It seems like many times when I personally meet some people, get friendly, and spend some time with them, at least one of them gets into this conversation with me: Let's do some magick! "Great," I say! "I'd love to do magick with you. What shall we do the magick for?" Uhh… And a few times this brief conversation has resulted in that person not wanting to talk with me any more. —   —   — Once, while I participating on a very active online forum, a young man—a self-professed practitioner of Chaos Magick—proudly explained, "The really great thing about chaos magick is that it doesn't matter if you get your goal. All that matters is that you do it." "If it doesn't matter

Live Interview! Raven Grimassi and Stephanie Taylor-Grimassi interview me on TODAY! Wednesday, June 26, 6–8 p.m. Eastern 3–5 p.m. Pacific Yes,today, in just a few hours, from 6–8 p.m. Eastern (3–5 p.m. Pacific), Raven Grimassi and Stephanie Taylor-Grimassi will be interviewing me live on their internet radio show, Seasons of the Witch. You can listen in and ask questions. Here’s the LINK to the program. I hope to meet you there. I have been friends with Raven and Stephanie for a long time, and we’ll have lots of stories to share. This will be fun and informative.

She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, "Which way? Which way," holding her hand on top of her head to feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way. So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake. *  *  *  *  *  *  * *  *  *  *  *  * *  *  *  *  *  *  * "Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak

It wasn't until I was in college, taking a class in children's literature (OK, it was supposed to be easy, but it had tons of reading), that I read Ursula K. LeGuin's classic book, A Wizard of Earthsea. It's an incredible tale filled with Jungian overtones as well as a great version of Campbell's "Hero's Journey." It presents a concept that a lot of magickal people have taken to heart: if you know a person or thing's true name, you can use that name to have power over that person or thing. This, of course, became part of the background of the Harry Potter stories, as well as in other tales. In certain aspects of real magick this is partially true. For example, in dealing with