“Happiness is not the absence of problems; its the ability to deal with them.” – Steve Maraboli Recently Aaron Leitch wrote a great piece on how people can sometimes magic and magicians ineffective because they still have problems. People accuse Crowley of failure because he died “penniless”*. People accuse Vodou of malevolence because Haiti is […]
Continue readingA few months ago I had a very powerful waking vision of Green Tara which took up the entire sky. She was surrounded by smaller versions of the 21 other manifestations of Tara, which were all beaming light into the central green figure. I immediately decided to begin charging up a batch of 21 Green […]
Continue readingA few months ago I had a very powerful waking vision of Green Tara which took up the entire sky. She was surrounded by smaller versions of the 21 other manifestations of Tara, which were all beaming light into the central green figure. I immediately decided to begin charging up a batch of 21 Green […]
Continue readingTomorrow is Saga Dawa, the day that Tibetan Buddhists celebrate the birth of the Buddha. It is said that the merit of all actions are multiplied one million times this month. Given this auspicious date, and the recent Tornado in Oklahoma, it seems a good time to announce the following. From tomorrow, May 25th, through June 8th, […]
Continue readingToday is Kenneth Grant’s birthday. His work, and the work of those that were inspired by him deeply effected my early career in magic. My copy of Nightside of Eden along with Linda Falorio’s Shadow Tarot and Mishlen Linden’s Typhonian Terratomas proved to be an incredibly potent combination. I count those explorations among the most […]
Continue readingThe fiction vs real god/spirit thing stirs up and rages on again. Go to Jacks blog here, as well as the next several posts he makes. His thoughts on this are golden and you can follow his links to see the rest of the debate in other forums and blogs. This time it is a much […]
Continue readingToday is not just Mercuries day because it is Wednesday It is Mercuralia, the sacred feast! At at his hour which falls on his day of the week, which falls on his day of the year you can raise a glass to the god of intelligence, speed, speech, commerce, and of course thievery! “Glorious Mercury, grandson of […]
Continue readingJust a quick note on business. I am getting completely caught up and if you live in the US and are expecting something from me, you should get it by Monday the 13th. If you do not get it, please write me and I will make sure you get it by the end of the […]
Continue readingCycle 13 has begun. If you did not get an e-mail with Lesson Zero and the Walpurgisnacht Meditation in it, but have signed up for Lesson 13, contact me and I will straighten it out. EGO EIMAI SYMPLANOS HYMIN ASTER KAI EK TOU BATHOUS ANALAMPON Jason
Continue readingLast week I was sponsored by the Tri-College Mellon Working Group on Magic to give two lectures. The first on The Place of Magic was held at Swarthmore College and was only to professors and guests of the group. In attendance was Yvonne Chireau author of Black Magic: African American Religion and Conjuring Tradition, Eoghan Ballard […]
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