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Phil Dick Boulevard: Precognition, Karma, and the Unconscious @ The Nightshirt. Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. — Carl Jung.

Phil Dick Boulevard: Precognition, Karma, and the Unconscious @ The Nightshirt

Theomagica - A Formula for Magical Success - in 7 Steps. I believe it was back in 2014 when I first shared this formula.

theomagica - A Formula for Magical Success - in 7 Steps

Since then I continued to come back to it every couple of months. It stood the test of time well - at least for my own magical practice. It also proved highly relevant to my current research on St.Cyprian and how to work with magical saints. Thus I am sharing it again - with some updated perspective and explanations. Let me start by addressing a concern you might raise: Of course any kind of formula bears the risk of doing precisely that - of turning our practice into something formulaic, rather than living and breathing. A formula is meant to provide orientation. This formula is not looking at the symphony nor at the specific rite you are aiming to perform, it is looking at the necessary foundations for any magic to achieve proper results.

What Is an Essential Question? What is an essential question?

What Is an Essential Question?

An essential question is – well, essential: important, vital, at the heart of the matter – the essence of the issue. Think of questions in your life that fit this definition – but don’t just yet think about it like a teacher; consider the question as a thoughtful adult. What kinds of questions come to mind? Hate Trump? You Should Have Voted for Ron Paul. I see a lot of angry and depressed liberals these days despairing about what has happened to their world.

Hate Trump? You Should Have Voted for Ron Paul

The promised coronation of the Queen of Chaos was cancelled and we got (insert insulting nickname of choice) instead. Just the other day I saw a spokesperson from Resist Fascism! Or some similarly named group screaming at Fox News viewers that Trump is not only Hitler (old news) but that he will in fact be worse than Hitler. Worse than Hitler? #PrayForTrump: How to Combat Black Magick Rituals Intended to Harm Trump and His Supporters. Witches are planning “a mass binding ritual to be performed at midnight on every waning crescent moon until Donald Trump is removed from office.”

#PrayForTrump: How to Combat Black Magick Rituals Intended to Harm Trump and His Supporters

They tried such rituals against Trump during the election, and obviously failed miserably. Labradorite Crystal - Want To Awaken Your Magical Powers? Want To Awaken Your Magical Powers?

Labradorite Crystal - Want To Awaken Your Magical Powers?

Deeper Down The Rabbit Hole. Narcissism Works at First, But Not for Long. The question of popularity is more complex than you might initially think.

Narcissism Works at First, But Not for Long

There are certain ways that individuals make friends, keep friends, and build real, emotional bonds with the people around them the most. A new study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin set out to determine how people go about making and friends, and what characteristics tend to keep friends around the longest. The study measured the popularity of first-year college students by organizing them into 15 study groups. Kondratiev wave. A rough schematic drawing showing growth cycles in the world economy over time according to the Kondratiev theory.

Kondratiev wave

In economics, Kondratiev waves (also called supercycles, great surges, long waves, K-waves or the long economic cycle) are supposedly cycle-like phenomena in the modern world economy.[1] The period of the wave averages at fifty, and ranges from approximately forty to sixty years, the cycles consist of alternating intervals between high sectoral growth and intervals of relatively slow growth.[2] Unlike the short-term business cycle, the long wave of this theory is not completely accepted by current mainstream economics, although there is empirical support for it.

[citation needed] History of concept[edit] Kondratiev's ideas were not supported by the Soviet government. The Increasingly Unhinged Russia Rhetoric Comes From a Long-Standing U.S. Playbook. For aspiring journalists, historians, or politically engaged citizens, there are few more productive uses of one’s time than randomly reading through the newsletters of I.F.

The Increasingly Unhinged Russia Rhetoric Comes From a Long-Standing U.S. Playbook

Stone, the intrepid and independent journalist of the Cold War era who became, in my view, the nation’s first “blogger” even though he died before the advent of the internet. Frustrated by big media’s oppressive corporatized environment and its pro-government propaganda model, and then ultimately blacklisted from mainstream media outlets for his objections to anti-Russia narratives, Stone created his own bi-monthly newsletter, sustained exclusively by subscriptions, and spent 18 years relentlessly debunking propaganda spewing from the U.S. government and its media partners. Intuition Is The Highest Form Of Intelligence. I Want Friends, Not Community / My Comrades.

Communities .. are best defined in terms of food relationships – we are asking who eats whom.

I Want Friends, Not Community / My Comrades

–Marston Bates Damn near everywhere I go, I hear talk about community. It’s apparently something everyone needs, something to which everyone should be willing to give herself. In big cities, it’s easy to ignore these calls to belong, since it’s hard for the unarmed proponents of community* to intrude personally into other people’s lives. I now live in a rural area. These local communitarians make what they mean by “community" very clear in their complaints about those who don’t conform to community standards and their attempts to enlist others against these anti-social elements. 'Meditating mice' reveal secrets of mindfulness training. By Sam Wong Can a mouse be mindful? Researchers believe they have created the world’s first mouse model of meditation by using light to trigger brain activity similar to what meditation induces.

When Terence McKenna First Smoked DMT. Written by Graham St John (PhD, Anthropology) When in 1967, aged sixteen, Dennis visited his older brother in Berkeley, California, Terence stated that he knew what the philosopher’s stone was. “It’s sitting in that jar right there on the bookshelf.” Inside the Resurgence of Discordianism – the Chaotic, LSD-Fuelled Anti-Religion - VICE. If liberals are going to defeat Donald Trump, they need to stop being ignorant about politics - Palmer Report. Jeff Sessions was confirmed as Attorney General tonight, just as we all knew for certain he would be the minute he was nominated.

There was no way that three Republican Senators were going to vote against one of their own Senate colleagues. And with the Democrats lacking a majority, Sessions was a lock. We knew that weeks ago. Top 13 Exercises to Strengthen Your Back and Reduce Back Pain (Including Detialed Illustrations) Most people in the United States will experience back pain at least once during their lives. How the Trump regime was manufactured by a war inside the Deep State. Welcome to Trumpland: Obama’s Legacy. Analysis: The Kremlin Has "Buyer's Remorse" Over Trump Victory, See His Eventual Fall As Catastrophic To Russia. 1) Trump’s ouster, Kremlin insiders argue, is bound to unleash a virulent and bipartisan anti-Russian campaign in Washington that could be catastrophic to Russia’s geopolitical interests and could drastically undermine Putin’s hold on power.

American Anarchists Join YPG in Syria Fighting ISIS, Islamic State - Rolling Stone. On the front lines of Syria with the young American radicals fighting ISIS. Lucid Dreamers Found To Produce The Fastest Brainwave Frequencies Ever Recorded – Collective Evolution. Untitled. From the Archive: President Trump hosts Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu this week with the new U.S. administration expected to fall in line as so many “out-foxed” predecessors have, as Morgan Strong described in 2010. By Morgan Strong (Originally published May 31, 2010)

Bizarre Encounters with the Weird in the Middle East Wars. War can be frightening in more ways than one. In addition to the fighting and death there also often come reports of things that evade conventional explanation, which often are overshadowed by the more covered events of the war at large. Carl Schmitt’s War on Liberalism. How places can influence the mind – and vice versa. The Pull of Confusion and Seven Pitfalls to Avoid on the Path. The Pull of Confusion and Seven Pitfalls to Avoid on the Path.