Using Magic to Improvise the Self: Explorations in Chaos Mysticism (Part 2)
In my last post I spent time thinking about the potential parallels between acts of creation at both a large and small scale. How might the way in which we view the origins of the Universe shape our...
View ArticleWhen Magicians Get Tense…
We seem to be living in times in which it’s hard to find answers. How does the magical practitioner use the fruits of their training and study to hold a position of both wisdom and radical...
View ArticleA Harvest of Magics
We hear the geese now. They fly in great chevron shaped groups, along the valley I live in, following the river. They are the heralds of the autumn as high summer tips over into the fall. Leaves...
View ArticleMagic in Between Times
The September Equinox is a time of balance. Occurring under the auspices of Libra this is the season of Adjustment, of Justice, and a time to measure our harvest. It is a time for looking at...
View ArticleWorking in Dark Light: Magic on the Via Negativa
I have recently been going down a spiritual rabbit-hole regarding how we as magicians might use contemplative practice. Having spent a lot of years exploring the use of meditative states within yogic...
View ArticleThe Magician as Creative Theologian
Before I was aware of being a magician, I was a theologian, digging deep into the nature of Mystery and how we locate religious authority in an academic setting. These efforts began a process of...
View ArticleIn the Dark’s Early Light
In the Northern Hemisphere we are emerging from the darkness of winter. Blinking into the cold, clear, even cruel light of the Imbolc season. This year, we initiates emerge from the long vigil of the...
View ArticleThe Red Magic of Lammas
The British archipelago, that cluster of islands off the European mainland on which I live, is changing colour. The sky, while still sometimes blessed with the bright blue of summer, now fills with...
View ArticleOn Catching Covid
A few weeks ago I caught Covid-19. The tell-tale double line of the lateral flow test slowly emerged to confirm what I could feel happening. This was the closing of a time-loop that I recall beginning...
View ArticleA Review: Kali Magic by Mike Magee
“Women are divinity, women are life, women are jewels.” Yoni Tantra“Within, a Sakta; outwardly a Saivite; in the world a Vaisnava. This is the rule.” Kaula Upanisad Regular readers of this blog will...
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