Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Matthew Ash McKernan, author of the new Wyrdcraft. The weird, wild, and wonderful English psych-rock band Hawkwind said it well in their song, "We Took the Wrong Step Years Ago." What this "wrong step" was is unclear, though one can imagine many while listening to the song's evocative melodies. What is clear is that it is a dirge, a funereal song, expressing grief, loss, and the sobering lessons of Fate. Though humanity has certainly taken many "wrong steps" over the course of our relatively short stay on this blessed planet, there is one step that strikes me as being particularly tragic, to the point of being apocalyptic—and that is the