Mental Illness, Health, and Magic
I am not a doctor, therapist, psychologist, pastoral counselor, or healthcare professional of any kind. Even if I was, the kind of internet based teaching that I give would be a poor base for me to base diagnoses on. Therefore, I do not comment on matters of mental illness. Sadly, there are a lot of […]
Continue readingWhat Makes Magic Different?
The question is a bit more complicated than the title lets on, but I have had these thoughts myself from time to time. Maybe you have had them too. Here is Jonathan in his own words: “A lot of the magick we do is basically prayers, whether to gods or spirits, sometimes mantras, like in […]
Continue readingNext Step Spirituality
I made up a new term “Next Step Spirituality”. It sounds pompous right? Like I am saying its the Next step in human spirituality or the next step beyond existing traditions. That’s not it at all. The idea of the “Next Step” is simply an orientation. What is your next step? See, in Buddhism you are guided by […]
Continue readingMy Summer Course Schedule
Greetings Strategerati! Even though I run classes ranging from 4 to 7 months, somehow they all lined up to end this month. So below I have set out the timeline of all my deep dive classes with their start dates. Before I get to that though, I wanted to remind you that Strategic Sorcery, Level Up!, and Take […]
Continue readingNew Thinking on New Thought
This piece was the first thing I put up on the Mighty Network. Now that I am ditching that platform, I wanted to make sure it got on to the blog. Seems timely again. I really despise knee-jerk reactions. Thats really the only way I can describe the kind of bandwagon thinking that people […]
Continue readingHAIL SARA LA KALI!
This morning my daughter asked me to run though learning the Minor Arcana with her. I taught her how to read with the Trumps a few months ago, and seemed content to stick with that for a while, but this morning, she decided to continue further. I said “What a perfect day to ask!” This […]
Continue readingWhen Magic Works…. Technically
I have argued before and will argue again, that magic works more mechanistically than people think. People will do magic to get a job and wind up with a job that they hate, yet think that somehow they have to take the job or keep the job because “The spirits know I need it” or […]
Continue readingINSIDIOUS IMPOSTORS
One of the Chapters in Douglas Couplans novel Generation X is titled “Adventure Without Risk Is Disneyland“. It is a phrase that has stuck with me. Amusement Parks are designed to give thrills that approximate the excitement of life and death experiences with none of the risk (unless, like me, you were at Action Park in the […]
Continue readingA Field Report About Repairing Your Practice
Those who have taken my Sorcery of Hekate Course know that there is a commitment to recite the main mantra 100X a day every day. This doesn’t take long and it doesn’t have to be anywhere special. Do it on the toilet for all I care. Just do it. Why do we do it? […]
Continue readingHyggetru
There was a week in 1993 that I spent every other day in Copenhagen. Why every other day? Because thats the kind of decision that 20 year olds make when they are running out of money for hostels but have an active Eurail pass. During this very fractured and too short foray into Scandanavia I […]
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