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Work With Your Body Instead of Against it

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January 30, 2015

Work With Your Body Instead of Against it

“The body and mind are inextricably connected; and the former is a physical manifestation of the latter-what we feel, what we repetitively think of and believe about ourselves-what we deserve: health, life and ease or struggle and a slow death.” ~ Amy Jalapeno

Our bodies are so good to us yet we often fail to recognize this. Our legs and arms help us to move, our hearts pump blood, and our lungs breathe in oxygen, without even the slightest conscious thought that they are doing so, and we so often take these things for granted.

In fact, if anything, instead of appreciating our body for the amazing machine that it is, we talk negatively towards it. We critique, judge, and compare our bodies against this version of the “perfect body” we have concocted based on what society has told us we “should” look like.

We compare our version of health against what we see in the magazines and on TV, only to become completely ashamed and disappointed in ourselves that we just aren’t measuring up. Many people use this criticizing of themselves as the motivating force to start a new healthy lifestyle.

They attempt to fuel their change by the hatred they feel towards themselves. They punish the unworthy and “not good enough” selves by going on diets or by forcing themselves to exercise. The underlying belief is they are not worthy, they are imperfect, or even that they are unattractive and they need to struggle and try to be something that they feel will make them more valued and accepted as a person.

But, is it possible that all this comparison and critiquing of ourselves is actually the LAST thing that is going to bring about a feeling of health and well-being in our physical form? Is the negative self talk and belief that we aren’t good enough actually the one thing that is ensuring that our bodies stay exactly that…not good enough?

“Every negative belief weakens the partnership between mind and body.” ~ Deepak Chopra

Our body is an ever-evolving process of our beliefs about it. Since we are not our bodies, but the conscious awareness that is driving it, we have the power to change our bodies by changing our beliefs.

In order to effectively work WITH our bodies to bring about a healthier us, we must first change our perspective of ourselves. The subconscious beliefs that we have formed over time about what our body is or what it is not is what feeds into every cell of our body.

If we think of the body as our pet or our child we can see how the constant criticism of our bodies can never lead to better health. If you tell a child how bad he/she is, how he/she is not good enough, needs to change in order to be like so and so, or looks terrible, what attributes do you think the child will begin to act out? The child will live up to your expectations of him/her, and also our bodies will do the same.

Yes, maybe we can hate ourselves in to changing short term. We may start a diet only to quit after a couple weeks, or we may start a workout program only to give up on that too. But the body can never truly give us the long lasting results we desire if the subconscious belief is that it is not good enough.

Our physical form will naturally go back to reinforcing whatever belief we have about it. As with all things, we must shift our perspective to acceptance and gratitude before our external reality will start to print out what our internal self believes.

So even though loving ourselves or appreciating our bodies may be the last thing we want to do when we feel like we need to change something about our bodies, it is the only thing that will bring about the changes we desire… and make them stay.

A complete acceptance, honoring and appreciating everything our body does for us will shift our energetic vibration into that of love, which is always a much healthier place for each molecule of our body to reside in. And not only will we see better results in how we look, but we also will notice changes in how we feel.

If the belief is that we are healthy and that our body is working for us in the most effective and efficient way possible, our body will begin to act out these attributes, which means less illness and sickness.

“You’ve been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” ~ Louise Hay

Although we are not our bodies, they are the vessel we have been given to inhabit while we are here. The way our bodies feel and how we feel towards them plays a huge part in our overall life experience.

When we feel good about ourselves, we naturally live a better, happier and more fulfilling life. Accept yourself exactly as you are now. Appreciate your body for everything it does for you. Tell your body you love it and you honor it.

When we get in touch with our bodies and we love them, we find that we naturally want to start eating healthier more nutritious foods… not because we are punishing ourselves but because those foods make us feel nourished yet light.

We may also naturally want to exercise or look to more holistic forms of medication because we have become in tune with how we feel that we realize that these things make us feel better.

In the complete acceptance and love of who we are now and what we look like now, we find that our body becomes our friend and ally versus something we need to punish and control. It begins working FOR us, and the results we desire happen as a natural result of changing our beliefs and ideas about it.

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When Cultures Clash: Dissolving Fear of the Other

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Lauren

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January 29, 2015

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When Cultures Clash: Dissolving Fear of the Other

“The world doesn’t change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.” ~ Terry Hayes

The human ailment of not being able to accept the ‘other’ spans countries and ideologies alike. To categorize differences under labels such as religion and culture with the assumption that we will all leave each other well alone only seems to exacerbate them, for we will always come up against those who deeply uproot, even threaten our beliefs and attachments to them.

So surely a more healing way then, is to focus on ways to deal with other’s fear and ultimately begin to work on the fear within ourselves. As every traveler will know, these differences inevitably come up when arriving and spending time in a foreign country, and expose just how deep those roots really delve, particularly when those differences are worlds away from our own perceptions.

This applies to every country, and can often be called nationalism, or prejudice, but the one thing we can always rely on is that one will always come across it and probably be the target of a fair few assumptions and harmful stereotypes that the people throw our way.

It is a tough but fantastic lesson in confronting the ego within oneself, but also the conditioning that helped shape it. It’s not an accident that they say traveling will make you wiser.

For one thing, living in or visiting a foreign country shines a light on other’s conditioning perfectly. When others are acting on what they have learnt from an outside source rather than from their inner voice, you can spot it a mile off.

Just witnessing the unraveling of this painful truth in others can be enlightening for oneself. You become blessed with an eye for locating the moments you are acting from your own conditioning, and are able to work towards becoming a more genuine and authentic person.

The first essential step, as with any energy vampirism, is to block their negativity towards you. Before you can begin to understand it you must get that bad stuff out of you and study any personal wounds it touched. Many are able to do this seamlessly, but for others it will trigger old feelings of inferiority, and there’s nothing like feeling inferior as being a guest on another person’s patch of this earth.

With extremely different cultures to our own we need to educate ourselves about them. We need to understand the roots. For example, in certain religions, particular things are central that, though linked to general good manners and polite conduct, are worth knowing about in order to see things from other’s perspective and can explain how others are seeing you.

Cleanliness, mindfully not wasting food and water, not raising your voice in public and dressing modestly are but to mention a few. It doesn’t help anyone to compromise your own beliefs – for example eating meat when you are against it – for the sake of ‘respecting’ another’s culture… which incidentally IS a big part of many cultures across the globe.

But being aware of the important factors can avoid making unnecessary waves. Understanding that others believe in these things out of good intentions as well as their upbringing. They want to be good people and believe that this is the way to do it.

One way to help build bridges and loving kindness is being an example for other travelers and ‘visitors’. An example in Turkey, where I currently live, is that it is good to share any food when eating in public with people (especially children) around you. Knowing that this is important to the people, and it being a nice thing to do anyway can help shatter other’s stereotype of ‘your’ people.

In seeing you do this will add to their positive experiences. If they see a foreigner doing something ‘bad’ they will never forget it and use it to fuel their fear, probably spreading it to others, whereas if they see them doing something good it will cause them to change their perceptions, possibly forever.

Getting deeper into the murky territory of when others simply believe that ‘my religion or culture is right, and yours is wrong’ can become more challenging. This usually reverts us back to our primal fears on a subconscious level; of our own ‘sins’ and being held accountable for them. Disgust at human behaviour reflects our disgust at ourselves and in many people’s religion or upbringing, this intense aversion has been put in place to keep them from temptation.

One such example is the eastern European and Middle Eastern belief in the ‘evil eye’ and is a feared form of energy vampirism. Understand that certain cultures have this belief in such bad energy, and that they are doing it coupled with a greeting because they are defending themselves against the unknown.

The stranger in many cultures is constantly feared – both amongst their own people and when confronted with a foreigner. It is also employed readily to protect family members; particularly younger ones and is taught from an early age so that one may be able to deflect other’s ‘evil eye’, which can encompass anything from being upset when left out of an exchange, to the non-verbal communication to stay away – this person is not one of us and is to be feared.

Having compassion for that person’s belief and an understanding of the good intentions behind it is the next layer after not taking it personally. Mirroring, not what another is doing in response to your presence in fear of the unknown, but doing the opposite to them in order to draw attention to the negativity within their actions is the next.

This is difficult because like attracts like, and this can be a rebellious act. However, as long as the anger and personal feelings within oneself are fully dissolved and dealt with, it will always work.

Speaking the language of love and raising oneself above their negative vibrations will drown out their negativity. It’s almost like a trap we set one another; falling into other people’s projections onto you helps no-one, and it is the ego that wants to pull you in to prove itself right.

Blocking this effectively and reacting to it with light is what most religious prophets as well as leaders such as Gandhi are said to have done, and is actually a very high calling when mastered properly. It is a rare gift of those who have mastered true interaction. It is the only way to melt another’s darkness on the spot.

This can be especially effective when working out who is a true ‘believer’ in their own fear, and who is not. Children or those who have yet to be fully tarnished with the conditioning of a society or culture can also help the older ones in recognizing their own prejudices.

In very closed societies the sad thing is the influence over younger generations, and speaking openly and directly to those who are being dominated and taught other’s fear makes an unbreakable connection with those who – though outwardly may play the part – may inwardly have yet to make up their mind.

They will be influenced by and remember you. In this way you are not influencing them to ‘think’ one way or another (the temptation that might lead them astray) but speaking directly to their own free will and offering a more open minded, and loving approach to the unknown.

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Manifesting Our Desires: The Ancient Art of Witchcraft

Culture

Lauren

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January 28, 2015

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Manifesting Our Desires: The Ancient Art of Witchcraft

“And when we introduce an intention in the fertile ground of pure potentiality, we put this infinite organizing power to work for us.” ~ Deepak Chopra

We are all familiar with the ancient practice of witchcraft; either through the history books of folk religion and paganism, or through the negative and sometimes violent connotations of modern witchdoctors, child abuse and scandal.

Whatever its taboos and labels, the broad spectrum of witchcraft and our associations with it often miss the one vital connection that lies at its midst: the art of manifestation.

The accusation of witches; both historically and in the present day across the globe as it is with blasphemy is often caused by jealousy and begins as small-scale arguments within tight-knit communities.

But do such malicious magic users really exist? If, like Deepak Chopra states, an intention has that much power as to spring forth into the realms of reality and realization, then it’s certainly possible.

In modern day Turkey as well as many other countries in the region, the majority of people still recognize the good luck charm of the Ancient Egyptian ‘Evil Eye-Protector’ to protect against looks of jealousy as well as desire, or ‘liking someone that little bit too much’.

These charms protect the household, or are worn as amulets to protect against negative energy for infants and children in particular or generally from having ones energy drained.

The problem of exorcism and the beliefs circulating in many Christian African churches – whether instigated by charlatans looking for a quick buck or not – still inspire the imaginations of those fearful of the Devil and his grip on the innocent.

Can negative intentions really have that much effect on us or are external factors only welcomed when the law of attraction has come into play?

“Malicious magic users can become a credible cause for disease, sickness in animals, bad luck, sudden death, impotence and other such misfortunes.” Says Wikipedia on the subject, as well as to point out that witchcraft may have originated as a fiction of the Christian faith – “Works such as Milton’s Paradise Lost were described anew by romantics who suggested that they presented the biblical Satan as an allegory representing crisis of faith, individualism, free will, wisdom and enlightenment.”

As we all know, religion and its hand in power and money has, for centuries, obscured the true message of most faiths, instead striking fear into the hearts of the worshiper in order to bring about servitude and manipulate the common people.

It’s no wonder then that witchcraft has been a convenient accusation to send a further ripple of fear through communities, setting people against each other and in the opposite direction to spiritual trust and love for one another.

That said there’s no harm in protecting oneself, through energy shields and energy preservation. From noting when a person is draining you, to outright steering clear of energy vampires and those with a curiosity in the ‘dark side’.

Unlike the beliefs of the Turkish, I doubt that a single glance can cause illness in babies or the elderly, and it is probably these beliefs that attract such problems in the first place, rather than the accuracy of the fear.

Negativity aside, there is another possibility when it comes to the historical claims made against thousands of men and women in the dark ages of England and America, as well as the countless examples of neighborhood, hedgerow and ‘sociable’ witches that proliferate many storybooks and personal encounters.

Manifesting our intentions, either by accident, or by careful spell casting and/or ritual in relation to astrology and moon cycles, appealing to the right God or Goddess and using the right cocktail of herbs and crystals is an ancient art that probably dates back to the birth of man (and woman) kind.

Whether witches were simply people more in touch with their inner voice and spiritual potential, or special folk who had a unique calling to nature and understanding of alchemy and star-gazing, their wisdom has served many a satisfied customer from thousands of years.

And as with many religious rituals, the crucial factor of manifesting anything lies – not in the words spoken, quality of athame and goblet, nor clothes or lack of them worn – but in the intention behind the spell. And it is in that, and that alone that cuts the diamonds from the rough in terms of a successful magical practitioner and the degree of good karma they might be making.

We always have the option to use, or ‘manipulate’ the energies around us to our advantage, even when they are seemingly harmful. An ‘attack’ may be a reminder to protect ourselves more heavily, but more often than not, attracting that which we would like to bring about is as simple as asking the universe for it in or out of ritual, doing visualizations, and positively trusting in the inexplicable but purposeful design to turn itself to our favor. The lighter the attachment to the outcome and the degree of humor we lend the whole process the better.

For those who are entirely new to witchcraft and the role it might play in our lives, here are six signs that you may already be a witch:

1. Your wishes often come true. When I was pregnant with my first child, when I got my first piece of writing published, when I wished upon a star as a child and longed for more books on the subject of witchcraft: Each are examples of when my ‘magical’ belief in wishes actually turned into the act of manifesting my desires.

It only happens when the intention is positive and from the heart, without any fear of failure or aching for a specific outcome. If it regularly happens to you then you may already be a practiced witch.

2. You’ve always felt a deep connection with nature. From early on you noticed you were drawn to the countryside and were quite at ease with spending long hours by a river or in a field. In fact, you miss it and can feel unsettled when ‘away’ from nature for a long time. You prefer the countryside to the city and like walking or spending time with animals.

3. You are able to tell when someone is lying or not. You reveal other’s truths to them whether you mean to or not and can often upset people or make them uncomfortable by the ‘pureness’ of your presence.

You will always uproot a liar and can see straight through any small talk to the heart of the matter. This can often be difficult as you have this gift to help others but can often take on others energy, just as an empath might.

4. You have or desire anything but a ‘normal’ career. Making money in a 9-5 mundane job is your idea of hell unless it is ritualistic and pure in intention, connects you with the earth or leads you to help people. Earning your keep by exploiting or tricking people is not on your agenda and you hate working for people who have this kind of attitude.

5. You have a good sense of your past lives or reincarnations. Prophetic dreams, flickers of ancient memories and déjà vu are all signs you have been here before if not many times and are an old soul. While we might all be ‘old souls’ you are more connected with these incarnations and the veil between you and other worlds/differences in time are thinner than your average person.

6. And finally: Psychic ability. Knowing who’s on the other end before you pick up the phone, seeing people’s auras and intentions better than they can, even having an inclination to future events or seeing ghosts, you are drawn to one or more divination tools or have simply had such gifts since you were a child.

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Making Your Darkness “Conscious”

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Nikki Sapp

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January 27, 2015

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“Darkness has no existence of its own, it is only the absence of light. When the light is present, how can its absence also be there?” ~ Osho

No amount of darkness can survive in a room full of light. However, you can take the light from a single candle and light a room full of darkness. It is this analogy that we can see that light need not be “afraid” of darkness.

All the light needs to do is be present and darkness goes fleeing. But what does all this mean for us?

All it takes is a click on to the nightly news to see that there are people who endure terrible things in this world. Wars are being fought, murders are happening, there are people living in poverty and people getting sick with disease.

It is no wonder that some people become angered and offended when you suggest to them that only love exists, that darkness and evil are not real and technically everything is God.

“How can you say that evil is not real?!” they ask. We live in an infinite Universe. If we think of the Universe like a dimmer switch to turn on the light in a room, we can get a clearer idea of how darkness, is not really its own entity at all. It is simply a measurement of light (or lack thereof).

Think of a dimmer switch that goes on for infinity both ways. The part that you push towards the light just goes on forever and ever getting lighter, and the same goes for the side that you push towards the darkness.

And although our human minds may name something as “evil”, technically no level of darkness can survive completely devoid of the light. And all it takes is the light of awareness to show us that no darkness can exist in the presence of our awareness of it.

At a certain point, one might ask the question, “If God is real and all powerful how does he let such terrible things happen to people?” Which leads us to ponder the question, “why do we even NEED darkness in this world?”

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” ~ OG Mandino

There is no one on this Earth who has lived a life completely devoid of fear, anger, sadness, etc… To some extent or another we have all had our own personal uphill battles.

For those who have made it through their challenges to the other side of fear, they will tell you that when one has experienced the “darkness” it makes the light seem that much more amazing.

How can we truly experience gratitude if we have only known pleasant experiences?

While some would love to focus only on the perceived “enemy”, (which may come in any number of forms the government, the elite, the rich, the poor, to name a few) as the source of “evil” and darkness in this world, the only thing that one really does is wastes time focusing on something that we may not have the power to change in the present moment. There is only one person we have the power to change in any given moment and that is ourselves.

In order to bring light to this world we must first make our own unconscious (where darkness resides) conscious (the light of our awareness.) As Carl Jung, put it, “one does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

To do this we must become fully aware of what is happening to us internally. Instead of pretending our “dark” spaces don’t exist, by denying them, trying to stuff them down further into our subconscious, or blaming them on other people, we must bring them into the light. We must only be aware of them, observe them without judgment.

If we observe our anger without judging it as “good” or “bad”, observe our fear without trying to run from it, we essentially become the candle in the middle of a dark room. The only thing keeping our shadow aspects alive is the fact that we have become accustomed to denying them. In the light of our awareness they cannot exist.

Our conscious awareness of the darkness inside of our own selves brings about a complete surrender and acceptance of the ‘what is’. Not only that, but we soon learn to love our darkness, because we see that it can teach us too. Without our perceived darkness, we don’t get the pleasure of the human experience.

The full range of emotions is one of the gifts we are able to experience by seeing the world through the viewpoint of a human body and mind. What a travesty it would be if we did not get to experience the pleasure of moving through our perceived pain.

It doesn’t mean we “deny” darkness, or turn our heads and pretend that it does not exist, it only means we experience it fully without judgment. At this point we realize that we are the light.

The more we embody our own conscious presence and light we become the change we wish to see in the world. As we change, the world around us begins to change too. And then we realize the only thing keeping the darkness around was the fact that we believed it existed in the first place.

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Gray Jedi and the Subtle Art of Gray-walking: Jester Guru Chronicles, Part 5

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Gary Z McGee

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January 27, 2015

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Gray Jedi and the Subtle Art of Gray-walking: Jester Guru Chronicles, Part 5

“Doing as others told me, I was blind. Coming when others called me, I was lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found everyone, myself as well.” ~ Rumi

In Star Wars mythology there is a sect of Jedi known as Gray Jedi who walk the razor-sharp line between the light and the dark side of the force. The title is used to refer to unorthodox or dissident Jedi who did not meet the strictest requirements of being either a Jedi (light side) or a Sith (dark side).

Gray Jedi are vigilante Jedi who tread the periphery of the force by manipulating loopholes and taking advantage of gray areas pertaining to myopic black and white justice.

Gray Jedi are walking, talking, force-wielding, Middle Way, renegade yin-yangs moving against the currents of the extreme piety on both sides of the force—and in the face of these two behemoths, they surf the waves of nihilism toward the eternal power of sacred humor.

Gray Jedi can be a powerful metaphor that we can use to shine light into darkness, set fire to high-horses, and curtail the extremism of our time.

The main function of a Gray Jedi is to puncture the ego of power by reminding the powers that be of their own fallibility, while also reminding those who are not in power that power has the potential to corrupt absolutely if not balanced by other forces. They poke holes in things that other Jedi take too seriously.

They create a cultural dissonance born from their gray-walking strategy, from which anxiety is free to collapse on itself into a humor of the most high. It is precisely the evolution of this high humor that leads a Gray Jedi to his/her mastery of the force: assuming the form of the Jester Jedi.

They declare to all users of the force, “Gray-walking doesn’t mean out of control; it means out of their control.”

Jester Jedi takes the power of the middle-gray to the next level: Cosmic humor. Jester Jedi laugh at all things, with a humor of the most high, backed up with a power in the force that would make Loki curl up into a ball and cry.

They are Gray-walkers par excellence, blurring the lines drawn between black and white, between love and hate, between light and shadow, between masculine and feminine, between Apollonian and Dionysian. They are the trickster-gods of the force, the sacred shamans of the Jedi order, tapping the power between opposites, while laughing at the cosmic joke of life in order not to be the butt-end of it.

They embrace the esoteric power of shamanism, paraphrasing Alberto Villoldo: “The shaman (Jester Jedi) demands that you take your own steps with courage, compassion, and vision. The priest (Jedi and the Sith) is interested only in answers; the shaman (Gray Jedi or Jester Jedi) is more interested in provoking you to ask the questions that will lead you into paradox and duality.

The task of the shaman (Jester Jedi) is not to pursue meaning but to create it, to bring the sacred to an otherwise profane and mundane reality. That takes a daily act of courage and a willingness to make mistakes.” Jester Jedi are willing to make mistakes, and through those mistakes they become wise beyond the limited value-structure of their Light or Dark side counterparts.

Jester Jedi are the personification of trial and error by fire and laughter. They personify “rolling-with-the-punches,” knowing intuitively what Darwin surmised years ago when he said, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor is it the most intelligent. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”

They realize that the primary force within adaptability is having a good sense of humor. They understand that the real enemy isn’t the dark or light side, republican or democrat, Muslim or Christian.

No, the true enemy is extremism. They laugh at this extremism. They mock this extremism. They even count coup on this extremism. They do it through acts of high humor: civil-disobedience, non-violent acts of resistance against tyranny. And they don’t care who they piss off. They understand, as William Blake did, “If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise.”

Moderation through a good sense of humor is the key. In between the cracks of light and dark, in the shadows and within the brightest lights, Jester Jedi discover the profound secret of the self: impermanence. And they roll with this impermanence.

Like Carl Rogers said, “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

Jester Jedi are willing to give up what they are in order to become what they must. Whether they were once a Jedi Master or a Sith Lord, they give it up; they let it go in order to maintain a balance (both personal and universal) within the force.

They don’t fear change, they change fear through the power of a fluid and adaptable sense of humor. It’s all just one big giant metaphor anyway, and the Jester Jedi are riding that metaphor like a cosmic hover bike through time, unbound by the past, present, or future boundaries that limit other Jedi, as they have mastered the ultimate power hidden within the force: imagination. Just as “nothing can stop an idea whose time has come,” nothing can stop a Jester Jedi whose time has come.

No so-called Jedi Master or shortsighted Sith Lord can possibly fathom the power of a Jester Jedi, because where the typical Jedi and Sith practice within boundaries, the Jester Jedi practice stretching those boundaries toward greater and greater horizons, using both light and dark sides of the force, blending them into an intoxicating and liberating middle-gray.

Jester Jedi are reaching through space and time, through the boundaries of mythology, into our world, begging us to stop worrying about good and bad, happy and unhappy, light and shadow. They are advising us to go beyond good and evil, to move past the immature structures of the parochial past, and to look outside the outdated box of our forefathers.

They are the perennial mystics of the cosmos and they need our help. Don’t drown in the polluted, militant waters of our time. Rise up into the fresh air of a more profound way to be a human being in this universe: cosmically humorous.

Like Joseph Campbell said, “The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”

Such delight awaits us all, we need only laugh, and laugh hard, at all the gods and men we’ve propped up into positions of power.

We need only laugh so hard that the vibration resonates at such a frequency that it topples their high-horses to the ground, and leaves their false authority a mere puddle of mud beneath our feet. Yoda (overly, self-righteous good) & Darth Sidious (diabolical evil) be damned.

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Manifesting Our Desires: The Ancient Art of Witchcraft

For those who are entirely new to witchcraft and the role it might play in our lives, here are six signs that you may already be a witch:

Making Your Darkness “Conscious”

Gray Jedi and the Subtle Art of Gray-walking: Jester Guru Chronicles, Part 5

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