The Lovers Card
Tarot cards are fascinating things. No one can quite agree where they came from and when. They seem to have the same origins as...
The Magic of Sex Part 3: The Hieros Gamos
The Greeks called it the sacred marriage or Hieros Gamos. It is the western esoteric version of the Tantric tradition of the woman as...
The Magic of Sex Part 2: An All-American Sex Magician
The Victorian era in America during the 1850s, in many ways, reflected the Victorian era in England with hoop skirts and top hats,...
The Magic of Sex Part 1: Tantra
For most modern westerners, Tantra consists mainly of techniques which can be used to slow down the buildup of sexual energy in the body....
The Golden Dawn
In Chapter Two of The Dear Departed, my hero, Jonathan Bradshaw, uses three knocks with passwords to access the fictitious Isis-Nephthys...
The Rose and the Cross
The story rivals anything written by Dan Brown. In 1614, during the height of the religious wars ravaging Europe, an anonymous pamphlet...
Magic in Real Life (Part 3)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third...
Magic in Real Life (Part 2)
There is, apparently, a literary genre called Magical Realism. It applies to serious literary works that describe magical events "as...
Magic in Real Life (Part 1)
As our civilization becomes more and more technical, as we rely on our computers, smart phones and other electronic gadgets and gizmos,...
Seeing is Believing
Sometimes when people witness some kind of psychic phenomena, they ask themselves, ‘Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing?’ In a word, yes....
