PonderEthereal

Every day, I get an email in my mailbox from google alerts. It includes all blog entries and news stories from that 24 hour period with the word ‘witchcraft’ in it. Aside from the blog posts with the occasional spell, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in the news. All over the world, innocent people are being stoned, burned and otherwise murdered for witchcraft.

All over the continents of Africa and Asia, in Saudi Arabia, India and in Papua New Guinea, people are still persecuted with a death sentence for practicing witchcraft and the terror and craze that comes over people at the mention of witchcraft still causes innocents to be murdered.

Only this month, a child was accused of witchcraft in the Central African Republic because she had nightmares and walked in her sleep, something that is known as a sleep disorder.

This WEEK alone, A story appeared of two children…

In the past, I have written about a few really bad personal dental experiences (here and here). In all of these experiences, I noticed a differing level of service for people with and without private insurance - and even between dentists that accept public plans and dentists that do not.

Having been on medicaid as a kid, I remember how horrible the care was. I had teeth pulled when I should have had a more complex and more expensive but medically necessary palate widening procedure, that I still need now. When TMJ flared and the need was worsened, it was shoo shooed. When my son, on Medi-cal, needed care for an injury, I thought it would be better in California, a place where I’ve experienced such a higher level of care than elsewhere but it wasn’t. Having been on private insurance for quite some time and then moving my son to a…

Kala, as I am discussing it, is a Feri tradition witchcraft practice of purification (getting the gunk out) and transformation (turning the gunk into gold) so that the three selves can work more seamlessly together. If the three selves are working seamlessly together, god self is talking to fetch, is talking to talker and v/v and we are closer to moving within the Black Heart of innocence. And I get that that sounds like gobbeldy gook to non-Feris. Onward.

“I’ve sat with it and I am kala with it.” “I have done kala on it.”, both followed by the equivalent of “so I’m sure you are wrong”.

Now, I’m not talking I killed your momma and you hadda do kala with it. I’m talking we just had a disagreement on principal. We had an emailed disagreement and you had to run do kala over it. Really? And not only did you have…

There was no one or nothing in the dream that was familiar to my waking life. I was homeless, I think. Most people were, actually. There did seem to be the remnants of war… a militant outlook on life. I was taking care of a baby that wasn’t mine. I realized with rousing horror that it was now legal for anyone to ask you personal questions before deciding what services or goods to offer you. It was now possible to be denied housing, food or access to anything based upon your personal preferences and attributes.

It was legal because of some sort of unilateral decision made by the president in this ‘very different political time’. It was a decision made for the ’safety of the people’. Somehow, we, the people, went right along with questionable step after horrible decision based upon obviously bullshit rhetoric that we swallowed because it was…

The issue that the movie industry is facing is that people are downloading and trading movies for free. The industry is having more and more difficulty supporting it’s self because fewer people are buying movies and instead are just downloading them.

Howard Stern made a good point today that movies sometimes cost millions to make and if they stop being able to recoup that money through ticket sales and/or dvd sales, they will stop making the good movies because the money to make them won’t be there.

I disagree that the fault is all the downloaders’ though.

First of all, some actors make millions of dollars per movie. Producers, writers etc… they get a pretty hefty pay check out of a lot of these movies too. That’s not to mention all of the fringe businesses who get paid VERY well to take care of all of these posh people. All…

In a previous post about psychic frauds, I mentioned briefly one fraud in which the psychic asks a bunch of questions. I got a phone call from a lady last week complaining about a reader here at the shop and one of her complaints was that the reader asked a bunch of questions. In talking about it later, I really don’t think that some people realize how subtle that can be sometimes.

From the moment you meet someone for the very first time, you are both collecting information about each other. It’s what we do as humans. We take in things with our senses and we process it. So when you walk into the shop and the psychic asks how you are doing and you respond, there is already a little bit of information exchanged. Now, of course, unless you are extraordinarily talkative, probably not A LOT of information was given away…

Intent has become a cop out among newagers and witchkin alike. Along the lines of my previous post about responsibility, I’d have to say that one thing that rankles me is to hear someone say, in response to hearing that what they are doing might not be wise or that they might have caused something negative that happened to someone else, that what really matters is the intent.

Psha… Whatevah.

Intent doesn’t matter one iota, really. It’s your intent that builds the motion and past that, the motion will create a series of reactions that the originator is responsible for regardless of intent. Focus your intent to make sure that your action is completely as on-target as possible before you let fly whatever stone you’re tossing into the pool. But once that stone leaves your hand, intent has NOTHING to do with it. It’s going to hit the water and make…

I understand that to someone new to the whole ‘new age’ scene, a lot of the concepts seem strange and cooky. As someone he has been on the new age scene for over almost 15 years, trust me when I say, some of them NEVER sound anywhere near normal. However, just because a whole lot of it seems strange and cooky and just because some people believe the strange and cooky stuff doesnt mean that you should just swallow ALL OF IT hook line and sinker.

USE COMMON SENSE.

If it sounds strange and cooky, ask questions. If none of the answers make sense, tuck it away for later and go on your merry way. Maybe it will make sense later - and maybe never. But till it does, DONT GIVE UP YOUR MONEY. DONT SELL YOUR HOUSE. DONT PURGE YOUR BODY.

That goes for the freak who is selling you…

Are you a high priest or priestess of something or other? Are you a Master something or other? Do you have lots of certificates of accomplishment of extraordinary spiritual arts?

If so, your life should not be falling to pieces. You should be able to afford your life, you should have functional relationships around you, you shouldn’t be a nervous wreck - otherwise, somewhere, you have fallen a wee bit off target.

Spirituality isnt about ascension or getting ‘higher’ or ‘better’. It’s about learning about your spiritual self. Plain and simple.. it’s about having a relationship with your spiritual self. HOPEFULLY part of that process is to learn to make all of your selves get along and play well together so that you can life a comfortable, happy life effortlessly - in whatever for m that takes for you.

We all have shit happen to us. Being spiritual doesn’t make one…

I have a bone to pick with these screwballs that charge $50-$100 ‘rehoming’ or adoption fees for animals that need homes.

I want a kitten that is in need of a home. No need to be purebred or anything fancy… just a kitten that will grow up in our house and will have a great family and live a happy life.

There are all of these organizations that take in foster animals to find them homes and they all whine and moan and bitch about how expensive it is and about how much they need support. And then the perfect adoptive family comes along (like mine) and they want to charge me an arm and a leg to adopt one of these creatures that is apparently eating them out of house and home.

Arguments for charing the fee :
Screen out bad homes or people who want to use the animals…