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New Age Spirituality is a concept that has a broad meaning, and defines a wide range of culture and philosophy. However New Age Spirituality is not accepted by many as they have interpreted New Age Spirituality to be an organized religion that encompasses satanic or other evil cults. Some even think that New Age Spirituality is a defined movement, having a political agenda.

However New Age Spirituality is nothing like this; it is basically a way of thinking, desire and need that lies to be explored by understanding what is seen and not seen, while using a different perspective than you were first taught. New Age Spirituality covers many topics that include paranormal and UFO sightings to alternative healing and religious behalf.

One of the most important aspects of New Age Spirituality is the seeking and attainment of spiritual enlightenment. This spiritual enlightenment arises from journeys through its different paths where you learn more about yourself and your relation to the cosmos. So it can be said that any person who tends to practice meditation or helps in the healing of health problems with gemstones, aromatherapy or Chakra cleansing, is both consciously and unconsciously aware of their relationship with the universe through its understanding of cosmic energy.

New Age Spirituality is also experienced in the person who is interested in paranormal phenomena without the help of the unseen dimensions of the world wherein they find it possible to develop a cosmic connection. Some examples of paths of New Age Spirituality are the Aquatic records, gospels of hat Essenes and Kabbalah that tend to lead to self understanding and cosmic awareness.

So you can see that in New Age Spirituality, you find different facets and reflections of spiritual enlightenment that can be reached using different new age paths. Though there may be various new age paths, the journey is always the same, and one. So on taking all the paths while they unfold before you, you can go along your individual journey where you can seek, and reach, New Age Spirituality.

Basically, New Age Spirituality is a unique movement; it is different from other spiritual groups as there is no central organization, dogma, formal clergy, membership roles, creed or holy text involved in it. On the contrary, New Age Spirituality is a group of people who have similar beliefs and add these beliefs to the religion they are part of.

The main beliefs of New Age Spirituality are Monism that means everything that arises from a single source of divine energy. Then there is the Pantheism belief that god exists in all existing things and that everything existing is god. In fact, some followers of New Age Spirituality feel that god is inside you, and in the entire universe, and also transcends the universe.

Other followers and believers of New Age Spirituality believe in karma where they believe that the good and bad things of a person are added and subtracted during their lifetimes. On dying, a person is punished or rewarded according to the number of good and bad things that they do or undergo in their lifetime.

Then there are New Age Spirituality followers who believe that everyone has an aura, an energy field that is radiated from the body. They say that on reading a person’s aura, it is possible to determine your state of mind and physical and spiritual health. This is only an inkling of New Age Spirituality beliefs; more can be found out and learnt from books and magazines. You could also consider visiting one of the many New Age Spirituality online sites that have all the required information about New Age Spirituality.

Darren Williger is an over-caffeinated, low carbohydrate eating, winemaking enthusiast who writes for MicroKarma.com, CoffeeZen.com, and PrimeYoga.com

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Originally posted 2011-07-18 13:07:47. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Throughout pagan history there have been those historical pagans who battle to keep the old gods alive. These mortals held the old god higher and equal to any other god many so devoted they gave their lives becoming martyrs to the cause.

One such hero is the great Queen Reina Sigrith widow of Rey Erik the victorious one of Sweden now there is no reason sited why today the 9^th Nov is associates Queen Reina Sigrith of Sweden many conclude that it is her wedding day that was to be to Olaf the Lawbreaker. But there is no conclusive prove why it just is.

The 9^th Nov the day of Queen Reina Sigrith of Sweden is celebrated in many Norse Heathen traditions.

The legend goes – When Olaf the Lawbreaker had been king of Norway for three years, he asked Queen Sigrith of Sweden to marry him. She agreed, but when he insisted that she give up her ancestral Gods Sigrith replied, I do not mean to abandon the faith I have led, and my kinsmen before me. Nor shall I object to your belief in the god you prefer. As usual Heathen tolerance was met with kristjan imprecations and a blow to the face (she struck it with a glove and she left). The wedding was off – depriving Olaf of political power that could have sped the christianisation of Scandinavia. As it were, history tells us that the Heathens held on for over 300 more years in the Northlands. Hail Sigrith, defender of Asatru, and women of stubborn virtue!

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Originally posted 2010-11-09 05:43:15. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

This Creation myth comes from the North African country of Algeria where the Kabyls or Kabylians live who are a homogeneous Algerian cultural community and they consider themselves exclusively Berber (indigenous peoples of North Africa west of the Nile Valley).

In this creation myth the first humans develop in to the modern Kabyls or Kabylians

The First Human Beings

In the beginning there were only one man and one woman and they lived not on the earth but beneath it. They were the first people in the world and neither knew that the other was of another sex.

One day they both came to the well to drink. The man said, “Let me drink.”

The woman said, “No, I’ll drink first. I was here first.”

The man tried to push the woman aside. She struck him. They fought. The man smote the woman so that she dropped to the ground. Her clothing fell to one side. Her thighs were naked.

The man saw the woman lying strange and naked before him. He saw that she had a taschunt. He felt that he had a thabuscht. He looked at the taschunt and asked, “What is that for?”

The woman said, “That is for good.”

The man lay upon the woman. He lay with the woman eight days.

After nine months the woman bore four daughters. Again, after nine months, she bore four sons, and again four daughters and again four sons. So at last the man and the woman had fifty daughters and fifty sons. The father and the mother did not know what to do with so many children. So they sent them away.

The fifty maidens went off together towards the north. The fifty young men went off together towards the east. After the maidens had been on their way northwards under the earth for a year, they saw a light above them. There was a hole in the earth.

The maidens saw the sky above them and cried, “Why stay under the earth when we can climb to the surface where we can see the sky?”

The maidens climbed up through the hole and on to the earth.

The fifty youths likewise continued in their own direction under the earth for a year until they, too, came to a place where there was a hole in the crust and they could see the sky above them.

The youths looked at the sky and cried, “Why remain under the earth when there is a place from which one can see the sky?”

So they climbed through their hole to the surface.

Thereafter the fifty maidens went their way over the earth’s surface and the youths went their way and none knew aught of the others.

At that time all trees and plants and stones could speak. The fifty maidens saw the plants and asked them, “Who made you?”

And the plants replied, “The earth.”

The maidens asked the earth, “Who made you?”

And the earth replied, “I was already here.”

During the night the maidens saw the moon and the stars and they cried, “Who made you that you stand so high over us and over the trees? Is it you who give us light? Who are you, great and little stars? Who created you? Or are you, perhaps, the ones who have made everything else?” All the maidens called and shouted. But the moon and the stars were so high that they could not answer.

The youths had wandered into the same region and could hear the fifty maidens shouting.

They said to one another, “Surely here are, other people like ourselves. Let us go and see who they are.” And they set off in the direction from which the shouts had come.

But just before they reached the place they came to the bank of a great stream. The stream lay between the fifty maidens and the fifty youths. The youths had, however, never seen a river before, so they shouted. The maidens heard the shouting in the distance and came towards it.

The maidens reached the other bank of the river, saw the fifty youths and cried, “Who are you? What are you shouting? Are you human beings, too?”

The fifty youths shouted back, “We, too, are human beings. We have come out of the earth. But what are you yelling about?”

The maidens replied, “We, too, are human beings and we, too, have come out of the earth. We shouted and asked the moon and the stars who had made them or if they had made everything else.”

The fifty boys spoke to the river, “You are not like us,” they said. “We cannot grasp you and cannot pass over you as one can pass over the earth. What are you? How can one cross over you to the other side?”

The river said, “I am the water. I am for bathing and washing. I am there to drink. If you want to reach my other shore go upstream to the shallows. There you can cross over me.”

The fifty youths went upstream, found the shallows and crossed over to the other shore. The fifty youths now wished to join the fifty maidens, but the latter cried, “Do not come too close to us. We won’t stand for it. You go over there, and we’ll stay here leaving that strip of steppe between us.”

So the fifty youths and the fifty maidens continued on their way, some distance, apart, but travelling in the same direction.

One day the fifty boys came to a spring. The fifty maidens also came to a spring.

The youths said, “Did not the river tell us that water was to bathe in? Come, let us bathe.”

The fifty youths laid aside their clothing and stepped down into the water and bathed. The fifty maidens sat around their spring and saw the youths in the distance. A bold maiden said, “Come with me and we shall see what the other human beings are doing.”

Two maidens replied, “We’ll come with you.” All the others refused.

The three maidens crept through the bushes towards the fifty youths. Two of them stopped on the way. Only the bold maiden came, hidden by the bushes, to the very place where the youths were bathing. Through the bushes the maiden looked at the youths who had laid aside their clothing. The youths were naked. The maiden looked at all of them. She saw that they were not like the maidens. She looked at everything carefully. As the youths dressed again the maiden crept away without their having seen her.

The maiden returned to the other maidens who gathered around her and asked, “What have you seen?”

The bold maiden replied, “Come, we’ll bathe, too, and then I can tell you and show you.”

The fifty maidens undressed and stepped down into their spring.

The bold maiden told them, “The people over there are not as we are. Where our breasts are, they have nothing. Where our taschunt is, they have something else. The hair on their heads is not long like ours, but short. And when one sees them naked one’s heart pounds and one wishes to embrace them. When one has seen them naked, one can never forget it.”

The other maidens replied, “You lie.”

But the bold maiden said, “Go and see for yourselves and you’ll come back feeling as I do.”

The other maidens replied, “We’ll continue on our way.”

The fifty maidens continued on their way and so did the fifty youths. But the youths went ahead slowly. The maidens, on the other hand, described a half circle so that they crossed the path of the youths. They camped quite close to one another.

On this day the youths said, “Let us not sleep under the sky any more. Let us build houses.”

A few of the youths began to make themselves holes in the earth. They slept in the holes. Others made themselves passages and rooms under the earth and slept in them. But a few of the youths said, “What are you doing digging into the earth to make houses? Are there not stones here that we can pile them one upon the other?”

The youths gathered stones and piled them one on the other in layers. When they had built the walls one of them went off and began to fell a tree.

But the tree cried and said, “What, you will cut me down? What are you doing? Do you think you are older than I? What do you think to gain by it?”

The youth answered, “I am not older than you, nor do I wish to be presumptuous. I simply wish to cut down fifty of you trees and lay the trunks across my house for a roof. Your branches and twigs I will lay within the house to protect them from the wet.”

The tree answered, “That is well.”

The youth then cut down fifty trees, laid their trunks across his house and covered them with earth. The branches he cut up and stored away inside the house. A few of the larger trunks he set upright in the house to carry the weight of the roof. When the others saw how fine the house was they did even as he had done.

Among the youths there was a wild one, just as among the maidens one was wild and untamed. This wild youth would not live in a house. Rather he preferred to creep in and out among the houses of the others seeking someone whom he could rend and devour. For he was so wild that he thought only of killing and eating others.

The fifty maidens were encamped at a distance. Looking, they saw how the fifty youths first dug themselves holes and tunnels in the earth and how they finally built their houses.

They asked one another, “What are these other humans doing? What are they doing with the stones and the trees?”

The bold maiden said, “I’ll go there again. I will sneak over and see what these other humans are doing. I have seen them naked once and I want to see them again.”

The bold maiden crawled through the bushes to the houses. She came quite close. Finally she slid into a house. There was no one there. The maiden looked around and saw how fine the house was. The wild one came by outside. He scented the maiden. He roared. The maiden screamed and, dashing out of the house, made for the place where the other maidens were encamped.

All the youths heard the maiden scream and all jumped up and ran after her. The maiden ran through the bushes and screamed. The other maidens heard her. They sprang to their feet and ran in her direction to help her. In the bushes the fifty maidens and the fifty youths came together, each maiden with a youth. They fought in the bushes, the maidens with the youths. Even the wild maiden encountered the wild youth in the bushes.

It was dark in the bushes and they fought in pairs. No pair could see the next one. The fifty maidens were strong. They hurled the fifty youths to the ground, and threw themselves on top of them. And they said to themselves, “Now I will see at last if the bold maiden lied.”

The maidens seized the youths between the thighs. They found the thabuscht. As they touched it, it swelled and the youths lay quite still. As the maidens felt the thabuscht of the youths, their hearts began to swell. The fifty maidens threw aside their clothes and inserted the thabuscht in their taschunt. The youths lay quite still. The fifty maidens began to ravish the fifty youths. Thereupon the fifty youths became more active than the fifty maidens.

Every youth took a maiden and brought her into his house. They married.

In the house the youths said, “It is not right that the woman lies on the man. In the future we shall see to it that the man lies on the woman. In this way we will become your masters.” And in the future they slept in the fashion customary among the Kabyles today.

The youths were now much more active than the maidens, and all lived happily together in great satisfaction. Only the wild youth and the wild maiden, who had no house, roamed here and there seeking others to devour. The others chased them, and when they met them they beat them.

The wild ones said to each other, “We must be different from these humans that they treat us so badly. We will do better to keep out of their way. Let us leave this place and go to the forest.”

The Cialis wild ones left and went to the forest from which, in future, they emerged only to steal children whom they devoured. The wild maiden became the first teriel (witch) and the wild youth the first lion. And they both lived on human flesh. The other young men and women were happy to be rid of the cannibals. They lived happily with one another. Their food consisted only of plants, which they uprooted.

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Originally posted 2011-02-16 13:58:05. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

The energy vampire is someone who draws psychic or spiritual energy from another life force with out replacing it with like energy. Over the years I have found that there seem to be 3 may be 4 types of energy vampire.

The first and most common type of energy vampire in what I like to call the immature energy vampire, the second is the controller energy vampire and the third is a feeder and if there is a forth kind it seems to be a hybrid of these three.

The immature energy vampire is completely oblivious that they are feeding off of your energy in this category you will find children, those suffering illness (physical and mental), the Star (a person how is a diva who needs people to praise him or her) and the party animal (always on the go the one that is still raving a 4am while everyone else is lagging).

The immature energy vampires are not bad (in the sense of good and bad) although they are demanding they need you to offer your energy before they can start to draw off your energy. The problem is the immature likes energy and is really not bothered if the energy is negative or positive just as long has they have your attention. The good thing is that these vampires will often share your energy and return some back.

Since the goal of this vampire is to charge himself or herself up, they often have an abundance of excess energy, which they use to increase energy flow. This form of energy vampire unlike the other form can leave you feeling drained or over charged.

The controller vampire is much more skilled at drawing of specific forms of energy and have skills to force you to create this form of energy for them. This is normally negative feeling the type of people that fall into this group are bullies, bosses, abusers and the abused. This vampire can spend years slowly feeding away at all the good energy and replacing with nothing to all that is left is a hollow husk of a person behind before moving on to the next target. These vampires are usually created in the same way a folklore vampire is created one a person has been feed upon they will need to feed themselves it become a spiral drawing others in along the way.

These vampires live off negative energy the good thing is that where controller energy vampires are, you will find energy charger people (not the same as positive energy feeder) skilled at the defence against such vampire and are immune to their power and give positive energy back.

The third type of energy vampire is the feeder vampire these create situations where is energy is created for them top feed off. They dont feed off a person energy as such just from the energy created from the environment the formed. There seems to be two defined forms of the feed the negative energy feeder and the positive energy feeder.

The negative feeder is the stirrer, the backstabber, the grass, and the bitch! They like to cause people to argue and fight they never seem happy unless there is conflict as the feed of the energy that is created that feeling you get when you walk in a room here strong emotions have taken place.

The positive energy feeder is really a mature type of immature energy vampire these are the stars and divas that found that they could make people happy which in turns make them happy. These are normally people with good friends and are always ready to help although these people need happy people to keep them happy. They feed off of good emotions and are always trying to make people feel better.

The fourth kind is really not a variety of energy vampire but a hybrid there are some people who do not handle energy consumption well and react to a “bite” from an energy vampire and temporally assume the traits of the vampire that “bit them” very much a human natured experience. We all fall into this variety at some point as well all need to top up our energy. For example a woman or man at home looking after children, who are demanding his or her attention all day long will need to have the energy they have lost over the day replaced. This will require a food source! The partner if a loving and understanding one, they will see the lost energy and will freely replace that lost energy. If as in most cases the need is missed so situations will be created where woman or man that needed the attention will get it through manipulating the environment which will lead to a argument where attention is focused on the one that needs it normally by this stage it negative energy “immature energy vampire” if this situation become repetitive the person seeking the attention will create the same environment each day to cause the desired out come “controller vampire” if this situation is continue even longer the person seeking attention will learn to accept that the only way they will ever get the attention the need is to repeat the format with other people slowly turning in to a “negative feeder”.

Energy vampires are not mythical creatures sent to suck your life force away they are humans they are each and everyone of us we all need energy and in most cases we give and share freely with those we love.

It only when we get a taste for a specific emotional energy matrix that we become a true energy vampire we are all capable of energy vampirism and often take a bite sometime without thinking of we are doing.

But it is the desire of a particular emotional energy matrix that is the problem that always lead to a negative out come. I am reminded of the Celestine Prophecies and the third and forth insight –

A Matter of Energy

We now experience that we live not in a material Universe, but in a Universe of dynamic energy. Everything extant is a field of sacred energy that we can sense and intuit. Moreover, we humans can project our energy by focusing our attention in the desired direction, in that where attention goes, energy flows, influencing other energy systems and increasing the pace of coincidences in our lives. It is possible to see this energy enveloping all living things.

The Struggle For Power

To gain energy, we tend to manipulate or force others to give us attention and thus energy. When we successfully dominate others in this way, we feel more powerful, but they are left weakened and often fight back. Competition for scarce human energy is the cause of all conflict between people

There is no real way of protecting yourself from an energy vampire but if you are aware of their needs and what they desire form you? You can learn to starve them of it, example if a bully want you to be scared of him or her they are feeding off of your fear the moment you stop being scared you are of no use to them and they will find another food source.

It can be difficult to seek out energy vampires in groups of friends, as there is likely to be more than one vampire form with a group often working together to create the desired environment to feed and insuring that the group remains the same. You may even notice that when new people attempt to join the inner circle how certain friends become hostile to them.

As I have said no protection really because we cant protect against ourselves the only really issue is to try and stay away from the vampires that really drain you and change so they no longer find you desirable to eat and try not to take with out giving back.

I did mention energy charger people earlier these are very special people they are higher spiritually than most humans but still only human some are religious some are not. They flow with energy giving freely they have a connection with the divine a higher spiritual self a pureness of heart that can be seen in their eyes a child like quality and although rare their goodness can out live their life including Jesus, Buddha and Princess Diana

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One of the most diverse forms of practice shamanism conjures images of witch doctors, voodoo priest and barbaric rites. More clearly defined as a tradition than a pagan path shamanism has a very long history and is the heart of all pagan magicks. Shamanism is a ancient and natural form of magick untouched to some extent from modern day magick and neo pagan influences.

The heart of a shaman is personal experience learning to battle demons personal and spiritual to gain knowledge both personal and spiritual as well as learning magick skills that are taught through communion with higher spirits and deities.

Shamanic practices are present in all pagan path that being said a large number of pagans are now choosing to call themselves simple Shaman and to follow a shamanic path.

Shamans will often spend a majority of their time seeking visions in solitude mostly in natural surroundings commonly known as vision questing, during which time a shaman will gain spiritual knowledge of plants and herbs through communion with plants, they will even meet guides and totems to aid them in magickal workings.

The central belief of shamans is that everything contains a spirit from the smallest grain of sand to the largest mountain, animals, plants even the elements have their own spirits and through training a shaman will be able to communicate with these spirit to gain alliances, gain information or do battle and defeat said spirits. The trained shaman will act as an intermediary between the earth realm and spirit world he or she will act as guide for others, healer or diviner.

It is common for shaman to use mind altering substances to help lift them into the spirit world, the term “mind altering substances” may include ritual herbs with psychotropic elements but more likely to dancing and drumming, fasting or sweat lodge

A quote from Shamanic Voices by Joan Halifax

‘Shamans are healers, seers, and visionaries. .. They are in communication with the world of gods and spirits. Their bodies can be left behind while they fly to unearthly realms. They are poets and singers. They dance and create works of art.  They are familiar with cosmic as well as physical geography; they know the ways of plants, animals, and the elements. They are psychologists, entertainers, and food finders. Above all, however, shamans are technicians of the sacred and masters of ecstasy.’

Due to the rise in the interest in Shamanic Practices more information has become available and there has been a huge rise in the numbers of Shamanic groups offering training.

Since due to shamanic practices are in there purest form are part of tribal culture and accessibility due to culture and location are limited making pure shamanism much less accessible as a pagan path, Modern shamanic paths are based from known shamanic practices from sociological and anthropological studies as well as reconstructions from historical accounts from traditional cultures such as The Native tribes of America.

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When it comes to Magicks and Witch Craft a good set of Correspondences are important, but like all things in magick personal input will help you create a set of correspondence that are personal to you improving your magickal skills.

Below is a set of basic correspondences the days of the week, the planets and astrological influences i have also included the planetary hours which can be a little confusing but the easiest way to understand it is the number in the hour column relates to the hour after sunrise in day planet hours and the hour after sunset in night planet hours. Her is an example if you want the hour of mars on a monday and sunrise is 6.45 you can see that mars is in the 4th hour so add 4 hours to sunrise time for the start of the hour of mars (the hour would start at 10.45am) you do the same with night hours using sunset as your starting time.

I have also included a table for spell craft correspondences no the tables below are nowhere nearly close to the number of different tables of correspondences but they are a starting point

• Table of Planetary Powers
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• Table Of Correspondences for Spellwork

Table Of Correspondences for Spellwork

Originally posted 2011-02-28 13:10:59. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Introduction:

For starters, I would like to say a few things about myself to set the record straight. I have a Masters degree in Quantum Field Theory, am working on my PhD in the same, and am a practicing, if tyro, shaman. I have read in several places that the best way to start in magick is to read read read read, and I have noticed several articles using Physics to explain magickal arguments. Unfortunately, many of these articles either do not explain the Physics very well or are just plain wrong. I am not disrespecting these people: after all, not everyone can be a Physicist! I thought I would write a brief article to clear up a few issues on the nature of probability in Physics as well as how probability might play a role in magick.

The following article is essentially a short paper on the Metaphysics behind what I call “visualization magick.” I am not going to footnote: all of the Physics arguments are well known and documented and can be found in any introductory text on Quantum Mechanics. As for my magickal arguments, well, they are as correct as I can make them. Naturally, I accept responsibility for any errors contained in this article.

The Nature of Investigation:

Most of the science done today is based on a problem solving technique called the “Scientific Method.” The Scientific Method is a well-established way to start from the basic principles behind a problem and develop an experimentally based explanation of a given phenomenon. It has been used successfully for centuries. There is one problem with this method, though: it can be very difficult to incorporate any newly discovered facts that do not fit the structure of the current scientific theory. This point has been raised repeatedly when scientists try to discover the nature of ghosts, ESP, etc.

I think it is natural to take the viewpoint that any axiomatic structure, such as the sciences, can only explain certain types of phenomena. Other systems, such as magick, can explain other phenomena. It is interesting that these different axiomatic structures can overlap: they can explain the same types of phenomena, but they explain them in different ways. One might call different axiomatic systems as “paradigms,” or “representations.” Whatever you call them, it is important not to mix the different systems, because the any term defined in one representation are not likely to have the same meaning in another. For example, anyone trying to explain a magickal phenomenon in terms of Physics needs to be careful of how the word “energy” is used. Energy in magick will not necessarily mean the same thing as it does in Physics. (Incidentally, energy is not a well-defined concept in Physics!)

In the remainder of this article I am going to discuss the Physics representation known as the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Physics (CI) and, within that representation, provide an explain of visualization magick.

Schrodinger’s Cat and Quantum Reality:

When most people think of Physics, they think of equations, math, and all sorts of difficult problems. In actuality, Physics is based on very simple arguments and can often be put in the form of puzzles that illustrate the basic principles. For instance, Classical Physics can usually be put into the form of some little guy (or person, for you extreme liberalists) firing a cannon over a ravine. Classical Physics describes what we see and touch in everyday life. We are familiar with it and it is the representation that makes the most sense to us. Another representation, which is more basic, is that of Quantum Reality. Classical Reality is fully contained within Quantum Reality, but Quantum Reality contains more phenomena, much of it things we do not see in day-to-day life. Not really accepting Quantum Reality for what it is, Erwin Schrodinger devised a thought experiment to show the odd nature of what Quantum Physics implies. He was essentially trying to ridicule the interpretation of the science he was helping to develop. The thought experiment is known as “Schrodinger’s Cat.”

We start with building a switch device based on quantum principles. We are going to take an atom of a radioactive material and place it inside a detector. The detector sends a signal to a switch if the atom decays. Now, all atoms decay eventually, and the amount of time it takes for half the amount of a radioactive material to decay is called the “half-life” of the material. So the chance our one atom will decay in one half-life is 50%. Thus, after one half-life, our switch has an equal chance of being “on” or “off.” We now connect a vial of the deadliest poison to the switch; if the switch is “off” then the poison vial is closed, if the switch is “on” then the poison vial is open and any creature in contact with the poison will die instantly. Now place the quantum switch and vial of poison along side a cat in a sealed box. The question is after one half-life has elapsed, is the cat alive or is it dead?

Since there is a 50% chance that the atom has decayed in one half-life, our “logical” answer must be that the cat has a 50% chance of being alive or dead. No other answer in our (Classical Reality) experience makes any sense. We cannot say with certainty if the cat is either alive or dead.

However, we are asking a question that requires a specific answer. Is the cat alive, or is it dead? Quantum Reality gives us a third, and actually the only valid, answer to this problem. The cat is in a mixed quantum state of both alive and dead as far as anyone outside the sealed box is concerned. That is, the cat is only in a specific state of alive or dead when someone called a “quantum observer” looks inside the box to determine the state of the cat. This leads us to all sorts of metaphysical problems about the cat as well as the problem of what defines a quantum observer.

The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Reality:

The Quantum Reality representation of the result of the Schrodinger’s cat experiment does not make any sense as far as Classical Reality is concerned. Nevertheless, it has good basis in Physics. Many of the top Physicists of the time (around the 1930′s I believe) met in Copenhagen to discuss Quantum Mechanics. Several topics were on the board there and eventually a consensus was made as to the nature of a quantum system: if a system is not measured it exists in a superposition of all possible quantum states. When the system is measured, it falls into one specific state. (For you Physics buffs, this is the concept behind the Born interpretation of the wave function.) This representation has become known as the “Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Physics.” (CI) According to the CI, Schrodinger’s cat is both alive and dead until someone opens the box to look.

There is one other way to look at Quantum reality, but you pay a severe price. The representation, called the “Many Worlds Theory,” states that every time a quantum level decision is made, the Universe splits into two or more copies, one for each outcome of the decisions. The Many Worlds interpretation of Schrodinger’s cat states that the Universe splits into two copies: one with a dead cat and the other with a live cat. When we open the box we find out which Universe we are in. Personally, I find this representation to be a bit ridiculous, but you may feel free to choose which one you like the most. Both the Many Worlds and the CI make exactly the same predictions and we cannot tell which one is correct (if either!).

The Double Slit Experiment:

The Schrodinger’s Cat thought experiment does not really tell us anything about the real world unless we can prove it. Obviously, we are not going to learn anything from killing cats (and why would we want to anyway?) so we need to turn to another experiment to give us some facts. The Young’s double slit experiment does just that and is almost as simple as Schrodinger’s Cat. First though we need to talk about light.

When Sir Isaac Newton was doing his experimentation on light he decided, based on his experiments on reflection, refraction, and the sharpness of shadows, that light was made of little particles, which he dubbed “corpuscles.” (We now call corpuscles photons.) Later on, interference experiments (such as the Young double slit) showed that light was made of waves, not particles. Was the great Sir Isaac wrong?? Not entirely. In the early 1900s, a man named DeBroglie showed that electrons, which are “obviously” particles, could be thought to have a wavelike character. Eventually scientists realized that all subatomic particles have both wave and particle properties…subatomic “particles” are neither particles nor waves, but are something else which we have come to call by the badly punned name of “wavicles.” (If you are a John Gribbon fan, as I am, then you may like to call subatomic particles “slivey toves.”) When we run an experiment that assumes light is a particle, light behaves as if it were made of particles; when we run an experiment that assumes light is a wave, light behaves as if it were a wave.

Young’s double slit experiment assumes light is going to behave as a wave. We start with a monochromatic (single colored) light source and pass it through a slit so that we obtain a set of equally spaced wave fronts. We pass these wave fronts through a wall that has two tiny holes in it, equally spaced from the center point. Beyond the wall is our “detector:” essentially a TV that records the wave pattern striking the screen. A diagram of the double slit experiment may be found in any introductory Physics text, just look under the term “interference” in the index.

When we turn the light source on, we see a pattern of light and dark areas on the TV screen. This is the expected result since light is a wave and the two slits create an interference pattern: the peaks and troughs of the wave cancel out in different regions on the TV screen. This is entirely due to the fact of those two little holes in the wall…if there was only one tiny hole in the wall then we would only see one point of light on the TV screen and no interference. The one hole experiment is more like treating light as a particle rather than a wave, and we get no interference from it since particles do not interfere with themselves.

Now let us play with the experiment a bit. We are going to presume that light is made of particles and install detectors in both holes in the wall to see which hole the photon goes through. What kind of pattern do we get on the TV screen now? According to Classical Reality it had better be an interference pattern again. Nope. We get two little points of light on the TV screen. Why? Because we are thinking of light as particles we detected the particles, so they cannot interfere with each other. Let’s play with this again. We are going to take the original double slit experiment and this time put the photon detector right in front of the light source and then we are going to run the double slit experiment only letting one photon through at a time. Obviously, we only get a point of light on the TV screen each time a photon passes through. However, let us record where each photon hits and run a bunch of single photons through the experiment. What do we get on the TV screen? We might expect to see two little points of light on the screen, but we do not. We now get a full-fledged interference pattern! Remember, this is a composite pattern made up of individual photons going through the experiment, not a bunch of waves. This is truly weird.

There are only two ways to explain this last result, neither of them comfortable. Consider a photon passing through hole #1 as a photon in state 1 and a photon going through hole #2 as a photon in state 2. The only way we can get an interference pattern is if we have something going through BOTH holes at the same time. This implies that the photon is traveling through the double slit apparatus in both states at the same time. Remember we are not trying to detect which state the photon is in as it goes through the holes, so the CI predicts that the photon is in both states, just as the results say it must be. (We can make a similar argument for the Many Worlds case as well). This is hard experimental evidence for the CI and has not been contradicted in the last 70 years or so. Just the opposite…other experiments have lent validity to the CI. (By the way, this same experiment has been done with electrons and, I believe, neutrons as well.)

The Extreme Copenhagen Interpretation and Your Quantum Universe:

What follows is my personal interpretation of the Physics mentioned above.

Let us go back to Schrodinger’s Cat since it is the simpler experiment. We need to discuss what makes a quantum observer again, because it is a tricky point. A quantum observer is some nebulous thing that takes a measurement of a system. What is it that creates the measurement process? Presumably, we have two systems to consider: the first is the actual experiment that we want to measure, and the second is the system that does the measuring. Therefore, if we take the measurement process to its most basic level, a measurement is the process by which the experimental system “gives” information to the observer’s system. This information exchange is mediated by photons (or W, Z, gluons, etc. Basically any boson you wish. That’s another topic.) To make a long story short, the observer gets information from the experiment by absorbing a photon. This means that an electron can serve as a quantum observer since a absorbing a photon will alter the electron’s state. A quantum observer does not actually need to have an intelligence to function; it merely needs to respond to the experiment in some way.

So. Let us go back to Schrodinger’s Cat. According to the scientist running the experiment the cat is both alive and dead until the box is opened. Say that he opens the box and knows the state of the cat. Now look at the people in the next room who are waiting to hear from the scientist in the room with the cat. According to them, the cat is STILL in that odd alive and dead mixed state. We can go further and state that the whole lab we ran the experiment in is in an undetermined state since the scientist in the lab might take different actions depending on the state of the cat. No one outside the lab can possibly know what is going on in the lab. Now look at the people in the next room beyond that, etc. What we have is a nested set of “Schrodinger’s Cats.” Until the information is passed between different rooms, the set of rooms inside exists in a mixed state.

We can take this argument to an (I feel logical) extreme. Since the individual particles in our bodies act as quantum observers the only pertinent information we have about the state of the Universe at large is what we perceive through our senses. Therefore, anything that we do not perceive through our senses exists in a mixed state similar to Schrodinger’s alive/dead cat: nothing exists in a definite state unless we are sensing it. This is what I call the “Extreme Copenhagen Interpretation.” (ECI) What this implies, then, is that each of us exists in our own personal universes and everything exterior to that universe exists in an undetermined state until we sense it. Note: I am going to ignore the question of other people existing…I will assume other people exist and our knowledge of their reality comes from the “interference” of these multiple universes. To give a quick example consider the question: “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to see it fall, does it make any noise?” The ECI states that since no one was around, the tree is in a mixed state of existance/non-existance. Furthermore it has fallen/not fallen, much less made any noise/silence. Since the tree does not directly influence your universe, you cannot say anything definite about it even existing, even though you may have seen the tree an hour ago.

The Basic Principle of Visualization Magick:

The ECI tells us that what we sense is what is contained in our universe. In order to do magick we need (at least) one more principle. When we do visualization magick, we actually feel what it is that we visualize. The ECI says that what we feel makes up our reality. Combining these two statements, we have what I call the “Basic Principle of Visualization Magick.” What we visualize becomes real in our universe. This principle can be demonstrated by a simple spell, which I call an “empowering” spell. First, enter a light meditative state. (This first step may also be achieved by casting a circle.) Next visualize a blanket of white fire surrounding you, starting at your feet and working its way up to encompass your whole body. Hold this visualization until you can actually feel the fire surrounding you, cleansing your spirit and not letting any darkness penetrate your being. Now visualize your hands held outward from your body and let a globe of white fire come into being between your hands. Hold the globe there until you can feel it. This globe of fire represents your inner strength and the longer you hold it the more in touch with your strength you will be. The result of this spell is that you will feel empowered and more able to cope with the challenges of your life.

Is this magick, physics, or psychology? Remember, how we view our universe depends on the representation we use. In this case, the empowering spell may be viewed in any one of these representations. Using the ECI to describe the spell what we are doing is literally bringing up our inner strength as a concrete object and physically contacting it. We know it is there because we can feel it, therefore according to the ECI it has an actual existence. A similar argument holds for essentially any magick that has its basis in visualization or feelings.

The ECI explains how magick can affect our own universe, what about someone else’s? After all many witches (warlocks, sorcerers, etc.) will claim that their magick affects other people, not just their own universe. We can use visualization magick to show how this might work, so there is not necessarily any conflict here. You (presumably) put some clothes on today so anyone that sees you will see those clothes and all of them will be able to describe the same set of clothing. You know you are wearing a certain set of clothes, and your best friend came up to you and mentioned something about the outfit, so you know she saw them. Both of you agree on the set of clothes because both of your universes came into contact, i.e. the two universes interfere because they both contain quantum observers. Now, can your best friend say anything about what you are wearing three hours after you parted? No, because you might have changed clothes. (Or Heck, you might be skinny-dipping in the local watering hole!) Once the universes are out of contact they no longer interfere.

To continue the analogy, if you feel something in your universe then it is real in your universe and thus, because your universe interferes with other universes the effect may well be real in someone else’s universe. Say you know a spell to create a rainstorm. It will happen in your universe. Whether or not it happens in someone else’s universe depends on the strength of the interference between your universe and theirs. I would suppose that the strength of the interference depends on the strength of your belief (and that of others) that you can make it rain. Taking things at face value, I would say that it would take a tremendously powerful mage to create an effect in someone else’s universe seeing how difficult it is to create a magickal effect in our own universe. Note: I am aware the rain spell probably has nothing to do with visualization magick. I am also aware that other magickal principles could come into play here. Remember that I am using a representation, the ECI, to explain an effect. The ECI is probably not a good representation to discuss a rainmaking spell!

Summary:

The way we explain an effect depends on the representation we use. The rules for which a representation is a good representation to explain an effect are not known, though we may certainly use common sense to guide us. The CI is a well-established representation that is used in modern day Physics. A logical extension to the CI is the ECI, which states that we all live in our own individual universe and that the Universe is composed of the interference of these personal universes. The ECI provides a way for Physics to explain the phenomenon of visualization magick by stating that what we feel is what is real in our universe.

by Dan

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Originally posted 2011-02-28 11:06:10. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

The original diagram for this ritual has been lost but if you place the cauldron directly in front of you, the herbs and brewing ingrediance to the left and the cup to the right forming the triangle of the triskalion, once you have placed the tools in position visualiste the energy flow in the patten of the triskelion, before starting the ritual works very well.

Tools:

• Herb(s) for tea
• Container for herb(s)
• Cup(s) and Tea Pot
• Decanter of Pure Spring Water
• Brewing dish with candle
• Scrying Candle
• cauldron

Prepare By: Placing a small table or platform in the center of your working space and arranging the Brewing dish, herbs, cup(s), Tea Pot and spoon on the table. Also place the cauldron with scrying candle within for use during the meditation.  Prior to casting the Circle, light candle and fill the Brewing dish with Spring Water from a decanter. Keep the Brewing Dish covered during the Casting, as I have found this helps the water to heat faster and hotter.

The Blessing of the Herbs

With the tip of your Athame touching the Herbs, intone this blessing:

Thou has grown by favor of the Sun, The Moon, and of the dew. I make this intercession, ye herb: I beseech thee to be of benefit to me and my rite, For thy virtues are unfailing. Thou art the Dew of all the Gods, The Eye of the Sun, The Light of the Moon, The Beauty and Glory of the Sky, The Mystery of Terra. I purify thee so that Whatever is wrought by me with thee may, In all its powers, Have a good and speedy effect with good success. Be purified by my prayer and be powerful!

So mote it be!

When water is hot enough, place the herbs in the Tea Pot and add water from the brewing dish, give it a couple of stirs.

While the tea is steeping, intone this Prayer.

Earth Mother Giver of life Strengthen me during my life-long strife. Teach me Your ways of perfect love, Peace, and wisdom true. Spawn from my purest heart These words to You May this prayer help me to better Myself in word and deed, To a higher plane I shall succeed. Beautiful Light of Goodness Fair Lore of old we both do share A Witch’s brew, I drink to You My love for You, by day, by night In thought and in sight Will my soul learn The meaning of this life again.

Pour out a cup for all present, including one for the Gods, and enjoy.

Sit before the table and meditate on the blessings that the Gods have bestowed upon your life. You may use the scrying candle here to focus upon for your meditation. If the Gods so choose They may give you a Message or Vision through the blessings of the Sight.

You may relax now and finish off the pot. (Note: this rite is not to take the place of The Feast, but is to be used as a time of blessing and communing with the Goddess).

Purpose: The purpose of this working is to pay homage to the Gods and to reflect on Their blessings upon this your life.

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Going through my Book of Shadows this morning I came across this and though I would share I hope JR Grover does not mind but it is only 21 years and I am not sure if it is available anywhere.

I used to have this in my office at work as it gave me confidence in my early days in the craft to come out and be a proud witch

You are politely but firmly requested not to discriminate against our pagan and spiritual heritage.

As pagans, witches and Druids, we have every right to express our views and practices. Our traditions with the fall protection of British and international law.

The last remaining laws prohibiting witchcraft in Great Britain were repealed in 1951.

This was necessary to bring British law in line with the United Nations universal declaration of human rights, which states:

Article 18
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public Private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Adopted and proclaimed by the Gen assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1948.

Compared to various Christian persuasion is (a religion of Middle Eastern origin), particularly those of its recent forms of fundamentalists and similar sex often seem ill informed, even ignorant of the original and sacred spiritual heritage of the British Isles. We would encourage them to at least learn about our ways; any scientist will inform them that to criticise with out a reasonable comprehensive grasp of the subject renders the criticism invalid. The blind prejudice frequently expressed against paganism by such people is often the result of such gross ignorance. Here are the two basic areas of information which will dispense with many major misconceptions.

1 Satanism, and the devil
Satanism is an offshoot of that Judaic Christian. Islamic tradition it is then invention and has nothing to do with the symbolic horned God of the witches and pagans come up, which exists as a symbolic representation of the masculine characteristics of nature’s fecundity long before the Judaic Christian and Islamic traditions were culturally developed from Samaria Arcadian and the late Egyptian religious concepts (i.e. monotheistic panentheism). The devil is solely part of the Judaic Christian Islamic pantheon of deific characters. In 1484, Pope Innocent 8th published a bull classify our pagan symbols as personification of their devil. And so on, infighting and promoting deliberate religious persecution and genocide. Pagans (and Christian is deemed heretics), of all persuasions have been so treated by religious authorities from as early as 307CE, and in Europe to date at least 9 million have been tortured and killed by heretic and witch hunts (an academic has recently identified some 35-45,000 recorded arraignments and executions solely of those accused of being witches. In some cases of those countries, and only a few countries were Christianity was the enforced belief system – and those from only a tiny proportion of such records still exist).

2 learn your heritage
the pagan heritages of all nations are the original roots from which the modern religions sprang. These religions usually arose from a significant or, divinely inspired person capable of seeing the armed. The strictures of their cultural norms, who gave guidance to the ordinary people, to enable them to survive conditions. The less perceive Could not comprehend. Inevitably, these charismatic individuals designed their message from earlier knowledge; they are often known to have been educated in earlier traditions, which enable them to see the wider picture – and far at least. As their particular culture would enable them to stop. It is an unfortunate fact that the less adaptable followers tend to create institutions, which often become power hungry to the extent of denying their originators background. For incense, read the Venerable Bede, on the slaughter of the entire pagan population of the Isle of Wight in 686CE. Reid also a bonus (decline and fall of the Roman Empire), and the actions of the Valentitian and Valens. This was long before the Inquisition, where in many celibate Christian monks, refined methods of torture, mainly of women, with zealous enthusiasm. Nowadays, surely all religious except the rights of others, religious freedom of expression? Simply read the exact wording of their current dogma in the light of their history and find out. Then learn your pagan heritage and the concepts behind our traditions; it is your birthright, which they had tried to deny you. As pagans, we are pantheists; we recognise the supernality as intrinsic to existence itself, the order by which time and space and fold, and we find monotheistic panentheism, a pre-existent creator god childishly absurd in a scientific aware world. Our quaint and beautiful symbolic minutes, ceremonies and deities, allegories the processes of nature and existence, and celebrate the existence of humanity as part of the whole. After all, your existence is a result of the evolutionary nature, despite absurd creationist modern sects born of inward looking religious self-delusion. We are happy to coexist with other spiritual paths, and perfectly willing to discuss their validity of each other as core beliefs and morals and natural supernality.
As inheritors of the pagan knowledge, we conceive of Jesus Christ as a magnificent example of a middle eastern known scientific folk of their 2160 year Piscean age, now ending As we enter the Aquarian age. As starch, we have due respect for this figure, and his true followers who wish to peacefully coexist with other spiritual traditions, but not for the Christian churches with their appalling record of genocide, torture, material acquisition suppression of other spiritual traditions, including those from which they descend, their involvement with fascists and various oppressive governments, their suppression of winning, their coal industry a dark and murky politics, and perhaps above all, their doctrinal denial of every human being is divine right to seek spirituality. Based on reality, not confined by an enforced dogma. Nowadays, we do not live under the tyranny of an enforced belief system. Paganism is currently the fastest growing spiritual cosmology. In this land, at least, and a dogmatic religions are declining as progressing human knowledge about our universe, its origins and ours are no longer censored by religious dogma. This is because the pagan principles are absolutely appropriate in a word, where environmental concerns focus attention on the necessity of looking after this beautiful Earth, and of course, there is no contradiction between the experimental concepts underlying pagan knowledge and the knowledge developed through scientific discovery.

After 2000 years of oppression. We say never again! We feel we have the right to express our freedom with the support of decent people throughout the Wales. If you have come across discrimination against pagans weather, which is truth or others including Third World pagan folk. Please inform the perpetrator that they are in violation of internationally enforceable law against religious discrimination and are liable to arrest and prosecution because the civilised governments of the world regards such prejudices as immoral and unacceptable.

Copyright 1990 JR Grover

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Originally posted 2011-05-18 10:33:33. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Many Neo-Pagans and Wiccan adopt at least one new name as a sign of the new person that they have become and as a sign of their belief. A neo pagan and Wiccan will normally have at least 3 names their birth or legal name, the public pagan name that is a name used at public meetings and the final name is the private name a name only known to members of the coven or group that they belong to.

The public working name is a name that a person chooses for himself or herself which can just be made up or contains the names of animals or crystals or magickal symbols or runes.

The private name is normally given by the high priestess to a new member this name will contain information that that person must seek out, you are called that name for a reason sometimes to bring humility and understanding other times to inspire greatness.

During the first few years a neo pagan may change the public name till they find a name that truly fits.

I choose my public name “Draco of the Dragonstar” as I have a very close affinity to dragons and their magicks and I wanted to honour the great dragon who has been my guide for many decades now. Although I do shorten it to draco in letters and emails many people think that my name comes from Harry Potter.

My Private name was given to me and I was a little disappointed that it was not something big and proud like Raven Hunter Hawk but as I sort out my name if found it fits me like a glove.

So how do you start to pick your own pagan name?

Well you can start with the archetypal gods and goddess names choose a deity whose strengths and attributes you would like to embody although I would research any deity you may wish to be called by as you will assume some of their traits positive and negative.

You could also choose mythical beasts or cultural hero as part of the name as well as animals precious stones or even a particular attribute you wish to embody.

If you having difficulties finding a name there are a few techniques such as meditation and asking the divine directly or even forms of divination such as (Tarot, Runes, Ouji Board, Lots, *Numerology and your power numbers, I-Ching) no matter how you find your name it has to be right for you their no wrong name.

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Originally posted 2010-11-06 09:39:50. Republished by Blog Post Promoter