Author’s Blog
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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.
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On the Spiritual and Physical Worlds
The spiritual world as the realm of inner experience, contrasted with the rules of physical reality. On archetypes, projection, changing one’s attitude to adversity, and the author’s understanding of mesmerism.
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A Map of Your Soul: Marseille Tarot in Spiritual Work
The World card in the Tarot de Marseille as a model of the soul: the Bull, Lion, human figure and Eagle represent body, desire, emotion and intellect, whose balance is central to inner work.
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Why Cleansings Don’t Solve the Problem: Trauma and Complexes
Why the same troubles return after magical cleansing. The author connects experiences of negative influence with trauma and inner complexes, and argues for working on their causes instead.
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Archetype and Meaning: How Symbols Work
The same archetype may evoke love, fear or liberation. A reflection on personal meanings, cognitive beliefs and how our inner conflicts shape the symbols we encounter.
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Wealth and Selling Your Soul: The Myths of Money Magic
Why selling one’s soul or performing a ritual cannot guarantee riches. An exercise in examining generosity, responsibility and the social purpose that gives wealth meaning.
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What Matters in Magic, and What Doesn’t?
The value of ritual depends on meaning, intention and personal symbolism. A discussion of conscious and spontaneous practices, cultural differences and sensory influences.
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Why Magical Symbols Are Not Static
Symbols change meaning across universal, cultural and personal contexts. Why correspondences are models, not dogma, and how dreams reveal a personal symbolic language.
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Karma, Spiritual Practices, and Inner Work
Karma as a question of meaning and responsibility: working through inner complexes, releasing imagined demons and understanding freedom as a way of being.
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Real Alchemy: Inner Transformation
Alchemy as inner transformation: nigredo, the Qliphoth and the resymbolisation of the Self, rather than literal transmutation of matter.
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Is Money Freedom?
Wealth is not freedom. On the Qliphoth, attachment to possessions and the difference between meeting practical needs and making money an end in itself.
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What Is the Use of Philosophy in Magic?
Why philosophy matters to magic: crossing the Abyss, self-knowledge, synchronicity, and the meaning of True Will.
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The Most Effective Ritual: Why Technique Is Not the Point
Magic is not a set of ritual gestures or symbols. It is will embodied in meaningful action and a conscious relationship with the world.
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Ritual without Excess Form: Perfectionism and Meaning
On pathological and optimised perfectionism in ritual magic, the psychological types and why will matters more than ceremonial paraphernalia.
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A Step into the Abyss: Daath and the Meaning of Crossing
The Abyss, Daath and Choronzon as symbols of existential fear, the loss of old ideals and the gradual passage beyond worldly attachments.
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Meditation Is Simple
Meditation does not require stopping your thoughts. A simple exercise in perception, sensations and conscious immersion.
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The Sixteen Associations Method: Working with Inner Beliefs
An exercise based on Jung’s word-association test: reduce sixteen spontaneous associations to a single word and use the result to explore underlying beliefs.
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Why I Choose the Thoth Tarot
Why Crowley’s Thoth Tarot rather than Waite’s deck? On the Great Work, shifting archetypes and the imagery of successive Aeons.
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The Myth of Secret Knowledge
Are occult truths really hidden, or does understanding demand the work of study? On initiation, Tarot, Kabbalah and the difference between knowledge and mere technique.
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Tradition in Magic: Growth or Dogmatism?
Is tradition a path to mastery or a cage of dogma? On Quimbanda, lineage, initiation and the freedom of a magician to choose their own way.