Here are five short stories, my retelling of  events that happened to me I'm calling "True Tales." They illustrate magickal concepts in a way I think is much more interesting than simply describing those concepts. The Gods May Have Plans for You that You Don't Expect I was living in a house in the city of Encinitas in the North County area of San Diego. I was sharing the house with a man, Michael, and his son, Joe. Michael had been working as an engineer in a company that made amplifiers for people who wanted to boost the transmission power of their amateur radios. People who did this referred to themselves as HAM radio operators. Michael had also studied acupressure and

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Steven Cardoza, author of the new Chinese Healing Exercises. What are Chinese healing exercises? What benefits do they provide? Below are five reasons to include Chinese healing exercises in your daily life. 1. They're easy to do. Some are as easy as twiddling your thumbs! Many people are attracted to the healing benefits of taiji or qigong, but find they are unable to do the more demanding aspects of those practices, or do not have the time or discipline required. That can make it difficult to experience any benefits. If something is too difficult for any reason, you just won't do it. Here, there are no such problems. Anyone can do

Back on January 3, I posted that I have two preliminary goals for the new year. The first goal was to finish the manuscript for my next book and submit it to Llewellyn for consideration at PantheaCon. I am glad to say that indeed, I accomplished that goal. For a variety of reasons it takes a long time for a book to be published. I'll let you know how this develops. The first news I'll anxiously be awaiting is to learn if Llewellyn will accept it. The manuscript is about 40% smaller than Modern Magick and has lots of photos and illustrations, but it's still going to be a large book. I'll keep you informed as to how this all progresses. This will also allow those of you who have written a

How I Came to Write Modern Magick Years ago I was living in Encinitas, a beautiful, oceanside town north of San Diego, California. I was studying experimental music at UCSD and, on my own, studying Kabalah and magick. I was sharing a house with a man who was teaching Shiatsu (acupressure massage) and he let me attend his classes. After taking the series of classes several times he asked me to assist him. Then, one day before a class, he told me he had to be out of town and wanted me to teach the following week's class. Although I had taught classes in how to perform magic tricks while I lived in Los Angeles, I didn't think I knew enough to to teach a class in Shiatsu. He told me I did and