I am a dreamer. I love the bizarre nature of dreams, the symbolism, heightened and revealing emotion, and sudden realizations that can all come from drifting off to sleep. I can recall at the age of 4 waking in a panic from a dream where I was caught in the wind from holding an umbrella. I flew this way and that, swishing through the air high above trees and buildings. I frantically clutched the cold handle on my yellow ducky umbrella wondering how I was ever going to get down. In all its vividness, I was utterly confused when I woke up safe and sound in bed. It’s the first dream I remember and, even in its panic, it started me on wonderful journey! Recently I’ve again found myself

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Mark Townsend, author of Jesus Through Pagan Eyes. Though Jesus was often discussed by his contemporaries in a manner suggested by this post's title, the above words do not in fact refer to Jesus, but to me. "Oh, how arrogant!" you might now be thinking. Actually no, I’m merely paraphrasing the comments that have often been made behind my back by people (Christians) who simply can’t cope with the stuff I write. I’m a priest, you see, yet one who has had an almost constant battle with his own religion and the hierarchies within it. From teenage days when, as a young would-be-clergyman, my own parish Curate told me that I should

Last week Andrea and Mario (from Lo Scarabeo) were in our offices. While here, they have lots of meetings and business. They have been our partners in bringing excellent tarot to the world for over ten years. Every year we look forward to their new ideas. At this year's meeting, I stealthily used my iPhone to take some super secret photos so I could share some of sneak peeks with you! Here is the beginning of the presentation.   Book of Shadows, Volume 2: So Below Here is one I'm particularly excited about. This year, LS is releasing Book of Shadows, Volume 1: As Above, which is a non-traditional tarot deck based on pagan/Wiccan teachings and beliefs. It is the theory. In

One of the things Israel Regardie has written is that all students of magick should get into some form of psychotherapy. Of course, this is supposed to help the student not become ego-inflated. However, there was another reason for this. Regardie told me that working with a therapist would convince students of the reality of the unconscious mind. Today, most people accept the concept that we have both conscious and unconscious minds (or at least conscious and unconscious aspects of our mind). But when Regardie started on his magickal career at the beginning of the last century, many did not believe this. It was only with Freud that the idea became accepted, and that acceptance did not