Druidry & Magick R Us
Welcome & Intro
Welcome to Adventures in Shamanism 11! We are glad you could make it. We strongly urge you to check out the other Adventures in Shamanism groups on the other networks! First some definitions. Let’s get down to the nuts-and-bolts basics. Stephen defines shamanism as spirit magick. I go further than that. I say that Shamanism is a technology of the sacred. It is most assuredly NOT a religion. You can have shamanic techniques in nearly any religion, even Christianity. The Baal-Shem movement of the late 19th century was shamanic. The Holy Roller snake handlers of the deep South are shamanic. Speaking in tongues or glossolalia is shamanic. Shamanism is a collection of techniques for going into trance, having visions, soul journeying, and communicating with spirits. The shamans were a very important part of his/her tribe. Some people call female shamans sha-women, but I don’t. It’s like witch, which can be either male or female. The shaman protected his or her tribe from spiritual invasion. Spirit magick has to do with combating spiritual forces preparing to attack one’s tribe. It can also be an attack by a human shaman who is envious of the other shaman’s position, and attempting to take the tribe over. It can also be harmful magic sent to a neighbor’s in order to make the tribe sick to that they will win the war, and take over their land. So there is war magick too. A rival shaman attack can also be construed as a psychic attack by his victim who doesn’t understand that this is what’s going on. One time a so-called shaman tried to bully my friend Rufus. That night he had a dream in which he turned into a big reddish-gold sun-bear, and tore apart whichever totem was the other shaman. He never heard from that shaman again. Stephen says you can also have wars on the half-astral plane. I’ll have to take his word for it, as I’ve never engaged in a war of that type. But sometimes at night while I’m asleep, my totem animal, the black panther, walks, and attacks whoever she encounters.
How did you get into shamanism? Stephen got into it because of his Cherokee-Irish grandmother, who also got him into divination and Witchcraft. According to Christopher Penczak, Witchcraft is European shamanism. I wonder what Witchcraft would’ve been like if Christianity had not intruded and taken over, cancelling out all the other religions. I’m hoping that now that it is back, that it will evolve, touched by New Age, Buddhist, and Native American influences as it is. I first heard of shamans when I was in college, but then it was in a very derogatory manner as someone who told us how to worship. But I think the mainstream clergy would have been more scornful of how Dan wanted to worship than a shaman would. I called Dan “my frog prince.” Later I was to run into him on BART going from Oakland to San Francisco. We recognized each other, and had a friendly reunion, but we were each with other people. I encountered Mircea Eliade’s book Shamanism in ’75, and to me that is the classic text on shamanism. Michael Harner’s Way of the Shaman tries too hard to bring it down to the lowest common denominator. My way of thinking is: don’t make it too accessible. Those who are into it will stay with it. You don’t want it to become a fad. But then I always was an elitist effete intellectual snob, as Spiro Agnew would put it. For those of you who don’t know who Mircea Eliade was, he was a Romanian interpreter of religion who lived from March 13th, 1907 to April 22nd, 1986. I had thought that he was a French anthropologist, but on a lark, I decided to look him up online. There he was, in the Wikipedia. Michael Harner is probably also there. Another good shamanic author is Amber Wolfe, although she falls into the trap of making shamanism too accessible to the “cool kids.” You know who they are, the kids who thought they were so cool in high school and were slaves to every fad that came along, but utterly rejected us, because we weren’t cool enough for them.
Another author in the field of shamanism is Lynn Andrews, but Stephen hates her, so I won’t say much about her. She’s popularly called “the Beverly Hills shaman.” She gives the feminine side of shamanism, as does Florinda who was a fellow student with Carlos Castaneda of Don Juan Matus. I met Ladyoflove online, and don’t know when or whether I’ll ever meet her face-to-face. But she taught me about shamanism and made the Runes more accessible to me. She also helped me develop my small psychic talent. I just love that woman. Other authors worth mentioning are the ever popular John Matthews who has promulgated Celtic shamanism. I have his Celtic Shaman divination deck, Terrence McKenna, who advocates the use of psychedelic plants such as datura and shrooms in a sacred manner. Then there is Ted Andrews, but I don’t care for him. He tries to relate everything with the Hebrew Qabalah and I don’t think that works. He is the author of Animal-Wise and Animal Speak.
Then the first law of Shamanism : “Please don’t squeeze the shaman.” That explains why, when we go to an ADF gathering, I get hugs and he doesn’t. The Swami Beyondananda used that in his act, but didn’t give Stephen credit.
The Gorean assholes have taken over IMVU. You know them. They’re the guys who have women as slaves and pets. Supposedly the women are all for it. Why would a woman throw over a hundred years of liberation to be oppressed again, like we had been the past 5000 years? “I guess these guys have never heard of the Emancipation Proclamation.” The Goreans disgust us. How they can glorify slavery and the sexist oppression of women is beyond us. Whatever happened to freedom loving Pagans? How can you call yourself a Goddess-worshiper and countenance the enslavement of women? And I wonder how women can put up with it, and offer themselves to be enslaved is beyond me. Are they so starved fot masculine attention that they’ll abase themselves in this way? They project it as a game, but they live it in real life. To Stephen this is just one more example of how the Judeo-Christian establishment is frakking with our religion as they have been for over 1000 years. As he said of some other a**holes 30 years ago “Why don’t you shuck off your so-called Paganism and become neo-Nazis?” We have hated these racist sexist assholes since they first appeared 10 years ago. One of our friends is a Gorean, and I don’t know how he can call himself a Pagan. It comes from the many Gor novels by John Norman. Somehow Pagans and SciFi fans who should’ve known better glommed onto them and adopted the concept as a lifestyle. Ah, we could go on forever, but I think we’ve about said it about the Goreans. If you encounter one, turn and run, especially if you are a woman. I suppose if you are a man who meets a Gorean slave who wants you to be her master, you should run, too, because that semblance of control could be seductive for a man.
The kittens have quadrupled in size since their birth three weeks ago. They have started to wander out of the box, which caused me to temporarily name one “Dr. Livingston I. Presume, and the other adventurer Albert Schweitzer, although I may change that to either Magellan or Prince Henry the Navigator. They continue in their atrocious cuteness. In about 3 weeks, I think that their mother Oreo will start the weaning process, at which point we’ll have to lay in a supply of Kitten Chow. She litter trains them at the same time she weans them, so they will be able to go to people’s homes. The two white ones with gray ears are spoken for already. The others are tiger striped.
Yahoo has been revamped completely. I got the new Yahoo toolbar, and added a bunch of our stuff to it. The new Yahoo has retooled both the toolbar and the home page, where you can add your own stuff. Also Yahoo has improved its messenger in the video talk aspect. Stephen can’t use it until he gets a new headset. This is where you come in. For a reasonably priced headset, Stephen will give you either a reading or a class (your choice). We are still dissatisfied with their policy of deleting certain groups after just 6 weeks of inactivity. It would be ok if they were even handed about it, but they seem to only delete certain groups, while others they leave alone. For this reason, and because of their draconian categorization process, we will not be putting any more groups on Yahoo. Google has also revamped their toolbar and googletalk.
Do not do business with IMVU. The new management of IMVU is a bunch of right-wing Republican Puritans who are utterly anti-Pagan, anti-women and anti-sex. I had my bank disallow IMVU from deducting money from my checking account. Fully 40% of the people on IMVU are Pagans. If all the Pagans left, we might not put the network out of business, but we could definitely make it feel the pinch. I think that even the Pag-Symps would leave after the Pagans left, especially the ones interested in cybersex. Charles, the new CEO is a conservative Baptist, who has no business running a network like IMVU. In the name of “making the Internet safe for kids”, he and his henchmen are making IMVU no fun for anyone. I feel that having an age restricted section is protection enough for the little nippers, and that adults should have a section where they are totally free to do as they will. Stephen is furious, but I am indifferent. IMVU was nothing to me but an exercise in frustration that I spent way too much money and time on. I think it’s a waste of time and money, but Stephen lives most of his life on IMVU, and so is really bummed out by these developments. They have blocked out all the cool body enhancements and furniture Stephen got from Twinkle so they can’t be seen by anyone but him. IMVU is being investigated by: the FBI, Better Business Bureau, FCC, and FTC for its fraudulent and unethical business dealings. If you have any fraud complaints, contact the FBI Fraud division and the Better Business Bureau. .
I have just joined Stephen on KEEN. I still have a few kinks to iron out before I am a full-fledged reader, but I think that by next weekend I will be. I am also doing readings. I charge $15 for a fifteen minute reading. I got a webcam, and a mic/headset, so will be able to do readings on Yahoo and Windows Live as soon as they get hooked up. I am hunting for a publisher, since FireDrake’s Weyr unfortunately got closed down. I also need to get on Skype. If you can talk me through getting on Skype you get a reading. Readings and classes are our currency. I am also helping Stephen promote our friend Walter Rhoads’ art, their art gallery Gallery 14 and Julie’s tax service. I’m doing everything to raise money except sex. I refuse to get involved in porn, and I don’t have a very sexy voice.
Stephen wants to thank all of you for calling him at (land-line) 916-455-2267 or
(cell) 916-612-2504 and ordering either a divination reading or a class for just $31.95. With webcam and voice on Yahoo IM, Windows Live Msgr, or Skype, it’s almost like being here. For the reading, you got to choose a deck, method, or tool from a vast array of decks/methods/tools. For the class, you got to choose from a myriad of topics in the vast area of magick. Some of you couldn’t decide between a reading and a class, and so for just $59.90 you knew you could have both.a reading and a class; how perfect is that? You can have a reading then in the class find out how he did it. Or you can have two classes, or two readings as long as they are on two separate and different topics/questions. And thank you too for using and spreading around his Zodiac referral number 1-800-280-8496. You told your friends, relatives, in-laws, neighbors, coworkers, colleagues, teachers, kids’ teachers, fellow parents in your PTA, bus drivers, beauticians, and anyone else we might have left out. If you know of any other categories I may have omitted , do tell me. We would like to have other sites where we can have our groups.
So basically what we want is some action from you people. We want your feedback. We know we can always count on Dylan to give feedback, but he’s a partner in this venture. How about the rest of you? This is supposed to be a cooperative effort here. For those of you who are on Red Light, Stephen is doing readings for the cost of 10 rays, and classes for 20 rays. Red Light is a network that is more liberal than IMVU has become, since that Charles guy took over.
Tegwedd ShadowDancer
Stephen Abbott
Oreo
Little Boy
Frikki & Frakki
Dr.Livingston I. Presume
How did you get into shamanism? Stephen got into it because of his Cherokee-Irish grandmother, who also got him into divination and Witchcraft. According to Christopher Penczak, Witchcraft is European shamanism. I wonder what Witchcraft would’ve been like if Christianity had not intruded and taken over, cancelling out all the other religions. I’m hoping that now that it is back, that it will evolve, touched by New Age, Buddhist, and Native American influences as it is. I first heard of shamans when I was in college, but then it was in a very derogatory manner as someone who told us how to worship. But I think the mainstream clergy would have been more scornful of how Dan wanted to worship than a shaman would. I called Dan “my frog prince.” Later I was to run into him on BART going from Oakland to San Francisco. We recognized each other, and had a friendly reunion, but we were each with other people. I encountered Mircea Eliade’s book Shamanism in ’75, and to me that is the classic text on shamanism. Michael Harner’s Way of the Shaman tries too hard to bring it down to the lowest common denominator. My way of thinking is: don’t make it too accessible. Those who are into it will stay with it. You don’t want it to become a fad. But then I always was an elitist effete intellectual snob, as Spiro Agnew would put it. For those of you who don’t know who Mircea Eliade was, he was a Romanian interpreter of religion who lived from March 13th, 1907 to April 22nd, 1986. I had thought that he was a French anthropologist, but on a lark, I decided to look him up online. There he was, in the Wikipedia. Michael Harner is probably also there. Another good shamanic author is Amber Wolfe, although she falls into the trap of making shamanism too accessible to the “cool kids.” You know who they are, the kids who thought they were so cool in high school and were slaves to every fad that came along, but utterly rejected us, because we weren’t cool enough for them.
Another author in the field of shamanism is Lynn Andrews, but Stephen hates her, so I won’t say much about her. She’s popularly called “the Beverly Hills shaman.” She gives the feminine side of shamanism, as does Florinda who was a fellow student with Carlos Castaneda of Don Juan Matus. I met Ladyoflove online, and don’t know when or whether I’ll ever meet her face-to-face. But she taught me about shamanism and made the Runes more accessible to me. She also helped me develop my small psychic talent. I just love that woman. Other authors worth mentioning are the ever popular John Matthews who has promulgated Celtic shamanism. I have his Celtic Shaman divination deck, Terrence McKenna, who advocates the use of psychedelic plants such as datura and shrooms in a sacred manner. Then there is Ted Andrews, but I don’t care for him. He tries to relate everything with the Hebrew Qabalah and I don’t think that works. He is the author of Animal-Wise and Animal Speak.
Then the first law of Shamanism : “Please don’t squeeze the shaman.” That explains why, when we go to an ADF gathering, I get hugs and he doesn’t. The Swami Beyondananda used that in his act, but didn’t give Stephen credit.
The Gorean assholes have taken over IMVU. You know them. They’re the guys who have women as slaves and pets. Supposedly the women are all for it. Why would a woman throw over a hundred years of liberation to be oppressed again, like we had been the past 5000 years? “I guess these guys have never heard of the Emancipation Proclamation.” The Goreans disgust us. How they can glorify slavery and the sexist oppression of women is beyond us. Whatever happened to freedom loving Pagans? How can you call yourself a Goddess-worshiper and countenance the enslavement of women? And I wonder how women can put up with it, and offer themselves to be enslaved is beyond me. Are they so starved fot masculine attention that they’ll abase themselves in this way? They project it as a game, but they live it in real life. To Stephen this is just one more example of how the Judeo-Christian establishment is frakking with our religion as they have been for over 1000 years. As he said of some other a**holes 30 years ago “Why don’t you shuck off your so-called Paganism and become neo-Nazis?” We have hated these racist sexist assholes since they first appeared 10 years ago. One of our friends is a Gorean, and I don’t know how he can call himself a Pagan. It comes from the many Gor novels by John Norman. Somehow Pagans and SciFi fans who should’ve known better glommed onto them and adopted the concept as a lifestyle. Ah, we could go on forever, but I think we’ve about said it about the Goreans. If you encounter one, turn and run, especially if you are a woman. I suppose if you are a man who meets a Gorean slave who wants you to be her master, you should run, too, because that semblance of control could be seductive for a man.
The kittens have quadrupled in size since their birth three weeks ago. They have started to wander out of the box, which caused me to temporarily name one “Dr. Livingston I. Presume, and the other adventurer Albert Schweitzer, although I may change that to either Magellan or Prince Henry the Navigator. They continue in their atrocious cuteness. In about 3 weeks, I think that their mother Oreo will start the weaning process, at which point we’ll have to lay in a supply of Kitten Chow. She litter trains them at the same time she weans them, so they will be able to go to people’s homes. The two white ones with gray ears are spoken for already. The others are tiger striped.
Yahoo has been revamped completely. I got the new Yahoo toolbar, and added a bunch of our stuff to it. The new Yahoo has retooled both the toolbar and the home page, where you can add your own stuff. Also Yahoo has improved its messenger in the video talk aspect. Stephen can’t use it until he gets a new headset. This is where you come in. For a reasonably priced headset, Stephen will give you either a reading or a class (your choice). We are still dissatisfied with their policy of deleting certain groups after just 6 weeks of inactivity. It would be ok if they were even handed about it, but they seem to only delete certain groups, while others they leave alone. For this reason, and because of their draconian categorization process, we will not be putting any more groups on Yahoo. Google has also revamped their toolbar and googletalk.
Do not do business with IMVU. The new management of IMVU is a bunch of right-wing Republican Puritans who are utterly anti-Pagan, anti-women and anti-sex. I had my bank disallow IMVU from deducting money from my checking account. Fully 40% of the people on IMVU are Pagans. If all the Pagans left, we might not put the network out of business, but we could definitely make it feel the pinch. I think that even the Pag-Symps would leave after the Pagans left, especially the ones interested in cybersex. Charles, the new CEO is a conservative Baptist, who has no business running a network like IMVU. In the name of “making the Internet safe for kids”, he and his henchmen are making IMVU no fun for anyone. I feel that having an age restricted section is protection enough for the little nippers, and that adults should have a section where they are totally free to do as they will. Stephen is furious, but I am indifferent. IMVU was nothing to me but an exercise in frustration that I spent way too much money and time on. I think it’s a waste of time and money, but Stephen lives most of his life on IMVU, and so is really bummed out by these developments. They have blocked out all the cool body enhancements and furniture Stephen got from Twinkle so they can’t be seen by anyone but him. IMVU is being investigated by: the FBI, Better Business Bureau, FCC, and FTC for its fraudulent and unethical business dealings. If you have any fraud complaints, contact the FBI Fraud division and the Better Business Bureau. .
I have just joined Stephen on KEEN. I still have a few kinks to iron out before I am a full-fledged reader, but I think that by next weekend I will be. I am also doing readings. I charge $15 for a fifteen minute reading. I got a webcam, and a mic/headset, so will be able to do readings on Yahoo and Windows Live as soon as they get hooked up. I am hunting for a publisher, since FireDrake’s Weyr unfortunately got closed down. I also need to get on Skype. If you can talk me through getting on Skype you get a reading. Readings and classes are our currency. I am also helping Stephen promote our friend Walter Rhoads’ art, their art gallery Gallery 14 and Julie’s tax service. I’m doing everything to raise money except sex. I refuse to get involved in porn, and I don’t have a very sexy voice.
Stephen wants to thank all of you for calling him at (land-line) 916-455-2267 or
(cell) 916-612-2504 and ordering either a divination reading or a class for just $31.95. With webcam and voice on Yahoo IM, Windows Live Msgr, or Skype, it’s almost like being here. For the reading, you got to choose a deck, method, or tool from a vast array of decks/methods/tools. For the class, you got to choose from a myriad of topics in the vast area of magick. Some of you couldn’t decide between a reading and a class, and so for just $59.90 you knew you could have both.a reading and a class; how perfect is that? You can have a reading then in the class find out how he did it. Or you can have two classes, or two readings as long as they are on two separate and different topics/questions. And thank you too for using and spreading around his Zodiac referral number 1-800-280-8496. You told your friends, relatives, in-laws, neighbors, coworkers, colleagues, teachers, kids’ teachers, fellow parents in your PTA, bus drivers, beauticians, and anyone else we might have left out. If you know of any other categories I may have omitted , do tell me. We would like to have other sites where we can have our groups.
So basically what we want is some action from you people. We want your feedback. We know we can always count on Dylan to give feedback, but he’s a partner in this venture. How about the rest of you? This is supposed to be a cooperative effort here. For those of you who are on Red Light, Stephen is doing readings for the cost of 10 rays, and classes for 20 rays. Red Light is a network that is more liberal than IMVU has become, since that Charles guy took over.
Tegwedd ShadowDancer
Stephen Abbott
Oreo
Little Boy
Frikki & Frakki
Dr.Livingston I. Presume
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