Presenting at Grimoire Bazaar 2024

Posted on May 10, 2024 | Leave a comment

On Saturday, May 18th I will be presenting at Grimoire Bazaar 2024, a magical exposition and emporium hosted by Leaping Laughter Lodge of Ordo Templi Orientis. This event is part of Art-a-Whirl, an annual art walk and open studio event held in Northeast Minneapolis. The exposition focuses on the intersection of art and magick with a program of amazing speakers. My talk is titled “Encoding the Mysteries” and discusses the encoding of meaning in art, magical operations, and everything inclusive and in-between.

Tickets for the program of talks can be purchased here. If you are local to the Twin Cities or in the area that weekend I invite you to come and check it out. In addition to the talks, the lodge will be displaying works by various outstanding artists and hosting a collection of fantastic vendors over the weekend. This is going to be an amazing event and is not to be missed. I hope to see you there!

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Presenting At Paganicon 2024

Posted on February 5, 2024 | 1 comment

This spring I will be presenting on Thelemic Magick at Paganicon 2024. My presentation is scheduled for Saturday, March 16th at 10:30 AM. The talk will be an overview of the Thelemic magical system crafted for a general Pagan audience.

Paganicon has grown from a small local convention of a few hundred people to an event that drew over a thousand attendees from around the country last year. I have presented there for several years running now, on Enochian magick, Ordo Templi Orientis, Thelema, planetary magick, and related topics. I also contributed a video introduction to Enochian for the online convention that ran over the pandemic.

If you plan on attending the convention, I invite you to come and check it out. It’s in the morning, but I promise it will be worth getting out of bed to see it.

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Vending At NW Indiana Pagan Pride Day

Posted on October 26, 2023 | Leave a comment

This Saturday I will be vending my books at Pagan Pride Day in northwestern Indiana alongside the awesome Embalmed Apple. Northwestern Indiana is still basically within the Chicago metro area, so if you happen to live around those parts this will be an opportunity to buy books from me in person. I will, of course, be happy to sign them for you. I will have both fiction and non-fiction titles on hand.

I rarely vend outside Minnesota, so here’s your chance to pick up books in person without braving the Arctic tundra in which I live. Yes, I know, Chicago is also cold – just not like the Twin Cities! It’s exciting for me to be vending in a relatively new environment, and if you’re local to the area I hope to see you there.

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The What Magic Is This? Podcast Interview

Posted on September 15, 2023 | Leave a comment

I recently sat down for a discussion with Douglas Batchelor and Cliff Wigtil on Enochian magick for the What Magic is This? podcast. It was a good introductory discussion that covered how the system was received, how it works, and some of the nonsense about it in that has seeped into popular magical culture. If you’re interested in Enochian but not sure where to start, this discussion should prove helpful in that regard.

Enjoy!

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The Thelema Now! Podcast Interview

Posted on April 28, 2023 | 1 comment

Last week I sat down for an interview with Harper Feist for the Thelema NOW! podcast. We covered some of the material in Mastering the Thirty Aires and my general approach to magick as a practical science involving the activity of consciousness and quantum information. The interview is available here.

Enjoy!

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Published in Scavenged Rituals Volume One

Posted on April 27, 2023 | Leave a comment

My article “The Field Ritual” has been published in Volume One of the new occult zine Scavenged Rituals. The article is an expanded and updated version of this one that I published on Augoeides back in 2016. The Field Ritual is a general or foundational ritual that combines elements from the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram and Lesser Ritual of the Hexagram according to the “field model” that I teach my magical students.

The zine also includes a number of other excellent innovative articles covering aspects of ritual practice from various other contributors, with a fresh look and high production value. I already am looking forward to Volume Two!

Scavenged Rituals does not appear to be available from any of the big online platforms at the time of this post. You can order a copy here.

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Presenting at Paganicon 2023

Posted on March 16, 2023 | Leave a comment

This weekend I will be presenting on Thelema and Ordo Templi Orientis at Paganicon 2023 here in the Twin Cities. My presentation will be on Sunday, March 19th at 2:45 PM. The link to my talk on the Paganicon schedule is here:

https://paganicon2023.sched.com/event/1F6bo/thelema-and-ordo-templi-orientis

Last year I presented on Enochian magick at the convention with a talk featuring material from Mastering the Great Table. This year I will be presenting to support Leaping Laughter Lodge rather than to promote my own writing. If you are curious about Aleister Crowley’s what spiritual system Thelema entails or what we actually do at the local OTO lodge, this will be a great opportunity to get those questions answered.

Hope to see you there!

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Praxis Behind the Obscure Interview

Posted on October 11, 2022 | Leave a comment

Yesterday evening I sat down with Ryan at Praxis Behind the Obscure to discuss Mastering the Thirty Aires. We covered some of the differences between the modern approach of scrying Aethyrs and the original function of the Aires, which was to serve as a powerful system of political and zodiacal magick. We also digressed into various topics related to Thelema and magick in general.

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MASTERING THE THIRTY AIRES SEPTEMBER 22ND!

Posted on September 19, 2022 | Leave a comment

MasteringTheThirtyAiresFrontBackAll of you have been so patient with me on this, and believe me, I appreciate it. It’s finally time.

Mastering the Thirty Aires will be released September 22nd. Not next year, this year. Like in three days. If you want to pre-order from Amazon, you can do so here. This is Book III of my Mastering Enochian Magick series and covers the system of the Aires or Aethyrs, the final major component of the Enochian magical system received and documented by John Dee and Edward Kelley in the 1580’s. As with the previous two books in the series, I stick with attributions drawn from the Dee diaries themselves but also include various modern techniques such as pentagram and hexagram rituals within the context of a straight-forward ritual template.

The original system of the Aires or Aethyrs was not intended to serve as a sort of scrying map for “rising on the planes” and the like. It certainly can be used in this way, and Aleister Crowley did so to great effect as recorded in The Vision and the Voice. The original intent was for the system to be a complex and highly powerful system of political magick. The various Aires are linked to particular Parts of the Earth, and by opening the corresponding Aire followed by the corresponding Part, the magician can influence events within that region.

The system is interlinked with zodiacal attributions, and thus can be thought of as the zodiacal portion of the Enochian material, with the Heptarchia Mystica comprising the planetary portion and the system of the Great Table the elemental portion. Thus, with the release of this book, my Enochian series now covers the full set of fundamental qualities employed in the practive of the Western magical tradition.

Again, thank you all for hanging in there. It’s been a long road getting here, and I hope you all will find that it was worth the wait.

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The Magick.TV Interview

Posted on August 8, 2022 | Leave a comment

Yesterday I sat down for an interview with the folks at Magick.TV. We talked about my experience with Enochian magick, the approach I take to teaching it in my books, and the differences between how common ritual forms are traditionally taught and my operant field method.

My thanks go out to the folks at the channel – it was a fun interview and hopefully one that will prove informative to viewers as they develop their magical practices.

Enjoy!

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