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Ejaculation and orgasm are not the same thing. To many men this may sound incomprehensible, but I’ve been amazed to discover that not only is it true, it’s also easier than I expected to separate them from each other. For solid evidence that coming does not entail spurting, a little human anatomy comes to our [...]

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Mainstream culture adopts esoteric ideas only in ways that reflect its assumptions. From the gnostic idea that reality is a prison constructed by a malevolent demiurge, for example, we get a film like The Matrix (Wachowski, 1999). The film falls short of its apparent gnosticism because, on closer inspection, reality and the matrix are pretty [...]

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I listened to a radio interview with magickian Alan Moore, and my heart sank when he said: ‘I have never in my life seen an objective truth’ [1]. And it sank further when I encountered similar sentiments in a book by the writer and professor of religious studies, Jeffrey Kripal. I loved Kripal’s most recent [...]

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9th September, 2011. The temple space was Alan’s empty flat in Crouch End. The removal men had cleared it that morning because Alan and his wife were moving to Wales. We put on our robes and burned incense of Abramelin. We had a ouija board and an iPad running a browser. I banished the space [...]

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Illness

I’ve been ill and it has changed the way I look at things, because I can’t escape the feeling it has had a metaphysical dimension. I wish it were only a matter of microbes and symptoms, but I suspect that this feeling ill, week after week, has a meaning. This troubles me as much as [...]

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We mustn’t judge There are two kinds of metaphysical propositions: implicit and contingent. The contingent type enter experience when some condition is fulfilled. The implicit type are already available to experience, although our understanding may prevent us from realising them. Only the implicit variety is valid, in the sense that what is not already available [...]

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The following are my responses to questions from a psychology student, who is currently researching people who claim to have experienced awakening. How is your life different from before, after your experience of enlightenment? Not much at all to an external eye, I’d guess. What’s your mood like? How is your mood different from before, [...]

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On its surface, the Alone With Ghosts project was a charity fund-raiser with a paranormal theme, but it was my secret aim to combine ghost-hunting with serious meditation. Partly for practical reasons, because how else would I make it through the night without becoming (1) bored, or (2) uncontrollably terrified? Apart from the weird noises [...]

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Rudolf Steiner’s method for retrieving past lives is deceptively simple. It’s this: meditate on a chosen experience over three subsequent days and on the fourth day (all being well) an impression will arise from a past life that accounts for the experience chosen from our current life [1]. Of course, it’s not as easy as [...]

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A few nights ago I was woken by the hallucinatory sound of a barking dog. I’d been waiting almost two years for that yelp, ever since I’d performed a magical ritual to get myself abducted by aliens. Now, this will all sound weird – but try to keep up with me, because what the bark [...]

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