Melatonin and Tryptophan

Melatonin always appears as a dark skinned woman. she’s the polar opposite of serotonin, but also  does similar activities in terms of balancing the neurochemistry of the body as well as a person’s emotional moods. She’s also helpful in cases of insomnia. She and serotonin can be worked with simultaneously in order to help with [...]

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The illusion of control

I’ve been doing some internal work lately and one of the issues that has arisen has been about control, specifically the control a person has in his/her imagination vs the control s/he has in reality. If a person feels that s/he has no control over circumstances in his/her life, there can be, sometimes, a tendency [...]

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Short notes

A Note about Definitions and Meaning My post about definitions could easily also apply to the word models. The word models is used a lot in magic theory. There is the spiritual model, the psychological model, the model for this or the model for that. But I don’t think definitions are really models. I do [...]

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Book Reviews

Beyond Culture by Edward T. Hall I’ve always found Hall’s books to be interesting and relevant to my life from business to spirituality and this book has lived up to that same expectation. In this book Hall, discusses inter-cultural communication patterns and raises up concerns about the tendency to focus toward using external resources as [...]

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Radio show and book review

On Sunday at 4:30pm PST – 7:30 EST, I’ll be doing the sex magic radio show with a guest co-host. We’ll be discussing the practical aspects of sex magic, but also examining the balance between pleasure and practicality. Review of Spiritual Cleansing by Draja Mickaharic This book isn’t explicitly for the magical practitioner, so much [...]

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Update on experimental work

I’ve been continuing to integrate Laban into my morning daily moving meditation. The body movements take up the focus of the thoughts, and a rhythm is created, out of time, out of the tightly monitored world, into a place where all that matters is the rhythm of movement and the stretching of the body. My [...]

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Building up sexual energy in Sex magic

When you read most books on Western sex magic, one of the discoveries you make is that there’s a lot of focus on polarities, with a belief that men embody the active principle and women embody the passive principle. In other words, the women are supposed to lay there passively, while the man generates and [...]

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Sex magic, grounding, and body work

Last night I got into a conversation with a friend of mine who does a fair amount of work in the sacred sexuality scene. We discussed, among other things, a tendency for many sex magic workers to not use proper grounding or shielding because they wanted to let all the sensations in. We noted, in [...]

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Changes to the website

You may have noticed that over the last month I’ve changed the Magical Experiments blog into the the Magical Experiments website. These changes have partially arisen due to changing life circumstances and also because I’m getting more active again in my magical work. I’ve changed the wordpress theme for the site, to reflect these changes. [...]

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Review of The Hidden Brain

Review of The Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam Proponents of mindfulness and conscious intent may be disappointed when they read this book and realize just how much our unconscious dictates and influences our decisions. The author isn’t afraid to tackle tough issues, such as how the hidden brain influences people’s thinking about racial and gender [...]

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