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Why basic research methodology is important to magical knowledge, by Lupa

Recently on Livejournal I wrote a response to a post someone else wrote about proposed experiments to try to “prove” the objective existence of Otherkin. These experiments ranged from Kirlian photography to try to get pictures of phantom limbs, to…

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Meditation on the Five +1

– by B. T. Newberg How do we experience our world? …through touch, taste, smell, sound, sight, and introspection. The following meditation grounds a person deeply in these six foundations of experience.  One by one, awareness is brought to each…

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Walking the walk: Practice for naturalists, by NaturalPantheist

This article, originally written for Pantheists, seems just as applicable to readers of HP.  Do you engage in any of these practices?  Are there any you would like to try?  – B. T. Newberg, editor The Naturalistic Pantheist can follow…

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How can a naturalist emerge in Paganism?

As in the animation above, multiple currents move in the Pagan community, often in seemingly opposite directions. – by B. T. Newberg Tanya Lurhmann, in her anthropological study Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft, asks how an otherwise mainstream person can…

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Pagan ritual as an encounter with depth, Part 2, by John Halstead

In Part 1, I discussed how I try to create ritual that is an expression of the unconscious.  Today, I will explain how I try to maintain the connection to the unconscious after the ritual is created. The routinization of…

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