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Absolutely correct. It is my theory that this is the way magic works, full stop. Somewhere in the depths of your subconscious is the direct interface to the universe.

I see chaos magic as a "meta-belief" system. The reason that you take from any paradigm to suit the work you are doing at the time, is because the techniques and principles of magic are independent of the belief systems you use to implement them. You can boil the whole thing down to progra...

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Moses couldn't have written it unless most of it was missing...

"Here's the skull of John the Baptist - and here's his skull when he was 12!"

Was it something I said?

Safe journeys - and good hunting!

"When the volume level goes up, the information level goes down."

I've not read The Elegant Universe; I read Greene's follow-up book The Hidden Reality - but it seems that many "coincidental" encounters are leading me to read The Elegant Universe. I didn't think I needed to, but who am I to argue with the universe :-) *presses buttons on Kindle*. The rev...

At the age of three, I was hooked to a machine; just to keep my mouth from spouting junk - no wait, that's Thomas Dolby. I was always interested in ghosts and stuff as a kid, but didn't actually get into magic until the age of 23. I'd been tooling around, feeling dissatisfied about actually contribu...

One that I (amusingly) got out of a Christmas cracker a billion years ago:

"To think you can, creates the force that can."

And one of my own:

"You can always tell how stupid someone is, by how stupid THEY think YOU are."

My avatar is me on stage, but here's a clearer one (all the best pictures of me are on stage)

I think the expression originated in the jazz world...

If I were you, first try something simple like Positive Affirmations. I just googled a page and got http://www.successconsciousness.com/index_00000a.htm Have a read of that page. You shouldn't need to buy any of the books - most of it is on that page. This is a kind of magic, and should work as well...

Oh, certainly, what I meant was that the Masons explicitly put Euclid's propostion itself into their lore, not just the expression of it.

Oh and on a scientific note I read that no masturbating for men can increase their risk of prostate cancer. Harsh. If that's the case, no man should ever get prostate cancer :D Seriously though, my advice is, as long as every sexual expression is put to good use, and you feel afterwards that you've...

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Moth, I am not making this up, it took me a long time to accept those things, since they are so unusual, to say the least, a lot more happened, things I just cannot explain. I never said you were making it up, and I apologise if that's how it came over. Sometimes there is a narrative in events, and...

Don't know how much help it will be, but the first book I bought when I started looking at the occult was

The Roots of Coincidence

As we were moving our things, we found a book about the interpretation of dreams, and we also found a picture of a woman, looked like an old picture, an old colored picture, a woman in her 30s, we had the impression that was someone who had already died, everybody who saw that picture felt scared. ...

Well, the Freemasons chucked the 47th Problem of Euclid into their melting pot of stuff, if that's any help...

http://www.masonic-lodge-of-education.c ... uclid.html

OMG - a Freudian bookshop! Awesome!

I'm presuming that xaarea is referring to Cinderella

Lorraine Kelly with a pearl necklace?

*cough* I'll get me coat...

I agree, reptilian, but if you're just starting out, I think you need some kind of structure, even if you know that it's just a support, so you can "fake it till you make it".

We use models all the time to make jobs easier - as long as you don't mistake the map for the territory...

Thank you :-) I've already read some fascinating stuff here...