To my friends in the Southern California area: Today, Saturday the 5th, from 2:00-4:00, I'm teaching an Introduction to Hypnosis workshop at The Green Man in North Hollywood. You can call the shop at 818-985-2010 for details or use this LINK to their website. Later in the month I'm teaching a Certification Course in Hypnosis. This will be an in-depth, multi-week course leading to certification that will allow you to practice hypnotherapy in California.. For details contact The Green Man or MY WEBSITE.

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a linchpin in Western occultism, was founded in the late 1880s. Within 15 years there had been schisms dividing the Order. With the internet today, events happen much faster. Various groups claim to be "the" Golden Dawn and fight for the use of the name. New groups claim to have the "real" teachings. People get kicked out of one group or they split off from groups to form their own "real" Golden Dawn. These games don't matter. It is the work that matters. All of these games are about ego. The Order is about the work. When the Order was founded, they included a document that revealed the Order's supposed history, going back before its modern

It has been said that if magick is the ability to make desired changes, then the most powerful form of magick is the ability to change your mind. I'm not sure that's completely accurate, but the ability to fully use the mind to make desired changes is certainly quite powerful. To my mind, no tool is better for changing the mind than hypnosis. Llewellyn publishes many books that include hypnosis as well as some very good ones that focus on hypnosis including: Hypnosis for Beginners New Age Hypnosis Self-Hypnosis for a Better Life Self-Empowerment Through Self-Hypnosis and Self-Empowerment Through Self-Hypnosis CD Companion But why is hypnosis and self-hypnosis so effective?

Some of the most advanced work and theories when it comes to magick are currently appearing in blogs on the web. Because much of this is "cutting edge," there are going to be disagreements. As long as these are arguments based on logic (a series of premises or ideas that lead to a conclusion) as opposed to simple personal attacks ("You're wrong and your mother dresses you funny"), this is a good thing. People present their arguments, the logic goes back and forth, and people reading the information can come to their own conclusions. Recently there has been a spate of posts debating the value and even the reality of what is commonly called "magickal energy" and working with that energy.