The Sorcery Lab

Necromantic Divination Client Session #1

*This necromantic divination reading for B was not performed with any tools and was quite impromptu in a public setting with an acceptable amount of privacy to do what needed to be done considering the current state of events here in America with covid 19. I’m pleased to report that she is a satisfied customer and the bits of info I shared about her dad in order to confirm that I wasn’t in contact with a trickster spirit have intentionally been omitted from this blog post for obvious reasons. I always like to confirm with my clients the accuracy of the spirits coming through by verifying character/personality traits/etc to ensure that I’m connected to the authentic spirit the client desires contact with. Trickster spirits are a real phenomenon and it’s very important to have confidence in your necromantic abilities and use spiritual discernment because you can attract unwanted attention and also potentially upset your client with incorrect information or assuming you’ve got the right guy, so to speak. I’m of a similar opinion to Martin Coleman author of Communing with Spirits when he recommends having a good grasp of basic magical techniques, hygiene and protection before specializing in the arts of necromancy as it comes with risks and isn’t recommended for those new to the arts of sorcery/witchcraft/etc.

The client who came to me recently is a lady whom we shall call B, this charming individual has had multiple tarot readings from me and we had a discussion regarding her father who died before his mid 30’s. B was very interested in talking to her father and had a few questions in mind to ask him and she also wanted to confirm his presence in her life since his passing. I immediately perked up and told her that I could attempt contact with her father and see if we could have a chat considering that he did show up in a tarot reading for her that I did a few weeks prior to our discussion of her father. Interestingly enough she was quite interested in taking me up on my offer which excited me because I haven’t performed a necromantic divination session for a client in quite a long time; the spirits of the human dead do not always come when called and it can be quite interesting to know that sometimes other deceased individuals come through that are connected to the client and sometimes nothing happens at all. Fortunately, her dad did come through and we wrote down some interesting information that I would like to share with my readers today.

B initially just wanted to know the frequency with which her father pops in to check on her and make himself known as she’s felt he shows up quite randomly throughout the years. The impression I received was that he shows up to see how she’s doing usually around every three to four months, turns out when I shared this with her she agreed with that statement. The interesting thing is that she can feel his presence and discern that it’s him but she expressed a desire to have an identifier unique to them to establish that he’s showing up and wants to talk, she expressed wanting some sort of auditory sign or movement of an object. His reply immediately seemed to express humor as I mentally heard him giggle a bit before telling me that the signs he gives her should have been obvious by now. I added that she could always request an agreed upon identifier the next time she feels like talking to him or happens to show up on his regular “check up”. Another interesting piece of information that came through was he told me to tell her at least in a partial sentence was that he knows she’s been thinking about buying a new car so she should just get one. Her reaction was unexpected because her jaw dropped and her eyes got wide because she had indeed been thinking about purchasing a new car better suited to her needs and aesthetics. Then questions from my client became somber and serious because she has a grandson that has cancer and she wanted to know if he knew how much time he had left, quite an interesting question considering she asked this in a tarot reading I did for her a few weeks back and I recall telling her that he doesn’t have long….. perhaps a year or two at most. Her father told me to tell her that he’s got 19 years and I initially interpreted this to mean that he will live to 19 (as he’s currently 12) but on second thought I could also interpret this to mean he has 19 years from his current age. This is very interesting to me as we both discussed the results I provided via tarot and his comments on the matter. I suppose I’m going to have to revisit the accuracy of my prediction with that of her father and see what occurs. B wanted to ask her dad if he know how much time her mother had as well and from my recollection her father stated she had anywhere between six and nine years left. To be determined….

Another interesting comment from her father got B very excited because as soon as we started the session he expressed extreme joy and happiness because someone close to B in the family are going to be expecting a baby boy and he was absolutely thrilled. No one is currently pregnant but she did tell me that a family member was trying to get pregnant and she personally hopes it’s a boy. Only time will tell. These questions bring up the fact that in necromancy divining information about the future by asking questions of the dead has an ancient history and is still practiced today. The interesting aspect of B asking divinatory questions of her father made me wonder if she assumed her father had some psychic potential in life before he passed or if she just assumed that once you die you acquire an ability to tell the future based on your unique perspective. B identifies as a spiritual woman and believes that the soul does indeed live on after death but we had never discussed a potential psychic ability in her father or what prompted her to ask these types of questions during the session. Speaking of which I’ll have to revisit these things with her to get some answers from her on what she thinks about the topics discussed during the reading. I’m very excited to verify both my accuracy and the statements made by her father regarding previous tarot sessions and timeframes based on similar questions she’s asked me in the past, if you can wait between two to 9 years from now I would love to share my updates! Well, assuming we’re all still alive at that time of course!

Ask The Dead #1

I’ve decided to do a series of blog posts called ask the dead where I present a question to the spirits of deceased humans that I personally work with in the arts of necromancy and interpret the answer I perceive from them on various aspects of death and dying. To answer these questions I will be using some kind of divinatory tool that I have competence in as well as tools I’ve been using with less longevity than tarot to improve my skills with additional tools. The current set of tools that I use (if any) are as follows:

Tarot: No introduction needed.
Playing Cards: Obviously no introduction needed. I mean, who hasn’t ever played a game of Go Fish or try your hand at poker?
Witch Runes: These runes are uncertain in origin as far as my research has led me to believe. This set consists of 13 runes and are not to be confused with Elder Futhark Runes or that of any “rune” set.
Rory’s Story Cubes: These cool sets of 9 cubes per box were designed to be used initially for creative storytelling but I have found them extremely useful and quite unique when doing dice throws.

I’m quite excited about the forthcoming posts so look forward to this series developing into an accessible quest to understand what happens after the death of the body (if anything besides obvious decomposition, cremation, embalming, etc.) The questions I ask of the dead will be inspired by personal introspection in this area, topics of death/dying discussed in blogs and books I’ve read as well as questions posed to me by clients who have readings with me asking for contact and conversations with friends and family members that have passed on. As the work continues I’ll also be providing another book review on works of necromancy that I’ve found useful and helpful in having a better knowledge and understanding of the history/art/practice of this special branch of sorcery.

Stay tuned for Ask The Dead #2

Voices of the Dead

This post has been written in honor of Charles Porter, a spirit of a man who came to me in a state of grief and sadness during a jaunt in my local cemetery at not telling his two children (one boy and one girl) and partner that he loved them one last time and wished to spend more time with them. He felt that now that he doesn’t have the opportunity to share those thoughts and feelings anymore and that he expressed his regret at not having some of his more important, more meaningful priorities in order and how procrastination or thinking you have a guaranteed tomorrow can be a source of guilt or regret even after you’re gone. Charles gave me the impression that he was an honorable man, a man of his word, a strong yet kind and sensitive man, a man who did what needed be done in order to provide for his family but regrets that missing time with his family which meant the world to him…..especially his daughter. Mister Porter, thank you for sharing your vulnerability with me and I hope that through our interaction you find some solace and peace. Honored and grateful for our interaction.

An interesting phenomenon occurs when one performs necromantic rituals, invocations of death energy and meditations to assist in one’s understanding of death and communion with it’s constant presence in one’s life. The particular experience I tend to have is hearing the ‘voices” of the dead loud and clear before, during and after my workings in my local cemetery and quite often I have one or quite a few presences ( or what I perceive to be the human dead) attend my rites or reside nearby out of curiosity or perhaps boredom. The strange correlation I’ve noticed about these presences of dead human beings is that they appear to share the experience of regret, guilt, confusion, sadness and loose ends or unfinished business and messages that they wish to pass onto currently living family members or partners. These messages I receive tend to be the loudest and most regularly occurring experience I have compared to the spirits of the dead who keep to themselves or perhaps they themselves weren’t “talkers” in life anyway so they won’t seek interaction unless motivated to do so. It’s quite interesting to hear these individuals share with me messages of apology or guidance that they desire for me to pass on to others, things which they may not have given thought to or contemplated in any serious way during their time as living beings. It seems to me that in America as far as death is concerned most folks don’t give it much serious thought or prepare for it early in life legally, emotionally or intellectually. Seems to be a rare few in my experience that folks actively make death their companion and advisor. What a shock.

Honestly, the whole reason for this post is to let others know what some of the dead have told me and desire me to share with others so that they may contemplate their own deaths because none of us knows how or when we will die so you best be ready to go at any moment! The majority of them tell me that they regret wasting time on bullshit or activities they weren’t deeply connected to, wasted time working jobs they hate and use the excuse of “survival” to justify spending their whole lives doing shit that they hate or don’t find meaningful in order to pay the bills, wasting time with family/friends/partners out of a fear of being alone or settling for someone less than they deserve because apparently an unfulfilling or toxic relationship is better than nothing. Some of them have expressed regret following a particular philosophy/ideology/religion to find that what was told to them would occur after they died never occurred and they felt they sacrificed their whole lives to get on the good side of a “higher power” and do “good works” for their fellow humans in return for an afterlife of bliss or great reward that never came…. a god or goddess that never showed up to collect them as promised. They tell me to inform others to stop wasting time, to relish having sex with your partner and have sex like each time will be the last time, to make a phone call or write a letter to someone to apologize, make amends or reconnect and heal old wounds. They tell me to take time to listen to a favorite piece of music while watching a sunrise or sunset and be fully present in the moment as if it were the last thing you may ever see again. They tell me to take the time to do what’s important to you no matter the cost because today or even this afternoon may be all the time you have left and how would you feel if ten minutes from now you came to an unexpected demise and all you could think of is the important things you put off for tomorrow because for some reason you feel like you’re guaranteed a tomorrow?

I feel like these and many other messages from the spirits of previously living human beings holds great wisdom and insight into many people’s (especially in the west) death anxiety and fear. Sure, it’s hard to live each and every moment fully present like this because let’s face the fact that we have obligations and responsibilities that take up our time and bodily functions and needs to be meet throughout the day that also take up large chunks of time. I’m not really advocating throwing responsibility or your life’s obligations out the window and engage in some sort of completely hedonistic selfish and self centered approach to living (although I believe it’s important to indulge in life’s pleasures and put your needs before others). What I’m really trying to get at or at least what I’m trying to encourage based on my own experience and in conjunction with the wisdom of the dead is to use death to help you change your priorities as all of us really have one true currency and that currency is time! Time is really what it boils down to in this life, sure we can recover and call back our energy and even take the energy of our environment and other people vampirically but time is something one can never get back! Really think about this……… How do you use your time? Are you using it wisely or constantly engaging in mindless entertainment and escapism? What motivates you to get up each day? Are you making sacrifices and compromises that pay out to you? Are you putting off your bucket list of things to do for your supposed retirement or future date that isn’t guaranteed? Or worse, are you waiting for some ideal future date when you can remove your shackles and live the life you really want to live and spend time doing things you’ve put off for years or decades? Just something to think about.

The Scythe, Attachments and Tethers

As every one of us go through life we tend to pick up attachments or have them placed upon us by others knowingly or unknowingly. These attachments are weights we drag around that have a tendency to weigh us down and restrict our freedom, the cost of dragging these unseen weights take hold of our minds, emotions and saps our strength. Usually, as we get older we release some of these attachments yet some of them we choose to drag around with us all our lives and even take them with us into death and beyond without examining if these ties that bind even serve a useful purpose or teach a lesson that contributes to our knowledge or strength. We quite literally make excuses (myself included) to carry these weights of restriction and try our hardest to justify their usefulness with little to no examination because we know what’s best for ourselves or maybe we grasp these chains tight because it’s all we have in terms of how we define ourselves or maintain hope and motivation to keep going, keep living, keep trying. What sad and strange creatures we can truly be in terms of making continual excuses for self deception in a refusal of learning how to take personal responsibility for our own lives and do what is necessary for continued self growth. It’s much easier to point a finger at others and judge others on how they conduct their lives than it is to look within and put our money where our mouth is before judging others as if we’ve won the award for the best life.

So what can we do in terms of cutting these chains imposed upon us or even worse, those ties that we willingly choose to bind ourselves to? Well the most obvious choice is to take some time and think about what we really want in life, what truly serves us or contributes to our quality and enjoyment of life? I don’t know about you but I’m continually discovering self imposed ties, dogma and beliefs of others without examining the source and realizing just how much bullshit I keep adding on, it’s incredibly annoying to keep discovering this bullshit adding up throughout my life. Thankfully as I’ve matured in my years I’ve taken the time to cut out the shit that no longer serves me over and over, it’s a continual process for me much like removing layers of an onion. It’s very likely that we all need to do this through our whole lives in order to get back to the root of who we are, the source of our true selves before all the socio-cultural and religious crap layered or attached itself to us before we even knew we had a choice to decide what’s right for us and what our ethics, morals, beliefs and interests should consist of without the interference of others. When you do this over and over as you go about living you tend to achieve a clarity, a purity of self and purpose. However, this comes with a huge price! Sometimes or very often it can mean losing friends, family, jobs, lifestyles or illusions about ourselves and our opinions about “the way things are”. This requires great sacrifice but sometimes you have to be willing to lose everything in order to gain something of great reward but this is easier said than done. It can be very difficult to reinvent ourselves over and over or cut the ties that bind to achieve great goals or personal growth. Like the ever familiar image of the scythe wielded by Death itself we must use it to let go, to remove, to cut out the ties that bind in whatever form they may come so that we can achieve what we want or need in this life. Are you willing to bleed? Are you willing to make decisions that can initially be painful or leave a scar but allow you to break free and walk your own path instead of doing what has been done before by soo many others? Can you take on the mantle of personal autonomy and rise like a phoenix from the ashes becoming stronger each and every time you allow yourself to be burned by the fire of transformation?

Neuroscience/Neuroplasticity Links of Interest

Mitch Horowitz Link of Interest

Link of articles written by Mitch featured on Muck Rack: https://muckrack.com/mitch-horowitz/articles

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God of the Outsiders: Satan in Ancient Myth & Modern Culture | A Presentation by Mitch Horowitz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9YpE0chyzw

Mitch Horowitz Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrh57VATxMZhMLz36ztIokg

Death As Advisor

When it comes to understanding death’s place in your life and the ability to comprehend, accept and actively work with death’s energy in life is a whole other ball of wax which is easier said than done for most people, especially in the West where we either deny or trivialize this most important event. Death has a constant place and presence in our lives and in the universe around us. Stars and planets are born and die, all life in the universe must come to an end whether we choose to make this acknowledgement or not it’s going to happen and is happening all around us constantly. Our bodies are constantly dying in order to be reborn, our cells die and the body creates new cells in it’s place. We shed hair, skin, fingernails and excrete waste and toxins everyday yet most of us don’t give this a second thought unless it interferes in a significant and noticeable way to our health or integrity of mind and body. We are constantly surrounded by death in nature, we kill plant and animal matter directly or indirectly through the act of eating everyday which deprives someone or something else of that sustenance in order to continue our existence in the physical body yet how many of us really consider it a daily “death ritual”? Nature is predatory, nature is red in tooth and claw and human beings can be one of the most obvious examples of this fact as we fight for survival and gather resources which take from someone or something else in order to maintain ourselves or our comfort level. These are just a few obvious examples of this fact and yet many folks would rather put on rose colored glasses in willful ignorance or attach some human created moral or ethic about death being evil, dark, black, negative, etc. While death could be considered a negative or evil or a side of life that makes one uncomfortable or uneasy I am inclined to say to you, “that’s the point!” Death in any form: death of a job, relationship, way of thinking, death of a loved one, etc isn’t easy to accept, cope with or understand considering that we are biologically meant to focus our thoughts and energies towards our continued survival and defend against immediate threats. Sure, some things are easier to embrace regarding death’s place in our lives but some things aren’t soo easy and can be downright painful but this also seems to be largely informed and influenced by the society and culture we are raised within as well as any spiritual tradition( if any) we are involved in either by choice or being raised to embrace a tradition or practice before being able to make our own decisions as adults.

There appears to exist four cultural universals on this planet which every human in every time and in every culture know as fact: Birth, Death, Sex, and Blood. Death comes in many forms and aspects, we as a human collective seem to better understand this concept and fact of death by giving this force/energy in the universe a face, a name, a particular appearance (depending on the socio/cultural climate and time). I’m of the opinion similar to certain sects of buddhist monks who regularly and daily meditate on their own death and dissolution that it’s important to come to terms with this fact of life because none of us know how much time we have or how we will die and it’s advised to meditate upon this regularly and often. I wholeheartedly encourage this practice and while I don’t always do this daily I do however make time upon waking, going through my day and before bed to remember to ask myself throughout my day, “If today were your last day would you be ready to go?” This practice in itself as well as a few documentaries/books and links to the practice of death meditation will be provided at the end of this blog post may help provide some guidance on this practice and how to go about such a thing and incorporate it into your daily life. I find researching the varieites of how this is done across different cultures and how they treat their dead and the concept of death and dying is never time wasted and can be embraced as a template wholly or used as inspiration to create your own unique form of this practice. The whole point of this entry today is a form of recognition and honoring the spirit/power/energy/force of death and it’s place in all our lives. It should be respected, honored, acknowledged and used as a life advisor everyday. I encourage you to become friends with death, allow death to be your guide and mentor. Become comfortable with invoking and meditating on your death in detail on a regular basis and watch how your life will change as a result. Death will unlikely do it’s work in your life quietly so be prepared to take this work seriously and realize that it has profound consequences and effects that you may not forsee or be prepared for. In my case I vividly recall in the winter of 2019 every morning as soon as I woke up I would do about a half an hour of invocations to death and take in this energy as a form of communion and ask for a transference of knowledge and wisdom to come into me to help me understand certain aspects of death and dying that I couldn’t understand, in particular I asked to experience the grief commonly felt by many for their loved ones who had passed. Let’s just say that I got what I asked for and for over a month I was hit full force with depression, anger and grief for about a month or more and this feeling would not dissipate or integrate with my energy for quite some time and I had to take a break on my invocations of death energy while I processed the energy and experienced what I asked for. It wasn’t fun or easy to deal with but I now understand more fully the emotional pain many experience when death touches their lives or the life of a loved one and especially how these difficult emotions manifest from a place of death denial, fear and a belief that informs a person of what they expect or believe to expect when they die. This doesn’t necessarily make this true with a capital T but I’m of the opinion that our beliefs shape our reality in many ways and what we expect or believe will happen actually can occur even if that belief or expectation isn’t shared socially or culturally. Imagine that if you believed that once you died that you just simply went out like a lightbulb and that was it? Or imagine if you believed in a place of reward or punishment were doled out to you and based on the judgement of a “higher” power? Or imagine that you believed you became a “ghost” stuck neither here nor there in a sort of limbo forever until you finished whatever business you felt needed taking care of if you died suddenly or unexpectedly? I personally feel that living experientially and having a baseline of NO BELIEFS is an optimum way to live for I feel beliefs are a useful tool but to allow for your personal experience to validate “truth” for yourself, making up your own mind and not being afraid to say “I don’t know” seems more beneficial than some insecure ego based choice to want to be right rather than not know at all. I feel that any religion, path or dogma can wedge it’s way into us from an outside source and we can easily confuse it as our own instead of diligently and regularly examining and unpacking what we really believe or think regardless of social or culture teachings and expectations and making sure to learn how to make up our own minds while acknowledging that we aren’t going to have all the answers to literally anything and may likely be completely clueless to the truth of what’s really going on in the universe, how our minds/bodies work let alone the planet we live on. Sure, we are more informed and knowledgable about many things than our ancestors were but I highly doubt we’ll ever come to an agreement on what’s really going on as there seem to be more theories available to make sense of things than actual facts. We all should know facts become bullshit based on new evidence until that evidence is replaced with new evidence, etc. Such is life.

So as you go about your life each day remember to ask yourself often, “If today were my last day would I be ready to go?”

Walking The Twilight Path by Michelle Belanger: https://www.amazon.com/Walking-Twilight-Path-Gothic-Book/dp/0738713236

The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker: https://www.amazon.com/Denial-Death-Ernest-Becker/dp/0684832402/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+denial+of+death&qid=1600005553&s=books&sr=1-1

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach: https://www.amazon.com/Stiff-Curious-Lives-Human-Cadavers/dp/0393324826/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=stiff&qid=1600005659&s=books&sr=1-1

Time of Death Amazon Prime Documentary: https://www.amazon.com/Time-of-Death-Season-1/dp/B017UGXHEC

Death: A Series About Life: https://www.amazon.com/Physical-Death/dp/B01EUCOUTA/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=death+documentary&qid=1600005856&s=instant-video&sr=1-1

Hereafter Movie w/Matt Damon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212419/

Kissed IMDB Movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116783/

Science of Death Amazon Prime Documentary: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07CPMQ58R/ref=atv_dp_b01_det_c_UTPsmN_1_6

Death Meditation Website Link: http://strivingforfreedom.com/death-meditation/

Death Note IMDB Anime Series Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0877057/

Ask A Mortician aka/Caitlin Doughty Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AskAMortician/videos

Flight From Death: The Quest For Immortality Youtube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK4ztZ4tzQY

Stimulus Check Divination

Hey folks, in light of current circumstances around the events of the covid 19 outbreak I felt like it might be interesting to post a divination using Rory’s Story Cubes ( the classic orange box set, the “action” set and the “voyage” set) to determine the general outlook of the events surrounding the issuing of a second round of stimulus checks to US citizens. I haven’t been reading anything regarding this situation on any digital news platforms and I don’t watch television so I feel my perspective on this issue can be clearer if I stay away from anything discussing this issue in any media. I did however read an article online yesterday on the CNBC website yesterday evening but that’s about the extent of my exposure.

As you can see in the photo above I pulled a random selection of story cubes and cast them to provide some info on the situation. Before casting I did combine all three sets of cubes into one bag and gave them a good shake beforehand. Each set contains nine cubes totaling 27 cubes in my whole collection. I came across these cubes at my local Target store and instantly fell in love with them! You can purchase these on their website which I have linked for you, or you can grab them at Amazon, Ebay, Walmart, etc. The great thing about these dice is that they don’t come with a predetermined sheet or booklet telling you what the symbols mean so you’re free to use them as you see fit! I believe their original intention was to use them to provide creative inspiration for storytelling. I figured they would be a neat way to perform divination using modern symbols and this isn’t a far stretch if you’re familiar with using Norse runes, Witch runes, Bone divination or any sort of casting method that doesn’t involve cards. Let’s get to the results shall we?

So in regards to the general outlook I immediately see a reconvening or “gathering” of those who work to discuss passing/denying this second stimulus check but at a more leisurely pace because the need for another check is generally considered a necessity in some form but I believe there’s a disagreement if the amount stipulated with the sending of the first check should remain the same or if it should be reduced. It appears that multiple “round table” discussions are going to be necessary to reach any consensus on the matter and there are likely multiple delays before any of us US citizens gets a green or red light. I keep seeing a fair amount of resistance to this check being issued either in whole or at least making the criteria for who qualifies and how much they qualify to receive more restrictive than the first round. I also see indications that anyone coming to an agreement seems to have difficulty in “diving deep”, discussing and becoming aware of just how much this second check is needed or at least an understanding of everyone involved in passing this bill is unaware of the true depth of the economic hardships many are experiencing and having a birds eye view to provide clarity is quite difficult to acquire considering many of those who have the authority and power to pass this bill are likely not as affected as others in the middle and lower class, doesn’t surprise me. It’s like trying to explain what living with chronic depression is like to someone who’s never been depressed and could easily confuse “feeling blue” as genuinely experiencing depression on a serious level or depth. Also I believe that a sort of reconnaissance is happening as to give those in power a better idea of how the middle and lower class people at “ground level” are experiencing and dealing with this crises and it’s impact overall which looks to provide a crucial understanding of things and how best to implement the passing of this stimulus check or even to assist in considering another more effective approach to this if necessary. Seems sensible honestly. Lastly, it appears to me that delays in the conclusion of whether a check gets sent out should be expected as it doesn’t seem to be much of a rush or at least the pace to a conclusion will be slower than expected and an issuing of a check will arrive later than many expected as indicated by the turtle and the bridge respectively. Basically “we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it but we aren’t going to rush and instead use appropriate pacing”. I believe that stance is helpful in a way and also unhelpful. To me this slow pace to come to a decision is in part to really gather more information to make an informed decision considering this pandemic and the uncertainty. I feel those in power also have opposition in opinions on whether “the people” really need more financial assistance or perhaps if another approach can or will work better either in tandem to the stimulus check or in place of it. I believe the energetic resistance I’m picking up really says alot about the pace at which this decision is made and it’s likely to me to come to a head right before the end of the year or shortly after January is my impression. However timelines are difficult to predict in general so I’m not going to place any hard and fast timelines here.

So there we have it folks! Feel free to leave a comment or discuss with me your divination results on this issue.

Book Recommendations:

Below is one of many forthcoming lists of books I have found to inspire, inform and resonate with me at the time of reading. These are listed in no particular order of importance and provided for my readers in case they desire some reading material or food for thought. Enjoy!

Thee Psychick Bible by Genesis P-Orridge

The Satanic Bible by Anton Lavey

The Lucifer Principle by Howard Bloom

The Blood Sorcery Bible Volumes 1, 1.5,2 by Sorceress Cagliastro

Divination: A manual for the practitioner by Sorceress Cagliastro

Prime Chaos and Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine

Generation Hex and Hyperworlds, Underworlds by Jason Louv

The Chaos Protocols and Pieces of Eight by Gordon White

Book of Results by Ray Sherwin

Advanced Magick for Beginners by Alan Chapman

Real Magic by Dean Radin ( All books by Dean Radin are excellent food for thought on the scientific research of psi and consciousness exploration)

The Reality of ESP by Russell Targ

Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

The Intention Experiment by Lynne McTaggart

Chaotopia and Life Force: Sensed energy in breathwork, psychedelia and chaos magic by Dave Lee

Liber Null and Psychonaut by Peter Carroll

The way of the seer by Peter Nelson

Piercing the darkness by Katherine Ramsland

Lords of the left hand path by Stephen Flowers

How I found freedom in an unfree world by Harry Browne

The subtle art of not giving a f*ck: A counterintuitive approach to living the good life by Mark Manson

Satan Speaks and The Devil’s Notebook by Anton Lavey

Personal Clarity

How clearly do you understand yourself in terms of what you want and/or need? How clearly are you able to discern between what you really want and what you really need in your life without the baggage of societal and cultural expectations and programming that is deeply embedded within? Have you made time in your life to truly understand how much energy you’ve devoted to fill your time and your life with people and things you truly don’t want or need? How aware are you of how much programming you’re subject to and under the influence of, both consciously and subconsciously? How often do you find yourself really examining your true desires and unpacking the layers of programming, excuses, justifications and bullshit you convince yourself is the reason for all the fillers in your life? Do you even know who you are, what you want and where you’re going or are these choices dictated to you and made you convince yourself that it’s really you driving the car or steering the ship?

The questions above are what I personally consider important and worth devoting significant time to unpacking and examining for ourselves on a regular basis throughout our lives. In my work as a diviner I’ve come across many clients that don’t really know what they want or who they are or why they spend their time doing whatever it is they do to fill out their days. Self awareness and introspection seem to be a rarity these days and I’m thoroughly convinced that one of the main reasons for this lack of awareness and introspection is because asking ourselves these questions and discovering the answers for ourselves makes us uncomfortable, it seems to shock the system when we discover we’ve filled our lives and time with people and things we don’t need and time wasters to distract ourselves from ourselves. For some people this is due to social and cultural programming and it’s more common, insidious and deeply embedded than many would care to admit. For some the root of this is the fear of death, particularly one’s own inevitable demise and time wasters help distract us from examining and unpacking the root of this fear of death and truly coming to terms and becoming comfortable with the fact that today or tomorrow you may die. The fear of death in my opinion is one major reason that we use time wasters and fillers in various forms to reject introspection and self awareness. We fear our expiration date and we fear losing the feeling of being in control. I believe we also fear the revelation that to some degree we are all filled with social and cultural programming that is soo deeply embedded within us that it can take years, decades or whole lifetimes to remove this crap and discover our true selves. It’s not always fun or easy and most people seem to take the easy road and not put in the work it requires to find out who we really are, what truly motivates us and how best to live our lives for ourselves regardless of the potential ostracism judgement and criticisms we may face from peers or family members, partners, etc. It takes courage. It takes bravery. It takes TIME! Time ladies and gentleman is the only real commodity and precious resource you have so use it well, spend your time wisely and acknowledge the QUALITY of the time you spend and who you spend it with and what you spend it doing. Better to live a short life doing what you love than living a long miserable life filled with people you don’t want to be around, toys and gadgets that provide temporary relief but leave you always wanting more and always wanting the next best thing…… wanting the next upgrade. I propose a new way of living. Fill your lives with passion, with pleasure, with beauty. Look into yourself deeply and remove the crap that keeps you on auto pilot and be ever vigilant so that you can be aware of programs constantly trying to embed themselves within you and attempt to replicate like the viruses they are. Eat, drink and be merry for TODAY you may die.