What is a Morphic Field? Why Are They Important in Magic and the Occult?
I shared in earlier this year that a morphic field is an energy field that is created by those aligned through a shared focus; they can be physically together or geographically apart, and the resonance built by the participants can act as a channel of communication and of shared blessings. Morphic fields are also reinforced by successive generations. The term was formed by biologist Rupert Sheldrake in his work, Hypothesis of Formative Causation, though in esoteric terms, a field is not bound to biology alone. For the purpose of discussion, I am also further expanding on this notion in this update blog post.
WHEN AI BECOMES SELF-AWARE: EXPLORING THE POSSIBILITY OF WISDOM IN AI
The exploration of the basis that "artificial intelligences" are inherently 'artificial,' contrasting with the notion of "natural intelligence" in humans, betrays more human-exclusivity and the problems tied to that perspective than mere forecasts about an imminent hostile AI takeover.
What Daoism says about getting unstuck
I am not so much of a fan of manifesting as it can suggest ableism or exceptionism. That said, we can still play in a role both through our daily decisions and how we relate with energy. Sometimes energies get stuck because the container (our bodies, our minds, our physical homes, our altars and other magickal work surfaces) becomes too full.
From a Daoist perspective, the stuckness happens because Yang has reproduced itself to the point of becoming an invasive mono crop species. The Yang aspect has fixated itself on past successes and assumes repeating what it has always done will result in more of what it desires.
On the continued discussion of how to have psychic abilities: Witchcraft and spirit work is about being intimate with what's real
The task of the witch is to collaborate on the process of shaping yourself and reality. To continuously make and remake yourself as an act of pleasure and honesty.
To be a witch makes you in essence also an artist, one who creates and re-creates, one who is aware they have the freedom to determine their own identity, to make their own image.
In this way, witchcraft creates the divine.
SKIN CARING: Eye Massage
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the Liver opens to the eyes. Liver Blood nourishes the eyes, but can be depleted by poor diet and lack of rest. Some Liver Blood deficiency signs are blurry vision, dry eyes, or impaired night vision. Stress and emotions affect Qi flow. Massaging the skin and muscles around the eyes can promote Qi flow and improve the skin around the eye. I use my Eye Serum // Frequency of Mindfulness which contains Carrot, Myrrh, Seabuckthorn Berries, Calendula and Neroli that are formulated in such a way that promotes both an energetic expansion of our life force.
Animist Thoughts While Drinking Tea
I find myself asking these questions, or perhaps hearing these questions as I drink my daily Tea.
Today, I am reminded that the unknown, adventure, chaos and transcendence are romanticized, as they are often frightening, destabilizing, violent even.
Much like Tea. A plant of grace and medicine, but also filled with heartache and betrayal (referencing the Opium Wars here).
Why is it that human taking human, human taking land, human taking minerals, human taking anything seems to be the only constant?
Maybe Tea represents the persistence of life, how despite life becoming something you don’t understand, humans doing things you don’t understand.
Maybe Tea is soil, blood, sweat, wind, rain, where this plant will always be more than a crop that is packaged and then diluted.
HOW ANCESTORS COMMUNICATE: ANCESTOR ALTAR BEST PRACTICES
Ancestors are widely acknowledged as highly responsive spirits; some attribute this to the fact that without descendants, ancestors cease to fulfill their ancestral roles, while others view the transition from 3D life to spirit form as a means for ancestors to continue offering nourishment, safety, and comfort in a way that spans wider and more impactfully than during their earthly form. A simple yet potent way to cultivate a connection with departed ancestors is by creating an ancestor altar. These altars, whether dedicated to specific individuals (a grandmother, for instance) or a group of ancestors (grandparents and great grandparents), serve as sacred spaces—be it a shelf, table, or another surface—reserved for spirit communication, offering sites, or energetic communion.
Qualities of McSpirituality, Its Bullshit and Its Dangers
McSpirituality justifies and even spiritualizes self-obsession, prioritizing one’s own emotions and individuality over the needs and realities of a group. McSpirituality misuses psychology terms like ‘trauma’, ‘trigger’, and ‘narcissist’ to describe ordinary discomfort and someone who holds a difference of opinion. McSpirituality confuses spiritual terms for the spiritual practice. McSpirituality confuses spiritual tools for the spiritual practice. McSpirituality looks to complex, intricate spiritual teachings, reduces them to decontextualized clear cut “truths”, and then sells them as tidy “answers” to complex, intricate life problems.
Do eclipses affect us spiritually and creatively? And other post eclipse affects
I yearn to learn the language of rain, how it pours out itself, and joins other bodies of water, how it then evaporates, and then pours down again. I am shown that through rain, time is always cyclical, but never uniform. The swelling and releasing of the clouds are different every time, sometimes sudden and sometimes gradual, and how they are distinct from each other. How sideways rain is rain being defiant and unrelenting. Spring thunderstorms are so enthusiastic. Summer mists tease and smell so good. Fall showers are heavy and thick. Winter’s heaviness, rivers on dry land, in cities, and when it cools right down, right down to zero, how they crystalize and turn to snow. How snow is a different kind of rain, one that rocks and hushes the land beneath. Snow as comfort, snow as delight, and sometimes, snow as treachery.
SKIN CARING: Your Skin is Your Largest Psychic Organ
Did you know that caring for your skin also enhances your intuition and psychic senses? This is because skin is our largest psychic antennae. Our skin is always taking in information - some obvious, some more subtle or hidden. If you look to ancient and folk traditions, spas, baths, herbs, and caring for our skin have always been linked to connecting with Source and the more-than-human.
What Does It Mean When We Say That Tea Is Not A Drink?
Still, modern humans regard Tea as a beverage, passive and inanimate, something to be consumed and reduced to a nutritional summary of polyphenols, that limits our ability to relate with her (and other plants), and the natural elements with consequences. These consequences of reducing Tea is a form of objectification, a fetishizing, a symptom of domination where we claim we “know” Tea, based on her list of beneficial compounds. Substituting "Tea" with "friend" challenges our anthropocentric view, highlighting our tendency to prioritize self-interest as humans, where we believe we are the main character of the narrative. It prompts reflection on genuine friendship and our role as participants.
How to Drink Tea As An Animist: What Is Hui Gan?
From Mandarin, Hui Gan (回甘) translates as “returning sweetness”. It’s the finish (much like what’s experienced in fine wines) that is both a sensation and a flavor that is left on the palate after Tea is consumed. With Teas with strong Hui Gan, the finish can be sensed beyond the mouth, and can spill over onto your entire body. In my animist work, I see Hui Gan less as a “finish” or aftertaste, and more as an afterglow, or simply how the specific Tea says until we meet again.
What’s the difference between Clock Time and Elemental Time?
There’s clock-time— linear, homogeneous, mechanical, always depleting, a commodity or resource. There’s also elemental time — mutable, oblique, multipliable, full of life force, alive and intelligent. Clock-time is found outside of us. Elemental time is found within our ourselves — our bodies, our dream states, where our voice and our personal land is found and accessed.
How Words Can Create Reality
The Black Holes Birthing Stars series is both a creative writing and magical word-crafting series. Where language is approached as a tool of consciousness.
Ethical Business Practices and Examples within Wellness
I list some questions that we can keep top of mind when we audit our decolonizing practices within our spiritual practices and how it shows up in business decisions. These prompts are meant to help you ask yourself with discernment and honesty how you approach spirituality, wellness, and business, in an ever changing world, and presents intersectional decolonization approaches.
It's International Women's Day, and yet…
It's International Women's Day, and yet, many of my personal frustrations, depletions, and wounds have been sustained from women.
IS OUR APPROACH TO ETHICS HURTING US?
Ethics and spirituality is not a way to judge who is good or bad. Ethics and spirituality is not about creating a 'worth table' for yourself or others. While I do think it matters what we say or don’t say, what we post also does not determine our worth. Policing others also does not signal worth for the signifier. Our worth does not change. Our worth is non-negotiable. A worn $5 bill has the same value as a mint $5 bill.
You Are Raising A Teapot
The liquid from this rinse step is not consumed, and is discarded, before the first “true” steeping is made and then enjoyed. As my mother gifts me the chahu, she says that this one was made from the regional Taiwanese clay, which most producers increasingly use less of, as imported clays improve the bottom line as Taiwanese clay can require more steps and massaging to yield a desired finished result in the earthenware.
Save the rinse, she says, pour it over the chahu; always offer the chahu its first yield. She continues, 你在养茶壶; you are raising a teapot.
MAGICK WORDS
In my animist practice, and extended in my witches’ coven, Homing Coven, words not only REFER to energy that course through all things (living beings, colours, planetary bodies, money - which are very much all conscious and alive)), words ARE energy. Work with the words directly as living beings, which are both the bridge to and the literal Unseen, where words and the silence of space between them, are part of the spells we can cast.
ALLIES THAT HELP US LOVE BETTER
Despite the challenges of Resentment, Boredom, Frustration, and Rage, relating them as beings instead of mere emotions open us to receive their invaluable gifts that remind us we truly matter. And intriguingly, when we live in animistic ways that reinforce that we matter, these allies tend to visit us less.