Spirituality for Living

Magick is a broad subject, but has a simple essence that gets lost terribly in many sources on the subject. Most people think of the human body and mind as somehow closed systems, but in fact this is very far from the case. We absorb the material and reflexively the essence of all the elements, [...]

If people barely are able to control their feelings , their thoughts and their actions, how can we hope to achieve a magickal act? Your emotions are linked to external energies. When you recognize the connection then you see that you are acted upon and can act in kind. Astrology is based on observations of [...]

Using the energies is sort of like being in a gently flowing river. Most people are blown about by the winds or washed away with the waters, but you can see that the winds and the waters, the elements and the spirits, are not separate from you. Often when the energies seem to rebel, when [...]

It’s actually quite interesting how very far from gone witchcraft is. It wasn’t really shamanism, and wasn’t driven by a tribal view of nature. The phrase old wives tales for example.  Often it not always refers to the lore of witchcraft. Women in particular, and to a lesser degree men, have been making intuitive observations [...]

We still practice magic today.  They just call it science and reject the original context. Thus they poison everyone silly.
How is science different? That they experiment without prejudice would be a lie. Scientific hypotheses has as much intuition as reason behind it. Even Einstein said so, and the students of magic didn’t turn a blind eye to [...]

Image magic is another one of those so simple it’s complicated topics. The basic premise behind image magic is that any image cannot be imagined or created without a connection to the object, place, or person being involved. That all we see stems from the same source as our ability to create images. Image magic [...]

Images serve as a mirror. Image magic works by what is called in hermetic philosophy, the law of sympathy. Like affects like. When you see something in the world that is in you, you actualize what is in you in the world. The law of attraction is also in it. Images in the mind attract [...]

Truth cannot be proven or disproven. It is simply a truth. All truths are real and not real at the same time. Third point of the hermitic triangle, and magical symbols are in essence very simplified image magic. You have the hypothesis, your paradigm or world view, and you have the antithesis which is actually [...]

There’s this space you can get into where things go at super speed and you’re really there. It is similar to trance, full immersion, and it isn’t necessarily detached. In the martial arts they teach a sort of awareness of the moment, where you are totally immersed in the encounter. This is how you effectively [...]

You have probably heard the terms “white magic” and “black magic”. What are your thoughts on that? Doesn’t the black and white model seem really off?
The conventional notion is that white is good, and black is bad. It’s in all the fairy tales. Yes, this is in the modern telling. The older stories aren’t that [...]

All magic, and any energy, is basically a form of “light”.   By connecting to a color, or a domain of function, you do take on more of that energy. It’s all vibration, energy waves.  Anyone have a color of magic they want to focus on?
Yellow. Yellow magic is the magic of inquiry. The gift of Prometheus, [...]

Food magic is not unlike many other disciplines, and it can both be tied to healing magic and self transformation. “What you put in” is perhaps one of the core principles of all magic. But the term sorcery, literally means putting in and taking out. There is a lot to consider with that, and dark [...]

Is color a primary way to identify foods and purpose? Color and smell. This was how alchemists worked too actually, and how many of our modern chemicals got a lot of their descriptive terms assigned. Some rather poisonous fluids smell like water. But yes, as I compared them earlier to shamanism, anything in your cooking [...]

Maybe an illustrative exercise. Someone want to pick a food?
Carrots. Ok, good pick. To the Native Americans carrots were a person, and so was corn. If carrots were a person, what kind of person would carrots be?
Upper body strength. Rooted, Bright. Ok, earthy and bright?
They are hard, and break when they are raw, but soft [...]

Getting stuck on eating the same foods can get our lives in a rut.  The same with music. You eat color. You eat texture/touch, and you eat sound.  Tell me what you eat habitually. I will tell you about your personality.
Green tea. Thinking, and like the outdoors.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Earthy and sensitive in [...]