One of the ideas that I've been playing with for a while is that the Universe is constantly bombarding us with information. Information which is of direct use to us, which is designed to ease our path and make it easier for us to progress in life. Quite often I get asked 'how does the [...]
It occurs to me that I may have inadvertently done a disservice to magick in my previous post – when I was writing about Magick, Religion and Spirituality it may have sounded as if magick isn't all that important, that it was really just a practical skill for getting laid and getting job opportunities when [...]
The whole area of spirituality is pretty damn large and complicated. There as so many threads, traditions, currents and schools all moving around each other, informing each other and frequently lobbing insults at each other. I was recently thinking about the components of these different approaches and it occurred to me that there are three [...]
I've recently made a series of posts about things which are bad for magick – magick, in this context, standing in for all spiritual practices. It's just that magick is what I tend to do most of when it comes to spiritual doings, so how I tend to think of spiritual practices. This series of [...]
Okay, before I get into this I should make this clear – I really like computer games. Rarely will a day go by where I don't fire up my computer, X-Box, iPhone or other device of choice to pass at least a bit of my time with a computer game. They're fun. They've involving. They're [...]
Well, this is a depressing idea, isn't it? Being sad is certainly bad for magick, but, after all, surely one of the great quests in life is to be fulfilled and happy. One of the main reasons people practice magick and spirituality is to be happier. And yet success in being happy is bad for [...]
Fortunately, I've not had to struggle with this too much recently – moving house may have been bad for magick, but it didn't induce very much stress and sadness. But it's certainly one of the great battles of spiritual life – how to keep going when you're feeling bloody miserable. As I wrote about in [...]
I moved house about three weeks ago. Whilst we're very much 'here' in the new house, there's still a whole list of things on the 'to do' list, stuff to be organised, sorted, laid out appropriately, and so on. One thing I realised very early on when moving – moving house is bad for magick. [...]
As I'm trying to write a blog about the real experience of living a magickal life, of trying to prioritise spirituality and what-not, I think it's important to point out that it doesn't always come easily. In fact, sometimes it hardly comes at all. Certain events, moods, or times in life just make it hard [...]
My friend Hilary over at Online Clarity recently linked to my Magickian's Cycle post with her own comments on whether a similar cycle existed for those who use the I-Ching regularly. She noticed that at times in her own life she'd become very enthusiastic about using the I-Ching, got some great reading, read regularly, then [...]