Magick Matters

“The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t” by Julia Galef

"A better way to combat knee-jerk biases and make smarter decisions, from Julia Galef, the acclaimed expert on rational decision-making. When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls a "soldier" mindset. From tribalism and wishful thinking, to rationalizing in our personal lives and everything in between, we are driven to defend the ideas we most want to believe—and shoot down those we don't. But if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we should train ourselves to have a "scout" mindset. Unlike the soldier, a scout's goal isn't to defend one side over the other. It's to go...>>

“Cat Magick: Summoning the Spirit of Bast through Sigil Magick” by Anousen Leonte (Kindle ebook version)

"This is a small manual on evoking the Spirit Bast or Bastet according to some of the methods outlined in my other work, Evocation Through Sigil Magick. Bast is an ancient Egyptian Goddess known as the "Cat Goddess", as she was commonly represented as having the head of a cat and was the patron of cats. Here I give sixteen sigils for Bast, fourteen of which correspond to Bast as manifested through one of the Seven Hermetic Planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn), and two of which are sigils for Bast as a totality."...>>