My latest on Substack touches on a question that came up in the most recent session of the current Sinister Forces course regarding the Oath of the Abyss.
The usual freedom fighters will howl, but stronger regulation may be one of the few remaining ways to stop Elon Musk and the wider billionaire robber-baron class from using these platforms to manipulate public discourse and distort democratic processes.
If you want to maximise the chances of a spell succeeding, keep it to yourself. Don’t announce it. Don’t post about it. And when it works, resist the urge to boast.
This is doubly true for curses and hexes. Silence is part of the operation.
Dean Radin on Rogan feels so fucking icky.
It feels like every single one who felt, for a while at least, "one of us" was in fact always "one of them".
Maybe it's just my bias. Maybe.
The UK’s proposed social media ban for under-16s is a good thing. The past decade has shown that many parents are unwilling or unable to set meaningful boundaries, while social media corrodes attention, judgment, and mental health across every age group.
This weekend I’ll be speaking at the TABI Summer Conference in York, closing the programme on Sunday with The Athanor of Thoth: Using the Thoth Tarot as an Alchemical Engine in the Holy Guardian Angel Experience.
MAGICAL SCOTLAND 2027 🏴☀️
From 30 May to 5 June 2027, join me in Edinburgh, Rosslyn Chapel, the Highlands, Loch Ness and the Isle of Skye. After France in 2024 and Joshua Tree in 2025, it's time to leave the screen behind and go back on the road together.
RSVP:
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In-person tickets are now sold out, but streaming tickets are still available for those who would like to join us online.
The art and deception of journalism: at a cursory glance, you would think "witchcraft" is a 100k business, when in fact it was a 100k wedding with a $25 good-weather spell thrown on top.
2 sessions in & getting so much out of Marco Visconti’s & Peter Levenda’s Sinister Forces course.
It’s so much more beyond the books & opportunity to ask Marco & Peter questions. I have new insights into the history, how it influences noise we live in today & how to filter out noise of no value.