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Can You Perform a Ritual for Someone Else? The Line That Actually Matters
Yes, and consent is the wrong test for it. What decides is whether the work needs the other person to do something they have not chosen to do.
Incense Sticks vs Cones: Burn Time, Smoke, and Which to Use
Sticks burn 30-60 minutes and lightly; cones burn 15-30 and heavily. Why the shape decides it, what each needs, and which one suits smoke cleansing.
Chime Candles: Size, Burn Time, and How to Use Them
Chime candles are the 4-inch spell candles most rituals assume you own. What they are, how long they burn, why the name, and which holder they need.
Bovis Units: What the Scale Really Measures
Somewhere on the internet a stone, a water filter or a bedroom has been rated at 12,000 Bovis. This piece explains what a Bovis unit is supposed to...
A Gentle Conception Ritual for Hope
Wanting a child reaches a depth almost no other subject does, and the road there can be long, quiet and at times painful. A conception ritual takes nothing...
Remote Viewing and the CIA Stargate Files
In July 1974, in a room at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, a former Burbank police officer was handed a slip of paper with nothing on...
Ayahuasca: Tradition, Science and U.S. Law
Ayahuasca is a plant brew from the upper Amazon basin, used in ceremony by Indigenous peoples of the region for generations and taken under the guidance of experienced...
Aleister Crowley: Thelema and the True Will
No figure in modern Western magic is argued about the way Aleister Crowley is. The tabloids of his own day called him the wickedest man in the world....
The Morphic Field: Sheldrake's Claim and What Holds Up
I used the phrase for years without ever checking it. It fits so well: when something is in the air, when a group suddenly moves differently, when the...
Light Language: What It Is and What Linguists Found
Light language turns up at retreats, in videos and in one-on-one sessions: sounds, syllables and gestures nobody can translate, offered anyway as a language. Here is what is...
Ringing in the Ears: Spiritual Meaning, Left and Right
A high tone, out of nowhere, in the left ear only, a few seconds long — and then gone. Almost everyone knows it, and almost everyone has thought:...
Witch's Garden: What to Plant and What to Leave Out
A witch’s garden sounds like a secret and is in fact the oldest practical fixture of a household: an herb bed holding everything you actually use. Here is...
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