A journey across time
I stare out into the infinite web of time The countless spirals of the past unwind the endless promises of the future unbind to the infinite reach of the present where all is one and one is all zero and one the spider goddess of time weaves her web of silver trails with spirals made [...]
Listening to the Universe: A story about Space/Time Magic
Today, after a networking meeting, one of my fellow business people came up and mentioned Toastmasters to me. Earlier in the week, someone I’d met up with to discuss some possibilities for public speaking also mentioned Toast Masters to me. Now I’m a fairly good public speaker, but no matter how good you are at [...]
Pantheacon 2009
Tonight I received notice that my workshop on how to do elemental balancing work has been accepted for Pantheacon 2009. Pantheacon is a big pagan festival that occurs in February that occurs in California. If any of my readers happen to attend the event, please come up and say hello or feel free to come [...]
Energy work as extension instead of contraction
I’ve started reading Tai Chi Dynamics by Robert Chuckrow, who is a physics professor and explains Tai chi in terms of physics. It’s quite a fascinating book and I’m really intrigued by his explanation of how to work with the muscles of the body, because I think it aptly demonstrates how energy work is approached, [...]
Clock time and natural time
I’ve been thinking further about natural perceptions of time vs clock time. Jean Houston, as far as I can tell, was the first person to overtly note a substantial difference between clock time, and natural or internal time, in her book The Possible Human. However, As I’ve been musing on this subject, I’ve also noted [...]
Interview with Pagan Centered Podcast
So my interview with pagan centered podcast just came out. This interview was…well it wasn’t an interview. It was a bunch of people grilling me about pop culture magic. I did my best to answer them civilly, though I lost a bit of my temper when several of them were downright insulting. I’m used to [...]
Word
Sometimes it interests me how people will respond to a word. Having read Defining Reality by Edward Schiappa, I know how loaded a word or definition can be, especially when you factor in the agency that informs the use of the word. You really can’t be too careful when a word is used, because of [...]
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