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    New Souls?

    Re: Sex Magik Chela, I must respectfully disagree with you on a number of points, including most especially your statements that what works for one works for all, and that the gods of one religion are the demons of another. If the former were true, I would think some thousands of years of...
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    The Necronomicon: Fact or Fiction?

    Say, Rain of Brass Petals, I find that fascinating. Are you referring to the popular Simon version of the Necronomicon? Or something else? And, lest anyone think I'm reversing what I said about it earlier . . . there ARE a number of "Necronomicons" out there, including several interesting...
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    Do places have power?

    Absolutely, yes. The place in Maine where I until recently lived is blessed by an enormous granite boulder which different people have sensed or dowsed independently, all reporting the place as being at the nexus of two sets of ley lines. The tingly feeling I, personally, get in any place or...
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    What the Bleep Do We Know?

    Greetings all! I'm not sure this is the place to post this, but here it is anyway. Yesterday, some friends and I went to see a documentary film called "What the Bleep Do We Know?" It's having a limited run at certain theaters across the U.S.--often at art theaters. Here is the web site...
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    How do you Reconstruct?

    This is an interesting concept . . . picking up spiritual connections from ancestors. Some cultures do hold to this notion closely. Many Celtic groups, I believe, felt that members of the tribe were reborn to that same tribe, and the same is true for some Native Americans. In fact, I think...
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    The meaning of The Tarot

    Sorry, Brian. No dispute here. When reading the cards for someone else, I emphasize that the outcome is never set in stone. The cards may give warning, or show potential paths or choices, but they do NOT “tell the future.” The witch from whom I learned the tarot some years ago used a spread...
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    Fluffy Bunnies

    I absolutely agree with Erynn on every point. Now I, too, don't care for the derogatory aspect of the term--for the same reason I don't like Rawlings' popular "muggles" to describe non-Craft folk. It creates an "us" versus "them" mentality, with us as smart and them as ignorant. But there ARE...
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    God

    Mmm . . . kind of a loaded question. The short answer is “no.” I think I would rather say—cautiously—that the Christians, of late-Roman times and up through the Middle Ages, took various pagan gods—notably Pan, Dionysus, Herne the Hunter, and Cernunnos and shaped them into what became the...
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    The Necronomicon: Fact or Fiction?

    Satan as Harvey [of the eponymous 1950 Jimmy Stewart movie]! I love it! I own the CoC game for research purposes, but have never played it. I agree with Brian: the whole point of Lovecraft’s stories, for the most part, was to plumb the depths of horror, despair, and insanity arising from the...
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    How do you Reconstruct?

    And here begins Part 2. The way to reconstruct a dead religion, of course, is research. Lots of it. That and a willingness to pick through the hundreds of popular occult do-it-yourself books that just plain get it wrong looking for the occasional verifiable gem. For example, there WAS no...
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    How do you Reconstruct?

    Greetings all. Wonderful thread. Thanks for starting it, Sword and Silver. I see several ways to address your questions. First and foremost, of course, you are absolutely right that the religions in question are dead. I would add that the societies that produced them are dead as well. Rome...
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    The Necronomicon: Fact or Fiction?

    Here’s a disturbing thought. The Necronomicon is, of course, fiction . . . despite the growing number of Lovecraft fans who insist the poor man was privy to information so horrific, so eldritch, he was forced to disguise what he’d learned as pulp fiction. [By his own admission, Lovecraft was a...
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    Merry meet, everyone

    Greetings! Thought I'd best re-introduce myself, since it's been a long time since I've hung out here. Brian remembers me as an old hand from 'way back . . . a year ago or so. I delighted in the discussions on this board--as well as in the tolerance, intelligence, and mutual respect which all...
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    magick and religion

    Ya got me, bruagach! I had a brain fart, and wrote "Fortune" the other day when I meant "Valiente." You're quite right, of course. Susma . . . my problem with cursing criminals is bound up in the Law of Threefold Return. Put that kind of energy out, and it WILL come back, threefold. I don't...
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    New to the Path

    You’re very welcome, bgruagach. Happy dreaming! And, no, fire-nymph, I didn’t mean to suggest that magick wands were invented in the 1950s . . . only that I, personally, have seen no evidence that they were used by members of the Craft prior to that time. They were definitely part of the altar...
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    Just trying to learn

    Hi, Faolan! Allow me to join Brian in bidding you a warm welcome! I agree with Brian that it's going to be tough for any of us to address your experience without knowing more about it. I promise you, we'll take what you say seriously and reply with respect. "I was here and not here" sounds...
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    New to the Path

    Hi, Fire-nymph! Welcome to C-R! I've never heard the idea of hiding wands inside the broom's bristles. I suppose it's possible, but I must confess to some doubts. The main point of brooms and witches--besoms, as most witches call 'em--is that centuries ago, many of a witch's magical tools were...
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    New to the Path

    Hi, Susma! Not sure if this falls under your definition of "herbal," or not, but it iS legal: try taking a dose of vitamin B-12 or B-12 complex just before bed. This is a technique I learned years ago in my Craft training, and it works for most who try it. I use it off and on when I need to do...
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    magick and religion

    For my part, I tend to separate in my own mind Wicca from magick. I do so completely aware that this is my definition alone, one not to be forced upon others, and that there are plenty of folks—especially among the more traditional elements of the Wiccan movement—who would strongly disagree with...
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    Deja Vu

    I like Vajradhara's idea. There've been some intriguing studies that show we react on a purely subconscious/unconscious level to sensory input a fraction of a second *before* that input exists--just before a disturbing photograph is flashed on a screen in front of us, for instance. Some have...
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