The first step in getting what we want is to figure out what that is. In Secret 7 we thought about dreams to explore: taking a trip, going back to…

Peter Kingsley’s book In the Dark Places of Wisdom is a story. It’s a scholarly work making a serious point but Kingsley sweeps away the academic apparatus and banishes notes…

The resistance to the American political shift toward authoritarianism has become permanent part of the social landscape. Here are seven ways we can leverage magic to assist our political efforts. Magical…

With magic we can accomplish anything we want. We already know that we always have access to the information we need to do the magic we want to do. The…

Proclus wrote a commentary on the Chaldean Oracles which is lost. This is my current top entry for "books I would rescue from the mists of time". However there is…

Magical and academic texts sometimes make a distinction between low magic and high magic. Spiritual magic has lofty goals, connecting us to the divine; the priestess who works this magic…

There are many magical paths. Some of them are easy to walk on our own. Others require guidance from more experienced practitioners. No matter what magical path you choose, and…

I am deeply committed to humanist values. I know as a fundamental truth that every human soul is equal to any other regardless of the body that soul currently wears.…

Are you a Qedishtu, a sacred prostitute? Deena Metzger wrote about them thirty years ago. As far as I know she was the first person to use the term in…

Magic is composed of three things: The power of the universe The knowledge of how to access it The skill to use it The power of the universe is available…

Keeping a journal is one of the easiest and most enjoyable secrets of magic to learn. Journals help us keep track of the magic we are doing, explore our feelings,…

All we have to do to begin to use magic is to decide to do it. It is also true that we become more skilled in creating magic over time…