Kadmus
I am a professor of philosophy, a writer, teacher, practicing occultist and dedicated pagan. I’ve taught classes for every year of the Salem Witchcraft and Folklore Festival as well as for the Cauldron Black and the Astro Magia Astrological Magic Conference. My new book, Learning from Legendary Practitioners: A Necromantic Journey into History, Myth, and the Practice of Magic will be published by Hadean Press and my previous book True to the Earth: Pagan Political Theology was recently released in a second edition.
I first began pursuing magic and mysticism for the same reason I began studying philosophy. I wanted to know what Reality was and was like, I wanted to get at Truth, and I was deeply dissatisfied with the standard answers (both the Catholicism of my upbringing and the materialist scientism of the dominant culture) that I was being provided with. From a very young age I always had an instinct that existence was richer and stranger than we generally thought. This is not, by the way, to imply that I have found either ultimate Reality or Truth. If anything, it has become clearer to me that the enigmas, questions, and a committed investigation of them, is the most important thing and that final answers or ultimate experiences are not possible or, really, desirable.
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