.... Chapter 12 is entitled "Discovering Magic". Chapter 13 is entitled "How to Invoke Magic". Way back in the dimly-remembered, ancient 1990's.... By discovering reality, we discover magic. We interact with reality directly and..., otherwise every other attempt at magic is merely flailing about blindly, ...happen to you when you discover magic. Something extraordinary does happen. You simply...

...29, 2008 9:54 AM Subject: Re: Real magic seven part one, patterns of ritual ...> I'm not going to diss the ancient Celts and their Druids any further. I ... biases and fantasies. Modern Druids are not ancient Druids. There is no direct, unbroken, ... of the Druids. Searles O'Dubhain A Magic Spout, what next from the Great Con Man ??? Magic ! Con Connors has a photo of a "spout" ...

... in squalor and heavy debt to their "nobles" nor does it in any way support your claim that my statement largely concurring with Caesar was a projection of modern values on an ancient culture.  Caesar may not have been very complimentary but you have not established that he was "spouting propaganda in the worst way" nor that he and I were relying on 20th ...

... a lack of bias should we ever run across it. I'm not going to diss the ancient Celts and their Druids any further. I think they were just fine, even if they did have ... years ago. Our reconstructions of them contain our own modern biases and fantasies. Modern Druids are not ancient Druids. There is no direct, unbroken, unadulterated line of Druidism that has existed from the distant ...

... lived in squalor and heavy debt to their "nobles" nor does it in any way support your claim that my statement largely concurring with Caesar was a projection of modern values on an ancient culture. Caesar may not have been very complimentary but you have not established that he was "spouting propaganda in the worst way" nor that he and I were relying on 20th Century...

... Gauls lived in squalor and heavy debt to their "nobles" nor does it in any way support your claim that my statement largely concurring with Caesar was a projection of modern values on an ancient culture. Caesar may not have been very complimentary but you have not established that he was "spouting propaganda in the worst way" nor that he and I were relying on 20th Century standards to ...

... no evil". If he, instead, said "to act according to tradition laid out in these 350 ancient tomes, with some modification based on inquiry and experience" or some other such thing, then I ... Of course you would have. Unless he had actually posted the entire text of the "350 ancient tomes", you would have insisted that his answer didn't provide any actual, specific objective information....

... (and wishful thinking)? Why? If you drop the 'ancient oral tradition' claim, does the philosophy lose its value?... or the personal (ego) satisfaction of doing something "ancient"? The Aryans who went East, into the cattle business... read the French have already published a collection of "magic spells and herbal recipes" gleaned from these ancient texts. This is the real McCoy, not some ...

... partly, inspired by God(s)? Searles opened the door by stating that his practices include "do no evil". If he, instead, said "to act according to tradition laid out in these 350 ancient tomes, with some modification based on inquiry and experience" or some other such thing, then I would not have continued to press him for information. By using a word that has subjective ...

... what is meant by that word? Searles opened the door by stating that his practices include "do no evil". If he, instead, said "to act according to tradition laid out in these 350 ancient tomes, with some modification based on inquiry and experience" or some other such thing, then I would not have continued to press him for information. By using a word that has subjective meanings, and ...