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Real magick scares people as much as it fascinates them. Where does the power come from? Is it real? Is it safe? What are the limits? Can I learn to perform magick myself?
Everything You Wanted to Know About Magick (But Were Afraid to Ask), [Available at all booksellers August 8th, 2012] answers all these questions and every other question you may have about how to perform your very own magick.
Let’s get started by answering some of the most common questions regarding magick, my book, and myself as your guide through the world of magick and the occult.
 The chakras are energy centers running up and down the center of our bodies. The word itself comes from the Sanskrit “wheel” or “turning.”
The chakras can be “worked.” This means through breath-control and visualization they can become more enlivened with magickal energy.
| Chakkra |
Location on Body |
Location on Tree of Life |
Color |
Name to Chant |
| Sahasrâra |
Top of head |
Kether |
Violet or Bright White |
Eh-heh-yeh |
| Ajna |
“Third eye” |
Daleth/Gimel |
Indigo |
None[1] |
| Vishuddha |
Throat |
Daath |
Blue |
YHVH El-Oh-Heem |
| Anahata |
Chest |
Tiphareth |
Green, Yellow or Gold |
YHVH El-oh-ah V’Dah’Aht |
| Manipûra |
Gut (navel) |
Peh/Samech |
Yellow or Red |
Mah-nee-pur-uh |
| Svadisthâna |
Groin |
Yesod |
Orange or Red |
None |
| Mûlâdhara |
Base of Spine/ Feet[2] |
Malkuth |
Red or Black |
Adonai Ha-Aretz |
What is magickal energy?
Magickal energy is any type of energy used for a specific, intended purpose. This includes not only energy raised through our chakras, but also emotional energy such as being excited, anxious, or angry so long as it is used in a fashion congruent with our intent. More on this in the magick book and in future blog posts.
[1] There are no traditional Golden Dawn God names associated with either Ajna or Manipura.
[2] The Mûlâdhara Chakra is considered to be at the base of the spine. The Golden Dawn interpretation is that this chakra moves down to the feet when standing.
 Magick and Hermeticism have always been syncretic, and I follow in this tradition. The benefit of my twenty-two years as a magician is granted to my readers by cutting out the dross. I present only the gold of magick and Hermeticism. My teachings are based on the very best sources in magick and Hermetic literature including, but not limited to:
- Plato
- Rumi
- John Dee
- Paracelsus
- Eliphas Levi
- Israel Regardie
- Aleister Crowley
The grand theme of magick and Hermeticism is to sift through the wisdom of the past and to consistently bring the most psychologically up-to-date methodology to bear on increasing the quality of life for all humanity. Everything You Wanted to Know About Magick (But Were Afraid to Ask) brings modern sensibility to an underlying Hermetic philosophy that has worked for hundreds, even thousands, of years. This book also includes interesting and pertinent quotes from everyone from Hunter S. Thompson to Dr. Seuss.
No. If you follow the instructions in my magick book you can only have beneficial results for yourself and those around you. In fact, I would say it’s dangerous and evil to not perform magick, since without it you may miss your birthright to godhead. With magick, you empower your life with energy, joy, and languorous desire. With magick, you become completely in tune with your most spiritual goals as well as your most carnal desires. Magick dissolves the age-old paradox of spirit vs. flesh and unifies them into a workable system that is satisfying, empowering, and sacred.
I’ve been there myself. In Chapter 8, I discuss the seeming paradox of the god of magick, Thoth, also being the god of science and rational thought.
Not when you start at the beginning and learn the essentials step by step, just as I will teach you in the following pages. This book assumes no prior knowledge of magick. All that is required of you is to read the chapters and follow the exercises and rituals as best as you are able.
My hope is that by the end of the book that you will not only be able to understand any other literature on magick, but that you will be able to create your own effective magick rituals for any area of your life that you feel is lacking.
The subconscious mind has access to everything we are not aware of consciously and is therefore in a better position to manifest our goals than our conscious mind, which is generally ego-ridden, anxious, and short-sighted.
Magick works by giving more control to the subconscious mind. Bypassing the constant chitter-chatter of our conscious mind, magick plants seeds deep into our psyche where they can grow unhindered by bad attitudes and negative thinking.
In other words, by giving the subconscious mind a clear intent through a magick ritual, we are then able to let go of our desire and allow it to manifest. While we are keeping busy “in the moment,” the subconscious mind will be leading us towards our desired goal without interference from the conscious mind.
 In concrete terms, the benefits of learning magick are too numerous to list, but here’s a few advantages of using magick:
- Understand and maximize the full potential of your mind and body.
- Learn rituals and meditations to attract wealth (Chapter 4), health (Chapter 6), and any other earthly delight under the sun or moon. I personally stumbled into magick to help me with love (Chapter 7).
- Increase your communication skills, wit, and rapport with others.
- Vastly increase creativity and healthy spontaneity.
- Acquire exceptional self-esteem, confidence, and sex appeal.
- While traveling your own unique path in magick, you will acquire a deep-rooted sense of your own place in the world, increasing the meaning of your life, granting greater satisfaction in all you do.
- Perhaps most important of all, you will understand your heart’s desires much better. You might even learn that it isn’t sex (Chapter 9) you wanted at all, but just a clear connection to—dare I say it? Something a little bit spiritual.
Magick is for everyone. It is for the butcher, the athlete, the painter, the musician, and the banker. It is for the lawyer, the doctor, and the mountain man. Magick is about taking your life, your art, your love and your career to the next level, all the while increasing your joy and satisfaction with who you are and what you spend your time doing.
 Everyone has problems and everyone wants answers, so why turn to magick to make lasting life changes? For starters, magick is rooted in humanity’s ancient past. Magick includes concepts, teachings, and symbols that resonate to the deepest core of our subconscious minds. This is wisdom clearly articulated by Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, which was then filtered and built upon by generations of mankind’s greatest thinkers both in the East and West.
Magick works because it is the most up-to-date psychology that exists—and it does so by drawing on the traditions of our ancient past, not by denigrating them.
I am a great friend of science; however, it disappoints in its narrowness of scope and its inability to produce lasting harmony or growth in humanity. Science is the blundering missionary bringing antibiotics to the local villages. While that is certainly useful, it is no replacement for the wise and beneficent tribe shaman who takes care of the emotional and spiritual needs of the villagers, curing psychological aliments as well as physical ones. Magick is the epitome of effectiveness when it comes to changing people’s lives and making them happy.
Magick is about taking charge of your spirituality now and putting it to good use in your life where you can see, taste, and feel the changes it produces. Magick is more than a religion or philosophy as it takes from all philosophies and all religions—whatever works the best. That is the spirit of magick and the spirit of Everything You Wanted to Know About Magick (But Were Afraid to Ask).
The magick in Everything You Want to Know About Magick (But Were Afraid to Ask) most certainly works. I present you with only the very best concepts and techniques gleaned from my twenty-two years of magickal practice and study.
The meditations and rituals in this book are drawn from the most respected sources in magick, including Hermeticism, the Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley, Wicca, and various schools of shamanism. Combine these teachings with a modern view of psychology and the human mind, and you have the key to unlocking magickal results like never before.
There are many schools of magick, under a variety of terms, but Western magick finds its roots most strongly situated in Hermeticism, the religion and philosophy of the Hellenistic culture. This term frequently comes up in this book as Hermeticism has strongly influenced modern magick both directly and through the many authors and magicians it has inspired, including John Dee and Aleister Crowley, both influential magicians we will soon be learning more of.
Magick is the science and art of using the subconscious mind to effect change in the material world. In more specific terms, magick is using conscious stimulation (i.e. rituals, symbols, gestures, chanting, lighting, incense, sex, etc.) to harness latent powers within the subconscious mind (i.e. gods, genii, intelligences, angels, daemons, etc.) to make changes in our bodies, our minds, and the world around us.
Magick teaches us to get what we want.
Magick also teaches us to understand what it is we want. One is the Wand, and the other is the Cup, famous symbolic implements of magick and witchcraft. The other elements, of Air, and Earth are their children. Air symbolizes our mind and intellect, and Earth is where all our dreams are manifested.
And there is another…above and beyond them all…permeating all…the essence of all: Spirit.
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