I am writing this just a few days before the supposed Mayan Apocalypse on Friday, December 21, 2012. The belief that the “end times” are here is nothing new. This LINK will take you to a page that lists over 200 dates where experts and religious leaders said the end of the world was coming. [...]
Are you familiar with Tantra? If you live in a Western culture, you probably know that Tantra is “that sex stuff.” It’s about “spiritualized sex,” the Kama Sutra, weird sex positions, and sex that lasts for hours. Didn’t Sting say so? (Okay, now he admits it was a joke.) Even in India, the birthplace of [...]
Go Beyond Astral Projection Go Beyond Psychic Empowerment Go to a Level that is Beyond Belief Go Beyond Ultimate Personal Power Now! Carl Llewellyn Weschcke and Joe H. Slate, Ph.D. are back with the newest release in their psychic empowerment series of books, Astral Projection for Psychic Empowerment. This innovative and comprehensive guide is designed [...]
Originally published in PanGaia magazine issue #50, an interview with Carl Llewellyn Weschcke, chairman of Llewellyn Worldwide and author of several books, is now available online. Visit www.witchesandpagans.com to read the full interview with Carl. You can also read an opinion piece from Carl, “Tips for Aspiring Writers,” that also appeared with the interview in [...]
The expression “the map is not the territory” is a concept found in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). It’s meaning is very similar to the concept of Maya in Tantra. In ancient Tantric concepts, as in modern Western science, the physical universe is seen as an incredible collection of energy. The stars are energy. The chair you’re sitting [...]
Self-Empowerment and Your Subconscious Mind, by authors Carl Llewellyn Weschcke and Joe H. Slate, Ph.D., was excerpted for the online edition of Wisdom magazine. The excerpt focuses on the powerful personal resource that is your subconscious mind. Wisdom Magazine is one of the country’s largest free holistic publications, with 150,000 copies printed bi-monthly in three [...]
Many years ago, when I lived in San Diego, I was a member of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood, AMORC, and a founding member of the lodge there. Most people familiar with AMORC from their at one time omnipresent ads in magazines such as Popular Mechanics and FATE know them for their mail order lessons. What many [...]
110 Years of Spiritual Development Part 2 of a 3-part Series Read Part 1 HERE Preparing the Ground. Planting the Seeds. Nursing the Seedlings. In the beginning of my first post on this history, I mentioned the concept of The Enlightenment. Part of the concept of The Enlightenment was that people no longer needed kings [...]
When I first started an in-depth study of occultism, I tried to read everything that was available. I quickly realized that the available books generally fell into two large categories, books that were mostly ridiculous inventions by their authors to take advantage of people interested in occult topics and books that were older material or [...]
Do you remember your first introduction to the works of Edgar Allan Poe? I do. It was watching the low budget films by Roger Corman that usually starred Vincent Price. They weren’t very good, but the use of color and lighting was very effective at being scary. Although I was a kid, I knew that [...]