Daylight Robbery ….

 Life, Personal, Wisdom
Aug 312012
 

I’m quite a spiritual person but I have been searching for guidance for a while now and often feel I am stumbling in the dark but it’s not meant to be found in a day. The journey, the pilgrimage is part of life.

N.B. No I don’t want the Alpha Course I am not that way inclined.

I just unsubscribed from a mailing list:

“Hiya
I’m really sorry I had to unsubscribe. There was no means of explaining why so I thought I would drop you an email.
I was due to book onto one of your courses a couple of years ago but then suddenly after featuring in a popular magazine your prices doubled and have since skyrocketed.
There is no way that I could afford to come now (especially since now umemployed)
To continue to receive your emails about what I can not attend is distressing.
I wish you all the best in the future and good luck with your ventures
Blessings
Amanda”

There is an awful lot of information out there and an awful lot of good but you have to filter out the crap, your intuition is a good start.

However when something becomes popular however good or bad the price escalates out of all proportion. Yeah people make a living but when you have a room full of say 20 people who pay up to £1000 – How much are they raking in? Nice way to make a living!!

There really should be a limit, there should be some way of checking up via reviews to filter out the bullshit

I know there is cheaper stuff out there. I’m happy to pay expenses and a little more but a 3 day course -40% discount still costing $650 ????. I really love and rate your work, your books and your CD collections but WTF??

There are free options and one must wait for the teacher to come yeah ok but what to do in the mean time? Bumbling along in the dark for the last 15 years. I’ve learnt a lot of stuff on the way (most of its common sense) but people feel the need to pay serious amounts of money for something that is not vetted and sometimes complete bullshit.

From talking to some people who have been on some of these courses it frightens me the bullshit they have been fed. Basic fundamentals and safety and protection methods completely left out.

So called expert Modern Spiritual magazines are including articles that bare no resemblance to reality and contain little history or extensive research.

It drives me crazy that the common practice is to call all modern witchcraft Wicca. Um I’m sorry I’m a witch but I’m not Wiccan. There is a difference. Study it. Wicca of the worlds media is a vanilla boring fluffy thing shying away from the real witchcraft.

I personally hate labels due to everyones different opinion of them. If you are going to use them please understand what a word means and where it comes from. I am Pagan I am not a Satanist etc.

By all means go with the flow and take what you want from each path and craft that works for you but do not just take what you are told as gospel. Yes this ‘Teacher” is worth listening too but don’t just listen to them. Question them. Look into them. Look at the bibliography of a book, research things yourself. Talk to other people and use your noggin ;) . Explore the history of your own land and your own space. Study the folklore of the people. Research. Its fun ;) Listen to your spidey sense. If it feels wrong get the hell out of there.

I’m going to build a list of courses, teachers and sources of information that I would trust. Take of it what you will and go in Peace,

edit: remember that email I sent?
I got a reply :( . They are taking a holiday on all the money they made

On 3 Sep 2012, at 19:04, “The F..k It Life”wrote:

Hi,

John & Gaia are currently away teaching a F**k It Retreat or enjoying some other F**k It adventure.

They do hook in occasionally, so will answer your e-mail when they can. Excuse the delay.

If your request is very urgent, please reply with ‘Urgent’ in the subject heading and one of us from F**k It HQ will endeavour to get your message to J&G.

Otherwise, no need to reply, and they’ll be with you asap.

Many thanks,
F**k It HQ

 

“Forward this email to a friend.”

 

I don’t think so ;(

The Source by Ursula James

 Life, Personal, Wisdom
Apr 142011
 

 

Two women with the same name, separated by 500 years of time.

The Source uncovers the story and prophecies of Ursula Sontheil, better known as Mother Shipton, witch, healer and prophetess burnt at the stake for heresy, and her spirit then trapped by dark magic in a cave in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire. Her life, death and rebirth tell of the power of need, and how true magic is shaped and given life.

In her rebirth she shared the childhood of the second Ursula of this story, Ursula James, protecting her from harm and giving her strength and knowledge. The book tells of how Mother Shipton returned into her life as an adult when Ursula James finally decided to accept magic as a real force in her life.

In this book, Mother Shipton’s prophecies themselves are channelled to the reader by 21st century therapist and author, Ursula James. Through the prophecies and the rites, rituals and trances in these pages, the reader can find their own way to the source of everyday magic, and make changes to transform their own life through the experiences within these pages.

Each reader will bring their own way of reading and understanding The Source, and all will be changed in different and positive ways. Read this book and you will understand the true meaning of magic.

This is an inspirational/spiritual book which bears comparison with bestsellers like The Celestine Prophecy and The Secret. If you liked Eat Pray, Love, or Tuesday’s with Morrie you will be equally moved and inspired by this book.

 

I just met this delightful, warm and intelligent women at Crystal Moon this evening. Very down to earth, caring and supportive.

There is not enough warmth, respect and interest in our fellow human’s out there and it takes little to stop, put aside our own problems and just listen and here another’s stories.

Life is so much more enriched if we let go of our own egos and busy self importance and just relax and chill and listen and share.


The Source by Ursula James.

Space Invaders: Why you should never, ever do it. – By Farhad Manjoo – Slate Magazine

 Life, Wisdom
Jan 282011
 

By Farhad Manjoo

Posted Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011, at 6:20 PM ET

Can I let you in on a secret? Typing two spaces after a period is totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong.

And yet people who use two spaces are everywhere, their ugly error crossing every social boundary of class, education, and taste.* You’d expect, for instance, that anyone savvy enough to read Slate would know the proper rules of typing, but you’d be wrong; every third e-mail I get from readers includes the two-space error. (In editing letters for “Dear Farhad,” my occasional tech-advice column, I’ve removed enough extra spaces to fill my forthcoming volume of melancholy epic poetry, The Emptiness Within.) The public relations profession is similarly ignorant; I’ve received press releases and correspondence from the biggest companies in the world that are riddled with extra spaces. Some of my best friends are irredeemable two spacers, too, and even my wife has been known to use an unnecessary extra space every now and then (though she points out that she does so only when writing to other two-spacers, just to make them happy).

Read More .. Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it. – By Farhad Manjoo – Slate Magazine.

Oh yes!! yes!! yes!! and again YES!!!

TUT… A Note from the Universe

 Life, Wisdom
Sep 092010
 

People who give, Amanda, are given to. People who care, are cared for. And people who love… age slower, run faster, jump higher, eat healthier, tend to live in cottages, are as happy with friends as they are alone, climb more trees, skip when they could walk, kiss when they could talk, take the odd [...]

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