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beginner-guide

Meditation Techniques: The Four Families, Explained

There is no best technique. There are four kinds, and one of them will suit you.People give up on meditation because they try one method, find it uncomfortable,...

Mara Solveig Nachtigall · Crystals & Stones September 15, 2026 9 min read
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Divination & Mediumship

How to See Auras: Exercises and an Honest Look

The exercises reliably work. Three of them, the colour conventions, and the two well-described properties of human vision that account for most of what people see.

Dr. Aurelian Vheis · Occultism September 14, 2026 10 min read
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Chakras

Chakra Stones: Which Crystal for Which Chakra

The working chart of which crystal goes with which chakra, the material facts that keep stones intact, and the twentieth-century history behind the rainbow scheme.

Ida Falk · Green Witchcraft September 14, 2026 8 min read
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Meditation & Practice

Inner Light: Meaning, Symbolism and Light Work

Inner light is the idea that something clear and steady already exists in a person and is periodically obscured rather than absent — so the work is subtraction,...

Leif Daniel Schmidt September 14, 2026 9 min read
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Meditation & Practice

Gurdjieff's Fourth Way and the Enneagram

Gurdjieff taught that we live in waking sleep and that awakening happens inside ordinary life, not away from it. His enneagram is a diagram of process - not...

Leif Daniel Schmidt September 14, 2026 10 min read
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Meditation & Practice

Merkaba Meditation: A Step-by-Step Beginner Guide

Build the star tetrahedron, hold it with the breath, rest inside it. A clear beginner practice - plus an honest account of which parts are ancient Jewish mysticism...

Ravenna Blackthorn September 14, 2026 9 min read
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Meditation & Practice

Hollow Earth Theory: Myth, Science and Meaning

Halley proposed it, Symmes petitioned Congress over it, and seismology settled it. What Hollow Earth theory actually claimed, why it is wrong, and why the descent into the...

Dr. Aurelian Vheis September 14, 2026 11 min read
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Meditation & Practice

Franz Bardon: His Hermetic System Explained

The most demanding training course in modern Western magic Franz Bardon wrote step-by-step instructions where almost everyone else in his tradition wrote hints. This is what his system...

Dr. Aurelian Vheis September 14, 2026 11 min read
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Meditation & Practice

Keylonta Science: Origins, Claims and Practice

Quick answer Keylonta, or Keylontic Science, is a spiritual cosmology published from 1999 onward by the American author who wrote as Anna Hayes and Ashayana Deane, presented as...

Dr. Aurelian Vheis September 14, 2026 12 min read
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Meditation & Practice

How to Cast a Circle: A Step-by-Step Guide

Casting a circle is the first practical skill most people meet in modern witchcraft, and the instructions usually arrive without any explanation of where they came from or...

Ida Falk · Green Witchcraft September 09, 2026 10 min read
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August 2026

Sacral Chakra: Svadhisthana, Water and Appetite

The second centre in the 1577 source, the mistranslation of its name, the crocodile that popular writing drops, and the pelvic symptoms that are not symbolic.

Leif Daniel Schmidt · Shadow Work & Consciousness August 11, 2026 13 min read
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August 2026

Root Chakra: Muladhara, Grounding and Safety

Four petals, a yellow square and a seven-trunked elephant — plus the one chakra colour that is close to the old text, what grounding practices actually do, and...

Leif Daniel Schmidt · Shadow Work & Consciousness August 11, 2026 13 min read