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Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
She had experimented with Wicca eight years ago, found that her spells did not produce the desired results of making her every bully bald and fat, and threw it in the corner of her soul as effete and impractical, as she had with a series of other theological outfits.
Faith is the deepest and truest form of magic.
I am a Zen Buddhist - but that is not to be thought of as a religion in
Magic is that paganistic reversal of the process of religion, in which man, instead of letting himself be used by God for the divine purpose, drags down his god to the level of a tool, which he uses for his own selfish purpose.
Magic is an ancient practice that has power over superstitious mind.
Jesus, deliver me from the spirit of witchcraft!
I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.
When you embrace a sacred relationship with your inner witch, you awaken within you qualities of the elements and forces of nature. This is the discovery and the connection of your powerful self.
In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error.
Witches work with the truth of the Earth itself.
I dabble in all kinds of spirituality. I studied Kabbalah for over ten years, and you know it's all basically the same.
It might be religion, but it still has to make sense.
Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.
I dabbled into witchcraft-I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who were doing these things. I'm not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do,
When people were in serious trouble they went to a witch.
When a woman embraces her inner witch, she finds new strength. She is overtaken by true serenity. She creates order where there was none before. Her eyes have now been opened.
Passionate grave thought,
belief enhanced,
ritual returned and magic.
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
Despite its prominence now, you don't stumble onto the path of shamanism. That odd trail blazes itself to you.
I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely out of themselves.
BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.
I'm a witch woman
high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts ... I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will.
Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.
The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual.
smoking some exotic fairy weed.
Witchcraft scum exploiting the dumb turning children into punks and slaves.
A radiant fellowship of the fallen.
Sorcery rules the world. Of course, most don't call it sorcery; indeed, many would be horrified by such a notion.
It was deliciously pagan.
Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.
The Neo-Pagan religious framework is based on a polytheistic outlook- a view that allows differing perspectives and ideas to coexist
My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.
I am a Buddhist.
The foolish coyote faith that could keep you flying as long as you kept kidding yourself that you could fly.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Religion is a wizard, a sibyl ... She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn. She faces death, and prophesies life.
Where magic is the essence of existence and those who wield it, rarely what they seem
Folk parapsychology, an art and science designed to enable people to make effective use of their psychic talents
Sanctified by their initiatory experiences and furnished with their spirit guardians, the shaman alone among human beings is able to consciously travel into the spiritual worlds as cosmic explorers.
Even in woo woo circles, shamanism is the fringe of the fringe.
I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.
Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved
Magic is something strange,
Anthropologically informed works, from Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough to Pascal Boyer's Religion Explained or Scott Atran's In Gods We Trust, fascinatingly document the bizarre phenomenology of superstition and ritual. Read such books and marvel at the richness of human gullibility. But that is not
Magic is not a practice. It is a living, breathing web of energy that, with our permission, can encase our every action.
Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.
Life is a conundrum of esoterica.
Shamanism is not a religion. It's a method. And when this method is practiced with humility, reverence and self-discipline, the shaman's path can become a way of life.
It is on those mist-filled nights, when the wind is strong and curious, when the air is alive with something unseen but felt, that you finally believe ... oh, yes, you finally believe what your heart has always known: magic is real and it is everywhere. - Diary of a Pagan
The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and popular superstition; and may therefore deserve to be considered, as a singular event in the history of the human mind.
What I'm talking about is fun. It's every day, it's high energy, and it gives you guidance and healing for your life. It puts a fizz of magic into the air.
Magic. It can get a guy killed.
Divination is the ketchup of shamanism.
I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.
I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence
whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.
Incense. Books. Just weird.
Shamanism explores an area that contemporary Western science knows little about- the mind.
The nature of Paganism is that of exploring, evolution, and opening up.
Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.
I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children.
And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.
The divine arts; Humankind, Nature, Stars, Sun, Moon, Sea....!
I have heard that Paganism is for broken people, but life cracks everyone in some way. We are a religion of healing people.
MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.
I remember writing the series with great enthusiasm, and I hope this enthusiasm continues to inspire newcomers to see the truly life-changing possibilities Wicca can offer. As a 'religion of self expression' I wish everyone an inspiring quest on this path called Wicca.
I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.
Who is so fancy, esoterica saves the day?
Who is the Yogi, Namaste?
I like the way the word Witch connects us back through all the generations of those who went before us who harnessed the power of the elements and magick to improve their lives and deepen their connection with the natural world.
No religion,
I'm just so explicit,
I coexist in places you would never know existed.
Mysticism is the hidden way. It is the most difficult to discuss, because it involves the exploration of perceptual states which are difficult to describe in words.
The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
The
word "Witch" carries so many negative connotations that many people
wonder why we use the word at all. Yet to reclaim the word "Witch" is to
reclaim our right, as women, to be powerful; as men, to know the
feminine within as divine.
If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday the thirteenth it was Superstition!
All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.
Shamans enter the dream world of sub-consciousness to wrestle with demons and rally angels. They return with tales of their encounters which become the myths and legends of their communities.
Some live by faith. Others live by Magick.
The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.
A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind.
When a witch embodies self-love, her energy becomes magnetic and her sense of possibility becomes contagious.
Witch. A goddess. Someone not of this earth but not apart from it either. A woman to be loved and feared and adored.
There is a collective force reawakening on the Earth each day: the reawakening of the Witch. Within every woman drawn to the path of witchcraft resides the powerful spirit of the Witch.
Explore your sacred mind.
I always have loved witches.
We are pagans. We deify each other.
Raven?'
Yes?'
What do you believe in?'
I believe in - finding out!
It is my contention that ritual begins at home, in domestic magic.
In Witchcraft, each of us must reveal our own truth.
By performing apparently absurd rituals, you get in touch with something deep in your soul, in the oldest part of yourself, the part closest to the origin of everything.
What was magic anyway, but the world beheld by someone who chose to see it differently?
Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.
Consciousness is naturally shamanic.
A shaman walks the thin line of insanity and bliss.
In my position, the right witchdoctor
Might have caught you in flight with his bare hands,
Tossed you, cooling, one hand to the other,
Godless, happy, quieted.
I managed
A wisp of your hair, your ring, your watch, your nightgown.
Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.
Seventh of the Rituals of Radiant Living: the Ritual of Music.
Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.
Morning Glory's introduction to the magical ways of the Goddess, manifest in our time, has enlarged my understanding of Pagan ways, enriching my spirit and imagination.
All over the world, belief in the supernatural has authorised the sacrifice of people to propitiate bloodthirsty gods, and the murder of witches for their malevolent powers.