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Slenderman reoccurring
I've been having some dreams of the internet-created entity Slenderman lately, one dream in particular struck me as being occult-y. I dreamt of Slenderman following me for a while, I was very scared by this. He had bright blue eyes, that was the only thing that stood out about his face. Eventually I was in a sunny gazebo-type of room, with a human form that I recognized to be Cthulhu, with a very curly long beard, haha. I already have a connection with Cthulhu, and he feels friendly to me whenever I meet him in dream. Slenderman and Cthulhu had a conversation about me that I cannot remember, and then shortly after I was defending myself from a crowd of people attacking me. I recognized myself to be male, and an archer, although I had no bow and arrow I still made the motions to "fire" at the people near me. I associate the archer aspect with my sort-of patron rune Algiz, I constructed a servitor around it previously. I'm not entirely sure what the significance of Slenderman in the dream is, or the general interpretation.
Last night I dreamt of researching Slenderman for occult related information, so I'm doing so now. I had a morbid curiosity with him ever since I came across the Marble Hornets videos, but it was nothing more than a passing interest. Lately he's been appearing more and more in passing, showing up in forums I frequent, being featured in a game I play, and I'm wondering if there's any way to benefit from his interest in me. I kind of classify him as an egregore, and I tend to follow a chaos magick approach when I do practice. I don't know much about him as an occult entity, or how to use the encounters. I realize that I fear him greatly and that could be a powerful tool if I could focus it in some direction. I'd like to turn this into a positive thing for me, it seems like a good opportunity to do something magick-related with it.
Last night I dreamt of researching Slenderman for occult related information, so I'm doing so now. I had a morbid curiosity with him ever since I came across the Marble Hornets videos, but it was nothing more than a passing interest. Lately he's been appearing more and more in passing, showing up in forums I frequent, being featured in a game I play, and I'm wondering if there's any way to benefit from his interest in me. I kind of classify him as an egregore, and I tend to follow a chaos magick approach when I do practice. I don't know much about him as an occult entity, or how to use the encounters. I realize that I fear him greatly and that could be a powerful tool if I could focus it in some direction. I'd like to turn this into a positive thing for me, it seems like a good opportunity to do something magick-related with it.
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13657-Slenderman-reoccurring&goto=newpost
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Greetings
Greetings and salutations.
I am Landra. The final answer to the question of who I am, is that I am the sum of my experiences.
I have actively practiced magic for eight years now, and have been surrounded by it all the twenty one years of my life. My gram is a christian witch, and my mother is her seventh child, both of them talented psychics.
I am eclectic pagan, and I walk the path of the medicine woman. I am not affiliated in any way with any existing tribal culture; rather I work with the same spirits as those who walked the path before me, I work with plants and their spirits, I work with personal power, and I call on the energies of the earth.
I am a practitioner of the dark arts, and my "great work" so to speak, is sharing with others the knowledge that dark and "evil" are not interchangeable. I use the darkness to heal and protect. The stars can only be seen at night.
I am a priestess of Hecate and Medusa, and huntress of Artemis.
My mate and I run a small business called Art of Creation, for the creations of hand, mind, and spirit. Therein we sell artwork in all media, various metaphysical accoutrements, as well as spellwork and various forms of healing.
I am also transgender, which I mention because it is relevant to my spiritual path. It is part of my identity, and I won't pretend otherwise.
May you find what you seek,
Landra
I am Landra. The final answer to the question of who I am, is that I am the sum of my experiences.
I have actively practiced magic for eight years now, and have been surrounded by it all the twenty one years of my life. My gram is a christian witch, and my mother is her seventh child, both of them talented psychics.
I am eclectic pagan, and I walk the path of the medicine woman. I am not affiliated in any way with any existing tribal culture; rather I work with the same spirits as those who walked the path before me, I work with plants and their spirits, I work with personal power, and I call on the energies of the earth.
I am a practitioner of the dark arts, and my "great work" so to speak, is sharing with others the knowledge that dark and "evil" are not interchangeable. I use the darkness to heal and protect. The stars can only be seen at night.
I am a priestess of Hecate and Medusa, and huntress of Artemis.
My mate and I run a small business called Art of Creation, for the creations of hand, mind, and spirit. Therein we sell artwork in all media, various metaphysical accoutrements, as well as spellwork and various forms of healing.
I am also transgender, which I mention because it is relevant to my spiritual path. It is part of my identity, and I won't pretend otherwise.
May you find what you seek,
Landra
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13656-Greetings&goto=newpost
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Magicians & Public Assistance?
I am not on disability or social security, but I am poor and I think you could use a little perspective.
I don't know how much your rent is, but I believe it's typical for rent (or a mortgage) to be the single largest bill a person has to pay each month. Many people spend as much as 1/3 - 1/2 of their monthly income on housing. Considering that your parents pay for this major expense and you are left with $650 each month, you are not that bad off. I don't know what kind of bills you have, but even if we assume high speed internet is a necessity (which it probably is not) and you spend $100 each week for food (which is pretty lavish for a single person, unless you expect to be eating steaks and caviar every night) you will still be left with $200 each month for whatever else you may have to pay. You may not be able to afford lease on a BMW or the unlimited data/talk/text plan for an iPhone, but you can put new clothes on your back a couple times each year and fill up the gas tank. Yes you will have to shop at Walmart.
For reference, I have lived on paychecks of $1000 - $1200 per month, and I was paying almost half of it out for rent/utilities.
My second point is about your sarcastic comment at the end about how much the government (or rather the taxpayers) gives you. Only in the last century (or less) have their been government programs in place for the purpose of systematically taking care of the disabled, elderly, and/or poor. You are pretty lucky to be living in such a time. Before then you would have to hope that your family, your church, or your community would take care of you, and in most cases they would not be able to give you enough to even be at the base poverty level. I keep emphasizing "give" because this is charity, not something you are entitled to. People at some point felt generous enough to develop programs to take care of you, and others consented to the notion of having their money redistributed to you. You should be glad you are at the "base poverty level" (which I believe, considering your family's contribution, you are actually above).
I don't know how much your rent is, but I believe it's typical for rent (or a mortgage) to be the single largest bill a person has to pay each month. Many people spend as much as 1/3 - 1/2 of their monthly income on housing. Considering that your parents pay for this major expense and you are left with $650 each month, you are not that bad off. I don't know what kind of bills you have, but even if we assume high speed internet is a necessity (which it probably is not) and you spend $100 each week for food (which is pretty lavish for a single person, unless you expect to be eating steaks and caviar every night) you will still be left with $200 each month for whatever else you may have to pay. You may not be able to afford lease on a BMW or the unlimited data/talk/text plan for an iPhone, but you can put new clothes on your back a couple times each year and fill up the gas tank. Yes you will have to shop at Walmart.
For reference, I have lived on paychecks of $1000 - $1200 per month, and I was paying almost half of it out for rent/utilities.
My second point is about your sarcastic comment at the end about how much the government (or rather the taxpayers) gives you. Only in the last century (or less) have their been government programs in place for the purpose of systematically taking care of the disabled, elderly, and/or poor. You are pretty lucky to be living in such a time. Before then you would have to hope that your family, your church, or your community would take care of you, and in most cases they would not be able to give you enough to even be at the base poverty level. I keep emphasizing "give" because this is charity, not something you are entitled to. People at some point felt generous enough to develop programs to take care of you, and others consented to the notion of having their money redistributed to you. You should be glad you are at the "base poverty level" (which I believe, considering your family's contribution, you are actually above).
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13667-Magicians-amp-Public-Assistance&goto=newpost
Magicians & Public Assistance?
I am not on disability or social security, but I am poor and I think you could use a little perspective.
I don't know how much your rent is, but I believe it's typical for rent (or a mortgage) to be the single largest bill a person has to pay each month. Many people spend as much as 1/3 - 1/2 of their monthly income on housing. Considering that your parents pay for this major expense and you are left with $650 each month, you are not that bad off. I don't know what kind of bills you have, but even if we assume high speed internet is a necessity (which it probably is not) and you spend $100 each week for food (which is pretty lavish for a single person, unless you expect to be eating steaks and caviar every night) you will still be left with $200 each month for whatever else you may have to pay. You may not be able to afford lease on a BMW or the unlimited data/talk/text plan for an iPhone, but you can put new clothes on your back a couple times each year and fill up the gas tank. Yes you will have to shop at Walmart.
For reference, I have lived on paychecks of $1000 - $1200 per month, and I was paying almost half of it out for rent/utilities.
My second point is about your sarcastic comment at the end about how much the government (or rather the taxpayers) gives you. Only in the last century (or less) have their been government programs in place for the purpose of systematically taking care of the disabled, elderly, and/or poor. You are pretty lucky to be living in such a time. Before then you would have to hope that your family, your church, or your community would take care of you, and in most cases they would not be able to give you enough to even be at the base poverty level. I keep emphasizing "give" because this is charity, not something you are entitled to. People at some point felt generous enough to develop programs to take care of you, and others consented to the notion of having their money redistributed to you. You should be glad you are at the "base poverty level" (which I believe, considering your family's contribution, you are actually above).
I don't know how much your rent is, but I believe it's typical for rent (or a mortgage) to be the single largest bill a person has to pay each month. Many people spend as much as 1/3 - 1/2 of their monthly income on housing. Considering that your parents pay for this major expense and you are left with $650 each month, you are not that bad off. I don't know what kind of bills you have, but even if we assume high speed internet is a necessity (which it probably is not) and you spend $100 each week for food (which is pretty lavish for a single person, unless you expect to be eating steaks and caviar every night) you will still be left with $200 each month for whatever else you may have to pay. You may not be able to afford lease on a BMW or the unlimited data/talk/text plan for an iPhone, but you can put new clothes on your back a couple times each year and fill up the gas tank. Yes you will have to shop at Walmart.
For reference, I have lived on paychecks of $1000 - $1200 per month, and I was paying almost half of it out for rent/utilities.
My second point is about your sarcastic comment at the end about how much the government (or rather the taxpayers) gives you. Only in the last century (or less) have their been government programs in place for the purpose of systematically taking care of the disabled, elderly, and/or poor. You are pretty lucky to be living in such a time. Before then you would have to hope that your family, your church, or your community would take care of you, and in most cases they would not be able to give you enough to even be at the base poverty level. I keep emphasizing "give" because this is charity, not something you are entitled to. People at some point felt generous enough to develop programs to take care of you, and others consented to the notion of having their money redistributed to you. You should be glad you are at the "base poverty level" (which I believe, considering your family's contribution, you are actually above).
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13666-Magicians-amp-Public-Assistance&goto=newpost
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Are you on Disability or Social Security?
I'm on Disability. I have general anxiety disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder.
I developed OCD when I was 16, after being anorexic for 2 years. I think I damaged my brain, and conditioned myself into a very ritualistic, phobic, life over weight. I was obsessed with necromancy and making myself look like a human skeleton. I was addicted to the feeling of being underweight and malnurished. I got down to 80 pounds, and was seriously thin for a 15 year old boy of above average height. The normal weight for my height and age group was 140, so I was 60 pounds underweight, enough to be hospitalized (but I wasn't, as I heavily manipulated my mom). I blacked out several times and this scared me enough to begin to gain weight, but healthily, more muscle than fat. So I altered my diet gradually and work out, and in a year and a half was at my normal weight and super in shape. My family called it a miracle, but I knew I was in control all along as I've always been smart and strong willed.
Anyway, the OCD appeared, and I was in hell. I asked my mom if I could start getting therapy to figure out what was wrong with me, and she agreed. I found out I had OCD and that I had on the scale, it very high. It consumed half my day or so, it was exausting.
I began cognitive therapy all the while beginning to study magick, and by the time I was in my early twenties I had reduced that very high scale to very low. I've taken quite a few different medications, and finally several years ago found the perfect drug and as a bonus at a very low dose.
One of the drugs I took though in my early to mid twenties, was Paxil. It worked ok on the OCD, but otherwise fucked me up. I had all kinds of side effects. When I discontinued the drug, it took over a year before I was not still feeling the effects of it. One of the things which appeared was a crippling anxiety disorder, where I had panic attacks near constantly. It got so bad that for a while I couldn't drive at all and couldn't ride in cars. I instantly had attacks because of the motion and confined quarters.
During this time, I got on Disability, and government medicine insurance plans, as my meds and psych visits were costing over 500 dollars a month, and my rich side of my family was paying for it all.
I'm now 28, going on 29 this August 24th, and I live alone with help from family and my Disibility I'm on. Unless I graduate from college with a high paying job, I'll probably always be on it (although your income level determines how much you get. I'm jobless, so I get $650 a month, which isn't much, after bills, food, high speed internet, and a little spending money, as my family pays for my rent (for now, it's temporary while I go to school)).
So are any of you on Disibility or SS, and if so, how do you like being poor? :) They really give us enough to actually live on huh? *Cough* At the base poverty level!
I developed OCD when I was 16, after being anorexic for 2 years. I think I damaged my brain, and conditioned myself into a very ritualistic, phobic, life over weight. I was obsessed with necromancy and making myself look like a human skeleton. I was addicted to the feeling of being underweight and malnurished. I got down to 80 pounds, and was seriously thin for a 15 year old boy of above average height. The normal weight for my height and age group was 140, so I was 60 pounds underweight, enough to be hospitalized (but I wasn't, as I heavily manipulated my mom). I blacked out several times and this scared me enough to begin to gain weight, but healthily, more muscle than fat. So I altered my diet gradually and work out, and in a year and a half was at my normal weight and super in shape. My family called it a miracle, but I knew I was in control all along as I've always been smart and strong willed.
Anyway, the OCD appeared, and I was in hell. I asked my mom if I could start getting therapy to figure out what was wrong with me, and she agreed. I found out I had OCD and that I had on the scale, it very high. It consumed half my day or so, it was exausting.
I began cognitive therapy all the while beginning to study magick, and by the time I was in my early twenties I had reduced that very high scale to very low. I've taken quite a few different medications, and finally several years ago found the perfect drug and as a bonus at a very low dose.
One of the drugs I took though in my early to mid twenties, was Paxil. It worked ok on the OCD, but otherwise fucked me up. I had all kinds of side effects. When I discontinued the drug, it took over a year before I was not still feeling the effects of it. One of the things which appeared was a crippling anxiety disorder, where I had panic attacks near constantly. It got so bad that for a while I couldn't drive at all and couldn't ride in cars. I instantly had attacks because of the motion and confined quarters.
During this time, I got on Disability, and government medicine insurance plans, as my meds and psych visits were costing over 500 dollars a month, and my rich side of my family was paying for it all.
I'm now 28, going on 29 this August 24th, and I live alone with help from family and my Disibility I'm on. Unless I graduate from college with a high paying job, I'll probably always be on it (although your income level determines how much you get. I'm jobless, so I get $650 a month, which isn't much, after bills, food, high speed internet, and a little spending money, as my family pays for my rent (for now, it's temporary while I go to school)).
So are any of you on Disibility or SS, and if so, how do you like being poor? :) They really give us enough to actually live on huh? *Cough* At the base poverty level!
Christina Oakley Harrington: Paganism in Britain Today
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I’m very pleased to present a lecture by Christina Oakley Harrington, founder of Treadwell’s Bookshop in London, a former Pagan Federation Committee member, and a former university lecturer in History. The talk: “Paganism in Britain Today: Observations, Issues, Trends” takes a snapshot of Pagan thinking and theology today. “Why are some pagans saying Paganism is [...]
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I’m very pleased to present a lecture by Christina Oakley Harrington, founder of Treadwell’s Bookshop in London, a former Pagan Federation Committee member, and a former university lecturer in History. The talk: “Paganism in Britain Today: Observations, Issues, Trends” takes a snapshot of Pagan thinking and theology today. “Why are some pagans saying Paganism is [...]
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Your favorite pop music videos, – Have you been dancing at the club?
Rihanna - S&M
Far East Movement, The Cataracs, & DEV - Like a G6
Here's a few to get started. I'm a metalhead and used to hate this shit, but fine women dance (and sometimes quite dirty ;) ) to this stuff at bars/clubs, so I've started to like some of it. :D
Far East Movement, The Cataracs, & DEV - Like a G6
Here's a few to get started. I'm a metalhead and used to hate this shit, but fine women dance (and sometimes quite dirty ;) ) to this stuff at bars/clubs, so I've started to like some of it. :D
[Article] Are you sure you are always on the planet earth? – Planeswalking as a phenomena
The ancient philosophers described the cosmos as being made of many planes, or layers. The physical world was just one of these.
I have for the past several years, been wondering if I indeed exist on a planet named earth in the physical universe, or if I drift between planes, especially while in meditation and the casting of magick.
This is not so far fetched. Many saints, masters, and gurus, and even shamans, have said to have visited the various heavens and hells while they were alive as physical men and women.
When I was younger I thought I was just projecting my consciousness, that is remote viewing or scrying as it was called in bygone ages, but in recent years the visions while in meditation and even in waking life (although more dim, and less senses engaged), have made me wonder how thin the veils between the worlds actually are.
Are we as physical as we think, and what is physical? Physical means to most to be bound to the laws of gravity, to move with legs, to grasp with arms, to have tissues which can be pierced by sharp objects and leak blood, but I wonder?
The planes are not so alien from one another as most seers like myself have observed them. Infact they are more dim or light, visually, and the "body," feels more free or constrained, depending upon how high or low one is among the planes, but there is land, sky, trees, buildings, etc, things very "physical," in all of them.
What do you think? Are you a physical man, like most of humanity believes, or a planeswalker, to borrow a great word from the card game, MtG?
I have for the past several years, been wondering if I indeed exist on a planet named earth in the physical universe, or if I drift between planes, especially while in meditation and the casting of magick.
This is not so far fetched. Many saints, masters, and gurus, and even shamans, have said to have visited the various heavens and hells while they were alive as physical men and women.
When I was younger I thought I was just projecting my consciousness, that is remote viewing or scrying as it was called in bygone ages, but in recent years the visions while in meditation and even in waking life (although more dim, and less senses engaged), have made me wonder how thin the veils between the worlds actually are.
Are we as physical as we think, and what is physical? Physical means to most to be bound to the laws of gravity, to move with legs, to grasp with arms, to have tissues which can be pierced by sharp objects and leak blood, but I wonder?
The planes are not so alien from one another as most seers like myself have observed them. Infact they are more dim or light, visually, and the "body," feels more free or constrained, depending upon how high or low one is among the planes, but there is land, sky, trees, buildings, etc, things very "physical," in all of them.
What do you think? Are you a physical man, like most of humanity believes, or a planeswalker, to borrow a great word from the card game, MtG?
Advanced Magick – Magecraft 201
I can only do a few of these, astral projection (through lucid dreaming, I can't project sucessfully while mediating), advanded necromancy (I once brought two dead insects back to life, but destroyed them, fearing them), time travel (I have seen the pasts and futures of humanity and other races, I have no idea if are actually real, and the general timeline of the cosmos, fairly indepth), occult healing (I haven't had a cold in 4 years strait, and have only seen a doctor a handful of times in my life, mostly as a kid) and physical alteration. Once while in intense mediation I saw my whole body shrink to the size of a small child. Was very lucid, and I swear it was physical and not psychological. I'm working on pyrokinesis, and I haven't visibly aged in 10 years, which may be good genes, or my lengthened lifespan/physical immortality working.
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13651-Advanced-Magick-Magecraft-201&goto=newpost
Group Project Tired.
I am desperately tired. I am at the end of my rope, and am doing everything I can do to heal the horrible cancers that are killing one of the only people I love. Please help any way you can.
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13650-Tired.&goto=newpost