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The Hellgate Chronicles – book review

by Jack Barrow | Oct 24, 2022 | Magic, Magick, Occult, Pagan, Paganism, reviews

written by The Hon. Hugo C StJ l’Estrange. Edited by Ramsey Dukes, with an appendix by Lionel Snell It could be argued that, this year, I’ve been breaking promises, but I feel that such moral turpitude puts me in good company as I write this blog post. For my new...

Are IT professionals guilty of magical thinking?

by Jack Barrow | Feb 15, 2018 | Magic, Science, Technology, Thoughts and Observations

In my coming travelogue (too long in the pipeline) I discuss two ways of looking at and dealing with the world, that I describe as rational and irrational approaches. The irrational approach is often described as magical thinking. Wikipedia defines magical thinking as...

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

by Jack Barrow | Jun 1, 2015 | Fiction, Magic, Magick, Occult, Publishing, reviews, Writing

Back in 2004 I remember seeing Susanna Clarke on TV promoting her book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, a book about two magicians in England at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. I recall that the book was inevitably labelled as Harry Potter for grown-ups, which was...

Reality, atomic science and the Pope

by Jack Barrow | Jan 8, 2014 | General Silliness, Magic, Magick, Pop Philosophy

This is something I wrote when I was recently asked to contribute to the Huffington Post Weird News, but apparently it was too weird for them; then again it’s not really news. It’s just a bit of nonsense really. According to physics we might be living in a...

The state of ceremonial magic in the twentyfirst century

by Jack Barrow | Dec 27, 2012 | Magic, Magick, Occult, Paganism

A few years ago I went to a magical conference having heard about this fantastic event populated by proper magicians in a spectacular location. I say proper magicians because I’m drawing the difference between magicians and the sort of people you get at many...

A personal appeal from Jack Barrow

by Jack Barrow | Jan 2, 2012 | Fiction, Magic, Magick, Occult, Pagan, Publishing, Writing

Okay so New Year, new marketing push. It’s always been my plan to spread the word about the Hidden Masters and the Unspeakable Evil via the pagan network. This is my core readership but the book is clearly attractive to non pagan readers as they see it as...
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