Tag: new age

  • Top 7 Biggest Myths Propagated by Western Religion and Spiritual New Age

    1. ‘Forgive everyone indiscriminately: Jesus did even while being killed, so’….
    People who are manipulative abusers or psychopathic do not care about your forgiveness and will have no interest in changing themselves. A narcissistic person might constantly abuse you, yet, expect forgiveness only to repeat the same cycle endlessly. Infact, they think you are to blame and will call you narcissistic or abusers even if all yiu did was forgive them unconditionally. They do not deserve your divine forgiveness. Focus on your wellbeing instead.

    2. ‘Love Everyone Unconditionally: Just become love and love your father, mother wife, husband, neighbour no matter what, as per Bible’…
    The narcissistic selfish person will want love (by love, they mean… money, sex, sympathy) ❤️ unconditionally towards themselves regardless of their behavior, and drain you out in every sense of the word. They do not love anyone. Quit the Hooponopono at this instance please. Cut your cords off and detach.


    3. ‘Be humble, free of ego, have no expectations, like a homeless monk surviving on alms’…
    Say those who want you to feel worthless, get paid nothing, be a pauper and a slave, and be mistreated, a kind of abuse where you end up giving your time and energy away and receive nothing in return, in short you are dead. Focus on being successful, prosperous, healthy, and happy.

    4. ‘Leave it to the Universe, whatever it is’,
    Yes, I know the universe (Matrix of mind) can manifest or simulate anything ..good as well as evil magically…but should it? I am sure criminals manifest slaughterhouses, barbaric systems, suffering, and hell, all the time. Are you part of the Universe, and is there anything for you to do, or do you want to delete yourself and let evil take over?


    5. Focus on the positive and the solution alone (and ignore various problem areas or warnings.)
    Not very clever! How would you deal with or heal those things you know nothing about? If evils of society are exposed, then only will we transform the same. If not you, someone else will, so let them, in case you need a rest.

    6. ‘Happiness is the only goal. So force yourself to happy.’
    Yes, it is a goal but not a pretension. Real happiness is heartfelt and a result of truth, liberation and a fair as well as just outcome. You don’t order me to be happy or calm down if I am in a cage, as I need to act now and do what is necessary. Drugs don’t heal anyone, they might just put you in deep coma. Awareness just might help.

    7. Love God and believe in Him, with your body, heart, soul.’
    No. I have no clue who you are talking about. Do you?
    When you do not know who you are and why you are in an artificial reality simulation (lost in a dreamworld) how do you assume who your mysterious creator is, and what sort of being he or she is? First agree upon a definition of God or Goddess that makes sense to you and is logically apt. If God is Love then it’s your own higher Self who destroys evil and takes away all illusions. Don’t sell me a narcissitic man in the sky controlling or Lording over His foolish creations made in his stupid image or lineage.

    Not everyone is capable of understanding these points. Please share and spread awareness if you are.

  • Top 11 Spiritual Tips to Cut Away the Cords of Negativity

    Top 11 Spiritual Tips to Cut Away the Cords of Negativity

    In the matrix of this ‘reality show’ a lot of negative or evil beings are trying to remain in control of our lives. They have spread evil through patriarchial religions and legal systems that enforce sterotypes, while abusing human and animal females, children and even males. If you are a victim of domestic abuse, rape or child abuse, or if you are witness to animal abuse rampant in society, or see workplace abuse or sexual crimes, there is little help in sight around you simply because of widespread ignorance and deliberate corruption in society and among authorities. These tips may be helpful to get your started.

    1. Stop Spiritual Brainwashing: Spirituality and religious systems have all of us fooled. You are not really helping yourself by avoiding calling a crime a crime, by not reporting it, by remaining in abusive relationships or allowing innocent animals and children to be abused just because you emotionally are entangled with the man or woman who is abusive and believe you have to ‘love them’. You have pity with them as an empath and fear they are emotionally unwell, you hear false spiritual gurus such as Brahmakumaris saying, ‘if there is a fight at home, increase love to the person who is abusive as they are unwell’, Jesus who says, ‘show the other cheek’, ‘love the enemy’ and non-vegans who aggressively demand ‘compassion’ solely to them. You do not want to be ‘sleeping with the enemy’ if they are a psychopath killer who can harm you, rape you and abuse you. You do not want to keep supporting negative behavior. Set clearer boundaries, be kind to victims and do not let them be violated.
    2. Just Meditation is Not the Cure: You want to be sensible and not behave like a ‘mata’, a hugging ‘maa’, or ‘sadguru’ who speaks big things about how to ‘meditate’ if someone abuses you sexually or physically or to ‘hug them’ and praise them and ignore their negative traits. It will not work. To meditate yourself while someone is hitting you, raping you, hurting your children, killing animals – is simply idiotic. You do not cure a problem by allowing it to be there physically and escaping into a false imaginary world (purely mentally) at the same time. Your efforts to detach from negativity need to be realistic and not just imaginary. You need to ground yourself in a new reality altogether with your real feet first in the place you should be, a safe place, or send victims to safety in a sanctuary or refuge. Do not be afraid to say no to evil things. Do not sing, dance, laugh, make music, love or light with the Devil who tries to harm you and stays all around you or ivades your space or life. Shield yourself for real. Do not socialise with evil ones.
    3. Request Friends, Family, Coworkers, Public to Report Crimes Promptly: At times victims are killed and it is too late to report anything, therefore report abuse at first instance itself. Sometimes the victim is mentally ill, not aware of how to report crime, is fearful of asking for help, unable to be independent, too controlled, weak, unconscious, too young, disabled, or needs help, Your friends and family members may be hesitating to report crimes even if they witness them. Your partner’s friends and family will obviously help him instead of you even if they witness crimes and they are wrong (if they are also evil). Hiding crimes and whitewashing the fence instead of cleaning up the inside part is a common social evil. People say ‘do not wash your dirty laundry in public’ and they want to maintain ‘family honour’ and not bring shame to family members by exposing domestic violence. They want their social or corporate image to be in top shape when on the inside cowrokers suffer. They want to look good on facebook and linkedin and not take a stand but to post nice images. You need to break this evil practice and tell witnesses to report what they have seen, heard or felt as honestly as possible with evidence such as audio-video recordings, pictures or witness statements to police or court. This needs to be done fast else after a few months no action will be taken and danger will increase, for example in UK the authorities incharge will not take any action and close matters stating it is 6 months past time limit or historic. Medical evidence from professionals is often very necessary because authorities at times do not listen to verbal evidence. As far as animals are concerned vegan organisations can help promptly at times.
    4. Cut Cords Emotionally and Physically: Mere mental cord cutting by imaginary strings of energy or ‘false light’ is useless. These new age exercises are just a tool to enhance your will power but they may not help on their own if you merely call out on Archangel Michael to cut your cords, or imagine cutting cords in your aura or chakras mentally, or send light into your aura to shield yourself. You may be with Lucifer instead of any real angelic liberator if you are merely with imaginary light. All this mentalism works briefly or temporarily to make you feel better. You need to do the REAL inner work, to not be emotionally all smiles and mushy about the partner who is abusing you, read up on what is abuse and how the victim is controlled or puppetted emotionally. The strings around you are emotional ones that keep you physically entangled and mentally confused. You also need physical distance, you cannot be in bed with them and imagine detaching mentally and think it is enough. You need to break free at all levels. Similarly if you have non vegan friends, family and partners who abuse animals daily do not be attached to them. Tell them it is wrong and if they wish to be close to you, they need to stop being criminals, non-vegans or abusive psychopaths who lack empathy.
    5. Be Negative about Negative: You are told a common lie – ‘don’t be negative’. You are taught to be loving, kind, compasionate, full of light, towards evil beings and to bless others who harm you and many other innocent victims. You are wrongly asked to think positive about THEM. This is a deception. Your new age spiritual gurus or masters and all these fancy authors are misleading society. If something is negative it is negative. If someone is behaving negatively it is THEY who need to be positive. You need to see things as they are – negative as negative, positive as positive and respond appropriately. Be happy only if there is something to be happy about. If things are bad, you need to feel it, use your senses to detect negativity by feeling it. Then get out of there. Do not say false affirmations about how ‘everything is perfect and everyone is great’ by Hay House style books that make you mentally okay with all kinds of evil. Be ‘not okay’ with what is actually not okay. Be unhappy about negative things and happy about positive things only. Visualise actual change to manifest it.
    6. Use Judgement: You are being taught semi-spiritual lies about how not to be ‘judgemental’. Judgemental means to rush to a false judgement. To actually judge something exactly the way it is is not ‘judgemental’. You need to judge the behavior that is wrong as wrong. Be clear on your ethics and moral values. Have good sense of discretion. Do not be mixed up that exercising good judgement and ‘judging’ other’s behaviors are bad. You need to be a good judge about what is good or bad using basic common sense most of the time. Do not trade opinions for facts. If you see for a fact that something wrong is going on, for example animals being killed, abused, children and women being abused, please judge these things as evil and culpable. This does not mean you are judging the person, only that behaviour or pattern of behaviour as a crime. if they have learnt how to be good and at present moment are doing nothing wrong and have no bad tendencies then stop judging them for their past. But for your protection detach from them if you see they are the same or not agreeable to set things right or if patterns are ongoing and likely to return especially because risk can be too high if you have experienced horrific abuse from them already.
    7. Karma is Your Action: False light bearers will say – leave it to karma, let someone get their own lessons in their own time. This is the Matrix talking. Recognise the deception. Karma means your own actions, not something around you. The abuser’s bad behavior is their bad karma. Not taking actions is also a bad karma if the harm is likely due to inaction against the crime. Your karma is to do the right thing and protect yourself or seek support as early as possible as a victim. Other person’s karma if evil needs to be stopped by them or by relevant authorities or by intervention. Do not repeat a past mistake to end cycle of your karma of continuing to be in a bad relationship. It will not be a new lifetime or other dimension where the perpetrators will learn anything by way of a return of the karma through the universe (eye for eye, tooth for tooth). That system is simply a wrong one. You need to be clear and teach that evil is wrong, and stop the evil as soon as detected. That is real karma or spiritual lessons, not waiting for any divine being from outside to teach karma or give lessons to you or others in future life. Karma is an inner job, go within yourself and do the right thing, and stop the wrong if you are capable.
    8. Stop Victim Shaming and Blaming: When a victim reports what they are going through, stop saying, it is your fault it happened, to blame them for using self defense to protect themselves, to blame them for triggering anger or abuse or to say they have manifested it somehow due to their ‘low vibrations’. Also to say they are suffering because of previous bad karma is negligent and can cause more PTSD or even suicide of the victim. Let us say a female or child complains to you that they have been raped or hit, you should not respond by diagnosing that they were rapists or abusers in past life and are now being attacked so that they know how karma works and how it feels to be raped or abused. A simple example is an animal being slaughtered or sexually abused for breeding and their child killed for meat or dairy or eggs – this actually happens to billions of victims evey year just for eggs, cheese, butter, milk for tea or coffee, dairy sweets or chocolates, and all this is heinous criminal offense against the victims and it is definitely not their fault as the victims are far too many in mumber. We must not assume that each of them was working in slaughterhouses in past life or a non vegan consumer, because humans are only 8 billion and animals killed annually year after year exceed 150 billion per annum.
    9. Astrology, Numero, Mumbo Jumbo: You know that astrology works only because it is a program of the matrix system. All occult and magic is inherently a program. Your planets and stars controlling your life are mental holographic reality constructs. They are not responsible for your life. Praying to them does not help except in an imagined way. Saturn is not responsible for your problem, it just corresponds to it, correspondence is not causation. These systems show you the patterns of the matrix, are diagnostic, and not helpful beyond merely introspecting and understanding your situation. Spells and positive thinking works only because your mind is working, not the planets. If you have been in the wrong and have been harming someone, prayers to planets or gods or handwriting analysis or changing numbers of name, or feng shui is not the cure, change yourself. If you are a victim, in tht case an illusion of occult subjects to change things may not be the immediate solution, however helpful magically through intentions.
    10. Prayers or Chants: A common thing in the world of healing, therapy and general life is to suggest prayer, meditation, devotional chants, hymns, angelic music, and spells or mantras. To say devotion, worship, singing praises of Gods angels, the God of Israel, the God of this or that religion will be the best way to stop black magic, psychic attacks, demons or anything else attacking you, is also strange because this means the animals in slaughterhouses who do not have access to those religious tools, techniques and religious gibberish have no way of manifesting freedom. This is an unjust system of Satanic lies that a narcissitic God, deity or universe or some angel will redeem, save, deliver or help you if you believe and have faith and if you are devotional or very loving to that deity. If that deity was a real benovelent and Omnipotent being who can chieve anything or send help to anyone, why would he listen only to his or her believers or admirers unless he was a narcissist. He or she would help each victim promptly with his or her Omniscience and love. We as humans need to fight evil and act in solidarity using our will power. The religion or deity is irrelevant.
    11. Do Not Respect Evil: Ego, pride, a sense of attitude, asking you to respect them, is a common way of the Devil making you subservient as a victim. They will put themselves first and demand attention, love, sympathy, respect, free will while not respecting you, not loving you, not caring for your free will or that of others whom they abuse freely. Non vegans will ask you to respect their personal choice to abuse others and to stay out of their plate while animals are raped and bled for them. Domestic abusers will ask you to stay out of their affairs wile raping their wives and hurting their children. They will confuse you and give their false stories to all others to attract attention, derail from the main issue, to get respect and sympathy towards them. They will use various manipulations to convince you to hear them out constantly and respect their point of view.
    12. Educate Children: The false notion that children should be shown or told only positive things of Disney style colourful cartoons is wrong. You are going to be risking the life of your child or letting them be victims of sexual abuse, or risk turning them non-vegan. You need to tell children that the world may have wrong or evil things at times, and explain it in a child friendly way using stories for children about how noone should hurt, harm or exploit someone mentally, physically, sexually and emotionally. You need to be well educated yourself first else you cannot teach them. Other family members may want to control your children and abuse them or turn them into abusive citizens like them. Help children learn about their rights and how to stop control and coercion and why be vegan by explaining what happens to abused human and other animals.
    13. Educate Society or Cut Off: Others around you either do not know or do not care about the above things because they are dumbed down by the Matrix of media, consumerism, artificialism, social approval, mis-education, mal-practices in family, bad role models of celebrities, foolish religions, wrong spirituality, cinema, music and cartoons. People are heavily reliant on the matrix for entertainment, consumption and illusion. While it may be impossible to shake them up and awaken them, it is still necessary not to come under their control and tell them they are wrong instead of being infected by the virus of control. If it appears they are deliberately proponents of evil and violent systems, you can cut-off from them for your own spiritual freedom. There may be more to them than meets the eye and a lot of people are inhuman agents of the matrix or demonic programs. Beware.
  • Beware of Spiritual Couching!

    Beware of Spiritual Couching!

    A few years ago someone I knew was promoting himself as a spiritual coach. Inadvertently the word that he typed on his profile was ‘spiritual couching’ instead of spiritual coaching. Its funny how these ‘Freudian slips’ can be very revealing. Something deep from our unconscious knows how to communicate and express itself through meaningful coincidences even through mistypes and miscommunication.

    Yes, we all need to reflect on this – all thanks to my acquaintance who made this slip and taught us a valuable lesson. Are we in the danger of becoming ‘spiritual couches’ who are passive livers than active spiritualists? Do we misunderstand and misinterpret much of our ‘spiritual’ new age gurus’ teachings are many of these teachings true in the first place? Read on to know what all ‘is’ and is not being spiritual in this ‘new age’ world.

    Myth: Being Effortless = Being Lazy. 

    Truth: Relax, receive and effortlessly attract, these new age principles do not mean we should be ‘couch potatoes’ just sitting and waiting for the apple to drop right into our mouth. Yes we receive the fruits of our karma effortlessly when the time is ‘ripe’ but hey – don’t forget to sow the seeds and water them. When the fruit is ripe it will fall down on its own, for sure. But go and prepare your soil first, get your tools out, dig and delve, sow and grow, nourish, be patient – it takes effort. Some karma is required for us so invest into your life and surely the returns will flow back to you. All the ‘effortless’ things you have received in the present life are your past life fruits ripening up now. Being ready to receive has helped. New age spirituality helps you be more ‘ready’ and receive your fruits, but do not mistake this receptivity state for being lazy and dull.

    Myth: The Universe is Within = We should be self centered/ selfish.

    Truth: The definition of within needs to change. Who are you? Know thyself. The Universe is within means expand your consciousness – you are not just your limited lower self, your body, your material possessions, your limited mind. Make your mind more unlimited and see how everything in the universe is part of your Self. The universe is within this greater ‘Self’ not in your narrow and contrived notions of your selfishness. To be selfish is to love only your limited self or your lower self. To be self loving is quite a different approach. It means to love everything and everyone including yourself. It means being aware that love is not something very limited that can be either given to yourself or to others, but an endless energy flowing to all in ever increasing amounts. Be generous and expand yourself- reach out and love everything and everyone as part of you.

    Myth: The Secret and Law of Attraction = Pursue Material Goals All The Time

    Truth: So you have read all these new age books and they seem to tell you that the universe exists to serve your lower needs of food, sex, shopping, diamonds, fashion and beauty? Just tell me one thing. Do you ever meditate and is there any substitute to your inner peace? Can any amount of food, sex, glamour and money buy you peace? No, you do not exist merely to accumulate and gather material comforts. Having money and things is simply not a state of true abundance. Being spiritual is all about being aware of your spirit nature, your real self, at all times. There will actually come a point when you will no longer ‘hunger’ for anything, ‘crave’ for anything, be ‘needy’ for anything. Being content is possible – make that you.

    Myth: Being Positive = Thinking Positive (Doing good is secondary)

    Truth: There is so much hype created around positive thinking that the worst of criminals have been projecting themselves as spiritual people. Some ‘spiritual’ people actually believed that they could get away with anything and everything by just thinking positive and imagining all kind of good things happening to them right now even while indulging in negative activities on the side. The truth is you simply cannot delete or cancel out your negativity just through superficial thoughts. Being positive right now is a great thing and this includes positive actions. You need to transform all over – mind, body and soul. You need to start doing only positive things else it will be very difficult for your inner or unconscious mind to believe that you are a good person and you deserve good. Our unconscious mind is way beyond our conscious thoughts and affirmations. We have to change the way we live into something phenomenally positive in order to be truly positive.

    Myth: Joy and Bliss = Drunkenness

    Truth: Being in a state of spiritual bliss is very different from the ‘trance’ you induce through drunken dancing, substance abuse and lewd sexual performances. ‘New-agers’ reveling in pagan rituals that focus on excessive enjoyment do feel great for the short run but the effects wear off. A real ritual should empower you and shift your consciousness so deeply that you never need any drugs, alcohol and sexuality to stimulate yourself ‘spiritually’. Real paganism is about being in tune with nature through our inner meditative state, not just an external but an inner connection that is expressed outwards in such beautiful ways that even a child can feel safe in your rituals. Truly children require no drugs to dance, play and be merry – so why should we? Be in tune with you inner child and give yourself only those things you know are good for the child within. Be in a natural state of deep inner bliss.

    There are many more such insights I would love to share with you in my next book – stay tuned into my author page on amazon http://www.amazon.com/Swati-Prakash/e/B00V54BBHQ

    Blessed Be!

    Swati Prakash

    karma

  • My Tips for Healthy Living

    My Tips for Healthy Living

    1. Eat light. Its amazing how little we really require to live. Most of the time we eat for emotional comfort, taste, social obligation, entertainment…all the wrong reasons. When we are in a meditative state we literally eat light, or spiritual energy. Most of my students who have come over to attend my full day workshops always felt too full to eat lunch and that’s because of the amazing energy they were channeling. I won’t suggest trying not to eat. Rather I suggest eat when you really need to and this need reduces automatically when you channel higher energy.

    2. Eat right. This is what I have finally concluded. Vegetarian (actually raw Vegan) food is the best, especially because you don’t have to kill the plant. The actual term vegetarian comes from veg-eatarian i.e. vegetable or ‘vegetation eater’ and was never intended to include dairy or eggs. Eat more fruits including vegetables that are actually fruits such as cucumber, courgettes, bell peppers, brinjals, gourds, there are so many varieties of tasty foods that are meant to be eaten. Plants want to offer us their ripe fruits so we can help in propagating the seeds and plenty of nutrition in these juicy fruits makes them my favourite.

    3. Cook less. Healthy, ripe organic fruits and veggies often require little or no cooking. Personally I have never been a fan of cooking because it destroys so much of the nutritients in our food and adds so much unrequired oil, sugar, salt and spice thereby completely spoiling the fruity food which nature has already ripened and served to us all ready to eat with all required things included within.

    4. Exercise lightly. High adrenalin pumping, muscle building types who live on protein shakes and meats often look like meat themselves. Its stupid to eat wrong and then spend extra cash and time to lose weight by joining the gym. Walking, completing household chores yourself with less use of automated equipment, yoga, stretches, simple exercises you can easily perform at home or in the park are sufficient to keep fit and look nice (provided you eat light and right), and they do not cost much time or money.

    5. Talk less and softly. Talking exerts us and creates uneccesary stress. Use of intuition is so important in understanding things without much need of words.

    6. Think less. Thinking is unrequired when you are channeling pure energy or spiritual wisdom. There is no need to process and twist this higher wisdom mentally. Everything you say or do can simply channel this higher energy without diluting, tweaking, confusing the same. Let your mind be one with the universe, large and open with endless awareness all the time. Smaller minds need to worry and think. The universal mind is forever in peace, relaxed and clear as crystal with doubtless awareness. Meditation is all about achieving that thought free state of pure being.

    7. Choose intuitively. Your inner self knows what’s right. It tells you when you need anything, what you need, what you do not need. Choose health always. This means reading only useful information, wearing comfort, spending time wisely, living in the right location, clean surroundings, positive people, right kind of shopping, a career you love and excel in….these things can simply not be found in books…only intuition can guide us perfectly. Sometimes people think they are intuitive when they are actually blocked. Only correct meditation can unblock and allow wisdom to flow, minus all the rubbish.

    8. Healthy relationship. I am a big fan of monogamy, loyal mutual love, healthy sexual partnership and marriage. Its all about wholesome and clean auras interacting together, contributing to each others health and happiness, living a better life together. There should be no bondage out of emotional, financial, sexual or any other dependency or insecurity. A real relationship strengthens rather than weakens your individuality. Walk away from negative energy. Accept real love.

    9. Find and live your purpose. A lot of depression, misery, disease and helplessness is when you do not know yourself, your spiritual truth, your reason for incarnating on this planet. Know that the universal energy that some call God or Goddess can be manifesting through you. The more you allow this energy to flow through you, the better and more purposeful life gets. Only when blocked to this energy you lose life and fall prey to diseases of mind, body, soul. Again meditation is the answer.

    10. Meditation in every moment. Its not something you do for a few minutes. No need to have rigid schedules or complex techniques. You are doing it right when you feel the positive universal energy flowing through you in every moment free of any spiritual, mental, emotional, or any other blockages. Only goodness flows through you always. Health is effortlessly achieved.

    11. Spells for every improvement. Some people who think of God or Goddess as an external entity pray. Those who channel infinite energy simply manifest. Its about being your true self. A lot of unhappiness was upon earth when people misunderstood God or Goddess as an external being and stopped learning the right ways to meditate, use intuition, create positive transformation in life. This lack of magick made people feel like victims, helpless, hapless, worried, dependent on external guidance, medicines, convuluted religious dictats and negative sorcery. Thanks to meditation more people are now finding the inner source of health and happiness everyday and aligning with their infinite magical nature.

    Swati Prakash

  • Nature = Science = Religion

    Nature = Science = Religion

    Humans consider themselves to be more intelligent, more evolved than other creatures of earth. I have come across certain spiritualists who believe that their being human is such a gift because ‘they are so much more spiritually evolved’. Many believers in reincarnation actually state that human life is the highest possible level of reincarnation on earth and it is through this that we attain the so called higher state of ‘liberation’.

    It is true that humans are biologically more evolved, being the most dense, physically and mentally more complex species on earth.

    Biological evolution and spiritual evolution however are two different things.

    Biological evolution can be termed as spiritual ‘involution’. All matter has evolved from its original spirit form. Spirit, energy, chi, prana, shakti is life and it is the essence and original state of everything that exists (both the living and so called ‘non living’). Energy has ‘condensed’ to become what we see as matter. This is a scientific fact and a peek into quantum physics will help us understand this.

    Becoming more and more complex from our original, simple, ‘unity’ state of existence – this is the process of involution.

    As nature becomes more and more complex, spiritual vibrations become denser and denser, more and more complex forms of life evolve as spirit gets ‘involved’ in the play of existence. We become physically more complicated, mentally more complicated, hence highly ‘intelligent’ humans.

    Animals (read other animals as humans are a part of the animal world scientifically speaking), are less biologically evolved and less mentally complicated. They are closer to the spiritual self.

    Plants are even closer to the spiritual self. Minerals, crystals, rocks are close too as they have fewer complexities.

    Earth (solid matter), Water, Fire, Air, are all closer to Spirit in that order.

    Spiritual evolution refers to the process of us (complex human forms) becoming more and more attuned to our original essence of spirit, this means to simplify ourselves, be more natural, more scientifc, which means more spiritual.This is also ‘Shedding our Huge Human Ego’. Humans need to meditate to get rid of mental chatter and to be in touch with their simple self. Other beings of nature need this much lesser than humans do.

    In the quest for achieving spiritual liberation humans have created religion. Religion is another name for shared spiritual belief system…. and there are so many variations of these belief systems… each eager to prove its superiority and establish its dominance. All these religions are untimately based on stories, books, myths and mythologies. Science and common sense urge us to understand that these myths, stories, books and mythlogies contain just lessons for us to learn, rather than facts. There is truth within them, even though they may not be exactly factual.

    The fact is that all myths, customs, rites have evolved from nature. In the beginning humans observed nature and its phenomena. Sun, moon, tides, storms, lightning, rain and so on. These were all honoured as deities and as they started responding to the wishes and thoughts of humans they began to understand what magick is really all about. Every aspect of nature began to assume a deity form, animals, birds and even human. We prayed to the gods of rains for rainfall, sun for warmth, and so on.

    As religion evolved into more complex forms in line with the biological and mental evolution of man, we went out of step with spirituality and nature. We forgot that all modern myths and mythologies in all modern religions have originally evolved from nature worship.

    For example – what we celebrate as Christmas or birth of Jesus Christ in December was originally celebrated as Winter solistice. Around this time each year we witness the longest night and the shortest day of the year, after which days begin to grow longer and longer. This is the peak of winter and the Sun god is at its weakest dying stage, and soon as the solstice ends, Sun is born again and slowly gains power as the wheel of the year turns. This is also called Yule and originally being a nature festival that symbolised the rebirth of sun was celebrated with evergreen trees, holly and mistletoe being symbols of the cycle of death and rebirth, popcorn garlands and decorations were warpped around trees to keep the ‘tree spirits’ warm. Such a beautiul way to celebrate the magick and mystery of nature – and most of us who celebrate Christmas don’t even know that.

    Gods and goddesses that are visualised as having human form are actually all originally just aspects of nature. Thunder and lightning (Zeus, Indra), male god (sun, Lugh, Mithra, Aditya, Vishnu, all versions of male ‘God’ deity in modern religions such as Christianity), female goddess (moon, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Artemis, most female deities that are conspicous by their absence in modern patriarchial religions). The lists of gods and goddesses may be endless but they are all forms of nature and should ideally help us be more and more aligned with our natural self.

    Air, Fire, Water, Earth, Plants, Animals and all other beings of nature are more in tune with their essence, their spirituality than humans who falsely believe themselves to be superior. They are all far more at ease with themselves, their intuition, their ablity to ‘be’, their basic needs and desires than most humans who have created way too much stress and complication in their lives and are seeking a way to escape this through one of two extremes:

    First extreme – the path of asceticism, meditation to the extent of losing their basic ‘grounding’ or practicality, celibacy, to a less extent vegetarianism, Jainism, veganism and fasting to a greater extent denial of food and water, relenquishing pleasure while being misfits in society and deeply unhappy within.

    The second extreme – Overindulgence in the life process, drugs, addictions, poly-amourism (multiple partners – no committment), maximising pleasure, numbing themselves to pain while being deeply unhappy within.

    A lot of so called spiritualists I have observed acually fall in one of the above two categories. I have actually found them to be broken, sorry people who are in real need of healing but their spiritual egos keep them far from accepting their natural truth.

    Thankfully to help us achieve this we have Science.

    As we learn to observe nature (which is the essence of science) we try to discover facts and move away from myths. We learn the language of nature and its laws. We learn how all matter is composed of vibrations that are altered through the power of consciousness. Through scientific experimentation we have discovered that there is ‘Magick’ and what we really focus on condenses from spirit to matter, from imagination to reality, E=mc square etc… – a fact that witches and mystics have known all along and ‘new age’ gurus have finally ‘exposed’ as the Secret.

    We finally learn that all we really need to be is our simple, humble, natural self. This means our intuitive, spiritual, scientific, magickal self.

    Imagine if we all were in tune with this part of us, with our essence.

    Imagine a world where we are in perfect harmony and sync with nature, its bounty, its beauty.

    A world in which we use our common sense and scientific understanding of the world to discover its facts and our natural intuition to discover their underlying truth, instead of being brainwashed by modern religious leaders into following what they claim to be the ultimate concept of ‘God’.

    A world where we realise that we are biologically well evolved as humans but need to spiritually evolve – which means to go back to our natural simple, intuitive, magickal state of being.

    A world in which we are truly happy, abundant, enlightened and peaceful because whatever we want and desire is manifesting each moment by the way of natural Magick and it is scientific – and real – and good. We use it only for good and never to harm, because we know that we do not want to harm anyone if we truly wish to achieve peace, joy and happiness – purity of intent – Satva-yuga!

    Welcome to the magickal world of Wicca – a nature oriented spiritual system – a scientific, rational religion – a path of Love and Light!

    You can read more on this on the blog and if you’d like to learn more, register for the courses.

    Join us for the Yule ritual this 21 Dec 2009 (more on the page Magick on Facebook – link on this blog)

    Merry Yule, Happy Winter Solstice and Blessed Be
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    Swati Prakash
    Head Priestess – Earth Healing Temple

    Founder – Global Wicca Tradition