My Experiences with Persecution
When I was 18, and still in high school, I dealt with my first experience of being persecuted for my spiritual beliefs. I’d been careful about hiding what I believed from my mom, and from most others, but I had a few friends and one of those friends had fundamentalist Christians for parents. They found [...]
Radio interview with Crystal Blanton part 1
In this show, I interview Crystal Blanton about Pagan Group Dynamics, instagroups, and her book Bridging the Gap. Next week I’ll be interviewing her about the upcoming Shades of Faith Anthology. Click below, to listen to this week’s show! Listen to internet radio with Experimental Magic on Blog Talk Radio ShareTweet
Belonging and Occult groups
I’ve never belonged to an occult group, and only briefly considered joining two, before I determined that I’d rather just pursue my own path. But recently on Facebook someone revived the Zee List and for a time I participated on that list way back when and it was interesting to observe how different people responded [...]
Rapturous
Tomorrow is supposedly doomsday for the Christians, where they will be raptured away and leave the rest of us alone. I’m skeptical of it happening, and I think it’s silly how much people are focused on trying to get to some after life, instead of focusing on living their lives. Their’s nothing rapturous about giving [...]
Some observations about on Religion and business
In my other business I go to a lot of networking meetings and it’s always interesting to observe the intersection between religion and business. At a recent meeting, a person brought up that he was making Christian movies, which most everyone there seemed fine with, and in other meetings I’ve heard other people mention the [...]
Why I do Magic
I got into a couple of interesting conversations this week and in the process realized once again that why I practice magic isn’t to get anyone’s approval or acceptance of what I practice or get the general community to accept my practices. ShareTweet
Limitless freedom: are you really free?
I’ve been thinking about the concept of enlightenment, in terms of attaining a state of non-attachment to everything as well as what the result might look like and I think it might be something like experiencing limitless freedom.You become everything and nothing, but because there are no limitations you can never turn that possibility into [...]
Pan’s Labyrinth and Rules of Magic
I recently saw Pan’s Labyrinth and one scene in particular that stood out to me was where the girl was looking for a key and there were specific rules she had to follow and if she didn’t follow those rules, she could die. She did, in fact, break the rules, and the monster almost got [...]
Disillusionment and magic
Recently a friend of mine has mentioned that she’s been going through a period of disillusionment about magic and that everything she tries to do doesn’t work. And whether she realizes it or not, she’s not alone in feeling this way. I’ve gone through my own feelings of disillusionment about magic several times. The first [...]
Some thoughts on Giving in magic
Recently I posted the following message to my Facebook and Twitter accounts What are you willing to give in order to get what you want? There’s always some giving involved in magic. I received some interesting responses to it, ranging from the argument that sacrifice isn’t a necessary part of every magical act to the [...]
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