Metaphysical Mondays: In Perfect Love and Perfect Trust (Part I)

February 19, 2007 by Leave a Comment

A few days ago, a good friend of mine posed three very good questions: 01. how does someone come to earn your trust? 02. how long do you need to get to know someone before letting them in on personal information about you? 03. once someone has earned your trust and becomes a trusted friend, […]

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Metaphysical Monday: Patterns, Cycles and Choice

February 12, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Humans are pattern seeking creatures. We pick patterns out of things no matter how random they may actually be. It can happen consciously or subconsciously. It can be beneficial or destructive. The simple fact is, we do it all the time. If nothing else, it is our way of enforcing at least a little order […]

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Metaphysical Monday: The Way of the Fool

February 5, 2007 by 3 Comments

Last week I talked a bit about my influences and how I got to where I am. This week, I want to touch on the path I’m following. (Though right now, I am admittedly more stumbling along and mulling about than following anything.) For a very long time I had no real title for what […]

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Metaphysical Monday Bonus Extra: Alchemy!

January 29, 2007 by Leave a Comment

I was sent a link to the International Alchemy Conference by a friend of mine. It looks really neat. If I were out Vegas way and had the money, I would go. Just the idea of the conference is interesting enough, but as I bounced down the list of presenters I was really surprised. On […]

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Metaphysical Monday: Influences and Beginnings

January 29, 2007 by Leave a Comment

A friend of mine asked me the other day what definition of magick I’m running with. He suggested I list three books that influenced my magickal practice the most. That request isn’t answered quite as easily as one would think. My path to where I am now was a long and twisted one. My interest […]

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Magical Thinking, We’re Wired For It

January 26, 2007 by 1 Comment

Do You Believe in Magic? The brain seems to have networks that are specialized to produce an explicit, magical explanation in some circumstances, said Pascal Boyer, a professor of psychology and anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. In an e-mail message, he said such thinking was “only one domain where a relevant interpretation that […]

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Metaphysical Monday: Energy

January 22, 2007 by Leave a Comment

One of the first concepts I came across when I started along my metaphysical path was that of energy. That was a good thing, since I came to metaphysics through science. Science has a lot to say about energy. Most of what it says is echoed in metaphysical teachings. Energy can neither be created nor […]

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Metaphysical Monday: Lead to Gold

January 15, 2007 by 1 Comment

Gathering, mixing, burning, reducing, extracting, repeating again and again and again. The alchemists of old–the forefathers of modern chemistry–are well known for their quest to transmute base elements like lead into something worthwhile, like gold. What many don’t realize is that their quest for physical transmutation was mirrored in their search for a spiritual one. […]

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Meataphysical Mondays – The Purpose of Divination

January 8, 2007 by 1 Comment

When I was in my mid teens and just starting to learn about all of the wonderful and strange things that existed in the world (mostly to escape from my decidedly mundane life), I got my first Tarot deck. It was a postage-stamp-sized Rider-Waite deck. It came with a little, tightly-folded set of instructions that […]

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