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Heart Hook
Recently, I made amends with a fellow magical person and friend. On my way to see him I suddenly had a very distinct pain in my chest, which moved all the way up to my throat, and felt like a hook gripping the lower part of my throat and pulling downward. I call it the heart hook.
To say that the sensation scared me would be an understatement. But, as a spiritual writer and proponent of understanding spiritual energy, I focused on the pain and tried to understand what was happening. My head swirled with different worst-case-scenarios, but very often these types of pains are related to what is right in front of us. I was going to go see a friend, someone that I cared about, and hadn’t spoken with for months. Everything is connected, so how was this connected?
When I arrived, a different magical person and shaman was able to articulate for me exactly what I was experiencing. My heart chakra was pulling on my throat chakra. Essentially, the meeting was tugging at my heart. Rather than speak out in anger, through my throat chakra, I was being reminded to be compassionate, to speak only through my heart, and the reunion could be successful.
My estranged friend arrived, and it is funny how our fears are always larger than anything that actually happens in reality. As we interacted, and as I was able to only interact from a compassionate space, the energetic pains subsided. What was so powerful about the experience, for me, was how my energy body, my spiritual body, sent me such strong signals to stay aligned and birth the best future possible: a happy reunion.
This is the joy that understanding spiritual energy can bring. It is always there, we just have to turn to it, and recognize how much better our lives can be when we choose to be apart of our own spiritual energy, rather than just ignore it. Sometimes it isn’t as pronounced as specific pain in your chakra centers, but I believe it can manifest in thousands of ways, and we just need to turn toward energy, legitimize it, for it to improve the quality of our lives.
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To say that the sensation scared me would be an understatement. But, as a spiritual writer and proponent of understanding spiritual energy, I focused on the pain and tried to understand what was happening. My head swirled with different worst-case-scenarios, but very often these types of pains are related to what is right in front of us. I was going to go see a friend, someone that I cared about, and hadn’t spoken with for months. Everything is connected, so how was this connected?
When I arrived, a different magical person and shaman was able to articulate for me exactly what I was experiencing. My heart chakra was pulling on my throat chakra. Essentially, the meeting was tugging at my heart. Rather than speak out in anger, through my throat chakra, I was being reminded to be compassionate, to speak only through my heart, and the reunion could be successful.
My estranged friend arrived, and it is funny how our fears are always larger than anything that actually happens in reality. As we interacted, and as I was able to only interact from a compassionate space, the energetic pains subsided. What was so powerful about the experience, for me, was how my energy body, my spiritual body, sent me such strong signals to stay aligned and birth the best future possible: a happy reunion.
This is the joy that understanding spiritual energy can bring. It is always there, we just have to turn to it, and recognize how much better our lives can be when we choose to be apart of our own spiritual energy, rather than just ignore it. Sometimes it isn’t as pronounced as specific pain in your chakra centers, but I believe it can manifest in thousands of ways, and we just need to turn toward energy, legitimize it, for it to improve the quality of our lives.
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Intuition: The Happiness GPS
Intuition is one of the most potent forms of magic all people possess. So often we get lost in our minds, and seek external confirmation from the world in some way. We may ask friends or family for advice, or may have deep beliefs, even fears, that guide us to what we think we should be doing. This includes all the big and small actions we take in our life. From choosing to go out on the town and have a good time, or to popping the question to the love of your life, too often we let things on the “outside” tell us what to do.
Intuition is when we let the “inside” guide us to what is best.
It may not be best for anyone else, and that is fine, that is why intuition is so empowering and personal. I find that intuition very often manifests in our third chakra, the power chakra, located in and around our gut. A popular energetic phrase that everyone tends to throw around is, “My gut is telling me…” And it is! At any given time, faced with any sort of choice, our gut, and therefore our intuition, is trying to guide us to our best possible future.
Energy does not exist in neatly contained boxes, otherwise known as physical forms. It connects everything. We are porous creatures that not only pump out our own spiritual energy, but interact unconsciously with the energy fields of the big, wide world. Intuition is your happiness GPS. It is your energy field not just telling you what is best for you, but best for you as a being that is connected to all other energy fields. It can cast your future, prompting you toward synchronicities, success, and love. But very often, it is the frequency, that when we tune into it, can help us put one foot in front of the other and take empowered action in our own lives.
Muting the signals from the outside can be hard if you are not used to tuning into your own intuition. But intuition is there nonetheless. If you are struggling to find your intuition frequency, I find it best to sit quietly and observe both sides of the coin. State, out loud, the two different states of being you are considering. Observe your energy when speaking out loud. Not what you are thinking, but what your body is feeling. An all encompassing one can be for a decision you are trying to make. Just state, “I should do [action],” and observe signals in your body. Then state the opposite, “I should not do [action].” Very often, you will feel your intuition, usually in your power chakra or gut. One statement may bring a feeling of lightness or excitement. Another may feel sinking or yucky. These feelings are your intuition. The more you tune into your intuition frequency, the more you can let it guide you to your own bliss. It is the ultimate GPS, the happiness GPS, that can guide you to your best future.
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Intuition is when we let the “inside” guide us to what is best.
It may not be best for anyone else, and that is fine, that is why intuition is so empowering and personal. I find that intuition very often manifests in our third chakra, the power chakra, located in and around our gut. A popular energetic phrase that everyone tends to throw around is, “My gut is telling me…” And it is! At any given time, faced with any sort of choice, our gut, and therefore our intuition, is trying to guide us to our best possible future.
Energy does not exist in neatly contained boxes, otherwise known as physical forms. It connects everything. We are porous creatures that not only pump out our own spiritual energy, but interact unconsciously with the energy fields of the big, wide world. Intuition is your happiness GPS. It is your energy field not just telling you what is best for you, but best for you as a being that is connected to all other energy fields. It can cast your future, prompting you toward synchronicities, success, and love. But very often, it is the frequency, that when we tune into it, can help us put one foot in front of the other and take empowered action in our own lives.
Muting the signals from the outside can be hard if you are not used to tuning into your own intuition. But intuition is there nonetheless. If you are struggling to find your intuition frequency, I find it best to sit quietly and observe both sides of the coin. State, out loud, the two different states of being you are considering. Observe your energy when speaking out loud. Not what you are thinking, but what your body is feeling. An all encompassing one can be for a decision you are trying to make. Just state, “I should do [action],” and observe signals in your body. Then state the opposite, “I should not do [action].” Very often, you will feel your intuition, usually in your power chakra or gut. One statement may bring a feeling of lightness or excitement. Another may feel sinking or yucky. These feelings are your intuition. The more you tune into your intuition frequency, the more you can let it guide you to your own bliss. It is the ultimate GPS, the happiness GPS, that can guide you to your best future.
Learn more with Modern Magic: Reclaiming Your Magical Heritage
Seeking Spirituality…And Overcoming Fear
When anyone is drawn to seek out spirituality, it can be scary. No way around it. Any spiritual pursuit is deeply personal, and we tend to not speak about it. Not to friends, or family, and least of all to co-workers. Everything about spirituality, no matter the modality, seems to conflict with our very rational world. A rational world that is highly scientific, a world of staggering technology, a world that tends to look down on spirituality. Any type of spirituality.
And yet, something in us drawn to seek it out. To make sense of ourselves, especially the energetic aspects, the soul parts, that we cannot see. But we can feel them. Something in us knows it is there. And we seek connection. To ourselves. And we not only want to understand ourselves, but understand the universe. Understand it in a personal way, a way that helps justifies the blessings, miracles, and magic that happen all the time. Again, seeking connection to a world, that in the deepest parts of ourselves, we hope is compassionate universe.
When we seek out spirituality, we are actively overcoming fear. Fear of what others might think. Fear of what how the world in general tends to view spirituality. In short, seeking spirituality is an empowering act because we are listening to the best parts of ourselves: our hearts and our souls. We are listening to what we truly need to sustain us in a world that seems to have already figured it all out. And yet, we keeping going. Keep searching. Keep hoping. Keep reaching.
For me, seeking a spiritual path led to embracing a magical spirituality. All those things that have been on the fringes of metaphysical thought for decades, I reached toward those things. But not just one, but all of it. I wanted to see how it was all connected. I was seeking connection to myself, and the world, but also took the unusual path of seeking a connection to a diverse rainbow of mystical pursuits. From meditation, yoga, shamanism, tarot cards, crystals, and herbalism, I found a way to connect not only to my energy, but a universal energy that exists in all creation.
What I found, and what I hope to share with others, is that spirituality should be reverent, but it can also be fun. It can be accessible. It can be user-friendly. Spirituality is not only for revered sages and holy people. It is all around us. We need only be open. Be honest about our fears. And seek connection with an open and loving heart. Because in the end, it doesn’t matter what the world thinks. What we think the world has already figured out. It doesn’t matter what anyone in our life thinks. What matters, is what we feel. And when we reach toward spirituality, we can magically feel better. More connected. More empowered. And more ourselves than we ever thought possible.
And yet, something in us drawn to seek it out. To make sense of ourselves, especially the energetic aspects, the soul parts, that we cannot see. But we can feel them. Something in us knows it is there. And we seek connection. To ourselves. And we not only want to understand ourselves, but understand the universe. Understand it in a personal way, a way that helps justifies the blessings, miracles, and magic that happen all the time. Again, seeking connection to a world, that in the deepest parts of ourselves, we hope is compassionate universe.
When we seek out spirituality, we are actively overcoming fear. Fear of what others might think. Fear of what how the world in general tends to view spirituality. In short, seeking spirituality is an empowering act because we are listening to the best parts of ourselves: our hearts and our souls. We are listening to what we truly need to sustain us in a world that seems to have already figured it all out. And yet, we keeping going. Keep searching. Keep hoping. Keep reaching.
For me, seeking a spiritual path led to embracing a magical spirituality. All those things that have been on the fringes of metaphysical thought for decades, I reached toward those things. But not just one, but all of it. I wanted to see how it was all connected. I was seeking connection to myself, and the world, but also took the unusual path of seeking a connection to a diverse rainbow of mystical pursuits. From meditation, yoga, shamanism, tarot cards, crystals, and herbalism, I found a way to connect not only to my energy, but a universal energy that exists in all creation.
What I found, and what I hope to share with others, is that spirituality should be reverent, but it can also be fun. It can be accessible. It can be user-friendly. Spirituality is not only for revered sages and holy people. It is all around us. We need only be open. Be honest about our fears. And seek connection with an open and loving heart. Because in the end, it doesn’t matter what the world thinks. What we think the world has already figured out. It doesn’t matter what anyone in our life thinks. What matters, is what we feel. And when we reach toward spirituality, we can magically feel better. More connected. More empowered. And more ourselves than we ever thought possible.
Facing Loneliness
We are social creatures by nature, tending to seek out the company of others. What we are truly striving for is authentic connection to others. Hence why we tend to value the company of family and friends so highly. This connection by its very nature can be healing. It heals the essential parts of ourselves, our souls, that seek loving connection to others.
Nevertheless, we can still experience feelings of loneliness. In moments when we are alone and just going about our day-to-day tasks: eating breakfast, taking a shower, commuting to work, or running household errands. In fact, these moments can outweigh other moments of connection so frequently, that we can give into feelings of loneliness. And then we recede into ourselves. Isolate ourselves. Sometimes this is called depression. But the root, very often, is just feeling lonely.
Cultivating a spiritual life opens a door to be connected all the time. Where feelings of loneliness can permanently disappear. Within the spiritual path, we have the opportunity to see this reality as pure energy. As energy, there is no such thing as disconnection. Energy is ever-present, and the physical reality that weighs on us, that we are separate from our surroundings and others, can be redefined and change our perception of life. We become porous creatures, energetic creatures, and we begin to cultivate a sense of being connected to everything. From spiritual ideas of manifestation, we know that reality can shift based on our own thoughts, and how we choose to look at things. But this superpower isn’t reserved for just bringing positive things into our lives. There is a sense of connection we can cultivate in our everyday lives, where in being connected to our surroundings, there is no room left for loneliness to appear.
As we go about our day-to-day activities, we can start to tune in to the energy fields that exist all around us. Our homes hold energy. Nature, from trees to the occasional hummingbird hold energy. Not just hold energy, but they are energy, and so are we. When we tune into the reality of spiritual energy, the world becomes overflowing with life, and ways for us to authentically connect. It isn’t just about connecting to others, it is about connecting to energy in all forms. When we can hear this song in all creation, the music itself sustains us, and life becomes a wondrous journey of the connection we have always craved. Not only to heal us, but to sustain us, and make life worth living.
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Nevertheless, we can still experience feelings of loneliness. In moments when we are alone and just going about our day-to-day tasks: eating breakfast, taking a shower, commuting to work, or running household errands. In fact, these moments can outweigh other moments of connection so frequently, that we can give into feelings of loneliness. And then we recede into ourselves. Isolate ourselves. Sometimes this is called depression. But the root, very often, is just feeling lonely.
Cultivating a spiritual life opens a door to be connected all the time. Where feelings of loneliness can permanently disappear. Within the spiritual path, we have the opportunity to see this reality as pure energy. As energy, there is no such thing as disconnection. Energy is ever-present, and the physical reality that weighs on us, that we are separate from our surroundings and others, can be redefined and change our perception of life. We become porous creatures, energetic creatures, and we begin to cultivate a sense of being connected to everything. From spiritual ideas of manifestation, we know that reality can shift based on our own thoughts, and how we choose to look at things. But this superpower isn’t reserved for just bringing positive things into our lives. There is a sense of connection we can cultivate in our everyday lives, where in being connected to our surroundings, there is no room left for loneliness to appear.
As we go about our day-to-day activities, we can start to tune in to the energy fields that exist all around us. Our homes hold energy. Nature, from trees to the occasional hummingbird hold energy. Not just hold energy, but they are energy, and so are we. When we tune into the reality of spiritual energy, the world becomes overflowing with life, and ways for us to authentically connect. It isn’t just about connecting to others, it is about connecting to energy in all forms. When we can hear this song in all creation, the music itself sustains us, and life becomes a wondrous journey of the connection we have always craved. Not only to heal us, but to sustain us, and make life worth living.
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P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney
“P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney,” is the affirmation that Dory from the Pixar film Finding Nemo uses to connect to her authentic self. As a spiritual writer, and a young one at that, I tend to find inspiration everywhere, especially in pop culture. While many spirituality teachers speak of the importance of affirmations, they can at times feel too forced, too positive, and just plain not connect to who we are, and what we are feeling at any given time. Cultivating a positive energy field, no mater where you are at in your spiritual development, is a challenge. The reason I love Dory’s affirmation is it reminds me how personal, and how magical, affirmations can truly be.
Dory has a pretty positive attitude, and knows how to live in the now. In fact, she has no short-term memory, so she has no choice but to live in the now. But within that, she always approaches life with trust and excitement, ruffling the composure of her companion Marlin. Toward the end of the movie, when she is lost and despondent, it is the mantra she had been repeating throughout her journey with Marlin, “P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney,” that brought back her memory, her purpose, and elevated her consciousness out of despondency and fear.
It may seem silly, but sometimes I have to tell myself, “P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney.” It makes me smile, and reminds me that it is sometimes the simplest affirmations, reminders of ourselves, that can help us most when we seek to be aligned and cultivate a more positive energy field. As RuPaul would say, “Know who you are and deliver it all times.” You are not your fears and insecurities, you are infinitely more. Who you are is personal, and how you remind yourself of that can be silly and irreverent. In fact, it should be! Remember yourself, remember your history, and celebrate the unique you, however you can.
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Dory has a pretty positive attitude, and knows how to live in the now. In fact, she has no short-term memory, so she has no choice but to live in the now. But within that, she always approaches life with trust and excitement, ruffling the composure of her companion Marlin. Toward the end of the movie, when she is lost and despondent, it is the mantra she had been repeating throughout her journey with Marlin, “P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney,” that brought back her memory, her purpose, and elevated her consciousness out of despondency and fear.
It may seem silly, but sometimes I have to tell myself, “P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney.” It makes me smile, and reminds me that it is sometimes the simplest affirmations, reminders of ourselves, that can help us most when we seek to be aligned and cultivate a more positive energy field. As RuPaul would say, “Know who you are and deliver it all times.” You are not your fears and insecurities, you are infinitely more. Who you are is personal, and how you remind yourself of that can be silly and irreverent. In fact, it should be! Remember yourself, remember your history, and celebrate the unique you, however you can.
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The Art of Patience
Patience is not my virtue. Flat out, no way around it, I have always been an impatient person. Since my spiritual awakening in 2012, I have artfully dodged having to be more patient in every way imaginable. I’ve always had a knack for personal manifestation, becoming accustomed to easily bringing positive change into my life. And I came of age in a technology career in Silicon Valley, an extremely fast-paced industry where patience is an unknown word. In short, I had no reason to be patient. I assumed patience was for other people, or for people that didn’t know how to make things happen in their own life. Boy, was I wrong!
Fast forward to the present, and the series of challenges I’ve faced in my personal life to cultivate patience. I’ve started two part-time businesses with my partner, published my first book, have a second one slated to hit shelves within a month. I also have two manuscripts that just require a little polishing before they too are ready to share with the world. My years in technology taught me how to always keep things moving, but looking back now in the throes of impatience, I also had to learn how to release and just let the universe do its work. I assumed I would sell thousands of books immediately, that our businesses would grow exponentially, and that I would somehow struggle to keep pace with the future I manifested. But the universe had other plans. Instead, I’ve learned how to be grateful for all those that have read or are interested in my book. I’m putting myself out there more, connecting with other people that hunger for a new message of modern spirituality. And I’m learning to not be so hard on myself. When we want something, it is hard at times to give ourselves credit for everything else we have done, instead focused on the distant goal that we have trained our vision on. Humility is intimately tied to patience. Sometimes the universe needs to know you are able to conquer your ego before your ideal future can come to meet you.
Patience is an art form. It is a frequency of love. Sometimes you just have to take a deep breath, and bring yourself back to the now, to what you do have in your life, and be grateful for all that you already have. This energy of gratitude can lead you to patience more readily. You start to see that everything is as it should be, and everything will blossom and flower in its own time; not your own version of when things should happen.
This can especially true of finding a job. With the New Year I pledged to bring myself back to work, while not forsaking the important creations I have already birthed. Instead, I’m learning how to nurture myself and my work, while still recognizing how much of me I can still do out in the world. Finding a job can be intimidating work, especially if patience is not your virtue. I’ve had to pull back a number of times and remind myself, “Hey, you are a valuable, you have incredible work experience, the right thing will line up, in the right time.” So while some rejections come through, the opportunities that do line up are exciting me. And I’m learning to trust that the right thing will happen in the right time. For a job. For my books. And for the life I most want to live.
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Fast forward to the present, and the series of challenges I’ve faced in my personal life to cultivate patience. I’ve started two part-time businesses with my partner, published my first book, have a second one slated to hit shelves within a month. I also have two manuscripts that just require a little polishing before they too are ready to share with the world. My years in technology taught me how to always keep things moving, but looking back now in the throes of impatience, I also had to learn how to release and just let the universe do its work. I assumed I would sell thousands of books immediately, that our businesses would grow exponentially, and that I would somehow struggle to keep pace with the future I manifested. But the universe had other plans. Instead, I’ve learned how to be grateful for all those that have read or are interested in my book. I’m putting myself out there more, connecting with other people that hunger for a new message of modern spirituality. And I’m learning to not be so hard on myself. When we want something, it is hard at times to give ourselves credit for everything else we have done, instead focused on the distant goal that we have trained our vision on. Humility is intimately tied to patience. Sometimes the universe needs to know you are able to conquer your ego before your ideal future can come to meet you.
Patience is an art form. It is a frequency of love. Sometimes you just have to take a deep breath, and bring yourself back to the now, to what you do have in your life, and be grateful for all that you already have. This energy of gratitude can lead you to patience more readily. You start to see that everything is as it should be, and everything will blossom and flower in its own time; not your own version of when things should happen.
This can especially true of finding a job. With the New Year I pledged to bring myself back to work, while not forsaking the important creations I have already birthed. Instead, I’m learning how to nurture myself and my work, while still recognizing how much of me I can still do out in the world. Finding a job can be intimidating work, especially if patience is not your virtue. I’ve had to pull back a number of times and remind myself, “Hey, you are a valuable, you have incredible work experience, the right thing will line up, in the right time.” So while some rejections come through, the opportunities that do line up are exciting me. And I’m learning to trust that the right thing will happen in the right time. For a job. For my books. And for the life I most want to live.
Learn more with Modern Magic: Reclaiming Your Magical Heritage
Getting Out Of Your Head
So you know how to meditate. So you do positive affirmations. You’ve been able to manifest positive change in your life. Maybe you do yoga. Or maybe you work with crystals. There are so many different aspects of magical spirituality that people cultivate in their lives successfully. But too often we schedule these spiritual activities into our lives. We put them on our calendars, and then move into everything else in our lives, and fail to extend that same positive energy field to all other parts of our lives: at work, at a job interview, in our homes, spending time with loved ones, and even making important decisions in our lives.
Why? Why do such spiritual people fail to bring their highest self to the forefront of their lives? It’s so simple that we can tend to forget it. We just need to get out of our heads.
Our minds can be very deceptive and self-serving. Our mind will tend to run a program of survival, of protection, and oftentimes, a program of anxiety and insecurity. It is an illusion of disconnection, of not believing we are connected to the energy of all living things. Also, spiritual pursuits of any kind can be at odds with our very scientific, rational world. We tend to hide how bright our hearts and souls can truly shine. But when we schedule our spiritual pursuits, we flex the energetic muscles of our hearts and souls. And it is crucial to recognize that it is a type of energetic workout. Strengthening the others tools available to us, the tools other than our minds, so that we can be more balanced and secure as we engage with the great, wide world around us. Our hearts are about connection, it is through this energy field that we can become more attuned, more sensitive, and more stable in all other parts of our lives. It is key to get our of our heads, and get into our hearts.
Hold that feeling of connection. To the true part of yourself. When you engage in any spiritual pursuit regularly, be conscious of how different that energy is compared to how your life may typically look and feel. You are exercising a different part of yourself, especially the energy field produced by your heart. Bring that energy to the rest of your life. Consciously. Spirituality isn’t just about making time and scheduling it into your life. It is an exercise, a strengthening, so you can bring more balance and stability to every second of waking reality. Recognize when you are in your head. And move that energy to your heart.
Why? Why do such spiritual people fail to bring their highest self to the forefront of their lives? It’s so simple that we can tend to forget it. We just need to get out of our heads.
Our minds can be very deceptive and self-serving. Our mind will tend to run a program of survival, of protection, and oftentimes, a program of anxiety and insecurity. It is an illusion of disconnection, of not believing we are connected to the energy of all living things. Also, spiritual pursuits of any kind can be at odds with our very scientific, rational world. We tend to hide how bright our hearts and souls can truly shine. But when we schedule our spiritual pursuits, we flex the energetic muscles of our hearts and souls. And it is crucial to recognize that it is a type of energetic workout. Strengthening the others tools available to us, the tools other than our minds, so that we can be more balanced and secure as we engage with the great, wide world around us. Our hearts are about connection, it is through this energy field that we can become more attuned, more sensitive, and more stable in all other parts of our lives. It is key to get our of our heads, and get into our hearts.
Hold that feeling of connection. To the true part of yourself. When you engage in any spiritual pursuit regularly, be conscious of how different that energy is compared to how your life may typically look and feel. You are exercising a different part of yourself, especially the energy field produced by your heart. Bring that energy to the rest of your life. Consciously. Spirituality isn’t just about making time and scheduling it into your life. It is an exercise, a strengthening, so you can bring more balance and stability to every second of waking reality. Recognize when you are in your head. And move that energy to your heart.
The Soul Centerpiece
So I’m a sitcom addict. I love sitcoms, and have watched the complete series of Golden Girls and Will & Grace many time over. But one that I’ve been watching recently, and found to be even more relevant to the spiritual work I’m doing now, surprisingly, is Roseanne.
In my new book, The Golden Sherpa, I briefly talk about Roseanne the character as a pop culture Goddess figure representing the Hearth Goddess as empowered yet down-to-earth role model. In the 9th and final season of Roseanne, her character dabbles in Eastern thought, meditation, crystals, and exploring the true nature of the universe. In a particularly touching scene when her daughter Darlene gives birth to a premature baby, she talks through how she believes the baby can survive because, to paraphrase, “All those spiritual books say the same thing. Our bodies do not have souls. Our souls have bodies. We are 1% physical and 99% spiritual.” This pop culture realization, while it does repeat much of spiritual thought that many people are well versed in, stresses a crucial lesson that we fail to internalize in our lives. We are not physical. We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. Too often, we forget that we even have a soul. To put it another way, that we are a soul.
Finding wholeness in your life can be hard when the soul is not the centerpiece. There is nothing bad, nothing negative, nothing dark in the nature of our souls. When we encounter negativity, in ourselves or in our environments, we need to remind ourselves that it is not truth. It is a challenge. A path for us to grow, learn, and evolve. The eternal parts of ourselves that cannot be damaged are our souls. Like going to wedding reception, the beautiful floral centerpieces are reminders of the beauty and love being celebrated that day. The table we set in our own lives is comparable. Our souls are the centerpiece, the gorgeous display of flowers and art that can set the tone, be the reminder, and show us how beautiful our true nature truly is.
Make your soul the centerpiece. It never dies. It is a thing of beauty. Nothing can damage it. Let it be the light to keep returning to, again and again, especially when darkness challenges you on the spiritual path. Light up your soul and let it illuminate your life. The centerpiece of your life: your soul.
In my new book, The Golden Sherpa, I briefly talk about Roseanne the character as a pop culture Goddess figure representing the Hearth Goddess as empowered yet down-to-earth role model. In the 9th and final season of Roseanne, her character dabbles in Eastern thought, meditation, crystals, and exploring the true nature of the universe. In a particularly touching scene when her daughter Darlene gives birth to a premature baby, she talks through how she believes the baby can survive because, to paraphrase, “All those spiritual books say the same thing. Our bodies do not have souls. Our souls have bodies. We are 1% physical and 99% spiritual.” This pop culture realization, while it does repeat much of spiritual thought that many people are well versed in, stresses a crucial lesson that we fail to internalize in our lives. We are not physical. We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. Too often, we forget that we even have a soul. To put it another way, that we are a soul.
Finding wholeness in your life can be hard when the soul is not the centerpiece. There is nothing bad, nothing negative, nothing dark in the nature of our souls. When we encounter negativity, in ourselves or in our environments, we need to remind ourselves that it is not truth. It is a challenge. A path for us to grow, learn, and evolve. The eternal parts of ourselves that cannot be damaged are our souls. Like going to wedding reception, the beautiful floral centerpieces are reminders of the beauty and love being celebrated that day. The table we set in our own lives is comparable. Our souls are the centerpiece, the gorgeous display of flowers and art that can set the tone, be the reminder, and show us how beautiful our true nature truly is.
Make your soul the centerpiece. It never dies. It is a thing of beauty. Nothing can damage it. Let it be the light to keep returning to, again and again, especially when darkness challenges you on the spiritual path. Light up your soul and let it illuminate your life. The centerpiece of your life: your soul.
Running Bad Programs
When I went to Sedona in the fall of 2013, something the healers and shamans I met often referenced was how we could be running bad programs that are preventing us from reaching our full potential. Much like a computer, we can be running old software in the background that is no longer compatible with our best selves. As a shaman and mystic, I am well versed, and have even written a couple of books on the reality of our spiritual energy and how it determines the state of our own lives. But something about running programs stuck in my head.
We are complex beings, both physically and energetically, and one of the only models we have to really understand the complexity is the computer. Much like the computer, we can be running many different programs and operating systems at any given time. Some of these are recent updates, positive affirmations that boost our energy fields. Sometimes there are very old programs, old hurts and traumas that are still running in the background, and could be affecting our lives negatively. Even more interesting is how we could be running programs from past lives, things that have stayed with our soul blueprint into this life, and could also be affecting us negatively. Personality is something we tend not to explore but rather accept us unique to each one of us. But where do these personalities spring from? Our programs. From this life, and our past lives. I also call this our magical heritage, the energy fields that make us multidimensional beings. But sometimes, not all the programs are helping us in this life.
It is important to recognize when you might be running bad programs. Often times it is when we are stuck. When we wake up in the morning and just don’t feel like doing much of anything. We know better, but it is just like running old programs on your computer: it slows you down, and it may be incompatible with who you are today. Don’t get lost in your programming. Explore it. Name it. Identify it. This will help bring distance between the true you, and the programming you may be running in the background.
Running bad programs is unique to each person. But recognizing that we have such programming, that we are even more complex than the computers we use everyday, can make dealing with these programs head on that much easier.
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We are complex beings, both physically and energetically, and one of the only models we have to really understand the complexity is the computer. Much like the computer, we can be running many different programs and operating systems at any given time. Some of these are recent updates, positive affirmations that boost our energy fields. Sometimes there are very old programs, old hurts and traumas that are still running in the background, and could be affecting our lives negatively. Even more interesting is how we could be running programs from past lives, things that have stayed with our soul blueprint into this life, and could also be affecting us negatively. Personality is something we tend not to explore but rather accept us unique to each one of us. But where do these personalities spring from? Our programs. From this life, and our past lives. I also call this our magical heritage, the energy fields that make us multidimensional beings. But sometimes, not all the programs are helping us in this life.
It is important to recognize when you might be running bad programs. Often times it is when we are stuck. When we wake up in the morning and just don’t feel like doing much of anything. We know better, but it is just like running old programs on your computer: it slows you down, and it may be incompatible with who you are today. Don’t get lost in your programming. Explore it. Name it. Identify it. This will help bring distance between the true you, and the programming you may be running in the background.
Running bad programs is unique to each person. But recognizing that we have such programming, that we are even more complex than the computers we use everyday, can make dealing with these programs head on that much easier.
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Magical Friends, Part Two
After Jen and I walked the grounds at the Land of the Medicine Buddha in Soquel, CA (described in my previous blog post) we decided to have a little lunch. Little did I know at the time we would be hosting a special energetic guest over the course of our meal.
Every magical person has a special talent, and at this point in history, they may manifest many different abilities. This unusual plethora of abilities manifesting in younger magical people is part of what prompted me to write my first book, “Modern Magic: Reclaiming Your Magical Heritage.” All the spiritual books I had read focused exclusively on one thing: psychic abilities, divination, shamanism, etc. But what I was experiencing, and seeing others go through, was an explosion of latent magical abilities suddenly coming forward. When we embrace our magical heritage, explore our souls and bring credence to our past lives, so many wonderful things are possible. The ability that Jen has, that I do not share, is the ability to medium, or talk to those that have passed on and exist in a dimension very close to our own.
As we ate lunch we were talking about a client she was working with, where the spirit of his mother actually made contact with her, and she was prompted to communicate with her friend the messages his mother had for him. He was not someone that was particularly looking for this contact, but the messages Jen had for him brought him to tears, and brought him a personal contact with his mother, something he had not experienced for years. What we were discussing at length was to maintain integrity, how not to get too close to clients while still opening a channel of trust and compassion. We talked about it at length, and then I asked for something I had never even thought to ask Jen in all the years I’ve known her.
My father passed away when I was a child, over 20 years ago. Given that I believe in reincarnation, and believe the Other Side is a complex amalgamation of different dimensions and levels, I never thought to make contact with him via a medium because I was afraid he may be unreachable. Gone to far onto the Other Side, or maybe already reincarnated into another form. But, what I learned that day was that asking, just asking, is the key to opening up to any type of magic. I asked that we explore it someday, and no sooner had I asked, then Jen was relaying messages from my father to me.
She laughed and giggled a lot, and I knew it was him because my father had a great sense of humor. He played catchup in the time we had at lunch, telling me things I had always dreamed about, but always thought would never be possible. That he liked my partner. That he was proud of me. And personal revelations about my friends and family that showed me he has been hanging around and paying attention to the lives of those he loved most.
It may be weird. It may be unconventional. But it has brought me a tremendous amount of healing. To interact with my father again. And this is the gift that magic can bring into your life in any form. It shows us how compassionate the universe truly is, and how all things are always possible.
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Every magical person has a special talent, and at this point in history, they may manifest many different abilities. This unusual plethora of abilities manifesting in younger magical people is part of what prompted me to write my first book, “Modern Magic: Reclaiming Your Magical Heritage.” All the spiritual books I had read focused exclusively on one thing: psychic abilities, divination, shamanism, etc. But what I was experiencing, and seeing others go through, was an explosion of latent magical abilities suddenly coming forward. When we embrace our magical heritage, explore our souls and bring credence to our past lives, so many wonderful things are possible. The ability that Jen has, that I do not share, is the ability to medium, or talk to those that have passed on and exist in a dimension very close to our own.
As we ate lunch we were talking about a client she was working with, where the spirit of his mother actually made contact with her, and she was prompted to communicate with her friend the messages his mother had for him. He was not someone that was particularly looking for this contact, but the messages Jen had for him brought him to tears, and brought him a personal contact with his mother, something he had not experienced for years. What we were discussing at length was to maintain integrity, how not to get too close to clients while still opening a channel of trust and compassion. We talked about it at length, and then I asked for something I had never even thought to ask Jen in all the years I’ve known her.
My father passed away when I was a child, over 20 years ago. Given that I believe in reincarnation, and believe the Other Side is a complex amalgamation of different dimensions and levels, I never thought to make contact with him via a medium because I was afraid he may be unreachable. Gone to far onto the Other Side, or maybe already reincarnated into another form. But, what I learned that day was that asking, just asking, is the key to opening up to any type of magic. I asked that we explore it someday, and no sooner had I asked, then Jen was relaying messages from my father to me.
She laughed and giggled a lot, and I knew it was him because my father had a great sense of humor. He played catchup in the time we had at lunch, telling me things I had always dreamed about, but always thought would never be possible. That he liked my partner. That he was proud of me. And personal revelations about my friends and family that showed me he has been hanging around and paying attention to the lives of those he loved most.
It may be weird. It may be unconventional. But it has brought me a tremendous amount of healing. To interact with my father again. And this is the gift that magic can bring into your life in any form. It shows us how compassionate the universe truly is, and how all things are always possible.
Learn more with Modern Magic: Reclaiming Your Magical Heritage
Magical Heritage Musings
Author Matthew Krajewski shares his experience interacting with the world of spiritual energy.
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