Seriously, fuck that guy. Who is he to make me question my deeply held ethical convictions!? What a prick!I am becoming more and more sympathetic to the ethical arguments for vegetarianism, now that I've actually been exposed to them properly.  I don't know that I'll be able to pull off a full transition, but I'd already been considering an attempt ( Read more... )

I am selling off my occult library. I'm still in the process of listing them, but this link should work even before I'm done listing them:
http://shop.ebay.com/illuminatibooks/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686

I hate it when being honest to a friend may kill a friendship.

Part 2: Longer but funnier.

http://orbitalteapotlaser.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-fool-this-mortals-been-part-2.html

This isn't the first actual post on my new blog, but it's the first one that really matters. More to come as I get it typed up.

http://orbitalteapotlaser.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-fool-this-mortals-been-part-1.html

I have the 2003 Limited Edition (not Deluxe, just limited), the first with an index. It is autographed by Christopher Hyatt and numbered, although I'm at work and can't recall the number offhand. I no longer need it, and am considering selling it. Any offers?

1 Cocktail glass, preferably the kind with a round base and then a column that tapers out. (My glasses come from the Houston Aquarium restaurant and BAR, if anyone actually cares. We have 8 of them, largely due to poor judgment ( Read more... )

Re-reading Hermetic Magic, I got to the part where Dr. Flowers explains his progression of vowels up the tree, leading to the Crown (Stephanos, heh), and that was frustrating me because I don't like the shape of his tree, and I don't like the path his vowels take, either. Either late last night or early this morning I figured out a way to use my ( Read more... )

I have been getting back to the basics of magical practice, refreshing my memory and my skills, and reconsidering various things. I started out very basic, going back to doing the LBRP every day when I woke up and before I went to bed, but it bothered me. I switched to the Gnostic Pentagram Rite from Peter Carroll, but it's too abstract. While I ( Read more... )

Paperback of the first version of Perdurabo, Richard Kaczynski ( Read more... )