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on the elven glamour of human politicians

Posted on December 8, 2017 | 1 comment

In some fantasy stories elves and fairiesare nice and friendly and very positive being, but this is not the case in a lot of actual traditional fairy stories. They often are rather sinister and sometimes even dark deceptive beings that you don’t want to meet, which exhibit a kind of deceptive magic called their ‘glamour’. The reason why it fascinates me is are creepy parallels with our own world here (as is the case with a lot of motifs in legends and fantasy stories). Continue reading →

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Some postmodern paradigm-shifting: from C.S. Lewis to chaos magic and back…

Posted on October 18, 2014 | 9 comments

Today we’re going for a trip to explore some paradigm shifting. We will revisit some of the oldschool ’emerging church’ topics, but that will only serve to better be able to venture far into grounds where both angels and academics … Continue reading →

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On the magic of willpower and exercising strong faith

Posted on July 12, 2014 | 6 comments

As you can guess from the title in this post we go back to a controversy no-one is asking for and resume my (theoretical) explorations of the occult (unofficially called the occultmergent series) and its intersection with Christianity.  More specifically … Continue reading →

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On magic, miracles, and the differences between them.

Posted on June 3, 2014 | 7 comments

I know I’m not posting here very regularly lately. This new post is part of what could be seen as ‘the occult-mergent series’, in which I will look at the ‘supernatural’ world (even though I disagree with that very word … Continue reading →

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