Even though billions of people around the world believe in reincarnation, and the belief in reincarnation has existed for thousands of years, it remains a highly controversial subject. Personally, I believe that's a good thing. We should examine our beliefs to determine whether they are based in reality rather than fantasy. Most occultists, but definitely not all of them, accept reincarnation as a "given." Aleister Crowley, for example, thought he was the reincarnation of famed French occultist Eliphas Levi. He also thought that in a life previous to that he had been Edward Kelly, the assistant to Dr. John Dee, discoverer of the system of Enochian magick. Why don't more people accept

One of the questions I often receive is a request for contact with an occult group, order, coven, etc. As a policy, I don't recommend such organizations. The reason for this is that I, personally, have been "burned." That is, some time ago an organization that was great evolved into something that was not good. As a result, when I recommended that group, I was sending people into a bad situation. I never want to send people into such a situation, so rather than make a recommendation for a group with which I've had no contact for a long time, I just don't recommend any particular group. If people are looking for a group I do recommend places they can look to find one. For example, the

Today, April 6, 2012, is the first night of Pesach, the Jewish holiday known in English as "Passover." I wrote "first night" rather than "first day" because Jewish holidays begin at sundown. The first full day of Pesach is tomorrow, Saturday, April 7. Although most people familiar with this holiday know it for the feast known as the Seder, the holiday is actually much more than this one day. It is a three-part holiday composed of two days where orthodox Jews do no work, The next four days allow for limited work, and then there are two more work-free days. This was a big celebration. According to the classic book, The Jewish Festivals by Hayyim Schauss, the amazing thing about Jewish

In the first part of this series I discussed why the common, non-magickal concept of a love spell was a bad idea, but that real love spells were a practical option for magickal folks. In the second part of this series I described how it’s a myth that “opposites attract” but an occult truism that “like attracts like.” I also described how to attract the type of person you want: you need to be the type of person he or she wants. This involves doing an honest assessment of yourself and changing those things you don’t like about yourself. Then make a list of the characteristics you want in your new love. In the third part of this series I looked at why making a talisman is ideal