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 | 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 | 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...
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...
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...
