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Everything is Sacred, Everything is full of Gods
I really love Paganism, because (at least my) Paganism is based on 3 core principles: - Pantheism: The Divine is Everything / Pan-en-theism: Everything is in the Divine; - Polytheism: The Divine is Multiple; - Animism: Everything has a Soul, a Consciousness. This means that every path we walk through, it’s sacred. This means that everywhere we look, we look at Gods. The Tree we see is a God, the Moon that we look is a Goddess, the Wind is a Deity; the Fire is a Numen.
Panta Plere Theon. Everything is full of Gods. Everything is alive, everything has a consciousness, everything is a independent living being.
We are so people-oriented, we are so sure that the only one to which we can talk, we can interact, are other humans. But Animism and Paganism say us that no, we are just one little point in the universe. One species of many others, one group inside a Universe full of life, full of consciousness, full of Gods.
Even we are Gods, and maybe if we just awake our inside Godhead we’ll perceive it. We’ll perceive to be in connection with all that surround us. We’ll perceive that everything is alive!
Because yes, everything is alive! Everything is a God! Gods surround us, Gods are all around us. Every time we walk in this life, we are walking in beauty, wonderfulness and splendor.
Man, free thinker! You imagine thought Is yours alone in a world that bursts with life? The powers you hold are fed by freedom. But the universe is absent from your wisdom. Respect in the beast an active mind: To nature, each budding flower is a soul; A mystery of love in metal resides; “All things feel!” And impact on mankind. Fear, in the blind wall, a watchful gaze: The Logos is bound even to matter… Ensure it serves no impious use! Often in the obscure being, dwells a hidden God; And like a nascent eye masked by its lid, Beneath the skin of stones ripens a purer spirit!
- Golden Verses, Gerard de Nerval
“It is not enough to weep for our lost landscapes; we have to put our hands in the earth to make ourselves whole again. Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer, from Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Milkweed Editions, 2020)
“For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.” ― Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan
Artwork by Alexandre Luiz Segregio
Shamanism goes far beyond a primarily self-concerned transcendence of ordinary reality. It is transcendence for a broader purpose, the helping of humankind. The enlightenment of shamanism is the ability to light up what others perceive as darkness, and thereby to see and to journey on behalf of a humanity that is perilously close to losing its spiritual connectedness with all its relatives, the plants and animals of this good Earth
Quote from the book Psychedelic Shamanism: The Cultivation, Preparation & Shamanic Use of Psychoactive Plants
Wow I really want to read this now (homework go away plz I need time to read witch books)
Witchcraft and the Shamanic Journey
Just read the book of this title by Kenneth Johnson. His field is Comparative Religion, which gives a very good perspective on this topic. Recognition of the Shamanic element in European history has revolutionized the issue of Pagan Survival studies for Europe. Scholars of the Burning Times often dismissed vast realms of Witchcraft and surviving Pagan activity because “they were just having visions”! Sometimes we need a name, or more accurately, a concept, to see what is right in front of us. The concept of Shamanism has been the missing element in studying the chaotic period of the late Middle Ages. It can also be thread to follow, that allows us to see how Paganism has survived in many periods of history under changing forms.
Johnson surveys several important living Shamanic cultures in Europe with an informal style that lets us see how these cultures have survived, and how they function today. Syncretism, the blending of two or more religions, has often blinded us to the survival of the Pagan spirit under the regime of Christianity. It is a complicated theme, and Johnson handles it well. He puts forward a bold and interesting thesis: that the resurgence of Witchcraft which terrified the Christian Church at the dawn of the modern age was a “Crisis Cult” which was responding to the forces disintegrating the Medieval society from within in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries.
Light Medicine
by Felix Pinchi Aguirre
Tusu poro Onuman=kor, korkay nokaha tusu=menoko Onuman keme=an okay. Nankatukur=ani anakne Sumin kun=ne, wa tan okkay poronno kor=enoka. Tan nankatukur rayosi {Cassir-kur} ne.
(Twilight has great magic, even so pictures of shamaness Twilight are rare. The artist's name is Sumin, and this [young] man draws a lot. This artist is Korean.) For all her magical prowess, Twilight or her family members as shamans or shamanesses are surprisingly hard to find, and he's pulling this off quite well.
Hey folks, if you're looking for a generalized term to use in place of "shaman," a number of academic folks have been using the term "ritual specialist."
(If anyone needs an explanation why you ought to use a different term, one is over here.)
Hey folks, if you're looking for a generalized term to use in place of "shaman," a number of academic folks have been using the term "ritual specialist."
(If anyone needs an explanation why you ought to use a different term, one is over here.)
i listed them upon first instinct and decided that the order was based on the nature of blockages that each planet correlates to…
my bottom four basically have a chokehold on the 3rd dimension as it stands bc the collective is largely focused on conscious development: technology, politics, material profit, so much that we stress the left-brain by linking it with our mind = the gut (blocking the throat and solar plexus chakras)
since society expects us to do jobs that we hate, in order to survive instead of truly thriving, we perpetuate our disempowerment on a physical + spiritual level, which reflects on our conscious awareness + our ability to envision a better future (blocking the third-eye)
misanthropy + apathy are grossly stunting our collective development, since ppl are devoting their life to shit that doesn’t fulfill them, it breeds cynicism + depression (blocking the root and crown chakra)
? venus is kind of a middle league bc it serves as a gateway into the third dimension, as the planet of love + war, what she brings into your life depends on the content of your heart’s desires, its a truly neutral sphere that is equally protective as it is destructive so…
my top four are mainly the outer planets, its just that they each carry really distinct energies which i believe are more easy to recognize, since they’re such bold tones
!!! i recognize jupiter as the surprise, scintillating on the horizon of what you will be after a surprise call to action, how you respond reflects how you’ve grown
!!! i feel neptune as serendipity, the smallest things that really bring you bliss + continue to revolve around you bc its meant to be in your life, without trying
!!! pluto as courage, which defaults by your personal understanding of whatever you feel capable to do
!!! uranus is top tier because she accelerates chaos by the rhythm of divine timing, bringing revelations that humble us + instill our reverence for life
those top four are pretty controversial for the level of impact they can have, but ultimately we are no judge of the planetary bodies + it only serves us to build a relationship with the divine wherever it meets us, of course the higher dimensions don’t always find us favorably… it’s your job to make room for them through your spirituality
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"The ancient Celts saw the land as a living being, a Goddess, from which all else sprang. The land was a memory, an archive, a consciousness, and a conscience. To heal what is amiss in the present world, we must recapture the reverence of the world of the past and reconnect with our ancestral lands."
-Celtic Shamanism: An Awakening Landscape
Audio Dialogue With Jane Burns and Sandra Ingerman
Most of us had to give up or adjust our passions/dreams in order to earn a living. This is the reverse pathway, often known as the karmic life.
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🔆 The soul led life invites us to find our unique soul blueprint and follow our own design - instead of walking in the footsteps of others.
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🤗 As we find our purpose - we manifest all the good things in all other areas of our life including money, happiness, community, peace, romance, health and whatever else we need to feel fulfilled.
(There is a difference between having a career vs. one you enjoy + pays well as well as being in any relationship vs. one that truly touches your heart and so on...)
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And none of this requires us to abandon, betray or reject any part of us to secure any of our wishes.
Our blessings flow easily + endlessly when we remain true to ourselves and follow our soul's calling.
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Dear Diary #2
Today is another day in the life that I wish I had better control over. Recently I had done a reading for this Philly photographer I know of. for some shrooms. I had an interesting experience the first time I had tried it. So I wanted to try it again.
He's in town for New York fashion week. He stopped by my job to drop them off. Honestly I was a bit annoyed by him because he took an additional 3 hours to get to me. He through me off track for the evening. I have a nightly routine I like to keep to. I work out when I wake up, go to work and work out before I go to sleep.
Well, after getting the shrooms, I have to say that I honestly hesitated to take them. I was alone that night. And people have always said that if you're not experienced in it that you should not take them alone.... But! I did anyway. I like to make tinctures or teas. Instead of taking them flat out. To me I think it's easier to control them that way. If I have felt I've taken too much I can always dilute it. Or! so I thought.
After a few days of contemplating if I should do it or not. I evenly took out my portable coffee grinder. Placed the bits and pieces of the shrooms into the grinder and ground them into a course mix and added it to a tea that I had brewed for fat loss. Man!!!! was that shit nasty. lol There was not enough brown sugar in the world to replace that taste. lol
After taking a few sips, I was not feeling anything at all so I started to gulp it. Five min started to pass. Then ten, around twenty minutes. I started to hear the Tv slur. Which slightly freaked me out. I was too shocked because the high's I've ever experienced were head highs. Not body highs and this! This high, was both. I stared laughing for what ever reason. I was very confused about it. I felt like a child. I really did! I was scared & confused because I did not know what I should expect. But! at the same time I felt safe and wanted. Weird! right!?
My mind was too nervouse think about anything. Honestly all I could focus on was the good and not the bad. My shroom experience made me realize. I am not alone. I'm not a terrible man, I'm not hateful as much as I thought I was. And I'm only responding to what has been presented to me and this is not me. I'm actually a happy person. I'm beautiful or handsome if you want to add gender. I'm not a loser. I'm not alone. I have purpose and I have value. The people who walk with me in life are here because they choose to. Not because they have to. & to me that means the world. Because If you choose to do something. It says so much about the person you choose to do stuff for.
For years I have always been hard on myself. I let the experices I had define who I was. And not anymore! I'm strong enough to understand the difference between experiences and choices. All the things that I have been holding on to were and are experiences. Not my choice. Not me.
I'm not too sure if I would ever take shrooms again. I said out loud to myself several times, I don't like this feeling. I felt very whoosh and my motor functions were not the best. I felt like a methadone addict on 125th the way I was leaning in my house. The walls were trailing as I passed by them. I like it and did not like it at the same time. Ask me in a few months and I'll tell you how I feel. Knowing me, I'll probably say yes again. lol
Albeit this is me sharing my experience with you. Not! telling you to do it. I needed to know for myself what this was about and I was curious about it. Since, I've done a very small amount before this experience. I also called my Enchantress friend. So technically I was not a lone. even though She lives in the next state over!
Dear Tumbler Diary
This to me, will always be a dream. I have been told by the Goddess of "self love" herself. That I would always have issues with love. I honestly do not know how to unravel that per-say. But! if I had to guess. I would say that the ball will always been my court and I have such an awareness that. I should always do what's best for me. & if I don't then the issue is mine, because I know better.
And like 23 year old me would say. "If you know better! Then you should do better"! Now I see that's not completely true. Then I spoke with the mindset of someone who did not have what he has now. I spoke with privilege and arrogance. I spoke like I knew everything. I also think that's why I'm still single. Because I think I know everything. I can also see how that's a major turn off. I myself am turned off by it. I can see how others are too.
When It comes to love I'm very delusional and I know I cannot be trusted. My head and heart are always fighting about what they want and what they need. The modern gay is too free and uneducated on how to court and love one another. We have many examples of how to fuck and have safer sex. But! not too many examples of how to love yourself or how to love the same sex or gender. How to have a successful healthy relationship. That's why I think we as gays and we as non whites have an issues. The stigmas and history surrounding homosexuality and What love is supposed to be. Even what main stream religion says how we’re to love in our organic environments. They won't let it happen. & if it does. Someone, somewhere for the sake or morals and beliefs. Sacrifices something! It does not always have to be grand or even a big sacrifice. But! There's always something given up.
One of the ways homosexuals sacrifice love is, by doing what’s expected of them. Listing to people who probably mean well, but don’t walk in the shoes of us. Happiness is the of the worse sacrifices to make. When stripped of it. Resentment and self loathing kicks in like over watered roots of any house plants. From the inside out it rots. It decay’s. Over time killing the person of all that would have and even could have made them better! Better people and bette for there community.
When I though I had found the love of my life. I was lost in desire. Love spells or attraction spells are dangerous because, they need to be done by people who are of sound mind. To me, if you do not have a strong foundation of self awareness, aware of your own imperfections and well as your blessings. Then you sorta cursed yourself to be with someone who you! Become dependent on.
One night in my early years of adult hood. I took it upon myself. With my half baked mindset. To cast into the universe to bring to me the qualities in a man that I hold dear and desired. This man was a man who had the eye of everyone. But! who came home to me! He was wealthy in love and energy. And yada yada yada. So I wrote these qualities down on a paper bag. Written in devil blood ink. On the night of a new moon of blessings. I took my deck of tarot. "This is where I fucked up" and placed the Lovers first followed by the Six of cups. Here! is where I FUCKED ME! and hard too. Followed by other suits. It was a while ago. So forgive for not giving too much detail. I had a red votive candle blessed and charged the night before. I placed it directly on my deck and anointed the space with Freshly cracked black pepper and willow leaves from Central Park. I love working with willow. And yes of course the tincture was blessed and anointed by HECATE. So not only did I call out to the Universe. I called HECATE too. Which was not really a good Idea. because I did not offer her the things I was supposed to. And back then I was depressed and was looking for a way of escape. In that time of my life. Sexual pleasure was my way out. "Who says being a slut isn't fun!"
Now! fast forward many years later A child of Yemaya and of the other Orisha, I know more now. Even better! I should have not only respected myself. But! my craft. Looking back now I can say I disrespected HECATE. writing this I see I have a debt to pay! She too has always been good to me. Blessed me with all wishes i asked for. Now, i take into account of how I cast spells and what for. Not all things can be completed with magic. But! It sure helps. Lol to be honest a natural love. And health and bountiful love will come to me. I just have to be sure to be ready for it. And welcome it with light and love in my heart, money on the bank and foundation so strong. That even when the earth quakes, moves and cries we are undisturbed and unaware of the fires that are outside our door!
serve your plate first before serving others.
He asked me when I fell in love with him and I knew it sounded dramatic to say the moment I saw him, so I told him this story of my grandma who had Alzheimer's- she forgot her name and the words for fruit and food, she forgot her address and how to use the washroom, all her life lost to the disease. The only thing she remembered was her son's name and when that began to fade, the one thing she always remembered was that she loved him, even in illness, even in insanity. She saw this 6 foot 2 man with a scrubby beard and she didn't know him but she said she trusted him, she asked him to hold her hand when she died. When does memory end and love begin? All I know is- she loved him before she remembered him.
-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire