Over a year ago, I mentioned in an article that I hadn’t had any personal experience with orgone in order to evaluate any of the claims made about it, and that it was something I planned on looking into eventually.

A few months ago, Lena of www.lenarocks.com got in touch and offered to send us some to play with. After spending some time with the pieces she sent us, there are two things I can confirm: Lena does indeed rock, and orgone does perform as claimed. As you can see from the image, not only are these used for energetic purposes; people get pretty artsy with ‘em, too. There were originally two more pieces than what’s pictured, but those have since found homes with two friends we thought would benefit.

What is Orgonite?

The short answer: it’s metal shavings and crystals mixed into hardened molded resin, which is claimed to convert negative energy (called “deadly orgone”) into positive, life-sustaining orgone energy.

For a longer explanation of the history, discovery, inventions and current developments on the orgone front, I would rather leave it to those who have already explained much better than I would by plugging some links, and have this post mostly stick to our own experiences with this material.

I did want to give kudos to the orgone gifting movement, which consists of people who make lots of orgonite, and send it to others, or leave it in areas that are in desperate need of an energetic boost. Given my own experiences with both negative interference, and now orgone, this is one of very few tactics I would personally condone as far as dealing with the influence of pervasive negative networks in a given region in a way that’s productive and sustainable.

Calling one common orgone item, used for gifting, a “Holy Hand Grenade” also gets a few thumbs up from me for the Python reference.

Our Experiences

The day I received our orgone shipment, I was having some instability issues with my base chakra. So, naturally, I took a piece out and sat on it while I worked to see if it would have any effects. It did indeed make rapid, noticeable improvements in the issues I was having, which was nice because it meant I didn’t have to take time out later for manual system repair. My chakras really like the stuff, and respond immediately when I put some in proximity.

As far as neg interference goes, orgone does seem to have the effect of transmuting negative energy. When placed against areas where there’s a lot of thick, tarry, negative-emotion-flavored energy I call “ick” that’s associated with the presence of neg entities as well as the usually unconscious negativity people often launch at each other, the negative energy dissipates quickly. As to whether it has a repellent effect on entities themselves, I assume so based on the above but can’t really say. A few weeks before the orgone got here, we seem to have entered a phase where we aren’t getting many, if any, invasive visits from uninvited critters… which is of course nice for us, but not so much for scientific purposes.

Gehenna has reported a number of positive effects from having the orgone around: increased mental clarity, being able to manage better on less sleep, bounce back quicker after being upset, enhanced dreams and third eye function.

Another item Lena sent us (pictured, top left) was later determined to be meant for amplifying one’s intent. This is a small canister with a mobius coil, wrapped around a quartz crystal, set in orgone, and attached to a battery. Lena had wanted to see if we could figure out what it was before telling us, and while we kind of half suspected what it was intended for, the energy coming off it was so nice we ended up going through most of a battery before finding out for sure. I feel the energy as being of a different quality than the orgonite; the orgonite is also more ambient, whereas the amplifier actively projects a field outward. I experience the energy as being very smooth, steady, and “warmer” in a way that isn’t actually associated with temperature, which is the best I can explain it. I’ve recently been doing some work to undo some things I found screwing with my ability to manifest my intentions, so I plan on doing some meditations with the amplifier once we get another battery for it. Will update if anything comes of this that makes for a good story; watch this space.

All in all Gehenna and I would say orgone is definitely a concept worth pursuing. We’re looking forward to working with it more ourselves, and making connections with others active in this community. Many thanks to Lena for making this post possible!

Links:
Willhelm Reich (Discoverer of orgone and inventor of the original orgone accumulators)
Human Gifting Project
Warrior Matrix Forum
Orgonite Information, Links and Resources

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Fate? Free Will? Fortune telling?

What IS Tarot? I’d say that depends on perspective. Someone new to Tarot would be forgiven for thinking it is about laying out the Querant’s entire life path from now, until death. That is, after all, how popular myth shows the caricatured “Gypsy Rose Lee” reader.. a grizzled, colourful hag with a magic window into your future, which is inescapable and has been written since before you were conceived.

So, do you believe you are a puppet, compelled to enact scenarios with no will of your own? I hope the answer is a vehement “No!”

One of the greatest gifts given to each of us at birth is Free Will. No matter what cards we are dealt, we are given the wonderful ability to work with them and create the life we want. Want to be a famous rock star? Learn guitar, take singing lessons and network. Put your energy and drive into making your dream a reality… hard work, yes; but the reward is worth it as you take to the stage feeling you were born to be adored!

So, back from the tangent, what IS Tarot??!

Tarot is a handy method for helping you make the right choices, the ones that will lead you where you want to be! Tarot alerts you to stumbling blocks along your way, it helps you recognise pivotal forks in the road and it assists you in decision making. Tarot can show you the most likely outcome of your actions. It can say “if you do this then you’ll likely end up here, but if you choose this option then you’ll stand the best chance of getting here”.

Tarot is an excellent way of getting an overview of a problem which you may be too embroiled in to remain objective in your dealings. It often shows the true motivation of all involved, and highlights character traits which affect the process.

On occasion, there are unavoidable or “fated” events that show up in a reading and these are indicated by the Major Arcana cards. That still doesn’t mean we are players on a cosmic chessboard. We always have Free Will and can choose how we move onwards from that defining event.

Tarot is that guidance we often wish for when we have no idea which way to turn. It’s brilliant for “advice” questions: “How can I find the love I seek?” “How can I feel more secure in my job?”, but not so good for yes/no questions. Do you want to be dependant on us any more than on a universal puppet master?

Don’t look on us Tarot readers as people to tell you what to do, but as guides to help you become empowered as you take control of your destiny. We won’t ever tell you what to do — but we’ll shine light on the twists and turns ahead of you.

Originally published in Shadowfae’s Monthly Newsletter.

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Soul Fragmentation Series

1. Soul Fragmentation Explained
2. Three Rules Governing Soul Fragmentation
3. Englightenment, Salvation and the Rejection of Power
4. Soul Fragmentation, Neg Interference and the Paranormal
5. The Law of Attraction and the Mobile Soul
6. Adding a New Dimension to Your Perception
7. Tips for Smoother Integration

As this series expanded a lot further than the originally intended two posts (oops), it became evident that the most fitting way to end it would be to provide some info on doing one’s own integration work. This posed a dilemma though. As you know if you’ve read through the rest of the series, integration work, while rewarding, is not without its dangers and difficulties. I do not claim to be an expert on soul retrieval, and have never received qualified Shamanic training (in this life anyway!), though in a sense most of my life has been a crash course of sorts. Nor would it be very responsible for me or anybody to try and provide said training in a blog post. It is my understanding though that by the time one is well integrated and knowledgeable enough that initiating retrieval is a possibility, not much further training is necessary.

That said, I strongly suspect that the coming years will see us “cleaning up our own mess” and having all things restored to their rightful place, affecting a “system reset” of sorts for all the planes on which we exist. For practical purposes this means that each soul reintegrates all of its own “stuff” – all the aspects of ourselves we have fragmented, released, relinquished, rejected, handed away and abdicated responsibility for, will be returning to us. Keeping in mind that I have done much of this work deliberately, and it has still been an often difficult, messy, painful, crazy-making process, it stands to reason that if it is going to be happening on a wide scale, it would be a good idea for information on this phenomenon to become more widespread. I’m not sure I want to know what it looks like when the better part of six billion people who have never been big fans of personal responsibility have a close encounter with their respective shadows all at once, but I strongly suspect that every individual doing their own inner work has a powerful effect on the energetic network of which we are all part.

With that understood this post is not to be taken as a manual for soul retrieval, but rather “this is how I did it,” and “these are the key factors I’ve identified that caused my own process to run much more smoothly than it otherwise might have.”

The first bit of advice should probably go without saying, but it is important to realize that you have a say in how this process plays out. One of my biggest pet peeves is that with potentially volatile spiritual processes like integration, as well as kundalini and awakening in general, all too often there’s a tendency to perceive ourselves as being at the mercy of forces we couldn’t possibly hope to understand, much less harness and work with in a spirit of cooperation. Even worse, there’s often a strong undercurrent (assuming it’s not said outright) that it’s “not our place” to have a say in how these processes play out.

Bullshit!

This is your awakening, your system, your integration process, and your best interest is what’s at stake – so take charge of it! Firmly stating your intent about how you want the process to go is a great way to do that. Gaining knowledge of what’s happening via research, asking for guidance from whatever higher help you feel an affinity for (your own Higher Self is always a safe bet), and following your own intuition are the best ways to start.

The first step toward accomplishing any goal is to set a strong, concise “mission statement” of your intent, and take stock of what tools you already have on hand to work toward it. In this case the goal is full reintegration – that all parts of your soul that originated with you will return to you, to form a harmonious Whole, in the smoothest possible way. I strongly recommend setting your intent to integrate your aspects from the easiest and most agreeable, to the least so. This ensures that you don’t suddenly have something dysfunctional or otherwise more substantial than your local Self return that hits like a cannonball, which, at worst, can shatter and further fragment the psyche. Reintegrating a large volume of aspects that weren’t all that dissonant or unfamiliar to begin with before moving onto the more difficult stuff, ensures that when aspects return that are dark and even potentially hostile, you’re already balanced, secure and substantial enough that this won’t be overwhelming.

Start With What You Have

I recommend starting out with integration work, not by seeking out fragmented aspects at all, but by starting with the aspects of yourself that are already on hand and most familiar. Starting out by balancing and integrating yourself as you stand right now has the dual benefits of giving you a solid foundation for successfully taking up the later stages of this work, and creates an environment that will attract many aspects of the Self back to reintegrate without otherwise having to seek them out at all.

In his seminal work, Initiation into Hermetics (aff.), Franz Bardon offers a technique for balancing the personality, called “Soul Mirroring,” which is a useful exercise in itself, regardless of whether one is interested in further pursuing his system of initiation. This involves spending a week (or more, if necessary) making two lists – one of all your shortcomings, faults, bad habits, self-sabotaging tendencies and so forth; the other list is of all your strengths. It is recommended that you be as detailed and specific as possible with this.

The next step is to find ways to turn the weaknesses into strengths, and integrate the entire set of traits into a unified whole. The technique I’ve gotten the most use out of is along the lines of what’s described in my article Internal Time Travel, where you interact with an aspect of yourself in meditation as if it was a separate person, allowing you to change the way it’s operating at the root. For each of the traits you’ve listed, I recommend spending some time identifying whether there is a faulty set of beliefs or assumptions at the root of the trait. Is there a fear that you can resolve? Are you being influenced by a past experience that is no longer relevant? Are you using your energy in a way that’s inefficient, destructive or otherwise not helping you? It can be pretty amazing how quickly even longstanding and seemingly deeply rooted issues can be completely transformed, simply by identifying the faulty programming that gave rise to it, and updating the aspect of the Self that holds it with a healthier outlook.

Don’t be surprised to find that aspects of yourself hold a wide range of beliefs and patterning that you don’t remember ever actually believing or operating with consciously, as well as things you did at one time but have long since abandoned in practice that are nonetheless still having a subconscious influence. It is not uncommon for aspects of the Self to be operating with programming we’ve simply absorbed from our environment even if we’ve never accepted, or in some cases, even rejected it consciously. In other cases, programming that seems to be completely out of left field and at odds with who we are in practice, can be imposed due to various forms of negative interference. While it is important to be thorough with this work, don’t get too hung up on following everything to where it came from, why, and understanding all the history and context. Aside of the fact that some things just plain don’t make logical sense where the subconscious mind is concerned, one can easily get lost in details, when in reality the goal is simply to identify and remove destructive programming, and usually only a minimum amount of background details are necessary to accomplish that.

In spite of the fact that you’ve done your detailed soul mirroring lists, it is common for areas of concern to keep coming into awareness long afterward that were not recognized as a problem (or even part of the Self) at the time of the original list. By definition, your Shadow consists of aspects that you’ve labelled “other” and projected outward; sometimes this projection is so complete that the aspect in question ends up completely alien to the way we view our self-concept. So, most likely they won’t all come out at once — but the initial Soul Mirroring exercise is a great way to get the ball rolling, give the subconscious mind the message that you intend to become aware of these aspects, and take a substantial chunk out of the ensuing work.

The Value of a Strong Ego

Cultivating a strong personality, conscious mind and sense of self, has been one of my biggest assets when taking on some of the more difficult situations that can come with integration work.

Imagine for a moment that you’ve got a collection of very dissonant, conflicted characters who are part of a group that is tasked with figuring out how to function as a unit. Not all the members are entirely functional; some are downright nutty. Others have their own agenda entirely. Still others are operating with some very strange ideas about “the way things are,” or should be. You’ve also got imposters who do not belong in the group, trying to pass themselves off as members, and other members returning in a state that, if left to their own devices, could shatter the entire project.

If you want to accomplish this objective, preferably without madness or bloodshed, you’re going to need a leader whose traits include strength, flexibility, understanding, patience, discernment and excellent critical thinking skills, who can lay down “how it’s going to be” and take no crap when the need arises.

The conscious mind is ideally suited to this role, I find – as it’s the role it generally occupies to begin with. The problem with the ego is not that it exists, as some traditions suggest – it’s that, like most other aspects of the Self, it is misaligned and not doing its job properly. Most egos are far too rigid, self-limiting and badly programmed to be able to act as the mediator I described above, but as I said in a past article, this is down to socialization rather than the mind being inherently “bad.”

By default, the mind is the part of the Self making it seem like there is only one self, rather than the rowdy bunch of competing interests described above. The conscious mind normally holds them all relatively stable even if not entirely at peace, and keeps the more volatile or otherwise socially unacceptable ones from gaining too much control over the central personality. Unfortunately the way the ego usually accomplishes this is with a rigid view of “the way things are and should be,” as well as various combinations of releasing, repressing or otherwise getting rid of aspects that are perceived as being too much trouble, as has been described throughout this series.

Needless to say I am not a fan of approaches to the ego that include denigrating it, failing to take its concerns seriously or observing it while holding the intent that it is a “silly monkey.” The chattering of the ego originates with the very subconscious aspects we’re trying to unify, and in many cases, denigrating them is what caused them to fragment in the first place. Get in the habit of observing this voice in a condescending fashion without addressing their concerns in some way, and what do you think happens when you’ve got an autonomous Shadow aspect that needs to be told forcefully to cease and desist so that it can release its programming and integrate? Yep: said aspect will say “you’re not the boss of me, monkey!” and deny the authority of your conscious mind in the same way that you have. At worst, if you’ve eroded your own authority to the extent that most religions encourage, a difficult aspect may decide “I’m running things now,” and you’ve got something approximating a case of possession on your hands.

After a time, the ego will generally behave in the way that its been treated. Treat it as a valuable part of the Whole that is expected to play a necessary role in this work just like all your other aspects, and hold it to the standard you expect of yourself, and it will rise to the occasion.

Make friends with your energy body

Bardon points out in his aforementioned book that the negative traits you list can be linked to one of the four elements (earth, water, fire, air). Those are in turn associated with the bottom four chakras, which he doesn’t state, but I have found to be useful information for doing this work. Usually the aspects of the Self that you interact with and integrate will be associated with one or more chakras. Thus working with and learning about your energy body, with an emphasis on the chakras, has the effects of creating a supportive environment that encourages aspects that have split from them to return, as well as strengthening the structures and pathways to safely accommodate them.

Working regularly with energy also increases your sensitivity, which will allow you to better discern “me” from “not me.” There are many entities that would love to convince you to let them “integrate” with your system, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. Conversely, aspects of the Shadow side of the self might well behave much like your average negative entity, but that doesn’t mean they should be rejected, unless it is not possible to safely integrate without compromising the rest of you at the time. Once you are familiar with the feel of your own energy signature, you will be in a good position to succesfully identify aspects that originated with you, upon their return.

The energy work system I’ve started with, and still use, is Robert Bruces NEW. I recommend it highly for its effectiveness, ease of use, and emphasis on balanced energetic development. A full instruction manual can be found here.

Cultivate your Center

While one’s “center” will ultimately consist of the Higher Self and Kundalini, those two, and the other aspects of integration, can and do come into play for individuals in literally any order, and I’m not sure there’s any “best” order to recommend. As in my case, it’s very possible to do a lot of integration work (deliberately or not) before achieving a conscious connection with one’s Higher Self or raising Kundalini, but one should still have a sense of their own center to work with in the meantime.

When I started integrating fragmented aspects of myself that came back with all manner of beliefs, values and behavior, I soon recognized the need for a set of values to unite them all. Just because these aspects are relieved of toxic programming and willing to play nice, doesn’t mean they’re not still pulling in all directions. So, to preserve coherency, sanity and a unified sense of direction, I began looking for a set of values that were specific enough to have the desired unifying effect, yet universally applicable. Deliberation and intuitive proddings led me to realize that part of one’s center and value system is already inbuilt and integral to the function of the chakras – it’s just that usually we’ve got all sorts of weird hangups and distorted beliefs about them that lead to poor understanding of what they actually are, and thus further internal discord.

My exploration of this subject led me to Power, Wisdom and Love as the three universal principles that are among the most basic building blocks of creation as well as our chakra systems, and thus a reliable combination to aid in the unifying of the soul. While I generally hesitate to impose values on others, I do hold that these three are the basis for all value systems, whether by affirmation or negation. When properly understood, our relation and expression of these three principles will be filtered through our major personality archetypes, and can be implemented and combined creatively, like an artist who has gained understanding and experience with his tools and is then able to use them fluidly, in a masterful display of self expression.

Get to Know Your Archetypes

One of my biggest breakthroughs in integration work came after reading the book Sacred Contracts (aff.) by Caroline Myss, and later doing a lot more study of Carl Jung’s take on the subject than I had previously. Myss puts forth the premise that we all have 12 major archetypes; four universal “survival archetypes,” common to all, as well as eight more that combine to give rise to your own personal essence.

After spending a while exploring that premise, I can vouch for the fact that it carries a lot of validity. While Myss’s book relates to the subject of identifying your “soul contract,” a concept I don’t have much use for, her ideas provided a good jumping-off point to work with my archetypes for the purpose of integration. Identifying and working consciously with the primary archetypes that are influencing your personality and coloring your experience carries many benefits, starting with gaining further understanding of the anatomy of your subconscious mind, as well as identifying aspects of yourself that are genuinely yours, as opposed to conditioning that has been imposed by external sources. Once I started experimenting, I found it surprisingly easy to dialogue with my archetypes mentally as if talking to a separate identity, and making visible lasting changes. In this way it is possible to identify what specific patterns they’re operating with, release them of destructive programming and patterns, and giving them new “marching orders” if need be.

Rather than viewing the subconscious mind as a mysterious, disorganized and potentially frightening mess of gawd-knows-what, this boils a big part of the task down to working with a group of twelve to get them to the point of consensus, so that there’s only one of you – which is really what integration is all about. I definitely have a few future articles planned on the subject of archetypes, so stay tuned for that.

Practice Unconditional Self Acceptance

The whole reason we have a Shadow side of the Self to begin with, is because we have rejected those parts of ourselves as “wrong,” or have allowed others to do so. Thus, unconditional self acceptance is vital to successful integration, and should be practiced with diligence and free of judgment. A good rule to go by is that there are no “wrong” parts of the Self – only parts aligned with crappy programming and faulty beliefs. If you go about this work for any length of time you will encounter aspects of yourself that express in ways that are twisted, disturbing, malicious and pretty much every other destructive pattern under the sun. As a rule, if you think about the things you condemn most strongly, it is safe to say that some forgotten part of yourself is out engaging in that very activity on autopilot as we speak. The sooner we all just accept that we’re all in the same boat in this regard, the sooner we can get on with it and clean up our own mess, as it were. The mistake here is to identify the programming with the aspect (and thus discard both) – the problem is the faulty programming; the soul-fragment is part of the Self with a role to fulfill. These roles vary, but broadly speaking, well aligned Shadow aspects are a source of dynamic and creativity. Thus, my approach to all such aspects is to relieve them of their destructive programming and give them something better to operate with if appropriate, at which point they generally “snap into place” as functional (if not very PC) facets of the whole.

While it’s decidedly unnerving and likely a bit intimidating to look forward to meeting up with Self-aspects that are a vibrational match for Hannibal Lecter, there are ways to make this easier on ourselves. My previously stated rule about holding the strong intention to integrate in the order that makes for the smoothest experience holds here. Doing it this way, the Self local to the physical body and conscious mind builds a strong foundation and an increasingly organized and formidable Whole, that can safely integrate increasingly substantial and possibly adversarial fragments without difficulty.

As an aside, I am NOT of the opinion that everything negative we might encounter originates as a projection of the mind. I would however be willing to state with near certainty that if you have experienced significant negative interference, then part of your unconscious Self is either allowing, inviting, actively participating, or of all the above. It is not unheard of for interference to be directly perpetrated by misaligned soul fragments, though I would say it’s probably more common that said fragments are “helped” by other things that are either opportunistic or have an agenda.

I have additionally experienced aspects I’ve already become aware of and re-aligned, having destructive programming re-imposed on them coercively via interference. This leads me to believe that all the disturbing stuff we find our Shadow operating with did not necessarily originate with ourselves – it may just as easily be imposed on an aspect that has drifted around the astral for any length of time, vulnerable to being reprogrammed at will by any entity with an interest in doing so. This is likely the cause of the phenomenon I pointed out in a previous article, where negative astral manifestations, viewed clairvoyantly, often appear as something humanoid in various stages of regressing into something visibly demonic. I point this out as yet another example of why one should remain nonjudgmental and objective toward any unpleasant aspects of the Self. It’s like having someone throw trash on your lawn and ride off into the sunset — it’s an irritating problem, but you don’t judge yourself for having a dirty lawn; there’s not much to do but clean it up. Once a fragment’s patterning has been recognized consciously, it’s nothing to identify with or feel guilty about regardless of where it originated; just get rid of the programming!

Thus concludes the Soul Fragmentation series. While I will be exploring many of the concepts I’ve covered much more in depth in the future, my aim here has been to provide a viable framework for understanding, as well as for taking up personal integration work in a way that is reasonably safe and balanced. The further I go, the more I’m convinced that there are fewer things more important or pressing than the integration of humanity. It is thus my hope that my contributions to the subject prove helpful, and I wish you all the best on your path.

–Palehorse
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This is the first in a series of interviews conducted by Gehenna here on Beyond Within. In this blog I’m asking Kathy Fanning, author of Atlantean Knights
(aff.) a few questions. Having gotten to know each other through use of spiritual, psychic and doomer forums, I feel she has a unique insight which our readers will appreciate.

1. So, Kathy, what’s your take on spirituality? How has this changed as you have gone through life?

I came in knowing I was eternal and part of it all. This has never changed. Rather, my connection to wholeness runs like a subterranean river beneath the wellspring from which I have had to draw strength all through the dark times in my life. Even in deepest despair, that well has never run dry.

I knew by the time I reached 7, the traditional “age of reason”, that religion was just a play on a stage. Useful for those who don’t know any better, but merely an interesting diversion for me, like watching people on the bus. I observed long ago that religion, while attempting to be spiritual, seldom is. Rather, it is a device to control the masses made up mostly of bullshit. That said, I always loved the concept of angels and the role modeling of saints and still do.

2. What spiritual path is the one you least “get”?

Well I “get” them all - and that may be the problem. lol. The one I most loathe is fundamental born again “Christianity”. As far from the teachings of the Christ as you can get. I detest hypocrisy.

3. Give our readers your best piece of advice!

Life is a banquet so live!

Take responsibility for your choices. There are no victims, only bad choices.

It’s not what happens to you but how you choose to respond that counts. This determines the quality of life.
Attitude is everything. Nothing is ever hopeless. If the light hurts your eyes, wear sunglasses, but don’t turn away.

4. If you could go back, what point in your life would you revisit, and what would you tell yourself?

I’ve thought about this many times over the years. While I wish several things in my life had gone differently, I would change nothing because every experience leads to the sum of who and what I am and will become.

That said, I would look at the young man I married and tell myself, “RUN!” I would have stolen the money to take my SATs which my mother wouldn’t give me (because my brother went to college and he’s a bum) so I could go to the Latin American Institute and become an interpreter at the UN and move into that brownstone with the red door down on Second Avenue.

I would have told myself to go to the prom with Johnny Jones instead of Frank Liebhauser. And maybe a couple three other things.

Mostly I would tell the young me that I was beautiful and worthy and wonderful and loved and talented. Because I didn’t know.

5. Share a moment in your life when you realised that existence was more than random coincidence?

There was never a single moment in my life that I ever thought existence was random coincidence.

6. We here at Beyond Within love to spout off on some pretty polarized subjects.. can our readers have your best rant on a subject that really gets you going?

Oh jeez. Can we go back to the forums and pull out one of my raging fuges? I have to be set off. I can say the subject of domestic violence gets me going. Women who don’t prosecute their abusers but go back for more. Four words can make me rant for days - “but I love him.”

Racial or religious or national or economic bigotry can get me raging.

My sister’s lunacy - could fill the Library of Congress with my rants. But I just can’t go off on one for no reason - I have to be provoked.

Abusive bosses and women in offices who abuse their power is another subject which pains me greatly since I am so often on the other end of their tyranny.

Injustice. Big one.

Political ignorance and lack of compassion.

Disrespect of differing opinions.

And oh yeah, if you don’t like my opinion then shut the fuck up. I’ve had it with people who ask my opinion and then attack my answer. Fuck you. (…well said! -Gehenna)

7. Metaphysics has it’s share of wackos, what’s the nuttiest theory you have heard?

Most of the conspiracy theories are wacky. The wackiest metaphysical claim, however, would have to be from my brother’s common law wife, a professed psychic who claims she goes into the mind of an oarfish, connects with dolphin-sonar, and that’s how she gets her readings. She “mind surfs”. Psychic as an acorn.

8. Many believe we are here to learn.. what have you learnt so far?

Shakespeare, Aldous Huxley, Socrates, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Kipling, Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Lao Tsu, Gautama Buddha, Wayne Dyer, Francis of Assisi, Therese of Lisieux, Confucius, John, Paul, George and Ringo, Oscar Hammerstein, and a host of others have already written down what I’ve learned much more profoundly than I could ever hope to.

9. I loved your book Atlantean Knights, and I’d love a little insight into it’s conception

Atlantean Knights came straight out of a dream. A dream so vivid and visionary that I wrote it down as soon as I woke up. I believe most of that book, although meticulously researched, was a product of karmic memory and channeling. And the dream became Chapter 4. In my writer’s workshop someone might remark that something seemed a bit over the top and I would knee-jerk respond, “But that’s how it WAS!” They often looked at me as if I was a lunatic. Sometimes the guy sharing the couch might move a little away.

Some years later I was grieving the loss of what I had foolishly thought was a relationship. My daughter challenged me to get my head out of my ass, stand up and be who I was, and take a night school course. She reminded me that I was always saying how I wanted to write a book, so prove it. I took her wise teenage advice. It was a read/critique novel writing workshop and I had to have something to read for critiquing so I pulled the memory of the dream out and jotted down a rough first chapter. That was the beginning.

10. Please tell us more about your writing?

Then came Once Over Lightly
(aff). 1973 New Jersey and New York. A book filled with humor as well as some heavy subject matter (shell shock, drug abuse, domestic violence, death, reincarnation). An angel, a talking dog, two ghosts, and some cousins with messed up lives. The soul of a child who could become the first female president of the US and achieve world peace in the name of the world’s children - but who needs a specific couple who are divorcing to conceive her. Can the ghost of her possible grandfather help her seize this destiny? Her prospective mother is his daughter. He has one month, until midnight Halloween night, with only his faithful dog to see and hear him. The ghost of Lincoln Lightly is based on my father, who died when I was 8. The setting is where I lived the first 25 years of my life.

Battle Fox - an historical fantasy in which a Civil War soldier meets a fox spirit woman who changes his life. She marries his best friend, disguises herself as a drummer boy, and joins the regiment. When in her fox form she takes Adam and his two friends to magical worlds woven in the fabric of time.

This one came from a dream also. And that dream is also a chapter in the book. The hero is based on my great grandfather. I walked every battlefield he fought in and followed the trail of his regiment, weaving all I learned about the Billy Yanks, the battles they fought in, and the terrible moment in history called the Civil War into the plot. Battle Fox made the semi finals of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel of the Year contest for 2009. If only an agent would represent it!

The White Ship is an historical novel which tells the story of the 12th Century Titanic. I’m still working on this one. Fleshing it out and polishing it up. Turns out the dark ages were not so dark after all, for this was a time of a wonderful cultural renaissance for the fledgling British Empire, full of color and rich achievement. I discovered a fascinating subject in the character of Henry I. The White Ship was the worst maritime disaster of the Middle Ages. Its sinking changed the course of English history. Its parallel circumstances to the Titanic are bizarre and amazing.

Please visit Kathy’s author page, where more information resides about all these books, along with pictures pertaining to each work.

–Gehenna
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Soul Fragmentation Series

1. Soul Fragmentation Explained
2. Three Rules Governing Soul Fragmentation
3. Englightenment, Salvation and the Rejection of Power
4. Soul Fragmentation, Neg Interference and the Paranormal
5. The Law of Attraction and the Mobile Soul
6. Adding a New Dimension to Your Perception
7. Hints for Smoother Integration

As the title says, becoming aware of your multidimensional nature can add a whole new dimension to your perception… literally. The fact that aspects of the self can act, interact, gather information and bring it back to the conscious mind, accounts for much of what we consider extrasensory and intuitive phenomena, as well as various ways that people can connect with each other across time and space. As we perform the work of reintegration, it becomes evident that psychic abilities are not for “special” people — they are natural facets of the human experience, albeit ones that we have often been made to shut down and cut ourselves off from.

Clairvoyance and Clairaudience

I have previously described how, upon the return of a formerly disconnected fragment of myself, I usually get a “download” of that aspect’s memories. In the past this consisted of disjointed dreamlike memories and snips of impressions. As I have consciously arranged to make space within myself for these aspects to “dock” with though, I have been able to achieve increasingly substantial downloads which have contained identifiable information about the aspect in question, and its experiences while non-local and outside my awareness. During the last substantial download, I had deja-vu lasting about ten minutes – “memories” of the immediate future.

In light of these experiences it seems likely that mobile aspects of the self, as well as the nonlinear nature of time, provides a viable explanation for clairvoyant, clairaudient and intuitive phenomena. All that is really required is that a self-aspect travels a short distance up one’s timeline, witnesses a probable event, returns to the conscious mind’s frame of reference in the present, and the conscious mind is able to perceive the relevant information in some form. Depending on how refined one’s senses are, this can account for everything from a simple sense of “knowing” that later proves true, to a full on observation of an event that has yet to occur. Likewise, it also accounts for perception of events that occur in the present, but outside the normal range of one’s physical senses.

Multidimensional Relationships

The ways in which aspects of ourselves travel and connect with others seem to be limited only by our illusion that time and space are any obstacle to making meaningful, mutually verifiable connections. Astral projection is the most well known way to travel nonphysically, but a successful AP only entails the conscious mind getting in on the fun of what the usually unconscious aspects of the Self are up to on a fairly regular basis, with the effect that the travels are remembered. Shared dreams and conscious dreamwalking, the practice of deliberately appearing in someone else’s dreamscape, are another related possibility.

There is a lot of fun phenomena that could fall under the description of “pinging” friends and loved ones, with varying degrees of perception at both ends. If we can’t be with someone physically, we can project our awareness to where they are, and have this be perceived in some form by both parties. We can even send an aspect of ourselves out to prod someone we haven’t heard from in a while to get in touch, and if the willingness is there, and there’s nothing preventing it, there’s a good chance they will. All of this can be done consciously and deliberately, though whether you’re aware of it or not, aspects of ourselves and others, particularly those we are closely connected to, are always interacting. Becoming increasingly conscious of this interaction brings to light a whole new dynamic in our relationships, that would otherwise remain hidden, but no less influential. Understanding and observing how the subconscious mind works, locally and not, makes it increasingly difficult to believe in coincidence.

Developing the nonphysical senses along the lines of opening the flow of energy and information between the conscious mind and non-local aspects of the Self certainly warrants further exploration; this is something I plan on experimenting with much more extensively in the future. If anyone reading has been inspired by this information to do your own exploration, I’d certainly enjoy hearing about the fruit of your efforts! In the meantime, the next and final post in this series will focus on ways you can encourage and facilitate the reintegration of your own fragmented aspects.

–Palehorse
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