In collaboration with Strange Attractor and Dreamflesh, November 1 will see the first Liminal Nation branded event at London's Horse Hospital venue. An evening of magic, ancestor worship, visionary ar ...
Anyone know much about this Order (first associated with Lawrence Gardener)? Will explain significance after. I know a little about all three branches, but would appreciate independent opinion... ...
2008 USA Presidential election. What are you doing to impact the election results magically or spiritually? Let's try and not argue about who you are voting for, or if you are outside of the US, who y ...
So, I mentioned in the Modern Totems thread that I've been doing some work lately that involves journeying, in the Michael Harner / core shamanism sense. I'm studying with a teacher who was introduce ...
A (late) Review of Oxford Thelemic Symposium
We arrived late but just in time to catch the beginning of the Symposium, having been misled by the idiots who designed Google maps and put the arrow in ...
Has anyone got any interesting and original takes on wealth and money magic? Most discussions on money magic are just varieties on doing spells for dosh. Such spells seem to have the same rate of succ ...
'Magic is about changing reality to will, at least according to all the main theories'
’Yeah, well, if all the theories say so, it *must* be true. What's your actual experience? Do you always ge ...
Talk at Secret Chiefs - Working with the Great Old Ones.
Are the Great Old Ones evil or have they just had a bad press.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Devereux Pub, Devereux Ct, ...
No, not naughty words. Naughty actions.
Last Friday, I lost my job. It came as a shock, and was handled quite badly by the HR "department". Without getting into too many details, The boss ...
I think this is an important question to discuss, not only does it relate to a more precise sceptical attitude towards Buddhism (see Exploring Buddhism), but its also crucial to any theory of magick, ...
I thought it'd be useful to start a thread on books which deal with occultism & history - in particular, books which set aspects of occultism & magic within a particular social & cultural context.
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I was just reminded of a concept I came up with while discussing magic at a con a month or so back.
Has anyone ever experimented with writing sigils in UV ink? The way they would be both "there" a ...
[Barbelithers may remember parts of this from a post I made on the Temple years ago. Given recent events in my life, I've been revisiting it, but not at the level of actual practice (yet). I thought ...
Thanks for the invite to this interesting forum. I'm a member of about a dozen interesting occult discussion forums now, about 4 of which are general and the rest specialist, so I'm thinking about how ...
Hello everyone
As some of you may know I am about to give birth (in eleven days time, or less, or more) and I want to make some incense to burn whilst I am in labour. Unforunately I won't be able ...
Investigating the complex relationship between Christianity in its various forms, and magic in its various forms from Voodoo to Qabala.
During the course of this fairly tedious interchange over at ...
It seems to me that the terms magic, mysticism, and spirituality, while used and understood differently by different people, are not generally considered synonymous.
So perhaps we can examine fir ...
Good Morning-
I'm in need of a bit of assistance.
My husband and I are completing our hand-fasting soon with a magickal ritual. We are Hermetic and our patron deity is Hermes. We had dearly wanted ...
Back in May I stumbled across a beautiful little store in Ottawa that sold all types of books on spirituality and Tarot decks downstairs and different objects d’art of a spiritual nature from around ...
So, sorcery. What kind of mind states and beliefs about it are advisable? A recent discussion threw up the utter unprovability of it – there’s no casual link between yourself and whatever-the-tar ...
I would be interested to know if anyone out there deals with film within a magical context - but in terms of what the personal brings to film (e.g., interpretation) rather than a discussion of magic * ...
Recently I was having thoughts on destruction.
These thoughts wandered round the normal paths of destruction being necessary for creation/life, it not really being destruction so much as transforma ...
I'm starting this thread for sharing links and discussion around intentional communities, specifically those that support magic, spirituality, or other strands of this Big Thing we're here talking abo ...
This community is a new endeavor, started auspiciously enough during the Lunar New Year season, and largely built in that eighth of the year between Imbolc and the Vernal Equinox.
I'm wondering if ...
A very large part - no, actually, the entirety of my practice, can be boiled down to this: PAY ATTENTION.
Being present is riding harmony, improvising, jamming, cooking, listening, looking, wu wei, ...
Hi all - sorry I haven't been around much of late (work is revising its policy on website accesses during office hours). Anyhoo, just thought I'd let you know I'm doing a talk at Treadwells on Septemb ...
For various reasons, not the least of which is that today is Lammas/Lughnasa, I have the concept of Sacrifice on the mind.
It happens that my teacher's beloved cat and familiar had to be put down b ...