Okay, I guess I jumped the shark by a few weeks. But my new eBook, The Magical Life of Scott Cunningham, is available NOW. You can get it for your iPad through the iTunes Store. You can get it for your Kindle on amazon.com. Just click on this LINK Here is an updated version of detailed information on this new, "eShort." The Magical Life of Scott Cunningham On leap day, February 29, 1980, needing a room to rent, I moved into a two-bedroom apartment with a person I barely knew. His name was Scott Cunningham. At the time, Scott had been writing novels and was beginning his magical writing career. As I look back at it now, I'm amazed that I was able to share both a friendship and apartment

Okay. You've learned the basic rituals. You know the Tree of Life and its correspondences. You know which herbs to use in spells for any reason. You've got the basics down. It's quite possible that you have a question that bothers so many people. Where is all the advanced stuff? If you're looking for the answer to that question, you've probably already looked everywhere. In books, on the internet. Everywhere. There's a story I remember about Aleister Crowley. I don't remember where I read it or the exact details, but it goes something like this: They asked me for the secrets of magick, so I told them. "But we want the real secrets of magick," they said. So I told them. "But we want

Two years ago I made a blog post about poverty thinking and how that can be a cause of impoverishment. I showed that on some level many people see the wealth of the world as being like a pie, and if you make your piece bigger, someone else will get a smaller piece. Not wanting to harm others, people with this mode of thinking settle for what they have. What I pointed out, however, is that when you make your piece bigger, the entire pie grows in size, increasing the wealth of everyone. Today, I think I would put it this way: As long as your means of obtaining wealth was ecological—by which I mean good for you, good for those around you, and good for your community and the world—your

Babalon Rising Next week, starting on June 6, I'll be in French Lick, Indiana, at the Babalon Rising festival. As with most festivals, there will be lots of music, rituals, dancing, bonfires and workshops. I'll be giving three workshops, one on a form of numerology most people don't know about (hint: it's Kabalistic), one on the five types of magick generally practiced by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (they call it the Magic of Light), and one on the practice of sex magick. I encourage adults—this is an adults-only festival—in the area (and even out of the area) to consider attending. One of the people giving workshops is the noted hypnotherapist, NLP trainer, magician, and