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Friday, 1 April 2016

Post No. 848A - the second set of keywords

Owing to Blogger's limits on keywords, when I have a lot I have to post them in batches. This is the second lot of keywords for this post.

Keywords:

dreams, Earth (element), earthbound entities, ectomancy, effort, elements, emotions, energy work, ethics, faery, feedback, friends, frustration, garlic, ghost, grounding, guilt, hungry ghosts,

Monday, 14 March 2016

Post No. 839 – Reading

I'm going to begin this post with a lighter note: my partner has noticed that her new dog, after it has eaten lamb, likes to go and rub herself against our rosemary bush ...

These links are, in part, to pass on useful or potentially useful information to help others learn and grow and develop, as I have been helped by others doing the same for me. If nothing else, some of these at least might stimulate some useful thought – and disagreeing intelligently with something can sometimes be a useful exercise. (Also, these are links I would like any future incarnations of me to come across and read :) )

However, there is more to it than that – particularly as most of these links, in my more recent readings posts, are news links.

As you may well know from Psychic Weather Reports, Dear Reader, every ‘bad’ news story is something that, in general, requires:

(i) clearing of all negative energy associated with the event directly (e.g., pain, fear, etc on the part of the direct victims) or indirectly (e.g., fear, overreactions, inappropriate reactions, or seeking to outdo others’ reactions in others reached via the media);

(ii) healing of those harmed;

(iii) that those responsible be found through BPLF [1] means and brought to BPLF justice (if otherwise, as the means shape the end, the result will a society that is lessened and a strengthening of the so-called ‘law of the jungle’ [2]); and

(iv) that BPLF inspiration be given to enable all to rise above this, and take BPLF actions that will ensure a BPLF prevention of a recurrence, in the sense that USA President John F Kennedy talked of “true and lasting peace”.

Thus, every one of the ‘bad news’ stories which I may have provided links for is an opportunity – but, furthermore, so are many of the ‘good’ news stories, which often requires nonBPLF units to be cleared to prevent blocking of improvements, to help those who are busting their guts and becoming exhausted trying to make good things happen, and to provide some much needed BPLF healing, energy, inspiration and encouragement –

   every

   single

   good

   news

   story.

Also, keep in mind that reading these stories may well stimulate links you personally have to similar units (energies, links, etc). Immediately, that gives you a chance to improve both yourself and the world by dealing constructively with any nonBPLF units through good shadow work, and by strengthening any BPLF units.

I now lump these links into three broad categories:

Links on spiritual/metaphysical/psychic/Pagan matters;
Some other links I consider relevant to consideration of spiritual/moral/ethical and related matters;
Links on other matters.

As you read these, I wish you good hunting, good working, and the odd bit of fun :) , so let’s begin.

G'day, hello, howdy, hi, zdravstvujtye (some of my work colleagues are Russian), guten tag (where I have connection owing to a recent past life), sveiki, czesc (I have friends, not just colleagues, at work who are Polish), bonjour (colleagues at a former workplace were French, and we practised and tried to extend my woeful and limited range of this language), selamat pagi (one of the best junior engineers I ever worked with was Malaysian, and she taught me a few words), annyeonghaseyo, pryvit, bitaem, como vai (a friend of mine a few years ago, although not Brazilian, had Portuguese ancestry), ¡Hola (a former work colleague and friend, a VERY talented artist - with a Mexican sensibility to her artwork, particularly around the Day of the Dead - used to teach me Mexican Spanish), Selamat pagi, ni hao (ah, my work trips to Asia, and the many wonderful, wonderful people I have met there - and some excellent work colleagues and friends here, as well), bongiorno (my current home city of Melbourne has lots of Italians, who have made our culture far richer - and made us coffee snobs :) ), hoschakal, hejsan, ciao, jo napolt kivanu, chào bà, chào ông, yiassou (from the city which has, I understand, the largest collection of Greek people outside of Greece), ceau, salam wa aleikum, sawas dee ka, dia duit, hoi, hei, namaste, marhaba, dobry den, hej, konnichiwa, kihineh, hæ.

WARNING: some of these links may contain triggers around issues such as violence, sexual assault, discrimination.

Coming events:

workshops in Melbourne in late April on Celtic Queens and Warrior Goddesses, and Encountering the Dark Goddess: http://francesbillinghurst.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/melbourne-workshops-over-anzac-day-long.html;
a residential workshop in Sydney, at the end of April, based around Egyptian mythology. I can only get a generic link for the page, not a specific one: http://spheresoflight.com.au/index.php?page=workshops;
http://www.charmainewilson.com.au/events/;

Online magazines and publications:

https://issuu.com/solmagazines/docs/axis_mundi_-_summer_issue_61/1?e=0/32436389;

Links on spiritual/metaphysical/psychic/Pagan matters:

based on the few episodes I have seen, this is an absolute gem of a show for anyone interested in rescue or paranormal investigation: http://theothersidetv.ca/;
http://bansheearts.com/trans-women-and-sovereignty-i-stand-with-you/;
https://theotherside.wordpress.com/2015/11/16/the-circle-of-light/;
an interesting rituals from the Feri tradition: http://www.feritradition.org/grimoire/practices/practices_bluefire.htm;
http://magickly.com/review-daughter-of-the-sun/;
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/allergicpagan/2015/12/04/im-done/;
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbeckett/2015/12/what-are-we-not-seeing.html;
https://weilerpsiblog.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/psychics-and-surviving-disasters/;
http://www.skepticalaboutskeptics.org/controversies/anomalistics/academic-pride-and-prejudice/;
http://cheralyn.typepad.com/cheralyn_darcey/2016/03/flower-magick-how-to-see-faeiries-.html;
http://polytheist.com/spring-and-stone/2016/03/01/seeing-the-trees-for-the-forest/;
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/paganinparadise/2016/01/terfs-demanding-respect-offering-only-hate.html;
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/paganinparadise/2016/01/terrorism-and-community-hyperbole.html;
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/paganinparadise/2016/01/institutionalized-trauma-and-spiritual-first-aid-in-2016.html;
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/paganinparadise/2015/11/slow-activism.html;
http://alisonleighlilly.com/blog/2016/the-choice-between-freedom-and-love/;
http://alisonleighlilly.com/blog/2016/relishing-choice-how-not-to-be-an-ass/;
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/daughtersofeve/2016/02/parenting-is-a-magical-act/;
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/daughtersofeve/2015/12/lessons-learned-from-when-a-friend-says-goodbye/;
https://magicoftheordinary.wordpress.com/2016/01/29/homeopathy-or-where-i-lose-some-readers/;
https://magicoftheordinary.wordpress.com/2016/03/03/george-pell-and-the-snafu-principle/;
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/heathenatheart/2015/12/deity-stereotypes-thor-strong-and-stupid/;
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/heathenatheart/2015/12/returning-from-the-cave/;
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/heathenatheart/2015/10/making-friends-with-house-wights/;
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/allergicpagan/2016/03/04/the-dictionary-is-not-a-holy-book-2/;
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/allergicpagan/2016/02/16/in-religious-matters-truth-is-overrated/;
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/allergicpagan/2016/02/18/climb-a-fucking-tree/;
the article on page 14 has an amazing connection between the symbol for the Eye of Heru (generally known as Horus) and the physiology of the brain: http://www.international-light-association.org/sites/default/files/ILA-2012-Journal_of_Light_Web.pdf;

from the Correllian YouTube channel: regional “karma”; world walkers; teaching children; can prophecy be overdone (happened to me when I was young, although not in the sense being discussed here – and was specifically told off by the Yi Jing); the (small if properly trained) danger of losing one’s place in reality, if one works with high level magick; the idea of praying to Deities for release from life (i.e., death), rather than healing and recovery; dealing with a faith shaking shock; clearing casual charges – e.g., bad vibes from someone who mad something; how to use e-candles; the term “charge” in “charge of the Goddess”;

and now, a stack of links I found while looking (unsuccessfully) for a specific reference in one of my review posts on the Dresden Files:

Some other links I consider relevant to consideration of spiritual/moral/ethical and related matters, including environmental and human rights:

Links on society generally and other matters:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-09/scientists-make-breakthrough-in-fight-against-hypertension/6760270;

[1] BPM = Balanced Positive (spiritually) Mature. See here and here for more on this.
[2] Please see here, here, here and my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").

[3] I apologise for the formatting: it seems Blogger is no longer as WYSIWYG as it used to be, and there are a lot of unwanted changes to layout made upon publishing, so I often have to edit it immediately after publishing to get the format as close to what I want as possible.

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr, Pagan Energy Worker, Wéofodthegn, Untermensch: RENTER

(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix Lux … aka Morinehtar … would-be drýicgan or maga ... )

My "blogiography" (list of all posts and guide as to how to best use this site) is here, and my glossary/index is here.

I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "Pagans for Peace" project (and join me for a few minutes at some time between 8 and 11 PM on Sunday, wherever you are, to meditate-clear for peace), and here for my bindrune kit-bag. I also strongly recommend learning how to flame, ground and shield, do alternate nostril breathing, work with colour, and see also here and be flexible.

The real dividing line is not between Christianity and Islam, Sunni and Shia, East and West. It is between people who believe in coexistence, and those who don’t.

Tom Fletcher, Former UK Ambassador to Lebanon

If your “gut” (your instinct/intuition) is telling you something is wrong, but logic and the available evidence is saying otherwise, the proper conclusion to draw is that you need better, more personally credible evidence. Your “gut” could be wrong, right, or missing the nuances / “shades of grey” . So could the available evidence.
All of the above - and this blog - could be wrong, or subject to context, perspective, or state of spiritual evolution ...

Tags: abuse of power, activism, clearing, communication, deities, discipline, discrimination, emotions, faery, fear, Horus, limitations, materialism, perspective, psychism, rescue, rituals, society, Warriors,

First published: Manadagr, 14^th March, 2016

Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Monday, 14^th March, 2016

Post No. 838A - the second set of keywords

Owing to Blogger's limits on keywords, when I have a lot I have to post them in batches. This is the second lot of keywords for this post.

Keywords:

abuse of power, anger, animals, artificer, attitudes, authentic presence, awareness, balance, Balanced Positive, Bhakti, blackmail, blood, challenge, change, chaos, children, circle, clairvoyance, concentration, consequences, control, death, Deities, dimensions, discrimination, divination, dowsing, Earth (element), earthbound entities, elements, emotions, energy work, equal and opposite reaction, ethics, evil, faery, faith, family, fear, fight or flight or network and nurture, Fire (element), focus, folk lore, forgiveness, friends, genes / genetics, gifts / giving, grounding, growth orientation, guilt, healing, history, honour, ignorance, informed decisions, insularity, invisibility, invocation, isolation, judging others, justice, knowledge, language, levels, limitations, love, Mӕgan, magic, magickal language, magickal techniques and styles, magickal tools, manifestation, metaphysical mass, metaphysics, moral courage, motivation, mythology, myths, names, neochristianity, nightfall, Paganism, pain, Pentacle, pentagram, personal responsibility, perspective, phenomena, power, prejudice, preparation, prophecy, protection, psychic attack, psychic development, psychism, psychology, racism, reincarnation, rescue, residue, responsibility, revenge, risks, rituals, sacrifice, scepticism, Seelie, self knowledge, sexism, shielding, (the) Sight, society, spells, Spiritual Maturity, spirituality, subconscious, submissiveness, sunrise, survival after death, teaching, telepathy, temperature, tests, thaumaturgy, the Greater Good, train others how to treat us, uncooperative, understanding, undetectability, Unseelie, ward, werewolf, yoga,

Sunday, 6 March 2016

Post No. 834A - the second set of keywords

Owing to Blogger's limits on keywords, when I have a lot I have to post them in batches. This is the second lot of keywords for this post.

Keywords:

abuse of power, anger, artificer, authentic presence, blackmail, breathing exercises, clairvoyance, colour, consequences, control, courage, death, Deities, demons, denial, discrimination, divination,dreams, dynamic balance, ectomancy, emotions, energy work, ethics, expectation, evidence, evil, faery, faith, family, fear, fight or flight or network and nurture, flaming, folk lore, friends,garlic, governance, healing, hypocrisy, ignorance, informed decisions, law, levels, limits, knowledge, magic, magickal techniques and styles, meditation, mediumship, metaphysical mass, moral courage, mythology,necromancy, pain, phobophage, possession, power, preparation, proof, prophecy, protection, psychic attack, racism, responsibility, rites, rituals, sacrifice, scepticism, Seelie,society, spells, survival, survival after death, teaching, tests, thaumaturgy, transmigration, understanding, Unseelie, vampire, vulnerabilities, zombie, Valkyrie, visualisation, ward, time magic,

Post No. 833A - the second set of keywords

Owing to Blogger's limits on keywords, when I have a lot I have to post them in batches. This is the second lot of keywords for this post.

Keywords:

artificer, authentic presence, change, circle, clairvoyance, compassion, concentration, cryptozoology, demons, denial, discrimination, dreams, earthbound entities, ectomancy, emotions, energy work, evocation,equal and opposite reaction, faery, focus, folk lore, forgiveness, ghost, guilt, hauntings, honour, inappropriate reactions, invocation, karma, knowledge, law, levels, Mӕgan, magic, manifestation,metaphysics, motivation, myths, names, neochristianity, obsession, perspective, phenomena, possession, potion, prejudice, prophecy, protection, psychic attack, psychic distance, psychism, rescue, responsibility,abuse of power, rituals, scepticism, Seelie, sexism, shapechanging, shielding, (the) Sight, spell, spirituality, subconscious, sunrise, talismans, thought form, threshold, uncooperative, Unseelie, vampire, ward, werewolf,

Sunday, 26 June 2011

Post No. 285 - A weekend out of the city

As I write this I am enjoying a birthday present from my partner - a weekend in the bush, in the hills near Melbourne, in a lovely little cabin with a great antique feel, lots of bush - and nature spirits.

I went crazy with my camera and took lots of photos when we got here, and then, as we sat on the cabin's verandah having a cuppa, I pointed out where some nature spirits were to my partner, she said "hi", and they wanted to know why people with a city "taint" in their energy wanted to come where they lived. We explained that we, more or less, wanted to be cleaned - and the nature spirits very kindly offered to help clean us. We agreed, and had a lovely little clearing/healing session for a few minutes.

In return, I offered to include them in a ritual to raise energy for them. I did that, and they were very happy - actually, they wanted me to work longer, but I was getting cold. I will do some more for them later, I think ... I had agreed to do this in the daylight for them, but I do prefer working at night.

It's so lovely to have a place with so many plants and nature spirits. Living in an old, run-down house in the inner city, with a standard, regimented, minimalist (in my view) garden is hard - almost as hard as having four million leak auras around me.

I know some people deliberately create nature spirit gardens, and we're planning on eventually having trees and bushes in pots (so we can take them with us when we move), but there are other things everyone can do to be considerate of nature spirits - headed by: be considerate of nature, as in "be environmentally responsible".

If you had people come to your home who trashed it, would you feel like inviting them back and spending time with them? No? Well, nature spirits are not stupid: they are well and truly capable of determining who is sensitive and caring towards them, and who will trample ignorantly over them. This is not a case of the Peter Pan view of "we need you to believe in us or we won't exist" - that is rubbish. Nature Spirits exist just as we do, and we don't need others to believe that we exist in order to exist. (I am a pragmatic engineer, and tend to think the speculation about whether or not a tree makes noise if no-one is there to hear it is rubbish.) However, many people do not notice nature spirits, and literally walk over them.

If you want to do something for nature spirits, first care for their world - which, oh gosh, also happens to be our world. Then, show some sensitivity, caring and politeness (manners go a LONG way). Even if you are not psychic, you can feel the peace and joy they create in natural places: send them a thought of thanks.

There are many opportunities for us to live simpler lives - consume less, reuse, recycle, etc. I live those who follow the principles of "electronic simplicity+ - for instance, not having a TV AND a PC which can play DVDs or download programmes. Other people have described this as "modern austerity".

It is also possible to travel places without using planes - I prefer to drive anyway, because of the stupidity of many airport security people when it comes to people who are different from "the norm".

As a digression built on that, I have come to realise just how much I have aimed to simplify my life so I can focus on the things that matter to me: I do housework only when it is needed, and then by the lowest energy version. For instance, when I was single, I would not clean the floors every day, and often sweeping would suffice, they didn't need vacuuming or mopping. I would use what my partner calls "food assemblage" cooking, not because I couldn't cook, but because the time, energy and money spent on cooking from basic ingredients and then cleaning up the massive mess created was not worth it to me: it took away time from things that mattered more to me. Two hours of cooking and one hour of cleaning for 30 minutes of flavour did not outweigh an hour of exercise, one of meditation and starting a movie in time to see it before going to bed.

Of course, I copped a lot of flak from people who couldn't see past the "I chose to spend lots of time doing unnecessary things so every one else has to as well", but they're just idiots who have all left my life now, and I have had the benefit of my choices.

(I've also learnt, from subsequently living on a boat, not to create a mess in the first place.)

And now it is time to go and enjoy the nature spirits some more.

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr

(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear")

Tags: nature, faery, respect, communication, psychism, about me,

First published: Sunnudagr, 26th June, 2011

Last edited: Sunday, 26th June, 2011

Post No. 284 - Evans-Wentz on Faeries

I'm currently reading (slowly!) Evans-Wentz's book "Fairy Faith and Celts", and while doing so have been wondering how this might relate to non-Celtic countries. I have seen Nature Spirits and worked with them, but haven't seen the scary creatures in Celtic myths - but Australian legends include things like Min Min lights, yowie, etc so ... not my karma to see/encounter? wrong place? too naive? The intro to Chapter II mentions that some spirits native to one part of Ireland but not another ...

Descriptions of indigenous spirituality that seem to largely relate to creation (see here, in which I found particularly interesting stories showing changes in landscape such as Port Phillip, which used to be dry when the Yarra went through the Carrum Carrum swamp), or songlines which have lots of practical info. There's nothing which would equate readily to Evens-Wentz's descriptions.

Going back to the Irish Chapter (pp. 31-32): spirits on Earth are said to be as thick as the grass, mostly "good spirit"s - those who died in war or early, who stay till their time is up (that's a new twist on rescue work ...). Also, there are "bad" spirits.

The belief that faeries are the dead seems to equate with the view (in the Australian film "Ten Canoes") tha,t between lives, spirits live in/near water holes (or some other sacred part of the landscape in other parts of Australia).

As I read more of Irish chapter, my old shamanistic habits came more to the fore, and I tended to regard the stories a little dubiously - except for the concept of leaving a bit out for the fair folk: like that principle. One point that particularly grated is the view that Water is a barrier - not so in the shaman/shamanka's world, where water is a means of passage!

There was a lot about helpers, including from dead rellies, which is a bit like Spiritualism ...

Also stuff about the unseelie is a bit like the struggle between "good" and "bad" in many trad's.

Well, I'll have to see what I think when I finish reading :)

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr

(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear")

Tags: Evans-Wentz, faery, Celts,

First published: Sunnudagr, 26th June, 2011

Last edited: Sunday, 26th June, 2011

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