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I never read about familiars except when they are mentioned in stories. I have had familiars though. When I was an infant a cat named Mrs. Owl moved in on my mom and dumped a retarded kitten at her feet. My Nana told my mom that I was a little witch and that she knew me from another life. She too was adopted by many cats. My mom told me the cat neglected the kitten and took over my crib. Up until the year she died that cat fallowed me everywhere and tried to keep me out of trouble. She died because she tried to keep me from running in front of a car. She was side swiped and had a limp. My parents didn't take her to the vet and she died. My Nana died that year too. I now have a 15 year old cat named Luna who is Mrs. Owl reincarnated.

Cats and the animals I live with communicate with body language and intuition. If you get adopted by an animal that seems more human than animal than you are in luck. You have been blessed with a familiar.

I remember how I felt when I first encountered Sleep Paralysis. I didn't know what it was and thought I was having a stroke. LOL I'm sure glad to hear it's normal. Whew...

I know I'm a newby here and should probably keep my mouth shut but I am also a mother and look at things with a mother's eye.

I don't know the whole story behind what's going on here but I think what I gather is; a forum and some threads have been shut down because some of the younger posters here are taking a comic seriously and there are one or more people thinking they need to recruit others into some astral battle they perceive.

My children read those comics. They don't take them as seriously as some of you but I read them too just to see what has caught their interest and I play their card games with them.

Three years ago my daughter age 11 thought I was nuts because she walked in on me talking to a ghost, and found out that I believe in spirit worlds. She thought her dad was nuts when he told her about a fairy he saw on a mountain. She also thought her little brother was nuts because he sees spirits and ghosts. Last year after she read Shaman King she came up to me and asked, "Mom have you ever touched a ghost, and have you ever been in the spirit world? I said, "Yes" and she said, "Mom you are a shaman." (I've never cllaimed to be one) She started showing an interest in my tarot so I gave her a deck. She no longer thought I was nuts.

In some ways I think it is great that these comics are opening peoples minds to the astral worlds but I do think the books condition them into accepting violence and war. It is a way of desensitization. I make my children aware when the media, cartoons, movies, they watching is often designed to mold them into warriors and sometimes bigotry to other cultures.

We humans have big egos. We forget we were born to take care of this living being whom we call earth. We battle each other like a disease that pit's the immune system against itself. Our real demons are our own greed, hatred, fear, and gluttony. To battle the real demons we should learn to clean up the earth and pick up our mess instead of continue with the path of destruction.

The best weapon for hate is love and compassion. A desire to heal the haters and to wish that they transform into compassionate creatures. That is my approach to existence in both the spirit and physical worlds.

I think it is to bad that threads have been locked and a forum shut down. Is there a way you folks could reach a compromise?

I have always felt like stories and books come to life and become other worlds in this infinite universe. I have had stories in the Sandman comics come to life for me in my dreams and Charles de Lint novels. I guess in a way I understand why some people love their comics and have had them come to life for them. It has opened up a door to other worlds for them.

I also think that those of you who take these battles so seriously to be respectful that not everyone will sees or can relate to your perspective. It is not healthy to become obsessive and fanatical about anything really.

I don't go by what I read. I go by what I have experienced. I don't even try to astral project but an astral friend and guide who just seems to desire my company takes me out of my body. I don't know if he pulls me out of my body or just helps me leave it but I know that I don't even need to be sleeping when it happens. I'll be in mid conversation with someone and than suddenly be out of my body. It spooks people when this happens. One time my husband had a friend visiting when this happened to me. The guy was so spooked by seeing me pass out sitting up in mid-conversation that he avoids me. I think he thought I was dying.

I once had a dream where I was on a spaceship and on an operating table. There was a woman on the table next to me but she was unconscious. I got up and looked out a window at the stars. One of the aliens (who looked human) started talking to me. I don't remember what she said but I was led to a room where I played with a little girl for a while.

quote:Originally posted by Gnosis

Bard,

Could you provide more details as to preportions of ingredients you are using, or were you just kind of throwing stuff in?

Is there a general way that one goes about cooking the herbs with beeswax for solidification?  I'm guessing double-boiler with beeswax, and stir in the oily liquid.

Also, did you use rasberries, or raspberry leaves, or stems?

Thanks for any information!  I'm moving to a new house soon (from a small apartment), and plan to have an herb garden and do a bit of wildcrafting around my area.

gnosis

I just pretty much threw them together but I used more raspberry than anything else. Both the leaves and berries of the raspberry plants are good for the skin but I used the leaves.

I didn't have a double broiler so I made one by using a tuna can in a small pan of boiling water.

I grow my herbs both inside and outside. For some reason my herbs mostly died in the house this winter. I had a huge beautiful rosemary bush that I watered enough but it just died and I don't know why. My indoor rosebush died this month too. Maybe it just got to cold by the window. That's the trouble in below zero weather.

I have encountered people I know who were astral projecting at the same time that I was. I think your idea has possibilities.

My favorite is using a hot wash cloth soaked in ginger and putting it on my chest. Steaming ginger in a cup for breathing in the steam helps. In my yard there is a weed we call creeping Charle which has purple flowers and climbs things like a vine. I use it as a tea and it helps get rid of the cold fast but most people don't even know what it is and it isn't likely you'll be around any.

I haven't had a cold or flu bug in a long time and my kids brought home plenty of colds this year. I always am the only one who stays healthy. It's because I eat raw garlic every day. I mix it with melted cheese to take away some of the hot flavor. To bad most people can't handle raw garlic because it is the best cure for a cold that I know.

I use to use gingko biloba to tone my memory. It worked but caused bleeding problems when I took it to long. "Everything in moderation."
I recommend it but don't overuse it if you try it. My memory has improved but now I only take it once in awhile when I start losing things too much.

Sometimes it is a matter of just increasing your circulation through stretching and exercise.

Other herbs that help increase blood circulation and the supply of nutrients to the brain are herbs like ginger, ginseng, and Hawthorn (which remove atherosclerotic plaques, provides antioxidant protection and is good for your heart as well.)

Those balls of fire sound like a form of rare lightening but still it is a strange phenomenon.

quote:Originally posted by boydster

It appears to me that smoking dope weakens the auric sheath and eventually allows the formation of holes in it. These holes allow negs to come and go at will in and out of ones aura. This issue of holes appearing in the aura is not a short term temporary thing that happens just while you're high. It's a cumulative effect that happens over a long period of marijuana use. And fixing the damage involves months or years of intense, sophisticated and dedicated energy work.

Another way to look at it is that smoking marijuana creates an astral entity from nothing--the entity is made up of your life energy and is formed by the power of your desire for the feeling of being high. All addictive substances have the same effect--I've seen them and I've fought with my own addiction-monsters and those of others. Some addicted people look like they have giant worms wrapped totally around them.

Here is a very good rendering of what a tobacco addict looks like with the tobacco entity holding him. I don't have a pix of the marijuana entity, but it is a big spidery looking thing that holds on to you very tenaciously:

http://www.prismgraphicdesign.com/tobacco_entity.jpg

I smoked pot quite a bit during my teens and early twenties and caused myself a lot of problems. I haven't had a toke for about 20 years now and it took me a lot of work to repair the protective shield on the outside of my aura.

Not only that, but before I had ever smoked pot, I had a straight A grade point average in school. After I started smoking it screwed up my once photographic memory and my GPA went down a lot.

If I could do it over, I'd never have touched the excrement. I don't think it's harmless.

If you'd like to avoid the negative effects of marijuana, the answer is obvious.[]

Back in the days when I smoked pot in my early 20's I never went through any psychic attacks nor did it feel like I had holes in my aura or any spider or worm like beings attached to me. I was in my best health, confident, worked hard and was able to assimilate knowledge and memorize things well. My grades improved when I started smoking. When I first started out in the school system they thought I was retarded. I had a lisp and was dyslexic. I needed tutors up until around the time I started smoking pot.

I have seen entities like that attached to some people but not all of them were drug addicts.

My mother got strait A's through college. She smoked pot and did a lot of LSD during that time in her life. She has quit those things since.

Now that I don't smoke has been the time in my life where I had heartbreaking experiences shatter my system a bit and that has nothing to do with pot. It has to do with deaths and lost loves.  My mother and her husband initiated their psychic attacks on me out of greed for money and land.

I have not experienced having to work years to heal my aura from past pot use, but I do need to heal my aura from the violations done to my physical body by incompetent doctors and family gossip.

I grew up around potheads. My grandma used it to sooth the pain and nausea while she battled liver cancer. She is the first person in my life that had past life memories of me and I her. Her spiritual energy wasn't messed up by it. She was a very lovely and amazing person.

My mom smoked pot with me when I was young. It relieved my asthma. When I was 25 I got sprayed with some insecticide in a city on a wet rainy day (it contained dioxin) I started having breathing problems and had to quit pot. I was already allergic to tobacco back then. I don't allow any forms of smoking in my house except smudging with sage or sweet grass but I hang out with potheads who are spiritual and gentle people who are non-violent and have totally positive energy.
Pot doesn't mess up your energy as much as it opens up your ability to feel other people and astral beings energy. If you are around negative people or in a negative area you can feel attacked just by how much you sense the things around you.

I have seen some potheads become paranoid people but they usually were the ones using chemical drugs and didn't just stick to natural highs.

When I was a vegetarian I was at the healthiest physically and mentally. I didn't notice a difference where astral projection is concerned but I was in the best of health during that time in my life. I started eating meat again 4 years ago because my children love meat and my husband. I couldn't afford to make separate meals all the time. Now I am slowly tricking my children into eating less meat by putting soy meat substitute in foods like spaghetti. They keep saying it's the best they ever tasted but if I tell them it is soy and not meat they refuse to even try it.  

quote:Originally posted by SpectralDragon

In a short story like this you have to find creative ways to create characterization. From what little of the character you see here (because it's a short story) you know she has a relaxed lifestyle. That's about it. Perhaps you could describe her thinking a bit more. Have the reader get inside the main character's head. show her opinion on more things around her.

the dreams she had were interesting, and the last part surprised me. you did that very well.

you might want to describe the surroundings just a bit more. kind of hazy there.

Overall I loved this story. Keep up the writing, fellow author []

Thank you for the constructive criticism. I agree, I could have put more personality to her and given a better mental picture of her surroundings.

quote:Originally posted by shedt

great advice boydster !

It reminds me sort of falling in love when your in high-school. if things don't work out your heart gets broken. you think about it alot. but if you find someone else whom you fancy, and you start thinking about them, you'll forget oh so quickly about the other one.

but everyone here must have gone through something similar

Funny you should mention High-School crushes. I went to the same High-School as this guy. I've known him and his family longer than I've known my husband. I had no feelings at all for him until he moved in with us.

It is nothing like a High-School crush really. I am 40 years old and had my share of heartaches and hurt a few hearts myself. He clings tight to my spirit with his and won't let go and I've never really experienced anything like it before. I try not to think of him but he is good at breaking through my barriers. He isn't the only astral friendly in my life but everyday I feel him reach for me with his mind.

Thanks for the links Kakkarot.

I buried the shell from dark to full of the moon before I turned it into a necklace. I also smudged it. I just so happen to have a picture of it.



I decided it wouldn't be appropriate to return it. He might get the wrong idea from it. I still might find a new home for it. It has good energy.

I have danced with swords. They don't seem to work for me like they do other people. I'll try a simple stainless steal knife and see if that makes a differance.

My dog Ozzy is half wolf and the small town I live in blames him everytime dogs slaughter the chickens around here. So yes wolves are very misunderstood. I got so mad at him today when he ran off on my daughter (while she walked him) and I had to look for them. I'd been bed ridden for a few days in pain from head to toe. When I got out to chase the dog I realized I felt better. All I needed was some fresh air. Wolves are very healing spirits. I just can't let him have run of the town because everyone wants to shoot him.

Ozzy can open doors and when I was sleeping one day he got out by openning the door. A neighbor took him to a pound 20 miles away. We found him and a few days after he zoomed out of our yard grabbed her rabbit and dropped the poor scared ball of fluff in our yard with the girl who took him to the pound chasing after him and yelling at the top of her lungs. The rabbit was fine. He was just picking on the girl for taking him to the pound.
Here's a picture of Ozzy. How could anyone want to shoot this cool fellow?

quote:Originally posted by kakkarot

there are techniques for cutting psychic connections between people. i suggest you find one.

if you still feel a longing for him after the connection is cut, try meditating and finding out why you feel that way for him. but i know from personal experience that sometimes psychic connections can make a person feel something for someone just because the two people are sharing that connection (and sharing a part of themselves due to the connection).

and, in my books at least, feeling something for someone because of a psychic connection is not a very good reason to hook up with them. in fact, i think it's probably a bad one. if there were more to your "relationship" with the guy beyond the mere psychic connection, then there might be good grounds for considering hooking up, but a psychic connection to a person can mess with your perception of them (especially so if the other person is purposefully manipulating that connection) and can cause a person to have illusions of caring about someone they don't even know.

so, as i said, i suggest that your first step be in finding a way to cut the connection and then rethink the situation after that is done ^_^ .

~kakkarot

That's great advice. Actually I don't plan to hook up with him. The reason I chose my husband over him is I didn't like the way he treated my daughter when he lived with us. He and she don't like each other. My husband is the better man of the two and I trust him more.

I just need to figure out how to sever the connection. He gave me a crystal shell. Maybe if I return the necklace I made out of it that would help sever the bond.

[Moontingle your experience sounds well worth the cold weather. Thanks for sharing it.]

quote:Originally posted by wisp

This may be an odd example of shapeshifting. For a few years I had a little flower garden. I discovered a dog spirit sitting next to me whenever I was digging in this garden spot. I got use to it after a while. Each year this dog would sit and watch me work. I got away from my garden after so many years. The last year I planted something there, the dog changed from dog to a bird,I could hear it in the tree right next to the garden. It made the same sound long enough for me to know it was him.I never saw either, only heard the sound. I wondered why, and I wondered if this was a bird or a dog. I also wondered if I had only imagined it all. I have discovered since then, dogs and birds guard me in spirit, and also send me messages. It's pretty cool, and very real.

I've experienced something similar with a bird when I lived in a bog and worked in my flower garden. The bird spirit would sing to me like a cedar wax wing but extra twills. My husband told me it sounded like it was twilling, "I love you." For awhile we thought it was some person hiding in the woods watching us. We would search  and fond nothing. Not even a bird in the places the twill came from.

I never witnessed physical shape changing but in astral form I sometimes travel as a cat.

Moontingle your experience sounds well worth the cold weather. Thanks for sharing it.

Congratulations![] I remember how excited I felt seeing my babies for the first time with the ultrasound.

I have a few photos of my astral lover. Is he a ghost? Maybe but if you click on my profile you will see a photo of him  kissing me on my head. He says we've been together for 25 years.His name is Saul.

I have seen many at old ruins on the east coast that my family explored and one has fallowed me and resides with me and my family.

My husband has seen two others playing with my friend during the late night hours.

I saw the movie after seeing a mothman in a dream. I thought he was a dark fairy or angel and he didn't seem evil just melancholy in my dream.

Happy New Years!

Have you written more yet. I want to know what happens?[]

Interesting- Your characters remind me of comic book characters. Have you ever thought of turning them into a comic?

(This is not an insult of your work. I happen to read comics as much as I read novels.)