A comedy bit I've been laughing at quietly for years... Just one of those old memories validated by YouTube ( Read more... )

Next semester starts tomorrow. My class lineup is German 101, Research methods for psychology and Neuroscience I. The neuroscience class looks like it will be a proper challenge; the book is huge. I expect research methods will be fairly simple and German 101 should be easy so long as I stay on top of the material ( Read more... )

I picked up this thin book, What is Hypnosis by Andrew Salter, from The Occult Bookstore...

First let me say, great book. Great explanations of how hypnosis works (I suppose... of course I need to still find other corroborating sources and experiment with self-hypnosis). But...

Well, just check out these passages:

Page 14:
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I've started studying Jung and I'm particularly struck by his notions of the anima/animus. The feminine within the masculine and the masculine within the feminine. As I turn the theory around in my mind, countless flaws jump out at me... but still I find it so interesting to ponder. Rather than prattle on about my opinions (I believe I can keep ( Read more... )

I seek to pose the fundamental question of Magick, which I believe may I may fairly call the fundamental question of religion or the grand unifying theory of physics ( Read more... )

In my last post I described magick as an exploration of certain questions such as the nature of consciousness, free-will and in general topics traditionally considered the domain of religion. This is to draw a line between what I call magick and other practices which we might call mysticism, religion, or witchcraft that do not have knowledge as a ( Read more... )

I remember when I first started practicing Wicca, long time back, my friends and I had a long discussion on whether magick broke the laws of nature or simply operated on laws not yet understood. I can think of no finer way to point out that we lacked a definition of what we were supposedly practicing. Worse yet, no matter the results of our ( Read more... )

There are certain words we use that are so vauge as to be all but meaningless. This is particularly true when it comes to religion/spirituality/the occult. It creates a certain trap for our thinking. We hear about "black magic" or "white magic" and really every other color too. The danger is that it creates a backwards sort of thinking where we ( Read more... )

Well, my friends list is pretty small, but I'll ask here anyway ( Read more... )

I thought I had found another error in my bio text. There was a picture of a chipmunk hibernating with a caption "Squirrels use torpor to save energy when food is scarce." Well, it turns out that chipmunks are technically a member of the squirrel family ( Read more... )