Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Tara Sanchez, author of the new Urban Faery Magick. Gnosis is a word that drifts in and out of fashion, mostly because people forget to prefix it with the words "personal" and "unverifiable." If we are to be true to ourselves, all we can ever say is that our Gnosis is just that: deeply personal and provable only to our own hearts and minds. However, this leaves some of us in an awkward position: if the Gods or Spirits we are working with do not want to put on a visual display, they jolly well won't. So, how do we "know" that what we are experiencing is real if it cannot be seen? Take working the with the Fae, for example; full corporeal

Recently I attended two Victorian-era-inspired holiday events at which the famous letters from eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon and the response from Francis Pharcellus Church were read aloud. I had not heard these letters in many years and had forgotten how happy they make my heart. The older I get, it seems, the more willing I am to believe in a beneficent and wondrous world filled beauty, kindness, and happy surprises. I was, in my youth, “affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age.” I clung to the certainty and security that various forms of fundamentalism gave me. But now I realize, along with Mr. Church, that there is far more to this life than what we can see or what