Seasonal Magic Disorder. It’s like SAD but, you know, for magic. Let’s leave aside anything calendrical here, like Oak/Holly Kings or particular deities tied to particular agricultural dates. What I want to know is if the flavour of your magic is affected by anything meteorological. Let me explain. I first noticed this in New...
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I like sharks. I have always liked sharks. As an Australian, I grew up swimming with them, I grew up picking up their eggshells as they washed onto the shore, I learned to dive surrounded by them. And I also like history. When I landed a job at Discovery Channel at the end of...
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Not that this is even the slightest bit unusual, but Jack’s recent EI post about locations in magic has got me thinking. More specifically, it has got me reminiscing. Reminiscing about one of my first rituals at the tender age of thirteen. It was a (Wiccan-ish) self-initiation my friend and I performed on top...
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Dr Hyatt spoke often about surrender. I wonder if this is where a lot of the magical resistance to Jesus comes? We don’t like it. A magical worldview leans more toward taking charge and doing things yourself. He was adamant we were missing out, however, and that surrender was a key part of spiritual...
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It is possible that I am giving you the impression that my family is some kind of mini-Antipodean-Illuminati but my brother has just spent the last four days in the hallway of a hospital in rural Malaysia, dropping in and out of consciousness from a bout of severe meningitis. His insurance company has finally...
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An interesting article in the Telegraph caught my eye yesterday. Half of all Muslim men and three quarters of all Muslim women in Britain are unemployed. That’s a jaw dropping statistic. And you just know what’s going through going through the minds of the more bigoted sections of society as they read their “news“,...
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You know how changing the way you speak has long been used in magic as a device of self change? Examples include Crowley allegedly slashing his arm whenever he slipped, the evolution of e-prime and -I believe it was PJC who said- “precise words beget precise precise thoughts.” Colour me excited by this article...
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