Searching for the Deeper Meanings of Life and Death
I was sent a link to the International Alchemy Conference by a friend of mine. It looks really neat. If I were out Vegas way and had the money, I would go. Just the idea of the conference is interesting enough, but as I bounced down the list of presenters I was really surprised. On [...]
A friend of mine asked me the other day what definition of magick I’m running with. He suggested I list three books that influenced my magickal practice the most. That request isn’t answered quite as easily as one would think. My path to where I am now was a long and twisted one. My interest [...]
Do You Believe in Magic? The brain seems to have networks that are specialized to produce an explicit, magical explanation in some circumstances, said Pascal Boyer, a professor of psychology and anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. In an e-mail message, he said such thinking was “only one domain where a relevant interpretation that [...]
One of the first concepts I came across when I started along my metaphysical path was that of energy. That was a good thing, since I came to metaphysics through science. Science has a lot to say about energy. Most of what it says is echoed in metaphysical teachings. Energy can neither be created nor [...]
Gathering, mixing, burning, reducing, extracting, repeating again and again and again. The alchemists of old–the forefathers of modern chemistry–are well known for their quest to transmute base elements like lead into something worthwhile, like gold. What many don’t realize is that their quest for physical transmutation was mirrored in their search for a spiritual one. [...]
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