I've been an Occultist since I was a babe, practiced ceremonial magick for around eight years now.

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We are both a Pagan and a Christian family here.

I grew up Catholic and some of it kind of stuck, if as nothing else than part of my cultural heritage. E.g., lots of Marian iconography lol. Apparently that's super common with Catholic women

Hehe that's good

I identify most probably actually with the Dharmic religions, largely advaita vedanta. I used to practice more like, actual magick though

Dreams have been important for me

Also other various liminal states

I do a lot of DXM lol

I move wherever the work takes me. Most of my practices for CM come from the grimoires, and thus are generally med/renaissance, but during the holidays, the house is decorated and offerings are given with a distinctly Aryan flavour.

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Neat! My dad's really into Aryan/Nordic paganism (not in a neonazi way though lol)

I wouldn't mind if he were tbh. We're at least White Nationalists here in our home. We don't hate people of other races, but we're not ashamed of being White.

Mums Italian and Irish, paw's Italian, one here's German, the other English.

No one should be ashamed of their ethnicity or culture, lol.

And by Aryan I mean Indo-European specifically. We touch up on some of the Norse motifs especially during the Winter months because it's quite fitting.

And the German here in the family loves them lol.

You spoke of dreams; I wish I could induce lucids and projections like I used to, but right now my sleep schedule is all over the damn place.

Many of my greatest revelations and visitations have come through these states.

Oh yes, I'm way into PIE studies. our ancestors were badass af lol

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Yeah I go lucid pretty frequently these days

I reached this point where I no longer have any negative or fearful dreams

There's no place for fear there really

I get 'frightening dreams', but not necessarily nightmares, if you get what I mean.

The connotation is obviously negative, but it's not so bad that it becomes unmanageable.

One last night I received was quite violent and frightening in retrospect, yet I didn't wake.

I don't experience fear in dreams. I think it's a natural part of working with dreams and similar liminal states (e.g. psychedelics)

This is true. Easier said than done of course, but it is necessary.

Especially when working with psychedelics--that fear is removed from the experience.

Not with Salvia, which is why it is my favorite

It doesn't coddle you with any kind of euphoric feelings. It's just a raw ego death

That was my first ever real trip was a breakthrough Salvia experience

Though I'd been there before, funny enough

😩 Lord you're one of those. It's very difficult for me to get a grip on those experiences, which is why I haven't done Salvia.

The Goddess, which would be Wisdom itself I'd assume, who presides over Salvia, is very unforgiving.

You remind me of a wise friend and mentor of mine.

Salvia is his native world, it would seem.

I like to call him Yajnavalkya of Veda lol.

At the beginning of the month, I astral projected three times. One had me bulleting through a parking garage down at the oceanfront somewhere, darting straight into the air and falling, tumbling dizzyingly from above into the ocean at several hundred miles an hour and plunging down into the ocean, continuing under without a decrease in speed. I could see the houses and buildings around the coast as I was coming down.

I could feel the temperature and texture of the water as things became darker, and then I came-to and awoke in my bed.