aspir-ing witches start with spell books, formulas, and recipes. They have great success, but don’t really understand what they are doing, or why they are doing it. All they know is that it works. I know that’s how I got started. A spell ...

Our first healers are from the world of plants. In the primitive societies ministered by the shaman and wise one, early humans learned to cure by using plants. Even today, the basis of our pharmaceuticals comes from the plant kingdom. Modern science ...

Not long ago, I was experiencing some health problems and nothing I did seemed to help. I went through my normal regime of alternative health options — energy work, herbalism and crystals — and found no relief. I tried my doctor, and didn’t get a ...

Sex. It’s one of the spiritual mysteries. You can’t really explain it. You have to experience it directly, much like all of the consciousness-expanding mysteries of both Eastern and Western traditions. So many creation stories have the universe ...

I love watching smoke rise from burning incense. I am mesmerized by the flickering candle flame on the altar. I love drinking ritual wine from my chalice and smelling the scent of a magickal oil. But it’s hard to involve all those things in my ...

Music is the universal language, affecting everyone whether they realize it or not. Sound, tone, volume and harmony work together to affect our mood, outlook and ultimately our personal energy. Have you ever found your thoughts and feelings altered ...

We live in a time and place of both a great blessing and a great curse. Never before in the history of humanity has everyone had access to all the world’s mysteries and wisdom. The great blessing is this — the religions, myths, rituals and spiritual ...

I’m a man of many hats. When people ask me what I do for a living, I’d like to answer that I’m a witch, because it’s really my vocation, but such a provocative answer doesn’t really encourage communication. I could answer writer, minister or priest, but my heart lies with education. If I didn’t have the vocation of a witch, I think I’d be teaching high...