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Greetings Friends & Visitors! Welcome to my Free Stuff Page.

I call it mine because the articles offered here will not belong to my company,

Mercury’s Marvels, and I will be the sole copyright owner. You are welcome to

download them for free, pass them on, but kindly respect my authorship.

Since we have possibly never met, an introduction is in order.

Being born into a magickal heritage, I never had to search out a world view

opposed to dualism, separatism or, all the negative ‘isms’ they fostered. I

was not forced to worship a wrathful God, a sexist God, or told that my inherent

evilness required rescue by a savior God. Instead I grew up with what is now

considered a post-modern perspective.

My world view comfortably accommodated acknowledgement of the universe’s

mysteries with appreciation for my culture’s attempts to understand those

mysteries. For me religion and science were two paths developed to explain the

same issue: the mystery of life and how we humans navigate that mystery. I call

that mystery Magick – or Magic, as the little bot hates spellings that its

programmers failed to anticipate!

Magick is not opposed to science or to faith; rather it is the ancestor of both. It

isn’t even bothered by atheists, yet why that is will drag me off onto a huge tangent.

Holding a magickal world view does not make me moronic; it means that I

acknowledge my own ignorance and respect my elders attempts to overcome

that ignorance – be they physicists, Buddhists, biologists, Jesuits, Muslims,

philosophers, Kabbalists, diplomats, or my local grocer.

Needless to say, my perspective was completely at odds with my American culture.

Respecting my ancestors, I studied, wrote and taught in Magick for 30 years while

maintaining social invisibility. My formal education or cover as it were, was in the hard

sciences. As for Magic, I developed my own system based on my studies and cross-

cultural experiences. Being a fan of Einstein, I quested after a magickal Unified Field

Theory, and think I discovered it. I was happy.

Then I encountered a Mexican shaman who set me on a 14 year course of study with

Native American medicine people. I learned something Western Magic has forgotten.

While it is true that our (we magickians) prime directive is the acquisition of knowledge –

what we discover is utterly useless unless we use it to serve the cultures we reside in.

Magick is a lifestyle, not just a collection of theoretical viewpoints, private catharses

or creative styles of worship.

Being on the cusp of Crone hood, I have been around the proverbial block several

times, on several continents. I know what I know and do not fear what I have yet to

learn. I also realize that it is time to share what I have gathered with those who are

curious too. I dislike blogs, abhor Facebook and believe that knowledge is not

superficial gossip. It needs to be considered, savored, given rein to deepen, get

questioned and above all else, evolve. Emails, chats and Google searches just

don’t permit that. Hence, this page is my experiment.

Below are my thoughts on, perspectives in and experiences with relevant topics in

modern Magick. The articles are free for download. I do not expect you to invest

in buying my works (published books, articles or other writings) on Film-Magic,

Tarot Cards, Alchemy, Kabbalah or my fiction pieces (vampire icons and fairy tales)

without first deciding if we resonate. Downloads will come as emails, after you click or

pay, then you simply open them.

I will do private consulting on referral basis only, and my fee is $60./hour. I also offer

Magick Classes TBA when my time permits. For more on my background, please refer

to my Resume

Christine Carmines

San Francisco, November 2010