Tag: Glitch Bottle
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On Magical Language
Meredith Graves, occult powerhouse and magical director for Kickstarter, makes a wonderful observation that our own first exposure to magic – whether it comes through fairytales, Disney movies, or stage illusionists – leaves a lasting impression in the way we comprehend and interact with the unseen later in life.1 That initial conception of magic sets…
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What They Meant Was…
One of my biggest pet peeves with modern analyses of historical texts is when an author states – with authoritative confidence – they have decoded the true meaning of a text, and that it is something only tenuously implied by the text itself. And this happens all the time with magic and occult topics. Things…
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On the Importance of Divination
Occult author Jason Miller has said that if he had to keep a single thing from his esoteric practice, while giving up everything else, he would keep meditation. While I appreciate meditation and have seen notable benefits from it, if posed the same question the one practice I would keep would instead be divination. What…
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A Long and Winding Path: part 2
This post is part of a two part series. You can find the first part here. Last time I talked about how I first got into magic. When we left off, I had just discovered ritual magic in the style of the Golden Dawn. I spent the next several years practicing meditation, divination, and banishing…