Search - Power Before Wisdom

1. When Grounding Helps and How to Ground (Update 1): (Basic Magick); (This article is an updated version THIS ONE created a few months ago.) When to Ground: When we don't like our energy: Perhaps we've disconnected too much. Perhaps we're extremely happy, extremely ...; Created on 31 August 2010
2. Choosing a Healthier Response to Abuse: (Shaman/Priestwork); ... is an opportunity to stop hundreds or thousands of future abuses. We have a choice to allow ourselves the false comfort of a righteous moral high ground through calling for the utter destruction of the ...; Created on 14 November 2017
3. Dealing with Committed Bullies: Social Justice: (Shaman/Priestwork); ... stand your ground against that perception. Clean your house. If you have old drama, stories or secrets which can bite you take care of them as soon as possible. Depending on how focused the bully ...; Created on 31 December 2016
4. Violence, Love, Anger, Suicide and more: Tools. Use them wisely.: (Shaman/Priestwork); ... you don’t lose the ground you gained with one person or risk danger from the other. This is why high level negotiations take so long. Everyone is carefully measuring who and when they can be open with ...; Created on 29 November 2016
5. Another Position of Ifa on Homosexuality: (Shaman/Priestwork); I want to thank Baba Solagbade Popoola for starting this conversation. He is very clear that he believes that Ese Odu speak against Tolerance. With the horrors being expressed by governments and mobs, ...; Created on 05 July 2016
6. Avoiding and Healing Energy Hangovers: (Basic Magick); ... It's possible to stress yourself doing personal work, but it's much less common. For many workings you can ground out the energy afterwards, but sometimes you hold on to some of it because the ritual ...; Created on 21 March 2016
7. Sharing about Shaman Practices facing a Nasty Ghost: (Basic Magick); ... moved away and I have been hearing a calling to study Hispanic and Christian Magick. While he was here my teacher grounded all of my practices into the context of traditional Africa as he experienced it. ...; Created on 17 March 2015
8. A Dream of Gaming in a Beautiful Future: (Soapbox); When I first honestly answered my "why do I want to do magick" question, it was because I felt powerless and I wanted to feel powerful. As the years have gone by I stopped being driven by the desire for ...; Created on 25 October 2014
9. Astral Projection Audio Presentation: (Personal Magick); ... is where you are If you fail to will you will flutter with your thoughts and will of others If you will yourself to stay some-where/when (Ground into the space/time/layer) ...; Created on 20 January 2014
10. Basic Magick: (Basic Magick); ... Cleansing (Coming soon) Exercise: (Subscription Only) 35 Grounding Exercise: (Subscription Only) 36 Intuitive Wisdom (Coming Soon) Exercise: ...; Created on 26 February 2013
11. Personal Magick: (Personal Magick); ... 62 Enchantments Exercise: (Subscription Only) 63 Blessings and Curses Exercise: (Subscription Only) 64 Advanced Grounding (Coming Soon) Exercise: (Subscription ...; Created on 26 February 2013
12. Advanced Circle Cutting and related practical magical understandings: (Personal Magick); ... kicked up and yanked the cookie out of my hand. As it landed on the ground a couple feet away I clearly heard “We'll take that”. Forgetful, but not stupid, I recognized the situation and picked up the ...; Created on 16 September 2012
13. The Harsh Realities of Leading a Pagan Group: Troubles with Followers: (Shaman/Priestwork); ... want to start at ground zero again. However, I had no certifications and I didn’t feel ready to lead others. So for a couple years I focused on leading myself. I began writing Power Before Wisdom ...; Created on 12 February 2012
14. Burning Salt to Clear Energy, Banish Spirits and Remove Curses: (Personal Magick); ... grounding. Salt can be filled, but when it is heated and dried, it tends to release its energy. I think that burning salt does a couple things at the same time: Heating the salt presses it to ...; Created on 17 February 2011
15. The Ugly Truth of Dim Mak (Martial Techniques Based on Chi & Pressure Points): (Personal Magick); ... KO. Our initial tests were resounding successes! We’d practice a technique and have it work beautifully! After celebrating, we decided to try to block the techniques. I grounded and clamped down ...; Created on 31 December 2010
16. Why Witches use their Athame, Wand, Staff and Sword in Magic: (Basic Magick); ... I worked to build my ability to recreate the level of power I experienced with it. I’d mastered a trick where I could “thump” the staff against the ground and a burst of power that even “mundanes” (people ...; Created on 30 November 2010
17. Everyday Magick: Casting Ethical Compulsions: (Basic Magick); ... to the target: anything from grounding into, looking at and/or just holding the target in mind. (Holding the target in mind is less likely to make them defend or uncomfortable from your "getting to close.") ...; Created on 06 September 2010
18. How to Start Practicing Magick: (Basic Magick); ... the "Blog" button. I am going to challenge myself to teach concepts and techniques from the ground up. 2 weeks ago I started writing an article for an exercise called "The Fountain" that I was taugh ...; Created on 19 May 2010
19. Dealing with the Devil; what is a soul and why you can’t sell it, possess it or own it.: (Basic Magick); ... can convince you to “sell your soul to eternal damnation” for some shiny pearl then you believe that after you die you have to go be his bitch in his little playground. Of course, I find myself asking ...; Created on 06 May 2010
20. The great Masters rarely have any actual Secrets…: (Fundamentals of Magick); ... I had an Aikido Master who turned a basic throw into a work of art. Where we students were struggling with our whole body to get our “opponent” onto the ground, with a seeming jerk of his shoulder and ...; Created on 16 March 2010