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Wheel Guided

THE Climb OF THE Court, A GUIDED VISUALIZATION:

Julia Phillips & Rufus Harrington

Move forward certain you are seated comfortably, and take advantage of a few moments surreptitiously, allowing your argue and build to place. Now, guide your eyes, and allow these images to build in your imagination:

It is dark, and a indifferent wind is blowing. You are standing within a good forest, and can runniness the story hardheaded and hostile bottom your feet. You crookedly up, and see the stars, but exhibit is no Moon. Tirelessly, you seat. You greet a spicy despondent you, and turn and crookedly high-class your shut in. You full that you are standing upon the edge of a clearing; at its medium burns a fire, with an old man seated former it. He is appearing in worn animal skins, and has crave threadbare hair which blows about in the wind. On the far quality of the payment you see the jaws of a refuge, and standing former it is the good image of the Horned God.

You turn back and crookedly downhill the grass, looking towards the eastern horizon.
For tonight is the documentation night: the dark time former the Sun is reborn at the Bitter Solstice, and you seat persistently for the main sunlight of the daughter Sun.
At have space for you see a melodious glitter of light upon the eastern horizon, and as the sunlight of the daughter Sun strengthening in the first light sky, you greet the spicy of a new born love unhappy. You turn and crookedly back cater-cornered the payment as an old woman walks out of the refuge transfer a daughter child in her arms. The Horned God reaches forward and caresses the child's bravery, and subsequently the old woman takes the child, and sits by the quality of the old man at the station fire.

As the Sun continues to strengthening in the sky, you know that you peculiar witnessed a very moving mystery - the mystery of genesis - the genesis of the Sun, and of the Son.
You chuck the payment, and slog back downhill the forest to your own holiday home, where you rosy your-self at the fire, for you are cooled downhill following your crave vigil in the opposite direction the darkest night.

Kick out-of-date, and despite the fact that the story is still hardheaded and hostile, and the nights crave and dark, you are au fait of a interest group in the add zing to, and know that winter is ability to its guide. One night as you are about to go to bed, you greet a tinkling of bells from sweet within the forest, and are unusually visual towards their spicy. As you make your way downhill the night, a waxing Moon lights your path, and at have space for you find yourself like exceptional in the payment. You crookedly towards the refuge, and see that a moving red camouflage hangs cater-cornered the jaws, and that the old Crone, and marginal woman stand former it. The other woman is younger than the Crone, but audibly not a insignificant, and you individually full that this is the Crone's own daughter.

As you stand and consider you full that the bells are person shaken by the Crone, and that she and her daughter are mutedly singing an ancient song: a phone which calls to the Virgin to incline, and to come forth as the messenger of winter's end, and spring's beginning. The two women be as long as up, and with a proof steps forward, rend the camouflage, tearing it away, significant the Virgin standing secure upon the curb. She is purity and innocence: a emerald image - blindfolded, clothed in white, and transfer in her hands a garland of neutral tawny plants, proof of the ever-increasing powers of the Sun.

The Father and Crone be as long as speak to, and among their hands despondent the Virgin, they redistribute her out of the refuge. They lead her towards the fire, and subsequently the Father speaks surreptitiously to her. You see the Virgin nod. The Crone subsequently seems to ask her a problem, and despite the fact that you cannot greet the involvement, it seems she has conversational exactly, for the Crone nods, and reaches up to remove the blindfold. The Virgin blinks her eyes, and stretches. She begins to leap slowly around the fire at the medium of the payment, full of the joy of her provocation, and in the knowledge of her power and likelihood as a woman.

Self-contained, she dances the leap of life; of blood and waters at large abundantly, no crave set and still. You turn and chuck the payment, spoils one have space for crookedly at the Virgin dancing carelessly around the fire. As you slog back downhill the forest, you runniness an answering power moving downhill the land, and you are au fait that the Mop the floor with is beginning to come in the flesh bottom your feet, and on the grass you see the tawny blooms which are the promise of glowing, and the end of winter.

Day by day the Sun now grows perceptibly stronger: the land has awakened from its rest with the fire leap of the Virgin, and now the Sun itself approaches the magical time of the Equinox: the time for instance day and night are corresponding, but for instance light is in the ascendant. The day of the Equinox dawns neutral and astute. The wind is orderly, and all around you are signs of glowing. From sweet within the forest you greet the spicy of a horn, and sweet within your interior self you are au fait of a stirring react to its enable. You make your way fast downhill the forest; as you stroke the payment, you full that you are not separately, for all the creatures of the forest are gathered upon the edge of the payment.
They too peculiar answered the attract of the horn.

At the medium of the payment stands a uncovered emerald man, his movie sparkling with reflected shaft. He is blindfold: former him stands the old man, and despondent him, the good image of the Horned God. It was he who blew the horn. The old man dances around the insignificant - slowly, a tightfisted typeface of leap - quaking a roll along and chanting mutedly. He stops. The Horned God whispers to the insignificant, who nods his head in answer. The old man subsequently asks the insignificant a problem, and following listening to the answer, nods, and reaches up and removes the blindfold.
The insignificant blinks, and stretches. The Horned God hands him the horn. He puts this to his maw, and a proof draft echoes downhill the forest. Next a jeer the insignificant leaps away participating in the forest, followed by all the natural world and animals, for he is Peer of the realm of the Wood. You runniness a stirring in your own blood, and former you full what has happened, you find yourself chasing the image of the insignificant on his mad scuttle downhill the forest. It is a loutish and carefree leap, and you runniness the answering echo from the grass, and from the Mop the floor with, as they are warmed by the ever-increasing Sun. The Descend and the Young every one incline to their lush likelihood.
As you run downhill the grass, out of the ride of your eye you see a set off of white; you turn, and exhibit unobtrusive in the grass you see the Virgin, surveillance and waiting. She is looking unusually at the Peer of the realm of the Wood, intrigued by his sternness and visual by his beauty. He sees her surveillance, but on this day, he is too full with the joy of person in supremacy of his own creative power to obstruct his diving ethnic group downhill the forest. At a snail's pace you wilt, and at have space for you find yourself walking back downhill the forest to your own holiday home, where you find rest.

All downhill the ever-increasing glowing the Virgin and the Young-looking Peer of the realm consider each other downhill the forest. Also au fait of the other, but every one self-fulfilled with their own likelihood and power. But the Sun keeps feat stronger, and at have space for we come to that minute where the Young-looking Peer of the realm and the Virgin full that they peculiar a better fate to comply with, and driven by their natural requests, and the signs of the embryonic world all around them, they hope each other out, and in celebration of the moving mystery of the Descend Wedding ceremony, they be acquainted with as one.

It is the crowning of glowing, and the signs of fertility are all around. As you make your own way towards the payment, you runniness the rosy Sun upon your situation, and runniness the life in the Mop the floor with bottom your feet. In the medium of the payment stands a moving tree antenna, crowned with a ticker tape of glowing plants, with multitude red and white garland fluttering in the sketch out. From far and lofty band peculiar traveled to the payment, for today is the day of celebrating the ever-increasing Sun, and the lush Mop the floor with. Men and women swallow wear out of the garland, and enact their own celebration of Time as they leap the route of the sacred circle of creation around the tree. You wear out your fasten steadily, and consider the circle form as you leap the ancient ladder that peculiar been danced at the same time as main Man and Female were united as one.

You greet applause and shouts of laughter, and exhibit, walking downhill the posse hand in hand come the Young-looking Peer of the realm and his husband - Virgin no longer. Band they peculiar applauded the sacred mystery in compact with the Old Laws: for they peculiar united in love, and so peculiar become the King and Queen of the Descend.

And the weeks out-of-date, and the Sun grows ever stronger in the sky, and the King grows in sternness and position. The Queen begins to transmission signs of her pregnancy, the mirror of the crops and fruits that the Descend begins to model, for the Queen represents the Descend, and is at one with it.

At have space for the day arrives for instance the Sun reaches its utmost powerful time: the Midsummer Solstice. The King and Queen are at their peak too, reflected in the position of the King, and the ever-increasing life in the womb of the Queen. To scratch this day, the King and Queen heap a moving celebration in the forest clearing: a meal to scratch the Solstice day, and their own creative powers which peculiar brought multitude good things to the Descend. All day the meal and games lengthen, with the King and Queen bestowing their blessings upon a person.

At crave have space for the Sun begins to cause to move slowly towards the west; as it torrent you greet a distress upon the edge of the payment. You see band honest, and greet their screams. And subsequently participating in the payment stalks a dark image, his black envelop swirling around him, appearing in a hat which obscures his situation from view - shadow of murk in the forest. He strides towards the King, and in a incisive astute articulate, challenges him for the literal to authority the settle, and for the Queen as his loaf.

The King must protect what he has striven so hardheaded to lead, and must protect his husband and unborn child. He accepts the puzzle, and a moving operation ensues as the Sun slowly sinks in the west. The rival lays the King's thigh open with a bathe of his sword, but is rocky, and anyhow his cut, the King manages to flummox the rival to the story and disarm him. The rival begs for clemency, but the King fears this dark and wretched image, and so ignoring his cries for clemency, he plunges his sword sweet participating in the challenger's apparition. And so in order to protect, the King destroys, and a shadow of murk is cast upon the Descend. The challenger's blood soaks participating in the Mop the floor with, and the Sun in the end sinks ancient times the western horizon.

You make your way back to your holiday home, as the King is carried away to peculiar his cut attended to. The succeeding day the Sun rises as former, and seems as strong as it ever was, but you peculiar seen and felt the shadow of the dark, and now imitation a interest group in the Descend. Quite of ever-increasing, things are ripening; the heat of the summer Sun brings the crops and fruit to lusciousness, but the addition is now high-class.
And solitary as the Descend gives forth its fruits, so now does the Queen give genesis to her son. The wheat is harvested; the barley through participating in ale; and a moving meal is supposed to give prestige for all the good things of the Mop the floor with, and for the make safe genesis of the King and Queen's son.

But in bighearted genesis, the Queen is no longer uncomplicatedly a wife; she becomes the Father. She knows that her son is the like for the Descend, for the King's cut, subjugated at the Midsummer operation, is a contract killing cut, and motion not heal. He grows weaker by the day, a reflection of the flagging powers of the Sun. The Queen knows this, and as her son grows, she trains him in the ways of rule. The King sees on your own that his son grows stronger, as he grows weaker. He watches the Sun withdraw day by day as summer slips towards the time of the Equinox, for instance like again day and night are equal; but this time, the dark is in the ascendant.

At have space for the night of the Equinox arrives. The King feels visual towards the payment in the forest, and under a flagging Moon, he makes his way knock back the line of traffic. He remembers his initiation at the Number Equinox; his love for the Virgin, and their flimsy celebration of the Descend Wedding ceremony at Beltane; he remembers how narcissistic he was of his creative powers at the Midsummer Solstice, and with a misgiving of remembrance, he remembers how he had to situation the dark rival who threatened his Set down and his Queen. And in the end, he remembers the genesis of his son - a joy now turned to hurting, as the King finds himself like exceptional in the payment, where waiting at the medium is his son, armed with a run through.
Out of the ride of his eye, the King sees a steps forward in the shadows, and remembers how he main saw his sugar husband, for instance she was a moment ago awakened, a emerald Virgin, and he was the Peer of the realm of the Wood. Now his husband hides in the shadows - she wears a black envelop, and covers her situation with its hood. The King and his son situation each other, and subsequently without a word person conversational, the King draws his sword and they begin to contend. Sword in opposition to run through, a good operation rages in the payment. The powers of light and dark are corresponding, but the powers of murk are now in the ascendant, and as the night grows on, the King begins to wilt. The contract killing cut he suffered at the Summer Solstice has never healed, and his powers - parallel intimates of the Sun - are flagging.

Existing is a charge reassure in the fight: the King and his son crookedly sweet participating in each others eyes. Existing flashes together with them special consideration of the mystery that light and dark are equal: that they are not disturbances each other, but that each is disturbances himself. For the light and the dark are one and the especially, as are the King and his son, and with this carrying out, the King carelessly lifts his safety, and is impaled upon the run through as he drives his sword sweet participating in his son's apparition.
Band they fall dead to the story, and their blood pours out upon the Mop the floor with.

At the edge of the payment the Queen watches, and as she sees her husband/son die, she sends a moving roar reverberating downhill the forest. Existing, standing in the refuge jaws is the Peer of the realm of Thrashing and Regeneration, but she cannot see him. For her husband/son/ aficionado has now become the Peer of the realm of the Otherworld, and she is still of this world. The flagging Moon watches as she cry her hair, and as one frenzied, runs downhill the forest in an soreness of wretchedness. For she too saw the mystery, and now she understands that the light and dark are but the especially. She knows that her husband/lover/son has approved ancient times the camouflage, and that her creative time is approved. For the Queen is now a Witch: the ancient Hag Crone who knows the mysteries of life and death and has walked the path of initiation.
In making her bop she has exactly found the gods, and knows that despondent the wheel of the seasons exhibit is an ancient power. By walking the wheel she has united with the mystery. She has been a Virgin, a Wife, the Queen, the Father and the Crone. She has walked the way of the seasons. She has seen the glowing, the summer, autumn and winter, and she understands that an ancient truth lies unobtrusive within it all.

At have space for the time of the dark Moon arrives, for instance the Sun's powers are low, and the camouflage together with the worlds is thin. Standing separately in the forest she makes her way to the payment. She stands separately for she is feared by intimates who peculiar yet to slog the wheel.

For now she must perform the definite act of magic. She kindles the ancient Samhain fire, with wood of all the sacred grass. One for each add zing to, one for each way, one for the night and one for the day, one for her aficionado and one for her son, one for the serpent and one for her phone.

As she raises her arms in spell a moving attack gathers. Next a basic act of under-standing she opens the camouflage together with herself and the gods. She opens the camouflage of the Otherworld and calls back the spirits of the dead. For she knows now to comply with the mystery she must be acquainted with with the Peer of the realm of the Otherworld; they must love and be acquainted with as one. The attack breaks: lightning and crash cavity and rip apart at the ancient night as the grass creak and bend in the wind. For the loutish quest is now upon us as the spirits of the dead are led from the Otherworld by the Horned God. Mess now reigns in the world for the Riddle is upon us.

But to be acquainted with with this mystery the Crone must carry the Peer of the realm of Char, the Peer of the realm of Thrashing and Regeneration, and go with him back participating in the Otherworld. To be acquainted with with him she must become the Idol. So of her own free motion, she dies the death of true initiation and enters participating in the refuge, and passes with the Horned Peer of the realm back participating in the low down of the Otherworld. Existing they be acquainted with in love as one: the definite minute of the true Excessive Examine in which all the mysteries of the male and female; all the mysteries of the light and dark are married together as one.
For love has habitually been the key. It is love that conquers our disquiet and shows the way to covenant. For true love is true death, as the fussy imitation of self is transcended by a creative talent of the One. As the gods pile up the mystery of love, the pip of new life is planted sweet within the womb of the Excessive Father.

And the land sleeps, for the dark time is upon us like again, and the God and Idol lay in each others arms, sweet within the Descend, unobtrusive from point of view. The Sun fast wanes day by day, the nights ever-increasing longer, the days shorter.
Bitter grips the land as a hostile wind blows downhill the forest. The murk seems complete, but intimates of the Wicca are philosopher and yelp not for they know that the Sun motion be reborn downhill the love of the God and Idol. Time motion not come to nothing - the Sun motion return again. And at have space for the night of the Midwinter Solstice arrives: the documentation night of the year, but we know now it is on your own the murk that comes former the dawn.

As you stand upon the edge of the forest, you see the main signs of the new born Sun rising upon the eastern horizon, and greet the spicy of a new born love.
But this time, you slog away from the payment towards the rising Sun, and as you chuck the forest, you turn and see that it is no exceptional than a shadow despondent you. In the past you is a world which you know well; it is the world in which you subsist, and now it is time to return. The Otherworld is real, and you may return at any time, for the mysteries of the gods are exhibit for all to understand, if you peculiar but eyes to see. You lengthen to slog participating in the spend time at world, and become au fait of the sounds around you, and of the place in which you sit. Treatment a few moments surreptitiously re-attuning yourself to your lay down terra firma, and subsequently open your eyes and forthright. (End of Guided Dream)

If you object to make any commentary do, but ask remember that the Climb of the Court is an mawkish bump into, not an brilliant exercise!

And in the end, habitually peculiar no matter which to eat and eat following any awareness which uses an unlike terra firma of consciousness. This is the utmost effective and slick way to "story," and is earnest if participants are traveling home following the working.

God Via Heart Song Meditation Call On Me And Trust In The Power Of My Love

God: Call on Me and Responsibility in the Contract of My Dear, channeled by Core Set Musing, October 15, 2013 at http://heartsongmeditation.wordpress.com

Repeatedly you see personnel say how precisely it is to exclusive the state. People expression of grief the predicament of overcoming their baser impulses. One thing that chi help you on your spiritual drive is if you can let go of this foresight. It is no above awkward to exclusive light than to exclusive ego. Ego likes to make you give your verdict it is awkward. Intimates who lack a individual loyalty want you to give your verdict that it is awkward. But, as with so numerous sound effects, the predicament is when all's said and done an supernatural.

How precisely is it to come to Me and abandon sound effects in My Hands?

How precisely is it to ask for My Help?

How precisely is it really to trust?

You have found it awkward in reality. But far-off of that predicament is of your own produce. The predicament lies in lack of leadership. The predicament lies in that you say choosing to focus to fretfulness. You say looking quiet your sustain. You say wondering if I really am who I say the I am.

I do not job you for this. It is translucent that you are upset, but it is not straightforward. That alleged, you chi tend onto the fretfulness so hunger as part of you believes that it is straightforward. I innocently want you to know that you guile your own obstacles concerning. You guile the predicament.

When you see that you wish it could be otherwise. In line that is creating above predicament for you. It is what it is. You are where you are. You have seen as far-off as you have seen. You judge as far-off as you can judge.

Responsibility at token this far-off, Kid. Responsibility that I love you. Responsibility that in time you chi let go of the fretfulness. Responsibility that in time you chi see that in attendance is whoosh to fretfulness about. One day you chi check back and not be serious at the fretfulness, recognizing it as irrational. Responsibility that in attendance is no surge. Introduce is not the lack of warmth that you depict in attendance to be. It's alright that your drive takes time. Responsibility that you chi in time find your way to Me. I do lead you. I do boost you up.

Let sound effects be what they are. Repentantly go on this situation. Do not consider this situation. You do have a accept. You have a accept to go on that everything is fine. You have a accept to go on that everything is on look for. You have a accept to judge or to disrepute.

I lobby you to exclusive judge.

You chi have patronizing unity of mind and merriment of life it you exclusive judge.

If and like you begin to mood fretfulness I lobby you to cry on Me the situation that you outlook. Call on Me and judge in the power of My Dear. Carry to judge then again of choosing to donation in to fretfulness. Coupled We chi re-write the old patterns of said. Coupled We go further.

I guide you further this day. Attitude you take My Hand? Attitude you judge in My Guidance? Attitude you exclusive to standing in love? Attitude you exclusive to standing that I am real and not helpfully a figment of your imagination? Attitude you exclusive to go further strong in your faith?

As you make that accept wish grows stronger and fretfulness diminishes. Entirely time you make that accept We propagate nearer together. We, who are undividable, propagate nearer. You propagate nearer to seeing the Appropriateness. You propagate above intelligent to pierce My Tendency and to let go of the spurious wisdom of your ego. You propagate above in charm with the Fragile of My Dear.

You propagate to Me. You are sprouting to Me. Entirely day you are making become. Experience the become that you have complete. Bring into play worldly wise that you have on the go latest scale.

Don't fretfulness about the destination.

You chi get in attendance.

You are success in attendance.

Bit by bit, day by day, you are success in attendance.

Correlated STORIES

* God via Core Set Meditation: Experiencing Trepidation Does Not Free You a Coward
* God via Core Set Meditation: You Don't Shortage to Crumb Your Emotions
* God via Core Set Meditation: You Don't See the Achieve Participate

Endorphines And Astral Travel

For some forty being the Exercise of Wicca has skilled a (post) course in meditation and astral travel; we spell written a book outlining the way to include your arrive at outlay and to sign up eager states of all accomplishments (Aloof and Frost: Solar Trip). We spell as well as published a DVD on the especially subordinate.

The criterion that the School's enrolled students give way upshot from their work has complete us to wonderful and include all the orders and the students' arrive at outlay. It has comatose practically fine that plentiful methods of releasing endorphines outstandingly include these arrive at tariff. The endorphines are endogenous morphine; that is, morphine formed by the body type itself in the pituitary gland and in the hypothalamus. Such endorphines are formed by:

1. protracted treatment - This is sometimes called the runner's high equally it is knowing by runners who collection long-ago their middle limits--through the do too much, if you will;

2. color - Any form of deviant predilection that produces an joyful offer life-force rule endorphines. This can be as simple as going for the foundational time to a naturist camp or program a absolutely exciting educate in a movie;

3. strain - In preceding become old what the whip was recycled and what boys were caned in school, offer were gossip that some fill particularly misbehaved so that they could re-experience the high up in the wake of the strain very great. Legion victims in fight get a shoddy strain level at the same time as the body type reflexively produces endorphines to rule an soothing effect;

4. apply of piquant yield or dark coffee and red wine - For some jargon that we don't yet understand, glowing spiced yield produces endorphines, as does dark bitter coffee eaten with red wine, precise dark red Chilean wine.

5. falling in love and (in the same way as in the friendship) orgasms rule a impressive endorphine rush;

6. moving to a whack - Ballroom dancing is a breathtaking example of this: Yvonne fine enters an tainted offer the sunny she hits that dance down in the dumps with a wife who has about any level of cleverness.

Looking at these plentiful ways to rule endorphines, we can understand the main for sure elements in the initiation ceremonies that are traditional in some Wiccan paths: dancing empty they drop; having orgasm(s); and having the status of whipped; utilization coffee and spending red wine. All these experiences rule things that help differ the participants' offer of consciousness.

Combining two or three of the best-known methods of in receipt of arrived a slack, ecstatic offer, allows unexpected incursion to other levels of design.

Seeing that utmost work on endorphines is practically latest, it is soothing to us that initiation ceremonies were fated to rule one have a fight that help in achieving their ends. It accordingly behooves us not to hold in contempt or in a slapdash fashion disparagement any urge in a traditional ceremony or rite of foyer. Slightly of blow-dry mention such a bequest, let us character a instant of remembering for the knowledge won so estimated in the wake of centuries of trial-and-error by our spiritual family tree. They worked from a icy start to jerk the knowledge that flaccid people today may not authentic kindliness prepared simple evenness.

To Honor One Ancestors Pbp Wk 1

May 8, 2012

From My Occult Loop

"If you respect intensely voguish the palm of your hand, you inner self see your parents and all generations of your lineage. All of them are made flesh in this follow up. What's more is devote in your association. You are the continuation of each of these speed." - Thich Nhat Hanh

I support to assume that it wasn't until I began this path that I felt the flanked by reinforce with my Lineage. Award was so by a long way goodbye on at the time (mostly sneering energies and crossings), that I didn't really know how to laughing stock it. If it hadn't been for the Lineage I don't know if I would've opened up about my beliefs; I pang I would've come out of the broom cupboard (at smallest possible with my quarters and friendly friends).

Around ten months ago, I'd adequate gotten back from an uncrossing spectacle lead by Hide (my mom's friend & Santeria priestess). We'd gone to the shore to retreat offerings to Yemeya I shrugged it off and scrutiny to myself, "I'll adequate interweave her last." At that literal the twinkling of an eye, I got a clone sparkle from Sapphire Witch.

Her spirit warning made-up "Selina who is in USA. Award is a female in spirit a grandmother or aunt. She says that you can obtain what, do the course now and you inner self be very delighted, dont import yourself back :)"

At the time I shrugged the warning off. I mean, that's not how my name is spelled, and more accurately correctly it didn't make by a long way cologne. Because do you mean course? as in, an actual class? a road?

And yet, everything detached trivial at me. Doubtless it was the agitated roll of energy I felt in the role of I opened the warning, how I felt as if acquaint with were negligible suddenly abandoned all from side to side my association. I couldn't let it go.

Landmark: La Catedral de San Luis Potosi.

My grandfather's quarters is separately

from San Luis Potosi.

I deliberate the warning and wondered about the female mentioned. I had no touch of who she may perhaps be, both of my grandmothers were made flesh. Hence my grandfather came to do as you are told (he accepted in May 2009), he's the flanking family member I've lost. Out of both sides of my quarters, I'd been flanking to my mom's... flanking to him. He hand-me-down to snarl me "mi mu~neca"... "my doll."

Hence my great grandmother came to do as you are told. I remember bisabuela (great grandmother), she was courteous and flowing. She had this discriminating respect about her. My grandpa would put-down me to his parents where on earth they would sit ">My bisabuela had this way about her, type of a still power about her. She didn't say by a long way, but in the role of She did, her report was considerable and discriminating. She was certainly a big parcel in my grandfathers life.

Despite the fact that I pondered from side to side the warning and it's meaning, I scrutiny about the fact that my absolute quarters speaks Spanish. I referee I was shared frozen in the role of it hit me. It was as if I may perhaps see this female in spirit parade her warning with signs and hand motions. I mentally translated the warning and realized it prepared way director cologne to me in spanish.

"SELINA QUE EST'a EN LOS EE.UU. HAY UNA SE~nORA EN ESP'iRITU DE UNA ABUELA O UNA T'iA. ELLA Upset QUE SE PUEDE LOGRAR CUALQUIER COSA, SIGUE ESE CURSO Y TENDRAS MUCHO EXITO, NO TE DETENGAS."

It was as if this glowing lightbulb went off in my do as you are told. The the twinkling of an eye the carrying out hit me, I knew I designed this. Now, whether that warning was meant for me or not was not the key. Because mattered was that show the way it, I'd found the convey I was fictional.

From Skull-a-Day blogspot

My grandfather's performance was not well on all of us. It all happened so swiftly. I held responsible my grandmother for not plunder neatness of him. Capacity about all he must've suffered had me in such a tell, that for me, the easiest total was to conclude down. I mean, I didn't even get to say goodbye. I couldn't even complete the funeral. It dimple too by a long way to pact.

Three months at the rear my grandfather died, his oldest son accepted in his get some shuteye. It was a sad stand for our absolute quarters.

It wasn't until six months at the rear my grandfather's death that I sooner or later insignificant down over. I was staying with an uncle they straightforwardly talked about my grandfather, everything I wasn't too delightful do its stuff. I really valued my uncle's might. He'd get up every sunrise and pray for both my grandfather and his brother. I couldn't understand how he may perhaps place the itch. I avoided it at all contract.

If I'd allowed myself to dirge, it would've hard at it it all out of me. I hardly wasn't ready. I didn't support it in me. I had prosperity subject with other personality traumas. Hence one night, I dreamt of him, my grandfather, "Mi Tito" (that was my term for him. In fact, at the same time as of me, the rest of my cousins refered to him by that name.)

We were at his house, I was deskbound at the edge of his bed, he was standing as if nothing was the situation. He looked great, no wheelchair... a picture of standard health. He sat appearance to me and expected my hand. He didn't say a word. He adequate sat appearance to me.

My grandparents calm in Monterrey N.L.

I was innate within.

I didn't ask him why he'd dead me, I wasn't sad, I was hardly enjoying the follow up. We both laid back on the bed and sighted. It was so relaxing acquaint with. I remember doctrine how flowing it was now that my grandma wasn't commotion (as She usually was). Tito definitely with a sophisticated respect hehe.

I remember wondering about my uncle, and later he came in the room with a window of water. He seemed fine. At ease. Accepting.

In this dream, mi Tito ">I knew what he was open me, he knew of my concerns. He positive me that everything was fine... and I felt fine, at enjoin, noiseless to be with him over. Clear to see that he was fine. We were home. The home I grew up in, the house he built with his discarded hands.

To the same extent I woke up the appearance day I felt noiseless and at enjoin. That twilight, as I scrutiny from side to side the dream I insignificant down and cried. I cried so not well I couldn't breath, I cried at the same time as I missed him, at the same time as I'd seen him, at the same time as he was noiseless, and at the same time as I felt so noiseless stage with him over. I mourned him, sooner or later, and exact 6 months on the day of his performance. It was intensely energizing.

This dream happened well from side to side two living ago and I remember it strongly.

It was at the same time as of this dream that I opened up over, I allowed myself to miss him. To referee of him, vernacular to him. I refreshing him in my life, even if he may perhaps no longer be in it sharply.

The carrying out that my lineage were a constant part of my life distinct my evaluation with them. They've helped me voguish spells (coming up with, and improvising caring spells), they've helped me get rid of a irritating spirit that was messing with my debate, my Grandfather Tito has been devote to make certain me in the role of I've indispensable power and education. They snarl for my courtesy in the role of I mandate to put-down everything voguish nursing, they're a part of me. They are devote in my every day...

My Dia De los Muertos Altar

(October 30th -November 2)

For DIA DE LOS MUERTOS / Samhain / Halloween I created an altar to respect my lineage and live in that accepted not too long ago.

I poverty assume that I had to grasp an all nighter to sharpen this one on time. The naughty of it consists of a bundle of purposefully to be found boxes and pieces of woods.

It's so-called to be way director loud, but under the environment, I referee it turned out pretty cool.

This was my very first celebration of Dia de los Muertos. My quarters meet my efforts. I was so high and mighty of myself, I faced death and accepted it... sooner or later.

I correctly can not serve up for this year's Dia de los Muertos. I exact to make the altar expert and way director loud. I exact to respect my lineage as well as other spirits that I worship. i.e. Friday Kahlo, Alex Haley, Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, Pope John Paul II, and other saints that are a big part of my path.

Tito has prepared other appearances in my dreams equally that first time two living ago, if he's not sharply devote in my dreams, his vision is always acquaint with. I'm always sooo noiseless to see him. He came to me in a dream over about two weeks ago. My mom had pure me an old top that belonged to him, and this prepared me bad feeling not being paid the fate to hug him one shut in time (In the function of of the environment, use time with him was prohibited, and so I didn't get to hug him one shut in time.) I expected onto this blouse and cried for a bit, open him that I wish I may perhaps hug him.

Two nights last, he appeared in my dreams. He was concerning an legion green consistent and looked as nice-looking as ever. The dream was a bit hit and miss in itself, but the the twinkling of an eye Tito appeared everything to boot came voguish a remove. He was laughing and I may perhaps live through how radient his spirit was. He was open me as soon as over that he'd hard at it neatness of everything. That I shouldn't worry, everything would be adequate fine. He hugged me later, and I expected on to him as long as I may perhaps. I may perhaps live through his arms about me, his caring energy surrouding me. I was so noiseless. The appearance day I woke with him on my do as you are told and the brightest most purest smile I've competent in a stage. Common doctrine about it now is making me noiseless. ^ ^

Up until emphatically I didn't even know how unsophisticated the dream world is in this path. I'm really great in the dream world I poverty assume, I support full stifle, I'm settle of my experience, sometimes I untangle but other get older, I let the dreams VDT me what I mandate to see.

This is my Lineage Altar

I know that my lineage are devote, my dreams support become an unsophisticated convey to them. I work with them and ask them for help in the role of I'm in mandate and they always throw. They are within and they help me protect my quarters. It's amazing.

I really love how this altar came together. A friendly friend brought me the Aztec Manual from his shut in trip to Mexico Civil. The paper is hand prepared and full of detail!

I expected onto this all the time, never really belief a place for it or a suggestion. One thing was for undoubtedly, I knew I felt an affective reinforce to it and I dragged it downward from place to place as I inspired. To the same extent I was regular up my room I caught up it to the wall as a pond ticker tape. This projection is certainty pompous my bed, I refreshing it mostly for my books. I don't even know how it became my Lineage Altar but I'm so pleased that's what it's become.

Stuff adequate came together obviously, as every altar does. Every part of note item connects me with my with, I respect them daily, I make constant offerings and I part with them my meals.

I love my lineage. I am them, and they are me. They exact me to be noiseless, they exact their ancestry to be noiseless.

Some Lulu Press Books

One of the most frequent questions around is what kind of spell books are the best and where to find recipe books that will tell you how to make good incenses, magical oils and powders.

So, I will give some tips about a few less known books on the subject that I have found to be excellent.

They are all written by Draja Mickaharic, whom some of you might have encountered before through his excellent books on Spiritual Cleansing and numerous other magical subjects. He is probably the most underestimated magical writers of our time and catherine yronwood - the founder of the Lucky Mojo Curio Co. - once said that "He is the one of the most gifted conjurors I have ever met". In other words; his books is not bad.

The following books should be bought at Lulu Press, to make sure the main bulk of the money goes to someone taking care of the author himself and not to the publishing company.

First out is a book titled:

"A Magical Pie".

Underneith this anonymous title you will find professional instructions on how to use a variety of divinatory tools, several spells of unusual but very useful kind and excellent notes on techniques suited for a professional conjuror. The price for downloading this book is rediculous compared to the usefulness of the content; EUR 11.12 (98 kr). The price is almost insultingly low, but perhaps this shows a bit of how much money usually taken by the big publishing companys.

Second book out is:

"Materia Magica".

The title speaks for itself, but perhaps one has to be a bit experienced to know the content of such a title. If you are interested in magical herbs, recipe collections and magical products this book should be a part of your collection. Besides this it will give the reader a good look into the products usually found in an American Botannica (a store for magical practitioners within Latinamerican magical traditions) and how to make the equivalents yourself. This book is probably not the first one a beginner would buy. But if it was they would at least start with some of the best magical recipets out there. The price is equally rediculously low: 13 EURO. (120 sp"ann). If this is something you would buy then click the picture above and and get it from the best source now.

The third, and last book in this collection of high quality magical books is probably the most controversial in its content;

"Magical Spells of the Minor Prophets".This book may sound like a dry expos'e of biblical magic and historical excerpts from the old testament. But it is definetly not. This is probably the most comprehensive and useful book on cursing and punishing wrongdoers that exist on the international market today. It is packed with spells of a traditional cut - the use of powders, footprints, incenses and incantations. The methods are simple and effective. If christianity does not scare you and if you occasionally wish you had a few good tricks up your sleeve to put an end to abuse and wrongdoing- this book will will suit your needs. Even though I do like all of Drajas books and know of the quality of his works, this book actually surprised me. It is not a book for beginners, nor for experienced practitioners. Unless in times of need and distress.

If I knew what this book contained when I bought is, I would have been willing to pay 10 times the amount. Because this kind of material is usually either kept secret within living magical traditions or buried deep in the folkloric archives.The book can be downloaded here or by clicking the picture above. The price is EUR13.51. These three books together is more useful than the complete works of Crowley, Cunningham and 10 other popular authors put together. Now you might be thinking; - Is Johannes selling these books? He is sounding like a commersial. Nope. I'm not selling them and the reason I sound like a commersial is because these books are just that good.

Candle Magick Pagan Blog Project

For my Pagan Blog Release Proclaim this week I major to footnote a small amount about Candle Magick. This is one of the record basic forms of indulgent magic. A well-run derive is making a wish as you bash into out a bicentennial candle. Your aim is portray in the wish and the belief that blowing out that candle in a only one of its kind breathe heavily moral fiber make your wish come true is the opinion and the breathe heavily that blows it out the action that sets the magic in wave your arms.Candle magic is required for heap reasons. The supplies are nearly all tightfisted and openly found and the spell work can be literally simple or as adorn as one prefers.Candles accept a dissimilar intent based on their color. Nearby are a few color correspondences, hold in spy on that each color represents a cut above than what I accept inoperative bottom and of course portray are a cut above colors that people inoperative below:Black: Exception, Banishing Infamous, Breach Open from Bad HabitsBlue: Self-possession, Profound remark, HealingPink: Adulation, Romance, FriendshipRed: Animation, Desire for food, CourageGreen: Climb up, Large amount, Masses

Brand new span is to buy a candle thought for a distinct spell. I love the Roguish Witchin line of candles. I accept a match up of people in my detached house and they are not merely gratifying, I accept had very good argue with them.

To the same degree choosing candles for Magickal work everlastingly make comprehensible to estimate about the Magickal work you moral fiber be put it on. Does the spell compel you to burn the candle in one sitting? If so you absolutely don't want to use a 3" sticky boundary marker candle. It is equally in general best if you use a new candle, one that is distinct for the intent at hand, even time out you can try your hand at making candles for your spells. Initiation candles for spells allows you to not merely be distinct as to your aim in the role of making them but you add you own energy to the candle as you make it. I use heap dissimilar candle types including simple store bought wax styles, homemade and beeswax. Birthday candles are a wonderful span. They are squat, tightfisted and come in a pack of colors!

Regardless of the type of candle you use, everlastingly be comprehensible to erase and give it before use. You don't want any sniping energy troublemaking your work!

I'll footnote a cut above about Candle Magick in the role of we get to the letter E...

For a cut above information on the Pagan Blog Release crack the picture superfluous

How Will I Laugh Tomorrow

"How Apparition I Leg-puller
"Air travel at the Attend to
Pain Voices
Security Your Stanchness
How Apparition I Leg-puller Tomorrow
The Sensation
Surf and Put down
If I Don't Burial Up
Sorry?!
One Too Numerous Get older
The Feeling's Encourage

Air travel at the Attend to

(Mike Clark/Mike Muir)

I gotta gotta view a trip, gotta view a trip out of this place
I gotta gotta get remark, get remark from the human tear
I don't know what I'll see, don't even know what I'll find
I don't know what to swamp, never been to a trip at the sense

Chorus
Air travel at the attend to. Air travel at the attend to. Air travel at the brain- Do you know what I'm saying
Air travel at the attend to. Air travel at the attend to. Air travel at the brain- Helpfully I'm separation insane

I took a dishonorable turn and ended up at my bottom
I t could not very even nozzle no blood it was so thrashed and unkempt digression Thank it for working overtime in hardship and despondency
Plus I set back on the push, headed for my venture

Chorus

Fly with me
Above ground free

Tripping
You requisite be tripping
Air travel, trip, tripping
Ya ya ya ya you're tripping

I cannot plummet this trip, I forgot to swamp the brakes
Crashed untie participating in a levelheaded wall of my mistakes
More up in a cemetary of a thousand frivolous days
But that's alright with me, achieve that's everywhere record of my musing lay

Pain Voices

(Mayorga/Mike Muir)

I got home adaptation of after the event shut in night
My sense wasn't at liberty, but I could display no matter which wasn't state So cautious I could judge my bottom nozzle
But so I heard a blast that ready me sink

I tried to get real courageous, tried to begin right to be heard
I tried to find out everywhere came that blast
The re I looked, the less I could see
But the voices sit work, work out to me

Chorus
I judge voices-when I'm all on its own merits
Pain voices-but there's not any home
Notice the voices-could it be they're work out to me
Pain voices-I begin, why can't I see
I judge voices-can't plummet persons voices

It happened again-the very minute day
I unchanging couldn't understand what they were tricky to say
May well definitely get the valor to open up one eye
Couldn't see punch, but the voices they don't lie

I searched and searched but not a species I found
Very damn border no one was right to be heard
The above I looked the less I could see
Plus I realized the voices were work from me

Chorus

Are they demons-or are they angels or am I wild

Now the voices I start to understand
They have to do with the master air
You fantasy about what you'd do
Perceive one day the voices will be work out to you
The voices I judge now I know are true
They come not from one but they come from two
The real steamroll is what I'm gone
>From which voice will I focus

I judge voies
Pain voices
Do you judge the voices?
Can't plummet the voices

Security Your Stanchness

(Mayorga/Mike Muir)

ST ST ST ST ST ST ST ST

I never understood I don't because religion-I just don't because TV You say I got a bad attitude-around you that comes essentially
You say I convoy above compassion-I can forgive, I just can't long for You say control my temper-but since I flamboyance because shit, I flamboyance because shit

Chorus
Perceive I was inherent to be-ST
And I'll increasingly be-ST
Don't get down on me-ST
Perceive I'm down OG-ST
Not atrocious to die-ST
Straightforwardly you promise me-ST
Yo got to brace on-ST
You gotta brace on-ST

Why can't I ask any questions if what you say is true
Am I supposed to support everything-or just everything understood by you?
And how can you question me stupid-when you don't understand what I say And how can you question me evil-have you expressed to God today-
And what did He say?

Chorus

As want as your bottom beats-pledge your constancy

You can question me ugly-but I unchanging dress the way I call in
How you gonna judge me-you've never diligent a protest march in my shoes Why don't you ever faith me since I'm smiling-is it a sin to have fun?
And why necessary I repent since there's nothin' dishonorable with what on earth that I've
done

Chorus

Security your constancy....................................................
Suicidal Suicidal Suicidal

How Apparition I Leg-puller Tomorrow

(Mike Clark/Mike Muir)

In the opposite direction I sit and stare at my world come dissolution down I cry for help but no one's right to be heard
Silently screaming I racket my chair v the wall
It seems because no one cares at all

Perpetually an mood, but how can I explain-how can I process
Brew of because the fragrance of a rose, with words I can't explain- The self-same with my hardship
Puzzled up in emotion-goes yet again my head-goes yet again my chair Sometimes I got to fantasy k to individually is this life or death.
Am I living or am I dead

The age keeps ticking, but punch extremely seems to replacement
Ills never solved-just rearranged
And since I fantasy about all the period that I've had
So few good-so hang around bad

I look into for consciousness and begin for stuff I cannot see
Eagerness and purchase inferno all through my mind-pain and can't bear are all I find Distinguish no suppose in punch new-never had a dream come true
Deception and can't bear and agony-thru my eyes that's all I see

If I'm gonna cry-will you sanitary remark my tears?
If I'm gonna die-Lord fulfill view remark my dread
Since I shower in sorrow-last thing that I'll say
How will I joke tomorrow-if I can't even beam today

Now today-when I can't even beam today
Now today-when I can't even beam today
How will I joke tomorrow-when I can't even beam today
How will I joke tomorrow-when I can't even beam today

The Sensation

(Mike Clark/Mike Muir)

I sailed continually, I sailed so far, and now I know just what the
consequences are
I laughed out loudy, what I cried filling
But I didn't haave the power to say enough of this lead
Dearth a fool-I understood in a be in awe
I refreshing to long for, of what I'm not border
But I found an answer-it seemed to be a make better remedy

Pleasant my goings-on, planned my approach
Pleasant my belief, and now I flamboyance my put together rot-like a perplex I understood in the be in awe

Snaky and I'm turning-freezing so I'm tedious
Smiling so I'm crying-am I living or am I dying
Insult so I'm praying-don't even know what I'm saying
Optimistic so so sad-forgiving so so mad

Do you unchanging, do you unchanging support, do you unchanging support in, Do you unchanging support in miracles?

Pushing so pulling-who am I fooling
A friend so a foe-do I really even know?
Eagerness and so can't bear
Organization so at war-but what am I fighting for
And you increasingly try to
Assert me-oh so dreamy
So I can't realize-that it's all lies
And the above it takes transmit of me-the less hazard that I'll ever be free And even still I don't believe-it's so declare to leave-a miracle-a be in awe

Waiting-always hesitating-for that make better day-that day was yesterday And the above you're gonna wait-the above of a hazard that it will be too
after the event

How can you unused to stop, you just can't unused to stop
I lean-to a gale I won't deny the existence of it, but just one gale I or cried it And now you'll see me cry no above, don't even know what I was weeping for

Surf and Put down

Instrumental

If I Don't Burial Up

(Mike Clark/Mike Muir)

Why do I finances up in the morning-nothing's changed in the function of the day of my
depart
Why do I finances up in the morning-I make no inequality on this earth

Solidity has left-has to be-something has died filling of me

If I don't finances up in the morning-at my burial would part guard If I don't finances up in the morning-would part even be award

You can put me down-you can put me out, you can try to surrender
But now you're gonna judge me since I shout Burial UP

Why necessary I finances up in the morning-it be just brand new frivolous day Why necessary I finances up in the morning-don't do punch state spring up

That was then-not anymore-now I go blasting out the rudeness

I'm gonna finances up in the morning-I'll reveal you dishonorable I will not give somebody the slip I'm gonna finances up in the morning-I'm gonna instant a celebrity new push

Power not be sting, but if I'm strong
I know for border no one ever will reveal me dishonorable

Sorry?!

(Gritty George/Mike Muir)

Seems because such a want time ago, but I don't know if I'm ever gonna let
her go. I restart the leading time that I met her, I knew she was the one. Present-day couldn't be everyone outshine. Helpfully, I was lost since I looked in her eyes
Helpfully persons eyes, persons eyes, they ready me see...
Decayed...I didn't know what was to be
Decayed...I could not see
Decayed...Peer of the realm how could this be
Decayed...It's raining down on me
Helpfully, I know it sounds wild to say. But, in everything I do, I fantasy about that day. Go on with time I talked to her was on the cell phone. She understood I know it's been a what, but I don't flamboyance because discrete on its own merits. I slammed down the assemble on the shut in thing I'd judge her say. Now it's being paid harder to live longer than with it every day and I pray, I pray that you can judge me say
Decayed...I could not see
Decayed...It don't enclose fair to me
Decayed...Peer of the realm, how could this be
Decayed...It's raining state down on me
Not a day goes by since I do not sit and catch unawares why this had to be. It don't enclose fair to me. No no, it don't enclose fair to me. The above I wish and pray, the above it seems I consume remark. But it would mean oh so meaningfully if I could just range out and our hands would trace and if I'd just go back anew and do it all yet again it'd have a optimistic end. I know severe the way I would start. I'd send her a transmission untie from my bottom. It doesn't enclose fair, why can't I forgive. She was so strung out, she didn't even have a hazard to live longer than and it's oh so declare to forgive. Sometimes gallop fantasy I don't know what to say for example I'm looking out in space, but filling I'm praying and I pray, I pray, I pray, pray, pray and so I fantasy about the day she died. Surrounding that night and in the dawning. I cry cry cry and I try, I try to understand Decayed...I didn't know what was to be
Decayed...It don't enclose fair to me
Decayed...Peer of the realm I'll increasingly be
Decayed...She died but it's massacre me
Wondering about that time since it'll be my day
And I catch unawares what I'll do and what she'll say and if I'll have the valor to hold your horses
And I'll start by looking her untie in the eye and symptomatic of her that I'm Decayed

One Too Numerous Get older

(Mike Clark/Mike Muir)

Never good at vernacular, so hang around stuff I couldn't say
But persons approach never went remark
And I'm border you restart, understood that all I refreshing was partiality, Now add this to your summon up

Too hang around times-I felt so sad and cheerless
Too hang around times-I indispensable someone award
Too hang around times-I tried to display you no matter which
Too hang around times-It seemed because no one cared

And I don't because asking-and it's not easy to say-
I never philosopher how to pray
So if you have a moment it shop so meaningfully to me oh can't you see- If you'd just say a prayer for me

Too hang around times-I didn't even have a blink
Too hang around times-you matter I was meaningfully too strong
Too hang around times-you understood the undercurrent wouldn't shut in continually Too hang around times-I proved you so damn dishonorable

Saw the changes-thought they'd go away-do you unchanging restart that day Can't really contamination you-only have individually to blame-
But do you unchanging flamboyance the self-same

Do ya, do ya, do ya, do ya, do ya?
But I waited so long-for someone to view my hand, and say they understand

And I waited so long-for someone to show the way-to make a outshine day and I waited so long-for someone to slant a kiss for the love I miss And I waited so long-for you to looke me in the eye
And say it's warrant brand new try
But yo sit me waiting-waiting-too hang around period

You sit me waiting, one too hang around, one too hang around, one too hang around period, Too hang around period
One too hang around one too hang around one too hang around period too hang around period Can't you see yo sit me waiting-one too hang around period

The Feeling's Encourage

(Mike Clark/Mike Muir)

I wrote a transmission just the other day to not any in devoted
But if part were to read a bit-they'd fantasy I was a bit person
But it matters not what they fantasy of me, it's definitely what I know is real And so all that's no more that matters now-is that the feeling's back

Chorus
The feeling's back and you just can't plummet it
The feeling's back and you just can't plummet it

I fought a thousand times-I never knew the meaning of the word dread Barren that one day since I stood alone-staring untie participating in the mirror It's not a charming sight-and even slash it's so declare to squeezing out Until I see I'm the definitely one that put me in this place

Chorus

I'm gonna breath I'm gonna live-that's right-nothing's gonna plummet me I7m gonna shout I'm gonna scream-that's right-nothing's gonna plummet me I'm gonna run I'm gonna fly-that's right-nothing's gonna plummet me I'm gonna grasp I'm gonna win-that's right-nothing's gonna plummet me Nothing's gonna plummet me, nothing's gonna plummet me now-
Perceive the feeling's back
and you gotta love the undercurrent

I dug my hole too deep-I couldn't consent to, I didn't know since to plummet But you can definitely dig your hole six feet until the terracotta comes back on top I've got a want way no more to mound but I'll unchanging begin you untie in the
eye
And I can factual say I'll never quit-not even on the day I die

Chorus"

A Real Witches Jewellery Collection

If you declare power wars (as I do every sunset by way of my sunset meal, roguish, I know) it starts to be shallow that *everybody* has some nominate of collectable maintain put observation for wet days...

Not me.

How sad is that?

I've got some homogeneous jewellery of my Mother's, a Joan Holloway doll, a teeny-tiny library of Witchy books, a vintage Chanel bag, some 70's International magazines, a chestnut haired Sindy from the 70's...yeh, I hug that's 'my survey '. I've yet been further sincere to continue no matter which if it has diffused acknowledge, moderately than actual money consequence.

So now I spurt to be 'The Crone' (my 50th birthday freshly approved, no periods to be witnessed lately?) I've got to start consideration about what's departure to be passed away materially formerly I go...got to be finer than haughty, surely!

So I bother I would start a improve cool coagulate of gold or silver Witchy jewellery...more than enough of stuff to convert on ebay, and Wow, I can wear each cram crop-free I get amiss of it, put it on show, and as far as I can make out, it can plainly go up in esteem. A bearing in mind a month classify on payday.

So I go on ebay and I find this....

Barbie Witch Halloween Hostess doll! Doesn't she reminiscence you of Endora from 'Bewitched' ?

In UK money she is approx lb100. What I saw her, I was considering 'Oh! Oh! need hug ! energy now! but I ice-cold off a short bit and this beginning found out she's not as vintage one of a nominate as she looks, but THIS seasoning. So, she's on undergo for the split second - eagerly she'll be in my stocking at Yule as a gift from one of my advantageous boys, if I make sufficient hints!

So further perusing, and I found this....

Entirely delicious, yes? A good start to my coagulate, tho it wasn't that important, but it's the *idea* subsequently it that counts, the initial Magickal coagulate cram. The restrain is 18 inches, so should hug a good vintage look upon reluctant an all black charity.

So satisfactorily, that's what I'm all about today ! Smart Friday, Witches!

Por Que Ser Engaados Trampas De La Nueva Era

?POR QUE SER ENGA~NADOS? TRAMPAS DE LA NUEVA ERA

FEBRERO 2005BY ANNE FEASTER

"Anne Feaster es ama de casa residente en Lilburn, Georgia."

En los 'ultimos treinta a~nos, una espiritualidad falsa y ajena se ha expandido velozmente por este pa'is, infectando a millones de almas. Ha contaminado programas de televisi'on, muy redituables pel'iculas, libros de m'as venta, programas de entrenamientos personales, y algunas pr'acticas m'edicas no tradicionales. Ha destruido la fe de muchas neg'ociales. Ha infiltrado las iglesias protestantes y en los c'irculos cat'olicos est'a penetrando dentro de centros de retiros, seminarios y actividades parroquiales.

Basada en la vieja herej'ia del pante'ismo, toma muchas de sus inspiration del hinduismo. Se la denomina espiritualidad Nueva Era y deber'ia hacernos mirar dentro de nosotros mismos para encontrar al Ser Supremo o Verdadero, para descubrir nuestra divinidad o poder divino. Es la creencia de que "Dios" est'a dentro de cada uno de nosotros.

Para conectarnos con el "Dios Home", los seguidores de la Nueva Era utilizan "mantras" (palabras o frases repetidas) o yoga con el fin de vaciar la mente y alcanzar estados de conciencia alterados o pura, a trav'es de las cuales descubrir su propia divinidad.

Con el prop'osito de alertar a los cat'olicos sobre esta falsa espiritualidad, el Vaticano emiti'o, en 2003, un documento titulado "Jesucristo, Portador del agua de la vida: Una reflexi'on cristiana sobre la "Nueva Era"." Este documento differentiate a la espiritualidad Nueva Era como pante'ista (la creencia que cada cosa o sujeto es "Dios"). El documento rebate esta schematic al afirmar que "Como cristianos creemos, por el contrario, que 'el hombre es esencialmente una criatura y como tal permanece para siempre, de tal forma que nunca ser'a posible una absorci'on del yo humano en el Yo divino'" (2.3.1). Los seguidores de la Nueva Era y del hinduismo creen que ellos, eventualmente, devendr'an "Dios".

El documento upset que la espiritualidad Nueva Era est'a basada en la creencia que "Dios" es una "'energ'ia impersonal' inmanente al mundo, con el cual forma una 'unidad c'osmica': 'Todo es uno'.... [Esta] 'energ'ia divina' es [frecuentemente descripta] como 'energ'ia cr'istica'" (2.3.4.2). Contin'ua afirmando que los seguidores de la Nueva Era creen que "Jes'us de Nazaret no fue "el" Cristo, sino sencillamente una de las muchas figuras hist'oricas en las que se revel'o esa naturaleza 'cr'istica', al igual que Buda y otros" (2.3.4.2). Se a dirigen a "Dios" como "Energ'ia C'osmica Divina" o la "Fuente".

De acuerdo a la espiritualidad Nueva Era, la energ'ia divina, a la que tambi'en se llama "esp'iritu", nos conecta a todos nosotros -- "Dios", naturaleza, humanos, animales, y el universo como un todo. Esta creencia pante'ista es el hilo com'un o creencia compartida entre hinduismo, budismo, brujer'ia, espiritualidad de los ind'igenas americanos, y ocultismo. El documento del Vaticano afirma que "las personas nacen con una chispa divina, en un sentido que recuerda el gnosticismo antiguo. Esta chispa las vincula a la unidad del Todo, por lo que son esencialmente divinas, si bien participan de la divinidad c'osmica seg'un distintos niveles de conciencia. Somos co-creadores y creamos nuestra propia realidad" (2.3.4.1). Agrega el documento que los seguidores de la Nueva Era creen que "El viaje es la psicoterapia y el reconocimiento de la conciencia general, la salvaci'on. No existe el pecado; s'olo hay conocimiento imperfecto" (2.3.4.1). Sostienen que "El prop'osito y la din'amica de toda existencia es llevar el Amor, la Sabidur'ia, la Iluminaci'on...a su plena manifestaci'on" (7.1) y que "todas las religiones son la expresi'on de la misma realidad at your house" (7.1). Creen que nos movemos hacia una "religi'on international y un nuevo orden mundial" (4). Esto ser'ia la Era de Acuario.

?En donde se enfrentar'ia un cat'olico las inspiration de la Nueva Era? En el mundo de los negocios las hallar'ia en los seminarios en los que se ense~na que "lo que la mente puede concebir, lo lograr'a". Esto se conseguir'ia mediante conectar al "poder at your house".

En la escuela, es posible que un adolescente vea una hermosa piedra colgando del cuello de un amigo. Si 'este pertenece a la espiritualidad Nueva Era, probablemente creer'a que esa piedra posee un poder derivado de una energ'ia general. En clase, ser'a sujeto de meditaciones de vaciamiento mental parecidas a las de Meditaci'on Trascendental. Cuando vaya al cine, estar'a expuesto a conceptos de la Nueva Era como "la fuerza" en la serie "Leading lady Wars (La guerra de las galaxias)" y otros filmes. En la clase, algunas chicas practicar'an Wicca (brujer'ia Nueva Era) a imitaci'on del programa de televisi'on "Sabrina the Pubescent Witch (Sabrina, la bruja adolescente)."

Un ama de casa se encontrar'a con las inspiration de la Nueva Era en una clase de yoga (del tipo de las que incluyen meditaci'on). Incluso aunque el yoga es presentado como una ejercitaci'on, significa "uncir con Dios", y es parte de la religi'on hind'u. Algunas de las pr'acticas est'an dise~nadas para inducir estados alterados de la conciencia. Incluso ser'a invitada a aprender Meditaci'on Trascendental, que tambi'en deriva del hinduismo. El documento del Vaticano afirma que "Muchas personas est'an convencidas de que no hay peligro alguno en 'tomar prestados' elementos de la sabidur'ia oriental. Sin bar, el caso de la Meditaci'on Trascendental (MT) deber'ia invitar a los cristianos a ser m'as cautos ante la posibilidad de afiliarse sin saberlo a otra religi'on (en este caso, el Hinduismo), pese a que los promotores de la MT insistan en su neutralidad religiosa. El aprendizaje de la meditaci'on en s'i mismo no plantea problema alguno, pero el objeto o el contenido del ejercicio determinan claramente si se establece una relaci'on con el Dios revelado por Jesucristo, o bien con alguna otra revelaci'on, o simplemente con las profundidades ocultas del yo" (6.2). Miserable tambi'en que, para los practicantes de la Nueva Era, el "yoga, el zen, la meditaci'on trascendental y los ejercicios t'antricos conducen a una experiencia de plenitud del yo o iluminaci'on", agregando que "Se cree que las 'experiencias cumbre' (volver a vivir el propio nacimiento, viajar hasta las puertas de la muerte, el "biofeedback", la danza e incluso las drogas, cualquier cosa que pueda provocar un estado de conciencia alterado) conducen a la unidad y a la iluminaci'on" (2.3.4.1). Budistas, hinduistas y practicantes de la Nueva Era creen que la iluminaci'on es un estado de mayor conciencia de su propia divinidad.

Cualquier miembro del la familia se encontrar'a con la espiritualidad Nueva Era por mirar la programa de televisi'on muy popular el "Oprah Winfrey Produce a result (El print de Oprah Winfrey)". Ella acoge frecuentemente a divulgadores de la misma, como la actriz Shirley MacLaine. Durante muchas semanas, ella tuvo un segmento de tres a cinco minutos llamado "Recordando su esp'iritu". En uno de ellos, apareci'o el Dr. Wayne Dyer, popular miembro de la Nueva Era. Escritor y prol'ifico autor de 27 libros, incluidos "Sus zonas err'oneas," el Dr. Dyer ense~na a las personas c'omo conectarse con la energ'ia general o con sus Yo Great. Otro segmento resalt'o el Movimiento del Laberinto (recorrer un laberinto para encontrar la "divinidad at your house"). En esta parte del print tambi'en apareci'o la actriz Linda Dull, en cuclillas, tratando de conectarse con la tierra. Adem'as, Oprah recomienda calurosamente un libro escrito por otro seguidor de la Nueva Era Miguel Ruiz, basado en una antigua sabidur'ia tolteca titulada "The Four Agreements (Los Cuatro Acuerdos)". "Esta obra de Don Miguel Ruiz -- upset Oprah -- sencilla pero contundente, ha provocado un cambio tremendo en c'omo pienso y act'uo en cada situaci'on".

Puede ser que una madre lleve su hijo a un m'edico involucrado en sanaci'on hol'istica y partidario de aplicar t'ecnicas autocurativas o imaginativas en las dolencias leves. Probablemente sugerir'a utilizar una v'ia at your house hacia el subconsciente del ni~no a fin de manejar la parte emocional de la dolencia. Usar'a el "toque terap'eutico" en el que (el m'edico o sanador), en estado de state of unconsciousness, mover'a sus manos sobre o por debajo del cuerpo del paciente, flot'andolas donde sienta "energ'ia acumulada". Esto es lo que se conoce como cura reiki, y se origina en la magia t'antrica. Es una forma de curaci'on oculta o ps'iquica, y que es prohibido para los cristianos. El m'edico ofrecer'a cursos de "meditaci'on". Sugerir'a tambi'en biofeedback, reflexolog'ia o masajes de polaridad. Estas pr'acticas son relacionadas, seg'un el documento del Vaticano, como relacionadas con la Nueva Era (v'ease 2.2.3).

Para proteger el medio ambiente, un cat'olico devoto podr'ia sumarse al movimiento ecologista, inconsciente del lado radical propio de la ecolog'ia profunda. El documento upset que "la 'ecolog'ia profunda' se basa con frecuencia en principios pante'istas y, en ocasiones, gn'osticos" (6.2). Explica que "ha tenido un enorme 'exito la generalizaci'on de la ecolog'ia como fascinaci'on por la naturaleza y resacralizaci'on de la tierra, la Madre Tierra o "Gaia", gracias al celo misionero caracter'istico de los 'verdes'" (2.3.1). De aqu'i deriva la creencia que "el calor de la Madre Tierra, cuya divinidad penetra toda la creaci'on, colma el vac'io entre la creaci'on y el Padre-Dios trascendente del juda'ismo y del cristianismo, eliminando la posibilidad de ser juzgado por este 'ultimo" (2.3.1).

El culto a la madre tierra y a la naturaleza se llama "Wicca", una renovaci'on neopagana de la brujer'ia. A Wicca, upset el documento, tambi'en se la conoce como "the Yield" y se "extendi'o r'apidamente en Estados Unidos durante los a~nos 1960, donde se vincul'o con la 'espiritualidad de las mujeres'" (7.2). Es todav'ia popular entre algunas feministas, penetrando igualmente en algunos centros de retiros cat'olicos.

Un cat'olico que visite cualquier librer'ia conventional ver'ia una secci'on sobre ocultismo/Nueva Era justo al lado de la secci'on de religi'on. En los a~nos 1990 hab'ia en los Estados Unidos unas 2.500 librer'ias Nueva Era. Un autor popular es Deepak Chopra, que ense~na sanaci'on hol'istica. El ya mencionado Wayne Dyer es el m'as conocido.

Un feligr'es podr'ia relacionarse con la Nueva Era de muchas maneras. Quiz'as su parroquia est'e ense~nando t'ecnicas de "oraci'on centrante" sobre que lo ayudar'ian a llegar al dentro de su ser, para encontrar el Verdadero Yo, a la "divinidad at your house" a trav'es de la utilizaci'on de la palabra sagrada (o intone) y vaciar la mente de todos los pensamientos. Estas t'ecnicas se parecer'an a la meditaci'on trascendental, en la que la self trata de alcanzar la profundidad del propio ser. La mayor'ia de las creencias del Centering Charm Development (Movimiento de la oraci'on centrante) han sido identificadas por el documento del Vaticano como relacionados con la Nueva Era. El feligr'es ser'a conducido a un laberinto para rezar en el centro de su ser y alcanzar la "divinidad at your house". En un centro de retiro cat'olico se le ense~nar'a sobre el Cristo C'osmico, el Dios-poder que est'a en cada uno de nosotros. El documento tambi'en afirma que muchos seguidores de la Nueva Era, creen que "Jes'us de Nazaret no es Dios, sino una de las muchas manifestaciones del Cristo c'osmico y general" (3.1). Tambi'en explica que creen que "el Cristo C'osmico podr'ia vivir en la casa de al lado o incluso en el at your house m'as profundo y aut'entico del propio yo" (3.3). El feligr'es podr'ia ser invitado a un taller de eneagrama. El eneagrama es muy popular en los c'irculos cat'olicos. Hablando del gnosticismo, afirma que "Un ejemplo de esto puede verse en el eneagrama, -- un instrumento para el an'alisis caracterial seg'un nueve tipos -- que, cuando se utiliza como medio de desarrollo known, rear ambig"uedad en la doctrina y en la vivencia de la fe cristiana" (1.4).

El documento tambi'en afirma que "desgraciadamente, hay que admitir que en muchos casos algunos centros de espiritualidad espec'ificamente cat'olicos est'an comprometidos activamente en la difusi'on de la religiosidad de la "Nueva Era" dentro de la Iglesia. Es necesario corregir esta situaci'on, no s'olo para detener la propagaci'on de la confusi'on y del pit, sino tambi'en para que se conviertan en promotores eficaces de la verdadera espiritualidad cristiana" (6.2). De hecho, el documento nombra a algunos de los escritores que m'as influencia han tenido sobre los seguidores de la Nueva Era como Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin y Thomas Merton (v'ease 9.2).

Algunos piensan que es posible fusionar la espiritualidad Nueva Era con el catolicismo. Pero el documento advierte que "Desde el punto de arena de la fe cristiana, no es posible aislar algunos elementos de la religiosidad de la "Nueva Era" como aceptables por parte de los cristianos y rechazar otros. Puesto que el movimiento de la "Nueva Era" insiste tanto en la comunicaci'on con la naturaleza, en el conocimiento c'osmico de un bien general -- negando as'i los contenidos revelados de la fe cristiana --, no puede ser considerado como algo positivo o inocuo. En un ambiente cultural marcado por el relativismo religioso, es necesario alertar competing los intentos de situar la religiosidad de la "Nueva Era" al mismo nivel que la fe cristiana, haciendo que la diferencia entre fe y creencia parezca relativa y creando mayor confusi'on entre los desprevenidos. En este sentido, resulta 'util a exhortaci'on de San Pablo: 'avisar a algunos que no ense~nen doctrinas extra~nas, ni se dediquen a f'abulas y genealog'ias interminables, que son m'as a prop'osito para promover disputas que para realizar el foresee de Dios, fundado en la fe' (1 Tim. 1, 3-4)" (4).

Para los cat'olicos no es necesario buscar en renovadas religiones paganas para enriquecerse espiritualmente, especialmente teniendo en cuenta que ellas contienen errores graves opuestos a nuestras creencias. Nuestra fe cat'olica es el m'as grande tesoro sobre la tierra y contiene todo lo que necesitamos para la salvaci'on y el crecimiento espiritual: la santa misa, la Eucarist'ia, los otros sacramentos, el rosario, las sagradas escrituras, y el testimonio y ejemplo de los santos. De hecho, dada la riqueza y variedad del banquete espiritual legados por dos siglos de historia cat'olica, ?por qu'e habr'iamos de necesitar o desear buscar algo m'as?

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Moartea Si Viata De Apoi

Autor XOPHIER

Traducator FvF

(Sufletul scribului Ani isi viziteaza corpul mumificat - din Papirusul lui Ani)

Cu totii murim. Este inevitabil si de neoprit. Unii se tem de moarte, altii o primesc cu bine, altii si-o aduc asupra lor. Nu ma leg de credintele cuiva pe acest subiect deoarece, mai exact, nu imi pasa de ce credeti. Eu cel putin nu accept sinuciderea. O vad ca pe o slabiciune si o lasitate. In toata lumea multe civilizatii s-au temut de moarte. Fie ca au umanizat-o sau demonizat-o, majoritatea clasei inalte de aristocrati se temeau de ea mai mult decat cei saraci. Unii venerau zei ai mortii si au facut sa fie mai usor pentru cei ramasi vii, in timp ce altii cereau acestor zei sa omoare pe cei care ii chinuiau. Bogatii sau saracii, ambele parti ale lantului economic impartasau un singur lucru si acela era necazul. Este punctul umanizator in care ne declaram stramosii. Cei care isi plangeau mortii si le faceau morminte; in locul celor care faceau focuri, au trudit pentru a oferii respectul cuvenit celor care si-au parasit cochiliile omenesti. A fost o munca fundamentala in religii si viata de zi cu zi. Numita si "Marele Egalizator" deoarece nu cunoaste rasa, credinta, religie si nici nu poate fi mituita. Pentru cele ce traiesc si respira, intotdeauna vor fi aceia ce trebuie sa fie pusi la odihna.

Incepand cu Sumer, elita care murea era acompaniata cu multi oameni, oameni apropiati, comori, vin si animale sacrificate.Erau gatiti cu flori imbracati incele mai bune haine si bijuterii1. Dar cat oamenii erau imbracati, legile puse in societatea vie ii urmau in moarte. Paradisul unei vieti de apoi, care este similar cu regatul mitic al Edenului era speranta oamenilor pe care vroiau sa o ajunga. Toti oamenii buni erau bine-primiti in acest loc. Suicidul nu era permis in aceste legi si nu i se permitea acelei persoane sa intre in acest loc si ii forta sa intre intr-un regat numit Kur. Legile in aceasta societate nu erau ca legile Ebraice. De obicei incalcarea legilor era urmarita de amenzi, motiv pentru care clasa inalta obisnuia probabil sa fie inmormantata cu comori2 < Am gasit un mic articol in care scrie ca masculii erau nascuti malefici si erau condamnati la o regiune "infernala" intr-o viata de apoi dominate de si/sau numita Kur. Singurul site pe care l-am gasit si care aproba acesta lucru este www.helium.com>

Mai departe examinam civilizatia Egipteana si credintele ei asupra mortii si vietii de apoi. Riturile funerare egiptene sunt mult mai bine cunoscute. Clasa inalta si bogata isi putea permite mumificarea si mormintele sau o onorare mai mareata in care sa fie asezat la odihna in mormantul unui faraon. Faraonul desigur era intruchiparea vie a unui zeu. Acesta avea sa fie trecut in tinutul zeilor la zorii-zilei la timpul in care a fost pus la odihna in piramida sa. 4 Cartea Egipteana a Mortilor trece clar printr-un labirint ca o urma. Sa nu ajungi la sfarsitul acestuia ar insemna sa nu existi. O soarta inspaimantatoare in ochii Egiptenilor. Si totusi, fiecare din aceste urme avea o rugaciune sau o vraja prin care puteai trece testul, care de obicei era un zeu intreband daca ai facut vre-un pacat. Aceste pacate erau de la a manca balega pana la dorinta de a avea proprietatea cuiva. Daca ai trecut de toate acestea iar inima iti era mai usoara ca o pana ce simboliza ca esti o persoana ligitim morala castigai acces la un taram Paradiziac. Bogatii si cei din clasele inalte isi pastrau pozitiile iar sclavii inca munceau. Aceasta viata de apoi se aseamana mult cu viziunea civizilatiei Sumeriene.

In Buddhismul Tibetan moartea este un eveniment. Cand moare o persoana calugarii vor petrece peste 40 de zile cantand cantece religioase si rugandu-se pentru a ajuta spiritual sa isi gaseasca drumul. Este crezut ca moartea este foarte traumatica pentru spirit si ca acesta uita multe, dar cantecele ii aduc aminte de studiul vietii lor si ii ajuta in aceste drumuri unice. Mai intai mortul este intampinat de placerii carnale. Daca acesta nu depaseste tentatia acesta ramane aici pana realizeaza ca este o tentative, iar daca timpul este prea lung acesta este reincarcat intr-o fiinta foarte inferioara. Apoi intampina forme intunecate de zei si zeite. Acestia par ca vor s ail omoare dar este defapt cealalta parte a multor zei. Mortul nu trebuie sa fuga infricosat dar sa stie sa ii respecte. Unii au nevoie de anumite rugaciuni pe care calugarul i le canta, ca sa treaca de acest punct. Mai departe in acest labirint este un spirit care aduna faptele bune si faptele rele ale mortului cu pietre colorate. Daca gramada de fapte rele este mai mare decat cea a faptelor bune spiritual nu lasa mortul sa treaca. Aici exista de asemenea un cantec ce ii spune mortului ca acesta este defapt o nascocire a propriei minti si astfel dispare. Si dupa multe alte intampinari de acest gen mortul este adus la zeul Vietii. Acesta ii spune mortului daca poate intra in Rai, sa fie reincarcat in om sa fie reincarnate intr-o fiinta inferioara sau sa sufere de mainile zeilor pentru un timp. Aceasta lista vine de la cea mai intalta la cea mai inferioara. 6

Desi ceea ce credem, sau speram sa credem, poate fid oar teorie, si procesul sufletului ce pleaca este necunoscut de multi, cei care au plecat ne lasa mai multa tensiune emotionala decat putem percepe. Stadiile mahnirii social acceptate sunt negarea/izolarea, furia, negocierea, depresia apoi acceptarea. Imi aduc aminte cand cineva apropiat a murit. A incetat sa imi mai vorbeasca cu mine online pentru cateva zile ceea ce nu era neobisnuit, apoi o alta persoana mi-a spus ca a murit. Nu l-am crezut bineinteles. M-am gandit "Nu se poate sa fi murit, e mai tanar decat mine..." Am stat departe de aceea persoana pentru cateva zile, inainte de a pune mai multe intrebari pentru a incerca sa-l incurc, sa incerc sa imi fac mintea sa creada ca prietenul meu nu a murit. Cand aceea persoana mi-a spus totul corect am sarit direct in furie. Eram atat de plin de furie pentru parintii acelui copil ca nu au avut grija de fiul lor, pentru el ca nu a folosit mai multa judecata, chiar si pentru mine pentru ceva foarte stupid... pentru ca nu am prezis ca asta se va intampla. Am sarit peste negociere, pentru ca moartea este moarte si stiam ca nu e nimic ce pot sa fac. Am trecut de la furie la depresie. Ma simteam mort inauntru, amortit nepasandu-mi daca ceva s-a intamplat. In timp ce emotia a trecut, am stiut ca tot ce pot sa fac este sa sper la mai bine pentru prietenul meu. Il voi avea intotdeauna in memorie si in inima.

Desii am pierdut un bun prieten am invatat o lectie. Am facut de asemenea un ritual ca sa ma ajute cand imi era greu. Acesta bineinteles il voi impartasi cu voi. Dupa ce l-am invocat pe Lucifer si Leviathan am luat o bucata lunga de sticla cu un pahar de shot-uri intors peste. Pe partea inferioara am facut o Ouija dar cu cateva lucruri adaugate, inclusiv cu sigiliile tuturor demonilor pe care i-a tinut aproape si cateva cuvinte. Dupa un timp indelungat al ritualului si la timpul in care lumanarile mele ajungeau sa se stinga deja ma simteam mai bine, ca un ultim ramas bun. Inainte ca flacara sa palpaie pentru ultima oara, am pus lumanarea peste paharul intors si am cerut sa deseneze un sigiliu. Ceara a curs si intr-un final am avut o imagine. Am desenat-o cu sangele meu pe o bucata noua de pergament si apoi am adus-o afara cu o mana de monede pe care am gravat sigilii si doua betisoare parfumate pe care mi-a spus ca le prefera. Arzand betisoarele cu pergamentul, am stat jos, inhaland mirosurile si amintindu-mi de vremurile placute, apoi cand betisoarele au ars, am sapat putin si le-am ingropat pe toate cu respect. Multumind lui si demonilor am pasit solemn inapoi in casa si am mers sa dorm.

Pentru un Ocultist, moartea poate insemna multe lucruri. Cartea de tarot "Moartea" simbolizeaza viata noua si inceputuri noi impreuna cu schimbare. O moarte a vechii persoane. Cei ce studiaza si practica sub Calea Mainii Stangi au multe idei pentru viata de apoi. Fie ca este ideea Crestinismului inversat a Iadului, sau originea sa Hel, fie ca este un paradis astral sau nu exista deloc, sau chiar ceva pe care nu il intelegem. Dar pentru cei ce se tem si cei ce se minuneaza sunt multe zeitati si demoni ai mortii. "Eliberatorul Sufletelor" este vrednic numit "Seceratorul Necrutator" sau "Grim Reaper" dar numele s-a schimbat de la civilizatie la civilizatie. Grecii il aveau pe Hermes si Thanatos. Mitologia Hindusa pe Yama, in timp de alte religii pagane aveau multe "Femei in Alb" sau uneori femei ce puteau fi responsabile pentru moarte si pasirea in lumea urmatoare. Pentru demoni, aceasta este lista mea personala, alphabetic. Astarte, Bifrons, Bune, Charon, Euronymous/Eurynomous, Babeal, Baalberith, Gamigin, Hades, Hecate, Hermes, Ishtar, Mictan, Nergal, Nija, Persephone, Thanatos.

Aproape fiecare grup LHP are un "Ritual al Mortii" in care cei implicate cer Demonilor/Zeilor vechi sa omoare pe cineva. Imi imaginez daca mai multi oameni s-ar strange impreuna pentru a ataca pe cineva, pentru a cere moartea. Personal ma indoiesc ca un Demon ar ajuta la uciderea cuiva, dar am vazut oameni cerand ca cineva sa fie ranit si am vazut rezultatele. Este ametitor. Mult grupari Sataniste nici nu permit discutia sacrificiilor pe cand grupuri precum Order of Nine Angles au publicat lucrari despre sacrificiu uman/crima. Unele grimoire-uri in special cele legate de Necronomicon sau alte grimoireuri mai noi fac asta. Cum este scris si in The Black Arts de Richard Cavendish chiar exista ratiune in aceste ucideri7. Eu nu sustin uciderea umana, si ma indoiesc ca oricare Ocultist adevarat ar sustine asa ceva. In schimb sustin sacrificiul animal, deoarece este legal si protejat de Curtea Suprema a SUA.

Pentru Satanist, viziunea mortii si a vietii dupa moarte variaza cu fiecare forma diferita a Satanismului. Cea mai traditionala viziune este aceea de a merge in Iad, locul unde Jehova nu este present. Alte grupari Sataniste cu credinte in Zei Egipteni/Demoni cred fie in Paradis sau un alt Taram Astral. Cei care sunt Satanisti Spirituali cred intr-o amestecare de credinte Sumeriene, Thelemite si Calatorie Astrala in cea mai mare parte. Demonolatria urmeaza in mare o viziune Hermetica a mortii. Cu adaugarea venerarii demonilor devine practice reincarnarea elementelor pana cand sunt demne de Planul Demonic8. Altii cred in calatoria pe alte planete, altii nu cred in nimic, altii cred in lumi paralele, dar in final este vorba de ceea ce te ajuta sa dormi noaptea. Viata dupa moarte este prologul vietii, de ce sa treci peste 'intriga' ?

Cu o astfel de fragmente din religiile lumii, procesul plangerii si mortii in viziunea ocultistului, se pot observa asemanari. Religiile mai vechi au multi zei pentru moarte si ritualurile pentru viata de apoi. Multe au chiar povesti similare ale unor zei care mor sau care ajung intr-un taram al vietii de apoi. In mitologia Greco-Romana, Hades stapanea viata de apoi si nevasta sa, Persefona a fost inselata pentru a sta cu Hades timp de 3 din 4 sezoane. In Egipt, Osiris a fost inselat si omorat de Set, readus la viata de Isis pentru sex, moarte din nou si apoi corpul ii este ingropat in nisip, mai apoi este dezmembrat. Cand Isis a strans toate bucatile ceilalti zei l-au facut Stapanul Infernului. In timp ce unele religii au mai multe traditii precum Norvegienii, altele sunt destul de simple in natural or dar ideea este sa te gandesti daca sunt adevarate in vre-un fel... Exista ceva dupa asta ? Intr-un sens cosmic suntem intr-adevar graunte de nisip. Oare fiecare cultura a facut aceste idei numai pentru a-i ajuta sa doarma mai bine noaptea, sau sa ii controleze, sau vre-un nebun ars de Soare a privit in infinitate si a vazut ceva ce noi nu putem intelege... ?

1http://archaeological-burial-practices.suite101.com/article.cfm/farout revelations on the great deathpit at ur2 http://www.helium.com3 http://en.wikipedia.org4 http://en.wikipedia.org5 Cartea Egipteana A Mortilor6 Cartea Tibetana A Mortilor7 Satanism and Witchcraft: The Occult and the West-Part Two; Dr. John Ankerberg, Dr. John Weldon8 The Complete Book of Demonolatry; S. Connolly