Swati Prakash

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  • Deep Inside the Rabbit Hole: Eight Possible Types of Simulation and Possible Ways Out (Final Part)

    Deep Inside the Rabbit Hole: Eight Possible Types of Simulation and Possible Ways Out (Final Part)

    So far in the previous Part 1 and Part 2 of this fascinating series, we examined the four types of possibilities of Why we were placed in a simulation and How, with four models based on popular science fiction and films such as The Truman Show, The Matrix, Inception and Charmed. These hinted that we might be victims placed in a computer simulation that is exploiting us against our consent, just as the majority of humans go on exploiting victim non human animals for various selfish non-vegan purposes. (I hope you do not and are Vegan)

    However there might be other possibilities too, especially if you do not deserve such a treatment. What if we are not meant to be victims but somehow entered such a simulation design at our will? Or what if there is a Divine Creator or Higher Self who placed us here? Certain science fiction, spiritual and religious therotical models are examined below in a comprehensive way.

    E) Total Recall – Voluntary Simulation Model

                  

    1. Environment

    A simulation in which you have placed yourself into voluntarily, and one of a design that is agreed upon by you might also be so realistic and thrilling that one can be lost in it and forget if you are in a simulation or reality. This would be like a gameplay which is very advanced in Virtual Reality.

    As an example, in the Total Recall film, a protagonist (Arnold Shwarzenneger) chooses to be given a false memory implant of visiting Mars as a secret agent and becoming a hero. When prompted to take a ‘red pill’ to wake up by someone from outside, he gets confused about whether he was actually an agent who had already been there and now being hunted down, or genuinely being guided to awaken, and decides not to take the red pill. (Interestingly this could also bewhere the Matrix filmmakers received the ‘red pill’ idea from).

    2. Architecture

    A world in such a high level simulation, is generated digitally by a computer program into which you are plugged in and given a false memory, depending on what story you selected. It could be adaptive with people or characters being generated based on your own mental desires, interests, and subconscious choices or likes and dislikes.

    3. Characters

    NPCs or scripted entities might be generated by the program based on your wishes, hopes and fears (such as the woman who was selected as per the protagonist’s desires as the one he rescued). Others might be present as a background or the storyline you chose. Real people might enter the world, if they need to give you a message, warning, or awaken you if required.

    4. Objective

    In Total Recall the simulation was an experience of travel to a hostile world, with a false memory implant issued in place of actual travel which was stated to be both expensive, inconvenient, and dangerous.

    However in our case a simulation could also be:

    • A voluntary training program to enhance skills, consciousness, courage, or abilities
    • A stasis simulation for entertainment or passing time in-situ for example during space travel or cryogenic suspension, or
    • A recreational or therapeutic experience designed for healing or psychological exploration

    5. Way Out

    In case it is a game of advancing in awareness until you transcend the adaptive simulation, one might need to complete the “level” as in the case of a training program, with levels becoming progressively more difficult just like in a computer game.

    Or it may be a case of awaiting the time on the clock to be completed so you can wake up when ready, once the story or artificially implanted memory plays out. Alternatively one might be guided to choose awakening in case of an emergency.

    F) Intergalactic Simulation Model — Ascension Theory

    1. Environment

    Such a theoretic model is based on a New Age concept that we are living in a multi-verse with various dimensions within nature. While we exist upon ‘earth-shan’, which is a simulation of 3D nature, space-faring beings or galactic masters of advanced spiritual and technological nature, exist in higher dimensions of 4D, 5D and above. Star Trek and Star Wars style scenarios involving alien beings from various races are what come to mind from popular fiction as an example to picturise what this might look like.

    2. Architecture

    A tiered cosmology starting wit a 3 Dimensional or 3D ‘earth-shan’ which we believe to be a physical earth but is a simulation and a training lab, that opens up into higher dimensions of 4D, 5D and above for those who evolve and ‘graduate’ from earth-school.

    3. Characters

    Galactic beings of various species, as well as Ascended masters who are enlightened spiritual beings are on the planes above earth. Descriptions include Intergalactic or space-faring multidimensional spiritual races such as:

    • Pleiedian (spiritually advanced feline) who traverse space and teach spiritual truths and magic,
    • Arcturian (spiritually advanced insectoid light beings) who work with sacred patterns and geometry, and
    • Alderbaran (spiritually advanced draconian), who might be giving spiritual guidance and opening some portals.

    On what seems to be earth or on abroad a ship we might come across

    • Lyran felines,
    • Avians,
    • Insectoid Greys,
    • Arachnids,
    • Draconians,
    • Reptilians,
    • Sirians (Canines or Undines/ Chlodigans from Sirius A or B respectively),
    • or Others and/ or their Hybrids

    Controlling demonic entities who are Draco-repto coiled manipulative beings and shapeshifters may also mislead humans.

    These might may present themselves in human form initially before they reveal their true form.

    4. Objective

    The objective could be a Mission such as,

    • Learning and raising personal frequency or mastery
    • Supporting other humans or non humans as light-workers, or
    • Raising planetary frequency or healing the planet and its beings.

    5. Way Out

    Learning and raising own vibrations through ethical and moral lessons that aid spiritual progression or help in ‘graduation’ from the world-school are saught. Ascension on completing some ‘missions, resulting in returning ‘Home’ or to be back in a place where we belong and fit in based on our frequency or spiritual DNA is usually indicated as the goal. Reuniting with our species or star family, twin-flame, discovering our soul origin, timeline, destiny or career is associated with leaving the simulation.

    The way out may be enhanced by genuine star beings, ascended masters or real guides, alongside a need for discernment and protection from negative, misleading, and confusing entities.

    G) Creationism Model – Conventional Religious Ideology

    1. Environment

    This popular ideology is followed by masses of monotheistic public which make up the majority of humans on earth. According to them, one being (or vaguely a group of beings) has or have created a reality in the form of this world. This earth created by this person, is populated by various beings such as plants and animals of millions of species including humans who are given dominion over other beings and issued commandments or rules for their own behaviour too with the Supreme creator person remaining in-charge.

    2. Architecture

    A fixed base reality governed by divine rules is set as the place where we all live. Magic or supernatural ability may exist but is often forbidden to general public and restricted to prophets, messiahs, or divine agents (such as the only child of the creator person, or angels deputed by them). After death, souls enter a judgement system leading to:

    • Heaven (reward of eternal life in a better or more comfortable world)
    • Hell or Purgatory (punishment of eternal torment)

    There is generally no reincarnation unless specific traditions include it, such as Hinduism in which the Creator is also depicted taking several other forms from time to time both on earth and cosmically. In the monotheistic faiths, instead of reincarnation, the dead human soul lies asleep in their coffins inside earth upon burial, until they are raised by the judging deity on a final judgement day and then taken onwards.

    3. Characters

    Humans being seem to have been designed in an ‘image and likeness’ of the supreme creator of the simulation (indicating that he is possibly in the semblance of a male human being). Humans created were a masculine being and a female counterpart created to give him company. Humans were then bestowed with powers over all other beings in the name of ‘Dominion’. Other animals are usually exploited, domesticated, herded, bred or killed except for some who are in the wild.

    4. Objective

    To express the mysterious will or purpose of the unknown Creator(s), Creation unfolds according to divine plan, with the creators intervening only occasionally (miracles, revelations). The Creator’s own origin and motivations remains unexplained.

    5. Way Out

    Humans have some level of free will but not absolute and are limited in consciousness, being made totally dependent upon the will of the Creator.  Rebellious ones are treated firmly. They are expected to be obedient to the creator or religious commandments. These commandments are written in books or scriptures that are accepted on blind faith in-spite of several inconsistencies. There is no way out in such a model of simulaltion, but only reward and punishment, as per the commandments or obedience levels. Perhaps not the best situation to be in for those who wish for free will and to reject any negative commandments or beliefs which are aplenty.

    H) Spiritual Model — The Self as the Creator Who Forgot

    1. Environment

    The world is seen as a manifestation of the higher self or soul acting as the original ‘programmer’. This is in alignment with the mystical views based in Upanishads of Hinduism that the entire cosmos is within the self as the dreamer (Aham Brahmasmi). The soul (Atman) is equated with the truth (Brahman) upon self realization.

    2. Architecture

    A thought-responsive dream-world (macrocosm or the universe), is all around – one which shifts according to beliefs, emotions, and subconscious patterns (microcosm) of the individual. This is explained as all your own lucid dream and therefore a projection of one’s own consciousness in the form of duality (maya or illusion of many beings instead of one, just like a dream where several beings are present but all in the mind of the dreamer). The universe is a manifestation of Shakti or Energy, which is spiritual and manifests all Vedic five elements and all things brought forth in combination with one’s consciousness. Shakti or the cosmic Goddess is manifest as Earth or Laxmi in the form of a physical world that gives us all things, wherein the dreamer also incarnates in various forms.

    3. Characters

    Archetypes and projections representing aspects of the dreamer, populate the environment, including:

    • Higher beings (angels, ascended masters, devas, divine guides) = Higher Consciousness
    • Demons, shadows, evil spirits, and toxic people = Unresolved subconscious patterns

    The dreamer is the Creator, appearing in three Vedic archetypes or Trinity:

    i) Brahma — The Creator Aspect
    The dreamer’s personality-self, projecting outward in this dream, with observation creating reality in each direction, resulting in shaping experiences from moment to moment. (Creator of the dream setting).

    ii) Vishnu — The Preserver Aspect
    The heroic or enlightened version of the Self, incarnating through ages as avatars to maintain continuity and stability across cycles of the dream. Often ‘he’ would be visualised as a male deity in Hinduisim, who stops apocalyses in order to save the earth who is his female counterpart or ‘Laxmi’ as an incarnation of earth to be saved from demons. These avatars are progressively evolving forms of non human and human animals, such as Matsya (fish), Kurma (tortoise), Varaha (boar), Vamana (dwarf man), Parsurama (axe man),  Rama (human), Krishna (magical human), Buddha (enlightened human) and the tenth awaited Kalki (superhuman who ends corruption). These avatars appear from one yuga or moral time-quarter of the wheel, to another, cyclically.

    iii) Shiva — The Dissolver Aspect
    The non-dual Self capable of ending or transcending the entire dream is our Super-Consciousness which is cosmic and unending and present eternally.

    4. Objective

    The Creator-Self has entered a dreamlike state with the purpose unknown, and the world appears within this cosmic dream that keeps going on in time. The “real” Self and the reality beyond this dream, both remain a mystery while the creator (Vishnu) is visualized as being asleep upon a giant world snake floating in waters, with the Brahma and Shiva being his own creative and transformational aspects within. It is said that the world would end if he awakened.

    5. Way Out

    Self-realization:
    Knowing the Self as the Creator.
    Recognizing the world as one’s own dream or projection.
    Following sattvic living, meditation, and the eightfold path to achieve Enlightenment.

    Final goal: Moksha (liberation from the reincarnation cycle)
    Without self-realization, the soul continues learning through successive lifetimes and remains in the duality or illusion of the dream-world.

    Conclusion

    These eight models — drawn from science fiction, metaphysics, religion, and spirituality — provide different ways to explore the Simulation Argument. Each gives a unique answer to the question of why reality exists and how it operates.

    Whether we feel trapped, tested, guided, or awakening, these frameworks help decode our reality and help seekers in our quest for truth.

    As we question the fabric of existence, these models offer tools to interpret the deeper patterns shaping both our inner and outer reality.

    Please remember that whether or not any of these appeal to you or make you feel better, or whether or not you believe in any of these ideas based on your spiritual or religious thinking or upbringing, they still may or may not be the truth unless you actually find out for yourself, one day. I hope I certainly do!!

    Let me know what you think.

  • Deep Inside the Rabbit Hole: Eight Possible Types of Simulation and Possible Ways Out: Part 2

    Deep Inside the Rabbit Hole: Eight Possible Types of Simulation and Possible Ways Out: Part 2

    In the previous article, three possible answers to the question of Why we are in a Simulation and its evidence to support the famous Simulation Argument were detailed. The first of these theories was that of ‘Victims’ placed in an alternate reality against one’s will by a perpetrator, with the intention to exploit or use the victim for personal gain. To illustrate this there are four different models of Simulation based on four very popular fictional stories from Hollywood. Hope you enjoy pondering over the same in order to deliberate over the hypothesis of the Simulation Argument.

    A) The Truman Show — A Closed Physical Set Controlled Externally by Show Creators

    1. Environment

    A limited, physical 3D world disguised as a full reality; essentially a stage set with boundaries. In this film there is a giant dome with an entire town within it enclosed by water around and a false sky above, with image projections of stars, clouds, sunlight, wind, thunder, rain,  just like a 4D film.

    2. Architecture

    Man-made, mechanical, and fully scripted with improvisations; the town is controlled and monitored from outside with cameras, microphones, actors, and invisible ear implants through which the show creators or organizers talk to the actors and guide them, except for the victim who is addressed by the ‘Creator’ only upon escape.

    3. Characters

    Actors populate the town (set), with one central victim being observed since birth and completely unaware of being in a show, until he begins to find some evidence on receiving a hint from an extra on the set and exploring further.

    4. Objective

    Entertainment and financial gain; exploitation of the protagonist for the purpose of making a show and gaining advertising revenues through it for the personal gain of the show’s makers. All items are on sale including houses on the show.

    5. Way Out

    Locating the physical boundary of the dome, breaking through and discovering the external world, required the ‘true’ man to conquer his fear of water or drowning and set sail alone. Also by emotional detachment and assertiveness, the protagonist refused to be part of his (false) family drama by realizing that his wife, friends and relatives around are not ‘real’. He notices the patterns and evidence of ‘un-reality’ in event sequences and chose to break free by physical travel or movement outside.

    B) The Matrix — A Full Digital Simulation Run by Energy Hungry AI

    1. Environment

    While the Truman Show depicted an ordinary brick and mortar world, The Matrix opened our eyes to the possibility of a digitally rendered world with procedural algorithms that mimic infinite space. The world appears vast but is ultimately limited. Outside the globe of earth no civilizations exist (Fermi Paradox, one we can relate with), while upon earth corporate giants have taken over land with tall glassy towers, animal meat in restaurants, and other big industries post industrial revolution and capitalism much like our own world.

    2. Architecture

    Computer programs, code loops, glitches, limited by processing power keep the victim engrossed and controlled by putting Neo back on the treadmill (psychological reset mechanisms) as soon as he is shot or if he tries jumping off the building, thereby maintaining continuity of memories and experience. Strong ‘deja-vu’ moments indicate that the AI made a change in reality by superimposing an alternate timeline.

    There can also be an adaptive simulation model in such a computer generated simulation, one in which situations shift, depending on one’s own inner state of consciousness as it is a mind linked simulation.

    3. Characters

    A mix of:

    AI programs (Oracle, Smith, Merovingian, either help or hinder the victims by carefully putting them on to a path they have designed in order to keep the plan going in a desired way).

    Human victims plugged into the system are unaware they are victims and seem to either enjoy or struggle. They range from copper-tops, to super rich icons such as Cypher who had chosen to be put back to sleep.

    Awakened rebels (Morpheus, Neo, Trinity) have chosen to be free by realizing that they are in a programmed reality and not the real world. They try to break free themselves, and returned to help others who are real victims if those they help do choose to be free and take the ‘red pill’ and not the ‘blue pill’ (as a symbol of choice, thereby respecting free will).

    In an adaptive model, characters may also change and adapt based on one’s own mental energy shifts to become positive or negative, helpful or hindering, spiritually calming or stressful and materialistic, in case we are in one such Matrix.

    4. Objective

    Energy harvesting or extraction in order to keep the machines in power. Humans were farmed just like non human animals, as machines could not harvest the sun for power due to humans polluting the sky. In order to extract energy from humans, the machines needed to establish mind control of most victims, and keep them stressed with nightmares and unfulfilled desires. As long as there was systemic stability and continuity or a reset of the Matrix a parallel world was allowed to operate by letting the anomaly of an unresolved equation in the program (Neo) become ‘The One’ with a certain function, in order to maintain a certain level of survival for the machines.

    5. Way Out

    Awakening from within; red-pill moments are when someone who is free is offered a choice. Then disconnecting them from the central program by unplugging the cables manually upon tracing one’s real trapped body in the human farm which are similar to the intensive animal farming systems we know of.

    C) Inception — A Manipulated Dream With Subconscious Projections

    1. Environment

    Dream layers which are nested dreams within dreams, resembling multiple pocket dimensions stacked within each other, all existing within the overall bigger overall ‘real’ world reality. There is an experience of time dilation with the original time having hardly passed by a few minutes, while all dreamers in the shared dreams, have more time while inside a well architectured dream level, and could even reach old age, in the lowest limbo layer of the raw unconscious.

    2. Architecture

    Built by dream architects; the dream setup in each level of the nested dream, mimics real life spaces, although not exactly, so that the creators who enter the dream remain in control and are not lost in the dream themselves. Paradoxical geometry such as Penrose steps, opposite mirrors, and Labyrinth architectures, attempt to provide an illusion of infinity within the limited structure. The scenario is crafted by the imagination of the dreamer who puts the victim in this shared dream. The subconscious conflicts of the victim under intervention are visible to all shared dreamers, so that their secrets become known to the perpetrators. Similarly suggestions could be made to them in this state in order to make them behave a certain way upon waking up.

    3. Characters

    Mostly subconscious projections populate the dream and appear out of the mind of the victim. Only a few conscious co-dreamers exist as humans apart from these projections, and these usually are the dream team sharing the dream together voluntarily and foes who aim to manipulate the dreamer.  The dreamers subconscious may include helpers who could even protect the dreamer especially in case they have been previously trained on how to protect their subconscious or even militarize the subconscious to find and attack or destroy intruders or extractors and implanters.

    4. Objective

    Extraction of information from the mind of the victim, or implantation of ideas into their mind, without the victim’s conscious awareness. The victim is manipulated or drugged into relaxing, thereby being made susceptible to subconscious mental intervention. In case the sub-conscious resists the perpetrators might try to overrule that by winning the victim’s confidence, or even make them fear and harm their own subconscious, for example the ‘Charles gambit’ to masquerade as the victim’s subconscious security person.

    5. Way Out

    Dying or killing oneself makes the dreamer wake up in upper level dreams but not in deeper layers when death could send them even deeper into a limbo state where they either live out their life span becoming old, or die to wake up. Realizing you are dreaming and using the militarized subconscious to fight off the perpetrators is a possibility in order to resist the manipulations, but the victim usually remains asleep until the drug wears off or until the time span of the dream runs out.  In case of the perpetrators they awaken using totems which are objects they carry all the time which behave differently in a dream, in order to test if they are dreaming. They might also use triggers designed carefully such as hearing synchronized music or falling off which jerks them up, due to inner ear being unaffected by the drug, thereby waking up to a higher layer. 

    D) Charmed— An Alternate Timeline Generated Magically

    1. Environment

    A magically or energetically generated alternate reality that is essentially an alternate time-line that diverges from a key historical moment, in order to create a new version of reality aimed at dis-empowering or controlling the victim. Cole (the invincible ex demon perpetrator) went into the past as an ‘Avatar’ (ascended master beyond time and space) upon being recruited and bestowed with new powers of manipulating time by the Avatar leaders. He changed the timeline, from the point around the death of Prue (the first sister) in-order to trap Phoebe (who was trying to break free from his control) back into a marriage and isolated her from the rest of her family and friends, taking away her career success so that she depends fully on him and lives with him out of fear. He also ensured that the Power of Three was wiped out with the fourth new sister being dead and the older sister not allowed to talk to Phoebe.

    2. Architecture

    Constructed by entities (Avatars paired with the demon), with unstable access points between timelines that are accessible or breached magically or by timeline slips, the architecture mimicked the original reality. The property of The Manor and landscape remained similar but control went into the hands of Cole who was successful and powerful as a leader of the underworld with demonic colleagues who feared and obeyed him.

    3. Characters

    Mostly non-human beings or demons in human forms who chiefly populated the simulation designed by Cole. Only the creator-entity Cole along with the Avatars were fully aware of the construction. The only aware victim had made a slip through by accident.

    4. Objective

    Entrapment, manipulation and hijacking of the victim’s timeline or destiny in order to entrap her within a narcissistic relationship for the perpetrator’s own romantic aspirations, as well as to win power, authority, and control upon the timeline.

    5. Way Out

    Recognizing the illusion by listening to the sister who had full awareness and memory of the real world, and breaking free from the spell or timeline overlay by fighting off and vanquishing the perpetrator.

    These four extremely vivid descriptions from these feature films or series are based on the idea that we might be placed in the simulation on purpose by someone other than the self for a malicious or manipulative purpose. In the next and final part of this article, I will examine alternate theories drawn from an idea that we might not be victims at all, based on popular exoteric and esoteric spiritual ideologies and science fiction. Stay tuned and please feel free to comment and discuss further.

  • The Real Magical Festival of Winter Solstice

    The Real Magical Festival of Winter Solstice

    The Original Season of Yuletide Explained

    Long before Christmas became a commercial holiday, it was known as Yule—the celebration of midwinter, the Winter Solstice, and the rebirth of light and the Goddess (Nature). In the darkest days of the year, ancient peoples honoured the turning of the Wheel, gathering in warmth and gratitude as the Sun began its slow return back to fuel earth.

    At its heart, this season was never about consumption or excess. It has nothing to do with killing baby pigs and putting their dead flesh in their own blankets of tortured skin. It has nothing to do with stuffing dead turkey birds murdered ruthlessly or eating and gifting dairy products made of milk of of stolen babies. It was originally about nature, light, renewal, and love for all life.

    The Living Evergreen: A Tree to Honour, Not to Cut

    The Fir tree, evergreen even in the harshest winter, symbolizes eternal life of earth or nature, endurance, and the promise of renewal. People once decorated living outdoor trees, offering them: Solar and star symbols and lights, ribbons, herbs, fruits, misteltoes, holly, and pinecones, handmade charms and presents to share love with. These were gifts to nature, not taken from it.

    Cutting down trees, abandoning them after use, and treating them as disposable is the opposite of the original meaning. The tree was, and still remains, a living guardian of the winter nights.

    Sacred Plants: Mistletoe and the Magic of Midwinter

    Herbs like mistletoe were revered not only for protection and healing but also for their symbolism of life that thrives even in darkness. Such plants reminded ancient peoples that nature has its own wisdom and that winter is a time of quiet power, not death.

    These traditions were expressions of partnership with the Earth, not dominion over it.

    25 December: The Solstice, Saturnalia, and the Old Sun

    The date later known as “Christmas Day” was originally the culmination of Saturnalia and the veneration of Sol Invictus, the Unconquered Sun. It marked the returning strength of the Sun after the longest night.

    Santa Claus and Saturn: The Old Sun / Old God

    Before Santa was reinvented as a jolly gift-giver in red, he reflected the Old Sun—the Old God of Saturnalia.
    He was the Ancient Winter King, the spirit of the dying year who:

    Delivered final gifts of wisdom

    Blessed people magically (the most magical time of the year)

    And then stepped aside to make way for the new Sun of the coming year

    This figure symbolises release, completion and the gentle passing of the old cycle with new magical gifts brewing inside the cauldron of our soul and soil.

    The Goddess and Earth: December as Her Rebirth

    Later patriarchal traditions centred winter festivals around a male god or sun deity and the modern deity of the scriptural religions who claim that nature was created in six days by a male deity or an individual person from outside of nature who forbids use of magical powers in us. Who demands sacrifice and obedience to commandments that are not always healthy and allowed the use and dominion of non human animals with humans made more ‘special’ as the ‘image and likeness’ of himself.

    We can now clearly see that the older understanding of nature as the creator of all beings is more balanced—and in many traditions, deeply feminine and reminds us of our own inner power or energy. After all Energy creates Reality, not a deity or individual from outside. And we all have Magickal Powers inside of us. We are all animals.

    The Earth Herself is the Goddess

    In winter, she descends into stillness, appearing barren or asleep.
    But beneath the frost, she carries the potential for new life.

    December can be seen as the birth of the Goddess:

    The Old Crone of Samhain, now dying and experiencing rebirth

    The deep womb of the Earth carrying the spark of new life, and

    Nature preparing to reawaken

    By spring or Ostara, the Goddess emerges as the Maiden, young, green, and flourishing. This interpretation shows that the season is not inherently male at all. It is Earth-centric, nature-centric, and deeply inclusive. The cycle is simple and eternal (The Wheel of The Year):

    Dec – Yule/ Mid-winter Solstice – the old Goddess of earth or nature rests, regenerates, dreams new life, reborn as new alongside the dying and reborn sun god in the shortest day and longest night of the year

    Feb – Imbolc/ Start of Spring – The Goddess is the baby Brigid, helped by the solar god of growing light and potential of seed germination

    March – Ostara/ Spring Equinox – the Goddess is a green Maiden, fertile, and youthful in the equinox of the sun when day and night are equivalent

    May – Beltane/ Start of Summer – The Maiden is wed with the powerful Sun as the days are brighter and longer

    June – Litha/ Mid-summer Solstice – the Goddess flourishes, bearing flowers with the strongest sun or the longest day of the year

    Aug – Lammas/ Start of Autumn – the Mother bears the first harvest fruits as the days get shorter

    Sep – Mabon/ Autumnal Equinox – The Mother bears the second harvest of grains as autumn takes over

    Nov – Samhain/ End of Summer and Autumn—she becomes the Crone, releasing the final harvest of pumpkins and ready to retire in winter’s start

    It is the story of nature itself—not a masculine lineage, but the living body of the planet with the Eight Sabbats of the Wheel of the Year.

    Easter / Ostara: A Festival of Life, Not Harm

    Just as Yule celebrates rebirth in the womb of winter, Easter (originally Ostara) celebrates the explosion of life at the Spring Equinox.

    It was always about: Newborn animals, Eggs as symbols of creation, Flowers opening, Rebirth and fertility. This season honoured life, not death.
    It was never intended to be a time for harming lambs, consuming eggs from exploited animals, dairy chocolates, or celebrating violence against the young. To truly honour Ostara, just as Yule (real Easter and Christmas) is to protect and nurture life, not take it or steal it.

    So, now do you realize how the ‘Matrix’ or false religious propaganda was created to replicate original reality and promote consumerism in place of nature. They created focus on stories of mythical deities and personalities as divine men, in order to reduce a direct connection with nature. In this way they promote exploitative industries of killing lambs, stealing milk from mother animals, and stealing eggs and newborns to ruin the planet and take away empathy by making humans. This is all done to make humans feel superior, entitled and ‘allowed’ to exploit other animals, by a deity who is imagined to be someone of our likeness or image, and a person instead of nature?

    Hemispheres: Celebrating the Festival the Land Is Actually Living

    In the Northern Hemisphere, December is Yule; June is Litha.
    But in the Southern Hemisphere, these are reversed as the seasons are inverse with the opposite spoke of the Wheel of The Year in action, instead of midwinter, there is midsummer and vice versa, for all eight sabbats.

    This alone reveals the truth:

    These festivals were never meant to be rigid dates.
    They are instructions from nature.

    To celebrate Yule in December in Australia or South Africa makes no spiritual sense—because the land itself is singing a different song. True celebration is always in dialogue with the Earth beneath our feet.

    Reclaiming the Real Tradition: Love for Nature and All Beings

    When we peel away modern layers of consumerism, exploitation of nature and animals, mass slaughter, artificial customs, patriarchal overlays, commercial storytelling

    …we rediscover the oldest truth of all festivals:

    They are invitations to honour the Earth.

    To protect life, not destroy it.

    To live in partnership with the natural world.

    The real traditions teach us to:

    Decorate living trees, not cut ones

    Offer gifts to nature, not take lives from it

    Love animals instead of using or eating them

    Celebrate the return of light with gratitude, not excess

    Recognise that the Goddess of Nature (manifested as the Earth for us) is the true mother of all life, born from her womb, and growing to maturity before taking rebirth alongside the Solar god. Thereby seeing nature as divine in itself. It is not an alien or outside ‘God’ who is a creator of nature. Nature is energy/ Shakti goddess, born of the Self, along with her own Inner Light or Consciousness/ god or Shiva (her own awareness), and we are the ones who are part of her and conscious beings who can look after and respect nature.

    These celebrations are not about religion or dogma; they are about remembering who we are:

    Children of the Earth.
    Keepers of life.
    Protectors of the seasons.

    A Planet-Healing Path Forward

    When we reclaim the wisdom of Yule, Solstice, Saturnalia, and Ostara, we step back into harmony with the living planet. The festivals become what they were always meant to be:

    Seasonal celebrations of the sacred duty of humanity towards loving and protecting nature, our mother.

    Reminders that the Earth is sacred, and so is every being upon it, nourished by the light of the Sun who protects her and us.

    To celebrate in alignment with the land is to return to compassion.
    To honour the Goddess is to honour life itself.
    To cherish the seasons is to heal the Earth with light and love. And the Earth, when loved, answers back. 

    May you rediscover your soul’s powers and be reborn in consciousness.

    Blessed Be and have a most spiritually magickal celebration!!

  • The Crucial Difference Between True Empaths and False Ones

    The Crucial Difference Between True Empaths and False Ones

    Not All Who Claim to Be Empaths Are Healers: Discernment in Spiritual Spaces

    In today’s increasingly awakened world, more people are identifying as empaths, starseeds, or lightworkers—and many are also recognising traits of neurodivergence such as Autism, ADHD, or AuDHD. While these identities may overlap, it’s crucial to understand that raw sensitivity alone does not make someone a healer.

    There is a growing need for discernment in spiritual spaces—especially among those who are truly here to uplift humanity, guide others, and hold space for real transformation.

    🔮 Sensitivity ≠ Spiritual Mastery

    Many individuals who feel deeply, have vivid dreams, or are easily overwhelmed identify as empaths or psychics. However, true spiritual ability requires more than emotional intensity. It involves:

    • Focused intent
    • Energetic clarity
    • Ethical boundaries
    • Consistent practice
    • Integration of trauma and ego

    Without these qualities, even those with potential may cause harm—either to themselves or to others seeking help.

    ✅ Traits of a Genuine Healer, Empath, or Mystic

    Authentic spiritual practitioners, whether neurodivergent or not, show:

    • Energetic Precision – They direct energy with intent for healing, manifestation, or clearing.
    • Trained Intuition – They calibrate insight through feedback, experience, and mentorship.
    • Grounded Presence – They remain centred even in spiritual intensity or emotional turmoil.
    • Clear Boundaries – They can distinguish between their own emotions and others’ energies.
    • Disciplined Practice – They maintain rituals, meditations, and psychic hygiene regularly.
    • Discernment – Knowing and protecting own energy from that of entities or unwanted spirits.
    • Accuracy – Guidance through own inner wisdom and verifiable psychic information.

    These traits arise from inner healing, study, and sincere application, not just from natural sensitivity.

    🧠 When Neurodivergence Isn’t Enough

    While some neurodivergent individuals have remarkable intuition, others may be:

    • Disorganised, unfocused, or overwhelmed.
    • Prone to misinterpretation of spiritual data.
    • Stuck in trauma loops or executive dysfunction.
    • Unable to commit to consistent healing or ritual work.

    Sensitivity may be the seed—but spiritual mastery is the garden that grows from effort, grounding, and intention.

    🚩 Narcissists Who Pose as Healers or Empaths

    A rising concern is the number of individuals with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) or strong narcissistic traits who claim to be gifted empaths or spiritual teachers. These individuals:

    • Use spiritual labels to inflate their ego.
    • Isolate or shame others while claiming moral superiority.
    • Accuse real empaths or victims of being “toxic.”
    • Avoid inner work while demanding admiration.

    Despite their grand spiritual claims, they often lack the capacity for true self-reflection, meditation, compassion, or healing. Their work is rooted in performance—not purpose.

    🧠⚫ The Dark Empath: Empathy Used for Manipulation

    Not all empathy is benevolent. Some individuals—known as dark empaths—possess cognitive or logical empathy, which they use to read emotions, manipulate, and control others.

    Dark empaths may:

    • Use occult knowledge or spiritual language to justify harm.
    • Practice dark magic, curses, or energetic attacks under the guise of “justice” or “karma.”
    • Feign compassion to gain power, admiration, or control.
    • Prey on vulnerable or trauma-exposed people within spiritual spaces.

    Empathy without ethics becomes a tool for psychic and emotional domination.

    🧛‍♂️ Psychic & Emotional Energy Vampires

    Many healers encounter clients, peers, or followers who repeatedly drain their energy. Often, these are individuals suffering from unresolved trauma, depression, or personality disorders, including covert narcissism, borderline personality, or emotional instability.

    These people:

    • Pull you into endless emotional dramas.
    • Show resistance to real healing but demand constant attention.
    • Use spiritual help as a source of energetic supply, not growth.
    • Leave you feeling exhausted, unclear, or disconnected from your own work.
    • Devalue and use you as a healer for free work, or refuse to reward and praise you.

    They can derail your mission and prevent you from helping those who are truly ready to heal and evolve.

    🛡️ Boundaries Are Not Cruel — They Are Sacred

    As an empath or spiritual teacher, it’s essential to remember:

    • Not everyone is yours to heal.
    • Some are here to test your boundaries, not receive your medicine.
    • Compassion does not mean self-sacrifice.
    • Your mission, time, and energy are precious.

    You are here to support truth-seekers, sincere students, and willing souls—not to be drained by those who refuse responsibility or manipulate your kindness.

    🌈 Final Reflection: Discernment Is Love in Action

    Being a healer or empath isn’t about labels—it’s about:

    • Integrity.
    • Consistency.
    • Responsibility.
    • Ethical service.
    • Deep personal healing.

    The spiritual path is not a popularity contest, nor a place for unchecked ego or unhealed wounds to masquerade as wisdom. It is a sacred calling that requires vigilance, humility, and boundaries.

    Protect your energy. Honour your calling. Serve those who are ready.

  • Rare Planetary Alignment this Feb: Magickal Advise for the remaining Year

    Rare Planetary Alignment this Feb: Magickal Advise for the remaining Year

    A rare planetary parade is expected with visibility of many planets this month specifically by 28th February, brining the significance of planets back into focus. But what does the placement of planets or Sun and Moon and their movements and eclipses mean to you?

    Most people look to western astrology for answers of what each month or year will bring. But did you know that the placement of celestial bodies through the zodiac bands in the sky vary quite a bit as per western and Vedic astrological calculations? In short western calculations and sun signs or star sign reports are highly inaccurate because the actual position of planets in the sky is more in line with sidereal astrology owing to a correction based on the precession of the equinoxes over the centuries, although western astrologers use the outdated ephemeris erroneously.

    If you go as per ancient Vedic Astrology, the analysis of moon and other bodies would be much more a reflection of the actual position of the same as viewed from earth astronomically. Based on Vedic transits of the Moon and other celestial bodies, I have prepared a list of celestial events of magical significance as outlined below along with a brief overview explained on the next page to help you manifest a better reality and banish unwanted energy.

    A pdf version of this with the astrological table of transits and explanation may be downloaded free from this link – DOWNLOAD FREE ASTRO GUIDE 2025.

    Magickal Advise and Foresight for Planning by Rev. Swati Prakash, Wiccan Healing Coach

    Note: Full Moon’s are good for spells for success and achieving your heart’s desire while New Moon’s help in making way for new beginnings.

    January’s full Wolf moon on 13th in Cancer marks the resilience and emotional power while the 28th Jan’s New Moon in Capricorn is for new starts in business and career fortune. Uranus retrograde ends on 30th January in Aries making new inventions and ideas possible again.

    February’s Full snow moon in Leo on 12 Feb brings optimism, fame, success and playfulness to the dull winter’s season.  Jupiter retrograde ending on 4th February in Taurus brings more wisdom into practical existence.

    Mars retrograde ends in Gemini on 24th Feb making conflicts and anger issues in communication come to an end after a tense period.

    New moon in Aquarius on 28th February marks a rare planetary display to make most planets visible in the night sky and stands good for scientific and ascending minds to create new beginnings.

    March 14th full worm moon is introspective in Virgo with focus on self reflection and a super new moon on 29th March in Pisces conjunct with a partial Solar Eclipse as well as a Saturn’s transit into Pisces making for cautious new starts by the end of the spring month especially in matters of heart and soul.

    On 19th March Uranus enters Taurus with more dynamic approaches and risk taking financially.

    Venus goes retrograde in exaltation within Pisces between 2nd March and 13th April leading to past life romances and soulmate attractions.

    April 12th’s micro full moon in Virgo is a pink moon for peace and quiet before 27th April’s Pisces micro moon for emotional beginnings.

    Be careful of change in travel plans and communication challenges during Mercury retrogrades between 14th March to 7th April in Pisces causing emotional disturbances.

    Summer starts with a full micro Flower Moon in Scorpio for sensuality and occult powers on 12th May and planning for stability and financial luck on the new moon in Taurus on May 26th .

    From 4th May up until 14th October, Pluto seems to go retrograde in Capricorn with delays in finance and investment decisions.

    On the 14th May Jupiter enters Gemini from Taurus bringing careful advise and second thoughts to a few plans instead of reliance on luck.

    A major turn of events in expected on the 18th May with karmic nodes Rahu and Ketu of the moon are transiting into Aquarius and Leo respectively, bringing more scientific research and problems with wars, domination and defeat of enemies.

    Strawberry full moon on 11th June as well as 12th July’s Buck moon both in Sagittarius bring adventures to the free spirited ones.

    25th June’s new moon in Gemini helps in communication and ideation while 24th July’s new moon in Cancer brings sensitivity and intuition to the forefront.

    4th July onwards until 10th December Neptune will go retrograde making worries, mysteries, and psychological issues return to life.

    8th July to 11th August in Cancer are days affected by Mercury going retrograde causing confusions among sensitive souls who need to wait for better understanding.

    13th July onwards until 28th November Saturn would be in retrograde motion in Pisces making obstacles more stubborn especially delaying matters for sentimental reasons.

    9th August’s full Sturgeon moon in Aquarius helps in opening minds to knowledge and the Black moon on 23rd August in Leo is good for warding off evil and personal attacks.

    7th September’s Corn Moon in Aquarius helps in letting go of resistance to change as the harvest season begins with a Total Eclipse of the moon.

    On 6th September Uranus goes retrograde in Taurus affecting business and economy adversely.

    On 18th October Jupiter enters Cancer making wisdom support intuition even more.

    Mabon’s New Moon in Virgo on 21st September coincides with a partial Solar Eclipse in the same sign to advise comfort in solitude and protecting your home and peace of mind.

    A Hunter’s super moon in Pisces on 6th October helps in hunting for love and emotional connections while the New Moon in Libra on the 21st of October brings focus on decision making and taking on new agreements in law or relationships.

    The Beaver Super Moon in Aries on 5th November is excellent for courage in taking on new projects with enthusiasm.

    11th November to 5th December Jupiter goes retrograde making past matters interfere with good judgement.

    Mercury is retrograde too from 9th to 29th Nov in Scorpio, signifying emotional upsets and the need for protection from harm especially in journeys and in communication.

    20th November’s Scorpio Micro New Moon is good for reducing any damage and banishing enemies.

    A Cold Super Full Moon in Taurus on 4th December helps you slow down and splurge on yourself and loved ones in preparing for winter months. Another Scorpio New Moon on 20th December helps in clearing away any obstacles and releasing the old as the year wanes.

    More personalised support via www.askswati.com for Magickal courses, training and coaching calls throughout the year.

  • 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.
  • Meditation: The Way to our True Self

    Meditation: The Way to our True Self

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    A lot of people ask me what type of meditation to practice…which technique to follow.

    • Somehow various ‘techniques’ of meditation have been branded all around by various meditation gurus. Those are merely induction techniques for trance. Not meditation itself.
    • Some people would say ‘meditate on this’ this and confuse meditation with contemplation or focus techniques. If you are meditating ‘upon’ something, whether something from a scripture or a word or mantra, that’s not meditation.
    • Some books and authors have confused meditation with visualizations. A lot of groups and individuals have practiced what they called ‘guided meditation’. Well that is not meditation either.
    • Some people thought meditation is breathing techniques. That s part of yoga but not meditation itself.
    • Others confuse meditation with yogic postures or various types of yogas. Some think kundalini and chakra work is meditation. All these techniques are wonderful for wellness and healing but are not meditation itself.
    • Chanting, singing, praying are all nice but they are not meditation either.

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    Meditation is our inner natural state. It is when we are simply observing our inner silence. Meditation literally means going within. If you are focused on anything external it is not meditation. Thoughts are not us. We are something even deeper within.

    Think of an onion and you are peeling the layers of an onion. Beyond body, beyond emotions, beyond your wishes and dreams, beyond your thoughts playing in the mind, beyond the mind…Going to the deepest part of you. That is our real self and meditation is the way to our real self.

    You have to let go of those chanting, affirmations, visualizations, and all those techniques and simply be in inner silence.

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    Really go off the GRID of all those mental projections which we believe to be ‘reality’. If your thoughts are playing in your mind keep practicing …half and hour to one hour a day…until you are able to quieten your mind. You will be. It does not depend on what you wear, what music you play outside, which incense you light, what crystals you decorate yourself with. Those things can create the mood, but meditation has only to do with finding time for yourself. Dedicate time…its called ‘sadhna‘. Find time off those facebook and twitter feeds and those numerous chores and tasks of daily life. Really dedicate time for YOURSELF and be with yourself. That’s the only ‘technique’.

    Your practice will start to give results when your thoughts reduce significantly. You will be less mind-full and more ‘mindful‘. This is ‘dhyana‘.

    Once you achieve the state of ‘dhyana‘ you will slowly find the space between your thoughts getting longer. Stillness. You will be quiet for the first time. Not just on the outside but inside. Free of thoughts. That’s the ‘no-mind‘ awareness. Coming to the point of nothingness or ‘shunyata‘. That’s where the true self is found. It is who we are without all those ideas of who we are. Without our egos and self-identities. It is the real self common to us all. This is where we are all connected as one. So take off all those masks of imagined perceptions and ‘know thyself‘.

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    To be with our real self is so blissful, you would not want anything else. There is great peace and real happiness. Not just momentary pleasure but real inner joy. This is the most positive state ever. For the first time you are in touch with yourself. Our true self is divine. Self realization is God-realization. That is the real Goddess energy and the real Christ consciousness. No religion, no prayer, no ritual can give it to us. It is our common spiritual reality where everything and everyone converges. There is no describing how positive and peaceful it can be, you have to experience it yourself.

    Don’t give up if you don’t get this instant ‘nirvana’. It is not the false high you get through a drink or a drug. Its not like typing into google and finding what you are looking for. No-one out there can give you the answer to who you are. You cannot pay someone to find you YOUR inner bliss and inner contentment. No healer or guru can do it for you. No witch can cast a spell and send you real happiness. Find yourself. Do not wait for someone to come and open the ‘crown chakra’ for you. That door opens only with your inner key.

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    Once you do find your inner self, be with yourself and stay with yourself, you will love being with yourself. No longer are you dependent on friends, society, community. No longer are you looking for a soulmate or trying to find love or acceptance. No longer do you need anything or anyone to complete you. Stop wandering around looking for something to do, someone to talk to…and meditate.

    Your inner self is peace, bliss and truth. Give yourself time. Be with your inner self more often. You will slowly get established in your inner self.  That’s ‘samadhi‘. Even in the outer world you can be in touch with your inner self, constantly. With time you begin to integrate with your real self it in non-dual awareness. Self-aware and awakened, not divided anymore but one complete whole.

    If you are looking for ‘benefits’ in meditation then let me tell you, there is nothing else but meditation that truly sets us free. You can cast spells and do all those new age magick that you love and enjoy everyday. But meditation is the way to find the truth. Its not just something you use for gaining power, getting richer, getting success, getting love or fame…PLEASE do not meditate for those reasons. Its time not to be stuck at those worldly desires. You are on the right path if and only if you are interested in being one with the TRUTH. That’s called being spiritual.

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    If there is one thing and one thing alone that can really heal the world it is meditation. If there are problems in our life, in our society, in the world, it is only because of lack of meditation. There is no dis-ease, no worry, no struggle, no fight or strife any more once you are well integrated with the inner truth. If we could all meditate a bit more and a bit more…and a bit more…we will automatically find everything that is necessary for the world today.

    The truth makes us free. That is the only path to REAL-ization. While thoughts and ideas are illusions, truth is only found in silence. That’s the only time we are COMPLETELY with our pure and natural self. I hope you enjoy meditating and being with the truth within.

    Happy Earth Day and Full Moon.

    Blessed Be!

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  • Seven Reasons for Being More Spiritual

    Seven Reasons for Being More Spiritual

    On one hand we have seen people who are purely materialistic and for whom the physical world observed through the five outer senses is all there is. Yet, on the other hand we have spiritualists who believe that the outer perceivable world is mere illusion while the truth is hidden within. In this internet driven corporate world, why should you try learning and practicing spirituality at all, when success is measured through the size of your material achievements? Well, it turns out that those who are purely material are prone to losing their health, wealth, happiness and success all too easily, while those who are spiritual seem to have blissful lives even with a modest lifestyle.

    Here are 7 powerful ways that spirituality can transform our lives forever…in a way that materialism never can:

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    1. PROTECTING FROM THE NEGATIVE: At the base of it we all have to deal with our fears that manifest in the form of various negative situations and experiences around us. Spirituality teaches us that everything that happens on the outside has an inner cause,even those things that seem to be happening to us through others. Therefore if anything negative has been observed anywhere in our life, the source is most likely to be an inner fear that caused it. Release that fear and replace it with trust…that’s the way to peace. Being spiritual helps us by transforming our fears into love because we know that everything has its source deep within us. This way no matter how much the negativity that surround us we know that if we find peace within we shall be  just fine.
    2. ATTRACT POSITIVE EXPERIENCES: Just as we know that fears caused our sorrows, we know that positive thoughts and emotions will bring us positive experiences with equal certainty. Spiritual secrets can surely help bring us more abundance, real love, lasting peace, joy and success in anything that is positive for our whole self. The moment we shift our focus to inner peace and start feeling better it begins to create all good things that our soul truly desires us to have. We might find that we are effortlessly attracting a better quality of friends, relationships, opportunities and situations than ever before and we accept them with open arms.
    3. PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT: It is ignorance that makes us feel vulnerable, pitiable, sad, hurt or victimized. A spiritually aware and enlightened soul knows that every moment there is infinite energy within at all times. The awareness of what lies within us expands our inner power to the extent that we can help ourselves anytime. Whether it is our physical or monetary health, career or personal goals, there is less of dependency on others and more self-reliance. We know that an inner switch can change everything for the better and that we can manifest our life with our own choices at any point of time as we keep brimming with limitless positive energy.
    4. DEEPER HEALING: Spiritual energy connects our mind, body and soul together seamlessly as we know that everything is ultimately woven with threads of spiritual energy alone. Since this positive energy is the source of all there is its enhanced flow can heal everything at every level of our being. The moment we shift our focus to the spiritual through meditative state, an enhanced flow of spiritual energy is triggered and staying in this peaceful radiant state continues healing us from inside out. From physical to social life, from home to all of earth, spiritual healing helps everything and everyone in a tremendous way.
    5. AWARENESS: Learning the truth and sharing the truth that we have learnt help us in expanding our consciousness and that of the universe. The remarkable fact is that as our consciousness expands it helps in expanding the consciousness of everything around us too. This consciousness when awakened is the power that transforms the entire world for the better. Whether through books or discourses, workshops or seminars, we know that amazingly wise teachers and masters will find us eventually and we will be equally enlightened provided we follow and practice what we have learnt with total dedication.
    6. SIDDHIS: Once we attain a higher state of consciousness and learn more about who we are, it increases our magickal and psychic powers in several ways. Through spiritual practice and inner focus we awaken our natural yet latent superpowers that are a necessary part of our spiritual awakening. We not only realize but actualize our multi-dimensional, infinite nature. In time we know that there is absolutely nothing that can be called impossible because we become masters of the illusion of life, rising above all of it. We are no longer limited by anything around us and ready for the next level of awakening.
    7. MOKSHA: The highest possible reason for being spiritual is that it sets you free from all illusion. Contrary to what you might have been told before, relinquishing desire may not lead to liberation but to deeper blockage or repression. The right way to be liberated from all desires is to find a deeper contentment. At this greater level of spiritual progress there is little else that you would seek. Imagine that you could have just about anything in the world right now…yet you feel that you have everything already…in-fact in a very real way, you know that you already ARE everything. With nothing more to want or seek, nothing left to crave for, you are ready to be permanently liberated from the illusory nature of the world process and be one with your ultimate truth.

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    Swati Prakash is a spiritual author and teacher. Her writings can be found on www.amazon.com/author/swatiprakash

  • Twelve Positive Symptoms of Spiritual Growth and Ascension

    Twelve Positive Symptoms of Spiritual Growth and Ascension

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    Spirituality is all about discovering our inner self, the part of us which is beyond the physical, mortal or limited existence. While there are many of us who discover our spiritual truth through regular meditation and spiritual training, some of us experience an awakening all of a sudden, whether through dreams or near death experience. With proper practice and wise guidance we can gracefully handle all the new awareness being opened up throughout our journey.

    Here are a few pointers to help us understand the inner changes we experience as the real symptoms of spiritual growth. If we are experiencing these changes in our life to some or the other extent, it is a sign that we are following the right spiritual path and practice. If yet to experience them, especially if stuck in negative symptoms or experiences …then it is merely a matter of time we will move on to the next level, provided we keep meditating and learning constantly from the right sources:

    1. From Outer to Inner Awareness: Spiritual growth is accompanied with psychic, emotional, physical and mental changes as our inner senses are opened up. We become more perceptive and sensitive to the hidden nature of reality. Before spiritual awakening people saw the world with only their limited five senses, dismissing any spiritual information given by others as ‘unscientific’. After spiritual awakening we can more easily experience the astral or subtle dimension, see more meaning in dreams and receive messages in meditative state.  The unconscious is made conscious helping us in healing unknown blocks as they are revealed to us.
    2. From Negativity to Positive Transformation: As hidden blockages and negativity are brought up into our conscious awareness it can be uncomfortable to some people at first. Through the right spiritual training and inner work we learn how to release our fears. Slowly psychic disturbances reduce, whether insomnia, nightmares or disturbing visions, physical pain or discomfort as blocks are being healed, or emotional highs or lows as we shift from material to spiritual awareness. We accept new and positive changes in our hobbies, career, relationships, beliefs and attitudes as our inner vibrations transform for the better. We attract more positive people, situations and energies.
    3. From Stress to Peace: Before spiritual awakening people usually saw the world as a fixed reality that they had limited power over. Day to day life was stressful and fearsome for many of us then. Through the right spiritual study and meditation we gain inner stillness and peace of mind. We begin to see how peace is always within us and can be found anywhere and at anytime regardless of situations. Slowly our inner peace starts radiating all around us to create waves of peace everywhere we go. At times people can automatically feel and sense the calm and healing waves of peaceful energy flowing in and around us too.
    4. From Anger to Understanding: Before spiritual awakening we would have felt upset at others, whether family, teachers, colleagues, society, politics, god or deity….blaming them for all problems and difficulties. As our spiritual awareness rises we begin to realize how we create our own life experiences at a deep inner level. We understand that everyone is going through their own cycles of learning just like we are. We can empathize and understand the reasons for their issues, their fears or worries while remaining detached at the same time; allowing them to learn and focusing on what we must learn. We begin to also detach from our own expectations from them thereby putting ourselves in a place of real power.
    5. From Victim to Magickal Being: Spiritual awakening helps us see how we are manifesting our own life experiences from moment to moment. We are no longer victims of fate or destiny, helpless and incapable of influencing our own life situations. Instead of blaming stars and planets for the patterns of our life we begin to realize how celestial bodies and everything in nature merely guides us through intuition and symbolism, toward our own inner psyche. We start applying this wisdom to transform our own inner energy, our beliefs and our vibrations with the result that our own life improves and transforms from inside out.
    6. From Pity to Respect: With enhanced spiritual awareness we are less likely to feel sad or unhappy about the state of the world. Instead, we start feeling more positive about the potential and capacity of the world to change. There is a sense of respect for everyone as a divine being who has their own positive energy or power hidden within them. Instead of seeing people as under-privileged, lesser-fortunate or vulnerable, we recognize their potential for complete and total transformation. We serve them best by helping them realize their own power instead of merely handing them some spare change.
    7. From Guilt to Self-transformation: Being spiritually aware also helps us gain power over our own hidden blockages, addictions or fears. Instead of feeling guilty or regretful about something we did or did not do, we focus on the present moment from where we can create transformation. When we see our problems and mistakes as lessons and learn what we should from them, they stop bothering us repeatedly. Our own inner patterns are reset through this learning. We replace our own self-limiting ways of thinking, feeling or behaving with those that serve our highest good.
    8. From Disease to Wellness: Spiritual work and meditation enhance and improve the energy flowing through us. When we know that it is energy that is manifesting as our physical life, we begin to master our own inner state. This leads to a better well-being and deeper healing that unites our mind, body and spirit as one. Through proper and dedicated practice we learn how to be less affected by the outer world and how to maintain inner balance. Dependence on medication and drugs reduces automatically with the right meditative practice.
    9. From Hunger to Contentment: Those who lived solely in the material dimension and seldom tried meditation were likely to be engrossed in the endless search for pleasure, entertainment, fame, wealth and status, life after life. On the other hand by enhancing our spiritual awareness we discover a deeper part of us which is forever happy, peaceful and content in itself. Instead of seeking constant stimulation through food, sex, internet, socializing or shopping we start feeling more and more satisfied from within. This way we discover the true meaning of abundance consciousness.
    10. From Ego to Humility: Most conflicts, enmities and power struggles were caused due to a feeling of separation between ‘me’ and ‘the rest of the world’. Our ego was hurt easily when we were spiritually unaware of who we are. Spiritual practice helps us learn that the world and our personal self are deeply interwoven; that everyone is somewhere connected to us, and we to them. We see a great divine being in every person and thing uniting us as one greater Self. This way there is no scope for pride, egotism, inferiority or superiority – just a recognition that everything and everyone is simply here to teach us the higher truth.
    11. From Selfishness to Love: Spiritual ignorance has been the root cause of all evil, having manifested as hate, attacks, corruption, lack of ethics or anything that was harmful in nature. Through spiritual awareness we all are now realizing the real meaning of love. We have truly begun to grow as spiritual beings when we discover unconditional love and compassion. Instead of trying to serve our lower, limited, physical selves at the expense of others, we begin to realize the value of being harmless, kind, forgiving and positive towards every being regardless of how they are.
    12. From Illusion to Truth: Spiritual realization and awakening are the real ways to be truly liberated and freed from the illusions of ups and downs, suffering and pleasure, happiness and sorrow. Deep within us is pure peace and bliss. This true happiness does not depend on whether or not we have something or someone in our life. We realize that outer life is merely an illusion manifesting through a play of our desires and wants, fears and hopes, conscious and unconscious thoughts. We discover our innermost truth which is infinitely more satisfying than anything can ever be. This sets us free!

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    Swati Prakash is a spiritual author and founder of Global Wicca. You can read more on www.swatiprakash.com

  • Meditation: The Most Important Thing For Us All

    Meditation: The Most Important Thing For Us All

    What is meditation?

    Meditation means going within (from the latin word medi that means middle or center). We all are something beyond our physical bodies, beyond our feelings, our desires, our thoughts…there is something deeper within us. Meditation is about being with this deeper part of us.

    Why should we meditate?

    In our day to day life we go through many ups and downs, seeing and experiencing both negative and positive things in the world, in our lives…and getting affected by them all. This is a state of duality or illusion…where we fall out of balance, fearful and unaware of who we are. Negative energy, fears or blockages are a result of this imbalance or ignorance…manifesting as diseases, problems, harmful thoughts, negative attachments, destructive beliefs, disturbed behavior or unhappiness of various kinds. Through meditation we awaken to our inner truth and discover inner happiness. We know that there is nothing to fear at all. This brings peace and joy to all of us and puts us all back in a balanced and wholesome state making everything better.

    Who can meditate?

    Anyone can, there are no restrictions of gender and even children can meditate whenever they are ready for it.

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    When should we meditate?

    Meditation is an inner state and not restricted by time. Whether it is morning or night, before food or after, is not so important, although keeping a light stomach helps some people in focusing better, and it helps to be not too sleepy when you are trying to meditate. Women in their periods, or people who are not feeling well can meditate as well. In-fact meditation could help in healing you during uncomfortable times. With practice meditation will become easier and effortlessly possible at any time.

    What should be worn?

    There is no need to wear any special type of outfit. As long as you are comfortable you can meditate whether at work or home in your day to day clothes.

    Are there any specific methods of meditation?

    It does not matter what technique you use to draw focus from outer world to the inner self….some people begin by closing their eyes and sitting still, some prefer listening to soothing music to relax their mind, some focus on chanting or mantras, some focus on their breath, all these are just aids or induction techniques to gradually achieve stillness. Yet these are not meditation itself. Meditation is when we go beyond all this and be without any thoughts to discover the innermost self.

    What are the steps to follow?

    Step 1. Relaxed awareness: In day to day life sometimes we get absorbed in the experiences without remembering our innermost self. The first step in meditation is to draw our senses inwards. You can try this by closing your eyes gently and sitting in a comfortable posture, neither slouching not stiff.

    Step 2: Observation: Instead of getting attached to any feelings, thoughts or mind-chatter, just observe them and watch them quieten. Observing something gives you power over it. Observe your breath and your mind… and watch the space between your thoughts.

    Step 3: Witnessing: When you find the space between your thoughts …when there is inner silence, then you can observe your true self. This is who you really are. Be with yourself as a witness to the self. This takes you beyond the illusion of the world process and in alignment with your inner truth which is pure peace and bliss.

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    For how long should we meditate?

    You can meditate for as long as you want. You might take some time in the beginning to even reach a meditative state and the idea is that once you get there you must stay in it for as long as possible. You can begin with practicing for 30 minutes a day and slowly increase it to one hour a day. As you practice each day after a period of dedicated practice, you will find that the meditative state will come naturally to you and in every part of the day and even at night while sleeping you will be in a deep inner state. Still it will be good to dedicate at least one hour a day for specially being just with yourself and meditating.

    What will happen once you reach a meditative state?

    For each person their own individual and unique experiences are important. You can note and observe our own experiences. For example: Being one with nature, Being one with the universe, Feeling light, Just being, Pure peace and bliss…these are some of the common experiences of people who meditate. After you achieve this ‘enlightened’ state you will not feel superior in any way but will be more compassionate and humble, recognizing that all is one.

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    Swati Prakash is a spiritual author and founder of Global Wicca tradition of spirituality. You can read more on www.swatiprakash.com