Energy Work update
I’ve recently been working with Mantak Chia’s Cosmic Fusion energy technique, which builds off the elemental fusion work. I’ve so far done two of the trigrams, and I’m going to add the third tonight with the breath work I’m doing. The benefits I’m noticing are a stronger cleaning out of the energetic and physical body, [...]
A methodical approach to magic
I tend to be a generalist when it comes to magic, which is to say I don’t specialize in a particular area or discipline of magic. I prefer to learn as much as possible about a wide variety of topics (most of them not even overtly magical). I admire people who can focus on tarot [...]
Some thoughts on time
After reading Evola’s article on precognition and time in Introduction to Magic, and in particular two passages, I’ve been musing further about the illusory nature of time and how much a sense of time is derived moreso from routines than we might think. The passages in question is: “The overwhelming majority of people are so [...]
Midsummer issue of Rending the Veil is out
The midsummer issue of Rending the Veil is now available. Features articles, by myself, Lupa, Gerald Del Campo, Donald Tyson, Patrick Dunn, and many more. ShareTweet
Review of Introduction to Magic by Julius Evola and the UR Group
Introduction to Magic by Julius Evola The title of this book could be a bit misleading, as it’s fair to say that the majority of the articles in this book are not intended for people who are just coming into magical practice. The articles requires at least an intermediate knowledge in Hermeticism, Alchemy, or Buddhist [...]
My interview with Occult Sentinel
Occult Sentinel We discussed Taoism, Space/Time magic, Tarot, and my magical philosophy. ShareTweet
A slight change in title
You might notice that the title of this blog is now: The Experiments of Magicians While I plan to continue posting here, I thought it might be neat to get a few other people to post about their own experiments with magic, as well as the culture of the occult. I’ve invited Vince Stevens, a [...]
Magic and Role Models
The Occult and Role Models Humans are social creatures, and we inevitably seek people to model our behavior off of. Magicians and mystics are no different. My experience with the occult, from some early Robert Anton Wilson, Jung, and general mysticism, has largely been from Taoist sources. Interested in meditation, Chi work, and philosophy, it [...]
Facial Action Coding and Posism
Something Bill Whitcomb turned me on to recently is Facial Action Coding (FACS). It’s a coding system that attempts to taxonimize human facial expressions (just imagine the correspondence charts with that!). For me this is interesting, because I see some related threads in the neuroscience works I’ve been reading in terms of how facial expressions [...]
At One
I do meditation each day, part of both my morning and evening regime of practices to keep my mind sharp and my spiritual muscles well exercised. Lately, I’ve been having a really interesting experience that has happened a few times before. I get into a really deep state of altered consciousness and my body feels [...]
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- I finished the latest revision of Magical Identity, at 93,535 words. Off to the editor and then layout! Expect a pre-order post soon.
