I wrote the following article after listening to a podcast of an interview with William Henry on Coast to Coast AM radio. You can read more and see some of the amazing artwork at William Henry’s website, www.williamhenry.net. The interview was based on William’s latest book called The Secret of Sion. I have not read the book yet but plan to as soon as time will allow. All information in this article is from the interview with William Henry.

The word sion means peace or place of peace. Some see it as a synonym of Jerusalem, specifically Solomon’s temple in Jerusalem. In Judeo-Christian traditions, Sion is generally thought of as the world to come, a millennial age, the new earth, the new Jerusalem and is seen as an awakened world, a bridge world that represents the fulfillment of all our hopes, dreams, and desires.

Much of Williams’ research is based on Gnostic teachings. Gnosticism is not a religion but a group of esoteric researchers seeking very specific knowledge found in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, India and so on. The foundation for the Gnostic’s beliefs were based on three metaphysical teachings:

1. We all have a divine spark within us that comes from the Universe itself. This divine spark manifests the human body as a vehicle for earthly exploration.

2. According to the Gnostics our goal on earth is to reconnect with our higher self, sometimes called our heavenly twin, the angelic self, the light being. This higher self seeks to give us a light garment, the robe of glory.

3. Once we are awakened to the reality of our divine spark and the possibility of putting on this garment of light, then the higher self wants to connect us to what the Gostics call the pillar of light, the column of glory, or Christ column. This column was thought of as a conduit, an interstellar transportation system linking the earth with Sion. The Gnostics believed Sion was the center of the Milkyway galaxy.

The Gnostics believe that Sion is inhabited by advanced human beings referred to as Humans Made Perfect. They describe Sion as a dimensional plane of existence rather than a physical place. The center of our galaxy may very well be a gateway or portal to Sion.

Ancient writings talk about how we had the ability to beam ourselves around the cosmos. What we are seeing with the UFOs today is really low tech and is only about a 100 years in advance of where we are today. The light beings from Sion are a race of super advanced beings and are way beyond our conception of technology. These are spiritual beings.

The Tibetans talk about something called The Great Perfection. In Tibet they have a teaching they claim came from extraterrestrials and it says that our human body is in an inter-phasic realm, in between where we came from as divine sparks and where we’re ultimately going to as light beings. When we perfect our body we spin it into a vortex of light and radiate rays of light called a rainbow body by the Tibetans. This is a capability within all of us but the problem is we’re all like the caterpillar looking up at the butterfly and we’re saying, “You’ll never get me up in one of those things!”

Jesus achieved his light garment or light body after his baptism into the cosmic energy referred to as the Holy Spirit. He then starts performing miracles and his appearance is described as glowing rays. They described him as being in glory. Then after his crucifixion, Jesus dematerializes and rematerializes over a dozen times.

In the Secret Book of John, one of the Gnostic gospels, John was out in the desert contemplating on who Jesus really was. Then suddenly the heavens open and Jesus appears as a being of light. This also happened at Jesus’ baptism, at the crucifixion, and it happened numerous times in the New Testament. Today we don’t call them holes in heaven but rather stargates or wormholes. The art work accompanying the Gnostic text makes it very clear that we’re seeing a being of light beaming from place-to-place via these stargates.

Other traditions talk about perfect light humans and it refers to these as humans who have put on a garment of light. They have the ability to materialize in physical form and dematerialize. The Medici family, during the Renaissance, spent an enormous amount of money in search of corpus hermeticum (http://www.hermetics.org/pdf/corpushermetica.pdf) of the ancient secrets of Egypt detailing exactly how a person could transform themselves into a being of light. Then they hired master painters to encode their findings in the artwork of the Renaissance.

According to research done on this subject it is said that anyone can achieve this light body in one life time. However, there is evidence that we have been trying to develop the ability to transform our physical body into a light body over many life times. It may be that at this time the door will open with the help of the procession of the equinox where our solar system lines up with the center of the galaxy.

According to these ancient traditions there seems to be a cord, rope, or wormhole that links earth with the center of the galaxy. You can read more about this connection in John Major Jenkins’ book Maya Cosmogenesis 2012: The True Meaning of the Maya Calendar End-Date. According to John the Maya have a tradition telling us that Quetzalcoatl, the Mayan savior who many believe will return in 2012, travels the cosmos through what is described as a serpent rope. Artwork depict the center of the galaxy as the center of an 8 spoked wheel with the center opening up and out pops this serpent rope with Quetzalcoatl riding upon it. John Major Jenkins believes this serpent rope is a wormhole that will open up allowing not only Quetzalcoatl but perhaps a tribe of these ascended light beings to come to earth.

William Henry found in the 15th century Russian Christian tradition a map leading from earth to the throne of God, shown as an 8 spoked wheel with a connecting rope in the shape of a serpent. It also has 21 rings on it and the scholars who have looked at the iconography describe it as cosmic toll booths. It is believed that this description of the toll booths and serpent rope is that of stargates and a wormhole. There is the same iconography found in Italian artwork and the Tibetan artwork of the rainbow light body tradition. They also believe in this cosmic conduit linking earth with heaven and the way we access this conduit is as beings of light.

There is a lifting of the veil about to happen which can also be called the apocalypse. The definition of the word apocalypse means to reveal and the center of the galaxy along with its inhabitants is about to be revealed to us. We are residents of a galactic neighborhood and soon we will have full understanding of this fact.

According to William we have about 25 years to attain a greater level of freedom. Alex Jones believes there is a war for human liberty versus total dehumanization occurring right now. We’re facing a huge disaster but it’s not financial nor political. It’s cosmic! According to the Gnostics in order to achieve true liberty, we must find our freedom within ourselves. No political nor religious organization can give freedom to you. We have to connect with our Higher Self with its supernatural, cosmic powers or essence. The Gnostics say this power is transmittable.

Paul Davies, a theoretical physicist believes that our body is biological intelligence and is only a transitory phenomena, a fleeting phase in the evolution of the universe. Davies also believes that if we encounter extraterrestrial intelligence, it’s overwhelmingly likely that it will be post biological in nature, meaning, an artificially intelligent machine.

Ray Kurzweil, author, scientist, inventor and futurist, believes that by 2020 we’ll have computers powerful enough to simulate the human brain. By 2029 we’ll have completely reverse engineered the human brain and by 2035 humans are no longer needed. This confirms the belief among scientists that the only way we’ll get to travel the cosmos is as robots. Though the ancients have told us that the only way we will travel beyond our solar system is to be of pure light and pure love because they who are out there do not want a bunch of riffraff running around mucking about with super advanced technology spreading the fear and war virus currently infecting our planet.

Current technology is moving towards implanting chips in humans making us fully trackable, ultra intelligent, converting our bodies into iBods. However, this technology may prevent us from ever being able to achieve our full manifestation as humans. We will not be able to achieve the light body because a machine does not love. We very well could be on the brink of eliminating love from our civilization.

Currently cell phone companies are doing the most research on the pineal gland because they know it has micro crystals attached to it making it a wireless transmitter. We’re supposed to be using the pineal gland to connect with the cosmic currents of the river of life flowing from the center of the galaxy. This connection is needed to awaken us, enlighten us, and ultimately produce an oil secretion in the body to be used in manifesting the light body. Technologists want to use it as a cell phone by implanting a chip to amplify the gland’s signal.

William did say that all we needed to do was to orient your consciousness toward the center of the galaxy. I believe the body follows the mind and the more you are able to control and focus the mind, the more powerful your energy will be. The most powerful force in the universe is love so if you focus the mind on love, you may find yourself become a very powerful individual.

I will have to read The Secret of Sion and write more on this subject in the near future.

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I know it’s been a long time since I last sent anything out but it seems life has been rather intense for me lately. It all ends up good in the end though the journey to the happy ending isn’t always so happy. This got me thinking about life and why it seems, for some, to be so difficult and even painful.

One thing I’ve learned from Buddhism is something called suffering. In Buddhism we learn that attachment creates suffering and if we were to learn detachment we would be free from suffering. The attachment that is mentioned here has to do with being emotionally attached to something and the resistance to letting go usually has to do with a fear of loss. If you are really attached to your car then you will experience suffering because of your fear of loss of the car. The reason people are in competition with each other is because they fear losing.

I recently had to put my cat to sleep which caused me to grieve immensely. This cat had been with me for 14 years and she would have been 18 years old in November. She was an amazing cat and Skip and I still miss her very much.

Swartzer, the cat I had to put to sleep, was always so vibrant and youthful well into her old age. She had struggled with some health issues but it looked like she was making a strong come-back. Then one day she went down hill very fast. All night long she was writhing in pain. First thing in the morning I called the vet for the earliest time I could bring her in to be put to sleep. I knew she wasn’t going to recover this time. She was too far gone.

My problem is not with death but with the pain and struggle which usually leads up to death and that got me thinking. The shamans and yoga masters of old knew when it was time to leave the land of the living. They would prepare their disciples or followers and then just lie down and go. No suffering, no writhing in pain. So why did my cat have to suffer? Why did such a lovely being have to go through so much pain before leaving this world?

From what I understand about our pets is that they do their best to take on as much of our suffering as possible to help us. Much of their suffering is because of us and what we intentionally or unintentionally put on them. They seek to comfort and even heal us when we need it. Their little bodies can’t always handle the stress we put on ourselves and they end up developing diseases as a result.

So what’s the purpose for all this suffering? Why do we do this to ourselves? I believe the answer lies in how we view the world and the beliefs we have about ourselves. It is true you can walk on water but you really don’t believe it in such a way that allows you to actually walk on water.

So what’s the answer? I don’t know if there is one answer for it all but I know of one possible answer. I have a friend who has connected me with some very unusual people. They all seem to have an ability to remove energy blocks allowing more of your true self to be accessed by you. I would consider these people to be very much like shamans because the removal of energy blocks allows fragments of your soul to return to you allowing you to heal much like the shamans do with soul retrieval.

I was listening to Burt Goldman being interviewed on the Coast to Coast radio program and someone asked if a person could heal themselves. Burt responded and said that it was very difficult for a person to heal his or herself because there needs to be a giver and a receiver. I know of people who have been able to heal themselves after making changes in their lifestyle so this isn’t true for everyone. But the idea of having a giver and a receiver is key. You must be in a receptive place to receive the healing, this is true. I have heard of many stories of people using visualization to heal tumors and other ailments. There was no one giving them energy per se but they were creating health within their own bodies through the power of the mind.

I recently heard Jack Canfield talk about a man who was a doctor and had severe back pain. This doctor’s parents were doctors, his siblings were doctors, but what he didn’t realize was he himself didn’t really want to be a doctor. He really wanted to be an auto mechanic. So after discovering this in one of Jack’s workshops, this doctor quit his job and opened up a mechanic shop. He even started working on Formula One cars and making a really good living. Once this doctor quit his job and started doing what he really wanted to do, the back pain went away and it never returned.

Sometimes a person can figure out where they went off course and are able to make changes while the rest of us need some one to guide us. A shaman’s job is to do just that. To figure out what is wrong in your life and how you can correct it. The shaman can even go so far as to change your energy for you to help you make the changes in your life a little easier. But you’d better make those changes or else everything the shaman did for you will become undone.

A word of caution when working with these shamanic type energy manipulators. I have heard horror stories of how these energy manipulators have made their client’s lives worse. It’s important to know who you are working with to be sure they are the right shaman for you. Also, just because it worked for someone else, doesn’t mean it will work for you. There doesn’t seem to be a “one size fits all” when it comes to healing. You can use a pendulum or some other divination tool to rate how affective one energy worker is versus another.

I also want to caution you on anyone saying their energy block removal service is a one time permanent removal technique. Most of the time it is not that simple. For many people it will require working with the shaman more than once to finally get free from whatever blocks are in the way before it becomes permanent. It’ a lot like learning to dance. You can’t expect to be an expert dancer after just one class.

Many would say that you can’t have someone else clear your energy blocks because that is for you to do for yourself. You have lessons to learn and if someone else removes those blocks then you won’t learn the lesson. However, I am of the mindset that a person may not have the energy needed to heal themselves or see the problem and needs someone else to help. When you have an infusion of new energy from the removal of energy blocks, then you have the energy to see and learn the lesson.

You are responsible to do what you can and must do on your end. Part of that responsibility is seeking help when you are over your head. We are all in this together and we must learn to work together as part of our spiritual evolution.

Blessings,

Dawn Michele
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I started on my path of witchcraft in my late 20s. I learned about the craft mostly from books along with how it has developed over the years. I also learned how I could incorporate little *witchy* things into my everyday life. Walking this path I have found that I know things in my mind and I can put actions to this knowledge but without an inner connection. I found myself always wanting to learn more than the books could teach but because I couldn’t find any other way to learn, I kept reading.

What I have now discovered is that for an authentic and transformational magickal practice to manifest itself in a natural and connected way, I would need to develop a relationship with my own non-corporal inner tradition. I had to learn to *be* a witch to feel connected to what I knew consciously to be true.

Much of what I have learned about witchcraft has come more from accidental experiences during my spiritual work of which I would practice on a regular and methodical basis. There have been many workings where nothing spectacular happened except that it made me feel good. Then there are other very special moments when I find myself in a very profound place where the energy shifts and something extraordinary happens.

People can tell you all day long that ghosts exist and how the spirit world can affect you. But until you experience it for yourself, you can never really know for sure. I’m not advocating that everyone stop reading books because they are a source of inspiration and insight but until you can make contact with the spirit world yourself, it will only be information in a book or something a friend says is true. When you experience your own true connection, then you will know, and I mean KNOW that it is real.

A magickal discipline, performed on a regular basis, will eventually produce a phenomenon. What your magickal practice does is build up energy to create a field allowing contact between you and the spirit world. Over time this field grows strong enough to reveal, guide, inspire and direct. There is an attunement or an alignment which enables this connection with the witch. If the witch continues to work this field, the energy connection will eventually develop the ability to connect you with this spirit world and your alliances without conscious effort. It will be intermingled with your everyday reality.

If your path of witchcraft is always focused on positive energy, harming none, and for the highest good, you can be sure this connection will not lead you astray. It will only connect you with what is good in your life and guide you to evolving into a deeper and more spiritual being. As your connection becomes stronger and more frequent, you will find yourself developing a greater consciousness and awareness wherever you are. The additional information allowed in can be invaluable while otherwise you would have been very unaware of the influences at play.

I’ve come to the realization that my personal connection to my own inner world has connected me to what some would call spirit allies. These include my spirit guides as well as other people’s spirit guides and other beings. While these beings or allies seem to be existing separate from me, they are also very much apart of me, thus creating a paradox. We are all one in the Universe and it’s only here in this three-dimensional reality that we think we are separate. I would advise not getting too hung up on the oneness vs separateness. Just know that as you grow and evolve spiritually, beings residing in the spirit world will reveal themselves to you to assist in your progress.

You could say that one of the most essential parts of your spiritual work is to make contact with your Higher Self or Holy Guardian Angel. Making this connection will deepen your knowledge of your True Will, as Aleister Crowley would call it. Any magickal or mystical operation that can fully reveal the Higher Self and assist you in knowing its name and defining its character is probably the most important key to any kind of adept level working and realization.

Other spiritual beings may make themselves known to you as you work your system. As you do, it might be helpful to create an invocation ritual to focus attention for exploring and defining the spirit being. Performing such a customized ritual for connecting with a spirit being can create a powerful and personal bond. You could place a statue on your altar to represent this being and provide offerings to it to further your connection and relationship. Of course this smacks of what may be considered silly idol worship. Just remember the statue is a physical representation of the being and is not the being itself. It’s a tool to help you connect and be conscious of a particular being. It is not necessary to have a statue and give offerings but it definitely helps in developing your relationship with the entity.

Just a note about worship. The word worship is about reverence and not about relinquishing your control. It’s more about communing with the Divine rather than groveling and debasing yourself before the Divine. You never want to give control over your life to a deity or spirit being of any kind. The ones who want control are not the ones who have your best interest at heart.

The act of giving offerings is about respect and you are actually giving energy to the spirit as an exchange for what the being has done or is willing to do for you. Many of these spirit beings have their own requirements and you only have to ask what they would like in return for assisting you. Some ask you to put out birdseed for the birds while others want a particular colored candle burned or specially scented incense. I’ve never had any being ask for something like blood sacrifice or anything expensive.

Your inner temple is a reflection of yourself and can be represented by your altar or shrine. As you grow spiritually, the items on your altar will also develop showing your growth and progress. Practicing this way will help the witch develop her or his ability to connect to a more real reality found in the spirit world. This development will aid, guide, develop, reward and empower you on your spiritual path and as you grow so do those entities assisting you and everyone else on the earth.

The best tip I can give to making connections with spirit beings is to learn to meditate. A noisy mind will interfere with your ability to communicate clearly with a spirit being. When you are able to stay in a relaxed state and are able to focus attention on one thought or able to not get caught up in your thoughts as they pass by, then practice asking questions making it clear that you are wanting to communicate with your spirit guides. In my opinion, spirit guides are the easiest and safest beings to learn to communicate with. Ask to see them and then allow whatever picture to appear in your mind. You can ask to hear them speak and then listen to the first thing to come into your mind. You want the first thing because if you wait too long then your ego will come in and tell you something different and then you will be confused.

When you feel you have a connection with your guides then ask them a simple yes or no question which is easily verified. The question should be very simple and as short as possible. Once you have asked the question then take the first thing to come to your mind as the answer. Verify the answer to see if you heard your guides accurately.

Remember you are learning to communicate so if you get it wrong try not to get upset about it. It’s important to give yourself time to develop the ability to hear and connect with your guides. A regular practice of asking simple yes or no questions will quickly develop your ability. The more you use this ability the more accurate the answers will be.

Good luck on your adventures with the spirit world.

Dawn Michele
auroramagick@gmail.com
319-213-4100

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I am fascinated with the custom of offering a gift to the gods or spirits to appease them or gain their favor. I did some research on the subject and have included what I found plus my own thoughts on the subject.

I know that Voodoo uses offerings to feed the spirits, also called the Loa or Lwa. I found some very nice information here http://www.paganspace.net/profiles/blogs/observations-on-the-feeding-of if you’d like to read more about it. It makes sense to *feed* lower spirits since they are like us and need to renew their energy on a regular basis. Also, I am of the thought that these lower spirits may be more like thoughtforms we have created over the hundreds of thousands of years we’ve lived on this planet. However, there is logical reason for other beings to be in existence beyond just humans. I think it fairly narcissistic to think humans are the only beings in the universe.

Feeding these spirits can be seen as a way of developing a relationship with them and it can be like investing energy similar to how we add money to a savings account. You don’t meet someone for the first time and ask them to help you move this weekend. It’s important to get to know them and they you before you start asking for favors. The same seems to be true with spirits used in Voodoo and other spiritual cultures.

Another idea surrounding offerings is so the spirits can use the energy to materialize, allowing you to visibly see them with your physical eyes. I know of two authors who have written books about nature people and give instructions on how to get fairies to materialize so you can see them. According to Christopher Valentine and Dr. Christian von Lahr, you want to put out a little gold to invite leprechauns to materialize and communicate with you. Evidently the leprechauns use the energy of the gold to help them adjust their own energy in such a way as to make them visible to us. I have not read their books but I have heard interviews with them on http://www.coasttocoastam.com/ and found them to be very interesting.

I was watching a movie called The Clash of the Titans with Liam Neeson the other day and I heard something very interesting. Zeus was talking about needing the love from humans to stay in existence. If the gods did not have humans loving them then they, the gods, would cease to exist. Hades advised Zeus to demand this love by showing strength and power over the humans, thus scaring them into loving the gods. And how did the people show their love for the gods? Yep…offerings.

In the book, *Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology Part 1,* the authors state that blood sacrifices among the Maya were very important for feeding and appeasing the gods. Maya priests conducted bloodletting sacrifices to be caught by paper and then burned to the gods. But it wasn’t just bloodletting. Many of you know that the Mayans also practiced human sacrifices. What a great way to get rid of your prisoners, enemies, and annoying neighbors by sacrificing them to ensure blessings from the gods.

In the book of Numbers, chapter 15 in the Bible, we find Yahweh requiring a burnt offering of an animal and calling it a soothing aroma to his nostrils. This chapter also talks about offerings of food and libation. To me it seems this was a requirement for the Children of Israel to keep Yahweh appeased so he would bless them and protect them from their enemies.

To me offerings are about an exchange of energy. I believe we live with many different types of beings who exist with us on various planes and dimensions. Some of them want to interact with us while others aren’t much interested in human affairs. When I work with any of these beings I find it important to give an offering to show my appreciation, gratitude and to give something in exchange for the energy the spirit puts forth in helping me make something happen. But I don’t just wait until I need the spirits to help me. I find it important to leave offerings on occasion to continue my relationship with them. This builds good energy between me and the spirits I have a relationship with.

I have worked with deities in the past and I found they required me to give something as an offering in exchange. Each deity had a requirement and none of the requirements were complicated or costly. One wanted me to burn an orange candle. Another wanted me to burn a particularly scented incense. One of my guardians request that I dance with him. This may sound silly but really it’s about energy so it makes sense to me.

If you want to work with other worldly beings, just make sure they are of love and light and ask them what they would like from you for interacting with them. Take the first thing that pops into your mind and go with that. You may be surprised at how easy it is to develop a relationship with nature spirits, fairies, trees, deities and so on.

The Webster dictionary definition of divination is, “the art or practice that seeks to foresee or foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge usually by the interpretation of omens or by the aid of supernatural powers.” Divination is a very powerful and important part of a witch’s order of operations when casting spells. Before casting a spell it is good advice to use your chosen divination tool to determine what is for your highest good so your spell is in alignment to avoid mishaps.

It’s hard to fix a problem when the problem isn’t clearly defined and therefore the correct solution is not understood. Divination is a tool to help you better create a solution that is in alignment with your Higher Self and will therefore be much more powerful and effective.

If I wanted to cast a spell to manifest additional money I will have far better results if I hold a specific purpose in mind. Being general and casting a spell for more money just because I want more money will manifest very little if anything at all. It’s best to have a reason or purpose for the money.

A good purpose could be an increase in monthly income to make payments for a new car or house. Some people advocate holding the intention to manifest a specific amount of money for a specific car or house. You could do that but you might want to use your divination tool to discover if this is the best course of action. It is possible that you would have better results if you actually cast your spell for the end result, the house or the car, and let the Universe do what it needs to bring you the means to manifest the end result.

When using divination you must first understand that our lives are not pre-destined or fated. We create our destiny through conscious creation (magick) or we will be tossed about by fate which is created by karma and unconscious beliefs. You will always have tendencies and lines of influence which can be revealed through numerology, tarot or astrology but you don’t have to allow them to dictate your experiences. Keep in mind that divination gives you a clear outcome of the situation, that is, if nothing changes. You can then take that information and use it to bridge to more desirable outcomes.

When you know how things will pan out if you do nothing, then you can come up with changes and ask your divination tool to show you the outcome. Continue to introduce possible changes and see what your tool tells you will be the outcome. Assume a variable into your divination tool by asking, “If I do __________ will it bring me ______? A good result to ask is, “will it bring me joy?” You can ask if it will bring you the means to obtain a new car but the new car may be a disappointment.

Something I’ve learned is to not ask the divination system if it’s a good idea to have something or if I should do something. The system is not meant to answer such questions but it can tell you if the results will make you happy or if it will bring you a car you will enjoy and will be dependable. Of course a dependable car always brings me joy.

It is a smart idea to use divination to uncover and make yourself aware of energy patterns that may work against your ability to manifest what you have decided you want. If your divination has answered in the positive for you receiving what you wish to manifest, the next step is becoming clear on what stands in your way. Once you know the energy patterns you can make arrangements to clear those patterns to allow the energy of what you want to come through and manifest in your life. I love using the pendulum to collapse these energy patterns on all levels of my being, from all of my bodies, from all dimensions, and from my past, present and future lives.

There are many tools you can use for divination such as crystal balls, scrying bowls, tarot, tea leaves, etc. These are tools that act sort of like a telephone or an instrument for tapping into and connecting with divine information not available to the five senses. They allow an extension of your perceptions beyond your bodily senses. You will want to learn more about the various tools available and see what seems interesting to you.

To help you decide on a divination tool it’s good to know that there are two forms of divination: direct and indirect. Scrying bowl, mirror, crystal ball, smoke, fire are all used by the mind to project images and information. This is called a direct form of divination. An indirect form of divination is found with tarot, runes and I-Ching and they require the interpretation of symbols or patterns. For some people the indirect systems are easier because there is usually a book or instructions to make it easier for you to understand the symbols or patterns, while other more psychic individuals will find the direct form easier.

There are many forms of divination out there – too many to discuss in any detail in this article. However, with most forms of divination, the more you practice the more accurate your results will be. When you begin working with divination tools and techniques, start by divining events or situations in the near future or yes and no answers which can be confirmed immediately – they are easier to read and give you a positive or negative result very quickly. As your skills improve, begin extending your reach further and further into the future. Good luck and have fun!

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Kenji Kumara is offering an introduction to a healing technique called Quantum Lightweaving while he’s here in the Cedar Rapids area. I decided I wanted to experience Quantum Lightweaving in person to see how it differed from the phone sessions.

There were 17 people who showed up for this experience. Chairs were set up in a circle around the room and four foam mats on the floor in the middle. We all signed a waiver before starting and took a glass stone from a bowl and dropped it in a bowl of water. The stone represents the ego and dropping it in the water cleanses it. The idea is to leave the ego at the door for the duration of the class.

Kenji talked shared what Quantum Lightweaving was about and what to expect until everyone was finished filling out and signing the waiver. Kenji talked about how he holds the state of what you want in your life. Meaning if you want a body without pain, he holds that state for you opening the gate to allow you to connect to a higher source of energy that can “collapse” whatever is causing the pain. He does not channel the energy which keeps him from interfering with the energy you are receiving. Quantum Lightweaving is more of a connection to a higher matrix than the matrix we are all connected to currently. You connect and receive what you are able to receive according to where you are at the moment.

The body assimilates this new information differently in each person. Some will find their eyes flutter, their hand or foot may twitch, breathing my change and become deep or shallow. There are some who experience a trance state where they are conscious but unable to move their body.

At the introduction I attended there were people with various ailments. Not all of them experienced a spontaneous healing and Kenji made sure we knew that things may be progressive, meaning you may see changes over time, usually about 14 days. Also he explained that you receive what you are ready to receive, meaning you may not receive a healing if you are not ready to let go of what is causing the ailment.

One woman had severe rotator cuff damage in both her arms which prevented her from experiencing full rotation of her arms. After her time on the mat, Kenji had her move her arms. She regained full rotation of her arms without pain. How exciting!

Kenji starts each person standing at the end of the mat and places his hands on the person’s body. He doesn’t follow a protocol but instead goes with his intuition so hand placements vary from person to person. The intention is to allow the person to become relaxed enough to let go and fall. Kenji catches the person and allows them to rest on the mat. Most people “fell” and those who did not fall did receive what Kenji calls a wave. Kenji explained that falling is not necessary to receive but it is a powerful part of the psychological process of letting go making it easier to receive.

When my turn came up, I stood at the end of the mat like everyone else. Kenji asked what it was I wanted to remove from my life or from my body and I said I wanted to remove my foster father’s energy from my energy field and to overcome my fear of success, failure, and power. Kenji then placed one hand on my forehead and the other on the back of my head. A few seconds later I felt my body relax and I went with it. I allowed my body to go limp which made me fall backwards. Kenji caught me and laid me down on the mat.

For the duration of my time on the mat I experienced my eyes fluttering. At one point I felt my brain moving and my skull bones expanding. All of these things Kenji said happen because the brain is rewiring itself with new connections.

Other experiences while on the mat included deeper breaths which may be because I was not in a trance state, and I saw a spirit guide working with me, which is something I had asked for before going to the class. I found my guide assisting with the work that was currently happening. My guide asked me if I really wanted to release this energy and I said yes. He kept repeating the question and I kept saying yes which triggered an emotional release causing tears to come to my eyes. Afterward saw my chakras open up one by one but instead of the appropriate color associated with each chakra, they were all beaming white light. I have never seen this before and am not sure what to think of it.

I felt comfortable and relaxed after my time was done and I got up from the mat. I was told my ears were red and my eyes were bloodshot. I did feel a considerable amount of heat in the head area but not in the rest of my body. The next day I continued to feel emotionally lighter though everything else is pretty much the same. I am hoping this experience continues to free me from my own self limiting programming.
If you want to check out Quantum Lightweaving then come to one of the introduction classes or contact Karen to schedule a personal session with Kenji. And if you miss out on it this time around, you’ll have another opportunity in May.

Introduction to Quantum Lightweaving – April 5th-9th Cost is $20

April 5th-8th 7:00-9:30 pm, Guaranty Bank, 2nd Floor, 300-80th St Ct, Fairfax, IA 52228

April 9th 2-5 pm Meskwaki Hotel, 1504-305th St, Tama, IA 52339(Suite 432, 4th Floor, Old Tower)
Contact Karen to schedule a Private Session April 5th – 10th ($150) 319-350-4913 or kla_grange@hotmail.com

Please feel free to comment on or ask questions about this article by going to www.aurora-dawn.com/blog.

Dawn Michele Ziemer is a Certified Spiritual Life Coach, Witchcraft Teacher, Yoga and Meditation Instructor, Karuna and Usui Reiki Master/Teacher and Clairvoyant living in Delhi, IA. To learn more about Dawn and to join her newsletter go to www.aurora-dawn.com.

© 2003- 2010 — Aurora Dawn, LLC —

Greetings Everyone

I want to share my experience with Quantum Lightweaving, a transformational technique for connecting a person to a higher vibration of energy matrix. Kenji Kumara is the founder of Quantum Lightweaving and I learned about Kenji and his technique through a friend. To learn more go to www.quantumlightweaving.com.

As many of you know I teach a program called Self-Mastery, but I feel this program takes the client only so far. My own teacher still struggles with some difficult issues even after developing and teaching the Self-Mastery program for over 15 years. If he was not able to master his most difficult negative block, emotional eating, then how was I going to master my own most difficult negative financial issues?

Disillusioned, I set out to research and experience other techniques touting the ability to remove energy blocks and self limiting beliefs. I spent over $500 and came up short. I was reluctant to spend any more money when my friend introduced me to Kenji Kumara. I listened to an interview with him and he demonstrated a little bit of what he does. I still wasn’t convinced there was anything new or better than the others I had looked at but my friend was persistent in getting me to try it out anyway. He was only charging $50 which was very reasonable compared to the others in this field.

Finally I gave in and I scheduled my first session with Kenji for Sunday 1-23-2011. He had me fill out a form that asked me some questions to give him a better idea of what I was hoping to change in my life. Then when he called me to do the session he asked me some questions and talked with me about what he was going to do. Kenji actually customized the session to my personal needs so I could gain the greatest benefit from the experience.

When Kenji started the technique, I began to feel drawn in to a very relaxed state. I was lying down on my bed so I wouldn’t have to worry about falling over. I felt waves of relaxation flow over me and several times I lost consciousness (leaving my current awareness). Losing consciousness is very common with this technique as I am told. You will lose consciousness because the brain goes offline to allow you to release negative, toxic energy blocks, as well as pain and trauma.

Each session is customized for the individual’s needs at the moment. I can tell you what Kenji had me visualize and feel but you can’t expect the same thing for you. In fact my second session was very different from the first one but the effect was still profound.

Kenji started by working on the “wall” I said I felt was keeping me from moving forward. He had me visualize my wall and tell him what it looked, felt, and even smelled like. It was a cinder block wall that was cold, hard and rough to the touch. It surrounded me in a tight circle. Kenji had me look up and I saw a sky with clouds and sunshine. He then told me to look down and I saw a dark pool of water.

Then Kenji had me feel love for the wall and allow it to become soft and malleable. I realized the wall was made out of other people’s stuff that I took on as my own. Next, Kenji told me to absorb the wall into my heart center. Then he had me pull it back out and describe what it looked like. I pulled out a long, yellow silk scarf.

Then Kenji had me visualize all of my ailments as an object and had me use my senses to see, smell, and feel it. I saw my ailments as a small human with a mask like the one in the movie Scream. It was sticky in spots and rough or crusty in others with a smell of rotting garbage. Kenji had me feel love for the image and ask it what I was suppose to learn from these ailments. It told me that the lesson was to let go of other people’s stuff. Kenji said to ask the image what I could do to help it heal and the answer was for me to let go and love my self.

Then Kenji connected my feet chakras to the mother earth grid which is an emerald grid in the earth. I really felt this connection and continue to feel it today. Kenji continued on with the session but I don’t remember what he said. When he was done, he asked me if I wanted to talk about the session. I really had a difficult time putting words to what I had experienced because I felt too disoriented so I said I could maybe talk about it later.

After I hung up with Kenji I heard myself saying, “I feel weird…I feel weird…I feel weird…” I also felt really tired and wanted to sleep. After a little while of just sitting quietly, I decided to take a nap on the sofa. A couple of hours later I woke up and then I slept an hour more before I went to bed for the night and slept my normal seven hours that night.

The next day I still felt very tired and took a two hour nap early in the evening and slept my normal amount that evening. The third day I started getting my energy back to normal. I also felt somber and a bit gloomy until the third day.

The positive benefits from the session was that my meditations have been deeper and I find my consciousness moving into my energy body much easier than before. Also my meditations are lasting longer, one to two hours. I haven’t experienced meditations this deep in a very long time, years in fact, and I find it very exciting. The physical ailments I was hoping to heal were all still present and the same can be said about feeling blocked. However, my ability to find time to write opened up about a week after the session.

It seems things continue to shift and change within me over time. It’s very subtle and slow but it is occurring. Other people have had more dramatic and significant changes occur for them after a session so my experience is definitely not typical.

On 2-14-2011 Kenji did a public session for several people on a conference call. I felt the effects were very powerful during that session. I started out listening while sitting up but I was losing consciousness so often that I decided to just lie down. Afterward I did feel a little tired but nothing like the first session. I also felt more dehydrated and I drank about six glasses of water that evening. Kenji later told me that the dehydration will happen when someone has released a lot of stuff.

Later that week, 2-16-2011, I had another personal phone session with Kenji. I felt the waves of relaxation and felt very relax, however, this time I stayed conscious the entire session. Kenji spent more time focusing on my inner child who showed up at age six. Kenji had me ask my inner child some questions like how old she was and what she was feeling. She was worried about being left home alone. Kenji had me speak words of support by telling her that children should not be taught to be afraid and to worry but it happens because so many parents learn to worry and be afraid and then teach their children to do the same. It’s not done out of malicious intent but it does happen.

Kenji asked me to ask my inner child if she would be willing to let go of the fear and the worry and she said she wasn’t sure if it would be ok. Kenji had me tell her if she would be ok with giving it to God and letting God take care of it and she said she could do that. So she laid down next to me and Kenji started the session.

This time Kenji focused on the chakras and bringing this higher vibrating light into them. Unfortunately I can’t remember all of what was said because there was about an hour’s worth but I do remember when Kenji was in my throat chakra he ask me if I received any messages. I kept hearing my name being called by different groups of people. I’d hear my name being called, I looked and there was a group of people wanting my attention. I heard my name again, I turned to look in a different direction and there was another group of people wanting my attention. I heard my name called a few other times. I didn’t feel stressed about this at all but the message was that there are a lot of people who now want and need me. The interesting thing about this was that I had had a dream a few days after the first session where a person told me I had to leave a gathering because I did not belong there. Only people who were wanted and needed were allowed to be there. So now experiencing people wanting and needing me was a big change.

Then Kenji moved into another chakra but I can’t remember which one it was. He told me to see how the thing I wanted to manifest looked like and I saw a cruise ship. I had never thought of doing anything on a cruise ship but I keep hearing that it’s all the rage these days.

Next I saw the energy of money and the energy of love swirling in a clockwise manner in the shape of a vortex in my heart chakra. I felt I was combining these two energies and sending it out like a message to the Universe. Instead of seeing money as a survival energy, it is now a part of loving myself and others. I believe the more I am able to love myself, the more I’ll be able to support myself financially.

Once Kenji was done working on my chakras, he called in Jesus, Mother Mary and Mary Magdalene and had them send me Christ energy. He had me absorb this energy through my skin and I literally felt a sensation on my skin.

After the session I was lucid enough to discuss what I experienced with Kenji. He is such a joyful soul and expressed his joy for my positive experiences. I had told Kenji I wanted to be able to time bend and he said I could try programming myself to get the equivalent of seven hours sleep in a four hour period so I would have a few extra hours in a day. I have tried the programming and I do think it works. However I don’t always remember to do the programming right as I fall asleep but the times I have used it I have woken up approximately 4 hours later and I’m wide awake. I have not felt tired later in the day either.

Well this is what I experienced with Kenji Kumara and his Quantum Lightweaving technique. Kenji is planning to fly in to Iowa and spend a week in Cedar Rapids. He is offering private 1-hour sessions in the morning and an introduction to Quantum Lightweaving in the evening as well as on Saturday. I’ve attached a flyer for those in the Cedar Rapids area who would like to attend. You can contact Karen LaGrange at 319-350-4913 or kla_grange@hotmail.com if you have any questions or would like additional information.

If you would like to schedule a phone session with Kenji, send an email toKenjiKumara@yahoo.com. He will work with you on scheduling a time that is good for both of you. To get the special price of $50, go tohttp://www.quantumlightweaving.com/shop.shtml#generalsessions and click on Specials. You should see something that says New Year Special. Click on Register and you can pay for your session there. Make sure you contact Kenji first to find out if he’s available to do a session since he will be doing some traveling.
Please let me know if you have a session with Kenji. I would be very interested in hearing your experience.

Blessings,

Dawn Michele
auroramagick@gmail.com
319-213-4100

Aurora Dawn, LLC, 23055 265th St, Delhi, IA 52223, USA

I’m always looking for ways to make magick easier to understand and ways to make my workings more successful. There are times when I wonder if all the complexity of traditional high magick would make my workings more likely to come about the way I intend them to because much of the traditional rituals have been used for many years by a large number of people. My mind wants to believe that years of tradition could possibly better ensure a successful outcome. I’ve experimented with various different ways of working magick only to find various outcomes which make me wonder if there are any laws at all to working magick.

The whole Law of Attraction fad that has broken in to the mainstream over the past few years makes me wonder if they know something the magick community does not. Much of their material, it seems, is very magickal and I would imagine they borrowed generously from the annals of magick but why isn’t this information prevalent among witches? Perhaps we have missed something.

When observing ritual magick from my own experiences and the experiences of others I have found it really doesn’t seem to matter how well a ritual is designed or how sloppy, a working in that environment could still be successful. This lack of absolutes and laws leaves me feeling like I’m shooting in the dark, hoping my working will manifest what I want without any negative side effects. I really want answers to this dilemma so when I do a working I can feel confident that I’m not wasting my time with wishful thinking. I believe I may have found 5 elements that define a truly successful ritual working.

Here are five elements I have found to be the best foundation for creating a successful ritual that will more accurately manifest what I really want.

1. Rituals can be simple, intermediate, or very complex, any level seems to work.
2. Successful rituals must follow a basic set of criteria.
3. Rituals require a certain amount of belief, imagination, and enthusiasm (feeling).
4. Clarity and focus are integral to being sure you get what you want.
5. Very old traditional rituals, rituals written by someone else, or rituals you write yourself can all be just as successful.

Let’s look at each of these points a little closer to see if we can get a better understanding on what exactly makes a working successful.

How complex or simple a ritual is, by itself, has no bearing on how successful a working will be. The ritual should suit the practitioner according to taste and ability. If a practitioner prefers something simpler due to a hectic schedule or perhaps they just prefer simplicity, they may lose interest part way through a complex ritual. Some people find complex rituals to be boring or over the top so these rituals don’t keep them engaged and they lose focus. Other practitioners prefer more elaborate rituals because it keeps them involved helps them stay focused.

There’s nothing wrong with editing your rituals, whether they are someone else’s or your own. It’s best to continue editing them to make them more comfortable for you to preform. Efficiency is a better goal for many practitioners.

There is a set of criteria necessary to working a successful ritual. Your working will have a better chance of manifesting what you really want if you adhere to the following:

1. Preparation – self and space. Declare the space you are using as sacred. It helps to use sage, incense or spray some essential oil mixed with water. You can cast a circle if you’d like to better define the area you wish to use for your working. Preparing yourself by using a meditation to bring yourself into deep relaxation so you are better able to connect to the spirit world during your working.
2. Empowerment – establish an energy field within yourself by tapping in to the energy of personal power and confidence. This is establishing your confidence in your magickal ability which comes from a belief and confidence in yourself. This is also about calling in your spirit guides, guardians and enlightened ancestors to increase your energy and guide you.
3. Alignment - Bring yourself in alignment with Spirit for guidance and greater empowerment. This connection is similar to drawing down the moon or the sun where you bring the energy into your body. The alignment gives you an extra-dimensional, supernatural guidance and protection. A practitioner is protected by the Godhead and kept from being harmed through the power of an active spiritual alignment.
4. Define the objective – Symbolic Link (sigils, pictures, etc) to give instructions on exactly what it is you want to have happen. This is a tricky place, because of unintentional side effects, but if you seal your working with “harm none” and “let it be for everyone’s highest good” you’ll avoid negative bounce back. The worst that can happen is you would return harmless energy to yourself.
5. Projection - send your request out to the world (cone of power). This is the part where you take all the energy with all the instructions as to what to do with that energy and thrust it out into the Universe fueled with the enthusiasm and great optimism for the desired outcome.
6. Divination - Gather information before and after your working. Divination is so important for the practitioner to gain a better insight into the situation. You want to avoid any mishaps in the wording of your working so use divination to get insight and test your working before actually doing anything. Get guidance to make sure you have a good perspective for what you desire to accomplish.

Belief, imagination and enthusiasm seems to be the glue that holds all these various parts of the ritual together and ensure success. Belief in your subconscious as well as conscious mind will keep your self limiting beliefs from getting in the way. Your imagination is your ability to see clearly what the desired end results look like. Enthusiasm is the much needed fuel supplied by the emotions found in your heart. The more of these three ingredients you have the better. But here is the difficult part. The above has some limitations in that you can be passionate about what it is you want, believe it is possible to possess or manifest it, and even feel how real it is but all this will weaken the working unless you practice detachment, so be emotionally OK if what you desire does not come to you.

Energy follows thought and therefore focus and clarity is necessary for charging up the energy. If your thoughts are scattered, then so is your energy and you won’t have sufficient energy to charge your working no matter how perfectly it is written. You must be able to hold the thoughts of what you are creating clearly in your mind and use a laser focused mind. Focus and clarity makes sure the instructions for the energy you are sending out will not be confusing. It’s best to spend time working out the wording to tie up the loopholes.

Keep your objectives to an absolute minimum. Some witches will cast several spells in one ritual and they do so by raising a cone of power per spell. This might work but could potentially drain the witch of vital energy. I would suggest one objective, or spell, per ritual and save the other spells for after you have rested and replenished your energy.

When you have decided on the objective, meditate on it and ask if it is reasonable, is it possible to accomplished within the allotted time, and is it in alignment with my true will. Use your divination system to find if there are any internal blocks in need of removal. You will also want to know if you know everything you need to do on your end to bring it about in a successful manner.

You can use divination after the spell is cast to see if all is well. I check my divination system to measure the level of effect my spell has. If it is a high level then I know there is a very good chance for success. You can also use divination to see if there are any other actions you need to take to ensure a successful outcome. Knowledge is power and divination gives you the knowledge to empower yourself.

The final element I want to talk about has to do with the writing of the ritual. Does it really matter who authored the ritual or not? Some will say that a ritual you write yourself is far more powerful than one written by someone else. Then there are others who say a ritual written by someone else can be just as powerful. However, the traditionalists will tell you that using very old rituals are the most powerful because they have been used by thousands of witches over hundreds of years.

Personally I have found the old rituals very difficult to manage and nearly impossible to find supplies for, let alone very difficult to understand. My personal experience is it doesn’t really matter who authored the ritual as long as I connect emotionally and spiritually to the wording and meaning of all parts of the ritual. I like to get ideas from other people’s rituals and then tweak them to make it more relevant to me.

All of these elements give us an approach to magick that is practical, open minded, flexible and dynamic. Following these elements will better ensure a greater chance of success when performing ritual magick to manifest something in your life by being personally empowering. Be sure to keep a journal to track your rituals. If a ritual doesn’t work well or not at all, find out what went wrong so you can improve and adapt your magick to make it more successful.

Please feel free to comment on or ask questions about this article by going to www.aurora-dawn.com/blog.

Dawn Michele Ziemer is a Certified Spiritual Life Coach, Witchcraft Teacher, Yoga and Meditation Instructor, Karuna and Usui Reiki Master/Teacher and Clairvoyant living in Delhi, IA. To learn more about Dawn and to join her newsletter go to www.aurora-dawn.com.

© 2003- 2011 — Aurora Dawn, LLC —

Though Aleister Crowley was seemingly an egocentric individual who
traveled the fringes of insanity, one must admit he was very
knowledgeable and the first to make the act of ritual an extension
of the magician’s Will rather than a way to ask an invoked entity a
favor. Crowley taught us that it is the magician’s Will, his true
Will, that is connected to during ritual.

Until this kind of working was established, many a magician only
had the conjuration of an unruly entity to do his bidding. This
type of working requires tremendous energy and precautions to
conjure the entity, put it in a locked pentagram, and prevent the
entity from escaping and entering our dimension. The magician can
then ask or command the entity a favor, which of course had to be
paid with some kind of offering or sacrifice. This was a dangerous
procedure with many terrible consequences if not done just right.

Crowley’s ritual system was designed to be supported entirely by
the Will of the magician, and the Will of the magician was to be
strengthened by a specific lifestyle based on study and meditation.
Crowley believed in the endless power of the mind rather than the
invoking of dangerous entities. Though I don’t follow many of
Crowley’s teachings, I do believe he was instrumental in changing
the course of the history of Witchcraft over the years. He was
integral to bringing Witchcraft into the modern world, and made it
more accessible to the average person through his writings starting
when he was 23 to his death in 1947 at age 72. Today we are
beginning to prove much of Crowley’s teachings on the Will with all
the new knowledge about how powerful the brain is in its function
and ability.

Now when you are doing a ritual, you are not on your knees asking
for a favor, but instead, you recognize yourself as the God/Goddess
incarnate. During your ritual, your will is the will of the
God/Goddess and you can manifest and materialize anything your mind
can imagine. The most powerful tool of a witch or wizard is a
focused and clear mind in connection with heart energy. In this new
line of thinking you realize your wish is not a matter of the
generosity of the gods any more. It all depends entirely on you for
you hold the power and responsibility to create your own reality.
The only tool a witch or wizard needs is the alignment of the mind
with the energy of the heart which then connects to the
practitioner’s true Will and this empowers whatever work is being
done.

We can now see that a ritual is an act of change. The difficulty
lies in the fact that you have lost your natural connection with
your true Will or Higher Self. You then turn to your guides for
assistance in reconnecting to your true Will and thus overcome the
difficulties within yourself. When you cannot find love, keep a job
or otherwise make yourself successful in life, you must stop
blaming others and circumstances and start seeking insight into
what is really blocking you from having what you want and why.

Trusting your guidance system in both your own emotions and your
spirit guides becomes natural for those who can connect to
unconditional love found everywhere in the Universe. When you tune
in to the love your guides, and Spirit has for you and you feel
this love for yourself, your guides and Spirit, you can trust your
guidance in creating your ritual. A witch or wizard with a strong,
loving relationship with his or her guides will be less likely to
experience doubt and therefore spells cast will likely manifest
more accurately. It is this “tuning in” to the flow of love that
allows the manifestation according to the practitioner’s true Will.

When you use physical tools (wands, herbs) in your ritual, they can
enhance your experience because they too are connected to the
Universe’s unconditional love. These tools can then assist you in
making the necessary connection to the natural flow of the Cosmos.
The physical tools you choose to use, colors, candles, herbs, etc.,
are all interconnected through aural vibrations. The vibrations
also have a relationship to numbers, planets, letters, etc. When
you put together physical tools that correspond with each other
vibrationally, in the correct amounts, you create a focus of energy
which can open the gate to communicate to both your Higher Self and
certain guardian entities.

A sacred ceremony grabs hold of the heart and reminds you of who
you are and keeps your mind on who you are capable of being.
Rituals keep you connected to Source found within yourself and
other human individuals. These connections can create portals of
divine radiance lighting up the soul and lifting your consciousness
to the realm of divine understanding. It is in this level of
consciousness that you find you are fully human impregnated with
divine possibilities.

Rituals are used by traditional religions as well as societies to
mark special moments in life like the birth of a child, rite of
passage into adolescence, marriage, maturity to the elder years and
death. These moments mark times when we have the opportunity to be
so full of life our hearts seek to connect on a deeper level with
the soul. When we feel this depth of connection to life itself, we
can almost touch our immortalness. Holy ceremony marries the mortal
with the immortal, the magick with the mundane, and from that point
on, never the two shall be disconnected.

A simple ritual of lighting a prayer candle each morning can have a
profound effect on your entire life. You can set the tone by using
the time for tuning in to the energy you wish to experience
throughout your day. This tuning in will adjust your vibration so
you resonate with the emotions triggered by your intentions. You
can set your intentions to the vibration of love, peace, joy, and
perfect health for yourself and all those you encounter. You can
vibrate with compassion for those who are hurting and struggling
which will help you avoid becoming from frustrated or angry with
these people. Everyone is fighting some sort of battle so our
compassion will help them feel better rather than our contempt
which will only feed their uncomfortableness.

Dawn Michele Ziemer is a Certified Spiritual Life Coach, Witchcraft
Teacher, Yoga and Meditation Instructor, Karuna and Usui Reiki
Master/Teacher and Clairvoyant living in
Delhi, IA. To learn more about Dawn and to join her newsletter go
to www.aurora-dawn.com.
© 2003- 2011 — Aurora Dawn, LLC —

The one thing a person needs to have to be a witch, magician, wizard, sorcerer, shaman, etc is attunement. Without attunement to the energy system you are just thinking you are a witch, magician, wizard, etc. You will find that you are in disconnection to what you consciously believe until you attain attunement with the system you are wanting to follow.

There are horror stories about witch wars and magicians sending harmful energy to attack another for whatever reasons. This is just preschool or adolescent behavior and should not be tolerated. Every member of such groups should be expected to control the ego so they can communicate on the level of an emotionally mature and self-mastered adult. Unfortunately many a coven leader allows the position to go to his/her head and they suddenly think they are the Goddess’ gift… I would say the leaders of these organizations were not truly in alignment or attunement of the system they follow, initiated or not.

What is the definition of an attunement and how do I go about getting one? An attunement brings the recipient in harmonious alignment to a particular vibration or energy system. This is programmed energy that is passed from the teacher/master to the student. The attunement then allows the student to tap into and generate the same energy right away. The student must still develop and grow accustom to this energy which is accomplished through a disciplined practice and time.

There is a saying which states, “it takes a witch to make a witch.” When a witch initiates a student she is passing attuned energy from herself to the student and this attunes the student to the energy of witchcraft. We learn about this attunement process from Reiki and we’re told it takes a Reiki Master to make a Reiki practitioner. Interestingly enough, Dr. Usui, the one who discovered and developed the Reiki system of healing, was never initiated by a person. Instead he fasted and meditated for 21 days on a mountain until he received his attunement from Spirit. You can receive your attunements the same way if you have the discipline to fast and meditate for 21 days, or however long it takes.

Another way to become attuned is through daily practice over a long enough period of time. This daily practice causes your energy system to attune to what you are practicing but this takes a large amount of time and discipline. Unless your connection and belief is already strong, you may find this path to be very difficult because you are up against years of deeply entrenched subconscious programming. Achieving your goals could very well be near impossible.

One way to speed up the process is learning self-mastery skills. Even if you receive attunements from a teacher or master, self-mastery skills will still be necessary to remove the self-limiting beliefs to allow you to connect on deeper, more profound levels. This will allow you to live your life as an emotionally mature, self-mastered adult. Members of a coven or lodge who are self-mastered individuals will avoid the egocentric attitudes that often result in magickal wars and will live joyful and more fulfilling lives.

Self-mastery does more than assist in attunements and magickal work. Self-mastery positively improves all areas of your life. When you conduct your life at 51% self-mastered, you will find wonderful improvements in your health, your self image, your relationships, financial situation, self confidence, and fulfillment of your life purpose. When you live 51% self-mastered you become the master of your own life. Instead of the world dictating how things will be, you will dictate to the world how things will be. This means the Law of Attraction will finally work for you.

Living Self-Mastered allows you to make a decision and have it to be law in the Universe. In other words, you will make a decision and have the energy to focus on making it happen. Being Self-Mastered helps you to master your appetite for the material world allowing you the freedom to chose what will truly serve you and bring you happiness.

If you’re reading this article then chances are you have a lot of spiritual knowledge. But if you struggle with procrastination and lack motivation to put action to that knowledge, then you are enlightened but not empowered. See the enlightenment is the knowledge you have of spiritual things but your self-limiting beliefs block you from putting action to what you have in your head.

A good example would be starting a plan to lose weight. Most people know how to eat healthy and to exercise but how many of them actually start or if they start how many keep going until they reach their goals? Are you able to put action to accomplishing your goals? Do you lack the motivation or the energy to get yourself to do what you need to do to create the life you really want?

If you want to learn how to remove your self-limiting beliefs and program your subconscious with positive beliefs that will release a flood of energy to motivate you forward, then you’re going to want to check out the Secrets to Living a Self-Mastered Life telecourse. Just go to my website at www.aurora-dawn.com/sm_tcourse.html and sign up. This is a very powerful course that will teach you techniques to clear away the old beliefs and the pain associated with them and program new and powerful beliefs that will serve you better.

Dawn Michele Ziemer is a Certified Spiritual Life Coach, Witchcraft Teacher, Yoga and Meditation Instructor, Karuna and Usui Reiki Master/Teacher and Clairvoyant living in Delhi, IA. To learn more about Dawn and to join her newsletter go to www.aurora-dawn.com.

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