Anne Roebuck

Tarot cards are fascinating things.  No one can quite agree where they came from and when.  They seem to have the same origins as ordinary playing cards consisting of four suits with ten cards each, along with a king, queen, knight and page.  Like playing cards, they c...

The Greeks called it the sacred marriage or Hieros Gamos.  It is the western esoteric version of the Tantric tradition of the woman as goddess (shakti) and the man as god (shiva) uniting their energies to create something in the physical realm.  In the Hieros Gamos, th...

The Victorian era in America during the 1850s, in many ways, reflected the Victorian era in England with hoop skirts and top hats, Americans during that era were considered straight laced and puritanical by modern standards.  But a particularly American tradition of se...

For most modern westerners, Tantra consists mainly of techniques which can be used to slow down the buildup of sexual energy in the body.  By using breathing exercises, meditations, mental focus and yoga postures or asanas it is possible to delay orgasm in both sexes o...

In Chapter Two of The Dear Departed, my hero, Jonathan Bradshaw, uses three knocks with passwords to access the fictitious Isis-Nephthys lodge room.  Sharp-eyed readers will recognize these passwords as those used in the Golden Dawn neophyte ritual described in The Com...

The story rivals anything written by Dan Brown.

In 1614, during the height of the religious wars ravaging Europe, an anonymous pamphlet entitled the Fama Fraternitatis was published in Cassel, Germany. It tells the story of one Christian Rosencreutz who, as a young man,...

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

                        -- Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)...

There is, apparently, a literary genre called Magical Realism.  It applies to serious literary works that describe magical events "as though they were real."  It doesn't apply to speculative fiction like Science Fiction and Fantasy.  It applies only to serious fiction...

As our civilization becomes more and more technical, as we rely on our computers, smart phones and other electronic gadgets and gizmos, it seems as though the last thing we can concieve of is whether or not magic can manifest in our lives.  If you are staring at your c...

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.  Seeing is something that happens in the mind, not in the eyes.

This is particularly an issue when the question of psychic experience...