Christmas Day Thoughts

As I sit here this morning, opening gifts with family, sipping spiced wine, and answering various texts and holiday wishes from family and friends, my mind goes wild with a million thoughts surrounding Christmas. Celebrated around the world in various forms or another, I can not help but think of the true origins of Christmas, its links to ancient pagan celebrations, the death of the sun and sun god, his resurrection, and how the fears of many around the world today obscure truth in many forms for fear of retribution. I think of impoverished families going without, war torn villages around the world, workers or service men spending holidays alone for the sake of corporate gain or military might. I think, in this moment, how as we wish for peace and good will for all of mankind within the safe confines of our homes and immediate families, the world around us still remains a dark and evil place. It will be, for one day it seems, as if time will stand still . How, for one day, we will believe, hope for, or accept that all is fine and dandy in the world when the notion of such an idea is the farthest from the truth. As we celebrate the birth of a saviour who would sacrifice everything for us, what sacrifices do we make this day for those who have nothing? As we exchange gifts, as corporations monitor profits over the past few weeks, or spoiled children and even adults pout over a gift they never received, I wonder what it would be like to reverse the idea of Christmas as we see it here in the western world? Or the world over for that matter. What if, simply for once, we could put our selfish desires aside and do something wonderful for a total stranger? Sure there are groups and organizations who make every possible effort to see that many families and children have a blessed holiday season, when they would otherwise do with out. As Governments, corporations, and wealthy elites seem to do everything in their power to prevent the smallest act of kindness from influencing a movement away from mass consumerism, why not make the holidays about others? What if for once, we all considered the less fortunate instead of ourselves? Good Samaritans are arrested for feeding the homeless, the homeless are driven from shelters and denied services that would enable a better way of life, families have benefits cut in the face of government cutbacks, school programs for underprivileged children abolished, fund raisers forbidden. The list of “bah humbugs” could go on forever. Yet, what if we simply accepted an idea that we as a people will change everything next year? Drastically. If, instead of allowing corporate media outlets (such as the web and television) to drive sales for items the general populace really doesn't need themselves, why don't we simply provide for others what they genuinely need? Like food, clothing, medicine, or perhaps even school courses,a job, or a book for a perfect stranger? Or better yet a bus pass? A library card? A bicycle? Things to enable and empower people when it seems the elite powers in the world would rob the less fortunate of every last bit of human dignity. Many will sit back and see the futility in such acts of kindness, believing the world is on a dead end course to Armageddon. Many believe they can do a small amount of good before they are delivered from this world by some divine second coming or alien invasion, leaving the rest to account for their lowly sins. Yet, we must live in the now, this moment, and realize we as a race hold the keys to “the second coming”. WE must become the dawning New Age through our actions and awaken the consciousness of love and acceptance that many Christ’s so passionately portrayed. We must forget our own wants and needs to consider the many, not just the few. So these were my thoughts this morning. Perhaps a new idea and extension of my rapidly expanding world? A new idea for a non-profit organization? A new idea for a massive movement? Perhaps. Lets simply take the time in the next eleven months to watch those in the world around us, and consider things that we may contribute to enable others, empower them, and change lives instead of contributing to our own material desires. Christmas doesn't have to only come once a year; it really should happen everyday. In our hearts, our thoughts, and actions. It is only by consciously awakening to the reality that WE can make drastic change in the world over night, that we can undo the evil that many men and organizations seek to dispense upon humankind. Acts of love, selflessness, and kindness can and will become the magick that saves us from certain destruction. We ARE God, we can change the world, we can heal the world, and we can rapture this world to a new plane of loving existence. Brightest Blessings to everyone this holiday season. Let us consider making it a bright day everyday hencforth, and especially for those who truly could benefit from our actions. "For what soever you shall sow, that also shall you reap."

Greetings to New Friends

I can hardly believe it has been over three years since my last post here. I actually forgot I had a blog, and was lucky to be able to access it once again. In thinking of ways to engage a slowly growing audience in the wake of releasing my first book, I thought it best to use this avenue to reach out, and share a few things about myself, and give a bit of background and insight into the book. The book is a sort of auto-biography detailing my slow evolution from a mindless, spiritual zombie to a fiery phoenix and avid occultist. While I recount many personal hurdles, trials, abandoning the Christian faith of my childhood, and even finding the love of a lifetime-I have also mixed in a bit of humour, cynicism, occult instruction, theory and philosophy. If you have ever doubted your Christian faith or even wished to glimpse the "other side", this book is for you. I have also gone to great lengths to discuss evil, and how our perceptions and fears shape what many would call our "Weltanschauung", or world view. Ditching my Christian faith in favour of a seemingly rebellious path has in many ways become a badge of honour. By doing so I came to face my fears of the unknown, and immediately began to understand that much of what we fear in the world is simply the product of indoctrination and of our own conscious creation. Many are unwilling to simply walk away from lifelong views and perceptions simply because another person says its ok. I was a prisoner of that trap once. Galatians 6:7-9 states: "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." As a former Christian I understand the numerous scriptures warning against false prophets, being misled by the wicked, bearing false witness, etc. It is enough to make even those who have sat on the fence their entire life choose the easy way out. Yet, one would have to wonder at the numerous paradoxes found in everyday life; the ability of "unsaved" heathens to bestow acts of love and kindness upon others, seemingly heathen people who are happy and blessed, or even the witch or shaman who could heal another in a selfless act of charity. As the verse states " whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life." We simply take for granted the scriptures tell us the one and only spirit we should please is God himself. Yet, if we look much deeper into the allegorical and hidden possibilities by placing our own spirit within the context of the scriptures, the meaning takes on an entirely new light. If we are created in the "image of God", could it not mean the spiritual image and not the physical? This would constitute our birthrights as creative and highly energetic, spiritual beings. While thoughts of evil and Satan would keep many locked into the status-quo of indoctrinated thinking, how then could many of the religious right justify acts of love, charity, and kindness on the part of the lost, heathen, so called diabolical or unsaved? Are the influences of Satan so limited in this world as to allow the unsaved and lost the ability to love and be selfless? This would equate to the influences of Satan himself being at least partially responsible for acts of charity among the countless lost souls in the world. A conundrum for the faithful for which they may be hard pressed to find answers. It is a situation that befits the descriptive phrase " all is not as it seems in this world", and that which challenges our conscious perceptions of reality. Perhaps it was the cryptic words of Christ which eluded to the deeper mysteries which he intended us to see and lie just below the surface of our perceptions; "If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace--but now it is hidden from your eyes." ( Luke 19:42) It has become my journey and cause to share these mysteries to those who have questions, doubts, and concerns. There will be no retribution, no hell, no judgement, and no separation from God or Spirit by questioning the world around you, or your faith. We were taught that God turned his back on us because of sin, causing a divide between God and mankind. As children of the Light we have that very Light within us; it never left. Our perceptions were divided by those who sought to control the masses through manipulating the scriptures, and feeding us lie upon lie. Within the darkness there is a light to be sought which hold the depths of understanding and wisdom. For without this darkness, there would be no Light, or the journey to behold it.