Offerings part II: The Space-Time Quandary of Different Existence

Of course, the purely left hand path approach to all entities is that someone had to create it.  In fact, I heard this refrain uttered by multiple very high prominence PAGANS at a recent festival… and this tells you that, for the most part, Chaos Magic has won the hearts and minds of the pagan populace even though they still will throw around a lot of platitudes, and seem to hate calling themselves Chaos magicians (btw most Chaos magicians...

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Offerings Part 1: The Biology of Exchange.

Before I can talk about the offerings and spirits in an intelligent way, I have to rant a little. Just gloss over the Rant, I promise it will get better. Jonathan Z. Smith writes in Imagining Religion: “...while there is a staggering amount of data, phenomena, of human experiences and expressions that might be characterized in one culture or another, by one criterion or another, as religion — there is no data for religion. Religion is solely...

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Crossroads Uncrossing: Candy and Red Palm Oil

This is a specific technique to remove bad juju or negative energy.  A few things about this: this is clearly not “traditional Vodou” so leave it alone if you are going to go there and be like that.  It is however a technique that is derived directly from something I have seen done 1000 times in a couple Ifa houses, by a few conjure folk in Chicago, and have done it a 1000 times myself - although the entities prayed to were slightly...

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A Deep Relaxation Technique, your ticket to great sleep

Generally, sleep is one of the most underrated experiences and it is becoming clear that it is  evolutionary critical.  We are getting a closer  closer understanding of sleep. In a recent study they note:     “found that metabolic waste products of neural activity were cleared out of the sleeping brain at a faster rate than during the awake state. This finding suggests a mechanistic explanation for how sleep serves as...

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