Real Magic School Closed

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Isaac Bonewits

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Isaac and Phaedra Bonewits are sad to announce that Real Magic School is now closed. It was a wonderful experiment but it turned out to be too much for our time commitments to handle. We have arranged with the Grey School of Wizardry to take transfer students from RMS. It is likely that Witch School International will also take transfer students. We highly recommend both schools.

We apologize to everyone, but especially our lifetime members, that the life time of Real Magic School was so short. In the meantime, if you have subscriptions to Real Magic School via PayPal, please cancel them immediately.

It just turned out that there were not enough hours in the day to do what we needed to do, to do justice to the school.

We should make it clear that the wonderful folks at Witch School International covered all the direct expenses of running Real Magic School. We simply couldn’t afford to spend time writing new lessons when the income from the school did not match our (or WSI’s) needs.

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Upcoming Gigs for July 2009

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Isaac Bonewits

Phae and I are getting all packed up to attend a special all-day event in Ottawa, Ontario this Saturday, July 11th: Fire in the Hearth. Isaac will appear with Dr. Brendan Myers, author of The Other Side of Virtue, Dr. Shelley Rabinovitch, Professor of the Magic, Witchcraft and Occult Phenomena Course, at the University of Ottawa and author of An’ Ye Harm None: Magical Morality & Modern Ethics, and Linda Demissy, Senior Druid of Silver Fox Grove, ADF, and author of Linda’s Book of Pagan Chants.

The next week, from July 21st through 26th, Isaac will be presenting at Starwood XXIX, the East Coast’s largest Pagan-friendly festival, in Sherman, New York. Isaac will discuss Wiccan Ritual Design and Performance, the Laws of Magic, and Neopagan Community—Strengths and Weaknesses. He will also provide Tarot readings, sign books, sing, and otherwise carry on. Starwood is a world unto itself with scholarly presentations, powerful magical rituals, mind-blowing parties, and the biggest bonfire you’ve ever seen—if you live east of the Mississippi, go there!

From July 31st through August 3rd, Isaac will be a Guest of Honor with Philip Carr-Gomm of OBOD and John Michael Greer of AODA at the House of Danu’s Druid Gorsedd in Monterey, California. This looks to be a magnificient weekend of family-friendly Druidic disputation and entertainment—if you live west of the Mississippi, go there!

Note that we no longer haul around boxes of books, CDs, and jewelry to events, so if you’d like your book, music CD, or lecture tape signed, you’ll have to buy it and bring it with you (though some items may be on sale from ACE at Starwood).

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Emergency Healing Energy Needed

Posted on June 19, 2009 by Isaac Bonewits

This is Daniel James Hansen, whom I knew and married as Rusty Elliott back in the 70s. He has a very severe infection of his right arm and shoulder muscles going down to the bone. Current location (June 2009) is Hayward California. He is extremely psychic, so feed healing energy gently.

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This is a life-threatening illness that may have triggered a stroke. Please help, as this is too big for one healer to handle.

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Blogs Falling in an Empty Forest

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Isaac Bonewits

That’s the title of an article in today’s NY Times, that “coincidentally” appeared at the same time I was writing yesterday’s post about this blog. It explains a bit and puts this blog’s lack of activity into perspective.

According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled.

While I never expected to make any money or become famous with this blog, (key blogger motives, according to the Times), I have been disappointed by the lack of reader comments. Yesterday’s snarky comments over at the Wild Hunt blog are actually an ironic reprise of a pattern I’ve seen: we get more responses from readers of other blogs than we do from our own first-hand readers.

Indeed, perhaps the major attraction of the social networking sites for me has been the actual feedback and conversation from others that appears almost instantly whenever I post anything serious or silly. If I want to post longer bits, I suppose I should use Live Journal more.

So now I ask you, should we bother continuing Views from the Cyberhenge or let it die a dignified death? After all, you can always follow us on Facebook and MySpace, etc.

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