Belief
The esoteric, the spiritual, and the endlessly inspiring
‘Summoning Up the Silver’: Can You Really Magic Money Out of Thin Air?
If spiritual practitioners can truly do magic, why do they need to work at all?
Dispatches: The Prayer of the Heart in England’s Nazareth
If you are looking to turn down the dial on London noise, then welcome to Little Walsingham…
Light Reading: Myth-Busting Mormonism in London
I’m used to barging the charity fundraisers, but I have less experience being accosted by Christians. This is London, famously both a Godless and a multi-faith place. An urban oxymoron…
Light Reading: An Ashram in Bromley
Bromley is not the sort of place you expect to find God. Its focal point, The Glades, is a classically soulless Zone 5 shopping mall…
Magic, Might, and Mockery: A Brief History of Conical Hats
Tall conical hats have been fashionably worn as symbols of power and magic. Elsewhere and at a different time, these hats have been used as a method of humiliation for disgraced criminals. How and why have so many different cultures attributed different meanings to the same shape?
Watkins Books: A Spell of Black Magic
Tucked away on a side street near Leicester Square, Watkins Books’ strange history is disguised by the same respectable green-fronted exterior as...