Yes, I know the name sounds like something from a bad porno film. In actuality, French Lick, Indiana, is a real town. It is the home town of NBA great Larry Bird. People visiting the casinos there included boxer Joe Lewis and gangster Al Capone. Franklin D. Roosevelt announced his intention to run for President here. And in just 10 days, June 9–12, I'll be there at the Babalon Rising festival. Now you can be like them, meet some great occultists, attend some wonderful workshops, and hang with me at what I believe is becoming the best magickal festival in the U.S. There are going to be a lot of great workshops and presenters there, some known and some only known among magicians. I'm

I've been receiving lots of wonderful feedback on the new edition of Modern Magick. I'm grateful for all feedback. I'd like to mention one review that appeared in one of my favorite e-zines, "Hermetic Virtues." It appears in their latest issue (Volume 4 #4) along with articles on Westcott's previously unpublished versions of the Enochian Tablets by Sandra Tabatha Cicero, an article by Nick Farrell called "There is No Part of Me Which is Not Part of the Gods," as well as several other articles. I highly recommend all the issues of this informative and beautiful journal. Informed occultists might order back issues and get a subscription for future issues. In his review of Modern Magick,

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 people don't know is that they also have actual group meetings and sites. AMORC's Egyptian Museum in San Jose, California One of the things I remember about the public meetings was a statement at many of the rituals about the two great questions of existence: Life, and what comes before, and Death, and what comes after. People seek to know that our very essence, our soul or spirit,

Hello. Are you reading this? Today is May 21, 2011. According to Harold Egbert Camping, a 90-year-old media mogul (his company owns over 150 radio stations in the U.S.) focused on a version of Christianity, today is the day of the Rapture. Harold Camping being interviewed in 2011 If you're still reading this, you weren't raptured. Sorry about that. Of course, you may have missed his previous prediction of the Rapture for September 1994, so if you're still reading this and over 17 years old, you're doubly unlucky. According to Camping, after those Christians God has chosen are "raptured" away to heaven (God determined this at the beginning of time, and neither belief nor