I started this account to build my dream of being a writer and of exploring how we manifest our own reality. I have studied the Abraham materials, dianic witchcraft, reiki, depth psychology, mythology and now emotional freedom therapy. I have come to understand that what we call reality is just another form of illusion, and it can shift with a change of perspective.
I don't advocate being a fairy godmother for anyone else, as it is impossible to see how another person views the universe from his or her center. Waiting around for someone else to be our fairy godmother is lame and risky, although marginally better than waiting for the prince or princess (Superman or Wonder Woman or Shrek) to come and rescue us. So the best alternative from my perspective is to do our fairy godmothering for ourselves.
First, what do we wish for? That's the toughest part. What to we (women and men) really want? How do we sort out what we want from what we have been told that we want? Is a million dollars enough? a hundred million? Do we want to be healthy to spend the money? Do we want a partner that will make the journey more enjoyable? Microsoft asks where we want to go today? How about tomorrow and ten years from now? People who live to be old enough to retire have a good chance of living another twenty years--a fourth lifetime to our earliest ancestors, and half of a lifetime for our grandparents.
Now is a good time do think about what we want, and how to see, smell, touch, hear and taste it long bfore it shows up on the porch. Every one of us has the chance to create the live we want, in all its details, without taking anything from anyone else.
The first thing we have to do is to make that wish.....We can't grant our own wishes if we don't make any.
Please share your wishes with me.
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Dianic Witches are women who do not circle with men. They tend to be militantly feminist and many are lesbian, although not all by any means. The primary teachings of most witches are "An it harm NONE, do what you will" and "Whatever you send out, you get back three times." Witchcraft tends to be an earth religion, based in personal integrity and focused will. There are many different brands, much as there are denominations in Christianity.
As for witchcraft and Christianity being in conflict, my experience is that Christians are much more concerned about wtiches, than witches are about Christians. All the witches I know were raised as Christian, but left the church in search of a more mystical spiritualilty, as did most of the shamans I know, and other various kinds of pagans. I do know a few mystic Christians--I call them Episcopagans.
The Christian Church persecuted witches for some six hundred years, but I don't see that the teachings of Jesus and the teaching of witchcraft are so far apart. Jesus did not favor the ascetic, flesh-denying, guilt-ridden, pie-in-the-sky-by-and-bye message that is often preached. He said "Whatever you bind on Earth, is bound in Heaven " MATT. 18:18. The Church took on the trappings of many pagan festivals (Eostre, Winter Solstice, Halloween-All Saints Day, Pentecost-Beltaine, Candlemas-Imbolc) partly to get the locals to accept their religion, one reason that Mary is so honored in many European churches.
People have conflicts. Religions are just a bunch of people who think they believe the same things until they get to comparing notes.
?There is always more work to do. Abraham as chanelled by Esther Hicks says, "You never get it wrong, you never get it done." Mike LItman, an internet entrepreneur says, "Don't wait until you get it right, get it going."
My daughter is also an artist (http://rachelhwhiteart.com ) and she faces the same struggle as all artists. She said last night that she now avoids the very drawing and painting that she used to do to instead of homework! She thinks of her art as "WORK", a big ugly 4-letter word!
I tend to do the same thing with my fiction writing. So, I am reminding myself that I want to write, that I like it, that my characters are missing me because they have lots more stories to tell me. The fly in the ointment is that myagent wants revisions--so we negotiate.
Who is your market audience for your art? Where can you show it to them. What do you have posted ont he net--deviantart.com? your own website? Here at gather?
Spend some time (6 minutes?) thinking about how wonderful it will feel to be in your best cool dress sipping at some appropriate beverage while gallery admirers chat you up and discreetly go over to the gallery cashier to whip out their checkbooks and credit cards to make sure they get your best pieces first--and they all like different ones!
Then think about how much fun it is to do the work, to feel the paint against the brush, to see the image emerge from your inner Self and the media you use. Remember the time you had a picture that just wouldn't work and then the next morning when it was dry you saw that it was perfect?
Tell us when you have your show. Or tell us about it now.
~Blessed Be
There is certainly a wealth of wisdom in all ancient sacred texts, including the Bible. Like you, I have studied the Bible, but my heart was not there. I felt that someone was clling my name, but it was not someone in the church--I have been mostly Methodist or Unitarian in my affiliations.
Everyone is on a path to find the connection to ALL THAT IS, God, Inner Being, High Self, Shiva-Shakti. All roads lead to Rome, as the say (and I don't mean the Catholic church! ) but each path looks different, each set of rituals focuses on different ways to experience that connection.
What a great visualization! Why not a whole shelf, while we are at it? Isn't it great to see your name in larger print than the title of the book?
What are you doing today (the next logical step) to allow in this vision? I am keeping notes of my story ideas in my computer, and relating allt herading I am doing for my classes to the psychology of my characters.
Many writers keep whole note/scrapbooks of their novel, the characters' back stories, settings, scraps fo conversations, and such. Do you have a system for this king of thing or is it just growing in your mind's landscape?