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New book by Brendan Cathbad Myers
Monday, July 14th, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Plutonica.net guest blogger Brendan Cathbad Myers, author of six books to date, has a new book coming out July 25th, 2008 from O-Books. Its full title is: The Other Side of Virtue: Where Our Virtues Come From, What They [...]
Magical correspondences and social values
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Dr 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 [...]
Definitions of magick
Monday, April 14th, 2008Most “definitions” of magick fail define it concretely, they suggest more than they reveal, which seems to be in keeping with the glamour that’s been cast over the term.
Of course, one of the most enduring summations is Crowley’s often paraphrased:
“Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.”
On the [...]
Love is the Law: Philios, True Will and the Great Work (Part II)
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Kara is a second generation chaote hailing from just north of Portland, OR. She’s been published in Konton, Key23, participated in the Infictive Hyperwiki and Occulterati podcast, and now graces us with her presence here on Plutonica.net as our first guest blogger.
This is Part II of a two part post, click here for Part I.
Philios [...]
Love is the Law: Philios, True Will and the Great Work (Part I)
Monday, April 7th, 2008Kara is a second generation chaote hailing from just north of Portland, OR. She’s been published in Konton, Key23, participated in the Infictive Hyperwiki and Occulterati podcast, and now graces us with her presence here on Plutonica.net as our first guest blogger.
This is Part I of a two part post, see tomorrow’s post for Part [...]
Too popular?
Friday, March 21st, 2008When someone asks me what they should read to learn magick, after sussing out their specific interests, a Crowley recommendation shortly follows. Crowley’s books remain among the most lucid ever written about the subject, yet, strangely, often seem to be the most underappreciated.
One of the more absurd excuses for feigning disinterest in Crowley [...]
Reflecting Pools
Monday, March 3rd, 2008I heard Jordan Peterson speak at the Royal Ontario Museum a few months ago; he was awkward, but very knowledgeable. I can’t recall the topic, but when it was mentioned he wrote a book on the psychology of myths in religion, I took note. That book was Maps of Meaning, which I’ve recently begun reading. [...]