Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Lupa, author of New Paths to Animal Totems the new Plant and Fungus Totems. Many of you readers may be familiar with animal totems, archetypal beings that embody the qualities of a given species of animal and that watch over the physical animals themselves. But did you know plants, fungi, and other living beings have totems as well? Okay, so they’re not as popular as their critter counterparts, and we often see plants and fungi as scenery rather than active parts of nature. However, we have as much to learn from them as anyone else. It’s easy for us to be so animal-centric that we forget we’re not the only important ones here. It may

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Jean-Louis de Biasi, author of Secrets and Practices of the Freemasons, The Divine Arcana of the Aurum Solis, and the forthcoming Rediscover the Magick of the Gods and Goddesses. Jean-Louis is also Lifetime Grand Master of the Ordo Aurum Solis and Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross.   Every child in the United States, as well as every new US citizen, knows “The Pledge of Allegiance,” written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy: “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” In 1942, the United States Congress officially recognized the following

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Melissa Grabau, PhD, author of the new Yoga of Food. Certainty of conviction. Grim warnings of hell and damnation if we are to continue our misguided ways. The priest on high preaches the perils of . . . . gluten, meat, corn, soy, hydrogenated fats, sugar, alcohol, caffeine . . . . The perils of pleasure. The cost of consumption. We writhe in shame. Sinners in need of redemption! Spare us the damnation of diabetes, heart disease, dementia . . . We fall on our knees and give ourselves over to the gospel of Veganism, Paleoism, Raw foodism . . . Save us from the intractable cravings of our flesh! Then we watch in slack-jawed horror as the

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Lon Milo DuQuette, author of Low Magick: It's All In Your Head ... You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is and the forthcoming Homemade Magick: The Musings & Mischief of a Do-It-Yourself Magus (August 2014).   Do you believe in reincarnation? I do. Perhaps the word "believe" is not quite the right term to use. Existence doesn't demand belief to exist. Is it a matter of belief that I was a five-year-old child in 1953 kindergarten? Did that little Lonnie DuQuette die to become high school Lon or adult Lon? If we are thinking in terms of linear time, we might be obliged to answer with a qualified, "Yes! Little Lonnie is