By Psyche | June 30, 2008
Regular readers will have noticed that our usual post-a-day momentum has not been maintained for the month of June.
Along with the summer come a variety of events which make it near impossible to sustain this posting rate, such as our Summer Solstice Feast, my Grandfather’s wedding (pictured left), my birthday and a host of other commitments.
As such, Plutonica.net‘s posting schedule will change from a post-a-day to three posts weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. We’ll continue keeping you up to date with the latest in occult news, publishing announcements, reviews, and showcasing insightful essays and commentary from our guest bloggers, never you fear.
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By Psyche | June 27, 2008
The Globe and Mail recently ran an article in their Life section titled “How to set an unfair rule (yes, it’s acceptable)” about perceived double standards, a sentiment I encounter quite a bit among friends, co-workers and human beings in general.
The article, written by clinical psychologist Anthony Wolf, looks at the rules set for Continue reading »
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By Psyche | June 25, 2008
While John Whiteside Parsons is best remembered by mainstream science as the inventor of the solid fuel that helped make space travel possible, occultists know Jack Parsons as a devoted Thelemite, chosen by Aleister Crowley in the early forties to lead Agape Lodge, an Ordo Templi Orientis lodge in California.
Parsons’ Freedom Is a Two Edged Sword contains the bulk of published writing, but a new book has been released by Teitan Press, titled Three Essays on Freedom, which contains a new essay not published previously.
From the book’s description: Continue reading »
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By Psyche | June 24, 2008
Women of Power: The Woman As Magus, by Jaq D. Hawkins
CapallBann Publishing, 186163241X, (153 pp. including appendices, bibliography and index), 2006
“…most of the books on ceremonial magic continue to be written by men, despite significant numbers of female members existing in ceremonial magical Orders.”
Jaq D. Hawkins is the author of several books on magick. Her first, Understanding Chaos Magic
, remains among the most straightforward introductions to the subject. Her latest book, Women of Power, tackles the subject of the woman as magus, what it means and how it plays out in practice. Continue reading »
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Dr Brendan Cathbad Myers is the author of several books on radical Paganism and Druidry, his latest, The Other Side of Virtue: Where Our Virtues Come From, What They Really Mean, and Where They Might Be Taking Us
, will be published by O Books in July 2008.
A spiritual path is, among other things, a way of seeing the world. That is to say, a spiritual path is a way of understanding or interpreting our relationships with the many things, events, people, and places in the world. In most cases, the path will be expressed or configured by a logic of correspondences. In accord with this logic, the appearance of a certain animal, or plant, or weather event, or whatever, signifies realities beyond itself. Similarly, every spiritual path will have meditations, rituals, techniques, practices, and so on, designed to help the practitioner recognise those signs and read the messages they convey. The co-ordinates of the correspondences will vary in accord with language, culture, climate, geography, and other factors. They can grow ever more complicated and intricate, in order to accommodate an ever growing range of things and events in an ever-changing world. Continue reading »
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Regular readers will have noticed that our usual post-a-day momentum has not been maintained for the month of June.
