make magic a constant part of my life

....workshop about Death Dying and Beyond from a Shamanic perspective. It was great: lots of drumming, smoke, tribal shrieking and dancing – we did a psychopomp for spirits stuck in this world without a body and a 90 minute journey into non-ordinary reality to meet dead relatives/friends. I loved it – IRL I’m very mild mannered and probably the last person you’d expect to be waving a rattle around and communing with the spirit world.

I’m going back in a couple of weeks for an illness and extraction workshop…

:-)

I just saw the Richard Dawkins film about New Age treatments all being hokum because they can’t be quantified and verified using the scientific method. I’m always torn when I think about this, because on the one had he’s very right and on the other hand, I still trundle on doing all the mad stuff I do. I think that magic is a psychological tool that can be used to focus the mind on events/activities one would like to make happen. Those principles seem to be applicable to both magic and something like business studies: if you ever look at/read all that motivational literature it’s all magic anyway. So, I’m going to have my cake and eat it: Mr Dawkins is right, we musn’t slide back to irrationality (completely) but we can draw upon the magical place the universe is and use that as the basis for our magical endeavours. Phew, glad I got that off my chest….

... in London as a follow up to the Core Shamanism course I did last year. I’m quite excited about it.

...in my life but I’ve either not recognised it or deliberately avoided/suppressed it which only led to trouble. Some of the biggest influences on me as a youngster were magickal – Burroughs and the Beats, Bowie, Psychic TV, Austin Osman Spare, Julian Cope, Art esp The Surrealists, Cubists and Pop Art dudes, Fortean Times, Bladerunner, Stone Circles, UFO and Alien invasions, The Invisibles, Philip K. Dick, Sci Fi, Kenneth Anger, cinema generally and of course music. As an adult I hung out with Tibetan Buddhists and was doing a magickal ritual everyday for seven years – creating sacred space, meditation, invocation, banishing – except no-one ever called it that.

Now, all these things are coalescing around ritual, shamanism, chaos magick, and being in the wide-screen environment of North Devon. The sky and the earth, the sea and the stars, the elements and the four directions – all of these things are there everyday and it all seems to feed into a kind of Pagan world-view.

One of my key activities now is to keep this alive and dancing in my day to day life. It’s so important because if I don’t keep it alive, I become deadened to the world and then unable to appreciate it.

And it really is an incredible world that we live in.

just take it seriously because since i’m small i always believe in magic….............

I danced naked under the full month shortly after my birthday, I don’t think you can get much more magical than that.

no to bad for me be cool

my new bunny is called magic ;]

I know I have magic inside of me. I use it, have used it. I want to feel the warmth of it everyday. Purposefully. I am going to begin with clearing my chakras, I have felt as if my soul were covered in a layer of ash and this just may help with that. I will be more aware of the magic surrounding me, the wind moving the trees, light of the moon, the knowledge that I am surrounded and penetrated by it. Time to shake off that ash and SEE.