

Call upon Isis for boundless love, invoke Sekhmet for protection, summon the jackal god Anubis when seeking to end one thing and begin another. By combining elegant rites with an evocative description of each deity's myths, Invoking the Egyptian Gods invites you to begin a soul-level transformation and awaken to your own strength, power, and divinity. This book is both spiritual and practical. Not only will it be an aid to the advanced practitioner, it will also be a valuable learning tool for those who are just beginning to practice invoking. Throughout the book, you will be calling on many gods and goddesses based on ritual invocational rites. There are very few times in ritual when ...
Before I became an astrologer with various specialty areas in this appealing metaphysical science, I had a twenty-four-year career in the federal government and left early to pursue my career in consulting astrology and writing. Credentials for writing this article stem from my work as an executive coach and developer of training modules designed to elevate performance and improve the quality of the work environment. I offer material that builds team confidence and helps leaders understand the diversity of staff. Managers have often asked me to include the personality findings of the Myers-Briggs test in advance of specific training. One company head was visibly upset to learn that very ...
The rationalist culture of the post 19th century has done its best to kill imagination. To the pure materialist, imagination is just day-dreaming and an unnecessary barrier to achieving. More recently, science seems to be reviewing its views with some physicists, like David Bohm and Karl Pribram, starting to think that the entire universe might be like a hologram where the mind and imagination play a key role in what happens. The esoteric tradition has been using imagination techniques for centuries to explain and create the various strange things people on its path experience. Since the 1960s, the concept of pathworking, or imagination journeys, in the hope to attain some form of ...
As a young child, in my native Puerto Rico, I lived most of my life under the towering power of the Catholic Church. I attended Mass and took Holy Communion every Sunday. I went to confessions on Saturday evenings, accompanied by my mother and other relatives. Thursdays were devoted to the Twelve Stations of the Cross, which we followed in the steps of Jesus. There would be two or three additional early masses during the week. The Mass was said in Latin, and it was beautiful. I still miss the Latin Mass, and I feel very strongly that one of the many mistakes made by Vatican II was to eliminate it from the Catholic liturgy. The congregation knew by heart the answers to the officiating ...