This post is coming out late because I was in Las Vegas giving workshops over the weekend. Sometimes, in the most unlikely of places, I get an epiphany. In this instance my received information occurred in a most unlikely place: Caesar's Palace…or rather, next to it. I needed to get a replacement battery for my laptop, and one of the places that had it was in a high-end mall known as the Forum Shops that had been added to the Caesar's Palace hotel and casino.  Photo by Pedro Szekely under Creative Commons license This giant, indoor mall currently has over 160 high-end shops and 11 gourmet restaurants. It brings in more money than any other mall in America—including Minnesota's

Gordon at Rune Soup has presented a "game" that has been firing up the magickal blogosphere. Here is the idea: Let's say you would like to introduce someone to the world of magick using only books. This person is going to be in a deserted house with no outside communication for a month and they've agreed to read whatever you tell them, in the order that you tell them. Here, quoted from Rune Soup, are the rules: Fiction is allowed. You have to specify what brand of magician you want to build beforehand. (Hermeticist, chaos, etc.) You can’t tell the subject this. You must include books from at least three disciplines. (This is to stop you just giving the Complete Golden Dawn