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How hard can it be?
Well for a corporation very hard. But fortunately my solution to this problem that seems to be vexing everyone lately doesn’t rely on a corporate sponsor, and places the future of web search in OUR hands.
My vision of search is that each website takes a small share of responsibility, indexing [...]

I’ve neglected my blog a little lately as I’ve been working a lot on getting the KIAwiki updated.
In doing so I realised we actually have quite a collection of books in the wiki library, including five of Austin Osman Spare’s books, and various alchemical manuscripts.  Including the Monas Hieroglyphica of Dr John Dee.
This project is [...]

Recently I was asked for my views on vengeance.  Quite why I was asked I don’t know, since I don’t actually know the individual concerned in person.  Such is the nature of the internet!  At the time I was busy with something and decided this was far too delicate a subject to rush off a [...]

Most of my political action is anarchist and I try avoid too much action involved in influencing government or getting involved in party politics since I tend to see polical parties as authoritarian gangs vying for power and democracy as a kind of system of rules that let different gangs assume control without as much [...]

In my previous article I discussed Baphomet’s possible origins in the Arabic names Bahumed or Bahamut, the latter of which takes its name from the biblical Behemoth and its form from a chymera of the biblical Behemoth and Leviathan, with the connection to the mysteries of the hippopotamus and the elephant that this implies. [...]

Lolita has posted a beautiful account of how we have been celebrating Diwali on her kiamagic.com blog.

Another interesting video whilst I get round to finishing the next instalment of the Baphomet series (almost done):

Can’t quite remember where this came from now. I think someone shared it on some other site a few days ago.

Whilst you wait for me to write the second part of my series on Baphomet, you might like to check out this video of Robert Allen Bartlett discussing laboratory alchemy.

You may also like to read this review of his book, Real Alchemy by Psyche on Spiral Nature or the review on Pagan Book Reviews. [...]

Following from meeting with the goat we met at Cheddar Gorge recently, I have been inspired to examine my relationship with Baphomet, my past with this Deity and where our relationship may go from here. As a part of this examination I have been inspired to look into the history of Baphomet. Such [...]

Just a quick note because I am testing a new feature on kiamagic.com that will allow users to include their external blog activity in the activity river using a special trackback url. This isn’t ready yet completely as I have some security settings to add, but it’s nearly ready so I don’t mind announcing [...]