Topic: The Magickal Web

Despite the claims of our current crop of militant atheists such as Dawkins and Harris, this is not simply brain-dead foolishness. Religious belief is hard-wired into human beings, by what means and for what purposes we don't yet understand. (A much wiser atheist, the biologist Edward O. Wilson wrote in On Human Nature that he intended to demonstrate that religious belief played an evolutionary role and could thus be explained by Darwinism. That was thirty years ago - if he ever succeeded, I haven't heard about it.)

Over one 10-day period in January, I heard from Wiccans in North Carolina upset about school Internet filters filtering out Wicca, a student in Florida challenging a school speech code, a teacher in Utah worried about school censorship of a religious T-shirt, and a California parent in California concerned about the accuracy of religious material used to teach Thanksgiving.

The former burlesque dancer who founded what may be the nation's most public house of witchcraft 32 years ago in Atlanta is nearing age 70, seriously ailing and living quietly out of state.

Ask people what they really want from their lives, or what’s missing and they’d like more of, and the answer will always be love. We all want someone to cuddle up to and take care of us, and someone we can adore in return. A survey conducted by O Magazine and Oprah.com asked 37,000 people about their relationships, and 95% said they'd marry their true love instead of a billionaire any day of the week (and I bet the other 5% said they’d only marry the billionaire if they had feelings for him).

Thought by many to be the grand-father of chaos magick, Austin Osman Spare planted the seeds which propelled the use of sigil magick into the spot-light of today’s occult scene.

Regarding Spare’s "Book of Pleasure," Kenneth Grant has said the following…

When I was born my family was living in a big family based Catholic Community just outside of Christchurch (Taitapu, Otahuna) This was my first brush with the Church, I don’t remember my baptism, though I have seen the photos and I don’t look too impressed. The church has always given me the shits.

Becoming more conscious of your dreams and your dream life can assist you with your healing path. We store many unconscious habits and past emotional trauma in our mind stream. And developing the techniques of working with your dreams may help you uncover some otherwise hidden parts of your self.

A great spiritual confusion arrived during the 1960s and in many ways it came most powerfully through music -- especially rock music, which helped cause monumental societal, moral, and even spiritual change.

Scott Wilder, the founder of The Cold Spot, a ghost-hunting firm in San Francisco, knows that running away from ghosts and tripping and breaking necks kills people, says Sonia Singh, the Indian-American writer of the novel Ghost, Interrupted.

Most of us know things are afoot in the spiritual realm including a major battle for the souls of the children. From the once-famous Smurfs and their “delightfully innocent” spells used by witches worldwide through the Harry Potter fiasco, it’s a given that Satan (from the Hebrew Ha Satan; the adversary or accuser) is up to no good. Children have been brainwashed by such fantasies as the Wizard of Oz, with its bad witches and “good” witches, for decades. That movie was shown repeatedly last July 4th weekend and during the Christmas holiday season. Think it was a fluke? I don’t.