My life as a horror film

I was taking a bath this morning, when I think I was moementarily entered into a Japaneese horror film. I was sitting in the tub while the water was filling up, when all of the sudden I saw this large dark object, or shadow, or something wash out of the faucet with the water, and than it was gone in like a second.

So I was sitting there thinking what it could have been. Could some hair possible have gotton in there somehow? Was there a bug in there that got flushed out. Than for some reason I thought of a dead rat, though I do not know if that would even be possible.

So I reach over to turn the waters off and I look in the tub and there is no sign of anything at all in the water. But I know just what I saw.

8:52 AM - 8/22/2008 - comments {0} - post comment

Pentagram

I made this one the beach

6:12 PM - 8/4/2008 - comments {0} - post comment

Possible Elemental

I think I may have got the picture of an elmental. I was going through the pics from my vaccation, and I have this one picture that was taken in a wildlife sanctuary, and there were these three ghostly looking dead trees that were right next to each other that I thought were cool, so I was taking a picture of those, and everything else all around was all green. But later when I was downloading my pictures, I noticed in this picture in the midist of the trees a strange red-orange, spot that I could not account for. It did not seem to be part of the trees, nor did it look as if it could have been from the sunlight. So I cropped the image, and zoomed in, and well what I got was rather strange looking. Still not quite sure what it is, but it looks like it has a face and it appears to be rising up out of the trees.

Here is the original photograph:

Here is the close up. It was the best I could do, sense I do not have a bunch of high tech stuff to work it.

4:25 PM - 7/30/2008 - comments {0} - post comment

A Different View of Eve

I know that Eve, is typically seen as something of a villainous figure and the one who is responsible for the fall of man and the exile of mankind from the Garden of Eden which is portrayed as a paradise of innocence and joy, and a play free of death, pain, and suffering, but I offer a different perspective on the story.

I know this is not how the Bible intended the story, but as a non-Christian, this is my own personal interpretation, and how I choose to view, though of course this is all speaking in the hypothetical sense I did not actually believe in the story of Adam and Eve and the Bible.

In my view Eve, was not in fact the bringer of sin, and I do not see her actions as being sinful. But even with ill, and negative aspects which might come, knowledge is still better than ignorance. Eve was the give of knowledge to man. She was the bringer of free will to man. Though some might choose to than act wrongly or do a bad thing,  it is still better to have the choice, than to live in complete bliss like nothing more than a child, not knowing that there is the possibility of making a choice, for one to know their own mind, and to than act accordingly.

In the long run, I think when one makes the choice to act rightly, and of course by this I personally do not mean that the "right" thing to do is accept the will of God, but to simply make right and moral choices, in life in general, would mean far more if one is knowingly and willingly living their life in a way that is helpful and beneficial to fellow living creatures, and knowing they could take another path, and choose not to, opposed to simply doing the "right" thing, because one does not understand that there is anything else that could possibly be done.

I do not see the serpent in the Garden as being an incarnation of evil, but instead as the bringer of knowledge, and woman being the one to give this gift to man.

Eve is not a villain, but rather she is a heroine.

10:15 PM - 6/8/2008 - comments {0} - post comment

My Altar

4:05 PM - 1/2/2008 - comments {0} - post comment

The Saturnalia

Well I posted this on my other blog, but for anyone whom does not read it, and because I found it interesting and wanted to share a different tradition of this time of year I thought I would post over here as well.

The Romans rejoiced in this wintery festival as much as we welcome the Yuletide, and in similar ways. Libanius, a fortth-centruy writer, gives us a glimpse of the ubrane Saturnalia celebration:

There is food everywhere, heavy rich food. And laughter. A positive urge to spend seizes everyone, so that people wo have taken pleasure in saving up the whole year, now think it is a good idea to squander. The streets are full of people staggering under the load of gifts. Children are free of the dread of thier teachers, and for slaves the festival is as good as a holiday. Another good thing about it; it teaches people not to be too fond of money, but to let it circulate from hand to hand.

Saturn, the honoree of the occasion, had a dual nature. He was identified with the Greek Cronos, the surpreme Titan and the father of Zeus. The regin of Cronos was considered a Golden Age throughout Italy and the celebration of Saturnalia was meant to re-create its felicity. Battles were forbidden. Businesses closed, autumn seeds had been sown, no one worked. Slaves became giddy with tempoary freedom. They could say what they chose with no fear of reprisal, feasting with thier masters and even be waited upon by them. Gambling, usually punsisable with a fine fixed at four times the vaule of the stakes, was offically premitted. The executioner hung up his sword. 

But the god had a side as dark as December evenings. :Later myths recount the Cronos was deposed by his son Zeus, and banished in rage and madness as searing as King Lear's. The Golden Age vanished in a burse of Olympian thunderbolts. By the time that classical Latin liteature evolved Cronos into Saturn, he had taken on the gloomy sardonic charachter attributed to the astrology of the planet.

7:38 PM - 12/18/2007 - comments {0} - post comment

Narwahl-Unicorn Theroy

There is something that has always sort of bothered me and I know I get obcessed with odd things at times and things that might seem irrelevent and that most do not perhaps pay attention to, but some things to me just seem so obvious that I do not know how others seem to completely miss it, or not see it.

I have heard on countless different accoutns on varrious shows on the History channel and other such soruces from different scholars, and historians, and such types, that one of the most common theories explaining the idea of the unicorn might be the narwhal. Which for those whom do not know a narwhal is a whale and it looks like this:

They live in Artica costal waters and rivers.

Now the thing that has always baffled me about this theroy and explination of the Unicorn, is the fact that the people of the Middle Ages and even pre middle ages were perfectly familar with the concept of horses, they used horses on a regular bassis and the unicorn is very clearly descirbed as being an equine, horse like create but with a horn. I perosnally find it illogical, and just generally very hard to beleive that people even living back then, happend to see a narhwal swiming in the water, and somehow got in confused with a land dwelling mamal which strongly resmebles the horse an animal they wer closely familar with.

I really do not see how they could have spotted a narwhal and then began sprending stories about some sort of horned horse running around. There is just no way a person whom as seen a horse before, can in anyway shape or form get it confused with a narwhal however strnage the creature might look.

Here are some images of the unicorn created between 1495-1505

The below image came from a very rare collection, Topsells book of The History of Foor-Footed Beasts and Serpants, it was put togethe in the 1600s

It can clearly be seen in all the above images that the unicorn was an animal the people of the day associated with the land and with horses. I do not think there is anyway that the narwhal could have been mistaken for the animal that can be viewed in the above images.

10:41 PM - 12/13/2007 - comments {0} - post comment

Demeter

I thought I should talk a little bit about Demeter today for a couple of reasons. For one, she is one of the most revered and respected of the goddess for me personally. I found her to be inceridbaly strong willed which I greatly admire, and very powerful. She is a Greek earth goddess and thus is worshiped as a harvest goddess, she brings forth the fuits of the earth, particuarly grain, and it is said she tought man how to sow and plough so they could end thier nomadic ways, and thus she is heralded as the goddess who planned society.

Demeter is most well known for being the mother of Persephone, as most people proably know the story it is one of the best known of Greek myths. Persephone was kidnaped by Hades and taken into the underworld, to be forced to be his wife. When Demeter discovered her daughter missing she was deeply grivied and guised as an old woman she went to hunt for her child, when she learned the truth of her daughters dissaperance she was outraged. She demanded of the Gods that her daughter be returned to her, and she turned the land barren and would not allow any grains to grow untill the gods were forced to do something, so an arragement was made. For part of the year Persephone would be allowed upon the surface to be with her mother, and during this time the land was fertile and green, and for the other part of the year Persephone retuned back to the underworld, and for this part of the year, the land was baren and nothing would grow, and thus we have Winter and Spring.

One of the reasons I wanted to talk about Demeter is becasue I do not celebrate the "traditional" or I should say Americinize version of Thanksgiving, for one reason, becasue I do not want to honor and celebrate the genocide of a culture and people, as cyincal as a view as that may sound. History is what it is. And for another I do not want to celebrate a Puritan holiday, even though Thanksgiving is not reguarded as being religious in anyway, it was started by the Puritan settlars whom came to this country.

So instead I celebrate Thesmosphoria an ancient Greek festival that was tradionaly held every year in Autumn, and is a festival of the harvest, and thanks giving in honro of Demeter.  

7:08 PM - 11/21/2007 - comments {0} - post comment

Moon Festival

This is something I saw on one of my calanders and I found it intresting so I decided to do some looking into it, and this is what I found about it.

2:32 PM - 9/24/2007 - comments {2} - post comment

Magick to Miracle

Well I was just thinking, and it is never a good idea when I get alone in my head and lost in my thoughts becasue I begin to ponder upon currious things, which is what brings us to todays topic. I do not know how I first got on this train of thought but I began thinking about how funny it is, that things Christains claim are evil and bad when a non-christain preforms them, they somehow seem to make an excuse for themselves to do such things.

What I am speaking of specifally now, is magick, yes I said magick, particuarly with the whole Harry Potter thing, though I am not a fan of Harry Potter I think it is quite ridiculous how so much of the Christain community is against it.

The Bibile just happens to be littered with occurances of magick, and Christains claim they are against magick, and that those who preform magick are allinged with Satan, and there are a few passages in the Bibile that denounce the use of magick, yet at the same time, whenever a Christian preforms an act of magick they slap the word Miracle on it and call it a gift from God.

To give few examples:

First we have the Big C himself Jesus Christ (yes I am using bad rapper slang to talk about Jesus) He is going around turning water into wine, healing through the touch of his hands, and walking on water.

By the way, tranformations, healing, and walking on water, all also happen to be feats that Ancient Magicians were attributed with the ablity to preform.

Then we have Moses parting the Red Sea, and I should point out that like 99.9% of all visual images of him depict a man who curriously looks very much like a wizzard, staff and all.

The there is Noah, who if you ask me really takes the cake here. He somehow manages to build a giganitic arc that is big enough to hold a pair of each animal in the world, and yet still floats, and then he manages in a rather short peirod of time, to gather up two of a kind of every animal all acorss the world, and gets each of them somhow back to the ship, all without getting eaten or trampled upon and somehow keeping the animals from eating each other. Then he somehow gets all of these animals to board the vessal, and in the course of the journey prevents utter and total chaos from breaking out on board with all the aniamals, some of them natural enemies, jam packed together.

Then there is Necormancy (for those that do not know Necromancy is a form of magick that deals with the dead in a varity of ways) now ther is acutally passage in the Bibile the denounces the use of Necromancy, and yet at the same time thier are at least two, perfectly accpetiable occurances of Necromancy in the Bibile, the first being Lazerus rising from the Dead, and the other being Jesus himself rasing from the dead, but of course becaue they are Christian they call it Resserection and somehow turn it into a good thing.

Of course if a non-Christain were to have, or alleedgely have comitted any of the acts listed above, it would be because they were evil and mad a pact with the devil.

3:21 PM - 9/7/2007 - comments {0} - post comment

Move over Harry

It is so hard listning to poeple talk about something in which they know nothing about, particuarly if you know they are of a mind set that it dosen't matter what you try to say they are not going to seriously and genuienly listen, they just rather spout out thier ignorance.

There is this show I listen to in the mornings, and usually I really like it, but today they had on this guy who is against the Harry Potter books becasue he thinks they are spreading the message of witchcraft and converting children into Wiccan's and becasue he is a Christain he has a problem with that.

But anyway, he was just an idiot, quiute lughable, but then the guys on the raido were talking about Wicca, and Harry Potter and so forth, and they do not beleive in any supernatural, or a spirit world or anything like that at all, and they were talking about how there is such a high precentage of Wiccan soliders in the army, so one of the guys in on the raido was like, well if spells were real, why don't they just set down thier guns and cast an insurgants go away spell, (or something to that effect)

Ok perhaps they have been reading Harry Potter, too much and do not understand the fictional concept of it. Realy magick does not work like it does in Harry Potter, in real magick ther is now wave your little wand around and abracadbra, that is not how it works.

True magick when it comes right down to it, is the manipulation of energy, the energy that flows through everything in the world, there is energy out there, there is energy in us, and the concept of energy in itself is nothing to do with the supernatural, and true magick and spell work, is taking that energy and focusing it to cause the effect of a particualr out come. It is based upon the intent of the will, and then rituals and spells and of the like, are more or less propes that help direct the energy to the purpose you want it, and ultimately when it comes right down to it, the way genuine magick works fits right into the theroies of metaphysics.

8:54 AM - 7/23/2007 - comments {0} - post comment

Loki

I have always felt a certain draw towards Loki, and he was always the deity and turned to, when using fire, because of his connection with fire in the Norse tradition, though he is a trikster god, and often cast in the role of villan, he represents the dark side, that is imporant to the balance, and he is one of the Gods that do make up part of my own personal pantheon, so I thought I would say a few words about who Loki is.

Loki is one of the major deities in the Norse pantheon. He is a son of the giant Farbauti ("cruel striker") and the giantess Laufey. He is regarded as one of Aesir, but is on occasion their enemy. He is connected with fire and magic, and can assume many different shapes (horse, falcon, fly). He is crafty and malicious, but is also heroic: in that aspect he can be compared with the trickster from North American myths. The ambivalent god grows progressively more unpleasent, and is directly responsible for the death of Baldar the god of light.

Loki's mistress is the giantess Angrboda, and with her he is the father of three monsters. His wife is Sigyn, who stayed loyal to him, even when the gods punished him for the death of Balder. He was chained to three large boulders; one under his shoulders, one under his loins and one under his knees. A poisonous snake was placed above his head. The dripping venom that lands on him is caught by Sigyn in a bowl. But every now and then, when the bowl is filled to the brim, she has to leave him to empty it. Then the poison that falls on Loki's face makes him twist in pain, causing earthquakes.

On the day of Ragnarok, Loki's chains will break and he will lead the giants into battle against the gods. Loki is often called the Sly One, the Trickster, the Shape Changer, and the Sky Traveler.

12:33 PM - 6/21/2007 - comments {0} - post comment

Lost Discovery

I had a very intresting and quite revealing exerpince today and it really has given me a lot to think about, and to really look into myself and evulatute somethings. In many ways, it has not given me anything new persae or anything I have not already known in some fasion or another, but it has deepend my prespective and has made sense of a lot of things and given me some new things to consider and take to heart.

I was just going about my daily busines when this phrase quite out of nowhere came to enter into my mind. I had no idea what the phrase meant and it came in a way as if someone else was saying it to me, not as if I truly thought it up myself. It was nothing I had heard before or read anywhere and it stuck within my mind. So I went to tell a good friend of mine about it, whom I often dicuss my unusual experinces with becasue he is very knowledgeable and I like to get his insight, and what he said was surprising and rather intresting.

First of all the phrase in question were these words

"I am the oracle who speaks only lies"

So I was telling my friend about it, when he told me that there was this deity in anceint Babylon whom was known as being the oracle of lies. He is called Narmateru, and he is the deity of Lies and Deceit, he is also a part man, part crocodile, and part ram god.

My friend suggusted to me that it may be that he is one of my spirit guides. I was quite impressed that when I quoted the phrase to him he knew it at all, and I half exepcted him to just laugh and find it nonsense so I found this all very intresting. And then my friend told me that if Narmateru was my spirt guide then the crocodile or the ram could be a totem animal for me.

This really struck me, becasue I have always ever sense I was young felt a certain draw and connection to the crocodile and when I was kid swiming in the pool I would often pretend that I was a crocodile. I do have much in common with the croc and we share the same social structure. There is a lot about the animal that explains many of my own traits.

They are solitary animals who do not care much for socilizing with others, but they do mate for life, and they are very protective of thier mates and thier brood.

Of course we all know that I am an anti-socail personalaity, but this also explains why I never had much of an intrest in dating or entering in any sort of trivail relationships or highschool flings or anything of that nature, but simply wished to find that one person whom I would spend the rest of my life with and that would be that. As well as the fact that I have always had such a staunch, strong and unwavering beleif in monogamy.

Another intresting asepct of the croc of which I can identify with is that fact that despite thier nature, and the fact that they are preadatory animals with this thick hard outer skin and instcintive killer instinct, they have another side that most do not see or are made aware of. Crocs are in fact highly maternal, they have a very tender side, and really do make very exceelent and caring gentle mothers.

In many ways I can identify with this, though for me it is more symbolic, as I do not have any wish to acutally have childern, I do have this sort of maternaly side, it is just not the litteral between mother to child, but I have had in the past a habbit of being drawn to friends whom are, what you might call broken, people that have come from shaky backgrounds, bad family life, and have a lot they are dealing with, becasue of this instinct I have had to sort of be the one to reach out to them and help guide them.

And it explains why I have always had such an affinity for the water and why I am so comftrable in the water and why I love to swim so much.

10:27 PM - 5/30/2007 - comments {0} - post comment

My Life Path Number

The Life Path 7

Suggests that you entered this plane with a gift for investigation, analysis, and keen observation. You are a thinker of the first order. You evaluate situations very quickly, and with amazing accuracy. As a result, you are thorough and complete in your work, the perfectionist who expects everyone else to meet a high standard of performance, too.

A Life Path 7 person is a peaceful and affectionate soul. But you guard your connection to people carefully. It's easy for you to detect deception and recognize insincere people, and you avoid them. You aren't one to have a wide circle of friends, but once you accept someone as a friend, it's for life. It's as if you must get to know someone a lot better before you allow the wall surrounding you to be penetrated. Chances are you are a very charming and refined individual with great poise and a quick wit. Nonetheless, there is an exclusiveness about you. You probably aren't a very social person. Your reserve is often taken to be aloofness, but actually, it's not that at all. It is merely a cover up for your basic feeling of insecurity. There's no rush, It takes time for you to warm up to new friends. Clubs and organizations hold little interest for you; you are not a joiner.

You actually like being alone and away from the hustle and bustle of modern life. In many ways, you would have fit in better in much earlier times when the pace of life was less hectic. You need a good deal of quiet time to be with your own inner thoughts and dreams. You dislike crowds, noise, distractions, and confusion.

The overwhelming strength of the number 7 is reflected in the depth of thinking that is shown; you will garner knowledge from practically every source that you find. Intellectual, scientific, and studious, you don't accept a premise until you have dissected the subject and arrived at your own independent conclusion.

This is a very spiritual number and it often denotes a sort of spiritual wisdom that becomes apparent at a fairly early age. A built in inner guide providing a strong sense of intuition may set you up as being a law unto yourself. Whatever spiritual position you take, whether traditional or bizarre, you will cling to it with fervor. Once you have decided an issue, it is almost impossible to get you to revisit the question. Adaptability is not your style, and change for you is a rarity.

You rely heavily on your experiences and your intuition, rather than accepting advice from someone. Your hunches usually prove to be very accurate, and knowing this, you follow the directions they seem to guide.

In the most negative use of the 7 energies, you can become very pessimistic, lackadaisical, quarrelsome, and secretive. A Life Path 7 individual who is not living life fully and gaining through experiences, is a hard person to live with because of a serious lack of consideration for others. There is such a negative attitude. Indeed, operating on the negative side of the 7 can produce a very selfish and spoiled individual and living with one can be a challenge. This may be why some 7s actually prefer living alone. If you have any of the negative traits they are very difficult to get rid of because you tend to feel that the world really does owe you a living or that in some way you are not being fairly treated.

Fortunately, the negative 7 is not the typical 7, at least not without some mitigating positive traits. This number is one that seems to have some major shifts from highs to lows. Stability in feelings may be elusive for you.

5:49 PM - 5/21/2007 - comments {3} - post comment

The Cult

Cult is one of those words that has had attached to it a good deal of stigma and today seems to almost be synnomous in the minds of others with sacrifcies, orgies, devil worship and other such things. Though Cults have exisisted for just about as long as the history of man and infact near every religon, encluding the major relgions of today once began as a cult and some could argue still are cults to some degree or another. Christainty itself had been a cult.

So then the question is, just what is a cult?

Well litteraly the word means "care" the word cult first came to be In England 1617, and derived from the french word culte which means worship or a particular form of worship which in turn came from the Lantin word cultus which means: care, cultivation, worship," originally "tended, cultivated.

By extention the word cult came to refer to a relgion that has distinqushed itself from other relgions through change and individulism. This can be seen as either when a group breaks away from a main relgion to form its own beleif only taking some aspsects of the origional religon with it, or in a Polythestic beleif system a group the dedicates itself to one God in specific. It can also be a new group that forms with its own set of beleifs and ideas.

In retrospect a Cult is really nothing more then a minority group that has its own set of practices, beleifs, ceremonines, rituals, and festivals, but has not reached the majority to come to the status of being considered a Relgion.

One of the possible reasons for the villification of the Cult, is becasue often a cult would challange the ideas of the large more mainstream religion which would draw resentment, and so they would "demonize" if you will the cult to prevent thier own followers from leaving them to follow the Cult, and to protect thier own establishment, as if a cult should grow too big it could overthrow the exisisting religon.

This can be seen with Christianity, which did just that. It started out as a Cult with radical ideas which differed from those of the exisisting religon and gathered enough fellowship to challange what was that the time the mainstream religon.

And now today, every little fanatic, radical group, such as Heavensgate for example, is dubbed a "Cult" and though by definition one could argue that they are techniqually a cult, that is not in fact that the traditional and typical Cult is made up of.

But the media throws words like Cult around in association with these things and so people then get the idea that, a Cult really is some big omminous thing.

When in fact every exisiting religon today has hordes of cults of its own, and most are prefectly legteitamte made up of perfectly regular people, that have no inclination of comitting any crimes or any other such things. But any time you have a large group, as in orginized religon, regulardless of the nature of the relgion, thier will be smaller fractions of that relgion that break away, and might have thier own interipitations of certain ideas of the main religon, and they might have a small populace, and by definition these are in fact Cults.

5:32 PM - 5/10/2007 - comments {0} - post comment

Cernunnos

I have discovered a new God, well in a fassion, he hs a god that has very ancient roots and one of which has always been in my awareness, but just recently I have been for reasons I cannot explain feeling a particulary strong draw towards him, and a sudden fascination with him, and his image prevades in my thoughts. It is almost as if he is calling to me, for reasons I cannot yet understand.

I am speaking of Cernunnos, or as he is often called The Horned One. There is not much known about him today, so unfortunately there is little I can say of him, as he comes from the ancient Druadic tradition, which was an oral culture, and so there really are no written accounts of Cernunnos, the way he had aquired the name The Horned One, is becasue he is depicted as a man with a stags antlers.

The one thing that is known of him, is that he was the God of fertility, the beasts, life, and the underworld or as the Celtis frequently knew it, the Otherworld. It is also said that he was born in the winter solistice, and marries the Goddess during Beltane, then dies in the sumer solistice, and he is portrayed in connection with the sun, for it is said that he alternates with the Goddess of the Moon in rulting over life and death and contintue the cycle of death and rebrith.

9:26 AM - 5/8/2007 - comments {0} - post comment

Once an Etruscan

I think that I might have been an Etruscan in a former life, to sum up briefly just who the Etruscans were, they were an ancient civilization whom dwelled in Italy before the Roman Empire, and in fact it is said that the Etruscan's helped lay the foundations for Rome. They had thier own religon, thier own beleifs and culture.

The reason I came to beleive that I might have been one of the Etruscans is becasue a while back my sister had bought me this book on Itallian Witchcraft and I just started reading through it a bit. And there is this branch of Italain Witcraft known as the Tuscan Witchcraft, and in the Tuscan tradition there are reminents of the Etruscan religon which was passed down through the generations. As I was reading of some of the things in which they beleived and practiced, I could not help but to notice some similarities in the samethings in which I have come to practice and beleive, things which I have beleived before I even heard anything about the Etruscans, or about Italian Witchcraft, and things which I just sort of naturaly formulated on my own and are really quite unique and not nessciarly just principles common to Paganisim, as the Tuscan Witchcraft has a reptuation of being quite strange and unique even by the strandards of Italian Witchcraft and yet there were some strong parrelles to my own practice and beleif found within. So I think it must have somehow inherenently been passed down to me.

7:09 PM - 4/26/2007 - comments {0} - post comment

The Oujia Bored

I am sure the majority of us, if not all, are famillar with the Oujia board, and many of us probaly have owned one, or had one in our poscession at some point in time, and I played with our friends during sleep overs and other such things, and perhaps even has have notable experinces.

I just thought I would say a few words reguarding the Oujia, for there seems to be genreally two main schools of thought upon it, though there is also a middle ground. The first is the skeptics whom think of it as nothing more then a childs toy and give it no validity whatsoever. And the secound are those whom have this very ominous view of the Oujia and cast it in this dangerous light, and that using it is just a sure fire way to invite all sorts of trouble, and it is a thing best avioded.

Now there are some problems that can occur with the Oujia when using it, which should make one at least to some degree a skeptic, even those recpetive to the supernatural should take the Oujia with a grain of salt more or less, that is not to say that it cannot work or never has, and ther is the chance that one might acutally get through to something using it, and there are those that might have had genuine real experinces with it, but even so, even if you have made true contact, it is not the most reliable source, and truly should not be used as an acutal divination or meduim tool in any regaurd, but should be used completely out of entertainment and perhaps curriousty. One of the things one must really watch for and be ware of when using it, as far as juding wheather you are having a genuine experince or not, after you have established that no one else is acutally pushing it, it is not uncommon for ones subconsisoucs more or less to direct the device so that it seems as if it is moving upon its own, and no one is aware of physicaly or intionally pushing it, but it is truly your own mind, a sort of low grade telekinectis.

As far is it being this horrible dangerous thing goes, well I think a lot of that is senseationlized and I would say that overall there is realtively low odds of acutally causing in great disastor in using the Oujia and it is rather unlikely you are going to open up any portals to the bowls of hell or any other such thing, I would consider it to be a realitvely safe device for one to use. That is not to say that nothing can possibly happen with things like this there is always the chance. The Ouija is most possiblie dangerous while trying to use it in a place that already has a high energy, particuarly if that energy is of a neagative sort, becasue there cuase of the energy can possible use the Oujia as a device to give it more strenght and more effect upon the physcial world, but that is still a bit of a long shot I would say.

11:17 PM - 4/18/2007 - comments {1} - post comment

Ganesh

Ganesh is one of the most widely worshiped and beloved Gods of the Hindu tradition, he is perhaps also the most well known and recogonizable Hindu God by people whom are outside of the Hindu tradition and beleif system, and best known as and recogonized as the Elepahant headed God. He is seen as a brigner of good fortune and and the remover of obsticles which is one of the reasons he is so popular and worhiship of him so widespread, as many in the Hindu tradition keep a statue or altar for him in thier homes, and worhisp him as a personal God. I have always had a foundness of Ganesh and have always been intrigued by him, and so I have recently began my own devote worship to him in hopes that he might serve his name well and bring me closer to some of the things I hope for in which obstsicals have been standing in my way, and so I thought he was worthy of mention here. He is yet another God that can now be added to my varried pantheon.

8:07 PM - 4/17/2007 - comments {0} - post comment

Creating a Grimoire

I have decided to begin working on a grimoire for myself, other then my online Book of Shadows which I have here, this will be my frist over truly orginized written record and account of magick and my practices. Though it is something I have been contemplating doing for a while. I have finally decided to go forth with it, in part becasue of the fact I have just come acorss a new technique I have been working with that I wanted a record of, and decided I did not want to just jot it down in my journal where it might get "lost" more or less, not that the journal itself would be lost, but it would be burried among the pages of varrious other random thoughts and experinces and such I have recorded there.

Just what is a grimoire some of you might ask, and what sets it apart from a Book of Shadows? Well a Book of Shadows is really something of a diary, it contains both personal thoughts, feelings, experinces in addition to recordings of spells and rituals. It is something of a mishmash of everything relating to ones beleifs and practices.

On the other hand a grimoire is more formolized and techinichal then a Book of Shadows, and does not contain personal informaiton, but is restritcied to only the recording the details of how to preform a spell, ritual, or other such rite. It is intended to be informative and instructional.

6:12 PM - 4/17/2007 - comments {0} - post comment

Quote of the Week: Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind--Albert Einstein

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