ARCHANGELS article

Angels in the Clouds

ARCHANGELS

whether you are Christian or Pagan or any religion which has an hierarchy  of a heaven or a hell, Archangels seem to be an accepted aspect of our spiritual life.

For many, the idea God (by whatever name) has a sub division or a department wholly given over to his/her ‘second in command. is something we don’t question. I know that many people use the idea of winged angels as a defence system in Psychic Self Defence and many people continue the concept further with Archangels Raphael (wind), Michael (fire), Gabriel (water and Uriel (earth) combining pagan and Christian beliefs.

Currently ‘doing the rounds’ and many claims of ‘it works’ is the Arch Angels Ritual.

I can hardly write something up, recommend it, without first trying it out myself, or rather I prefer not to do so (some rituals are not for me) I did this one, I tried it via the auspices of a good friend sending me the letter informing me of her good will and thoughts towards me and her desire for me to be blessed. I received the thoughts written down, the love that prompted that letter with humility and gratitude. Such a truly kind thought.

I have taken part in this ritual...and cannot explain the white feather that drifted from side to side down my front door on the appointed day, nor can I explain the many lovely things which happened during those 5 days, or the positive energy which began to infuse my world, even with persons who were not aware of my participation. I can only say that doing this ritual seemed a good thing and felt good.

                    ARCH ANGEL RITUAL                                             

Choose 3 people to send the Arch Angels to.

Inform these people that on a specific date the Arch Angels will arrive at their front door. They will arrive for 5 days at 10.30 pm at night and leave at 10.30 pm 5 days later.

To invite the Archangels presence in your life prepare a small altar. The home must be spotlessly clean.

Have an apple and a candle and a white flower

Three wishes:-

1 for yourself

1 for a loved one

1 for the earth

Write them down on paper and seal in an envelope.

Light the candle and place the apple on the wishes.

Open the door at 10.30.pm and say:-

Hello and welcome Archangels to my home. You were sent to me by (name) I am very grateful to each of you for purifying and bringing peace to this place and to beings that live in it. I am very grateful to you for bringing harmony, Joy, serenity to us all. I am very grateful to you for fulfilling my wishes.

for 5 days the angels are with you, you can talk to them, reflect on them, discover peace and answers in your life. The Angels will accompany you wherever you go.

While your physically present keep the candle lit, but observe safety and do not leave a lit candle lit while you are away.

Just before the 5 days are up write down the names and addresses of those people you are sending the Angels too. Then; using the candle burn this information to send the energy to the angels. Send your love and thanks and as the angels leave you burn your own wishes list and scatter the ashes. Eat the Apple.

This ritual has been enacted worldwide passed from friend to friend much as a chain letter but many claim the ritual has worked for them.

Many people rewrite this ritual to their own way of belief but it is certain that belief in Arch Angels has been emphasised by the thousands of people who have followed this ritual and in doing so centred belief and trust in this ritual being positive in their lives.

Arch Angels are an energy, perhaps for some they are a spiritually enhanced Egragore or for others a manifestation of will centred on a specific all powerful energy similar to God minus the awe inspiring fear of God.
God Bothering is an old expression to describe someone who asks God (by whatever name) for soemthing, for extra help, to smite down a neighbour or bless a friend, but forever doing so, not the odd occasion, but over and over. Many religions advise against such continuous needy prayers and advise a different approach....contact one of Gods helpers and so Arch Angels come in for a first line of defence, like  Personal Assistants  for a CEO ; perhaps they do not feel as awesome to approach.

Human beings are a strange lot at times. Not ‘bothering’ God is a concept many feel aware of and have experienced before now.

The Archangels have manifestations, associations and now even their own Tarot Packs and Spirit Packs....the inventiveness of mankind in trying to bring into their lives a spiritual being knows no boundaries.

Interesting websites available for further researches are :-

For the Christian and Judaic concepts and the historical origins

http://www.angelfocus.com/archangels.htm

To ‘meet’ your personal Arch Angel, to understand more names and associations

http://angels.about.com/od/AngelBasics/f/Who-Are-Archangels.htm

for a description of and explanation of the angels and their names and use in ritual

http://www.angelsbysharae.com/ArchangelsList.html

I return to RAZIEL  who is a powerful Archangel who can be called upon to defend from great evils

His associations are the following

AMETHYST, LAVENDER, VIOLET, WINTER, MARCH, MONDAY, BELIEFS, HELPFUL, RESOURCEFUL, BLOODSTONE, THE WORLD, THE UNIVERSE, CANDLE PURPLE.

On the Tree of Life in Kabbalah (also called "Qabala"), one reads of Archangel Raziel overseeing the sephirot (sephiroth)called "Chokmah" which means "wisdom."

"Ratziel reveals Divinity as it emanates Divine energy into everything, and allows human consciousness to expand to the degree that it is able to comprehend the existence of Divinity....an awareness of God in all manifestations which can release the believer from a single pathway and open the door (Daath) to a greater spiritual journey of Gnosis of all and not just one way.

AA Raziel is our angel who reveals the divine mystery, enabling us to understand the concept of God in all manifestations. An ability to enable us the human race to not only understand and accept the concept of God but to apply that knowledge in every day ways into our everyday life.

 Raziel is the fifth Arch Angel called upon to guide and keep safe the personal energy of the soul as we connect to our higher self in prayers or service (invocation and ritual)

The first series of Arch  Angels appears in The Book of Enoch and are named as Gabriel, Michael,Raphael,Uriel,Raguel,Remiel and Saraquel.

All AA names end in ‘el’.

Remiel is described as the leader of the 200 Fallen Angels the Grigori.

The Revelations description of seven seals being broken is a reference to the Arch Angels who hold those seals in defence of mankind from the apocalypse.

Many religions with a Jewish base refer to Arch Angels and name other angels in their belief system. 

The Roman Catholic church recognises three Arch Angels, Raphael, Michael and Gabriel.

The Eastern Orthodox church accepts Uriel as well,.

 Sariel and Jerahmeel ,Selaphiel,Jegudiel,are mentioned in The Book of Enoch.

The Coptic Church mentions Suriel, Zadakiel and Aniel.

Systems recorded in various holy scripts assign the Arch Angels various tasks or ruler ships.

The seven Luminaries (the 7 planets or star systems visible to the naked eye) are given Arch Angels .

The Seasons of the year, the elements and jewels, stones, and other diverse aspects have all at one time or another been ruled by an Arch Angel.

Each religion or pathway will give the researcher a list of such associations.

Just a short introduction to Arch Angels and their presence in the spiritual worlds we regularly visit.

SILVER

2015

ASTRAL PROJECTION article

THE ASTRAL WORLD

The Astral by shamanistic descriptions seems to be a dimension as real as this world, accessible through the mind. Occasionally a shaman may claim to physically enter the astral dimensions and

then the danger is very real, that they are unable to come back to this realm.

Some of the exponents of a different realm are a surprisingly eclectic mix:-

Carl Jung describes himself as being transported into a region of outer space, phantasmagorial in appearance.

Carlos Castaneda wrote several books about his journeys to a realm which he names as ‘the crack between the worlds’.

William Blake visited Heavenly Realms.

Inevitably the Shaman will eventually travel to the next Realm or the Astral world..

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This is a specialist subject, above and beyond normal Shaman skill. To travel the Astral requires knowledge’s of meditative and magical aspects which are complicated by the inner capabilities

already present in any Shaman.

For this reason, Astral Travel forms a part of the Meditation Course and is an invaluable aid to the safety and security of the Soul aswell as the Physical self.

Because of the true and very real dangers one can encounter, as this course was being created, I took the decision to add to this article the instructions to follow the Meditation Course.

There is a vast array of skills to meditation and its many advantages to the human psychic. The Meditation Course is worth studying for its own benefits. I have included here the safety rules and the astral links to be noted though we wish to emphasise that the actual Meditation course is vaster than the small amount of information included here... 

Happy Astral travels.

Keep a journal for your meditations and a separate journal for your observations on all other related subjects. You may need to refer to information and your journal will definitely make interesting

reading later in life.

Silver

PSYCHIC SELF DEFENCE WORKSHOP

PSYCHIC SELF DEFENCE

People have very rich imaginations. Our minds have been subjected to every kind of media created fear. Be it a fear of the dark to a monster that has been derived from the rich source of mythological data available to us. A very real fear of an animal or insect or even the mockery of your peers. Each fear is freely available, lurking at the back of the mind and awaiting the chance to manifest into our most vulnerable moments. We protect ourselves not only from exterior forces but from our own personally invented aspects too.

PROTECTION.

In an ideal world mental protection starts with the physical self and its needs being met first. However that isn't always feasible.

The human mind is a fine instrument which receives enormous amounts of information all the time. In ideal conditions we can ensure the body is as comfortable and safe as possible. At the point when you feel content begin the first steps of Psychic Self Defence...

As human beings we are subjected to an amazing amount of information second by second. Our ears are hearing back ground noise as well as the conversation before us and the chatterbox at the desk over the room, the sound of the fax machine and the fact that it is a sunny day outside and a plane just flew in the direction of Sunshine and beaches and we could go on forever. What is also happening is a sensory overload which may be attacking your more delicate personal abilities.

Feelings of being ‘watched’ where you can almost physically feel someone’s eyes on your neck.

Feeling suddenly drained of all energy when you are physically absolutely healthy.

Fear or self doubt suddenly striking your emotions.

Being swamped by the drama of someone else’s life.

Feeling too emotional, always weepy or angry or swept by rage which comes from absolutely nowhere.

All these emotions are seen as an attack of the psychic self.

Defending yourself is something you practice whenever you shut yourself off from the world and stay in doors with the curtains shut, watching mind boring TV shows and not answering the telephone!

Why did you do that to yourself? Because it is easier than dealing with the exterior world when you feel so very sensitive. Defending yourself enables you to go out into the world with a lot more

confidence.

Psychic self defence is a Metaphysical exercise and requires total focus and concentration.

USING YOUR IMAGINATION

Take a really good look at yourself in the mirror. This is your true

self; this is the real person you will be defending mentally. So don’t

cheat in your imagination and pretend your stomach is flatter than

it is, don’t add a few inches onto your body. You’re looking at

yourself and memorising the truth.

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Psychologists would call the following differing names, or conditionings, mental excercises. I grew up with them all being acknowledged as ways of defending the Psyche and defending the minds perceptions whether real or imaginary from vulnerability and fears which can manifest themselves in poor health, stresses and damaged sleep patterns and in some ways psychologically causing fear to function normally in life.

PRAYER

Beginning your work with a prayer is perfectly acceptable if you are of a religious persuasion, ensure your prayer contains the request to be protected from all levels of negativity above and below the

earth, from all directions of the universe, within and without of the self.

THE SHIELD

1

Whenever you are with people who make you feel unnerved, whose energies are making you feel uncomfortable you can create a force field between you and ‘them’. However, you are at present

alone and unable to determine if this procedure is working. What you can do is create the imagery and then practise it next time you are out in the public world.

Imagine yourself with a shimmering shield before you, wherever you walk or stand this ‘shield’ is with you, make it as thick as you like and it can be made of ‘glass’, a ‘force’ as in the Science Fiction

films invisible beams, whatever is for you an image of strength and either repelling or ‘zapping’ the negativity which you feel is too invasive.

This is a defence used when someone makes you feel drained or mentally brow beaten. Place the ‘shield between you and them….it works!

2

Now sit or lie down and begin;

See yourself in your minds eye. Imagine surrounding yourself with pure white light. Now silver the surface of the white light until it is mirror bright.

This basic defence mechanism is a protection from negative energy outside of you, it repels it.

If someone where to ‘send’ a negative force at you, it would be bounced straight back to them without infiltrating your defence.

BREATHING TECHNIQUES

See yourself in your minds eye and as you physically begin to breathe in white light.

Breathe out whatever colour is inside yourself, keep your breathing to your own rate, do not force your breathe or attempt counting techniques.

Keep this technique going until you are ‘full up’ with bright white light and you are breathing out white light as well as inhaling white light. See your image glowing with light, perceive the light in your breathe.

Now continue this procedure but add the imagery that the light breathed in is now exuding through your skin. 

This continues until you are both filled with light and your skin is positively glowing with

light in, on and outside of it.

You can comfortably stop the breathing technique, all the imagery is now focussed on maintaining the whole image of yourself positively glowing with filled light exuding  From your body in a ‘body

wrap’ of light.

Once you are comfortable with the imagery, close your eyes; ‘think’ to your mind the instructions. ‘You wish to maintain this image during any psychic work you are about to do.’

Let the eyes open as you allow the image to fade to the back of your mind.

This type of defence is using a forceful image of you being protected from exterior negativity and enables you to banish personally invented negative forces. It is also used to repel negative forces from exterior force or person.

USING THE TOOLS OF THE TRADE.

If you are a religious person then you can always employ the use of a symbol as an extra protection for the mind. Some of the symbols are The Cross, The Ankh, The five pointed, six pointed and eight pointed Star and numerous others. The name of your deity inscribed on a suitable medallion. A rosary and many other symbols are used throughout the world. You use whatever symbol has the greatest protection you have been taught and believe in.

These methods of protection are more than adequate for use when practising the developmental skills of psychic development.

Visualisation and Meditation.

As with the previous meditations you need to prepare and settle yourself. In the preparation we would like you to choose an image to look at. A photograph of a flower or a candle, something simple

and preferably single coloured.

Once you have begun to feel relaxed you need to concentrate on the specific image which you chose earlier

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Try to ‘see’ in your minds eye the flower or candle as you saw it in the photograph.

Concentrate not only on the image but try to sense the feel of the object, the scent the heat or other sensory information your mind can supply above and beyond the photograph

This visualisation is very simple but the effects can be startling. 

You may see the flowers petals open or smell its perfume.

The candle may begin to burn and flicker and melt.

This visualisation is the beginning for you of other meditations which you will enjoy over the coming years.

Visualisation is a creative method of relaxing and focussing the mind on something pleasurable, relaxing and enlightening as the imagery will evolve and involve other senses as you progress.

You may also begin to sense thoughts which may or may not be related to the image.

They will certainly be for you, about you or your plans. Keep good records of all of this.

Other images may begin to appear without your studying them, in fact more images and other sensations will develop over a period of time. Once you are comfortable with this level of meditation you may feel ready to progress further.

In Psychic Self Defence, once this stage of meditation has been reached one creates SANCTUARY and it is also possible to create a Door Sentinel, a completed energy is to visualise  yourself safely inside your sanctuary then allowing the imagery to fade, coming 'back' to reality and simply keeping the feeling of being inside your sanctuary 'topped up' with little moments throughout times in the day or night where you strengthen that thought, that visualisation and perhaps enhance it with a prayer to your deity.

There is more, there always is, this is an introduction to psychic self defence. Good for the majority of issues we deal with on a daily basis which make the psychic self uncomfortable.

Be safe, be happy

Regarding this issue I am happy to answer specific details if you feel you are not .'quite' getting the hang of it, or perhaps have a deeper situation to deal with. Please feel free to e mail me at the provided address.

Silver

AN INTRODUCTION TO HEALING by FRANCES REILLY 1985

AN INTRODUCTION TO HEALING.

A Memorial Paper by Frances Reilly. 1985.

There are many forms of healing and I will endeavour to enlighten you.

Firstly we have many hospitals, which include Surgeons, Physicians, Dieticians, Physiotherapists, and Nurses to name but a few. Specialists in every ailment mankind can suffer from.

Secondly we have Alternative medicine, of which there is also a long list. Currently the top 8 Alternative medicines in the western world are -:

Top 8 alternative therapies,

1,Naturopathy where the body is encouraged to heal itself through healthy exercise, correct diet and fresh air.

2, Ayurvedic a strict diet to suit your ‘prakuti’ which is your physiological and physiological system, herbal medicines, yoga and other complimentary medicines and practitioners.

3, Traditional Chinese medicine. Herbalism, massage, diet therapy, exercise and acupuncture are just some of the range of medicines used holistically.

4, Homeopathy a prescription for minute amounts of a remedy that will closely match your ailment, there is an extremely detailed series of questions concerning everything from lifestyle to ailments.

5,Manual lymph drainage a highly effective system where a relaxing massage pinpoints the lymph glands, boosting the immune system eliminating toxins .6,Autogenic Training this has been dubbed a meditation for westerners, the system is taught over a number of weeks.

7, Reiki a Japanese form of ‘healing’ which can aid stress management especially.

8, Aromatherapy where essential oils are used to encourage a better immune system, where essential oils are used in massage.

Spiritual healing is in a category of its own.

It is Spiritual Healing I am interested in here, in this paper.

I firmly believe that if ones spiritual body is healed, the spiritual body helps the physical body to accept Gods will and in acceptance we can overcome the problems.

There are various ways of Spiritual Healing.

Contact Healing.

Aura Healing.

Magnetic Healing.

Colour healing.

Absent Healing.

In this first paper I wish to deal with the healing I use myself.

I sit quietly for a few minutes, to meditate. Offer a prayer and ask for Gods love and light and protection, and that he let my Healing Guides be with me throughout the duration of the task I have to do. I give my love to God and in return I can feel myself fill with his love THEN I KNOW. I am ready to begin.

If I haven’t had contact with the person before, I ask if they have experienced Spiritual Healing. If not then I explain it to them, what I am going to do. This puts them at there ease.

I always stand behind the person to start off with, placing my hands on their shoulders.

I extend my thumbs to the base of their neck and concentrate on the person. This helps me to ‘tune in’.

Throughout the healing I keep my hands within the ‘aura’ of the person, usually within two inches of their skin. I keep my left hand mainly just behind the neck (negative) whilst my right hand (positive) moves around and over the body. Everyone finds his or her own ‘best way’ of doing it. This is MY way, the way that I feel the most effective.

All healers feel different sensations, some feel cold, heat, and hands vibrating and so on. With me I feel intense heat where the healing is needed. I can also feel the power ‘bounce’ through the body from my right hand into my left hand. I always leave the person by placing my hands on their shoulders again and asking God to let the healing carry on. I feel that this completes the circuit around the body.

When the healing is over I feel as if I am a Disciple, carrying on the work of Jesus.

To me, healing is the most precious gift God could ever give me. I accept, I appreciate it and shall always do it to the best of my ability.

You are all capable of healing others in your own way.

May Gods Love, Light and Protection be with you always?

Sadly Frances has passed to the other side. All who met her, where appreciative of her simple and direct belief, which was strong and sincere? She is sadly missed on this physical plane. Spiritually, she is one of those golden lights that shine whenever the way seems too dark.

Frances Reilly, an indomitable woman, surviving many physical and spiritual challenges. To become a leading light in the Page Moss area of Liverpool, Great Britain. Frances was a vivacious and talented lady whose sense of humour could overcome much of the cruelties of life. For a tiny little lady, with a whole series of painful, physical ailments and a body punished cruelly throughout her life. This beautiful soul shone amongst friends and the public alike.

Her greatest joy was to receive a bouquet of Yellow Roses from Sammy Davies Junior whenever he visited the North of England. Her greatest pride was in her son Christopher the only surviving child from ten painful pregnancies.

Her most powerful memory is with ‘us’ the people she left behind, all too soon. Frances was tiny physically and had a heart the size of the world. She would do anything for you, be there as friend and as support.

She had so little materially having been burned out of her home by local vandals twice, and as she said the second time ‘ the Bronx would be easier to live in than here’. Yet she stayed and made it known she would not be beaten, would not ‘give in’, to bullies and idiots.

She had so little fiscally because she spent her meagre income on the ‘old folk’ whom she cooked meals for and delivered. (This was when she was in her early sixties!) Frances was a fount of wisdoms and a particularly wonderful friend to those who had fallen on hard times. Her humour was ‘off the wall’ her adventures where many…in fact they probably warrant a book all have there own.

Frances left a legacy. The day after her burial, her son and I began to sort through her material world. A sad and unhappy task. The next day I received a phone call. Christopher had eventually worked his way to the attic. He had found his ex army father’s hidden arsenal! Semtex, Detonators! Tank and land mines! He was stood outside the house, at the bottom of the street. The Bomb disposal unit of the Army was on its way. She really did, nearly go with a bang! I can still hear her laughing. Frances would have loved it.

And we really did love our own little Reilly.

We still do.

I promised Frances that one-day, the world would know of her beautiful soul. This is my testimony to my friend. Her works may never have reached the dizzy heights of professors and doctors of this or that. Yet her work is far more powerful than she would accept herself.

Though no academic, I watched this tiny little lady confound the whole of the medical profession in the Royal Liverpool Hospital. With Spiritual Healing from ‘us’ and from herself, she came off life support after a triple bypass operation in 3 days and walked, head high within three weeks out of the hospital, healed and healthy, the operation was a success and for eleven extra years we had Frances with us. The transplants had lasted longer than anyone else’s, her recovery was greater than anyone else’s and to her delight,  her surgeon was fascinated by the process and asked permission to talk of her Spiritual Healing at a seminar that very weekend of her operation.

Frances didn't just write about her abilities and interests, she truly lived them and as a result she was a shining example to us all. Personally I can never thank the powers that be enough, for my friend, my councillor and mentor in life. I witnessed her levitate and write her initial on the ceiling, crystal gaze and heal, she dumbfounded me and a whole lot of other people.

She humbled me with her truths and her trust and her loyalty. I never did feel I repaid them enough. I have been most truly blessed when the powers allowed her into my life and I am very grateful, very grateful indeed. 

Frances was a wonderful hotch potch of humour, passion and so many attributes, a true bouquet of British quirkiness, Scouse humour and pure undiluted womanhood. Wherever you are Fran’, I miss you girl.

Love

Mother.

SANCTUARY

SANCTUARY

Sanctuary has become synonymous with being able to leap up a church steps into the chancery and stay safe from the local police, army or anyone else who wanted to have your guts for garters.

In earlier times sanctuary was a place of deep peace, meditation and prayer.

These days sanctuary is a programme on the telly and people have in general lost the true meaning and do not understand the need for total safety from the 'demons' of the mind.

SANCTUARY  for the purpose of meditation is something you create to give your spirit somewhere were nothing, no-one, no 'it' can harm you in anyway whatsoever.

 Before you travel in any direction through meditation, before you trog down any path way or any guided meditation with a complete stranger or for that matter a friend, you should visit your sanctuary.

Sanctuary leads to your place of worship which leads to your meditation site which leads to your gateway which leads to your created pathways. NOTHING comes through sanctuary except YOU.

You follow this wherever you are working with any type of person, no matter who they are or how qualified until such time as you are strong enough to stand on your own two feet and run a development circle of your own.

DO NOT MEDITATE THE FOLLOWING IN THE BEGINING, IT IS CREATIVE VISULISATION.

CREATING SANCTUARY.

Visualise a white walled room, develop the room always with white, ceiling, floor, and then fill the room itself with white soft light.

Create (this is when you get to play at being a minor deity !) a large comfortable solid looking door that has enough locks, bolts, bars to satisfy your desire for security and place it in one of the walls.

Across the room, opposite your entry door is a small discreet exit, which leads out to your place of worship.

Create in the centre of this white room a tranquil pool, it can have a fountain, underwater lights, whatever, it should also have somewhere for you to sit comfortably. The pool can be as big or as small as you wish and your room...well make the time to make the room as perfect as you want it and then as big as you like. Personally my room is so big that the walls are out of sight, there is a dim soft mist which fades the edges. THIS IS WHERE YOU SEEK CALM, PEACE, AND TRANQUILITY.

The ideal place for you to balance yourself, cleanse yourself and then walk quietly to your exit door and enter your place of worship to seek blessings, sanctifying.

NO - ONE CAN GET INTO THIS ROOM IT IS YOURS AND YOURS ALONE.

CREATING YOUR PLACE OF WORSHIP.

           

Well you can have a church a field a stone a waterfall a pond, a sea whatever. Where do you want to worship and to whom! 

Its the same process as before and you keep that 'picture' in your head, work on it with as much intensity and creative energy as you would if your where planning how you would spend that big lottery win!

CREATING YOUR PATHWAYS

To the right

On the right-hand side of the centre of your worship, be it an alter, stone bunch of flowers a tree...whatever, is the way OUT.

NOT THE LEFT HAND SIDE, NOT BEHIND IT...see the work on Kaos for reasons why but if you see a 'K' at the side of something in any future work it is a signal to you that Kaos can be involved, a danger or a threat and though the reasons are not written here I assure you they are in the other works for cross reference and you can read all about it later.

The 'K' signal means STAY SAFE.

Through that wonderful RIGHT HAND gate is the world you can investigate. It is EXACTLY the same world as everyone else’s with the added bonus that you have:-

Metaphorically and metaphysically speaking-

Put your hat on

Got your coat

A spare pare pf wellies

A pair of sunglasses

A sun suit and a towel

Sun cream

Snow boots

A spare flask of spiritual energy,

A whole lot of curiosity and!!!!!!

YOU GET THE IDEA

From this point of self cleansing, self energising, self sealing you have trained yourself to walk the right hand path which in mystic terms or magical terms is walking a path of light.

This means you don't have to worry overmuch about nasty stuff, be aware

But not paranoid.

By the way, when you walk through that wonderful right hand gate into the metaphorical, mystical, magical world....you can go anyway you want, up down, sideways, left or right, in a circle, back to front...BECAUSE YOU ARE IN SAFE WORLD.

Unless you’re seeking to go somewhere you know you shouldn't! At which point.

“Oh behave yourself, I have better things to do than go look for an inquisitive idiot on the astral ‘ cos they got into trouble , grow up and come back when your knowledgeable enough to bat swords with me!”

I DID mention personal discipline? Ahhh!  Yes, I did ALSO mention you are the pupil here? Hmmmmmmmmm. DON’T go wandering off into places you don’t belong, this is for your own good…. (Oh I BET that was annoying”)

Once you have all this memorised and clear then MEDITATE it into being.

TO REACH SANCTUAARY

• Know you need to be there. RECOGNITION
• Step right through that big beautiful safe door because only you can! REALISATION
• Purify yourself, sanctify yourself, and Seal yourself. (go sit by the pool and clear your thoughts/go to your place of worship and speak with your God/receive your gods blessing)

v  RECOGNITION

v  REALISATION

v  PURIFY

v  SANCTIFY

v  SEAL

NOW YOU ARE READY FOR YOUR PATHWORK

sILVER

Hi Jacked Halloween

We are soon to enjoy the All Hallows festival beloved of Pagans the world over. October the 31st is the Feast of The Dead, the All Hallows, The Soul Night and in the United States of America and many other countries now following suit...Halloween, a great big party for the kiddies! 

Yet if any other religion had to face a hi jack of their feast day, have it turned into a ridiculing imagery of its followers with green skin, warts and snaggle teeth, if their feast day was turned into a mockery there would be, to use a term, Hell to pay. 

Samhain is MY festival, not the domain of the advertisers, the toy makers, the media hyped stupidities but.... you can continue, I will not argue, carry on...but as you do, please do so understanding the following, it’s important to me that you at least understand.................

There are NO seminal sources to prove that there is/has been or ever will be a Prince of Darkness, a Lord of the Dead, a Grim reaper or a Satan. Not one single 'god' is ascribed the time of Samhain by the indigenous religion of our country. Nor has there ever been.

Samhain is a celebration of the end of summer and its harvest also included a time of reflection to remember lost members of the family and friends. people who have died; honouring the dead in memory and time praying for a soul’s peace.

The core of all Pagan concepts is And Harm None. What media hype, perverted idiots and Fundamentalists do is jump onto a bandwagon of mis or dis information and because they have more money than most they buy time on media to spread their version of 'truth'. They either Disneyfy (i.e. Pocahontas was 13 years old, bald and naked when John Smith became her husband...was that in the nice cartoon erm...no) or as Lady Wilde did in her false and totally inaccurate book Mystic Charms and Superstitions claim there is a Lord of the Dead based on hype and media acclaim and of course her blue blood. 

The Dictionary of Festivals defines Samhain as: _

'Samhain or Samhuinn:(Celtic) 31 October, Eve of 1 Nove.is the beginning of the Celtic year, the beginning of the season of cold, dearth and darkness. 

 On this night we celebrate the joy of someone’s presence in our lives, the journey they led, the pain they have left behind as they have died. It is a night of honouring our 'tribal' member now lost to us.

  Despite the United Nations Declarations and Human Rights Conventions acts, where ALL peoples are said by law to be allowed to practise their religion in peace...we are not actually allowed to.

No other religion suffers as paganism in its many paths does.

Has any other religion had their sacred festival hi jacked for media hype, commercialism? Ghosts, Ghouls, Vampires, Witches, and other rubbish even ET got in on the act....so someone can make a profit. Blood coloured cakes, black jelly...what's that all about? it has no bearing whatsoever on my beliefs.

The practise of sending children dressed all cute and sweet to a complete stranger’s door to demand money and food or sweets is in my opinion absolutely stupid and worse....it was invented by Christians. NOT Pagan peoples who are safe in their own homes, loving their families and remembering someone they have lost whose death has impacted on their lives. 

We have, as a religious umbrella term; Paganism. Samhain is celebrated by Celtic based religions. What others do with our sacred festival is not in any way anything to do with us. We do not approve, we do not like nor promote the ideas being 'celebrated' yet we have no governing body, no priesthood stands between us and our Deity. We have no Lord or Lady, Political or Army, we do not have Terrorists or Church to represent us in a world that continues unabated to persecute our peoples.

We often times are unable to represent ourselves simply because we are and always have been, ever since Christianity was promoted as a main religion by the invading armies of the Romans, a subjugated and persecuted people. Millions of people have been murdered in the name of a loving God. Not because the God asked for it...on the contrary the actual religion I speak of has text promoting peace, forgiveness, understanding and in its final book actually has a statement to its followers to stay out of the problems in other countries and not to bother with other Peoples but leave them to sort out their own lives and get on with sorting themselves out.

However, these human beings take it upon themselves to invade other countries, put men and women in the line of fire, demonise other religions and at the same time cry fearfully that the celebration THEY created is evilness personified and caused by 'us' a system of belief older, indigenous to our land, peaceful and loving, with no harm to others promoted at any time within our concepts.

We don't stand on the steps of other people’s churches, temples or religious centres demanding our rights. We don't scream 'kill' because someone has drawn yet another cartoon of a witch with green skin and warts thus demonising a woman who learns about herbs and believes in a middle earth.

 I am Shamanic I believe in promoting the rights of others and within my concepts is a single core belief that all religions are facets of one truth...all light is one, God for want of a better term has a thousand a million, manifold paths to the truth.... therefore, all are right in one way or another and should be left to get on with what they believe.

When a single religion then hi jacks another's' beliefs, contemptuously adds crudity, false information and begins to scream hysteria and foulness to a simple and beautiful festival of what should be, a celebration of someone's life who has now departed. I object.

We are the poor relation, even though we are a religion stemming from the very core of our countries history, the roots of our ancient lineage. I object to the Americanisation of my festival, for this is the country where the hysteria has begun in hard core media hype. Until the fundamentalists decided to promote lies and mis information, even here, in the UK.

All Hallows, Halloween was a simple enough festival where as a child I would see the occasional party for bob apple, duck apple, simple games which where to remind people that men and women died by being 'ducked' in water for their beliefs.

Leave my festival alone.

Don't send children to a stranger’s house demanding money. 

Don't allow children to make egg and flour bombs to hurl at houses where they received no 'gift' yet another ancient act being media hyped for this is based on the old manner of 'stoning' houses or people who dared to believe in a different fashion.

We all have our own way of remembering the dead. Who has not on a special day, a birthday or a Memorial Day not held a moments prayer, perhaps eaten food that day which was the favourite of the lost person? who has not sat with a picture of that person and cried, then ended with a smile as they remembered something nice. Who has not read a letter written from that lost person or watched a video or a camera clip? how many people surrender their own beliefs in a copy of our Samhain. That we have one special night for that exact purpose is no one else’s' business.

When 'others' promote a falsity, a lie and then claim it as a truth...then the perpetrators are in the wrong.

If you want a Night of the Devil...by all means have one...just not on our night...it’s been ours for thousands of years, so hands off...go find your own festival to mutilate hang on you already have: -

 You used to celebrate Christ's Mass didn't you...now its Xmas...complete with a red dressed buffoon who stars in lots of films and makes cheesy comments.... ah so THAT'S why we don't have All Hallows...if you can't look after your own festival I can hardly expect you to look after ours.

 We forgive you.

Thief of Hearts

I want to start my blog with a guide for all those men and women searching internet sites for love, here is a guide to the do and the don't of safe and genuine connections:-

There is a phenomenon known as...The Internet Lover.
Internet sites have sprung up in their dozens providing people with on line ease to connect with a possible romance. There are many reputable sites, many good and professional services but not one of these sites is ever truly able to verify the nature of the applicant. All they can do is process the information given them. Verifying that the applicant is honest, truthful, genuine...is quite frankly a gamble.

There really are people who make a success from Internet dating, they are savvy of the whiles and the scams, but there are also the innocent and naive and the gullible and their hearts are broken, often their bank accounts emptied and their spirits devolve into an ego-less and self worth - 'less' zero rating.
In the last three years I have personally had to deal with hundreds of broken hearts as a result of Internet love.

Only recently one of my friends contacted me, they had met someone over the Internet in a particular dating site. After a short period of time...they met physically. Oh it was love, it was a connection immediately. 'They' seemed to know so much about each other, felt such strength of attraction. He owned a business on the outskirts of Manchester, offered a cut price deal especially for her.....Last seen heading down the road with £1000 of her money in his pocket. Not seen since.

Last month one of my friends was convinced he had found love on the Internet. She was beautiful, gorgeous in fact. She lived on the outskirts of a busy city and had her own little business she was striving against much competition to make successful. She had a big family, was worried about her Mother. Many telephone calls took place then devastatingly he didn't hear from her for a whole weekend. Frantic he called me to ask what he should do, should he ring the local police, such was his worry. When she finally rang him in the early hours of Monday morning, she was in tears...could he lend her some money so she could pay for her Mother to have a serious operation. He sent her over £3000 and hasn't heard from her since. Funnily enough he can't find her business either and the telephone number he had...is no longer active.

I could recite the same storyline in a couple of dozen ways because the man / woman didn't really exist, the photograph was no more than a model posing for a commercial venture. A whole series of men and women, working almost in unison. Each storyline is crafted to suit the comments you have already posted on some website or other.
1)You have been tracked or traced by those comments. reading 'between the lines' they create a sympathy line.
2) If you mentioned how much you love your dad they will at sometime tell you how much they love 'their' dad and then the follow up will be the dad having an illness, a problem that means money is needed, frantic phone calls.
3) Played to within an inch of your oh so easily manipulated kind heart.
4) More locally within your own country/city/town is the same line being played in a slight variation of the theme.
5)I have lost count of the exotic man or woman (exotic by definition not from your own home county or your own home area/town, sometimes even not your country) who suddenly develops a need for train fare, flight ticket or car repair that costs and always for sums within your capability to render up.
 Thieves, every last one of them. Plausible, seemingly honest and caring and considerate but they are not. They are cruel, using and conniving individuals who 'get away' with it because once again the victim keeps silent. they are afraid of public humiliation. When the penny finally drops that the have been 'had off' they die a multitude of shame ridden mental deaths and clam up.

Whole businesses run on scamming, from the 'soldier' who needs $40 to pay for a telephone link to the outside world 'you', to the poor soul who had an accident on the way to the airport to fly over to you ad infinitum.

LIARS CHEATS SCAMMERS !

Yet the person taken advantage of is not truly at fault. they have a kind heart, are caring and considerate, loving and giving people who are lonely. Perhaps shy of meeting people straight away the Internet has become a vehicle for them to open up, to be themselves. So we need guidelines for our unsuspecting and gentle loving people, here they are:-

DON'T:let anyone know your home address/home telephone number/home town.
you can be traced by an electoral role, a telephone tracing company.Even these days by uploading a picture from your camera !
DON'T:let anyone know your bank or the gods forbid, your bank details.
DON'T:never reveal any of your passwords even if it is an old password. My friend once told me she used her animals names and she only had two animals !!!!!
DON'T:let people know too much about your personal circumstances, especially vulnerable aspects like your parents or your health matters.

                                 IF SOMEONE LOVES YOU THEY DON'T USE YOU
so if they are asking to come and see you....if they really, truly want to be with you...then they will find a way. They shouldn't be asking you for the flight fare, the train fare the loan of money to pay for anything...they should be saving up!

The permutations of the above scams (because that is what they are) run for hundreds of different themes, ways and means but always the person who is the Scammer is plausible, believable, so 'genuine' you just couldn't accept that this article could possibly be relevant to your particular beloved...so test the point...you have nothing to lose at all:-

IF THEY REALLY DO LOVE YOU....and they have asked for money...tell them your broke!
and if it is true love ? it won't matter at all...and if, after all they are a Scammer...then you won't hear from them again...now will you.

Silver, your friendly little Love Guide