There are three magical axioms I live by and that all of my students in Liberation Magic get to learn. Today, I want to share a really deep concept embedded in one of them. The axiom goes: speaking truth is the path to liberation. While it sounds kind of grandiose (and it can absolutely be applied to vast societal change, as in ‘speaking truth to power’), what's more practical for most people in their everyday lives is the ability to admit their own truth to themselves, and then speak it....
2 days ago • 2 min read
I've been thinking about forgiveness a lot lately. One of my students in Liberation Magic brought it up, I've been sitting with some things I'm hurt about myself, and a few friends have been wrestling with it too. I don't know what it is, it's just in the air right now. This question of: what does it actually mean to forgive? Forgiveness is usually understood as letting go of the bad blood between you and whoever or whatever wronged you. And that's pretty accurate! But I think there are some...
16 days ago • 2 min read
What if every single day of your life you woke up in the morning with the absolute power to make your life easier, more tolerable? Maybe even better and more enjoyable? Wouldn’t you take it? To me, that is what God is: the daily choice to live as if. To live as if love was the deepest influence in my life, to live as if meaning was embedded in everything that happens, to live as if I have power over myself and choose to do wonderful things with it. Many people who know me, know my commitment...
23 days ago • 2 min read
Last week I wrote that in order to get what you want, you have to want what you have. And one of you sent me a question so good I had to write a whole letter about it. The question was essentially this: what about people in abusive situations? Are you saying they should just accept it? No. And I want to be really clear about something, because I think this word — acceptance — gets misunderstood in the worst possible way. Accepting something is not approving of it. Accepting something doesn't...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Most people come to magic because they want something. Better health. More money. A hot lover. A one-way ticket somewhere warm and beautiful. They want to close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Of course they wanna have what they want, I mean, don’t we all? So they come to me and I teach them magic, which is the craft of transforming reality, and they go from a state of not having what they want, to having what they want. Voila! That part, the wanting and the working...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
It’s super amusing that to this day, deep into 2026, already a quarter of a century into the 21st century, people still wonder if witches “are real.” This question is not framed correctly. The question is not “Are witches real?”, but rather “Do I know what a witch is?” Same with magic: the question is not whether or not it’s real, it's whether I understand it. Same is true about climate change, btw, it’s real whether you want it to be or not - and I don’t want it to be real, but it still is....
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
On Monday night I went to the Goldman Environmental Prize ceremony. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s basically the Oscars of the environmental movement, where frontline grassroots leaders from all over the world finally get some recognition (and a chunk of cash to go with it) for doing incredibly hard, often dangerous work to protect the Earth herself. Because of my work in the environmental movement, I’ve been going to this event for years. But this year, for the first time, all six awardees...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
I’ve been thinking a lot about community this week, because my experience with the word “community” is that it’s quite romanticized. Folks think that community is when all the neighbors step out of their houses, watching the birds sing and the flowers bloom, holding hands and sharing a potluck. Which happens on occasion, and it’s kind of lovely. But the reality is that the problem with community is that it’s composed of humans. And humans… we tend to be incredibly difficult people. We tend to...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
I got a call last night from a woman who was completely unraveling. She’s been casually dating this guy, mostly texting, hanging out on occasion. And he called her, but she couldn’t take the call. So then he texted: “Hey, can we talk soon? Maybe I can stop by tomorrow.” And that’s what caused this poor soul to almost have a panic attack. She couldn’t take a full breath and her hands were shaking. The story she immediately told herself was: He’s coming over to break up with me. Obviously. Not...
2 months ago • 3 min read