Before starting this post I have a couple of things to announce: First, this Sunday, April 29, at 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time (10:00 Eastern) I will be interviewed on the Breath of Terra Show with Teresa Sixberry. You’ll be able to hear it over the internet and you can call in with your questions. For [...]
Well, it’s Monday morning and I’m back from Florida and the GreenSong Grove’s Samhain Festival. Unlike some of the massive festivals around the country, this one was relatively small, just a few hundred people. I’d like to thank everyone who brought me out, who treated me so well, and were so helpful, especially Ann Marie [...]
Actually, there are many reasons why magick fails. The primary cause of most magickal failures, however, is not understanding that magick is, in part, a science. Rituals, spells, and all forms of magick are basically scientific experiments. As you did (or do) in high school, you can simply repeat experiments from a text book and [...]
In Modern Magick I write about the two histories of the Kabalah. One, the most well-known version, is mythical and metaphoric. The second is factual and historic. This second history indicates that there are predecessors to Kabalistic thought and magick. One of these predecessors was local (i.e., Semitic)Â folk magick and beliefs. Sometimes, the folk traditions [...]