The Placebo Magick Podcast

Magick is pretend... and pretending is powerful! On the Placebo Magick Podcast we explore how and why to cast spells, perform rituals, read Tarot cards, commune with fictional beings, and delve into ancient or pop culture mythologies to gain real psychological benefits and treat modern problems... all while remaining grounded in a science-based skeptical atheist worldview.

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Recent Episodes

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  Keeping Up with the Dumbledores (S2E14)

  
  The pressure we put on ourselves as mages to measure up to imaginary standards.
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  Magick for Problem People (S2E13)

  
  Using defensive and offensive spells to deal with problem people like your ex, your boss, or your parents.
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  Star Wars: Pop Culture Paganism (S2E12)

  
  Star Wars as a spiritual tool, a universal myth, and a contemporary religion. In Magick Mailbag: Patreon supporter Hamsa shares a ritual for honoring the complexity of new hobbies.
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  Magick for Procrastination (S2E11)

  
  Using placebo magick to lift the curse of procrastination. In Secret Spells & Riddlesome Rituals: Forgiving someone using a paper doll.

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Poetry and Blog Posts

Featured Poems

• Ordained

  When the poets of old

  wrote of star-crossed lovers

  they were partly right

  and partly wrong

  due to a tragedy of scope and scale

  and obsession with particular causality,

  working backwards

  or worse, forwards—

  while stars like these ordain the just-rightness

  of you and me, it could have been

  any …

• Invitation

  Lord, help me to pray

  less. Help my gratitude grow

  plainer, for smaller and commoner things.

  Help my exaltations

  dissolve into breath.

  And by grace, may I make peace

  where the shy wordless creature

  can squeak his petitions—

  small prayers for small moments

  when I break off two squares of …

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Featured Blog Posts

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  The Noble Peasantry: Reimagining Class

  "If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself."

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