Winter Wolf Forge

Here is a selection of thoughts I had in an email convorsation with a friend. For their privacy I ahve chosen not to quote and discussion material from their end, so you just get to rad and think/comment on what I have to say;)

Questions mean stimulation and activity and that means a lack of stagnance. Stagnance is the fuel of failure and destroyer of growth, and of course leads to the dark side;)

Intuition is reguarded by the pagan community is a tool of ones inner self. The inner self is a connective bridge between the physical person we are and the limited capacity of our current state to our complete self which -most pagan groups agree in one form of another- is an ethereal, timeless being. Theoretically we can access this Self, and thus ideologies like buddhism, shaolin, taoist, and native american belief systems form. Point is, use that shit, you we’re given it for a reason, and you can make up whatever reason you’re most comfortable with, but its a good tool.

Not only do we create words for things we don’t understand, but we create entire vocabularies, dialects, rules, and dogmas. And I agree completely. I sincerely believe that most human religions are simply self-fabricated idealologies used to explain something we can’t fully comprehend to develop some sort of self comfort, however misguided some of us get by doing so. And Religion does not equal spirituality.

And you should feel restless. Restless is another inner-self tool, alarm system if you will, to remind you that youre lacking something or have yet to complete a task. I had a huge spell of restlessness back near the last years of my time at a catholic private school, 7th and 8th grade, and by the time I started 9th grade in highschool I had found that the restlessness was religion and spirituality and I derastically stripped and rebuilt my understanding of self. It was a very long, painful process, because I met a lot of opposition along the way.

The thing is, and you can label it god, god/godess, shiva, buddha, the force, gaia, etc, but there is a greater energy/power moving through the universe, and it’s not that it can’t get to us, its that our current state is too weakened to hear the message (and this is not to say we cant become twice as great as we are, but even that elevated human-condition wouldn’t compare to our true selves), so this greater entity (we’ll use “the Gods” just because that’s how my particular brain works) communicates with us however we will recieve it best. But I totally agree with you, you have to want it. Like the cirstians say “You must let Jesus into your heart”.

Imperial science is a system of labels and “laws” defined by man to understand his surroundings. I find it best to use this as a tool of simplification. but to negate it in its entirity as I believe it hinders full understanding of the world. I love studying science because the way humans as a whole think is intriguing, but I don’t look to it as my first source of explanation in any situation.

In referral to the third, that eastern cultures already follow these ideas, I would point out that spiritual groups, such as native american, old shaman, traditional wiccan, etc, are cases of common spirituality with trends and commonalities but in fact each tribe, group, and even individual has his own personal relationship with this ethereal existence. Shamanism, for example, is more of a language for a people to communicate about their spirituality in a way that they will all understand and can grow as a tribe. Every tribe has different specifics, and yes there area lot of commonalities, such as what a wolf in a dream means versus a bear, but each person has his own relationship with each animal spirit, his own pulls towards specific ideas, and his own spiritual essence which he sends forth ahead of him and leaves behind him, that no one can copy. This is what I consider spiritual, whereas a christian church defining the beliefs and telling people to join and conform or die/suffer doom, sending out “what the pope has decided we believe” pamphlets every year, and shunning people that reject complete conformity is simply a man made creation of manipulation. Many “churches” are simply political entities working in a social network based on belief and fear and not actually functioning as a community, despite any over-tones and layers they put over the top.

Ok, skipping on to 2012. I might start by borrowing a quote from Morpheus in the movie the Matrix. In response to the other guy saying “Not everyone believes as you do, Morpheus.” he replied “My beliefs do not require them to”. If something is in the works, have a healthy dose of skepticism, but learn, watch, grow, and be open to accepting the new changes. Being of a stance to “not believe, but also not un-believe” is a very healthy position if it is accompanied by curiosity and a thirst for understanding.

Be wary of new-age spirituality. Shifts in the human-condition are one thing and are potentially good, but there are a lot of neo-pagans/new-age spiritualists that have studied old ways, taken the parts that they like, and ditched the rest. If you had the power to create a plant with your bare hands, and decided to only build the flowers because you liked them best, the plant would be corrupt and broken without its thorns and leaves, because those are functions of its exhistence in a material plane. Many neo-pagan/new-wiccan/etc groups are doing just that: taking the happy parts they like and neglecting the growth and knowledge and understanding that comes with it.

Just weed through the you-tube craziness and let your intuition guide you. You also have other tools: curiosity, skepticism, analysis, logic, creative thought. I also count ethereal connection, energy manipulation, and meditation/shaman walks as my Gods-given tools as well, and I do my best to use them all equally.

Youtube is actually, for this sort of research[2012], a good source of information. Thing is we tend to define “good source” and “bad source” as correct and incorrect information respectivly. But, considering the afore mentioned tools at your disposal, are you not capable of weeding through any information no matter how bizarre and decide for yourself? Don’t think of it as electronic, because electrons are simply aspects of the same energy you said was used to build everything anyways. THink of Youtube as a window into the day-by-day developments of our society. If one day you see 500 new posts on crop circles and the next day there are 1100 new posts on herbalism, you can gather not only information (for yourself to analyze) but you can look at the bigger picture. What does 1100 posts on reptilian monsters represent? A surge in population interest in potential conspiracy? An impending threat? Just weed through this massive tide of information with your critical self and your intuition to guide you and allows you to make fluid decisions when it comes to specific facts. Recognize that you are a constantly evolving entity, and that any form of concrete opinions or decisions will only hinder this. I get tied down by a ton of stuff but I am constantly trying to remove my restraints. If you find reptilians to be a semi-feasible idea, than take it in as your own with the recognition that of proven wrong or alternate, you can change your thoughts. It’s not wishy washy to feel that crop circles are legit one week and bullshit the next, it’s simply taking advantage of your capacity to grow at any given moment, at a whim.

I personally think DNA activation is legitimate. I think this because I know, as a personal point of fact that I have the capacity to evolve. I’ve gone through a few personal ascensions myself, though minor in relation to my true-self. I think a lot of the dormant dna relates to a complete use of mental capacity and the development of a greater connection to the ethereal plane. I connect with it when I can, and I have had many very wise people tell me that I had “ethereal tentacles that I feel out the world around me with constantly” but I can’t always get a full connection to it. I think we have that capacity on this planet, but we have lost the way, or possibly have not been granted it in this cycle of human existence.

Higher dimensional beings, from my experience, observe and guide us all the time, you just have to learn to be aware of the influence. I also feel that there are many lesser-being around us as well. I didn’t get a wolf tattoo on my arm because I thought it was cool, and if no one ever saw it I wouldn’t care. I got it because, to me, it represents a respectful reverence for a spiritual guide which has been at my side as long as I can remember, and likely before I even knew it was there. I made a permanent physical alteration to myself to mark, for me, an enlightenment in a part of me. The next part of my tattoo has the same value, as does my first. It’s a way of reminding/telling myself that I achieved something I can be proud of and that I should never forget it’s effect on my person. The thing is, the Gods express themselves in everything, and can become whatever you want them to be. It’s not out of a desire to please you though, it’s because we as humans currently require labels and definitions to feel safe and content, and the higher entities in the universe are offering a connection to them in whatever way we are most comfortable. Example: for all we know the same higher-entity that comes to my family as God the Father, Jesus Christ, could be the same Gods that come to me as the wolf Spirit, and the same God that the Mormons are communicating with. It’s equally possible that some of us (or all of us?) are completely off, but I sincerely feel that the population is evolving as a whole and that some of us have found connections to the next phase, and that regardless of the negative impact they can have, everyone has some semblance of purpose on this planet, however specific or vague or both.