Some thoughts on physiology, entheogens, and awareness of time.
I’ve just started reading Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream: a day in the life of your body by Jennifer Ackerman. I’m already intrigued by what I’ve read, but in the first chapter she notes that there is a set of neurons that comprise the master clock in your brain, which basically dictates the rhythms of [...]
Entheogens and emptiness
Tonight I went over to a friend’s place and utilized an entheogen. It’s been about ten years since I’ve done it. The first time I did it, there was no spiritual purpose for doing it, but tonight, I had a specific spiritual purpose in mind. I pulled out my two tarot decks and did a [...]
Space/Time Tarot/Deity experiments
I decided to do some space/time work with tarot cards after finishing A Brief hirstory of Time by Oryelle Defenstrate-Bascule. In his book he’d explain some of his own space/time tarot techniques and it reminded me of some of my experiments with space/time tarot, which I’d done a year or so back. As good as [...]
Magic as a process instead of a result
I read a post recently in another journal about short-lived magic. The poster was understandably a bit frustrated and even perhaps a little disillusioned because a desired result hadn’t lasted as long as s/he wanted it to. Admirably enough the poster pointed to the simple fact that examining the process of how the magic worked [...]
A Book Review and some book suggestions for Energy Work
I’m starting to read Tai Chi Dynamics by Robert Chuckrow. It was a review copy sent to me by YMAA Publication Center. It does look to be an intriguing book, where the author’s background as a physicist is employed to explain how Tai Chi works. I’m intrigued already and will report on it as I [...]
Disillusionment: A different take
I was listening to an episode of Catnip Brew, a podcast that I just found tonight. One of the episodes was about apathy and disillusionment in the pagan culture. Now, as it so happens, the most read post on the blog, at this point, is the post I wrote about my own disillusionment about the [...]
Past, present, future…is any of it real?
In a previous post, Xi O’Teaz asked for more details about my perception of time, wherein I stated the present didn’t exist. He noted that many would argue that only the present existed, while the past and future were illusions. Intriguingly enough quantum physics seems to support my meditative trance perspective of time, as I’ll [...]
A brief note
I was recently invited to be a guest at Pete Carroll’s Arcanorium College by an acquaintance on Myspace. I’m checking it out and it is interesting to see what Pete Carroll is up to. The person who invited me identified me as a chaos magician. I’ve been given that label a number of times and [...]
How to use over exposure to something to banish it
Something I’ve found fascinating and useful within my own life is taking a habit or desire and over exposing it to what is desired, without necessarily fulfilling or indulging the desire. Obviously this takes a lot of discipline to do, because you are battling with your impules. However, this discipline not only toughens you magically [...]
The Emptiness Working Month 1: Rotting
In the first three weeks of getting involved in the emptiness working, I’ve already had so much come up. Just as the elemental love working was intense from the get go, this working has also been intense from day one. A lot of this first month has involved dealing with insecurities. Insecurities about myself, insecurities [...]
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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.
