Spirituality for Living

Magic or Shamanism is where we started.  There were no worries about who was in charge as we didn’t have time.  Our initial instincts were good, but then as we got organized and formed nations, the spirit had to have a boss and that served socially.  It allowed for great strides in cooperation, but we [...]

Are the trees happy? They aren’t always. As guardians of the zoasphere they at times cause an environmental shift.
Our elders live among us, nod sympathetically at times and in despair at others. There is little joy anymore. Though as they say hope springs eternal and so there is still adaptation. Still healing. Cleaning up the human [...]

The material uses of things in magic (or whatever you prefer to call your practice) stem from one type of insight, that the world is interconnected. Hermetic philosophy refers to these connections as correspondences, and they have been viewed in literally every mystical practice across the world.  This raises the question of what is power, [...]

We probably all know someone who everyone else thinks is crazy, because they think the whole world is haunted. Well, this crazy person is both wrong and right.
Everything in nature has the same sort of presence we do, and some of the things we make even develop them. Now is the world swarming with the [...]

Are you familiar with the term synchronicity? We protect our inner demons, because they have meaning for us. This is why we created them, and they do indeed manifest both as a social shift due to scapegoating, and as weird synchronicities if they are heavily charged enough.  There are meaningful events linked to the meaning of the [...]

Dragon lore is very old. It actually even extends into human prehistory. All cultures across the world speak of a time before the form and order of today’s world was “fixed”, and of powers dwelling in the world that predate humanity in both sentience and insight. Many of these still exist in the human species [...]

Conflict is not an easy thing to understand. If one can recognize that it is a matter of opinion, and that it isn’t necessary to agree. Most of the ways you get “wronged” are in fact not about you or your well being at all.
I love a good debate. I have learned it is ok to [...]

I’m going to try to bring hauntings and related spirit world phenomena down to earth as much as possible. Hope I will succeed.
First off, everyone know what the supposed cause of human thought or consciousness is? Scientifically, consciousness is a product of electrochemical processes in the brain induced by stimuli that are mostly [...]

We are creative and expressive beings, living paradoxes if you will. I live by an old eastern saying, “Nothing is true, everything is permitted”. This relates very much to productivity, I feel. Anyone see how?
Perhaps let’s examine the precept a portion at a time. It is very old. First the statement that nothing is true [...]