Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Jamie Davis, co-author of Haunted Asylums, Prisons, and Sanatoriums. A clear front-runner for the title of "America’s Most Haunted Hotel," The Crescent had been on my list of places to visit for a good five years before I finally made it out there in June 2013. The intrigue of the place lies in all of the mysterious tales told about the days when, in 1937, Dr. Norman Baker turned the old 1908 Crescent College and Conservatory for Young Women into a cancer hospital. He is made out to be a quack who made about $4 million doing things such as injecting carbolic acid right into tumors and giving his patients spring water to drink. There are

  Here is a photo of my magick ring:    This ring has been part of my life for many years. Part of the concept for it (pentagrams on the front and sides with two circles around them) were suggested by my friend, Raven Grimassi. At the time, I was living north of San Diego in a small city called Encinitas. Raven was living east of there in the city of Escondido. I was studying Wicca with him. I had met a wonderful lady who lived further north in the city of Oceanside. She was working making jewelry and had offered to make something for me. By luck, while at the San Diego County Fair, I found the perfect sized gem to fit in the ring I had in mind. Actually, it wasn't a

In Modern Magick I described why I thought the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was important. Imagine a simple hourglass: The sand in the top half represents the  forms of occultism known in the West during the middle to late 19th century, ranging from ceremonial magick to Paganism. They were filled with differences and yet some occultists conceived that there was a hidden, underlying, unitary basis. At the central point, all of those systems merged into a complex but coherent system. That system spread out, as represented by the sand in the bottom half of the hourglass, influencing directly and indirectly virtually all forms of occultism and spirituality in the West as they exist

Did you miss the Raven Keyes interview on the Dr. Carol Francis show? Fear not—it is now available online! Raven Keyes, author of The Healing Power of Reiki, was interviewed last week by Dr. Carol Francis on her radio show. Visit the Dr. Carol Francis Show website to listen to the full interview. Dr. Carol Francis is a psychologist, counselor, NLP practitioner, and clinical hypnotherapist. Visit her online at www.DrCarolFrancisTalkShow.com or www.DrCarolFrancis.com.