Over the past weekend, I was called home to attend a family health emergency. Within moments of stepping into the ICU, a patient, and a stranger, passed away. This was the first time I had ever been in the immediate proximity of someone passing, and though I have dealt with loss in the past, this experience opened a valve of some kind, and I find myself thinking about the ways in which the esoteric converge around the concept of death.

Esoteric work can require vast amounts of information, confusing arrays of symbols, practices that seem incomprehensible or wedded to a particular belief system that you may not share or understand, and above all, the time to eventually practice once you have figured out everything else. The good news is, that we can approach mediumship in a far less overwhelming way, and while some systems or concepts may resonate more than others, mediumship does not require a specific belief or practice to “work.” Mediumship is more flexible than many mediums would like to admit.

Delve into the fascinating world of séances, where individuals seek to communicate with spirits. This comprehensive guide provides an in-depth exploration of séance history, its significance, and step-by-step instructions for hosting a successful séance.

Automatic writing is excellent for: achieving complexity in spirit communication, getting that “channel”

open (not just during writing, but all the time), achieving honesty, re-framing your thoughts and re-raining your patterns of thinking.

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Dan and Kat Eckhart have been named Sykesville's Official Paranormal Experts by Mayor Stacy Link of Sykesville in a public proclamation on Sunday, September 17th. The proclamation recognizes the value of the Eckharts' work as paranormal investigators in the town of Sykesville and the surrounding region.

Sigil magick, an important practice within chaos magick, is a form of magick that involves the creation and manipulation of symbols or sigils to bring about desired outcomes or change in the individual's life. The history of sigil magick can be traced back to the medieval period where it was used by individuals to gain power and control over their circumstances.

I have a complicated relationship with “manifestation.” Too often, the discourse around manifestation is a discourse of wish fulfillment that implies the “lack” of something that is yet to BE manifest.

When people talk about “manifesting” more money, a significant other, or any item… they often are implying that the item they hope to manifest does not yet exist. Perhaps they believe it is waiting/trapped in “vibrational escrow” or that they must achieve the “state” that is a “vibrational match” for the item they hope to manifest.

Let’s make something very clear at the outset. Magick is complicated, tricky, and more of an art-form than a science. It requires a certain “way of being” that is difficult for many practitioners to uncover — simply because we live our daily lives in non-magickal ways.

Peter Carroll, writer of the classic chaos magick book Liber Kaos, once described the early stages of the magical journey as re-learning “how to play.” When a child plays, they become involved in the story they generate purely from within their imaginal space, and act it out with toys, figurines, imaginary friends, or natural elements. To the child who plays the act of play is psychic, but also REAL.

I had the exciting experience of going to Barnes and Noble the other day and finding it in a state of transition and relative disarray.

Entire sections were in the gradual process of being packed away and replaced with what I assume would be holiday merchandise. Red library carts haphazardly appeared throughout the store, ferrying tomes to and fro from location to location.

This past Saturday, Kat and I provided tarot readings at the Baltimore Country Club for a baby shower event. The event was a beautiful celebration, nestled into an indoor/outdoor space overlooking a vast golf green with gold-orange autumnal foliage framing our view. It’s in moments like these when I really take stock of the fact that Kat and I get to do this… for a living.

After years of magickal development, coaching, and exploring the internal state, I have come to the conclusion that we - all of us - can have whatever they “want” in life.

If someone were to ask me what the dumbest possible use of one’s time might be in the year 2022, the answer, without hesitation would be watching the news.

I would follow this promptly by saying that reading the news, anywhere (Meta, Reddit, your preferred social media platform, Google alerts, etc.), is probably the second biggest waste of your time (reading — even reading trash — is still reading something).