This is part one of a three-part series discussing the pendulum and how to use it for magick. For information on the contest to win a free pendulum, read on to the end of this post. What is a Pendulum? A pendulum is simply a weight that is hung from a fixed point, giving it the freedom to swing in multiple ways from that fixed point. Frequently, there are limitations so that the weight can only swing in two directions. The most commonly seen example of this is with an old pendulum clock as seen at the right, here. The French physicist, Léon Foucault (1819–1868) came up with an experiment with a large pendulum that wasn't locked into two directions. Although the pendulum had

You can hear me live, this Friday, July 16, from anywhere in the world. I'll be live from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Pacific Time on the new internet program, Occultist Radio. You can discover more about this program at http://www.occultistradio.com I can tell you that Occultist Radio is operated by Jymie Darling and Vicky Adams, owners of Panpipes Magickal Marketplace, the oldest occult store in the U.S. It is currently located Cahuenga Blvd., just down the street from Hollywood Blvd. in the heart of Hollywood. I'm very honored to consider Jymie and Vicky my friends. Although they've only been podcasting for a short time, they have archives of past shows you can download at THIS

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 have afairly high degree of success. But not all experiments done in school successful. Why? Because you didn't control all of the variables. According to scientific theory, if you repeat an experiment under the same conditions, the results should be the same. If you do magick, and it doesn't work, the cause is most likely to be that you are not working under the

Reincarnation Two articles I found on the web drew my interest. The first is quite simple. It's 30 Quotes on Reincarnation. The quotes—made by famous personalities ranging from Socrates, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman to Charles Dickens, Henry Ford, James Joyce and Carl Jung—all support the belief. Quote #15 is taken from the Zohar, one of the most important Medieval Kabalistic texts: The souls must reenter the absolute substance whence they have emerged. But to accomplish this, they must develop all the perfections, the germ of which is planted in them; and if they have not fulfilled this condition during one life, they must commence another, a third, and so forth, until