As many of you are aware, this is my first episode after my announcement that I would be darkening the focus of the podcast, moving away from the book study of Wicca and all that love and light perspective. Now I feel more comfortable in the shadows and hope you all will enjoying listening to the darker side of paganism that many pagans choose to ignore.
For this episode, we here the following music selections:
Night’s Calling Me by Chronique
Background for paranormal segment:
On the darker pagan path I now walk, I see that there is much needed focus on myself. Those qualities that people often deny or pretend they don’t realize they possess. I have started working on a list of my poorer qualities so that I can work on these to become a better person, or to at least not live a lie. I have three things listed so far and I know that once I work through each of these, I may find I few more to add to the list. The first order of business for myself is working on being less selfish. Yes, I find that I can be a very selfish person. As I look back on my life, I have been that way for far too long. I even had myself fooled that I wasn’t that way…imagine that!
Working with the darker aspects of our spiritual beliefs, we have to not be the fool, so to speak. We have to be brutally honest with ourselves and pull out all of the skeletons we have in our closets and face them…each and every one! If not, we are the fool and people from the outside looking in can most likely detect that as well. If we don’t face these things ourselves, then one day, we will be forced to. Would you rather have the choice and do this willingly or forced?
Once I have sucked it up and acknowledged my bad traits, then I need to grow a set of steal balls and make the next move. This involves me asking a couple of those closest to me that I trust and know would be honest with me what negative traits do they see in me. I figure if I have already made my own list and started working on my faults, then my feelings won’t be hurt too bad once I am told from another person the things that are not so good about myself.
Also, in this process, I will be forced to face things in my past. Things that I may not be able to share so opening with you all. I can tell you that I have dealt with some things that I will never forget. It is painful. Very painful. However, I must do this. It doesn’t matter whether the things in my past were nice or ugly. The truth is, all the good and the bad made me the person I am today. And I love myself. I am ready to face all that made me who I am!
During this episode I shared with you the story of Philip. If you would like more information about this experiment that was conducted in 1972 by the Toronto Society of Psychical Research dealing with psychokinesis get the book Conjuring Up Philip: An Adventure in Psychokinesis written by Iris Owen and Margaret Sparrow.
Since the last 12 minutes of the podcast was missing, I can assure you that not much was missed. Overall, based on the experiment, it was concluded that it may never be known if the results of the Philip experiment were due to the group’s collective subconscious or if they did conjure an actual entity that posed itself as Philip. Other experiments were performed and similar results were found. However, since the first group was able to list the things that worked, groups that followed were able to get knocks and table movements much quicker. Instead of the experiments taking a year, results could be obtained in 5 weeks, as was the case with the experiment which created Lilith.
I am sure within the near future I will be trying my own experiment. I have never tried table-tilting, but after seeing what these groups have done, there is no way I can ignore how mystical this entire process can be. As a paranormal investigator, I have many questions about many cases I have studied over the years and wonder more about the actual people who were involved. What if in some of these cases, it was the person and not so much a paranormal event? Hmmm.
Until next time, I give to you my Darkest and Brightest blessings,
MeadowMoon