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Why Black is Not a Negative Spiritual Color

Magical Notions celebrates the wisdom of the world’s nature religions, as well as the gifts that science can offer us along our spiritual growth journey.  Nature religions, unlike the Big Three, are not dualistic.  That means like nature, the cosmos is not divisible into good and bad or black and white camps.  While the Big Three find black an “evil” color;  nature religions recognize black as the color associated with both alchemical Earth and Water.  READ MORE

Why Self-Help is Not Conformity

There’s all sorts of ways things are defined, especially on the Web.  So for clarity read below to see what we mean by self-help, and why magical exercises allow you to build the most powerful personal toolbox our species has ever discovered.

I read something on the internet awhile back that continues to bother me.  READ MORE

Daily Exercises To Make Living Magical

Learn to use simple magical tools in your daily spiritual practice. This section contains brief articles with exclusive information/exercises showing how to use Alchemical tools to expand  awareness, hone  attention, unscramble your thoughts and balance your spirit.  Access our Alchemical Primer too ($2.99) containing 8 foundational magical exercises.  Once mastered, you can personally tailor and expand them.   While safe and deceptively simple, these core exercises are designed to give service for a lifetime.  READ MORE

Seasonal Features Archive

Here you’ll find all 4 Seasonal Features Articles.  Winter’s introduces the special use of attention; it teaches us focus and appreciation.  Spring’s introduces Alchemical Air and the special qualities of magickal concentration.  It teaches us to discover intellectual harmony and linguistic brevity.  Summer’s Feature clarifies the oft confusing concept of magickal Will and how it’s used to put us “in the flow”.  Learn exercises in awareness.  Autumn’s encapsulates the season of Alchemical Earth and teaches the vital use of grounding as a cleansing and connecting exercise.   LEARN MORE

The Secret behind the Law of Attraction

Want to learn the real secret behind LOA – The Law of Attraction?   Come read our thought provoking article that explains why.  CLICK TO EXPLORE

 

 

 

Where Science and Magic Meet

NLP is short for neuro-linguistic programming. It is how our brain functions to interpret our reality.  The programming part lets us know that how we interpret our reality, what that says about us and how that affects others are aspects under our control.  We are the programmers.  Our first step in making use of the science is to become aware of it.  Sound familiar?

The first step in making use of the magic(k) in our daily lives is to become aware of it.  READ MORE