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How Initiation Into Spirituality Creates Magical Changes In Your Personal Growth

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:59:18 -0400

As a teacher of esoteric studies, I have the honor of conducting Initiations once or twice every year. This is an obscure and greatly misunderstood concept for most people. Plus modernization has gradually killed off many traditional rites of passage.

How Initiation Into Spirituality Creates Magical Changes In Your Personal Growth

by Jonathan Martin Clark

Some everyday Initiations you may already be familiar with:

What are Elemental Spirits

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:10:29 -0400

Elementals are spirits that have only one element to their nature, usually air, fire, water or earth, but there are also elemental spirits of akasha. These are the nature spirits, that interact with the natural world, but have their existence in the ethers. The ethers are a plain of existence beyond the upper and lower worlds of shamanism, and beyond the astral plain, but lower than the level of the Gods.

What are Elemental Spirits

by Peter Aziz

Lets now consider the many levels of existence. From the oneness, divine consciousness divides into 50 archetypal energies, which are at first pre-conceptual, but are then conceptualized into the archetypes of the Tarot and the basic energies of the 50 Sanskrit letters. As these differentiate further, they give rise to the gods and goddesses of all the different traditions. These then create a plain of infinite potential, out of which all possibilities are created. This field of infinite potential consists of the void at its highest level, and then the other four elements. Out of this realm of potential is created function, then form, and then physical matter. Our reality is not the only manifestation of the ethers. A different function and form creates the faerie realm, which shares the Earth with us, but in a parallel dimension. There may be many parallel Worlds co-existing with the human World, each having its own upper and lower Worlds.

When Are Spells Performed?

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:33:56 -0400

The presentation of magic entails use of words (such as spells or charms) and symbolic numbers that are considered to possess a natural power and ritual actions presented by the magician or other accomplice. A spell or incantation is thought to draw power from mystical interventions to achieve magic.

When Are Spells Performed?

by Preston Houer

Spells are words spoken in a series of procedure with magical objective. The accurate performance, often with supplementary actions, is believed to set free paranormal power.

Shamanism Today

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:38:05 -0400

Without an intuitive grasp of the oneness of animism, the reality of the spirit world, the world of the shaman, is unimaginable. Yet the effort is worthwhile. Shamanic practice is a road to health for individuals, for modern society, and for the survival of life on Earth. In some countries, shamanism has begun to flourish again after being brutally persecuted for decades.

Shamanism Today

by Kathleen Gresham

Some cultures retain shamanism longer than others. And some cultures retain some aspects of shamanism even as they transistion through gardening to farming.

Darkness Visible: Ceremonial Darkness in Shamanic Tradition

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:40:02 -0400

My darkness falls suddenly and without warning.

One moment I am looking up at the night sky, marveling at the stars, like diamonds scattered on a jeweler�s velvet, the next I am held from behind, with a blindfold across my eyes. Then I am spun three times so I am no longer certain of direction and led into a darkened room, where I will stay for five nights, always in darkness, blindfolded for most of it.

Darkness Visible: Ceremonial Darkness in Shamanic Tradition

by Ross Heaven

This is not a kidnapping. It is a ritual procedure conducted in Haiti as part of the ceremonial process for initiates into the Caribbean tradition born of African shamanism and carried to the New World in the enslaved hearts and souls of shaman-priests and princes.

Is Your Mind Open to Cosmic Ordering?

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:29:08 -0400

Opening your mind to the infinite ways Cosmic Ordering could work for you, is the first step to success. Limiting your beliefs only to what you know or believe to be true, is to deny all the possibilities that the universe has to offer.

Is Your Mind Open to Cosmic Ordering?

by G. Symond

Cosmic Ordering was originally the brainchild of Barbel Mohr a German New Age author who penned the best-seller The Cosmic Ordering Service which was published in 1999.

What are Love Spells

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:49:18 -0400

Emotions are the most powerful among all forms of human expressions and love may be accepted without a doubt as the most powerful of all emotions. It is not in your power to avoid falling in love with someone, it just happens in a moment, which is sometimes for many people enough for a lifetime. If you deny that, maybe you can explain how two complete strangers come to believe there could be no independent life for them away from each other and as individuals or how one person reaches the point of sacrifice where he or she is ready to risk everything they have for the person they love. There can be endless similar examples. However, you can also not control how the person you fall in love with feels for you. There is no possible way for you to control another person�s emotions for you, except for Love spells.

What are Love Spells

by Umar Ahmed

Love spells are easy to cast by yourself if your concentration levels are higher than the average. If you find it difficult to concentrate on a particular point, such as the flame of a candle, for over a minute don�t be disheartened, you can always seek the service of love psychics. You can find love psychics online or around the corner in your locality. Many psychics, apart from providing psychic readings, also double up as love psychics and help you cast a love spell on someone you can not live without. Two very important questions might have arisen as a doubt in the minds of many at this point: What are love spells and do they really work?

The Secret of the Void

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:44:01 -0400

Several years ago I had a quiet but intense experience at the wedding of a close friend. I was early, and as I sat at my table I watched the other guests entering the room. One came in elated, dancing like a performer on stage. Another was withdrawn, inward, as if mulling over some sadness or pain. Some were eating, some talking, some laughing and some sitting quietly.

The Secret of the Void

by Shifra Hendrie

But what I saw - with an almost painful intensity - was that each one of us, no matter what we were doing or with whom we were doing it, was essentially in our own world. Not necessarily lonely, but alone, our thoughts, longings, our selves on some core level separate from everyone around us.

How To Use Voodoo Magick To Achieve Your Goals

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:02:45 -0400

Voodoo emerged from the cocoon of civilization, Africa. The practice of Voodoo, which is also called Vodou or Voudun, means God, Creator or Great Spirit. If the image of Voodoo is frightening to some, it is because like all other natural spiritual practices, Voodoo also has been terribly distorted by Christian missionaries so that people would easily convert to their religion.

How To Use Voodoo Magick To Achieve Your Goals

by Rose Ariadne

This way of life that originated in Africa is today practiced by millions of people all over the world. As people traveled from the African continent to different parts of the world, they took this spiritual knowledge with them and continued to use it in the new lands. Many of the Africans were forcibly kidnapped and sold as slaves by the Europeans and had to use their innate skills to maintain contact with their ancestors and relatives.

A Foundation For Astrology

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:48:29 -0400

Astrology studies the celestial bodies affects on humanity. In particular human fate, destiny, and personality were described by the celestial influences of the stars and planets. The roots of Astrology can be traced back to the first or second century BC. Many ancient cultures such as the Egyptians, Babylonians, and Chinese practiced forms of Astrology. Although, the methods of Astrological forecast differed slightly from culture to culture there still remained many fundamental similarities between them.

A Foundation For Astrology

by Frederick Gimino

For example Chinese Astrology which evolved convergent to western Astrology had some major differences. The most fundamental difference being the use of the moon's 28 day cycle through the heavens as opposed to the Sun's* 365 day cycle around the earth (*Note: The Sun does not revolve around the earth but during this period it was the popular belief). The earliest Chinese zodiac divided the lunar cycles into 4 groups each corresponding to a different season and 7 sub groups corresponding to specific lunar mansions in the season. The seasons were given animal based names for example: Spring=The Green Dragon of spring, summer=The Red Bird of Summer, fall=The White Tiger of autumn, and winter=The Black Tortoise of Winter.