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Is Byron Katie Working?Don't know if any folks have come across Byron Katie's stuff, which she calls "The Work". Claims to be an inquiry method which ends all suffering. Various problems with it though, appears ...
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Superstition and Magical ThinkingThis NYT article promoting a book resonated with me on the advantages of magical thinking;For instance, in one study led by the psychologist Lysann Damisch of the University of Cologne, subjects were ...
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African Diasporic Traditions 101So, some people are interested in African Diasporic Traditions. Some people don't know much about ADTs. Somepeople fall right in the middle of that Venn diagram. This is the thread for asking ...
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Alan Moore on Magic, Trial and Error, and What is Possibly Ontologyhttp://vimeo.com/38632214I finally figured out my sign in stuff for LN, and thought I would post this ninety minute video of Moore talking about coincidence and meaning, the reality of ideas, and Steve ...
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Weird words, jarring jargon, language lecturesThis thread is for all those pedantic language discussions. Have opinions on the proper spelling of "Kether"? Trying to pronounce ancient names of Netjer? Can't tell Seidh from Sidhe? Bring it ...
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Conjuring and Consciousness: the magic of sleight of handAfter posting that bit about stage magic in the Commonplace Book, I seem to keep running into things connecting stage magic (fooling the crowds) and real magic (changing reality). Here's a good ...
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Climate Change and Weather WitcheryWho's better at predicting the future: A meteorologist, or a mage?As is probably obvious to most people, climate change is already happening (in the really real world), average temperatures around the world ...
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John Michael Greer's workThe Archdruid Report is a blog which is gathering up some folks interested in culture and future. He discusses themes related to peak oil, energy conservation, and strategies for economic survival and ...
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Fantastic Sci-Fi and Fabulous Fantasy BooksRecommend me a really good SF or Fantasy book. A Wizard Of Earthsea is my favourite fantasy, Citizen of the Galaxy is my favourite SF, I really enjoyed A Song of Ice ...
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Teach me Kabbalah.OK. I'm over 40, I'm married, and I've been seeing a lot of pokes about this everywhere I turn lately. So, I want all of you to teach me Kabbalah. I have ...
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Merry!To all of you. All denominations. All political affiliations. All personalities.No matter who you are. No matter how you choose/happen to represent yourself normally...None of that matters a shite. You're all human ...
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Dec. 21, 2012 and Other ApocalypsesI was just curious as to what everyone thinks about the Mayan prophecy claiming that the "world as we know it" will come to an end on December 21, 2012. I'm almost ...
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The Gospel of Mark - a discussionMark! The earliest, shortest, and grimmest of the canonical Gospels. Attributed to Mark the Evangelist, a buddy of the disciple Peter. Probably written after 70 C.E., given certain references to the ...
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The Book of JobI did it so. Let this first post serve mostly as a placeholder as my head's not in the right space to do a hermeneutic deep dive at the moment. The rest ...
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Cultural Spiritual AppropriationHi guys, long time reader, first time poster. Thought I'd dip my hand in since I've been feeling it lately. I'm curious as to the opinion/experience of the ...
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Making Sense of the Copiale Text A computer algorithm reportedly helps decipher a text which seems to describe an occult society's initiation rituals. Here is the resulting text (described by the Escapist as "mostly pretty boring actually"): http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~bea/copiale/copiale-translation.txt
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Lecture series: Science, Magic, and ReligionLinky Link!From the profile: Professor Courtenay Raia lectures on science and religion as historical phenomena that have evolved over time. Examines the earlier mind-set before 1700 when into science fitted elements that ...
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Magic and (Contemporary) ArtI do not have the mental wherewithal to start a fully fledged thread (I've just been booking flights online and am mentally scarred), so I'm just going to copy over the comments ...
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A digital resource dedicated to Simon Forman (soon come)"The site, Magic and Medicine, will eventually be home to a complete digital archive of the medical casebooks of both Forman and his contemporary, Richard Napier. Between 1596 and 1634, the pair ...
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Weird old hoodoo pamphletsI've just finished reading "The Master Book of Candle Burning" by Henri Gamache, written in the early 40s by an author who wrote under various psuedonyms but appears to have been called ...
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