Topic: The Magickal Web

Meditation alters brain patterns in ways that are likely permanent, scientists have known. But a new study shows key parts of the brain actually get thicker through the practice.

Those who are not accustomed to the “language” of Tibetan Buddhist images are often surprised to see the wrathful deities for the first time.

The most important element in Magick is the psyche of the practitioner. The psyche is made up of three different parts: The Conscious Mind, the Subconscious Mind, and the Superconscious Mind.

Full Moon: Any Saturday that occurs sometime close to the actual calendar full moon.

All Wicca is Eclectic, a word which Webster's New World Dictionary defines as meaning, “Selected or selecting from various sources.” Some “Trads” claim not to be eclectic at all, citing unbroken lineages and untainted family traditions (”Fam-Trads”) dating back to the Stone Age, but I doubt anyone (except the members of said Trads, themselves, of course) takes such claims very seriously anymore. That is not to say one should not take the individuals involved in such Trads seriously, or that the Wicca they practice is somehow lessor than the Wicca outlined in these pages. As author Kaatryn MacMorgan , Priestess of the Church of Universal Eclectic Wicca, phrased it in the title of her top-notch book on the subject, we are, indeed, All One Wicca.

A retired British civil servant named Gerald B. Gardner is the 'Grandfather', at the very least, of almost all Neo-Wicca. He was initiated into a coven of Witches in the New Forest region of England in 1939 by a High Priestess named 'Old Dorothy' Clutterbuck. In 1949 he wrote a novel [*High Magic's Aid*] about medieval Witchcraft in which quite a bit of the Craft as practiced by that coven was used. In 1951 the last of the English laws against Witchcraft were repealed (primarily due to the pressure of Spiritualists) and Gardner published *Witchcraft Today*, which set forth a version of the rituals and traditions of that coven. There is an enormous amount of disagreement about virtually every statement I have made in this paragraph.

In a region that has held its fair share of politically charged antiwar protests in the past few years, 15 people representing a Pagan group huddled on the Cambridge Common on Friday night to promote peace in what they called an apolitical, agenda-free event.

The male bias in science presumes that the humnaoid fossils we find are male.

Once hailed as an untouched Shangri-la, the mist-shrouded highlands of Papua New Guinea are undergoing a dramatic resurgence in sorcery and witchcraft.

Maybe the VA is finally ready to do the right thing. But after all the time it has spent stalling on this issue, the suspicion arises that somebody there has a major problem with the Wiccans. And it's not hard to imagine that the current secretary of veterans affairs would like to delay a resolution until the next administration, so someone else would get the blame for -- as the change will undoubtedly be portrayed -- giving a seal of approval to an evil cult.