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Hello, and thank you for listening, watching and or reading this. I appreciate it.

This is an unexpected, but long overdue podcast.

I am not Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist or any other religion. I am not a Satanist, a lucifieran, or Wiccan. I don’t identify with any of these.  Even the label Occultist makes me a cringe a little. I call myself this because that is the path I have chosen and it adds clarity to my work. In the end, I feel these labels are just that, labels. They box us into a set of belief systems. This alone is not necessarily a bad thing all the time. Many need the structure that some of these paths provide. When one declares ” I AM THIS” or ” I AM THAT” it conveys a sense of purpose and power. I get it, I’ve been there.

As one travels this path of spirituality, light or dark, you may encounter a time when you need to let all of it go. I don’t mean abandon it. What I mean is letting go of all the perceived notions of what it means to be on your particular path. To rethink what it all means, to rethink and question all those idolatrously worshiped notions of religion, magick, occultism. Ultimately ,every single path, be it left or right, calls us to look deeper and to transcend the iconography and the doctrines of the path we have chosen.  We get bound up in the complexity and beauty of the image and lose sight of what it really means.

I recall the time I followed a more “Jewish” path. I was at a stage in my life that was gripped with fear. However, in my heart and soul, I was a magician, a worshiper of the goddess.  A part of me thought that perhaps it was due to this that my father was sick. I know, it was irrational, but when you are faced with the death of a parent coupled with childhood religious indoctrination that you defy in your heart, the mix creates a toxic brew, that when distilled, releases a noxious miasma of guilt and uncertainty.  I struggled with these dueling aspects of myself because I was not mature enough to distill the ideas and remove the dogma from them. I was still new to the occult.

It was during this time I came across two very powerful teachings.

The first was from Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, a Rabbi who was truly a revolutionary in the religious Jewish tradition.   He said that sometimes a person, in order to understand the Torah, one must leave it for a time. This was a revolutionary idea; borderline sacrilege.

I then came across this next verse from the great mystic Meister Eckhart. He says, “I pray God to rid me of God”.  It was at this point that my eyes could read, and my ears could hear.

It was at this point when it hit me like a brick. The key to understanding is to let go of all understanding. To let go of everything we have been taught by the so-called establishment, be they religious institutions or occult ones. These establishments make us second guess our inner knowing because these so-called authority figures say we are wrong.

We ask ourselves – Who am I to question?  We look upon these institutions and take their words as sacrosanct.  NO, don’t do that. No one’s words are sacrosanct, not mine, not the church, not the temple, not the mosque. No one!

Follow your heart, follow you soul.  We who teach are giving you suggestions, not LAWS. Anyone who tells you that their method is the ONLY correct way is lying to you. Any institution that says you need to follow a prescribed rule of law is looking to enslave you.  If it doesn’t resonate with you, honor that.  No one has the right to question what you feel in your soul.

Think for yourself.  Question everything.   So Mote It Be.