On the Art Of Return
The last three years have been quite busy for me, and there’s aspects of my meditative practice that I minimized or ignored (at times while starting other practices), so I’ve engaged in a comprehensive effort to return to them. A lot of my work involved abdominal breathing and energy work, which required gradual build-up in [...]
Why internal work is so important
Yesterday I got to meet someone in person that has been doing a lot of internal work. I’ve been following her blog quite a bit and it was a real pleasure to talk with her about her practices as well as comparing some notes. She made an interesting comment, “I’m doing this work because now [...]
Elemental Love Work: Some musings on self-hatred
From John Welwood’s Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships, “There would be no hatred of others without hatred of self. If we truly felt good about ourselves, we would have no interest in wasting precious life energy resenting or attacking anyone. The urge to blame others arises only out of feeling bad about ourselves, which originally developed [...]
Elemental Love work: Grievance
I’m reading Perfect Love: Imperfect Relationships by John Welwood as part of my love work. One concept he discusses in this book is Grievance, which is an inability to let go of how people hurt you, but also a means of empowerment, of feeling righteous and better than those same people. It was actually quite [...]
Deity, service, bargains, needs, etc.
A while back I posted a few posts about deity and service The first one is here. The second one is here. The third one is here. As I woke this morning I thought back to a situation where I could have potentially dedicated myself to a deity. I’m glad I didn’t, because the truth [...]
Elemental Love Working Month 9
So for a while I was posting my elemental love work in my live journal, but I’ve moved it over to here, starting this month…though I’ll keep the rest in my livejournal as that suits me to keep it there. Nine months in and I just celebrated my anniversery with my wife, and the anniversery [...]
Staring into the sun
Sometimes I like to lay down on the floor of my apartment, with the overhead fan running, the light turned on, and stretch myself out, so that my arms and hands are placed like I was on a cross and my feet are stretched as well. I close my eyes and face my head toward [...]
Bonding with the Land
I don’t get tattoos very often. In fact, I only get them on special occasions. I got a phoenix to say goodbye to the east as well as to signify my rebirth from the ashes of academia. I got a Green wolf paw on my left breast, when I married my wife. Today I got [...]
Magic, Culture, Identity
Taylor’s latest post helped codify a few things I’d been considering as well in the world of magical practice and the role of identity. As noted previously, a great deal of the influence on my magical and meditative practices are distinctly Eastern, mostly Taoist, Indian, Chinese and Buddhist. Such practices also have far different identity-concepts [...]
A Confession
I have a confession to make. I’m not really a magician. I realized this the other day, when in the process of decluttering my house, I decided to take my Golden Dawn and Crowley books, as well as copy of Agrippa’s Three Books of the Occult into Powells to trade them in for credit. I’d [...]
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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.
