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...
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...
by Jack Barrow | Feb 6, 2018 | Current Affairs, Media, Non Fiction, Paganism, Politics, Publishing
They are saying that as of today, 06 February 2018, the Berlin wall has been down one day longer than it stood, or something like that because I’m not checking the figures. I grew up with the Berlin Wall, having been born in 1963. I thought of it as a permanent...
by Jack Barrow | Jan 10, 2017 | Pagan, Paganism
Back in the early nineties, when I was too shy to speak up for myself, I had a go at producing a magazine that we called The Philosopher’s Stone. Having been to one or two Talking Stick events at the Black Horse in London some years before I had the idea of...
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...
by Jack Barrow | May 1, 2015 | General Blog, Non Fiction, Pagan, Publishing, Thoughts and Observations, Travelogue, Writing
I’ve been up all night, or at least I feel as though I have, my body clock’s all out of kilter but it’s May Morning, the sun’s shining and the year has begun. I swear I saw some cow parsley in the hedgerows this morning although it’s not normally out until end of May...
