One of my favorite blogs to follow is Jason Pitzi-Waters' The Wild Hunt. It's one of the best blogs focusing on Paganism and magick on all of the internet. In a recent post, he describes an article discussing how some younger American Hindus are attempting to create a uniquely American version of Hinduism. He mentions the Hindu American Foundation and how it has actively made an outreach to the Pagan community. Indeed, earlier this year they actively participated at Pantheacon, one of the largest Pagan events in North America. I deeply applaud this honest and sharing outreach by HAF. I have noticed more and more Pagans interested in Hinduism and would encourage any people interested to

I happened to have had the privilege of knowing some incredible people who, unfortunately, are no longer with us. This includes Israel Regardie, Scott Cunningham, and  Ted Andrews. When I mention such people, I often hear someone say, "I wish I'd had a chance to meet them or study with them." Although we can read and study their amazing writings, we can't go back and have personal experiences with them. What I like to point out is that there are great people, alive right now, whom you can meet and study with. Just imagine meeting Andrieh Vitimus, author of Hands-On Chaos Magic. And besides meeting him, imagine attending workshops by him with topics such as "5-Minute Powerhouse

People have a natural interest in sex. Without sex, we wouldn't be here. And yet, we seem to have a love-hate relationship with sexuality. To many Westerners sex is a gift from God but we should only experience this gift under certain limited situations. To others, sex is at best a necessary evil and shouldn't even be discussed. But people will talk. If it's not polite to talk about what your friends do in private, it's okay to talk about people in a far-away country. That way, you can work out your psychological need to discuss sexuality while taking an pseudo-anthropological approach to this discussion. This is exactly what happened in Victorian Britain, where "proper" people who would

It was a long, very hot day, today. I mean it was so hot the state issued "heat warnings" for people to stay where it was cool. The state, Minnesota, had political issues resulting in closing down all non-essential tasks. Streets buckled from the heat, and nobody is going to repair them. I took the tourista solution for the heat and went to the ultimate place to buy garbage, the Mall of America. I lived in Minnesota when they were building it and everyone called it the "Mega Mall." I was looking to see if there were any unique shops there. Nope. Not only were the shops the same as in any other mall, the place is so big some of the chains had more than one store in the place. Well,