Elemental Fire Month 3
12-26-11 Fire burns and consumes. What you don’t want can be burned away, turned to ashes. You can recycle the ashes, contribute to new growth. For Christmas, my mom gave me a picture album with lots of pictures I don’t believe I ever saw. I can’t remember anything about a lot of those pictures, because [...]
Elemental Balancing Ritual Fire Month 2
11-27-11 Something which has always frightened me has been my own fire. It’s frightened me, in part because of the various people in my life who at one time or another told me I was too passionate, too intense, or just plain too much. I’ve gotten so used to pushing that intensity down or directing [...]
Being present with your desire
One of the books I’m currently reading is Undefended Love (Affiliate link) and within that book they discuss the importance of being present with something you think you need and learning how to work with it so that eventually it moves from a need to a want and then to a desire and then to [...]
Connecting with the land
I’m visiting the Black Hills in South Dakota with Kat. We drove through Montana, Idaho, Washington and Wyoming to get here and for the last couple of days we’ve been exploring this area, seeing Mt. Rushmore and Mt. Crazy Horse, the needles, the lakes and the wildlife here. Something which is really important to me, [...]
Beginning-Ending
My mind is all aglow and on fire with the secrets of the universe being whispered in my ears by all possibilities and none, XAH highest of me, EHEIEH, god breath that moves space and time into place to show me the silver pathway to all I can be. In these whispered words I [...]
Time Dilation Experiences
Time dilation is one of the experiences that’s always fascinated me. I suspect just about every person has experienced time dilation. Time dilation is the experience of time either slowing down or speeding up. For example, if you’ve done a magical ritual before and you’ve felt like hours passed when perhaps only a half hour [...]
Karmic Traces and Dream Work
I’ve been continuing to do the Tibetan Dream Yoga each night and I’ve found that I’ve been more aware of my dreams as a result. In the book I read on Tibetan Dream Yoga the author talked about karmic traces, which are essentially patterns, behaviors, attachments, etc. The karmic traces are something we all have [...]
Magic and the Scientific Method
I was recently asked on Twitter the following question: Can magickal ritual stand up to scrutiny of scientific method? My response was: Not unless science accepts that magic is a subjective experience. Let’s unpack that statement. In my opinion, and from reading a variety of books, it seems that some magicians try to scientifically “prove” [...]
An exercise in make believe
This year my partner decided to surprise me with a Halloween/birthday party that was also a murder mystery dinner. Needless to say all of us had fun, but a critical component of having fun involved everyone being willing to engage in an exercise of make believe in order to become the character they were supposed [...]
Pattern Recognition and magic in your life
For my birthday, my partner Kat got me this game called Attika. It’s a game where you try to build a city from one temple to another temple or just try to build the entire city. You also have “neighbors” trying to build their cities. And what’s most interesting is that to get extra turns [...]
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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.
