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Thanks for the replies. Sounds about right.

I never really paid that much attention to it before but it does seem like most magicians are liberals. I suppose it makes sense I just never caught it for some reason.

Ooh. Looks interesting so far. I read Fr.Acher's blog Theomagica,so I'm familiar with him more than Ms McCarthy. I'll need to look at this later when I have some more free time,I'll post again once I've looked at it. Cheers. [thumbup] I follow his blog as well. He is very thought provoking and well...

Quareia is a free online occult learning school created by Frater Acher and Josephine McCarthy that takes the student from beginner all the way through to adept. Enjoy.
https://quareia.squarespace.com/#main

Thank you RoseRed, yes I think there is a very small possibility that the profile may not be hers. The name is not very common and the profile is under that name and in my immediate area just as her email stated but until I see her in person I can't be 100% sure. I think what I am going to do is sen...

So I put an ad on craigslist recently for a local magic and occult study/discussion group. I have about 8 people now who are interested and a new person has contacted me to participate. Her name was include in her email and I looked her up on facebook. Well it is crystal clear from her profile that ...

Create fabric templates of a few layouts by covering the box your tarot cards (whichever you choose)comes in with tinfoil. Trace out the box on the fabric using sharpie marker onto preferably white fabric. This is to put the meaning of your cards into context when doing a reading. Don't get trapped ...

I was thinking on this further. I've found that when I cannot quiet my mind and still my thoughts that, at least for me, it's better to pay attention to those thoughts. It tells me that there is something going on that I may not be consciously aware of but probably should be. If there are too many ...

Hi Ramscha, I'm not sure who you are speaking to. If it was me, I've never had any psychological disorders nor have I been treated for any. Perhaps you were speaking to someone else in the thread? or have me confused with someone else? Thank you for the suggestions everyone. I intend to just keep a...

ShubNiggurath wrote:15 years ago I found the Rider Waite Tarot in the local book store. this was the beginning of my "occult career".
Now, I prefer the Akron Tarot.

Wow, I can see why you like it.

You said years ago you were diagnosed with a severe psychological disorder, therefore set under heavy medication. Are you still under medication? In that case, I suppose asking your current responsible psychologist or who ever is responsible for you at the moment to seek advise would be an option a...

I have been practicing stillness meditation and have found that my monkey mind is not always willing to be calmed. There are days when I can go into stillness successfully and bask in it but then for some reason I have days where I can't even come close because my thoughts swing from one random stre...

I have gotten comfortable with the Rider Waite deck. I have a standard sized deck and a miniature set that fits in a candy tin and gets carried around in my shirt pocket so I can practice if I find myself with some downtime. I am not very skilled but so I need as much practice as I can get. I do app...

Yes, visual magick is an interest of mine, you may like the Magical Knowledge series by Josephine McCarthy. I have only read the first book but it is really good. I'm not very practiced but the few small exercises I used in her first book "Foundation" gave me the impression that once I've ...

Hi Rin, Thank you. I apologize for responding late. I'm glad to hear that the books I already own should have sufficient material for the development I'm looking for. I ordered them not long ago at the advice given on this forum. I think you were in that thread actually and suggested IIH. Thank you ...

Thank you, I think you have given me some great things to work with and helped realize some things about myself and how I am handling this. I am very humbled by the amount of sound advice I am getting from this forum. Thank you.

I am finding out the hard way about turning the other cheek. This has really gone on too long and this has stressed out my kids too, my little girl had a nightmare that a furby of all things was talking to her in a demonic voice and telling her it was going to kill us all. She is seven and he had he...

Thank you, yes I have though I didn't do it right off the bat and did not know to do so initially until after reading a few books on protection finally came across that suggestion. I do periodic cord cuttings as well because I believe I was a food source for him. Also I had at one time many trinkets...

I think you have me pegged pretty well, I have always had a good guy complex but I need to mature past this, I see that. I have done a 9 day novena candle but it was made by a shop owner here for the purposes of justice and cord cutting. I think it had an effect on him because I felt nothing for awh...

I'm sorry, the book was "Wicca for men", I'm pretty new to magick in general but the book I mentioned is what kind of popped my cherry I guess you could say as far as getting an interest into the occult and magick. I don't follow wicca but that book kind of got me thinking. It was a Cunnin...

It's kind of a long story so please try to bear with me, I really need some perspective on this situation. So when my wife and I moved to the south about 5 years ago. We used to on weekends go to the local flea market. One day we stumbled into a metaphysics shop there. We met the owner and his dead ...

Thank you, I just read the reviews for it and definitely sounds like a book that would help me and is now added to my wish list. Thank you so much.

Thank you, for the moment I am starting out with Modern Magick and Initiation into Hermetics so I suppose the paradigm working with is ceremonial magick but I intend to look into more shamanic stuff after I have worked through these two books. Not that I think there is anything inferior or wrong abo...

Haha cool, I guess I am such a noob that I am still trying everything I can to see what helps and what doesn't and probably end up wasting time on the wrong things unknowingly but my hope is that it won't always be that way. I will add that book to my wish list on amazon and get it asap. As always a...

Do you have to be born a natural psychic? or are there methods or techniques that can help you develop some level of psychic awareness? Any book recommendations if so? I already listen to some of the holosync techniques and third eye meditations found on youtube but I still prefer to read books over...