Topic: The Magickal Web

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama today called for removing growing global tension caused by war threats, terrorism and mistrust with the spread of the teachings of Lord Buddha.

Voodoo, practised in the Caribbean, Brazil and some Creole communities in the United States, as well as on the white sands of west Africa, is inextricably linked in Benin to the country's status as a slaving hub.

Some budding Wiccans seem to feel that one cannot be a TRUE Wiccan unless a "master" priestess or priest schools them. Since there aren’t always a lot of available resources by which to find such a teacher, the choices are considerably limited.

Angels fascinate people. For years we’ve been inundated with books, calendars, stationery, folklore, jewelry, knickknacks, lunch boxes, tattoos, even cherubic trash containers. People can’t get enough of angels! Stories of angelic encounters abound on the Internet. You ask, "Do you have a problem with angels?" Well, yes. And herein lies the problem. The messengers are not necessarily "angels of light" as people have been led to believe. Many angel enthusiasts have actually met heavenly visitors from the dark side. Even self-professed Christians are deceived. How can this be? Shouldn’t Christians be able to discern what’s real and what’s counterfeit? Not necessarily. Biblically illiterate Christians are easy to fool.

SPOILER ALERT! If you're a fan of the wildly popular Harry Potter series of books and don't want prediction and speculation to spoil your reading of the final volume, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" look away.

A 100-YEAR-OLD woman celebrated reaching the landmark birthday and said her long life could be linked to a distant relation - Pendle witch Alice Nutter.

From out of a void between two floors at Dalton Mills, Keighley, has emerged a woman's shoe, which may have lain untouched for more than 120 years.

Mary Martin was 11 years old when her father taught her to box. She would come home from school scratched and bruised, her ears ringing with abuse from the playground. Mary Martin had the unhappy distinction of being the granddaughter of Britain's last convicted witch.

Macworld, San Francisco - (Ass Mess): A revolutionary new Wiccan hex-messaging i-Phone launched at the annual Geekfest in San Francisco this week is a runaway winner according to reports which show it is outstripping conventional cellphone technology sales and putting rival products into the shade.

Mainstream media have yet to acknowledge the death of Robert Anton Wilson, prolific futurist author and countercultural icon who passed away early yesterday (January 11). He had been suffering from post-polio syndrome. Caregivers read all of his late wife Arlen's poetry to him at his bedside and e-mailed me that "he was quite cheered up by the time we left. He definitely needed to die. His body was turning on him in ways that would not allow him to rest."