Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Shawn Martin Scanlon, author of Everything You Want to Know About Magick (But Were Afraid to Ask). In 1952, Ray Bradbury wrote a short story about time travel. This classic story, one of the most re-published science fiction stories of all time, deals with a man of the future who takes a time travel safari tour to prehistoric times. His goal is to shoot a T-Rex, but he chickens out and runs back to the time machine when the time comes to kill the great dinosaur. Running back to the time machine he steps off the walkway, which he was explicitly warned not to do, where he inadvertently kills a single butterfly. When he returns to his own time,

Today I am honored to share this guest post by Jean-Louis de Biasi, Grand Master of the Ordo Aurum Solis, Hermetic philosopher, and author of books such as Secrets and Practices of the Freemasons, and The Divine Arcana of the Aurum Solis. A Brief History of Color and Magic For many years now, it has been very easy to find various writings about the ritual use of colors. It seems evident that colors constitute a very old knowledge which was associated with ritual practices from the very beginning of the use of rituals. It is easy to imagine that there must have been a good symbolic understanding of the use of colors in ancient Egypt, but proof of this is very rare in the old texts. In

For many years I have stated that there are only two times you will read about magick and the occult in the media. The first time is around Halloween. The second time is when there has been some sort of crime that is even vaguely (or just supposedly) related to the occult. I think it's important to understand what is going on in these media appearances and how best to deal with them. I wouldn't have seen it if I didn't believe it. —Marshall McLuhan In the past, reporters were supposed to be honest and objective. Unfortunately, many reporters today have abandoned that approach. Even in the past when objectivity was the rule, and perhaps more so today, each reporter "comes to the

One of the challenges of magick has nothing to do with magick. Rather, it has to do with those of us who believe in various magickal or occult principles but feel insecure because we don't know exactly how one thing, such as a ritual, directly causes a result. As I have described before, some magicians look for the latest "scientific" principles as an explanation for how magick works. As a result there have been books that "explain" the functioning of magick by associating it with magnetism, electricity, atoms, spirits, ghosts, synchronicity, and most recently, quantum physics. I have a feeling that the next explanation of magick may be a subdivision of quantum physics known as quantum