Multiversal Tone

The hypnotic movement of the music, the sashay that calls for a steady shuffle as you and I move in time we create this altered reality a place of eyes, your eyes staring into mine mine staring into yours Your soul baring its truth to me showing all your possible timelines realities unfolding as you [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

Does magic still have a role in Paganism?

I’ve never really identified myself as a Pagan. I think of myself as an occultist, when it comes to my spirituality, and I’d have to say that what primarily defines my spirituality is my practice of magic. To my perspective and experience with Pagans, there’s been a tendency to treat magic as a religious practice. [...]

Magic vs Magick

This is an article that was originally published in 2004 on Suite 101. In my Magical Experiments class, a question was asked about magic vs magick and one of the other people searched and the first result was this article…so I decided to republish it on my blog. To me it illustrates how much can [...]

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 [...]

The psychologizing and scientizing of magic aka “Prove it”

I’ve been reading some different posts in the blogosphere about magic, psychology, and atheism, and I’ve been mulling over my response to what I see as a trend toward trying to psychologize and scientize magic in order to make it legitimate, at the expense of writing off other perspectives that aren’t rational and thus don’t [...]

Sped Limt: A Case Study in Entity Evolution

I’ve always found it fascinating how chaos magicians will get rid of an entity when it evolves. We’re told that such an evolution is dangerous, because the entity will potentially get out of our control. I’ve never really agreed with that stance. Why go to all the trouble of creating an entity if you get [...]

Atheism and magic

I’ve noticed with some interest an increasing intersection of Atheism and magic. A number of magicians I know have mentioned they are atheists. I see some of this rise in Atheism as a result of the psychologizing of magic, wherein magical practices and results are explained from a psychological perspective. When such a perspective is [...]

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