I was watching late night evangelical television late one night when a donation program came on for "Pass Over." They demonized Constantine for replacing pass-over with easter. They also offered a mag ...
I recently decided to take up an actual magick practice (rather than flirting around with the idea). My thought is to honor the three parts of the wisdom outlined by Hermeticism (alchemy, astrology an ...
I often get requests for articles, poems and so on passed on to me by other magicians, pagans, and assorted freaks. Since I'm sure that other people here can say the same, I thought a thread to pass ...
As an offshoot of a debate in the God thread I thought it would be interesting to start one on the scientific possibilities of occultism.
No doubt they'll be a broad range of opinion here as usual ...
I need a little help rebooting my brain and kick starting my practice.
I'm typing from work so excuse me if this is a little brief or I don't get back here until after dance tonight...
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I've recently returned to practice after a "critical shift" (sci-fi for "epiphany"), and practice looks a lot different than what I largely stopped doing over the past few years. Most of what I do now ...
The idea for this topic came from some discussion on another forum after someone posted a link for this gentleman's website; http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/foamycustard/index.htm linking in with a discu ...
I've used ritual fasts/diets before to help bring my focus to the mindset I required for the work. The most intense was a week plus of drinking only three glasses of organic raw goat milk a day ( from ...
I'm always picking stuff up for my altar. Something in my head says "that would be good for a spell" or "ooh, powerful" and then later I've got to work what it's actually for. This is the thread for ...
As of late I've been desperately searching for an effective practice that I would feel good about doing on a regular basis. During this scavenger hunt, I applied basic magical theory to my own imagina ...
Er, yeah, I helped heal cancer, I believe, but it would never have crossed my mind to say things like chemotherapy didn't do a lot of the work, eh? I think one of the good things the spell did ...
I was visiting a friend last weekend, and her classmate was giving her senior thesis presentation for her history degree, the topic of which was "Evidence of Sufi Philosophy in the American South". I ...
Ok, duh, the solution was obvious, you have a practice and a record session. If you are going for ones in record session, go for zeros in your practice session. No need for an even number of people th ...
This is spun off of an abortive Poetry thread. I've begun again to change the focus. Yes, we may post some poetry as applicable, but the real question is the history, magic, and practical application ...
By Thursday 23 October 2008, a campaign (see below) launched two days earlier to raise £ 5500 to put an atheist advert on London buses had raised £ 90,228.18.
“The Atheist Bus Campaign laun ...
The other night I watched a biopic on Aleister Crowley called "In Search of the Beast 666". The film focused primarily on AC's worst traits, rumours and innuendo and tales of his salicious behavior. T ...
So I'm learning the tarot as I've posted elsewhere, and would really like to do more readings for other people. Critical querents, who won't try and fit my reading to their situation, but will call me ...
There's only two days before this show ends (7th Feb 2009), but I highly commend an exhibition of Brion Gysin's art, at the October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, London. The main piece is the hug ...
I have been fascinated by the brain for as long as I can remember. The study of consciousness, and all that that process entails is one all of us here share; whether it be via drugs, meditation, magic ...
For London-based Liminals - this show is worth a look. Some interesting African artists' work, a b&w film of a Haitian ceremony in the corridor, plus some Burroughs paintings. The gallery is in a love ...
My Jesus? Your Jesus? How many Jesus?
Jesus Christ means many things to many people so I thought as a seasonal venture we could discuss some of them here.
There seems to be some interest in disc ...
I am one of those nuts that believe I can somehow use time travel technology, albeit through a strange turn using the Reiki symbol of Han sha ze sho nen, otherwise known as the distance symbol that on ...
pre.s. I'm fine with this thread elaborating into a more general conversation of Gender as it affects work with Deities.
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"You work with Male Gods - what's that like?"
This keeps ...
The other week saw a fascinating talk at Treadwell's bookshop on Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rites, by Dr Daniel Schwemer a German academic at SOAS (http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31776.php).
Th ...
At the start of this month, I spent some time going through last year's magical diary to work out where I was at and to help set some new trajectories both mundane and magical.
It turns out that I ...
Questions arose regarding a requirement to plunge one's hands in boiling oil to demonstrate that the Loa are protecting them. Other examples that come to mind are things like firewalking, and other th ...