This is rather disturbing but may be happening with many subjects, not just the occult. An herbalism teacher of mine who has authored over 20 books was approached by a publishing company and asked to ghost write an herb book for an MD who would be the author. She had numerous problems with the project so of course declined. She said there is a lot of erroneous information re. herbs getting published lately, probably because of this trend to use ghost writers.

Interesting article.

Just saw this over at TWH ... and honestly, even Christians should be concerned about this. 

Multi-state legislative agenda may impact rights of minority faiths

Looks like everything went well on the upgrade ... please let me know if anyone runs into any problems or oddities.   

I will be upgrading the forums late in the day on Sunday 12/29.

It looks like this upgrade may have some extensive changes and if I run into any issues, the forums may be down for a while, though I doubt for too long.

If the forum is down you can check our twitter page ... I'll post any issues and completion estimates there.

Hey all.

Got a link from The Wild Hunt the other day and thought this blog entry was interesting:

A disturbing trend in published books marketed toward Pagans

It occurred to me yesterday that we didn't have a formal Privacy Policy listed on the forums ... so I added one.  It's right next to the TOS and About pages.  Bottom line?  We don't share anything with anyone unless we have to by law.

Oh, and that brings up the issue of Facebook; we've deleted the forum page there because FB just hasn't shown that they are at all concerned about their users' privacy.  It sucks for letting folks know what's going on, and we'll think about how to handle that in the future, but for now all should be good with the forums for a while.

Thank you! 

Hey all!

OK, the forum maintenance is now complete.  We've been moved to a new server and now can boast 'https' status.  This will help all of us stay more secure and should also allow us to appear higher in search engine rankings (which may or may not be a good thing).

While we were getting things back in order we did a little housekeeping and updated the forums to the latest software version.

Hope you all put the "down time" to good use!   

I don't have much by way of advice to offer you, really. But the card Heirophant here could mean that the deity in question would like to make itself known to you using His/Her most traditional aspect or way of relating. Just my $0.02.