A MagiQal Life

There is a lady from Telscombe Cliffs, near Brighton, claims that she sporadically has the power to make lights flicker or outright blow (source). She says that on a bad day she has even caused her freezer to defrost leaving a pool of water on the floor of her kitchen. This phenomenon actually happens to a lot of people, or at least a lot of people believe that it happens to them. I am actually one of those people, or at least used to be.

 Growing up, if a light blew out in the house, there was a good chance I was there. I’ve had several brand new watches stop, and used to mess up the register at Radio Shack, to the point of the employees actually making jokes about it (I used to walk to radio shack to get batteries at least once a week, heh, I was in the battery club!).

 I’ve mentioned this effect on several forums, and there are several people that the same thing seems to happen too. Coincidence? Well, most skeptics seem to think so. They blame faulty wiring, bad timers, and happenstance on the effects. Though, if it’s some type of strange electrical issue  why does it seem to only effect certain individuals? That is a question I can not answer…

 It goes by one of a few names, two of which seem to have the same origin, the short version being Street Light Interference syndrome, or SLI, the second is a bit more Sci-Fi as it’s called Sliders (Street Light Interference Data Exchange Receiver), and is discussed in several parapsychologist circles (search for either term).  The other term is High Voltage Syndrome (HVS) and seems to be a bit more powerful in that those with such an affliction(?) can power a light bold by grasping it tightly.

 According to one article these effects have been recorded as far back as 1837, though sadly I can not seem to find any government studies that deal with any of the syndromes. Regardless though, reading the various articles on the subject that can be found on the web are fun to read. And personally, I feel that such a thing is possible, as there are simply too many people such things happen too to truly disbelieve.

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Nevermind the magick bus, take a ride on a magickal plane! That’s what Chikumbutso Mponda of Ntchisi did, just remember to pack a magickal parachute (something Chikumbutso forgot to do). According to according to the Daily Times (Malawi) this fine young chap, along with a friend paid for a trip on a minibus from Lilongwe to his home village They seemingly could not afford fare for the entire trip so they got off at Mponda sometime late Christmas Eve. Fearing for their lives (I guess it’s dangerous there after dark) they decided to take a magick plane for the rest of the trip.

Unfortunately, Mponda fell from the magic plane after it flew over a house at Mponela Trading Centre, which was heavily protected magically. At least that is what Kondwani Kandiado (a police Public Relations Office) said. He went on to say that the owners of the home stripped him and confiscated all of his belongings.

Of course the office also said that the people that found him were just returning from a drinking spree, so their word must be accurate. On their word, and by law, Chikumbutso Mponda was sentenced to five years hard labor without options.

It’s good that the governments around the world are making a stand against the evils of witchcraft.

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Love Sky Dancer (yes, that’s his real name) pleaded guilty to smuggling ecstasy in some chocolate powder into the Kennedy Airport for a friend and got three years in Metropolitan Detention Center. Now he wants nothing but the finest foods in prison because he will only partake of organic/open range animals as his religion (Druidry) dictates. He is asking that if they will not allow for his religious freedoms in jail that they send him back to the United Kingdom (where he is from) because they are more suited to deal with his vegan needs. It goes a bit farther in that he is even refusing the veggies served because he claims pesticides have been used on them.

“We do not mean to diminish the charge to which Mr. Dancer has pleaded guilty, but the Bureau of Prisons must allow inmates who follow a recognized religion to have available the dietary requirements of that religion,” lawyer Robert Simels told the Daily News.

I’m all for him having his religion and all, I’m even ecstatic that the prison system does its best to bend the rules for religious reasons. Though I do have concerns for the validity of his faith. If he can not eat the processed meats that are served in jail, then why on earth was he munching chocolate laced with synthetic drugs? Even if he was not a user of what he was smuggling, why was he fraternizing and condoning the use of such things for others? I’m pretty sure if he was a stickler of faith he’d not be hauling around processed candies filled with drugs.

If he can have such double standards, then so be it… but then, if he was willing to do the crime, by the gods he should be willing to do the time. As far as I’m concerned his ‘free range’ days are over, and he should sit in the prison cafeteria pondering just what he’s done while he nibbles on his cloned beef.

I’d have more sympathy for him had his crime been more organic, or at least more in line with his faith, but as it stands, he should not have his way.

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Call me fluffy, but sometimes it is worth reading…

 I’m talking about the Llewellyn Journal, and in this case, a motivational editorial by Carl Llewellyn Weschcke. It’s really good, and I recommend you all to read it.

 Here is a link: New Worlds of Magic (and Magick, too)

 It starts off with…

 We live in a Magical and multidimensional Universe! Magic is all around us. It is Life, and Being, and Consciousness, and Matter, and Space, and all there is. It’s here and there, whether or not you believe in it. From the “First Moment,” whether it was the Big Bang or a big egg or a Divine Utterance, continuous transformation characterizes all that is, was, and will be. Transformation is the essence of magic.

If magic is always happening, doesn’t it behoove you to understand it? If it is always happening, then it is happening to you without your knowledge or control. Isn’t it better for you to become an active player instead of a passive recipient?

and I could not agree more. Why just sit around and let things happen, when you yourself could play a major role in how things play out? It’s a really short read and gives a few good points. It’s not saying that you need to rush out and buy the next Llewellyn publication or anything, or even that you need to practice magick at all, but it is saying to take the bull by the horns and make it do what you want to do… you do, after all, have that power.

So find the magick in your life, and learn to weave it to your advantage rather then having it take advantage of you…

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Last weekend Lakota got the chance to bake cookies with my Mom. My mom didn’t have the normal cookie recipes as the recipe book still seems to be packed away someplace, so she got some pre-made cookies. Some with reindeer, some with Santa.

They were pretty basic and already had a design, but that did not stop the girls from decorating them some more. Once they were cooled and I got a chance to grab one I could not believe my eyes!

It was not the image of Jesus of the Virgin Mary that most would assume to see the visage of on something christmasy, it was none other then the Thing That Should Not Be himself… Dread Cthulhu!

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