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Welcome To Isaac & Phaedra Bonewits 
Real Magic School

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  Welcome to Real Magic School!

 

And thank you for joining us in what may well become the best source of magical and psychic training on the Internet! Between us, your Headmaster Isaac Bonewits and Headmistress Phaedra Bonewits, we have more than 70 years of magical and psychic experience. This is not, as Phaedra likes to put it, “one year of experience 70 times.” We have spent those years learning everything we could find about magical, psychic, spiritual, artistic, and “supernatural” stuff. We’ve both been teaching others, almost from the beginnings of our careers. That teaching has taught us as much as it taught the students!

At Real Magic School, you’ll have an opportunity to learn everything you always wanted to learn about magical, psychic, and spiritual ideas and methods. Our focus is on the practical needs of Neopagans and other polytheists, but we’ll cover other cultural and religious approaches too. We may even have some stuff to teach modern parapsychologists (scientists who study psychic experiences) -- and their debunkers -- about the complexity of what they are studying.

Isaac is the author of several books on these subjects, including the classic beginner’s book, Real Magic: An Introductory Treatise on the Basic Principles of Yellow Magic. Phaedra has co-written a book with Isaac, Real Energy: Systems, Spirits, And Substances to Heal, Change, And Grow. These two books, including the updated edition of Real Magic that we are now writing, will be the core of what we teach here.

Other writings by the two of us, including never-before published materials and excerpts from new books, will see the light of day here at Real Magic School for the first time. In addition, in the months and years to come, we will be inviting people we know and trust to create new lessons for you based on their writings and experience.

The structure of Real Magic School can be thought of as similar to a college. Topics will be divided into Departments and students wishing to earn a Certificate of Magical Arts and Sciences will need to finish a minimum number of courses in each Department. Introductory (non-credit) classes will be available for each Department and will be free to all visitors at RMS. For-credit classes will require students to become subscribers and will include beginning to advanced materials on each subject covered. The introductory and beginning lessons will be written for students in their mid-teens and older, with later material becoming more challenging. We hope to have plenty of stuff to say to experienced adults as well!

As we open our virtual doors on February 29th, here are the Departments we envision:

1.      Magical and Ritual Arts

2.      Psychic and Divinatory Arts

3.      Mundane Arts and Sciences

4.      Metaphysical and Magical Traditions

5.      Philosophy and Polytheology

6.      Pagan Studies

7.      Magical and Occult History

8.      Clergy Training

9.      Weird Studies

All classes will be numbered with four digits. The non-credit Introductory classes will all start with zero, while the for-credit classes will start with a one, two, three, etc., to indicate the complexity level or year. The second number will indicate the Department and the last two numbers will be for individual classes. So the Introduction to the Laws of Magic class, for example, would be Course #0101, while the first year’s full class on the Laws of Magic could be Course #1102.

Most lessons will end with a multiple choice test, which you must pass in order to move on to the next lesson. Some advanced classes may have essay or performance tests in addition to or instead of multiple choice ones. Intermediate and advanced courses will list suggested pre-requisite classes. If a student fails such a class, however, they must take the pre-requisites before retaking the course they failed.

In addition to the lessons that will be available here at Real Magic School, we will have a chat room, a private messaging system, and occasional live video chats with the Headmaster and Headmistress (which will be recorded for downloading as podcasts).

Although we’ve never done anything like this before, and we know it will take a few months to get off the ground and flying, we are very excited about the possibilities offered by this adventure. Welcome aboard our jet-propelled brooms!