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In Agrippa’s universe there were three levels of reality. These were the elementary, the celestial and the intellectual.

If you don’t have the ocean waiting to crush you, or a puma stalking you through the forest, you have to manufacture your own sense of stakes, of generative urgency.

Starting a disagreement by asking, “Can we debate?” sends a message that you want to think like a scientist, not a preacher or a prosecutor—and encourages the other person to think that way, too.

Under normal circumstances the Daemon and the Eidolon sit watching the film in total darkness. They sit next to each other but only the Daemon knows what is going to happen. On top of that the Eidolon is totally unaware that its silent neighbour is even there. However, under certain circumstances the Daemon can communicate with its lower partner.

In post-structuralist literary theory, meaning is a central concern. By meaning, I am not referring to some grand purpose for an individual or for humanity, but rather the simpler and more prosaic concept discussed by linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. The connection between a signifier and its signified, between a word and its referent, is the issue.

The magic of creating communion with our holy daimon is one of the most powerful forms of serving life

Every life is full of garbage—wasted time, failed endeavors, broken relationships, bad decisions—to be offered at that strange altar of this night goddess, the place where three roads meet, an uncanny haunt of ghosts and magic. If you don’t honor this night spirit, what do you do with all this trash? You probably just take it literally, associate