Author’s Blog
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Friday the 13th: A Day of Curses or Love?
Friday the 13th, the Knights Templar, gematria, Venus and the Death card in the Golden Dawn system. Why superstition should never be allowed to govern your will.
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Arcanomatics: What Can an Ordinary Date Reveal?
A date of birth becomes a system of Tarot correspondences: a step-by-step Arcanomatics reading of Freddie Mercury using the Thoth Tarot and the Tree of Life.
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Enrolment for the September Course in Western Mesmerism and Magic
An archived announcement of the September 2025 course in Western mesmerism and magic: curriculum, approach, practical exercises, teaching format and the participation terms stated at the time.
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The Siren’s Call: The Treachery of Alcoholism
A personal account of the gradual traps of alcohol dependence, its stages and the struggle for sobriety, with a self-check questionnaire, a logic puzzle and reflections on reclaiming control.
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Full Moon Energy: Light, Shadows and Invisible Currents
The author’s interpretation of full-moon energy, symbolism and invisible currents, drawing on Jung, Plato, Nietzsche, Blavatsky and Crowley and their place in his magical worldview.
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Ayahuasca — ‘Spirituality’ with a Taste of Drug Addiction
A critical reflection on ayahuasca, psychedelics and alcohol as routes to spiritual experience. The author contrasts intoxication and escape with maturity, responsibility and sober inner work.
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Just a Placebo?
The author questions whether “placebo” is an adequate explanation for bioenergetic practices. Reflections on faith, suggestion, ritual, Kashpirovsky, Chumak and the alleged influence of consciousness.
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Demons and Spirits: Yesterday and Today
Why did spirits once seem to fear electricity, only to disappear from digital photographs? A personal reflection on demons, technology and the uncertain relationship between consciousness and reality.
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What Lies Behind ‘Money Magic’
A critique of money magic and financial ‘blocks’: why wealth depends on material conditions, work, social connections and economic reality.
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The Mystery of Reunion: Love and Inner Work
How an ordinary pop song becomes a mystical narrative through personal interpretation—and why meaning arises in the listener, not necessarily in the songwriter’s intention.
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The Laws of Thelema: On Freedom and Will
Alexander Chadaev reads Crowley’s three formulas of Thelema in reverse order: first the individual Star and its higher principle, then conscious Love under Will, and finally action in accordance with that Will.
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Esotericism Between ‘Madness’ and Depression
A personal model of consciousness moving through time between the material and the ideal. The author uses four symbolic regions to explore nostalgia, loss of grounding and the need for hope and meaning.
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Wilhelm Reich, the Ego, Orgasm and Crowley
A comparison of Reich, Jung, Lowen and Crowley on libido, will and the release of inner tension. From the Lust card of the Thoth Tarot to the role of conscious ritual, breath and bodily grounding in magical practice.
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Artificial Intelligence and the Soul
A reflection on algorithms, consciousness and the soul through Kether and Daath. The author contrasts mechanical intelligence with the creation of meaning and proposes a simple exercise: ask what your desires are really for.
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What Is Initiation?
Initiation is not a title or ceremonial status but a personal turning point that changes how one sees the world. The author reflects on Geburah, a life-threatening experience, mesmerism and the Tree of Sephiroth.
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Notes on Practical Techniques: Body and Mind
How bodily action and psychic imagery meet in magical practice. Reflections on Wilhelm Reich, Mesmerism, Quimbanda, NLP and hypnosis, with an emphasis on understanding rituals rather than repeating techniques mechanically.
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On Energy and So-Called “Energy Theft”
Why the fear of losing one’s energy can keep a person trapped in old grievances. Using reactions to his free sessions, the author challenges the idea of “energy theft” and argues for awareness rather than accumulation.
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Why Do ‘Gurus’ Frighten People?
Why do esoteric gurus use fear and demand obedience? A critique of initiation hierarchies, rigid traditions and borrowed authority, with a case for independent thinking and personal meaning in magical practice.
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The Left-Hand Path Is Not Egoism
The Left-Hand Path is not selfishness or service to one’s passions. The author distinguishes the Self from the Ego and compares the individual ideal of the Left-Hand Path with the universal ideal of the Right-Hand Path.
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What Is Freedom?
Freedom is not something to possess but a state of inner balance. On resisting emotional manipulation, distinguishing meaningful goals from imposed desires, and finding wealth in knowledge, skills and relationships.
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Why ‘Energy Theft’ Becomes a Problem
Why the fear that someone can steal your energy becomes a source of distress. On letting go of resentment, sharing rather than hoarding, and gratitude as an alternative to possessiveness.
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What Is God?
A Soviet cosmonaut poster becomes a starting point for a reflection on God as inner numinous experience. Childhood wonder at space exploration reveals how people give the sublime a sacred meaning.
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Our Path: Inner Freedom and Growth
The Fool of the Tarot de Marseille as a symbol of moving beyond fear, social expectations and rigid tradition. A reflection on higher purpose, personal freedom and a practical exercise for examining one’s goals.
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The World and Society as Sources of Meaning
How consumer culture turns human aspirations and even spirituality into commodities. A critique of accumulation, nostalgia and imposed ideals, with an argument for personal meaning and living in the present.
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What Wounds Us: On Trauma and Meaning
A reflection on trauma, desire and existential purpose through the World card of the Tarot de Marseille: the Animal and Divine Souls, the origins of suffering, and the false ideals of consumer culture.