I am not a capitalist.
I have been building a (serious) magical practice slowly, mostly by prayer, making modest offerings to different Ancestors and Deities, meditation and introspection.
Lots of introspection.
The Big Questions ...
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 ...
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One of my friends sent me these ...
So, over on the Amigara Fault the topic of haircuts in a magical context came up. A young man who'd just suffered a breakup was being commiserated with, and one suggestion ...
Discussion Summary; A discussion for working through definitions of magic, the difference between magic and everyday actions and our reasoning on our definitions.
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Elsewhere, XK said this:
On the 'Lith we discussed ...
[PROTO TOPIC WARNING: it's a bit all over the place and needs some refinement.] A discussion of methods, approaches, and tools to engage with our own and other people's beliefs and systems ...
I just found this great review/author interview regarding an upcoming book called Sign of the Witch: Modernity and the Pagan Revival.
It's a cultural studies-oriented look at neopaganism and heathenism in the context ...
Hello, Media category. I've been reading children's books again - to actual children, mind - and keep getting that creeping feeling that they mean more than they're saying. I thought maybe someone ...
Just found this on reddit, and thought it was worth reading.
A 13-year-old autistic girl, Carly Fleischman, has had a dramatic breakthrough by using a laptop to communicate her thoughts and feelings. ...
Correspondences: Do they represent some deep reality or connection or are they just useful human constructs? Useful or pointless?
Grant's comments in the Psalm 119 topic had me thinking about the idea ...
So, it's Lent, and I'm reading the Psalms, the longest book in the Bible. I've just gotten to Psalm 119, the longest of the psalms. It's a strange poem - very repetitive, ...