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Magical Journal: Some Hipgnosis techniques
This is from the I-thought-I-invented-this-until-I-saw-it-in-a-book1 dep't:
A few years ago, I started doing magical hypnosis work. Right away, I hit on the idea of programming keywords by way of post-hypnotic suggestion. I recently picked this up again, with better technology for self-hypnosis and a couple of books under my belt (Leslie LeCron2 ( Read more... ) -
Poetical anecdote
Many years ago now, I went to a party with my daughter. Her magnet-school creative writing teacher (Bonnie Roberts) invited her students and their parents to a reading party. I was seated on the floor near the floor furnace (if you don't live in the South you may not have seen these, but it's a metal box in the floor with a gas heater inside and a ( Read more... ) -
Pagan Hermetics
Listening to Poke Runyon's Hermetic Hour on blogtalkradio, the episode entitled "Hermetic Yoga." Runyon is the head of the Ordo Templi Astartes (OTA). He's describing how to map his Phoenician deities onto a chakra system and Tree of Life ( Read more... ) -
A key
My friend Densho wrote recently about the 16 combinations of ( Read more... ) -
The Tempest in a Parliament
Contemporary Pagans taking sides in Semantic SquabbleDefining contemporary Paganism is essentially impossible, or it would already have been done. I took a shot at it years ago during a spell of online wrangling; I thought my attempt was fairly precise, but it was also more than 50 words long with no clear way to reduce it. Since then, I have ( Read more... ) -
Freeman the Examiner
I'm pre-announcing this here and on Facebook and Twitter: I'm going to be covering the Birmingham (etc.) Pagan "beat" for the Examiner: My space is set up, and I will upload my first article tonight an the Creeks don't rise :-) -
Followup on Sacred Marriage post
During the celebration, Her Eminence followed through on an earlier ( Read more... ) -
Sacred Marriage
I didn't know how much I was going to want to say about this beforehand, but we just got finished with a ceremony long in the making: a Sacred Marriage between me and Lilitu. I'm flyyyyyyyyying …
We wanted another bottle of wine so I went out and got Ménage à Trois :-) -
Fwd: [neos_alexandria] Festival of Inebriation (E), 9/30/2009, 12:00 pm
Gotta love this festival ...
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Fwd: [neos_alexandria] Hermaia Propulaia (G), 9/22/2009, 12:00 pm
Ha! This festival actually fits in nicely with the Temple Zagduku ( Read more... )