Shawn's Magical Blog

Dream interpretation is something that is commonly asked about. The truth of the matter is that dream interpretation is something that you must learn to do for yourself. No other person or book can interpret what is going on in your dreams but you. Now, others can help you figure it out, as this article will intend to do. But, things like books or people that tell you what your dreams mean based off of their interpretation are completely useless. To understand why, we must first look at the mind and what dreams really are. Your mind takes in a vast amount of information every second. Every nerve in your body is constantly sending data to your brain. Also, your conscious mind is creating thoughts and sending them to your subconscious as well. Now, most of this data we are not consciously aware of. If we were aware of all of it we would soon overload. All of this data is stored by the subconscious for processing. We will look at the actual process of going over the data and ke...

Ritual practice is a very powerful and effective form of energy work. It makes the energy easy to access, easy to use and is able to tap into other fonts of energy that have already been directed by both the practitioner and those that have come before him or her. Rituals usually involve many of the same energy building techniques employed in spell work, including breathing exercises, movement and visualization. These are energetic “currents” if you will and are built up by the practitioner over time.  To explain further, let me use the example of creating a talisman for a specific purpose. Of course, many people do this by simply finding something and directing energy into it for the purpose intended and that can be effective. Say you spend an hour building your energy, reciting the spell and putting the energy into it. This is a very common, simple and quick method. But what could you do to make it more effective? To start with, let’s say that you decide rathe...

(Part two of a two part post.) So, how do we use our imagination? Well, we create an image with it. We empower it and we allow it to become reality. And, provided that it does not go against the reality created by the higher imagination, it does. We are co-creators of reality. Now, there is something important I need you to understand. It is entirely possible that your creation will exist only in your reality. That is, your vision of reality. To expand, allow me to share a concept from NLP. It states that “The map is not the place.” We do not know exactly what reality is. We know what the sensory organs in us pick up, translate into electrochemical impulses, and then what is translated in the 3.5 pounds of grey matter between our ears. This creates an image in our mind of what reality is, but that image is not reality just like a picture of a flower is not a flower. Now, it is the reality that we have to work with. Often, when we “create” something, it is in our “map” or rea...