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Coming up on Paratruth ree Born, we've got Raven Digitalice
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talking about his book Shadow Magic spell Blook. Welcome, how's
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it going, Paratruthers. Welcome to another episode of Paratruth Reborn.
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My name is Justin and I'm very happy to welcome
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Raven Digitalice to the show. Raven, Welcome to Paratruth to
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be bored.
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Hello, it's so nice to be here. And thank you
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to all the listeners. Thanks to you guys, all the producers, everybody.
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So yeah, I am Raven Digitalist. That's a raven like
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the bird and digitalis like the fox, glove plant. And
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I'm an author and just release a new book. So
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I'm so happy that you could interview me about the
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new book, Shadow Magic Spell Book. Yeah.
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That's it's gonna be an awesome conversation. The first thing
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I really wanted to ask you is how did you
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first get involved with shadow magic.
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I think shadow work is the work of a lifetime.
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We're all doing it, or should be doing it anyway.
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It's not any one thing. It's very difficult to pin down.
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So yeah, if somebody is summoning demons, I guess that's
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shadow work. Sure, but that's what I'm that's not my jam.
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The first chapter in my book begins with the Ungian
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shadow self and working with our repressed depressed, suppressed emotions
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and feelings and experiences, and getting to know ourselves a
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little bit better. And then for me with my interpretation
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of shadow work and how I feel it helps others.
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The best is that after that chapter, I move on
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to interpersonal shadow work, because we're always dealing with other
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people's shadows as well as our own, so everybody is
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their own universe. We have all this stuff around us,
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and we interact with other people focused while we are
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focused on ourselves because we are ourselves and have this
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interaction of shadow with others, So a big theme of
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that chapter. The second chapter in Shadow Magic Spub Book
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is about protection. So some people will come to the
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book looking for curses and hexes and how to get
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back at your ex but you're not going to find
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that in my book. There are some alternatives to that
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that are more comically aligned or ethical in my opinion
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that I present, But interacting with others also includes anxiety,
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social anxiety, and think those kind of themes. Then I
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move on to the shadow of nature. So that's where
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we delve into eclipses, new moons, different components we can
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work with, like animal parts or graveyard dirt, things like
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that that can be very beneficial on our shadow work journey.
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And then it goes into finally the Other World section,
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which explores the other dimensions, which some would call paranormal,
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not necessarily I've heard the term para natural. Yes, you know,
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dealing with work work, working with ancestors, with spirits, with hauntings,
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with astral projection, and dreaming. Okay, so that's a good
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little summary of my new book.
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Okay, now I when talking about shadow work, you know
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a lot of people will get scared about that word.
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But why do people fear their shadow selves so much?
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I think that in society, we are taught to be
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a certain way and behave and perform in certain manners,
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and we need to put up a face. And this
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face and this front is cross cultural. It's ancient for
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various reasons too. So when we put up a face
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in a front, yeah, it's like a mask. Yeah it
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doesn't have to be disingenuous, but it is like a mask.
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And so I think the shadow portions of ourselves and
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the world that we live in and being totally honest
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about our experiences. It's kind of frowned on because that's
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not really everyday conversation. Like, you know, you're not going
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to tell the clerk at the gas station that you
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got slapped by your uncle when you were nineteen. Yeah,
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I would vote that. So there is an element of
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compartmentalization there, and a lot of that is protective too.
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I understand it. I get the gist of it. It's
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very protective. There are certain portions of ourselves that we
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reveal to other people and when we are alone with
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ourselves and our pets, for example, that and the gods,
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the deities, of spirits, the higher powers. However, you see
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the higher powers, that's where it's at. When we are
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alone with ourselves and the frequency of the universe, that's
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where the real change happens because there's nobody to perform
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for now.
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What made you want to embrace instead of avoid your
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shadow self?
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Well, I've always been a goth you know, I was
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a gothic and industrial DJ for nineteen years and I've
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always just had, you know, a fan of like creative
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horror movies and dark art that purges the psyche. Dark music,
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things that purge the psyche. So I have always felt
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a lot of empathy, and that's also what I write
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about is empathy. That's those are my other series of
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books and Oracle Deck, the Empaths Oracle Deck. But I've
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felt the empathy with Shadow working, shadow purging dark Art
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because it I could relate to the the merging of
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of of the self with the shadow and the alchemical
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process of purging the shadow self to understand it better.
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Okay, Now, something that a lot of people, uh don't
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realize is that you have to build a foundation first
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before you start doing this work. What happens if someone
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skips that step.
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Right? That reminds me of because I'm a professional tarot reader. Also,
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that reminds me of some folks that have approached me
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recently wanting to delve deeply, deeply into the tarot, which
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in itself is life. The whole deck of Tarot, in
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a perfect tarot deck, is life itself in a pack.
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So some people want to just go all the way
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in into all the astrology, all the kabbala, all of
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the color schemes, all of the timing, all these things,
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and I'm like, no, no, take a step back, Let's
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start with the foundation first, like you said, the foundation,
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and build from there. So I'll suggest different ways to
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work up to that. And it's the same thing with
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magic and metaphysics. Life itself is magic. Everything's magic. The
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fact that we exist is magical. So there's nothing that
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is not magic, is how I see it. And so
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so I suggest to people to study a number of
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traditions and cultures and ways of working magic to gain
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that foundation first, and then see what they're called toward
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themselves individually. Now, what do you mean by being called
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to something? Well, for example, my genetic lineage is Norse
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and Pennsylvania Deutsch, which is basically German, Okay, And I
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have no resonance with ruins or the Norse gods and
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goddess has no disrespect at all, it's just I don't
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have residence there. But my resonance is very very much
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Hindu Stani, very you know, very very Hindu. So I
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consider myself an American Hindu as well as a witch.
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And I'm ocultists and I love to balance those two spears. Okay.
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Cool.
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Yeah, Now, a lot.
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Of people will have a lot of negative thoughts, and
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some people try and associate that with the shadow. How
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do you recognize your shadow versus just having those negative thoughts.
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Well, negative thoughts are very much part of the shadow.
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So this is where I refer back to Buddhism and
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Buddhist mindfulness practice, like core Buddhism, Okay, back from oneself
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and saying, Okay, this is what I'm thinking, this is
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what I'm feeling. Let me take a step back for
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a moment. I'm the observer of these things. Just like
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when my anxiety spikes up. For example, one thing that
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helps me a lot is being like, Okay, I am
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not anxious. I don't have this anxiety and this panic
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attack coming on my brain does my body is responding
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like this, I need to take a step back and
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divorce myself from the physiology of the thing and be like, Okay,
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let me observe what's happening in my body and mind,
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and that's mindfulness. So I always refer back to that.
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It can be scary, for sure to think about the shadow,
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and yet at the same time, from our perspective, the
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sun goes down every day. Every night, darkness falls, we
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sleep and dream, We're working with darkness every single day.
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It's nothing to be afraid of. Right, the trauma imprints
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can be very scary when it comes to shadow work,
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especially internal shadow work, like imprints of trauma and challenge
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that we've had growing up through any kind of relationship,
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and so that's a very scary part. And this is
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why in Shadow Magic spell Book, I recommend that people
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talk to a therapist if they need that. I know
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that therapy has probably saved my life in the past.
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I don't have a current therapist, but in the past,
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oh boy, yeah, I needed that talk therapy. I needed
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TMS again, TMS Brain magnet therapy to dissolve my chronic depression.
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There are so many and EMBR has been very helpful.
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There are so many tools out there to help us.
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Medications even on low dose like that's helped me tremendously.
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So we need to approach the shadow on our own terms,
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and we need to get a little bit uncomfortable at
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the same time.
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Okay, now, the is there a way to do this
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work incorrectly? And if so, can it be dangerous to
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do shadow work if you're doing it correctly?
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Well, the only incorrect thing would be in my version
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of this is to try to curse somebody or inact revenge,
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because usually what that means is that the other person
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has been traumatized also and they don't know how to
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deal with it. So so the biggest warning with shadow
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work of any type is, well, don't work with spirits
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who are jerks, and don't work with people who are jokes.
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Work with yourself. That's what it comes down to, is
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working with ourselves, not trying to influence other people unless
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it is protective. I do have a ritual about cord cutting,
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of course, in the spell Book and in the second
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chapter of Interact other People. There are things like that
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and establishing social boundaries and things like that that are
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that are very good. The wrong way to work with
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the shadow is to project one's own shadow onto other people.
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That's why we need that foundation of self awareness. Okay, now,
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is this is your shadow? Literally just you. It's a
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part of us. Yeah, I mean we are all shadow
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and light. It's a big dance. It's a big interplay.
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Everything in life is it's all shadow and light. We
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have daytime, we have nighttime, we have awakeness, we have
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sleep sleepiness, and so everything is this whole dance and interplay.
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So simply focusing on the light, which can be amazing,
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can neglect the shadow portions, the hidden portions of oneself
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and one's patterns. This also, I believe, goes back to
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past lives. So we have certain imprints that we carry
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over from past lives in addition to this lifetime, and
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these things can progress until we learn and understand and
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grow from them.
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Okay, now you wrote this spell book. How does this
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spell book differ from other other spell books?
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I would say that the biggest way that Shadow Magic
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spell Book differs from others is that I encourage people
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to modify every spell and ritual and ceremony in the book.
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I say, don't do it how I wrote it. That
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take this and run with it and make it your own,
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make it personal, rather than doing it like a recipe
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by the book. So that's the biggest difference is that
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there are one hundred and forty four workings in there,
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and I say make them your own, do not do
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them how I wrote them exactly. This is your framework.
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Go for it. Do what you do do surrounding ceremonies
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with this or prayers or whatever your inclination is, and
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then incorporate what I've discovered in there because spirituality is
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it's an evolving thing, it's not a static thing. We
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don't have to do things by the book. When it
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comes to ceremonial magic. Like with planetary work, these things
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are much more specific. And with the deity work, the
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thing in my book is that I do not have
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any workings with particular gods or goddesses or deities. That's
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for the reader to or. And I do that very
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specifically intentionally because I want people to modify what I've
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discovered and created and co created. Really, and when it
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comes to deities and planetary energies and these very specific things,
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they require specific offerings and honorings. And with my book,
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I'm like, you know, incorporate that if you want to,
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and if not, then don't and honor your ancestors. Always
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honor your ancestors.
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Now Is that kind of like when it comes to
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any spell work, is it best to just make it
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your own instead of just like following a recipe just
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because it makes it a more personable thing for you.
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That's how I feel personally. Yeah, there, I do know
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some people who very much cognitively follow ancient Greek and
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Egyptian spells and rituals to the letter. Again, they have
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success with that. It's also again a co creative process.
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So if you think that this spell needs to be
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done with in this exact way, with these like Latin
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or Sanskrit words or whatever, and must burn these earth,
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must have this time alignment, this lunar cycle and very specific,
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then yeah, you might create more success because that's the
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intention that you've put into it. Whereas with witchcraft, it's
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much more intuitive, and that's often called like low magic
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instead of high magic. Okay, not that low is worse
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or lesser than it's just it's more terrestrials. It's more
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intuitive based rather than cosmic based. So that's why I encourage,
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like in my book, if you don't have Solomon's seal route,
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you can use glangle or you know, other substitutions, and
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I have a whole glossary in the back of the
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book that provides an index of substitutions and things like that.
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Okay, now you've mentioned different tools that you can use
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in your spell work. But is the intention matter more
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than the tools themselves.
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Yes, I very much believe that. So a person can
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light a candle and project extreme energy and life force
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into that candle, into those prayers, into whatever they're going for,
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and that can you know, yield so much more success
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than somebody who goes like for three days doing building
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up an entire ritual and doing it exactly on point.
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HM and what we're built for and what we vibe with.
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So you know, I will integrate those kind of things
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into my practice. I'll be like, well, this feels right
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and historically this is correct for this, So it's really
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just it really boils down to the person. So that's
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the intention aspect, because if you know that it's going
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to work, it'll work. Okay.
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It kind of goes along the lines of the Christian
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uh practice of you know, believing that you have it
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before and I know that goes through multiple religions and
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even different practices of magic as well, So that I
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find that very fascinating and that you know.
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What we call today the law of attraction, you have
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to believe that you have it and that is your
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intention in setting that.
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Yeah, the law of attraction. That's actually an ancient hermetic
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principle and probably long before her menticism came along at
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the same time, with the law of attraction, we don't
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want to trick ourselves because there we always have that
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shadow self, the uncon mind. That's like if I look
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in the mirror and I'm like, oh, I am so beautiful,
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I'm so handsome. Every day, there's that unconscious part of
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the mind that says, no, you're not, You're fooling yourself.
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What are you doing? And so fake it till you
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make it is a thing.
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It just I just think it takes a lot of
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different many different approaches to conquer insecurities and fears and
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self judgments that we all have, dealing with aging, dealing
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with body changes, with a relationship changes, all these things.
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It takes work. We need to work on ourselves. And
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nobody is perfect, and that that is the perfection. Is
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how I see it, is that there's nobody's perfect, that
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that is the perfection of it.
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Yeah, yeah, for sure. Now for anybody who is wanting
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to start doing this work, ken beginners actually do this
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work safely.
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Well, Like I said, therapy has probably saved my life
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talk therapy and I have a therapist from age like
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sixteen and then you know, switched on onto a few
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different others. I don't currently have a therapist, but I
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think that is a great point for perspective, because we
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need that outside perspective to know ourselves better, at least
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to consider ourselves better. We don't have to agree with
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everything that the therapist says. It's not the word of God.
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It's what they're training and their empathy hopefully the livers
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and their sympathy and just understanding. So you know, I've
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I had a therapist who only cared about himself like
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a couple of years ago, and so I was like,
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you know, I've gotten what I needed and thank you
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and moved on. And every other talk therapist that I've
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had since then before then has been very empathetic. It's
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it's it's hard work, but we do need that outside perspective.
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And at the same time, like I was saying, we
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don't need to believe everything that everybody says. Just because
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somebody says it doesn't make it true about it, or
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judgments with their judgments, and we all make mistakes, so
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we do need to be humble and accountable for mistakes
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that we make and slip ups that we make. And
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if somebody doesn't forgive that or understand that, then f M,
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they can they can have a Yeah, I agree with
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that on undred percent.
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Now, I something that's that's kind of in the book
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and I've read it in other places is liminal spaces.
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What are liminal spaces and why are they so powerful?
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Right? Liminal spaces. So my friend Laura writes about that
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quite a bit, but she's on the well and as well,
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so she has some books about the liminal. So liminal
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spaces are places in between now and then, in between
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here and there. For example, dusk is falling right now
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where I'm at here in Montana, in Missoula, Montana, So
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dusk is falling right now, and that this is a
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liminal space. Now wonder my kiddy cat is acting up
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and being like, oh this this is a time And
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other examples of liminal spaces are cemeteries, crossroads, even like
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the new moon or even the full moon eclipses, because
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we're in between one stage and another. That's the thing,
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that's where the magic happens. We're in between one space
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or another. This can also happen, of course, in be
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invoked in meditation or ritual. So here we are creating
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a space between the worlds in meditation or ritual and
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that's a liminal space in and of itself. By the way,
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Laura's Laura tempest Zakroff is the friend that I was
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mentioning earlier. Laura tempests Zachroff with a Z for those
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who are listening. She just made a new book. Also
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on Llewellyn. We have some oracle decks and other things,
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but she she speaks a lot about liminal spaces, and
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so liminal just means in between. It's the in between. Okay.
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Yeah, Now.
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You mentioned this.
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Multiple times about acknowledging ancestors and communicating with them and
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working with them. How real is that interaction or is
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it something where like people would think that it's just
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something in their head.
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Yeah, that's a great question. I think it all blends
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together because a lot of it is in our head
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and then a lot of it is external. So uh.
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I hear so many times about people, you know, getting
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signs from their their departed dearly departed in the form
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of birds or flowers or bees or synchronicities and things
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like this, and I think there's so much to be
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said about that. I think that's very real, And there's
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also this interplay with the personal self, Like it's like,
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is this real? Am I misinterpreting? Am I just trying
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to superimpose something paranormal or supernatural onto just like a
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normal daily experience. So there's this huge interplay that happens,
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and that's up for everybody to decide individually, like is
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this actually a message from my friend or am I
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just making it up? Or could it be both? Does
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it have to be one or the other? Can it
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be paradoxical? Can we have that dichotomy at the same time,
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because I don't think everything is mutually exclusive, and psychedelic
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mushrooms certainly taught me that that we can interplay with
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our mind and reality because we are nature, We are
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those synchronicities, those are constantly working with us, and we're
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not separate from it. So we can see something as
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something and understand that it's also in our mind.
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Now. One of the things that I found fascinating when
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I started researching this years and years ago the paranormal
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and even mediumship is the astral plane. Are people actually
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traveling somewhere when they're saying they're going on the astral plane?
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You know, that's been a bit of a struggle for me,
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also because I as a teenager when I was learning metaphysics,
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I was taught that there's this astral dimension that is
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separate from but as an imprint and energetic imprint of
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this reality, and you can travel to all these different
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places personally, don't I don't know. I haven't. I tried it,
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it didn't. I don't think it did much. I'm much
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more reliant on dreams and dream time symbolism than intentionally
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trying to astra project and look into a certain reality
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or project my etheric self to a certain place. That's
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something that I don't quite understand because it's just not
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my talent. So some people are very talented at that
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kind of thing and could could say a lot more
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about it, but it's just not my skill, right, No.
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I mean there are people that say when we're sleeping
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that depending on the dream, we are astro projecting. What
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are your thoughts on that?
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Yeah, for sure, I've had I've had some experiences like that.
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Like I worked with folks with disabilities for fifteen years,
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and sometimes I'll have dreams where I am astro projecting
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into the group home that I used to work at,
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for example, or into the radio station where I used
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to work at and get certain impressions. I think most
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of dream time is just this bizarre psychological dump that
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we can't anxiously on, just like it's just a mind worp.
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Yeah, well, and that's the that's the thing too, Like
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all of this worked, and even even dreams. You know,
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it's very, very hard to differentiate from your ego compared
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to you know, spiritual communication. I still have problems with that,
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being a medium and being able to sense these things
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that are not necessarily quote unquote here. But I always
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and and this is probably my shadow self doing it,
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I always doubt myself saying, you know, that's it's all
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in your head. You're you're not hearing people that have passed,
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You're not hearing your spirit cards. It's just all in
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your head. Sure, How, in your opinion, how do you
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get it to where where you work with your shadow
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more and get it to stop giving you those doubts.
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Well, on one hand, there is, like you said, self doubt,
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self deprecation, lack of belief, like shadow work and mediumship,
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empathetic work, psychic work. Terror reading like I do is terror.
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It's my main specialty. Like these things do not require
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us to be one hundred percent accurate. No, nothing is
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one hundred percent accurate, right, We're just transmitters and we
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do the best we possibly can. So there will be
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times when we'll think, Okay, is this just in my head?
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And is this really happening. What reinforces the opposite for
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me is when synchronicities happen, when things line up that
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or or you receive or say something that you couldn't
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have possibly known, and it's not from cold reading the
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other person or manipulating them, just things that come and
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with transmission. And I think that's a confirmation that we
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have these skills and we don't have to prove it
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to anybody. Of course, we want to be confident in
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ourselves and in what we're doing in our professions and
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in our in our in our help for other people,
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because that's what it's all about, is just helping other people.
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That is my entire life goal. That's what I signed
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up for from the day I was born, is to
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help others. Obviously that starts with the self. And so yeah,
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I think it's I think it's wise to question psychic impressions,
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whether it's mediumship, empathy, traditional psychicism, defamation, what have you.
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It's very wise to question oneself and the messages that
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one is receiving, because we don't want to trick ourselves
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because this battle can trick us also, and the ego
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can trick us. So we don't want to, you know,
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fall into the hands of brickery. We want to be
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ourselves and genuine as much as we can. And if
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we don't know something, we say that we don't know
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what we don't know.
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Now, I'm assuming that you do a type of protection
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before you start doing shadow work.
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How do you protect yourself when you're doing this type
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of work?
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For me, because I fall back a little bit on
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ceremonial magic for protective work. When it comes to a
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ritual setting, I'll do the LBRP, which is the lesser
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banishing ritual of the pentagram. So this is intoning various
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names of God for lack of better terms of the
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divine into the self and then basically evoking the archangels
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around and banishing negative influence before doing a working. And
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this can be different for everybody. It can simply be
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crossing yourself, and it can be simply calling on angels.
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It can be burning herbs and doing that kind of cleansing,
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connecting with crystals. So it's just different for everybody else. Like,
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and that's the thing I think we all need to
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go with our intuition and what works best for us.
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Kind of goes back to what you said earlier about
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with the spell book, doing it the way that you
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want to, not necessarily how you've worked it out in
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the look.
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Yeah. Wow.
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Now, what is one of the biggest misconceptions about shadow
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work in your opinion?
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Well, I'd say that the biggest misconception is that it's
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about something outside of oneself. We all have that shadow
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south they can, you know, look up the or look
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back to call her young about that research psychologically, but
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seeing the shadow of something external, even seeing demons as
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something outside of us and outside of our experience, seeing
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evil as something external. Oh do you watch the news? Yeah, yeah,
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it's like girl, there's some demonic stuff going on. Okay,
481
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there there is the demon of greed and insatiable greed
482
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occurring and has done as long as I've known this
483
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long as probably humankind, and the demon of you know,
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sadism and just enjoying others, the suffering of others. Yeah,
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these are real things. So doing shadow work doesn't mean
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exalting these horrible things. For me, shadow work means does
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all those horrible imprints, those horrible forces, because we need
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to go dig into the shadow to dissolve those things
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at the very least in our own lives. Is including trauma, imprints,
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abuses that we've endured. It doesn't mean that we need
491
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to curse the other person. No, no, no, we have
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to work on ourselves. It's all about working on ourselves.
493
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That is the first step. And then also of course protection,
494
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Like you mentioned, the three main things that I recommend
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for protection when performing shadow work are the stone, black turmaline,
496
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don't wear it every day. I talk about this in
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all of my empathy books. Esoteric Empathy was my first one,
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and then the one that's made for where everyone is
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called The Everyday Mpath, which is also on audiobook, The
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Everyday Mpath, and then I created the Empath's Oracle Deck.
501
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Co created that, which I'm very happy with Empaths Oracle Deck.
502
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So that's like those are affirmation cards. But one thing
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that I say in all of those pieces is protect yourself,
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know yourself, and be humble with who you are and
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use things that help protect you socially, whether it's black turmoline,
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wearing a necklace, whether it's like the other thing is yarrow.
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Yarrow is very protective as an herb and as a
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spray as a tincture, And the other thing is just
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simply visualization, which goes a long way. Visualizing ourselves protected
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with a crystalline sphere that only allows goodness into us.
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I would also around that honoring our ancestors and the departed,51200:44:10.679 --> 00:44:17.679
you know, people and animals, and our spirit team, whether51300:44:17.719 --> 00:44:21.559
we know them or not, is very valuable. We all51400:44:21.599 --> 00:44:23.440
have a spirit team, whether we know them or not.51500:44:26.159 --> 00:44:29.559
Yeah, I mean I this is something I do regularly,51600:44:30.039 --> 00:44:32.480
and I've been doing it for a very long time,51700:44:32.559 --> 00:44:38.559
since before I even started going down this path, and51800:44:38.599 --> 00:44:44.159
that is talking stuff out with nobody around. Like I'm51900:44:44.199 --> 00:44:47.440
basically what most people would think, I'm talking to myself,52000:44:49.559 --> 00:44:56.440
but I've always felt that somebody's there, so in it. Unintentionally,52100:44:56.760 --> 00:45:00.000
I was working with my spirit team and not even52200:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.440
I'm really thinking of it as such, right, And it's52300:45:06.719 --> 00:45:09.199
at least from what I can sense, is that our52400:45:09.239 --> 00:45:15.320
spirit team isn't only assigned to us. That's a very egoic,52500:45:15.840 --> 00:45:17.519
you know, view to take it to be like, oh,52600:45:17.519 --> 00:45:20.079
they're only ours, this one's here for me.52700:45:20.559 --> 00:45:24.320
Oh no, they're all over the place. Time works differently52800:45:24.360 --> 00:45:27.000
over on the other side, we can't even fathom. You52900:45:27.079 --> 00:45:30.360
have no idea. Nobody can. Well, a few people can53000:45:30.559 --> 00:45:33.320
come back and report it, I guess, like to some degree,53100:45:33.519 --> 00:45:40.559
but like, yeah, but we just have to know that53200:45:40.599 --> 00:45:43.320
they're there because we all have a spirit team. And53300:45:43.480 --> 00:45:51.199
even if even if these are just pieces of ourselves,53400:45:51.280 --> 00:45:58.039
so what than they are doesn't matter, right, If that53500:45:58.119 --> 00:46:04.280
helps you and it works, it's the difference. Now, what53600:46:04.559 --> 00:46:10.079
is one thing that you hope people take from when53700:46:10.119 --> 00:46:16.760
they're reading this book with a Shadow Magic spell book,53800:46:19.480 --> 00:46:23.320
I want people to love themselves. That's really what it53900:46:23.320 --> 00:46:28.119
comes down to. Same with my books about empathy, my54000:46:28.159 --> 00:46:32.199
whole series My Empaths, Oracle, Esoteric Empathy, and the Everyday54100:46:32.239 --> 00:46:41.400
EmPATH same kind of theme, different approach. However, like what54200:46:41.559 --> 00:46:45.960
it alchemizes to and boils down to is please love54300:46:46.239 --> 00:46:49.960
and care for and respect yourself and realize that you54400:46:50.039 --> 00:46:57.039
are sacred. That's the biggest takeaway. You are sacred, child54500:46:57.079 --> 00:46:59.840
of the universe, and we are here for a reason.54600:47:01.639 --> 00:47:05.199
That's the biggest takeaway.54700:47:06.559 --> 00:47:11.320
All right, Now, what one simple shadow practice someone can54800:47:11.400 --> 00:47:14.679
try tonight to start working with their shadow.54900:47:16.480 --> 00:47:23.280
Yeah. So the fact that you mentioned tonight the night nighttime. Okay,55000:47:23.360 --> 00:47:28.039
so now we're invoking the nighttime. That's a good starting55100:47:28.079 --> 00:47:31.840
point because it doesn't matter what signs the planets are55200:47:31.880 --> 00:47:34.960
in or whatever the moon is in the fact, yeah,55300:47:34.960 --> 00:47:37.599
it's nighttime. Oh yeah, that's the time for shadow where55400:47:37.679 --> 00:47:45.960
isn't it. So so I feel like somebody can just55500:47:46.800 --> 00:47:49.800
listen to what is coming up synchronistically in their own55600:47:49.840 --> 00:47:52.920
lives and being like, oh, this theme has been a55700:47:53.039 --> 00:47:57.079
rising for me lately, or today I heard from X55800:47:57.239 --> 00:48:03.559
y Z or this or simply this thought is very55900:48:03.599 --> 00:48:07.679
prevalent on my mind. So I would invite people to56000:48:07.719 --> 00:48:12.880
sit with those thoughts and sensations and this evening and56100:48:12.960 --> 00:48:16.320
just be like, hey, okay, why is this coming up?56200:48:18.480 --> 00:48:23.519
So I'll give an example today. At the time of56300:48:23.559 --> 00:48:28.400
this recording, you remember I mentioned that I worked at56400:48:28.400 --> 00:48:34.840
a group home for many years. I ended up texting56500:48:35.039 --> 00:48:38.480
out of allegedly nowhere, I don't want to say nowhere,56600:48:38.519 --> 00:48:42.800
but out of with a couple of the mothers of56700:48:46.119 --> 00:48:49.800
folks who are in their group home. Today boom, like56800:48:49.880 --> 00:48:55.039
we hardly ever text ever, Okay, And I had a56900:48:55.119 --> 00:48:58.960
dream last night about that very thing, and then there57000:48:59.039 --> 00:49:02.360
was another synchronous where, you know, I saw somebody with57100:49:02.480 --> 00:49:08.199
down syndrome, and so all these things started piling up,57200:49:08.320 --> 00:49:12.599
and I'm like, okay, the universe is obviously speaking. So57300:49:13.639 --> 00:49:19.760
the message here is for me to reconnect asap with57400:49:20.440 --> 00:49:23.159
these folks from the group home that I worked with57500:49:23.880 --> 00:49:29.880
for so long. So again, synchronicity, look at our synchronicity.57600:49:30.239 --> 00:49:34.280
That that's where we need. That's where the stillness is.57700:49:34.440 --> 00:49:36.760
We need to take a step back and be like, okay,57800:49:37.440 --> 00:49:40.199
what is the universe saying? Now? What are the repeating57900:49:40.360 --> 00:49:42.719
cycles right now? What are my dreams, what are my58000:49:44.880 --> 00:49:49.280
you know emails? What are all these things? And take58100:49:49.280 --> 00:49:53.800
a step back and then try to engage so when58200:49:53.880 --> 00:50:01.280
it comes to nighttime and like enacting shadow work right away,58300:50:01.880 --> 00:50:05.920
it's just about taking a step back, That's all I'd say.58400:50:06.760 --> 00:50:11.039
Okay, Now, do you feel that we're getting signs and58500:50:11.159 --> 00:50:15.639
signals pretty much all the time or is it just58600:50:15.679 --> 00:50:17.519
when we need to really notice something.58700:50:21.719 --> 00:50:26.559
I think they're always coming in and we don't always58800:50:26.639 --> 00:50:30.559
notice them, but they'll come in much more strongly when58900:50:31.559 --> 00:50:34.559
the universe is being or the guides or what have59000:50:34.639 --> 00:50:37.079
you are, or the higher self is being like, hey59100:50:37.679 --> 00:50:43.920
listen up. So when it really gets our attention, then59200:50:44.000 --> 00:50:48.960
we know. In everyday life, I think we're usually navigating59300:50:49.000 --> 00:50:54.639
and we'll get minor signs and synchronicities. Okay. I tend59400:50:54.639 --> 00:50:56.079
to neglect those a lot.59500:50:57.079 --> 00:50:58.360
I think a lot of people.59600:50:58.079 --> 00:51:04.400
Do so, and then and then I'll realize it later.59700:51:04.519 --> 00:51:09.840
I'll be like, oh, crap, that's what was being communicated59800:51:09.960 --> 00:51:12.199
by the by the universe.59900:51:15.800 --> 00:51:18.800
All right, Well that's fair enough, because I mean there's60000:51:18.840 --> 00:51:23.639
a lot of people that we'll see something and just60100:51:23.639 --> 00:51:30.960
be like, oh, it's just coincidence. Yeah. So I totally60200:51:30.960 --> 00:51:35.639
feel that, especially, you know, just ignoring something, because I've60300:51:35.920 --> 00:51:39.079
seen it quite a bit where I'll ignore something and60400:51:39.119 --> 00:51:44.239
then i'll ignore enough times and I'll get a very60500:51:44.360 --> 00:51:47.639
very hard pressure in my third eye. I'll get a60600:51:47.760 --> 00:51:51.480
very hard pressure on my crown chakra. I'm like, Okay,60700:51:51.719 --> 00:51:56.519
what's go on? And yeah, it's like listen, not what's up?60800:52:00.199 --> 00:52:02.239
All right? Last question I have for you before I60900:52:02.320 --> 00:52:05.360
let you go, where can everyone find you and.61000:52:05.239 --> 00:52:10.599
Find your work? So raven like the bird and digitalis61100:52:10.679 --> 00:52:14.599
like the plant, which is the Latin name for Foxglove.61200:52:15.159 --> 00:52:20.679
Digitalis ravendigitalis dot com. You can also look me up61300:52:21.039 --> 00:52:30.159
under Raven digitalis on Amazon, good Red, It's YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,61400:52:30.159 --> 00:52:36.960
all the things I did delete my tech talk because evil.61500:52:35.480 --> 00:52:40.119
Yeah, I mean a lot a lot of people would61600:52:40.159 --> 00:52:42.400
probably agree with you.61700:52:42.440 --> 00:52:49.400
Oh yeah, these are some weird ass times. So it's like, yeah,61800:52:49.679 --> 00:52:53.719
gotta do what we can and yeah, yeah, yeah, thank61900:52:53.760 --> 00:52:57.960
you listeners. Look me up Raven digitalis and that's a62000:52:58.039 --> 00:53:04.559
digital with an I at the end, And yeah, Raven digitalis.62100:53:04.599 --> 00:53:09.000
And like I mentioned, I do professional tarot readings. A62200:53:09.039 --> 00:53:13.199
person can book with me. I've done this for over62300:53:13.239 --> 00:53:21.079
twenty years. Are terror consultations. I also do remote and62400:53:21.800 --> 00:53:29.960
in person reiki sessions. And I also provide spell kits62500:53:30.000 --> 00:53:34.079
and prayer kits for folks that, like I said, need62600:53:34.119 --> 00:53:36.719
a consultation, and then we go from there. I send62700:53:36.800 --> 00:53:40.519
them the ingredients. I do not cast for anybody. I62800:53:40.559 --> 00:53:43.719
provide them with the tools to do that on their62900:53:43.760 --> 00:53:48.480
own in an ethical manner, and you know, print out63000:53:48.480 --> 00:53:51.679
a whole scroll and nail that. All these things but63100:53:51.760 --> 00:53:56.440
that can all be fine be found under the services63200:53:56.840 --> 00:54:02.199
portion of my website ravendigitalis dot com. Excellent, Raven, thank63300:54:02.239 --> 00:54:05.639
you so much for being on Paratruth, be born. Thank63400:54:05.679 --> 00:54:09.039
you so much to spend a pleasure all right, folks.63500:54:09.159 --> 00:54:13.480
That was Rave Digit tell Us, author of Shadow Magic Spellbook.63600:54:14.800 --> 00:54:18.760
That is it for us, as sweet Paratruthers. There's always63700:54:18.840 --> 00:54:23.599
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