The Creator of the Universe
2009-11-21 @ 10:12:18
It has been revealed to me, during loading hay onto a horse trailer in which the buyer decided to stay in the trailer when I loaded another bale and then found his Santa Claus like body unable to squeeze through the space between the bale and the side door and found himself stuck, the nature of the creator of the Universe.

The longer I live and the more I learn about my world, the more I see that the true creator of the Universe must be the Three Stooges! Of course that leaves Shemp, who must be the "fallen stooge" that came to earth and now tries to influence earthly events in a negative way.

So there it is. Now you know. It explains a lot about the world as we now know it.

:-)
Healing, Death and Dying
2009-08-31 @ 13:11:42
Of all the types of "practical magick" (as opposed to "High Magick") that people practice the most useful and noble is probably healing.

There is an abundance of styles and "ways" of healing of greater and lesser benefit. I once had a medicine woman tell me that most of the healing work she had been asked to do was caused by other peoples botched healing works. So there is a caveat.

Regardless of what methods are used one thing any healer or would-be healer needs to recognize is that Death cannot be "fought" or defeated and a healer who thinks of themselves as "fighting death" is setting themselves up for trouble.

Death is a natural part and parcel of Life. So when people come to a healer for help with a life-threatening illness the healer must work to do what they can to "help." Sometimes miraculous things happen...I have seen this and know this but other times, despite the healers greatest efforts, one who seeks healing will die.

It is important for healers to know this from the outset and the use of their healing abilities can only be thought of as "helping" one towards healing. Healing, regardless of method, is a complex process as a ill person who seeks healing is a complex being. A person who receives healing work and later dies is not necessarily a "failed" case. Sometimes healing work follows the spirit journey of the one deceased and helps in breaking a "karma" which brought about the original illness. It is important to healers to realize that death is not an enemy and that their efforts of healing can only be thought of as an attempt to help. Sometimes this results in health
restored...person healed and we give gratitude for its effect. Other times the magick is not enough to change the course of things...higher powers are at work within life-and-death.

So that is the way I have seen this...both the "miraculous" healing and the seemingly failed attempt to restore a person (or animal) to health.

Healers are human, though perhaps "gifted", and we and those who come to us are all within a Greater Power.

Death is not an end but a new birth into spirit.

Dreams, Freedom and Control
2009-07-30 @ 17:00:40
A few days ago I awoke in the morning with a curious feeling...that I wished I could be back in the world of my "dreams" and not back in the world of waking consciousness with its' continuity of experience.

As I thought about this I realized that I had felt more "free" in my dreaming world than in my waking world. And as I looked deeper into this feeling I realized that my sense of freedom was in some sense related to my feeling of control. Control of my "world."

I know that this is not the only way people feel freedom or "free." I was not in a "lucid dream" where I was aware of myself dreaming as I dreamed. I cannot even remember what it was that I was dreaming. But the longer I looked at the feeling the more I felt that the issue of freedom came from the sense of control. Control of my "world." I realize that this is a slippery slope in that no one really "controls their world." But we do control how we respond to it.

It seems paradoxical that control would be linked to freedom on first look--and that intrigued me. The longer I looked, however, the more it seemed somehow right. That often we feel most free when our world seems to be within the reach of our wills ability to control it. That our world is not "out of control" for us personally but within our wills ability to control it enough to feel the sensation of freedom.

In the Dreamer Wheel Freedom is associated with the East as is Will.

If we feel our world beyond our ability to effectively respond to its' challenges we feel "un-free." Often when we feel able to deal effectively with our world/situation we feel a sensation of freedom.

I think this a strange paradox that Control would be (at least sometimes) associated with freedom. And it was this paradox that so intrigued me, as paradox is language of the mysteries.