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Bought a 35mm camera!

Haven't been using one since college, when I studied photojournalism.  Exciting times!  There are things, activities, actions that bring you back to who you are or move you further away.  I sometimes don' t notice when I am less myself, except by contrast when I am more myself.  What are some things that make you more yourself?

Review- Lon Milo DuQuette's "My Life with the Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician"

There are some people who’s brains just fascinate me.  Even trickier to get a good look at a brain, when I don’t know them personally, and just know them by there writing.  Lon Milo DuQuette is on of those people who I would desperately like to know.  This book recounts amusing, frightening, enlightening, embarrassing anecdotes in a way that it seems like he is telling the stories to you in person over coffee. There are some fascinating cautionary tales, that still manage to make magick still seem amusing anyway.  He tells you the story of his life and how he came to be a magician, and then relates some stories of magickal events.  He adds enough details to these incidents that they are useful in seeing magick done by people in the current world, with everyday tools like cardboard to draw sigils on and clothesline rope to form the circle with.  I was also fascinated by the way that he can write about those events that are true and crystal clear in magick when you are doing them, but when you get done, seem crazy, even though you were there at the time.  This book was such a good read I couldn’t stop. 

If you like it, also read by him “Low Magick: Its All in Your Head…You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is”

A little introduction

I don’t believe I every really properly introduced myself, just started talking at you as if you would understand straight from the beginning.  I am writing to you as Greyer Jane, A Mad Scientist Probability Engineer Conversationalist.  I believe in living an experimental experiential life. Think of it as bizarre art motion study.  I started life off of center, as I expect most occultists and maybe everyone if we would just admit it starts.  I liked to figure out how to do things, or just absently speculate or observe or daydream.  One of my early learning treasures was being taught to read by my Nama, before I was old enough to go to school, reading a Koala book over and over again.  My first book that I chose for myself was a Guide to Birds of North America.  I was a champion daydreamer in class, since I already knew how to read, living my life in school in my world and in the classroom by protest.  I read everything I could find, whether it was approved of by parental types or not, and found out some mysterious things really early. I was abetted by helpful Librarians, who in a very real sense raised me. I had the notion that anything labeled as History was true, and so became fascinated with the accounts of the Witch trials in Europe, especially accounts of evidence given.  Some of the first occult books I can remember reading from our Public Library were Arthur Edward Waite’s “”Book of Black Magic” and “Illustrated Anthology of Sorcery, Magic, and Alchemy”, by Emile Grillot De Givry.  I also discovered The Greek Myths as recounted by Edith Hamilton about the same time; in particular I was charmed by the stories of Athena. I lamented that we no longer had equality, Goddesses in our religion.  My own family was very laissez-faire Christian, mainly going to Church or believing or talking about religion at all on Holidays.  I read and studied all I could about the Craft of the Witches on my own.  This being the 70’s /80’s in Kentucky, it was very hit or miss in the bookstores.  That taught me discernment among the information I did find.  I went away to college, ostensibly to study History, but really regretting that I couldn’t study Occult.  At Westertn’s library, I discovered “Drawing Down the Moon” by Margot Adler and found that in the modern world there were actual functioning adults who considered themselves Witches and worshipped Pagan Gods.  It was a revelation to me.  The Advent of Amazon books and the Internet let me now live in a candy-store worth of information, and has also brought me the pleasure of the company of other Witches.