A Magical Life now available

  My newest book, a Magical Life has just been published by Immanion Press. A Magical Life is the collected blog posts of this website from 2008 to 2010, which comes out to roughly 250 pages (pretty amazing, eh?). In this book I candidly share my life journey as a magician, demonstrating that magic isn’t just [...]

Call for Writers for the Second Shades of Faith Anthology

Call for Writers– Shades of Ritual; Minority Voices in Practice Email for inquiries and submissions: Crystal Blanton Megalithica Books, an imprint of Immanion Press (Stafford, U.K./Portland, OR, U.S.A) is seeking submissions for a the follow up anthology to Shades of Faith, released in August of 2011.  This anthology will focus on people of color working in [...]

Why Immanion Press is so Important to me

I don’t write much about the work I do with Immanion Press on this blog. Indeed, as far as many of you know, I’m just one of its authors. But the truth is I’m not just an author of Immanion Press. I’m also the Managing Non-Fiction editor of Immanion Press. (Cue in the jokes about [...]

Projects I’m currently working

I’m working on a few projects right now, and thought I would share what I’m working on, in terms of classes, books, and magical work. 1. Space/Time Weekend Class: I’ve already announced this class recently, but I’m really excited about it. I’ll be taking the concepts and practices in Space/Time Magic and Magical Identity and [...]

My List of Essential Occult Books

Below is a list of Occult books that I consider essential for a magician’s practice. Actually not all of the books are occult per se, but all of them offer something for the aspiring and experienced magician. I have not included any of my books here, because while I would argue they are essential reads, [...]

My Experiences with Demonolatry

I’m reading Honoring Death: the Arte of Daemonolatry Necromancy by S. Connolly. Reading it has reminded me of my early experiences with Demonolatry, in particular with Euronymous. I’ve written a bit about that work in Space/Time Magic, but that only touches on it a bit. I first found out about Demonolatry, in the later 1990′s, [...]

A word about copyright

I got a Google alert recently that showed that one of my books was available for free download on a site. I checked it out. I never put the book on that site and my publisher didn’t either. So I sent them a DMCA takedown notice. Hopefully that will resolve the problem, at least temporarily. [...]

Revisiting my ceremonial magic roots

I think one of the best practices a magician can do is to revisit your magical roots or foundations years later after you’d moved on to other practices and places. Lately through reading R.J.’s works, as well as revisiting Ted Andrews work and taking the Strategic Sorcery course I’ve been revisiting ceremonial magic. It’s good [...]

What’s one of your earliest influential occult books?

Recently I was looking through my magical library and I came across two books by Ted Andrews, books I’ve had since I was 16 or 17. They were books I’d hidden away when I was 18 and told I had to burn my books or leave, because they were books that were essential to my [...]

Are pop culture entities real?

In a recent blog post Jason wrote about Post Chaos Magic (sounds like Post modernism) he argues that fictional or pop culture entities don’t have the same effect as more traditional gods, demons, entities, etc. He notes the following: Some chaos magicians have claimed that in the modern, largely secular world, a figure like Superman [...]

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