OccultForum.org

This is totally awesome. Love the clear explanations and cute illustrations. Thanks for this helpful resource.

Right there with you RoseRed. I think so many mistakes are made when we're young and suddenly realize "damn, this stuff WORKS!" Combine that with reckless emotions and a lack of life experience and the damage can be epic. Ramscha, are you saying you regret practicing magic in the first pla...

Hi, I know there are many experienced practitioners around here and much magical knowledge is gained through trial and error. I was curious to hear what people consider their worst failures or screw-ups along the way. Sort of like a "blooper reel" of ritual practice [crazy] I've been pract...

I can't practice anything, because I don't know what to practice. Should I practice white magic and call down angels and hope that they can tell me about black magic. Because those are the only spells/rituals I can find. I can't tell you what to practice because I still don't know what you hope to ...

Hmm...if you believe the glut of conspiracy theories out there, many of the richest and most powerful people in the world are magicians...or at least have a few on their side [wink] But really, who's to say wealth generation isn't a form of magic by itself? My brother is a financially successful pok...

Yes Eternal Return, it is Morgoth/Melkor [smile] I love him I don't really consider atheism and option, since I am really in love with the occult. I really want to have more knowledge of magic, and specially be able to do Astral Projections, to contact spirits, mentors, my higher self, etc... So fa...

I keep reading and reading, grimores, forbidden and banned books, secret books of black magic and bla bla bla. It's all the same angels, demons and maybe a little bit of satan sprinkled on top. Isn't there any real black magic? It sounds like you've been doing a lot of reading. How much practice ar...

Something I forgot to ask awhile ago. I would like to know if Koetting's Baneful Magick is a legit instruction book? Do the things written within it actually work and are reliable? Do they actually work? Also can the things in it affect you in a bad way? I don't plan on using it but more on reading...

I want to get rid of her. I don't care about punishment and retribution anymore, I just want this bitch out of my life, out of my town, my rez. Restraining order doesn't do shit, the Tribal Police here are assholes and so slow and she is related to people in Tribal Court and on Tribal Police and al...

Thanks once again guys :) From your first post, it was clear your intuition was telling you participating in this "attack" would bring a lot of silly drama you don't need. One of the marks of an experienced magician is knowing when to fight and when to fall back. It sounds like this is a ...

What kind of technique do you find most useful to contact gods and goddess in your daily practices: meditation, prayer, invocation, evocation...? And what are the methods used - simple ways or rituals? Other people gave you great advice, and I'd just like to add I've found ancestor veneration can h...

The aghori are one option. They are definitely extreme, but in the end they are doing it for a good purpose, they think that is the way to enlightenment. You have things like The Atharvaveda, Bhagavata Purana and Vajrayana that contains darker elements but it's still pretty hippie. I was thinking s...

I agree with others in pointing out the medium is making a few assumptions here, mainly that a bad death is one's inescapable "destiny", and that all suicides are committed for the same reason. In my experience people pass on to their next incarnation whenever they're ready. Suicides under...

I found a place for you! Do you live anywhere near Togo?

http://gadling.com/2013/01/25/black-mag ... doo-suppl/

Is there any store where one can buy really really black magic stuff. No hippie. new age pentagrams and shit, but human skulls, graveyard dirt, coffin nails, monkey paws, organs in a jar and stuff like that? Is there a reason you can't collect these items yourself? I know a few practitioners in New...

Well if you rule out communication as an option then no, I don't know of any "reliable" methods to definitively determine a haunting. First you say you're not even sure the house is haunted and there are many rational explanations (faulty wiring, rats, etc.) and then you say you're worried...

I've found the more "pragmatic" forms of magic (hoodoo in particular) very effective at increasing luck in practical matters. I've had good results working with the High John root, especially in casting luck mojo for men (not sure of your gender). And as previously mentioned, hard work and...

I'm open to different possibilities (since no one knows for sure), but I tend to take an "as above, so below" approach to life after death. Since "dead" matter returns to the earth to be recycled in the service of new life, it makes sense that energy, souls etc would also be recy...

You'll be a much happier person if you fervently avoid all this pseudo-scientific sociology gender war nonsense and just go on with your life. Nothing is going to turn you into the kind of person described in that article as quickly as reading articles like that. I have to agree with this. Beyond t...

For chakra work, I highly recommend "Kundalini Tantra" by Swami Satyananda Saraswati. It's a very accessible classical text explaining how kundalini energy moves through the chakras, along with a clear explanation of each chakra and yogic exercises for purifying and opening them. Link to p...

I tend to think the division between "natural" and "supernatural" is rather arbitrary and based more on our relative position in the world as humans (not to mention the assumptions underlying post-Enlightenment Western thought) than on any strict dualism existing in Reality. So I...

Isn't it simply your consciousness trying to make sense of the world using memories and things that you are already familiar with? Yes, probably so. However, when my consciousness connects with deities/energy forms who already have well-established cultural traditions and rituals around them, I fee...

Isn't it simply your consciousness trying to make sense of the world using memories and things that you are already familiar with? Yes, probably so. However, when my consciousness connects with deities/energy forms who already have well-established cultural traditions and rituals around them, I fee...

Hello all, I've been reading this forum for awhile but this is my first time emerging from lurkerdom, so this is an introductory post in addition to a question. I'm not exactly new to occultism or spirituality, but I'm new to this particular path and wanted some advice from more experienced occultis...