This site explores the re-emergence of magic spirituality in the West after its original form, Ancient Druidry, was suppressed: first by the Roman empire and then by Christianity. Magic spirituality is the supporting ideology behind witchcraft.
Information about ancient Druidry and the latest runic text dictionary and translations can be found at https://www.druidwisdom.org/
(January 1, 2026) The magic path begins by looking at feelings with a sense of wonder. Where do feelings come from? Why do we have feelings while robots and ants do not? Why did evolution connect our brains to it?
Feelings are conscious experiences like the senses of vision, audition, touch, smell, and taste. Conscious experiences do not fit into modern day physics. Therefore, they represent a non-material realm, that is, a spiritual realm.
This means that all emotions and feelings belong to the spiritual realm, even those considered negative. What makes an emotion good or bad is how it is used.
In an important clue to their function, conscious sensations are involved in goal setting. What feelings rise to the surface as factors for evaluating a goal depends on our brain wiring, both learned and genetic. Thus "Know thyself" is an ancient magic path commandment known from its inscription on the temple of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi in Greece.
(January 1, 2026) The existence of two realms (material and spiritual) suggests fundamental division exists in the fabric of reality. Reality's most fundamental principle is causality which, as it turns out, has two ways to change the state of a system (see illustration).
Changes in the material realm are based upon energy, therefore changes in the conscious spiritual realm are based upon changing the spring constants (physical constants). The two realms could then interact with each other in the brain via certain complex neural proteins which change shape. Changing the electro-magnetic force constant between atoms would change its shape as would changing its energy level with heat and enzymes.
Other spiritual manifestations would also be possible outside the brain involving various molecular vibrations.
(January 1, 2026) Emotional contagion is when our feelings affect others and the feelings of others affect us. We are all interconnected within some sort of invisible network. Emotions will tend to circle around and come back at us. Here are a few sayings from history:
Magic is the use and control of emotions aimed at affecting our social/spiritual network. Learning to control and focus those conscious emotions is a major part of magical training. We are all magic crafters, because we are always generating emotions which affect others.
(January 1, 2026) The most tangible benefit of following the magic path is developing emotional and spiritual awareness of yourself and of your surroundings. You begin to see things you never saw before. Seemingly random encounters happen more often in your favor (assuming you have beneficial emotional channels open and not negative ones). Finally, you have a chance of finding your spiritual family who have the same emotional/spiritual resonances as you.
Consequently, the magic path is not about learning to do a ritual and then expecting some immediate supernatural result. That rarely works. Instead it is a continuous practice and discipline. Only then will surprising things begin to happen.
(January 1, 2026) The following lists the beliefs of most magic crafters:
(January 1, 2025) The techniques of witchcraft and energy work have mostly been reconstructed from personal experiences motivated by the memory that something like it once existed in the past (The Old Ways). The Old Ways are now being revealed with the first successful translations of runestones and ogham stones written by the Neolithic farmers.
Despite the suppression of the intervening years, today's magic spirituality can easily been seen as a continuation of the past, only updated due to our different spiritual needs and due to our deeper understanding of reality. The spiritual needs of the past centered around physical survival instead of about peace of mind like today. They were most worried about having enough food. Their paradigm of reality consisted of one realm with all changes on earth caused by divine powers originating up in the sky which were then transported down to earth. Today we view reality as composed of two realms, the spiritual and the physical, each able to change on their own.
The Neolithic farmer culture eventually merged with the Indo-European culture. These people with their chiefdom led raiding culture began their invasion of Europe around 3500 BCE. The Indo-European Bell Beaker culture reached Britain around 2400 BCE just after the building of the last phase of Stonehenge. They (as the Myceneans) did not conquer the Minoans until 1450 BCE. Yet their rune writing continued to spread.
Translation at: https://www.druidwisdom.org/druid-rune-text-translations/etruscan-texts-800-490-bce/etruscan-perugia-stone-500-bce
Photo from at https://www.umbriatourism.it/en/-/national-archaeological-museum-perugia
This is one of the earliest known examples of a pentacle. This was part of an exceptional group of Etruscan art illegally excavated and recently seized by the Italian police. These had not yet been laundered into the international markets. These were taken from archaeologically unexcavated sections at the Pulfina hypogeum (underground tomb complex) discovered in Città della Pieve in Umbria, Italy 2015.
Photo by Emanuele Antonio Minerva with the Italian Minister of Culture (used under fair use provision). Online at: https://cultura.gov.it/comunicato/27006
Some popular witchcraft specializations are:
(November 30, 2025) Witchcraft is a historical term for Magic Based Spirituality which was originated by its persecutors.
The main themes of this video are (with a little added commentary by myself):
