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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Review of the Eight-Circuit Brain
Review of the Eight-Circuit Brain: Navigational Strategies for the Energetic Body by Antero Alli With this book, the Eight-Circuit Model has turned into a practical system can be meaningfully applied to making changes in one’s life. The previous books on the subject, while providing a good diagnostic perspective, never really moved beyond that. Antero incorporates [...]
Book Reviews of 3 books and a link
Metaphors We live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson This is a very interesting book, which explores the role of metaphors in the English language and argues that the majority of communication is done in metaphors. In particular the authors explore space and time metaphors which makes for some rather interesting insights to how [...]
The E-book of Pop Culture Magick is now available
Immanion Press is slowly but surely publishing many of its book as e-books and this includes my own writing. Pop Culture Magick is now an e-book. You can go here for more information. I think the move to e-books is a good idea, though I’ll admit I’m too much a lover of books to really [...]
Are you a Traditionalist?
A reader asked me yesterday, after I posted my review of Evola’s book on Buddhism, if I agreed with Evola’s traditionalist views in other areas, because I liked Evola’s work. When I posted the review to Amazon, I’d noticed traditionalism come up as a possible tag, first time I ever came across the word actually. [...]
Review of The Doctrine of Awakening by Julius Evola
The Doctrine of Awakening by Julius Evola As always, I find myself intrigued by the depth of exploration that Evola brings to any of his books. In this book he discusses the earliest Buddhist texts and makes some persuasive arguments against how Buddhism is currently perceived. The analysis of the texts and techniques as well [...]
Time Magic: Thiede
Today I painted the seal and sigil for Thiede. You might note in the painting the inclusion of an A, which is done purposefully to denote the alter ego of Thiede as Aghama. Thiede is the other guide for time. His purpose is to help a person understand concepts of space as they relate to [...]
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