Over at the Gleamings from the Golden Dawn blog, Morgan Eckstein talks about the myth that we use only 10% of our brains. Why is debunking this myth of value? First, it is falsely used to explain how things such as psychic abilities and magick can occur. Second, I would contend it's irrelevant. Morgan traces the source of the 10% myth back to early days of brain scans when we couldn't really see deeply into the body of a living person. Transaxial slice of a 56-year-old male patient taken with positron emission tomography (PET) Checking with one of the best sources for investigating internet rumors, snopes.com, I discovered that this myth actually goes much further back, perhaps as

Okay, I guess I jumped the shark by a few weeks. But my new eBook, The Magical Life of Scott Cunningham, is available NOW. You can get it for your iPad through the iTunes Store. You can get it for your Kindle on amazon.com. Just click on this LINK Here is an updated version of detailed information on this new, "eShort." The Magical Life of Scott Cunningham On leap day, February 29, 1980, needing a room to rent, I moved into a two-bedroom apartment with a person I barely knew. His name was Scott Cunningham. At the time, Scott had been writing novels and was beginning his magical writing career. As I look back at it now, I'm amazed that I was able to share both a friendship and apartment

Recently I was looking at old posts I'd written for this blog. This one, featuring the Tarot of the Magical Forest, from about three years ago made me smile. Bon-bons I still love sweets. And speaking of treats, I love this image of the 8 of Cups from the Heart Tarot Have a sweet day!  

Raven Grimassi recently uploaded a YouTube video in which he explains some of the concepts behind his book, The Cauldron of Memory: Retrieving Ancestral Wisdom & Knowledge. Watch here: This book is a particular favorite of mine, because as I like to say – we all have dead people! Rather than focusing on Wicca or Italian witchcraft as he has done in many of his previous books, Grimassi really branched out with this book, writing for a wider audience of Pagans. You don’t need to be a Wiccan to read and benefit from this book – you just have to be open to the idea of contacting and communing with your ancestors, whose blood runs through your own veins. The book illustrates how