Why the Best Spiritual Practice Is the One You Invent Yourself

I call it “anarchic magick”

Prometheus, cosmic rulebreaker

On a winter afternoon about 10 years ago, I climbed to the top of a stone tower on the banks of the Charles River in Weston, Massachusetts. The Victorian-era oddity was built in 1899 to commemorate a Viking settlement that some believe Norse explorer Leif Erikson founded on the banks of the Charles around 1,000…