When to walk away from working with other people
My Interview with Abigail Doherty. This was a fascinating interview, where I learned about some intriguing energy work techniques as well as Abigail’s work with animals. When to Walk Away from Working with Other people Mostly I write about magical experiments on here. Today however, I had an adventure where I chose to walk away [...]
The Emperor
In the course of getting involved in the Emptiness working, I’ve had an intriguing encounter with another pop culture entity, namely the Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars, aka Darth Sidious. It probably didn’t help that until a couple weeks ago I was playing The Force Unleashed, wherein the character appears, but even so the appearance [...]
In Loco Dei: Pathology in Western Magic
By Vince Stevens In dealing with Modern Western Magic, I and those I work with often find consistent patterns of pathology in Western Magical culture: Tendencies to arrogance and self-obsession among magicians. An inordinate focus on rebellion, rebelliousness, and distance from the dominant – or any culture. An unusual distance from people, processes, nature, and [...]
“Go at your own pace”
When I hiked on Tuesday and later on Sunday, each time I hiked XAH was with me, loping alongside me. Everytime I felt the urge to speed up, he cautioned me, “Go at your own pace.” I slowed down. I started to lope along at a pace that was easy on my body. The hike [...]
Randomness
The Power of being Open in Magic This is refined article of one of my previous posts, published on Right Where You are sitting Now. I expanded the concepts a bit further in it to explain how being open can actually limit the field of possibilities that are accessible. ****** Who is speaking? Who is [...]
One week in
One week in to the Elemental Emptiness ritual working and I can already feel some definite differences. A lot of my insecurities have come forward a lot more. Some of it is just the nature of dealing with the emptiness and some of it is a personal situation I’m adjusting to. Regardless, these feelings have [...]
Future me
So there’s a site called Futureme.org where you can send an email to yourself in the future. I’ve been using it for the last couple years to occasionally emails to myself and predict or set the intent for what I want to manifest. The result’s have been fairly accurate and this doesn’t surprise me because [...]
Bits and Pieces
I finished reading Language, Thought and Reality by Benjamin Lee Whorf and waltzed right into Defining Reality by Edward Schiappa. Whorf’s work was interesting and makes me wonder how much Burroughs might have read or if Burroughs came to similar conclusions about language independently. Defining Reality, by Schiappa, is a favorite book of mine and [...]
The dedication to the Element of Emptiness
On Saturday I finished my elemental love working and switched over to the element of emptiness. When Babalon took me and handed me off, she handed me to XAH, the fox lord. XAH is part of my personal mythology, the core of my being, a fox lord, and yet so much more as well…He is [...]
Tarot Reading Experiments
If you’ve read Space/Time Magic, you know that my stance on divination is that it’s best not to do it to determine what might happen in the future if you do a certain act. However, I also think reading Tarot can be much more subtle, particularly when it’s focused on analyzing a current situation as [...]
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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.
