| Kinesis |
Physical movement including quantitative, qualitative, and positional change; sometimes movement caused by stimulation but not directional or aimed. |
| Kinetic Energy |
Energy associated with motion. |
| Kirlian Photography |
A lenseless electrical photographic technique invented by Russian parapsychologists S. D. and V. Kirlian in 1939 and which can be used to record energy fields around living or once living objects and beings. Although the "Kirlian auras" vary with emotional excitement and intent, there is as yet no proof that they are the same as the "psychic auras" traditionally seen by clairvoyants. Time will tell. |
| Klutzokinesis |
Term invented by Arlynde d'Loughlan to describe the use of CPK to make people more clumsy (or agile) through interference with neuron or muscle activities. |
| Knowledge, Law of |
"Understanding brings control; the more that is known about a phenomenon, the easier it is to exercise control over it." |
| Koran |
The sacred book of Islam. |
| Ksana |
The "favorable moment;" a temporal Centre. |
| Law |
A statement of the ways phenomena seem to work. |
| Law of Magic |
A statement of the ways magical phenomena seem to work. |
| Laws, Law of |
"The more evidence one looks for to support a given law, the more one finds." |
| Law, Sturgeon's |
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| From science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon | "90% of everything is crud." |
| Left-Hand Path |
(1) The people we don't like who are doing magic. (2) Occultists who spend their time being destructive, manipulative and "evil" -- or at least annoying. |
| Levitation |
A psi talent involving the combination of PK proper with Gravity Control and/or Mass Control in order to produce floating effects. |
| Light Control |
An APK talent for the control of photons. |
| Linguistics |
The study of human speech, including the units, nature, structure and development of language(s). |
| Litany |
Long prayer or incantation with constantly repeating refrain. |
| Lodges |
Groups of magical and mystical workers similar to (1) the old European guild systems, with apprentices, journeypeople and masters, or (2) church organizations with rank based upon goodness or evilness. In America at least, these are usually tiny, incompetent and riddled with internal and external warfare and politics. |
| Lughnasadh |
Celtic fire festival beginning the third quarter of the year (or fall); starts at sunset on August 6th or 7th and is also known as Lammas, Apple Day, etc. Celebrated by most Neopagans as a major religious holiday. |
| Mage |
A general term for anyone doing magic, especially of the active kinds; often used as synonym for "magus." |
| Magi |
Zoroastrian priests. Later used for powerful magicians of any sort. |
| Magic |
(1) A general term for arts, sciences, philosophies and technologies concerned with (a) understanding and using various altered states of consciousness within which it is possible to have access to and control over one's psychic talents, and (b) the uses and abuses of those psychic talents to change interior and/or exterior realities. (2) A science and an art comprising a system of concepts and methods for the build-up of human emotions, altering the electrochemical balance of the metabolism, using associational techniques and devices to concentrate and focus this emotional energy, thus modulating the energies broadcast by the human body, usually to affect other energy patterns whether animate or inanimate, but occasionally to affect the personal energy pattern. (3) A collection of rule-ofthumb techniques designed to get one's psychic talents to do more or less what one wants, more often than not, one hopes. It should be obvious that these are thaumaturgical definitions. |
| Magic Circle |
A mandala-mudra-mantra combination used around an area where all or part of a ritual is to take place, so that an individual or group can more easily control the energies generated. |
| Magician |
(1) As a general term, anyone who does any sort of magic at all. (2) More specifically, someone who uses mostly active talents and rites for mostly thaumaturgical purposes. |
| Magician, Goetic |
A magician and psychic who frequently "summons up" various nonhuman entities (good, bad or ugly) in order to gain both occult and mundane knowledge, which is then used for thaumaturgical, theurgical and nonmagical purposes. |