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Magick and Language—Watch Your Mouth!In my previous blog post, I wrote about the concept of “Walking your Talk.” The concept I presented there was that you might best present your spiritual beliefs to others by following those beliefs yourself. That is, virtually all spiritual systems have a set of ethics, and you best represent those ethics by living them. [...] The Dark NightNo, I don’t mean the Batman. He was called the “Dark Knight.” But I am talking about some similarities to the Batman. He had to deal with issues arising from watching his parents’ senseless murder. He wants to follow a path that will prevent others from having to deal with the issues he did. In [...] Myths About Pirated BooksToday I got five emails from authors all alerting me to a website that had 32 of our books and an equal number of other publishers’ books on it, scanned in and uploaded as PDFs for anyone to freely download. If it sounds like harmless sharing to you, please read this post and educate yourself [...] White, Black, or Gray Magic?Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Skye Alexander, author of Sex Magic for Beginners. Many of us, when we begin studying magic, receive warnings from more experienced magicians urging us to stay on the white path and “do no harm.” I don’t doubt this advice comes from well-meaning sources—in fact, I’ve offered it [...] More holiday gift ideas!Two weeks ago, I posted a Holiday gift guide for Pagans, Wiccans, and cool people, sharing some of the books I’ve acquired that were published within the past year or so that I figured would make nifty gifts for your favorite witches. (Only the ones who’ve been really good and bad this year!) But what [...] Magick 101 # 7: Ritual DesignIf you’ve been following and working through this “Magick 101″ series, you’re probably not yet ready to design your own rituals. If you’ve been following this series for added information—or just to see what I’m talking about—you may already know all of this. In either case, you can use this as an overview in order [...] Holiday gift guide for Pagans, Wiccans, and cool peopleIt’s that time of year again…time for gift shopping! Whether you celebrate Yule, the Winter Solstice, Christmas or Hanukkah with your family and friends, the season has come to be synonymous with the giving of thoughtful gifts, trinkets or tokens of goodwill. This puts some degree of stress on all of us; though giving is [...] Why Atheists and Believers are Both WrongReaders, please enjoy this guest blog post by Philip H. Farber, author of Brain Magick: Exercises in Meta-Magick and Invocation. When I was younger I took a perverse pleasure getting into religious arguments. While I’ve always tended toward agnosticism and never felt very strongly one way or the other about organized religions, I took it [...] “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”Popularized by astronomer Carl Sagan, the actual source of the quote I used to title this post may be from Marcello Truzzi, a co-founder of the debunking group called CISCOP. The concept, however, goes back to people such as the French astronomer Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace —usually just called “Laplace”— (“”The weight of evidence for [...] Brain waves, ritual, relaxation…I saw a very interesting article this morning on what is purported to be the “most relaxing song ever created.” I highly recommend reading the whole article here, but to summarize with a quote from the article, The band worked with sound therapists to get advice on how to make the most effective use of [...] MEET THE BLOGGERS
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