Before starting this post I have a couple of things to announce: First, this Sunday, April 29, at 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time (10:00 Eastern) I will be interviewed on the Breath of Terra Show with Teresa Sixberry. You'll be able to hear it over the internet and you can call in with your questions. For details, just click on this LINK. Second, I'll be giving workshops in Florida May 3–6 at the Florida Pagan Gathering. Also featured there will be my friend, Raven Grimassi, as well as the dynamic Orion Foxwood and other speakers and entertainers. This is a family friendly festival, so come and say hello. I'll be giving workshops on hypnosis and the magickal powers of the hands using the

In part one of this series I outlined the three parts of the most popular theory concerning how magick works. In the second part of this series I described how to begin developing the ability to work with recognizing, raising and manipulating innate or inner magickal energy. In that second post I described how to create an "energy ball" using visualization and breathwork. You can also become familiar with the sensation of this energy by using your visualization to change its color. To see the impact of working with others, try holding out your hands toward the hands of a partner and work together to create such an energy ball between each of your paired hands. You may find that the

As I described in my previous post, How Magick Works, the concept that magick works by raising and directing some sort of magickal energy is currently the most popular paradigm for understanding how magick works. If you have ever read a spell from a book of spells and followed the directions, only to have no result, the cause may be that there was no magickal energy raised or directed toward the goal of the magick. The words and actions merely direct the energy you raise, they are not the magick themselves. So as you learn various important aspects of magick—rituals, correspondences, etc.—I would contend that it's also a good thing to develop your abilities with magickal energy. One

One of the most common questions I receive seems to be the most basic: How does magick work? Why is it that when you properly perform a ritual or spell you get the desired results? The simplest and most honest answer is: I don't know. It seems weird, then, that we should literally depend upon something when we have no idea of how it works. However, we do this all the time. We depend upon gravity holding us firmly to the Earth without knowing how it works. Oh, we may know that large masses have a quality of attraction, but this really gives us no more information than knowing if we properly perform a ritual we get results. We may somewhat understand how Einstein's General Theory of