Just one week before the beginning of CYCLE 13 of STRATEGIC SORCERY TRAINING COURSE It starts on May 1st. Sign up before then to participate in the Walpurgisnacht and May 1st meditations. Write me at inominandum@gmail.com with the words STRATEGIC SORCERY COURSE in the subject line.
Continue readingI am one of those people who listen to NPR on the way to work every day. I check several news sites every day. During election cycles I am jacked in to cable news TV shows, talk radio, and polls. When major news events happen, I am one of those people that feels the need […]
Continue readingCYCLE 13 of STRATEGIC SORCERY TRAINING STARTS ON MAY 1st I am very excited to be announcing cycle 13 of the Strategic Sorcery Course which will begin on Beltane, May 1st. The course consists of 52 lessons arriving by e-mail every Tuesday morning for a year. In addition to this there is a student’s forum, […]
Continue readingHermetic and Kabbalistic correspondences can a very effective tool for mis-understanding everything. One of the dangers of thinking of gods and spirits in these terms is that we can loose sight of their fullness and only see the aspect that we are working with. I have written about this many times before, often bringing up the […]
Continue readingA lot of books on magic place a great emphasis on belief. Rock solid belief in magic, we are sometimes told, is the main ingredient in successful sorcery. If we believe it is so, we can make it so. In Chaos magic theory this was taken even further where belief was treated as a force […]
Continue readingOne of my teachings that people can find most vexing is my insistence on meditation as a cornerstone of the path. It can seem counter-intuitive to people that are magically minded. Meditation asks you to sit still, magic often asks you to move around and make potent gestures and signs. Meditation asks for silence, magic […]
Continue readingI was asked the other day by a dharma brother why I no longer hang out in Buddhist circles. In fact, most of the people I am closest to don’t. The reason is that while there are a sizable amount of people who get into Tibetan Buddhism from a magic/occult angle, most people approach from […]
Continue readingIn all the fuss getting the apprenticeship program together, I forgot all about the Equinox and the spring sale I had planned! Spring is a time of resurrection and renewal. I myself have been re-evaluating and changing my daily and weekly practices to fit my current needs, something I try to do every quarter or […]
Continue readingSo there are a number of posts floating around about Why Evocation is important. Here is Aaron Leitch. Mike C. The commonality among them is an assertion that magic works through the agency of spirits and that any assertion otherwise is modern and incorrect. I agree that the evocation of spirits is important in magic, […]
Continue readingI learned magic mostly from mentors. People that knew who I was, worked with me one on one, and took into account my interests, schedule, and personality. As happy as I am with the Strategic Sorcery Course and the amazing success reports that I keep getting from students who take it, I have been hungry […]
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