Book Reviews
Review of Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell This was a very interesting book that I’d recommend to anyone because it examines how success is achieved or not achieved based on cultural and historical legacies that people have access to. The premise of the book provides an intriguing look at how success is [...]
Cultural identity shifts
I talked about family identity and individual identity patterns in my last post, but in Outliers, Gladwell also discusses cultural patterns and heritage and how it can impact the way people work together, how well they learn particular subjects. Of course this has all been written about elsewhere as well, but the focus in Gladwell’s [...]
Outliers, patterns of success and identity
I’m reading Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. It’s a very interesting book, as all of his books are, and in this particular case has prompted some thoughts on identity, based off of what he’s writing about. Outliers are people who are significantly different, in terms of how they succeeded, from the usual [...]
some thoughts on occult culture appropriation
In thinking about it further, I think that part of what bothers me about the video series by “college girl” is that this looks like just another case of someone who’s dabbling in the occult who’s decided to set herself up as an expert, or someone’s who decided to capitalize off of being in the [...]
A review of the Art of Magic series
I haven’t written much on here lately, other than my most recent emptiness working posting. Life has been fairly busy, in a good way, with my business. A lot of my my efforts, magical and otherwise are going toward creating and sustaining my business, and the rest is going to the emptiness working, with a [...]
Element Emptiness Month 9: Craving and Desire pt. 2
6-19-09 I’m feeling out of sorts today. This is one of those days where there’s missed connections, where everything feels slightly off. It’s a day where I feel the craving to be filled a bit more sharply. A day where nothing I do really satisfies and underlying everything is a feeling of loss. I hate [...]
First part of a new time magic experiment
It’s nothing too glamorous though. I looked through the Goetia and found each Goetic Daimon that has some relationship to time magic. I’ve already been working with Purson for a while, but I thought it might be useful to expand my horizons and work with other goetia that focus on time work as well. My [...]
Changes in identity
So as some of you may know, my next solo work is focusing on the concept of identity and how it fits into magic. It’s rather fitting then that the last year and 3/4ths has been focused on changing my own identity in a variety of different contexts from my relationships with lovers and friends, [...]
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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.
