Running energy with someone
The other night, I had a friend over and we did some energy work together. Her energy is very intense. She’s done a lot of work with the Tantra system of energy work, which means it’s got a fair amount of kundalini energy being packed, but her personal energy is also a very intense kind [...]
Assorted matters
I’ve been feeling a bit stagnant in my magical practice lately. I’ve been doing my daily rituals, my emptiness working, and even have been involved in a economic activism experiment I hope to post about soon, but being at Heartland did remind me of how important it can be to get out of the usual [...]
Heartland
Lupa and I just came back from Heartland, a pagan festival that occurs every year in Kansas. I had a very enjoyable time there. I got to co-present workshops with Lupa, as well as share the festival experience with her, and also got to meet a lot of wonderful people. I even got to reconnect [...]
Review of Qigong Meditation Small Circulation by Jwing-Ming Yang
I just finished reading Small Circulation by Jwing-Ming Yang and I’ve been implementing the energy practices in it. It hasn’t involved changing much that I hadn’t already learned from Mantak Chia’s work on the Microcosmic orbit. If anything, it’s provided more of a concrete explanation of the energetic mechanics involved with internal energy work. What [...]
Elemental Emptiness month 7: Fear and Desire
4-18-09 I got a response to my last post report on the elemental emptiness working, where the person made some observations about my flaws as a person. It wasn’t easy to read, but as I reflected on what had been noted, I realized that it was an observation as opposed to a judgment, but also [...]
Pathworking, daydreaming, and meditation
I came across a really interesting article about daydreams, which explains that letting your mind daydream can actually activate the problem-solving capabilities of the brain. I definitely agree that this is the case. When I’ve been working on a diffuclt problem, I will stop and daydream and often have the answer afterwards, because I’ve essentially [...]
Fame in the occult community
There’s a really interesting post about fame in the pagan community, in which the author discusses the desire to be famous and how it is part of the Pagan identity, and that at the same time fame in such a context is associated with depth and wisdom, yet also speaks to a rather teenage fantasy [...]
Reminder: Women’s Voices in Magic articles due soon
Here’s the original call for papers:Megalithica Books, an imprint of Immanion Press (Stafford, U.K./Portland, OR, U.S.A) is seeking submissions for an anthology on women working in the magical communities, particularly in communities where women have not been extensively published or in which women face stereotyping and misunderstanding within and without the community. These communities include [...]
What do you think of…
when you think of magic? Is it some witchy person, complete with warts transforming people into frogs? or some teenage kid wearing a pentagram and black so s/he can look cool? or some hippie looking person who rants about the system? Or are those just expressions of a subculture? When I think of magic now, [...]
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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.
