Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Kavitha M. Chinnaiyan, MD, author of the Heart of Wellness. As a long-term meditator, I constantly recommend the practice to anyone who'll listen. Meditation has undisputedly changed my life, by clearing the lens of my perception and creating a sense of deep, unshakeable peace, even during times of unrest. As any meditator knows, an effective practice necessarily leads to periods of tumultuousness, including pain, confusion, and darkness. I call this the "washing-machine" effect, otherwise known as purification. Meditation works on our bodies and minds in innumerable ways; its objective effects occur via the autonomic nervous system

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Laura Tempest Zakroff, author of The Witch's Cauldron and the new Sigil Witchery. The most frequent interview question that I received after writing The Witch's Cauldron was, "What's your favorite use for the cauldron?" Well, in our house, our five-foot-long, claw-foot tub is our beloved, most-used cauldron. So, consequently, my most common magickal applications center around bathing. But there's more to bathing rituals and spells than herbal infusions and salt mixtures (check out "The Blessed Bathtub," pages 203-209 of The Witch's Cauldron, if you want to know more about these classic methods.) Did you know you could use sigils to focus

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Aaron Leitch, author of several books, including Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires, The Angelical Language Volume I and Volume II, and Essential Enochian Grimoire. I would like to talk about grimoires. Not a specific grimoire, like the Key of Solomon, or Heptameron, or Lemegeton. This isn't even about their contents, or their history. No, what I want to talk about are the actual physical grimoires—those dangerous things made of paper and cardboard, with arcane scribbles of ink on their pages. Books that at various time and places (including to this very day) could get you arrested and worse. That pretty thing you might like to display

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Aaron Leitch, author of several books, including Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires, The Angelical Language Volume I and Volume II, and Essential Enochian Grimoire. Back in the 1990s, a ritual called the "Tesseract Working" appeared and was in vogue for a while. Based on the concept of multiple co-existing universes, it promised to allow one to jump from one universe to another at will. (Yes, like that old TV show Sliders—though that didn't yet exist.) Frankly, the ritual wasn't that mind-blowing. It had a Neopagan structure, and basically took you ritually through the entire Major Arcana of the Tarot. (The GD has been doing that for a