Have you ever noticed how many different people we all are….from serial killer to saint…all kinds of people exist. You alone have been so different when you were born, when you grew up, from yesterday to right now, to how you will be and behave in future, that’s how diverse you alone are. And all the people you know or don’t yet know are different and unique on their own. And this is only the variety we see in the human realm…there are so many creatures, animals, birds, plant life, microbial among the incarnate beings. Beyond the incarnate we are so many spirit beings…various forms of energy…some with form and some without…every person, animal, rock, plant, object, place, every thought, emotion, idea has an existence of its own and is living its own life, not just on our planet but in the infinite number of planets, galaxies in this amazing universe. Can you imagine now…just how infinite our universe is? And have you ever thought of where this universe really is…where did it begin…where will it end if ever…?

The truth is that every person, animal, plant, microbe, spirit…place, thing, emotion, thought, idea, desire…just everything there is in this universe is just this one being, this one energy…taking so many forms, being so many beings…experiencing it-self. And this one being, this Uni-verse is within me…within you and within all that exists. In-fact we are all various aspects of our one-self experiencing itself…each other..each thing through this life and beyond. We are the dreamer who forgets he is dreaming and then one day wakes up in his own dream and realizes s(he) is creating a very interesting dream which is life itself. Your deepest, innermost self knows this already. Your outer mind may or may not be conscious of this always,  but this is the real and most beautiful truth about who we are. We are each other…various aspects of our true self experiencing each other in every possible way.

How does that make you feel about yourself now? How does that make you feel about your partner…your friend…your sibling…your colleague…your ex…your enemy…politics…your religion..your neighbor…your servant…the dog on the street…How do you now feel about the pages of all the books you have not yet read…all the books you have…the music on your ipod. How does it make you feel about the water your drink or the food you are eating. How about the thought you are thinking…How do you feel about your thought now? Envy, hatred, ego, greed, lust, fear, compassion, joy, bliss…what do you feel in this very moment as you read this line?

And do you realize that because of everything that has ever happened (and not in-spite of it)..all the broken hearts and angry words, all the smiles and laughter..all the sorrows and bewilderment…all that I and you have ever, felt, experienced or have not felt or experienced, for each other, everything, everyone, for the known parts of our-self, for the unknown parts of our-self…we are who we are right now. In this very moment we are all perfect, all one, all love!

Behind the facade or play of life, our true self is hidden (and sometimes revealed). Our true self is love itself. We are here to love every aspect of our-self. And this love transforms our awareness into our greater consciousness, taking us closer to our infinite nature. Yes we are love and everything is love. All hate is also love. All hurt is also love. All anger, all betrayal, all rights and wrong, all lies and deception, or successes and failures…there is only love behind it all. Our love is our only reality. We are right now together, the uni-verse, one song, one truth..in perfect peace and perfect unity, in perfect love and perfect trust, that is who we are and will always be.

Blessed Be
(*)
Rev. Swati Prakash

Liberation, lightness of being, a relaxed and easy life… is not just a dream but a reality, if we choose.

Most of us however have some or the other baggage to deal with…even those who believe themselves to be spiritually liberated (experiencing a temporary spiritual high in meditation, even if it lasts all your life does not mean true liberation). True liberation involves healing of all past negative attachments so that even when you are back to the mundane world you are totally free. Liberation does not mean having no will to continue living in positive energy. Those who seek to escape from rebirth  altogether are infact deluding themselves. The very fact that they wish to escape the cycles of life, death and rebirth implies that they have pain and suffering that is unhealed and by avoiding facing these negativity, we are not going to truly be free. To be free we have to first face our inner truth and to heal our reality.

Reincarnation:
Our physical reality is created by our inner spirit. Thus the spirit has the power to choose where and how to reincarnate, taking a new form of energy. This can be a joyful experience if reincarnation is focused on experiencing a natural, healthy and balanced way of life. However most of the times souls reincarnate with negative energetic or karmic baggage or unfinished business.

Why Do we Reincarnate with Past Karmic Baggage?
When our transactions in life are not sorted out – i.e. either we or another feels unbalanced in our relationships or associations, this leads to negative energy or baggage that accumulates in one or more people involved in the transaction.

If not cleared off in the present life, it will still be recorded in the akasha or spiritual library where all memories and feelings are stored. Our soul is connected to this ethereal ocean of consciousness and chooses our future lives based on the lessons to be learnt from the higher self (ethereal) to lower self (physical). These lessons will then be carried on by the individual soul to the next life and a new drama will play out helping the learning be more intense. Past Life Therapy helps us discover the lessons we need to learn and the patterns we need to heal.

The karmic baggage thus carried within us multiplies with every cycle. So if you owe rs 100 to one person in this life and the person feels betrayed as you could not repay it, this along with a lot of interest you must pay in your next life.

This does not just apply to financial transactions. Emotional associations are equally full of guilt and sorrow if they are hazy, unclear and imbalanced. One or more person may feel drained out, cheated or used in relationships and this automatically means that the person who has caused this emotional drain will carry guilt in their subconscious (even though they may not always be aware of the guilt). Not having a clear cut contract in your romantic life leads to pain and a feeling of betrayal for one or more involved in the relationship. This is because the base of the relationship – the root chakra – which means stability and committment is dysfunctional and there are constant insecurities (conscious or subconscious – known or unknown to the people involved).

I must stress upon this part even though it may fluster some of my friends. Not just laymen but also some people who are followers of new age spirituality are often not properly grounded in this aspect of relationships, and thereby have been observed as being very airy, impractical and unclear in the way they transact with others financially and in romance. For example relationships with multiple partners or even one partner without any proper contract whether marital or otherwise can sound like a fun thing but will sooner or later hurt. A lot of commitment phobic men and women seem to be getting into one or the other brand of spirituality that is based on beliefs that ‘seriousness’ of any kind or any ‘strings attached’ are unnecessary or even deplorable in romantic or sexual encounters. While they may ‘fly’ for a while in their ‘beyond’ state, they forget that even the birds, angels, god and goddess come down to earth in this eternal cycle of manifestation and transformation and have to follow ethics and principles even in their higher realms. Infact you may have heard that many of such spiritual gurus who prescribe ‘unserious’, ‘playful’ attitudes and behaviors in love and sex, at the expense of grounding, foundation and clarity have themselves died of AIDS or in other tragic ways. Their example can tell us a lot about the dangers of ungrounded spirituality and the fact that karma always catches up even if you ignore your karmic responsibilities. Ignorance (including spiritual drunkenness) is not bliss.

Another thing we take for granted is our family life. In your family not having proper legal will for inheritance, unequal behavior towards one or the other child, abuse of any kind of spouse, parent, child, taking any person for granted, misunderstandings, all can create negative baggage that gets passed from generation to generation, requiring Trans-generational Healing as well.

And of course financial debts that are not cleared in time and with proper interest can lead to a lot of trauma in one or more person’s aura and this energy gets imprinted onto ether which is akasha or the storehouse of all information in the universe.

Money, emotions, feelings, work… all is energy and is none of this is to be taken lightly or irreverently. Mutual respect and balance in any transaction we make on earth or any other planet is totally necessary. We must feel deserving of this respect and balance and ask and give it fully.

Karmic debts unless and until balanced with interest will accumulate on and on giving the persons who caused the negativity more and more suffering until he or she settles everything back to balance. To do this the person who suffers often takes on the spiritual path at one point of time, with the help of a spiritual master or with his or her own enlightenment to
gain clarity on the negative pattern, its cause and its right solution and thereby heals the situation and energies so as to bring things back to balance through the process of Karmic Disentanglement.

The Price to Pay:
There is always a price to pay if you wish to clear off your negative baggage. This can be expensive but is totally liberating. Sometimes people think they can just burn a little candle, perform a small yagna, wear a tiny ring, say a prayer and liberate themselves of all possible karmic debts. This is often illusory. The amount of energy (money, effort, etc) that you may have to spend will be directly proportional to the amount of negative baggage that you have to clear off. If one ritual does not give practical results be assured that it has to some extent cleared off your etheric negativity or karma and perhaps you need several more to get a full relief. Always know that the spiritual work of healing that you perform will always work at some level and if at first you don’t succeed it just means you need to put in more energy and try again as you may have multiple blocks. Do not give up or stop the work. Even if a person is dying and
accepting spiritual healing, even when he dies as the body did not get the time to show the effect of this healing, his spirit carries the effect of healing and the effect of this positive energy reflects in his otherworld and future lives. If you do not give any spiritual healing to the ailing person and treat him only cosmetically on the physical level, the ethereal imprint or soul of the person will still carry the negativity to deal with in future lives. A wise person will always go for maximum spiritual healing.

Freedom from Negative Karmic Cycles:
This can be attained by first clearing off all our past burdens, by healing ourselves at every level holistically and simultaneously from now on, through spiritual, psychological, emotional and financial releasing. Simultaneously from NOW on we should try keeping all our transactions, financial and emotional, absolutely clear, practically sound and with least potential to hurt any of the parties involved.

One way to do this is through following those legal and practical rules that make for a sound understanding between all our partners, romantic financial or otherwise and thus totally free all concerned of duality or subconscious fears. Another things is to remember that laws in the physical world are framed by humans but have been biased in the past (eg. laws that ignore rights of homosexuals or transsexuals are still existent in many countries). Thus more important than blindly following laws and rules of your state is to seek the answer to this question

- Is what I am doing good for myself and all others?
- Does it harm none?
Often legal rules need to be changed if they are not good for all concerned and this change takes place as a result of public awareness that helps the states to revise their books of law.

Living in Freedom:
Always live each moment as if it may be the last. In every moment we must have absolute bliss and freedom (free will) and least amount of karmic negativity to be carried forward. Clear off all your debts. Forgive and ask for forgiveness. Heal yourself and send loving energy to others. This means the next life or next form we take will be entirely our choice and not a repetition of past mistakes and burdens. Even when alive the next moment will be free of karmic blockages or negativity so that our power to manifest our desires or work our Magick becomes and remains strong and infinite.

Get more information on Past Life Therapy, Energy Healing, workshops and Wiccan Ritual Service to help you clear off negative karmic blocks and restore a balanced and healthy way of living.

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Blessed Be
(*)
Swati Prakash

Wicca is a new wave of Magick spreading all over the world as a modern religion that helps you connect and project your inner powers for the benefit of yourself and the universe.

Wicca is different from ordinary witchcraft and must not be used as
another term for any witch.

Sure Wiccans consider themselves to be at the basic level…witches or
wizards or magickal people, but there are a lot of witches out there
who practice some kinds of magick or witchcraft but who do not qualify
as Wiccans.

To be a Wiccan is to be part of the religion called Wicca. Wicca is a
modern religion inspired by ancient nature based beliefs and practices
that include magick. It has developed in the 21st century itself.

Read More on Wicca on:
http://www.globalwicca.com/wicca.htm

WITCHCRAFT AND WICCA:

A witch can be any kind of magickal practitioner such as a Reiki witch, a Feng Shui witch, a Candle magic witch, a Shaman witch and so on. Any human with magickal powers is arguably a witch and I must declare that we ALL HAVE magickal powers…its just that not all of USE it. With the rise in global consciousness more and more of us are realizing that we create our reality and this is leading to the popularity of Wicca as a modern religious belief system.

Wicca is a totally specific religious system.

History of Wicca:

Religion is shared or organized spirituality.
The Wiccan religion began as a group based practice of spirituality
when Gerald Gardner wrote rituals and initiated witches into what is
known as Gardenerian Wiccan Tradition. Similarly other traditions came
up over the world to initiate more individuals into various forms of
Wicca. Each Wiccan tradition is based on their own unique ways of
practicing the Wiccan faith.

About the Burning Times:

About the notorious practice of witch persecutions and the Burning Times, I do not think Wiccans were burnt at all (the religion of Wicca is
more modern in timeline while the burning time was medieval. The
classical period of witchhunts in Europe falls into the Early Modern
period or about 1480 to 1700 while Wiccan religion is coming up in the 21st century itself). Alleged witches are said to have been burnt
….though it may have included random people who were believed by the inquisitors to have used magickal powers were punished. Wicca is popular at a fabulous period of human evolution, where we are all accepting that we have free will and can affect our future with harm to none and for the best interest of all concerned. There is no longer a fear of our own inner
self. We have begun to love and accept the witch we all are.

Solitary Wicca?

You can be a Solitary Witch…but can you be a Solitary Wiccan? There is confusion or doubt about whether you can still be called a
Wiccan if you are not a member of any tradition. In the absence of awareness or access to a Wiccan tradition that resonates with them, some people do fashion themselves as ‘Solitary Wiccans’ inspired by the writings of authors such as Scott Cunningham and may not be initiates of any tradition though they pick up knowledge from here and there and this
is what was happening so far in India.

Being a part of a coherent tradition helps you gain clarity and focus on  as your spiritual path and the Global Wicca Tradition headquartered in Mumbai helps you in this with free membership to anyone who wishes to follow the Wiccan faith as well as official initiations for Qualified Wiccan healers on offer.

Wiccan Traditions:

Wiccan Traditions can have one of more temples of Wicca and the Global
Wicca Tradition has started a few temples such as the Online Temple which is free for public (for Online Rituals), Earth Healing Temple (for rituals held in physical location) and a Children’s Temple of Wicca too has just begun. Members who choose to study and learn Wicca need to pass from one to three degrees of Wicca and can choose to be initiated as a priest or priestess of the Tradition (addressed as Clergy) enabling them to take up Wicca as a career offering ritual services to the public with support and backing of our tradition.

The Global Wicca Tradition (www.globalwicca.com) is newly launched and is the first of its kind to originate in India. We believe in the scientific basis and practical applications of Magick for the benefit of nature (humans seen as part of nature). Global Wicca incorporates deities, gods, goddesses from all over the Globe from several cultures and religious beliefs into their rituals…. in a Wiccan way, making it suitable for people regardless of religious backgrounds and belief systems. You can study the Global Wicca path online as well as offline – refer to the syllabus given on the website.

The Correllian Tradition headquartered in USA has its own unique philosophy and is a leading organization growing rapidly. I support them as their Clergy member. More on www.correllian.com. Correllian Wicca can be studied through Witchschool International and I am presently in-charge of all their students and mentors in India and also available as mentor on www.witchschool.com

Remember if you are a student of Wicca you may want to study under at least one tradition or another else you may not get a clear understanding and may remain a dabbler as most solitary ‘Wiccans’ remain.

To be initiated into one tradition you may be required to study under their system and being a student of one may not automatically make you eligible to join the rituals, practices and to take up initiation of and into another Wiccan Tradition.

You will find that each tradition is different in ideas, philosophy, leadership, structure, ritual systems and beliefs and you may be a part of one or more tradition if they so allow. In the case that you are associated with more than one tradition, you will have to switch between two differing practices of Wicca as you go from one tradition’s events to another.

Most Wiccan traditions do however share some common beliefs and practices.

Basic Wiccan Beliefs:

• Belief in magick, i.e. we all create our reality and can choose our future consciously.
• Belief in the five elements of nature: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Spirit as the five building blocks of creation aid in magick
• Belief in Deity being both Gods and Goddesses as well as a universal deity that is all encompassing
• Belief in Karma, or Law of Three (All energy you send comes back to you multiple times of three till you learn the lesson). The core code of conduct in Wicca is a simple and rational one: “Do as You Will as Long as You Harm None” – referred to as The Wiccan Rede that protects you from doing harm to others and yourself. (Just following the Wiccan Rede does not make you Wiccan as Wicca includes several philosophies and practices that need to be learned)

Wiccan Practices:
The practice of Wicca includes Rituals (ceremonic rites) celebrating
the wheel of nature (Seasonal Sabbats and Esbats), and spells
incorporated within Wiccan Ritual format for various positive purposes
such as abundance, healing, removing negativity and so on. Here
different traditions have their own Ritual and you may follow your
tradition’s format.

Wiccan Healing as a Professional Service:

Wicca is not just a method or technique. It is a religious belief
system. To be a Wiccan is just like being a Hindu, or Christian and so on…it is a religion. (Media, to whom being a Wiccan comes across as a unique thing, sometimes mentions me as simply as ‘Swati Prakash – a Wiccan’ when truly I am a Wiccan Healer, a leader, an expert)

As a qualified Wiccan Healer, one can surely use the energy and skills for the benefit of the rest of nature.

You can ask our tradition’s Clergy members to perform ritual services for you (for individuals and for groups). These can be performed by a single clergy member or a group of clergy for greater energy.

Some more information of the kinds of healing and services provided by
our tradition is on the following link:
http://www.globalwicca.com/services.htm

More about the Global Wicca Tradition here:
http://www.globalwicca.com/globalwicca.htm

How to join:
http://www.globalwicca.com/joinus.htm

Bright Blessings on your Path

(*)

Swati Prakash

Excerpt from the speech on 14April 2010 – Wicca Seminar at National College Conference Hall, Bandra West, Mumbai.

We may not realize it but every thought, dream or feeling that we project knowingly or unknowingly has an effect in the world and creates our future. This means we all carry a lot of psychic power within us.
Psychic power comes with a responsibility too. We are all
interconnected in the matrix of life and whatever we project comes
back us sooner or later to teach us the lesson of love and compassion.

Psychic Awareness:
Not everyone who has psychic power has been aware of their power. Many times we have sent anger, envy, hate towards others without even realizing that it is having a potential to harm others and us (if something could harms another it harms us as well).

We may have said – “Go to hell” or “get Lost” for example in a fit of anger and it is a negative energy that returns to the sender. When you were talking negatively to someone or yourself about life, the world, any happenings, relationships, etc…it was also creating negative energy for the listener and yourself. We all are to constantly work on modifying such behaviors and adopting a more affirmative life.
Psychic Attack:

There are also people who have been aware of their psychic power and know how to send highly focused vibrations. They may not have been doing this in a responsible way and may harm others intentionally thereby harming themselves too (if not sooner than later and with interest – the harm sent comes back multiple times to the sender until they learn the lesson).

This is what happens in a psychic attack. Some people who suffered from  lack of full knowledge and were ignorant of the importance of magickal ethics were low on the responsibility part and used their third-eye or psychic power wrongly.

Psychic Responsibility:
We all are responsible to think pleasant thoughts and feel positive
emotions, to desire good things and to indulge in ethical behavior and
actions – towards ourselves and others. This is psychic responsibility
and people who had sent psychic attacks or negative vibrations to
themselves or others knowingly or unknowingly may have been less spiritually aware of the law of karma and about psychic responsibility due to lack of inner wisdom and absence of proper magickal and spiritual training and guidance.

Thankfully cutting edge magickal training and spiritual guidance is now available and is being accessed by many so we are becoming both psychically and spiritually aware of our psychic responsibility and ethics and people are learning how to be more positive and loving.

The Wiccan Rede:
“Harm None Do as You Will” is a beautiful code of ethics that is
followed by many today as Wicca gains prominence as a religion and a
coherent spiritual system for enlightened masters. (More on www.globalwicca.com)

How to Know if you are under a Psychic Attack:

• You may have felt irritable, angry or unhappy without reason and prone to say or do something that harms you, your relationships or your life
• You may have found object breaking eg. glass, crystals, photoframes, etc, especially things that were significant to you
• You may have suddenly fallen ill without known cause
• You may have found that bad luck chased you suddenly, eg: you became accident prone, stumbled more, ran into losses or trouble for seemingly no specific reason
• More severe symptoms have sometimes been observed
• In case the person’s mind was possessed by the negative attachment or energy, the individual may have refused to accept healing or be in a state of denial as well
• You may have recieved visions, intuitions and dreams that indicated psychic attack.
• Basically you may not have been the direct cause of these but a victim of a psychic attack.
• The best way to confirm is through divination (eg tarot cards) through the help of a reputed psychic expert.

Who is Vulnerable
All that happens to us is a result of our inner world, Our subconscious beliefs, thoughts, emotions and desires become real. Even a psychic attack is somehow linked to your fears and insecurities as the universe is within us.

All of us have a little vulnerable child within who is innocent and needs to feel safe and this also makes us vulnerable. Even if we are powerful spiritual masters we need to constantly amplify our positive energy and keep ourselves strong.

Magick is not a one time thing but a constant way of life.

Some new age experts talk a lot about creating positive energy without giving due focus on cleansing, repelling and transforming negative. Its like wearing fresh clothes and perfume without taking a bath. Banishing negative is equally important.
How to Prevent and Handle a Psychic Attack

- Psychic shielding: This works best if you have learn energy healing
methods. Just visualize a shield around you in the beginning of the
day and at night before sleeping and again whenever you need it
through the day or night. This can be a sphere of blue or white light
in its simplest form.
- Crystals: Hematite is known to shield you psychially. Wear or carry
hematite in the form of ring or pendant for example. It can also
absorb a strong psychic attack and break thereby warning you and
protecting you else the energy may have hurt your life instead.
Tiger’s eye is a good reflective crystal and good against negative
energies. So is cat’s eye. Tourmaline is absorbent and helps protect
you to an extent. Other crystals are garnet, amethyst, sugilite (a
powerful crystal related to Archangel Michael).
- Herbs: Sage, Angelica, Hyssop, Witches grass, Rue, Sulfur, and many
others can be used in spells, potions, oils and herb form.
– Talismans,yantras and amulets: The pentacle and the star of David are popular talismans for protection. There are several others too
from various cultures that are magically powerful.  The evil eye from
turkish culture is one way of preventing jealous energies.

- Angels, gods and goddesses: Being in touch with your higher self
that can take the form of angels, gods and goddesses is a good idea.

- Meditation, Spells, Magickal skills, Energy Healing and Grounding:
Meditative techniques, spells, magick and energy skills are a
must-learn for all of us and should be taught since childhood. Spells
are some of the more powerful ways to prevent, repel and reverse
psychic harm. Grounding for example is a way of releasing negativity
and converting it to positive energy. There are candle burning spells
and rituals and several other advanced methods that need to be learned
or followed under professional guidance.

A Case Study of a Psychic Attack:

I have been using Hematite rings for quite some time now and havefound they usually do not break unless they absorb negative energy . Last year for a small period of time they broke continuously though I kept replacing them. It was brilliant that some of them broke spontaneously
without any externally visible force.I also used tiger’s eye in angel and pendant form to provide additional protection and these too broke almost immediately – an indication of a strong psychic attack.When we start working with energy things become even more clear to us.

I performed a divination and also recieved psychic messages of who the attacker was and found that there were more than one. It is important that we do not return a psychic attack with an attack. Harm in return of harm can only spoil things further. I focused on sending healing vibrations to myself and others.

I found the reason for this was the emotional insecurity of
the senders of this psychic attack whose negative belief systems were
creating this type of energy for me and a friend of mine.

I also did chakra-meditations and spells to heal the negative and
convert it to positive, for example a binding spell to prevent the
person who is trying to harm you from harming you further.
I also performed a spell to reverse the negative effects of the attack
from my past.

If the person who attacked you tries this again as I found out in this
case we need to give further healing. Recently I found that this
individual once again tried to send a psychic attack to me creating
ripples of confusion and misunderstanding between me and a significant
other for which I had to perform a ritual cord cutting and banishing.
It is necessary to cut the cords between you and the attacker so that
the same scenario can be prevented in future and to send blessings and
healing to all concerned including the sender of the psychic attack so
we all become more positive and less prone to negativity.

Thankfully I know many spells to repel and reverse negative energy but it is great to be warned clearly and I am glad that I have the knowledge and skills to identify negative energy and heal the same.

I focused on forgiving myself, the attacker and all others who played a role in this situation. It is not necessary for us to carry the pain and suffering in our heart no matter what others may have done. It is up-to us to release the pain from ourselves and forgive so that we can move on further, detached from the negativity. This does not make what they did right. This only means we stop hurting now and release the unwanted energy and emotions.

I also send love and compassion to myself and others including
the one who intends me harm as I believe that people who are happy and loved do not harm others. We all need and deserve love and happiness, and happy people do not hurt themselves or others. I focus on creating happiness and focus on sending love to myself and others.

When I find myself becoming bitter and insensitive I try to realize the same as soon as possible and to cancel out these negative effects through healings and spells and by looking within me for answers.

Note: All techniques mentioned are advanced methods to be learned or attempted under the right guidance of an established expert

Most Important Advise

Do not go looking for negativity and do not make it a habit to obsess over psychic attacks and so called black magic or dark arts constantly.  There are some people who have been blaming all their life problems on black magic and psychic attack instead of meditating and discovering how they attracted this to them in the first place. A Psychic Attack may be in some way or another your own negative karma coming back your way.

If these things exist they are only indicators of our own inner vulnerabilities and weaknesses that they expose bare open. When something like this happens try to address the inner weakness and vulnerability that they represent within you. Always remember – The Universe is Within and each thing we observe and experience, each person, place or situation, is only an aspect of our self that needs love, healing and positive transformation.

Know Thyself, Heal Thyself
Blessed Be
(*)
Rev. Swati Prakash
Tarot, Magickal and Spiritual Expert
Head – Global Wicca Tradition

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Initiation is a way of accessing a part of our higher self, which is that part of us which is all powerful and connected to the divinity within us – the source of our magickal – our true spiritual self. Initiation can happen quite naturally to a person, through meditation, in dreams, through a master or guide (astral or physical). There can be several initiations.

In this note I am talking of a Wiccan Initiation specifically pertaining to the Global Wicca Tradition. The way we work here can be quite different from other religious, spiritual groups or traditions and it is advised that you read through the pages of www.globalwicca.com to know more about Wicca, Global Wicca Tradition and then go through this note in detail in order to gain clarity on this important topic. You are most welcome to go through the photos and videos on the Global Wicca network pages to to get a clearer picture of our initiation ceremonies or better still attend an initiation rite as a guest member of the temple.

Call us Tel 022-65250328 or email swati@swatiprakash.com for more information over and above what is mentioned on our sites and blogs)

If you do not wish to be initatited as a Clergy of the Global Wicca Tradition’s temples you may simply choose to join one of our temples as a member of Global Wicca (presently there is free membership for Online temple and a small fees for the offline temple). More details on www.globalwicca.com

You can also study our courses for the sake of knowledge without choosing to be initiated. Initiation is not mandatory but your choice.

In Global Wicca Tradition, an initiation is an energy transfer that allows a member of a temple access to the inner circle of the Global Wicca Tradition. An initiate gets priviliged membership to the tradition’s Clergy as a recognised priest or priestess authorised to conduct ritual services in the name of / on behalf of the temple (presently Earth Healing Temple or Online Temple of the Global Wicca Traditon). This is an official entry into the priesthood of the tradition as you take up Global Wicca as a serious career for you.

What Can You DO as an Initiate?

The Services page of www.globalwicca.com will tell you what all rituals and services initiates are authorised to perform in the name of the Global Wicca Tradition and under the aegis of the Earth Healing Temple. Clergy may charge a reasonable fees for the ritual services they perform and make a small contribution to the temple fund out of the same. This is applicable to the rituals you conduct for the Earth Healing Temple and not for any other services you perfom. Please make a distinction between your personal services and the services you perform as a Clergy member of Global Wicca and Earth Healing Temple and of course accurately report the same.

We can also offer group ritual service to those members of public who need our help and stronger group energy for healing or any 0ther ritual.

Clergy is respected and rewarded for their energy and services as much as possible. There will always be a reasonable energy exchange that benefits us mutually if you should conduct any kind of service through us so that no clergy member is drained out. You will never be asked to conduct free rituals, mentor our students for free or to donate to us unless it benefits you and the tradition clearly except if it is a one-off promotional or educational work that you and the tradition agree to perform together.

Initiation criteria:

You will need to study directly under the Temple head Rev. Swati Prakash (Lady Astra Wishkap) or another authorised third degree Clergy member / temple head of the tradition and complete the course requirements as mentioned in the site www.globalwicca.com Join Us page.

The first year’s temple joining fees is waived off at present for all initiates who have complete the full course applicable for first degree.

Every tradition has their own way of teaching and first degree of Global Wicca includes a lot of higher level skills of Energy Work (Three degrees of Reiki, Past Life Therapy, Wand work and Thoughtforms being just the first few topics in course one of the first degree). This is why you may need to study our courses thoroughly if you want to be recognised as first degree in our tradition and doing a first degree Wicca course from another source may not be sufficient on its own. You also need to be tuned into the philosophy and spiritual orientation, beliefs and practices of our tradition which is why studying directly under us is highly recommended and will soon be mandatory.

The study for first degree can be completed in a period of one year and one day during which you must attend at least three rituals conducted by the temples of Global Wicca (Online or Earth Healing). After this you can begin with second and consequently third degree studies.

You can also complete any of our courses through online study (notes,chats, online rituals are made available to online students)

For a short duration our temple is at present offering initations to those students of First Degree Wicca who have completed their studies through witchschool or other noteworthy source. You will in this case have to pay the temple joining fees and submit all certificates and documentation as well as a no objection letter or recommendation from your mentor or teacher. You may have to undergo an interview so that we can access your readiness as a professional who can conducts our rituals and services. You may be asked to complete certain topics or courses through us if required.You must for this have attanded and participated in at least three rituals onlne or offline conducted by our temples so that you are well versed with our rituals and are prepared on how to perform the same yourself.

Forms, Certificates, ID cards:

All candidates who wish to be initiated may please submit duly filled and signed forms, two recent passport sized photographs and a valid legally accepted ID card and address proof so that you can be given a certificate and membership card.

Ritual decorum:

All initates are presented embellished stoles with patches and must wear the same to every ritual. It is preferred that you wear a robe to the ceremonies (a simple black robe of a comfortable fabric with or without hood is the norm). You may get these stiched, made to order or purchased readymade (recommendations available).

SOME DOS AND DON’TS

Please Do:

 - Please do bring your own wands to the rituals, wear your robes and vestments, carry your IDs.

- Please refer to your magickal name given during your initiation in our circle and rituals and address other members of Clergy with their magickal name.

- Please do volunteer often to perform part or whole of the ritual ceremony as temple Clergy for your own practice and for the benefit of other members as well. Please do this under the aegis of our tradition and distinguish it from any other personal ritual or service. 

- Please do volunteer to organise events, venues, causes, drives and take other leading roles in the temple under the temple’s name that you belong to.

- Please do volunteer to raise awareness about our temples (Onlne Temple, Earth Healing Temple) and tradition and to bring more members into our circles.

- Please do promote the tradition and temples actively as we need all your support so as to grow bigger and to be able to offer more services to the public as a recognised coherent group. We also wish to expalnd our physical location and to create a larger Wiccan temple for which we need space and support.

- Please do wait till you go further in your course and gain third degree status so that you can begin and head a new temple and conduct courses, rituals etc in the name of our Tradition in your area or location or online.

- Please do ask for help in your career in the Wiccan path. The Tradition head can guide you on how to set up your professional services and our businesses can agree to offer you bulk discounts on products, wholesale orders and offer you supplier opportunities if you wish to sell your own products or services through our stores. We can also offer you franchise opportunities (through our brand Magick) if you wish to set up store and many other resources to set up your career or business so that we can grow together.

- Please do adhere to the ethics and norms of rituals, services, ceremonies as set by the tradition

Please Do Not:

- Please do not use this tradition, group or events as a platform to further your services, own groups, networks and products or by gaining access to and contact with our members. (If you wish to copromote or advertise here please send an official proposal)

- Pleae do not attempt to use your degree or Clergy status to make false claims or to offer services or rituals that you are not yet competent to offer. (Any member of the public can always come to our website and find out the list of services you are allowed to offer as a first degree and so on.)

- Please do not gossip, spread rumours or negative energy regarding any member, group, temple, person related to the tradition or otherwise. (Keep energy positive). If something needs to be highlighted or reported please do so officially to the authorised leaders so the same can be dealt with in a balanced way.

- Please do not bring your own tools, crytsals, amulets etc. to the ritual to keep on our altar to energise them during our rituals. As a Clergy member you should be able to energise your own products. If you need additional energy for your crystals and tools from the temple head or ritual leader or someone else please perform an energy exchange and request for an energising service or else you will end up draining the ritual’s and circle’s energy which is never good.

- Please do not attempt to copy our original work, notes, ritual patterns, spells, products, store format, phish our members, etc to set up your own network or business ori ndulge in any other unethical or irresponsible behavior. You can always ask for co-promotional, franchise and other opportunities and be a partner if you wish to use our technology. Misusing anyone’s  copyrighted work or systems without permission can be seen as a punishable offence.

Let us spread the Light together as One.

Brightest Blessings

(*)

Rev. Swati Prakash (Lady Astra)

Head – Global Wicca Traditon

www.globalwicca.com

“Bide within the Law you must, in perfect Love and perfect Trust.”

Who do we think we are helping or harming? The is no-one but our-self. Each one in the world that we perceive to be as an-other is actually another part of our own self – waiting to be identified, loved and accepted as our-self.
“Love is the Law, Love under Will” – said Aliester Crowley

In my journey I have found friends and foes all helping me understand myself and gain clarity of who I am.

There have been people who have tried to utilize my services for free in the guise of friendship – some of them still try to sneak in and take a reading or two when they can. I’ve had enough of these false friends and have chosen to move on. My own company is far more enjoyable to me, thank you!

“With a fool no seasons spend, or be counted as his friend”

At other times there were those who blatantly copied my ideas as their own, copied my event formats and venues, those who have been drawing many of the members of my groups and communities into their own groups, even trying to steal my customers and clients by promoting their own products and services, openly and in shadows, through online networking and in offline events, quite thanklessly. I know I am wiser than before thanks to you all.

“Mind the Three-fold Laws you should, three times bad and three times good.”
I have received a lot of good from the goddess and know that nothing of what I gave was ever lost and will only return my way multiple times. Those who did me wrong will automatically learn their lessons too for the harm they did will also return their way.  I am living in perfect Love and perfect Trust!

“Live you must and let to live, fairly take and fairly give.”

When we try to extract something from someone without a fair exchange we are being an Energy Vampire – sucking out the goodness from others, making them feel depleted, pretty much like a ‘dementor’ in Harry Potter would make someone feel. Being a vampire is nothing to be proud of – no matter what the Twilight series makes you believe.

“When you have and hold a need, hearken not to others greed.”
I have learned how to protect myself from greedy vampires and hope you do too.

Why have so many people believed that magick is wrong, negative, a dark art, witches are bad, and so on?

Because of the way witches have been hiding from the world – as if guilty – as if unsure of being revealed – ashamed of being called a witch. The world surely treats us the way we expect to be treated.

Why have so many people who render spiritual service been offering it for free or at very low price?

Perhaps their fear of not being truly effective or ready yet to be professionally competent. They may be still learning and an inner knowing that they are not that worthy is leading them to give free advice, readings, rituals, spells, healing, etc to others. Or perhaps they are not properly organized, don’t have a great set up, sell smuggled goods, don’t pay taxes…and so on…there are many reasons why you will obtain free and lowly priced goods and services. Their energy will be equally low however.

It is necessary to know that unless there is a fair exchange no energy gets transferred at all and no help is ever given unless the giver receives something of equal worth in return.

If you feel you don’t have enough, you are poor, you need charity – you are right – you have created this future for yourself through this very belief. If you feel rich and abundant right now you will create that reality, and then you will not feel stingy, pinch a penny and refuse to give a fair price for what you take.

Why have so many people been resentful, envious, jealous and scornful of those in the spiritual field who are making money?

Because they were so far not living in abundance. Each time someone gets mentioned in the media, starts a new enterprise, does something new and amazing, he or she also runs the risk of jealousies and the ‘evil-eye’ of those who are not as successful, those who are frustrated and insecure and are unable to see the success of another. If we seek abundance why do we forget that there is always enough for all and we do not have to be unhappy of the success and prosperity of another person. In-fact to rejoice in the success of others draws more success to us.

“Merry Meet and Merry Part bright the cheeks and warm the heart.”

Why have members of the Wiccan religion been a misunderstood minority so far?

Perhaps due to the absolute lack of unity among those who are Wiccans as there are too many who just want to treat Wiccan rituals like a little party instead of with a seriousness that a religious ceremony carries. As soon as a person learns a bit of Wicca and ritual he or she starts drawing (or stealing) members of other Wiccan groups into their own circle and thereby not letting even one community totally integrate and flourish. The communities get scattered and so does the energy scatter too. If only we could have more focus and dedication towards our traditions and give love and support to our leaders, we could probably achieve much more as a united coherent community.

Why do so many tarot readers, healers, witches, spiritual experts still have unhappy, unsuccessful lives, financial blocks, unhappy relationships, ill health…?

We need to look within ourselves and heal ourselves first. Only by being ethical and truthful people an we ever draw goodness into our life. As long as a part of us feels, guilty, undeserving of good, unworthy, we will not be really successful folks, and there is always a part of us that knows our truth.

“When misfortune is enow wear the star upon your brow.”

Wisdom and learning, love and ethics are the only way to progress and the only way to banish bad luck and misfortune.

How can we love another unless we love our-self? How can we receive love unless we give it truly and unconditionally? Without loyalty and faithfulness can there be any love at all?

Loyalty and faithfulness are the base of any relationship – it is the root chakra – our ground that we stand on – the stability and security that all is well. If this is missing there can be nothing up in the air that will ever do.

It is time to be loyal to our-self and everyone, to love ourselves and everyone.

“True in love, this you must be, lest thy love be false to thee.”
I know when I look into the mirror right now, I see a person who is true and loving to herself and others. And that is all that matters.

When you stop hurting yourself you stop hurting others. When you stop hurting others you stop hurting yourself.
When you start loving yourself you start loving others. When you start loving others you start loving yourself.
This is a circle of infinite love and joy, beauty and peace.

We only need to learn one lesson to be free of our burdens of guilt and shame and to live a wonderful life.
Its a familiar statement to many of us:
Eight word the Wiccan Rede fulfill:
“An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will.”

Blessed Be
(*)
Lady Astra Wishkap aka Rev. Swati Prakash
Global Wicca Tradition

www.globalwicca.com

Also you are invited attend the workshop ‘Healing Soul Relationships’ on this important topic that will empower you with hands on healing skills and techniques to heal soulmate and twin flame relationships and to locate and work with your twin flame and soulmates. To register call 65250328 (Mumbai) and register on www.globalwicca.com to get details.

Also you can attend the upcoming New Moon Love Magick Ritual at Magick, Mumbai: On 16th road, Bandra. Please call up and confirm your attendance and ask for further details. Tel: 65250328

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The Magick of Twin-Flame, Soulmates and Soul-Groups

– by Swati Prakash, Tarot, Past Life and Wiccan healer

Ever felt a strong connection with someone you have met for the first time? You could be encountering a soul-mate or a past life relative, friend or lover.

While we all have heard of soulmates, we also must know that we have several soulmates, soul-groups as well as a twin-flame.

What is the meaning of Soul?

In reality everything in the universe is ‘One’. We all come from the same source and carry this awareness deep within our subconscious self to be awakened through spiritual work.

If we are all one then why are we all separate?

Because the one spirit that created the universe wanted to experience the variety and fullness of being through various permutations and combinations of existance and hence divided itself into multiple beings, each having their own ego – or sense of individuality. Our soul is composed of several lifetimes so that we experience various probabilities of being. Our Soul believes itself to be distinct from other souls. A soul has memory (sometimes conscious but mostly subconscious) of past lives that the soul believes to be theirs uniquely. My soul believes my lifetimes to be ‘mine’ and yours as ‘your own’.

Who decides what we will be in any lifetime?

As different people in each of our lives we are in-charge of choosing what we wish to be – (choices ranging from serial killer to saint) in each life, although we may not always be fully conscious while making our choices. Our soul is capable of visiting past lives and probable future lives to discover its various possibilities. We can through past life therapy learn how we made our past choices and how our past experiences may have influenced who we are in the present life. If we have any uncomfortable experiences or situations in the present life, the source of that lies in our past or past-life experiences through which we have subconsciously chosen that situation in our present life. This means we can go back and heal the source too moving on from the problem and creating a better future through more conscious ‘Magickal’ choices.

What are soul-mates?

In our various lifetimes we often come close to certain individuals with whom we feel a strong connection. In the first meeting it is as if we have met them before or as if something is pulling us towards them. These are soul-mates with whom we share a karmic connection and we have come together over lifetimes to learn valuable lessons from one another. We have several soulmates. Our best friends, parents, lovers, teachers, students, there are several kinds of soulmate relationships that are formed across lifetimes. In one life two people may be sisters and in another lifetime become husband and wife because we choose to support each other in learning various kinds of lessons each time.

What are the lessons to be learnt?

We may need to learn about love, unity, our spiritual truth and interconnectedness which is why there is karma – action and reaction. Our past actions (both inner and outer) determine our present and possible futures. If we think and act in loving and kind ways we get rewarded with abundance and joy. The specific lessons we choose to learn for this may vary from lifetime to lifetime, such as learning to value our life, learning magickal skills, learning to respect someone’s freedom, and so on. With some soulmates we seem to have parallel lives and go through similar situations that mirror our experiences so that we understand our life better. With some others we share vastly different experiences to show us alternate possibilities and choices.

Are some soulmates negative for us?

Soul-mate relationships can often be challenging, but we must remember they are always there to help us understand ourselves. No matter how negative people may seem, they are there to help us confront different possibilities and choices within us. They are here to help us heal ourselves of negative patterns that make us unhappy. This cannot happen if we reject people we find negative and hate or block them. It is up-to us to learn how to release unnecessary energy and negative emotions, and how to create more happy vibrations inside us while being at peace with the rest of the world.

What is a twin-flame or twin-soul?

A twin flame or twin soul is a special soul-mate. We may have several soulmates but one twin-flame who is a reflection of our true self. When we have learned our lessons, realized who we are, love ourselves and are at ease with ourselves we may draw a twin flame to work together with and complete our final life-cycle. Until we are not totally at ease with ourselves we may not be able to identify or harmonise with our twin flame even if we meet them.

Is it possible that our twin-flame be other than our spouse or life-partner?

Twin flames need not always be romantic partners and can be best friends or soul-friends. I have observed that some people find that their twin flame seems to be someone they meet after they marry or commit themselves into a relationship and they may sense a romantic connection with them as well. However this does not mean that they must abandon their spouse or partner or be divided between them and their twin-flame (secret flame unknown to your spouse or partner). This is not advisable. It is totally possible to draw the experience of your twin-flame energy through your present life-partner by continuing to work on your relationship. There is no excuse for cheating.

Is it necessary to have a twin-flame?

For those who choose to stay single it is possible that we choose to complete our final life cycle without any twin flame by uniting with the one-reality within us instead of with another individual through a relationship. It is also possible that a person who has already realised and attained liberation from the karmic cycles of learning, and does not require a twin-flame incarnates again as an infinite soul to guide and help others.

What is a soul-group?

We may find that we are drawn to a certain set of people having common characteristics. Our soul group may be composed of friends, classmates or a social group, community or network. The group may have common lessons to learn together, spiritual or material. By being with our soul-group our learning can accelerate. These soul groups are often led by individuals who have attained that lesson and now bring others together to help them out and show them the way.

Can we choose our soulmates and soulgroups?

Everything in life is a choice we make. We must never forget that in truth we are all interconnected through the network of energy that runs through every fraction of the uni-verse. Sooner or later, we will find that the world around us takes shape and form based on our inner beliefs and intentions. So the soul-mates we attract to ourselves are all a reflection of our inner beliefs, fears, hopes and so on. The more we are at ease with ourselves, the more we draw positive and happy soul-mates and soul-groups towards us.

What is liberation?

Difficult situations are here to help us learn. Some spiritualists mistakenly believe that the world is a miserable place and we must escape the cycles of life and death. We must not try to escape them as this will be counterproductive and increase the difficulty of experience in future lives. Liberation is not about escaping life and death. It is about gaining awareness of the infinite potential within you (enlightenment) and through your inner powers and choices, living every moment of existence as a happy being (magick).

How do we attain liberation?

Step 1: Your intention to be liberated from unhappiness and negative karmic patterns

Step 2: Meditation to attain a thoughtless and clear state of mind

Step 3: Spiritual study, research and practice, possibly initiation into a spiritual soul-group to attain enlightenment and acquire knowledge of magick

Step 4: After attaining enlightenment being aware of how you are creating every moment o your life and working consciously to create a positive future magickally on a continuous basis. This is what true liberation is all about and it is completely within you.

Blessed Be

(*)

Rev. Swati Prakash

Head of Global Wicca Tradition

www.globalwicca.com

A Wiccan Tradition is a structure through which more focus is added to your Wiccan practice as a religion/ shared spiritual system.

(Read more on Wicca on www.globalwicca.com and join us now)

A lot of Wiccans especially those who are new into it practice solitary or as loosely gathered groups, often leading to more unfocused energy than an organized tradition or temple can provide. However Wiccan temples and traditions are not always accessible to the public.

Even when these are not everyone prefers to learn in a structured way or to keep the energy chain flowing through an organized tradition. What we need to understand is the difference being a part of a tradition and temple can make to us if we choose to be a part of it. In a tradition there is a specific philosophy, leadership, code of ethics and a shared understanding of what and how we practice as a community of Wiccans.

A tradition can have one or more temple. In a Wiccan temple there are rituals and rites conducted as service often within the initiated priesthood but also sometimes open to public especially on festive occasions such as sabbats and esbats. A temple is a finely run organization with priests and priestesses and headed by a high priest/ess who looks after the functioning of the temple.

As the public is often allowed to be a part of the sacred ceremonies along with initiates a lot of energy is transferred to the member of public who is granted access to the temple. An energy exchange in the form of membership dues or ritual fees is often required to help facilitate the same so that the participant gets maximum benefit of the spiritual service consumed by him or her. Often the fees for such public ritual service is kept to a minimum as compared to a one-to-one and personalized ritual or spell-casting performed by an expert.

If the temple receives adequate donations or has a good source of funding the rituals can be made even more affordable for the masses but as Wicca is a fairly new religion this process may take some time. An energy exchange may be required to keep the temple functioning well, to reward the priesthood who conducts the services and to cover for the ritual supplies as well so that the temple can continue to provide continued service, expand itself and serve the society in a meaningful way.

What is the Earth Healing Temple: A place where magick happens and rituals are held – this place is within our heart as we come together and cast our circle for any temple ritual. This is a Wiccan temple – our prayers are our spells and invocations. We worship the Earth goddess and all facets of divine from all sources across the globe – the Wiccan Way. We call upon the elements of nature and astral entities that are positive in every aspect to help us raise and purify our energies so that we release the negative blocks and bring in more positive situations in our life. We also perform rituals to heal the earth.

I urge you all to also read the blog post on how to join the Earth Healing Temple on the Global Wicca Tradition’s ning network (Join Us) and lend us your support and participation so that we can keep up our good work. With all you support we will be able to unite more and more people and expand our tradition in every direction. Consider joining our tradition’s inner circle to have a more active role to play in it as a priest/ess. Any comments, feedback or discussions are welcome.

Blessed Be

(*)

Rev. Swati Prakash

Head Priestess – Earth Healing Temple

Founder – Global Wicca Tradition

Jesus Christ seems to have been an extremely good witch, a magickal human who had tremendous wisdom and consciousness. If those tales are true it seems that he used his power of consciousness to create a change, to awaken the masses, to see the future,  and to show and lead by example. 

Legend says that he was sacrificed…and it is also known that so many alleged witches have been framed and murdered through time for being courageous, self driven, focused…why… just because they chose their own beliefs and used their own inner spiritual powers instead of going as per the dictates of others?

Following the path of Christ is about following the inner self. Instead of merely worshiping and remembering such great masters we must try to be like them, to learn the ways of the healers, to be enlightened, to work with the angels and unseen beings of nature, to prophecise and see the future, to perform divination and magick, to create a more positive state of being for ourselves, facilitating that for others, creating more beauty, peace and joy in this world, to be in balance, to maintain the balance of nature…Then we will truly be in the energy of God(dess).

We may celebrate his birthday today in many ways but it will be incomplete if we did nothing to invoke our inner light as that is what God(ess) is truly all about. 

Whether we attend a sacred ceremony, meditate, perform a spell, spend time in nature, or simply be in the energy of truth, we must know that the light of the world is being born within us in this very moment… as we spend some time with our-Self discovering the magick within us all.

Blessed Be

(*)

It is true that humans are biologically more evolved, being the most dense, physically and mentally more complex species on earth.

Biological evolution and spiritual evolution however are two different things.

Biological evolution can be termed as spiritual ‘involution’. All matter has evolved from its original spirit form. Spirit, energy, chi, prana, shakti is life and it is the essence and original state of everything that exists (both the living and so called ‘non living’). Energy has ‘condensed’ to become what we see as matter. This is a scientific fact and a peek into quantum physics will help us understand this.

Becoming more and more complex from our original, simple, ‘unity’ state of existence – this is the process of involution.

As nature becomes more and more complex, spiritual vibrations become denser and denser, more and more complex forms of life evolve as spirit gets ‘involved’ in the play of existence. We become physically more complicated, mentally more complicated, hence highly ‘intelligent’ humans.

Animals (read other animals as humans are a part of the animal world scientifically speaking), are less biologically evolved and less mentally complicated. They are closer to the spiritual self.

Plants are even closer to the spiritual self. Minerals, crystals, rocks are close too as they have fewer complexities.

Earth (solid matter), Water, Fire, Air, are all closer to Spirit in that order.

Spiritual evolution refers to the process of us (complex human forms) becoming more and more attuned to our original essence of spirit, this means to simplify ourselves, be more natural, more scientifc, which means more spiritual.This is also ‘Shedding our Huge Human Ego’. Humans need to meditate to get rid of mental chatter and to be in touch with their simple self. Other beings of nature need this much lesser than humans do.

In the quest for achieving spiritual liberation humans have created religion. Religion is another name for shared spiritual belief system…. and there are so many variations of these belief systems… each eager to prove its superiority and establish its dominance. All these religions are untimately based on stories, books, myths and mythologies. Science and common sense urge us to understand that these myths, stories, books and mythlogies contain just lessons for us to learn, rather than facts. There is truth within them, even though they may not be exactly factual.

The fact is that all myths, customs, rites have evolved from nature. In the beginning humans observed nature and its phenomena. Sun, moon, tides, storms, lightning, rain and so on. These were all honoured as deities and as they started responding to the wishes and thoughts of humans they began to understand what magick is really all about. Every aspect of nature began to assume a deity form, animals, birds and even human. We prayed to the gods of rains for rainfall, sun for warmth, and so on.

As religion evolved into more complex forms in line with the biological and mental evolution of man, we went out of step with spirituality and nature. We forgot that all modern myths and mythologies in all modern religions have originally evolved from nature worship.

For example – what we celebrate as Christmas or birth of Jesus Christ in December was originally celebrated as Winter solistice. Around this time each year we witness the longest night and the shortest day of the year, after which days begin to grow longer and longer. This is the peak of winter and the Sun god is at its weakest dying stage, and soon as the solstice ends, Sun is born again and slowly gains power as the wheel of the year turns. This is also called Yule and originally being a nature festival that symbolised the rebirth of sun was celebrated with evergreen trees, holly and mistletoe being symbols of the cycle of death and rebirth, popcorn garlands and decorations were warpped around trees to keep the ‘tree spirits’ warm. Such a beautiul way to celebrate the magick and mystery of nature – and most of us who celebrate Christmas don’t even know that.

Gods and goddesses that are visualised as having human form are actually all originally just aspects of nature. Thunder and lightning (Zeus, Indra), male god (sun, Lugh, Mithra, Aditya, Vishnu, all versions of male ‘God’ deity in modern religions such as Christianity), female goddess (moon, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Artemis, most female deities that are conspicous by their absence in modern patriarchial religions). The lists of gods and goddesses may be endless but they are all forms of nature and should ideally help us be more and more aligned with our natural self.

Air, Fire, Water, Earth, Plants, Animals and all other beings of nature are more in tune with their essence, their spirituality than humans who falsely believe themselves to be superior. They are all far more at ease with themselves, their intuition, their ablity to ‘be’, their basic needs and desires than most humans who have created way too much stress and complication in their lives and are seeking a way to escape this through one of two extremes:

First extreme – the path of asceticism, meditation to the extent of losing their basic ‘grounding’ or practicality, celibacy, to a less extent vegetarianism, Jainism, veganism and fasting to a greater extent denial of food and water, relenquishing pleasure while being misfits in society and deeply unhappy within.

The second extreme – Overindulgence in the life process, drugs, addictions, poly-amourism (multiple partners – no committment), maximising pleasure, numbing themselves to pain while being deeply unhappy within.

A lot of so called spiritualists I have observed acually fall in one of the above two categories. I have actually found them to be broken, sorry people who are in real need of healing but their spiritual egos keep them far from accepting their natural truth.

Thankfully to help us achieve this we have Science.

As we learn to observe nature (which is the essence of science) we try to discover facts and move away from myths. We learn the language of nature and its laws. We learn how all matter is composed of vibrations that are altered through the power of consciousness. Through scientific experimentation we have discovered that there is ‘Magick’ and what we really focus on condenses from spirit to matter, from imagination to reality, E=mc square etc… – a fact that witches and mystics have known all along and ‘new age’ gurus have finally ‘exposed’ as the Secret.

We finally learn that all we really need to be is our simple, humble, natural self. This means our intuitive, spiritual, scientific, magickal self.

Imagine if we all were in tune with this part of us, with our essence.

Imagine a world where we are in perfect harmony and sync with nature, its bounty, its beauty.

A world in which we use our common sense and scientific understanding of the world to discover its facts and our natural intuition to discover their underlying truth, instead of being brainwashed by modern religious leaders into following what they claim to be the ultimate concept of ‘God’.

A world where we realise that we are biologically well evolved as humans but need to spiritually evolve – which means to go back to our natural simple, intuitive, magickal state of being.

A world in which we are truly happy, abundant, enlightened and peaceful because whatever we want and desire is manifesting each moment by the way of natural Magick and it is scientific – and real – and good. We use it only for good and never to harm, because we know that we do not want to harm anyone if we truly wish to achieve peace, joy and happiness – purity of intent – Satva-yuga!

Welcome to the magickal world of Wicca – a nature oriented spiritual system – a scientific, rational religion – a path of Love and Light!

You can read more on this on www.magickalawareness.com and if you’d like to learn more, register for the courses.

Join us for the Yule ritual this 21 Dec 2009 (more on the page Magick on Facebook – link on this blog)

Merry Yule, Happy Winter Solstice and Blessed Be
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Swati Prakash
Head Priestess – Earth Healing Temple

Founder – Global Wicca Tradition