Category: Essays

The Forms of Magic

V0001876 Johannes Faust. Etching after Rembrandt, 1651/52. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images [email protected] http://wellcomeimages.org Johannes Faust. Etching after Rembrandt, 1651/52. Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

An introduction to Western magic

Saint Buddha

Shakyamuni Buddha. Tibetan, eighteenth century. Mineral paint and ink on canvas. National Museum in Warsaw. Wikimedia Commons. Source/photographer: cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl

How the Awakened One became a Christian saint

Penetrating Magic

Lower Calf Creek Falls, Escalante, UT. Photo by David Ulrich

Diving into the well of creativity

To Worship the Life Force

Kafir witches's dance, Africa Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images [email protected] http://wellcomeimages.org Kafir witches's dance, Africa Half-tone Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The essence of African religion

Magic and the Third Force

Steffan and Sofia in Mysterian, circa 2003

A professional magician ponders a universal law

City of Gods

A representation of the orisha Oxumaré, 2019. Photograph by Marina Criscuolo. Wikimedia Commons. Author: Marina Criscuolo. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

Possessed: A Santeria ceremony

A Vast and Mysterious Reality, by Tracy Cochran

Buddhanath Stupa, Kathmandu. Wikimedia Commons. Photo by Tevaprapas. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

Walking in the footsteps of the first Buddhist women

The Mystic Vision of Hildegard von Bingen, by Mary A. Osborne

Meister des Hildegardis-Codex. Wikimedia Commons. The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

The great saint follows her heart to the Divine

Believing in Nothing, by Peter Coyote

Photograph by Pinkasem Muisri. Unsplash.com. Photo by Pinkasem Muisri

Sage advice from a welcome voice

A Moment of Another Reality, by Lillian Firestone

Photograph by Dyu-Ha.

Encountering Henrietta Lannes