Preparing for 2012?

The Pagan Blog Project 2012

Hey readers,

I'm a little late...well 2 months late...but I just joined The Pagan Blog Project 2012. I'm hoping by joining the project I'll be more likely to post on here regularly instead of sporadic and unorganized like I have been (sorry about that).

I'm late in the game so instead of starting at the letter A like other participants who began the project back in January, I'll be starting at E. There were a few different suggestions for E topics that I liked so as part of the 'catching up' of sorts, I'll be posting on a couple of them:

Eclectic
Empath
Evil Eye

I hope you all enjoy the posts.

Love and Light,
D. Corobane.

Diet and the Psyche

Happy New Year!

So I'm on Day 1 of my New Years Resolutions to release weight, live healthier and change my eating habits.
The First three days I will be fasting on liquids and give myself my very first enema (I know, TMI).

I had planned on walking today but it rained so I'm reading The Secret Life of Plants, the text book for the Herbalism certification I'm doing.

I posted on my fitness blog (warning, the reason I separated this blog is because it correlates with my BDSM lifestyle, so, if You're not comfortable with me talking freely about my sexuality...you may want to veer away from reading this blog or the one corresponding to the screen name) Slave Girl Figure, about something I read in this text about how one scientist believes that diet effects psychic research and how one rich in veggies, fruit and nuts is perfect for psychic findings.
See this post HERE

I look forward to seeing how my diet changes effect my spirituality and was wondering,
those of you who are vegetarian, vegan or raw vegan, how has that effected your spiritual and magickal practices?

Tarot Readings Becoming More Accurate

So I have found, since coming back from my hiatus from reading, that my readings are not only becoming more accurate but that I'm starting to get time frames of when things are going to happen.

My last reading about my job was if I was going to take the leap of faith and get a new job I would have to do it immediately. I didn't and literally days later the new job was no longer available to me.
In a reading before that, I was focusing on whether or not to buy a new house and the cards told me that in a month's time the decision was going to be made for me. I forgot about this as the house we were looking at turned out to have black mold in the foundation. Today, I learned that we will be moving before the new year to a new state...more on that soon.
These are only a few examples...more are happening only they are with the readings I have done for friends and more personal and not appropriate for blogging...

Has anyone else felt a surge of accuracy or timeliness in their readings?
I wonder if its just me or the coming of 2012.
I am doing another reading regarding a very personal matter tonight that I may put up here after some further verification on Tuesday...that will make more sense when I'm able to explain, promise.

I am still technically on hiatus from blogging but I think I will be done with that on Wednesday. -crosses fingers-

The Dalai Lama's Great Plan Part 1.m4v

See Part 2 here

Coptic 2010: The Great Awakening

Coptic Fellowship International and the Tri-Cities Metaphysical Study Group presented the Annual Conference this year, April 16-18 at the Holiday Inn in Johnson City.

I attended the conference last year as a total n00b. In awe over the numbers of people that, like me, see the world a lil different then those I grew up among, I felt like I had found small bit of Heaven on Earth (complete with seraphim, Angelina ).

This year, like every year, the conference hosted amazing speakers from all over the nation.

Rainbow Eagle, Okla-Choctaw Native American author, opened the conference with a touching ceremony the called upon ancestors and elements with respect and gratitude. Rainbow Eagle later gave a lecture on How to Remain optimistic through 2012. His lecture included Native American prophecies about the coming shift including those of the Navajo, Hopi, and Seneca. All of such prophecies are more optimistic and positive than many Discovery Channel experts would have us believe. For more information, check out his new book, Ancient Roots of Christianity Revealed.

John Davis, director of Coptic Fellowship International and Spiritual Unity of Nations (S.U.N.), spoke on Belief, Desire and Expectancy. Davis is also a renown numerologist (having done over 11,000 personality profiles in the last 20 years). His lecture conveyed his expertise as he explained not only this year's numerological significance (sharing the same frequency as 1776-the signing of the constitution) but also 2008 when a major shift happened for many (including some people I am friends with) and 2012.
Some advise Davis gave that I feel compelled to share:
Honor thy father and mother for they were you children in a past life and you taught them what they know now.
Diet, meditate, and exercise. Develop Self-Mastery.

Raymon Grace, a man most of us knows as the dowsing expert, spoke on How to Pull the Trigger of Your Mind. Grace informed us on how in the past 11 years, he has seen a 500% increase in abilities in humans. We are becoming more powerful. He encouraged this with explaining about how everything is made of Energy which is impressed upon matter. He also spoke on how to "brain wash" yourself and prevent yourself from being brain washed by media.
One experiment he encouraged the audience t try was Water Programming.
Take a glass of water and focus your energy on it with the thought/words that you would like to happen. When drinking this water, the water molecules are invested with this thought and it joins with the body, aiding in making your desires possible.
Grace recommends empowering your water with Drawing to you the Best of all Possible Futures, Understandings Life's Purpose, and Repelling harmful energies.

I sadly missed Dr. Shelley Stockwell-Nicholas's lecture, Get Up and Get Going as well as Patrick Connelly's lecture, Reports from the Field - Green shoots of the Great Awakening, Dannion Brinkley's, 2012-Spiritual Infusion-Beginning of the New Awakening, and Paul Rademacher's Ordinary People, Extraordinary Perceptions and was assured I missed something spectacular.

Gisela Kroeger Hoffman, daughter of famed Homeopathist, Hanna Kroeger, gave an informative lecture called Dowse for the Hidden Causes of your Dis-Ease. She explained that Western medicine does not work because of 2 reasons; it is based on the idea that we cannot heal naturally and the medication we take is merely suppression of symptoms, not healing.
Disease and Healing are often related to Emotions and the Heart Chakra. By taking the essence of herbs and the like, we get the purest healing form.
She gave a few examples of homeopathic works done, each one with very simple treatments and the act of allowing the body to heal itself.
Some warnings Hoffman gave:
Floride, the same ingredient in toothpaste and many bottled baby waters, is the cause of many hormonal illnesses because it enamels the Pinneal gland which, along with being a connection with the Crown chakra and the Higher Self, is what controls the Pituitary glad and thus the Thyroid gland. Stop ingesting Floride, it is a poison. Use baking soda and/or natural toothpstes instead.
Do not drink sodas with aspertane (Coke, Coke zero, etc). It becomes formaldehyde in your system. It also calcifies the Pinneal gland.
Do not get a Flu shot! People who do are 40% likelier to have Alzheimer disease.
Get rid of toxins in the house, including (especially) house hold cleaners. These are poisons. Lemon juice, baking soda, and white vinegar work better.
Do not ingest white vinegar. It destroys the intestines. Only vinegar you should ingest is cider vinegar.
If you have copper pipes for your water. Let the water run 2 minutes before consuming. Protozoa form in copper tubing and when ingested eat at your bones.
Use your blue tooth, it transmits less EMF waves which cause Candida/mold.

Patti Conklin returned this year. Her lecture, Who Are You?, was much like that of last years but still as moving and emotional. Much of what she spoke on was that each person has a gift that they should develop, that no person is more or less important than any other person. She is truly a spiritual treasure.

Vibrations, 2012, and Dragons

Sunday I attended the Coptic Conference with a group of friends and Night. While the Conference is from Friday through Sunday I had to miss the first two days due to the fact that I didn’t know about the conference until it was too late to plan for days off and save money for a weekend-long event.

The Coptic Conference: How to Recognize Your Personal Power in a Changing World is presented by Coptic Fellowship International and the Tri-Cities Metaphysical Study Group. It was held at the Holiday Inn in Johnson City.
The conference has psychic readers and intuitives like Ethel Crites, Kim Crowe, and Evelina Everidge, as well as speakers, and a wonderful bookstore.

I was not able to see any of the readers (though I am told that Kim Crowe and Ethel Crites were both quite excellent) since I was late on learning about the conference. I did get to sit on three lectures Sunday.

The first lecture I attended I was late because we were checking out the bookstore (I’ll get to that loveliness in a bit).
Paul Rademacher, author of A Spiritual Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe: Travel Tips for the Spiritually Perplexed, gave his lecture: Hitchhiking to Wonder – Spirituality, Consciousness, and the Kingdom of Heaven.

Paul is an ex-minister of the Presbyterian church. He decided to obtain his Masters of Divinity after having a near-death/out of body experience while working in construction. It was during his time as a minister that Paul found a book written by Robert Munroe and found that he was not alone in his experience. Slowly he studied Munroe and was later invited to work at the Munroe Institute.
Favorite parts of the lecture:
He was hilarious. Something I won’t forget is him calling Presbyterians the “Frozen Chosen.”
In his studies he actually invited a few of his church to participate in some of the Munroe tape studies. O.O

After a small break, and our group rejoining (one of my friends had a reading by Cheryl Berry) we attended a second lecture, one I was a lil’ skeptical of at first due to the words Intuitive Healer. I am a firm believer in medicine and would not, under other circumstances, put myself in a situation where my health might be in some unprofessional’s hands.

Patti Conklin is a Medical Intuitive and is able to pull disease out of the body. I have had a few people I know be healed by her and their accounts are…well, nothing short of miraculous. In order to cleanse herself of the diseases she pulls out during healings Patti will spend entire nights vomiting and having diarrhea. She assured us that she is not in pain and that her 6 out of 7 nights of doing this is perfectly natural. She does not want anyone to worry about her. She is also the author of Healing Within.

Her lecture: Don’t Wish Life, Live Life – What Kind of Existence is in our Future?
Patti shared with us that she normally does not have prophetic dreams but on Easter she will usually have dreams about what will come in the future.
She told us that by July the economic crisis would be over with, that there would be mass relationship upheaval, and that something would happen from 4/20 to 4/22 (but I think this might be personal for her).
Patti explains that Communication has changed. That words and judgment has made us dense to vibrational frequency. She explained that the Universe is made up of harmonic tones (sound and color). She also explains that the body is made up of right and left hemisphere and that illness is caused by emotional cores within our cells. When we feel anger (whether or not we act upon it) it will deposit and record in our body. In order to be healthy we have to change the way we think.

After sharing all this with us she asked a few questions about her healing then began to let us experience her raised frequency (her frequency I guess can be translated as energy, how powerful her aura, herself is). Normally we all, according to Patti, function on a 28-35 level. She can and is comfortable at an 80.
As she raised her level gradually she asked what we were experiencing. Many had heightened sight of aura, saw Patti looking younger, and generally felt good. I, on the other hand, had a headache, felt alternatively hot and freezing, was about to vomit, wanted to cry, and felt pressure on my chest that was almost unbearable.
When it was over I rested my head on the chair in front of me and tried to ground myself. It was…horrible. My friends assured me that I was ok and that it either meant that there was far too much energy in the room and my having only been there that one day while everyone else had been there all weekend may mean I was more sensitive or that I had had an illness that Patti pulled out of me.

I ask that if anyone decided to raise their frequency around me, please give me warning to go into another room.
Other:
SHIT: Spiritual Human In Transition
FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real
FEAR: Forgetting Every Available Resource

The last lecture of the weekend/day was by acclaimed author and new age celebrity: Richard Sutphen. Dick has worked for some time on prohypnosis, past life regression, etc. He has written a few books, the most recent of which (and one that a friend of mine is letting me borrow when she’s done) is Soul Agreement.
His lecture: The Shift – December 21, 2012

Dick started out by telling us what to expect, as we get closer to Dec. 21, 2012. First, he does not think that everything will just happen on Dec. 21 (which is kinda cool since I might be recuperating from birthday celebrations on the 20th).
The time of 2012 is called the Big Shift, Great Purification, Final Days of Misfortune, a Spiritual Awakening. We’re told to expect a Pole Shift, Global Warming, a new Ice Age.
Dick informed us that we are all here, born in this time to live through 2012 when the Big Shift occurs. He explains that we chose this because through experiencing the Big Shift this will cause us to move forward a number of past lives (one author says 1000).
He informed us that the Earth’s vibrational rate is increasing. The rotation rate is also increasing, we are now living 16 hr days. Life and lives are going faster.
He went on to explain how native peoples around the world all are watching for 2012. IN Austrailia they expect Purification and a Back to the land thinking in the world. He also explained the Hopi prophecy and how they have changed from talking about the coming hour to “This is the Hour” and that it is a time of great purification.
The Big Shift will be made up of Purification, then Transformation, then Renewal.
Dick suggests a sort of enlightenment and reconnection psychically, a 4th dimension (where we now live in the 3rd and the 5th is made up of pure love).

There will be hard times though.
Scientists predict 50 million driven from their homes by weather every year.
The Earth’s alignments will shift.
People will die.

Dick led us all into a hypnosis/guided meditation where we projected forward in time to 2012.
We contacted out spirit guides and asked to be shown 6 things.
What should I be doing in the economic crisis?
Where should I be in 2012 (physical location)?
What should my career be?
Show me New York at 2012
Show me London at 2012
Show me my home at 2012

When it was over he asked people to share what they saw in New York. Many saw chaos, people rioting (lack of good term) in Central park, destruction of buildings, the subways being flooded, the sky a mix of red and yellow.
Then he asked about London. Again people saw destruction, but there was disagreement on whether it was equal or better or worse for the people there. A lot of people saw flooding or even ice (or were cold).
When asked to go back to their home many saw Appalachia as doing a lot better off.
I left shortly after because the lecture ran a lot longer than scheduled and a friend had to go to work.
Other:
He asks that we check out the book “The Vanishing Face of Gaia.”

Other than the lectures and all that deep stuff there was the AMAZING BOOKSTORE!
Some of the booths were run by people from Atlantis in Johnson City, The Glass Dove (Janet Vancil), Elain Watson, used and new book sellers, some of the lecturers, and many artists.
There was one artist whose email and name I have lost and would love to get back in contact with her. Her artwork: shadow boxes of beautiful sculptures, including one called Metamorphoses that I absolutely loved (it was a female sculpture with green, leaf-like wings and an eternity symbol above her head). I almost cried when I looked at it though I know that sounds silly.
There was one booth that was selling stones and fetishes. I asked if they had a dragon fetish and all three of them went to work looking for it. After a lil while it seemed they would not find it at all and I told them not to worry about it and made to leave. Just a few steps and all three women called after me to wait (which was a lil embarrassing since a lot of people turned to look at me). They had found the piece hiding under a larger stone. It’s a goldstone dragon about the size of my palm and absolutely beautiful. I currently have sitting here next to me.
The Glass Dove sold stained glass pendants that were beautiful (especially the green and gold leaves). The one I bought, though a lil too pricey, was a purple glass piece, etched in silver, and encased in copper. The etching is of a Indian style hand that almost looked Hennaed. I put it on a copper chain when I got home.
I also bought a dragon poison necklace from a booth set up by a shop from Greeneville (I really wish I could remember the names of these places).
If I had had more money I probably would have bought a lot more. There were medicine wants, pendulums, stones, books, fairies, pamphlets, cds, and on and on.

I’ll definitely save up for next year, maybe buy a session and do some past life regression or something.