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A sign?

I just wanted to drop you guys a quick note. Today I was exploring synchronicities and was given a notion of a sacred site to visit for Imbolc (more later). Sometimes though, I like to make sure that the world and I are on the same page. Is it a matter of trust? No, I don’t think so. More like a matter of not wanting to waste time. This re-affirmation idea entered my mind whilst I stepped into the local town centerm in the form of

• “please give me a sign to show that the sacred site in question is the one to visit on Imbolc”

Turning the next corner I saw the shop (Bijou Brigitt)  in the image to the left. Coincidence, right?

Actually this isn’t the point of this post. Rather it is this. I returned home from this coincidence pondering afternoon and switched on my computer to an email from a friend.

• You have to watch this…”

and so I did. The TV series (for which this is the pilot) is called Touch and is a almost must see for those interested in the miraculous reach of synchronicities. Here is a trailer for it…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqOg6uucP-g

Enjoy.

Kal Malik

A friend of a friend called me in to do some investigation on her apartments energies and so I did. Before I did so I met up with her for a coffee and asked her about why she thought there might be an energetic issue. Her list of complaints runs thus…

1. It’s always cold in the back room.
2. I’ve had a spate of bad luck since I moved into the apartment (3 years ago)

1. Boyfriend cheating on her
2. Was laid off from work twice
3. Various illnesses (though nothing serious)

• I’ve decorated twice and had a Feng Shui guy in too but it still feels off

An 'okay' apartment

With these under my belt I toddled off and turned up at her door one fresh and freezing winters day. Her apartment was pretty normal as they go. Three bedrooms, kitchen, living and sitting room as one. Two bathrooms (one en-suite).

As has become a practice now when I house dowse, I stood at her door and asked to be let in. She wasn’t weirded out by this request (which was nice but weird in its own right). I walked in and decided to dowse straight off the bat as the lady made tea.

• How many positive power centers are there? 2. Negative? 1.
• Whats the strength of the positive ones? 5 and 3. Negative? 3.

Nothing too bad about that. In my book anything below a 4 is pretty normal (a microwave in the wrong place has given me a 3 once).

• Is there anything significantly wrong? No

Oh, Okay.

• Are any of the above majorly caused by the energy configuration of the apartment? No.

Hmmm…

• Is there anything I can do to improve the energies of the home? Yes. (I guess there is always something you can do, right?)

I went into the kitchen as the kettle finished boiling and the lady eagerly asked what I had learned. “Nothing,” I responded, “The energies in your home are pretty normal.” She looked quite disappointed I have to say, what did she want? An ogre in the attic?

Sometimes it is just a matter of life being a ….

Kal Malik

Following on from what my fearless friend has begun to put out there into the Make-It-So-O-Sphere, I too have a list of things that I am anticipating doing this year. Inspired by Kal’s list I have dug deep into my bonce and lifted out some thoughts that were lurking within, and then combined them with some “I should have done that”‘s from last year. Of course, life is always more interesting than the rather rude and dull tale of it that we imagine will be its unfolding. It is always much more cleverly-crafted and exquisitely wrought than our feeble imaginations can hope to furnish. Notwithstanding my own feeble imagination, I wish to present some imaginings for the forthcoming year, but before I do that let’s just go over some of the background to this infamous date.

Planetary alignment with the galactic core in 2012

Why is 2012 being talked about?

Good question, if I do say so myself. Why is it different to any other year, except perhaps the turning of the millennium? Primarily the hype has been generated by a number of people who have not only jumped onto a moving bandwagon, but have actively gone out of their way to assist with its maintenance and enhancement, even going as far as tuning it up so that it runs faster and with more of a roar! Lots of New Age types have been “pimping the ride”, so to speak, of the 2012 bandwagon.

There are a number of phases to this 2012 ride:-

Phase 1 (20 years to go) – A few isolated voices were trying to find a reason why the end of the Mayan Calendar might be important. Some said that the Earth itself would align with other planets in our Solar System along an axis that aligned with the centre of the Galaxy itself, and that this would cause something to happen. 2/10 panic rating.

Phase 2 (10 years to go) – John Major Jenkins, Ian Xel Lungold, Carl Calleman and a few others try to explain their theory that time may be speeding up and consciousness may be developing to match it on a global scale. As the internet develops this seems like a worthy theory. 5/10 panic rating.

Phase 3 (5 years ago) – Every man and his dog have boarded the 2012 train but everyone has their own idea of where the train is headed. Splits, factions and mayhem ensue, but everyone is still thinking that something is going to happen. 9/10 panic rating.

Phase 4 (today) – The factions have split off into four main interest groups – Doubters, Touters, Slackers and Backtrackers. There are those who think that nothing will happen (The Doubters), those that think that something will happen (The Touters), those who regularly change their minds (The Backtrackers), those who are hedging their bets (The Slackers). 3/10 panic rating.

So what is my opinion? Where do I stand? As you may expect, I stand at the outside of these four interest groups in an interest group of one. I watch what they do, and I see where it takes them. I don’t intervene, interfere or offer any advice to them. They’re all mad. I have my own madness to work with, and if any of them want to follow my 2012 theories then they are free to do so. But I shan’t be telling anyone what they are. Just like a hedge druid.

Where my own path is leading me

In amongst all the 2012 theories (and I have read many of them) I come back to finding my own path through the year. Surely, that is all that any of us can do in such circumstances? In the midst of, and often in spite of, the potential for ensuing chaos and derangement here are the topics that I anticipate I may be involved with in the next round of the Sun.

a)  Ancestor energyA term I have used to describe the subtle energy imprints left at a particular place of power (a power centre, perhaps) by our ancestors - those family connections from whom we are descended and have a genetic link to. recovery
b) Teaching and Presentation of data (one course developed, several others in preparation)
c) Diagnosing and Healing people (using some of Elizabeth Brown’s methods of causative diagnosis)
d) Learning the way ancient site energies work (an ongoing task)

Here are some of the ancient sites that I want to visit:-

• The Pyramids of Egypt
• The Pyramids of Bosnia
• Rathcrogan in Ireland
• Kilmartin in Scotland
• St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall

I can see a theme developing there – I may be visiting a lot of mounds and pyramids. It must be something to do with the Sun energies, the male forces, that I have found can accumulate and intensity at the peak of such structures. Something in my druidic unconscious has already set about telling me that I need this energy next year. Let’s see if that is indeed what happens!

Gwas.

I am a great believer in setting up expectations. Here are two reasons…

• Yes, there is the talk of setting them up will only lead to a bigger fall. But expectations to me are our gesture to the Universe. It’s like kids before Christmas hinting to their parents about what they want. Not that I am saying that the universe is our creator…er…or am I?
• Fulfilment of expectations are a great way to get a sense that the universe is in our favour, which of course it is, but it’s nice to get a confirmation once and while.

Okay, so what are my expectations from the Mayan end of the cycle year?

Hedge druid goes global

I seem to have recovered my erstwhile lost sense of globe trotting and so my expectations are to fulfill a few global sacred site visits. On the list as potentials are…Egyptian pyramids, Peruvian cities, Bosnian pyramids, Easter Island statues, Maori sacred sites, native american holy places. And of course many of the home (UK) grown sites we still have to explore.

2012 Phenomena

Okay, I will never be jumping on this bandwagon. If anything I am a 2012 denier, there you go, feel free to tell me I was wrong while the world falls apart. I am a psychological explorer however and am very interested in the psychology of such beliefs so from that perspective expect a post or two.

Active Enlightenment

Guys! 2012 is the year that the audio-visual-written sensation that is Active Enlightenment will be launched. I have to say the personal and energetic development program is looking good. I don’t want to say too much about it at the moment (thus creating a sense of mystery and anticipation).

Knights Quest

Will I ever get my knighthood? Yes! This year there is nothing stopping me from fulfilling the edicts of this quest. Bring on the blue keys! Imbolc is when it will all fall into the next spiral.

Energy Double

I really want to explore this phenomena more, but it is so darned intangible that I don’t even know if I am exploring it. Hope to get to grips (possibly literally) with this.

House Energies

Okay, I am getting quite good at this (thus spake Kal’s ego) so please expect more of these. Indeed there are a couple of posts being created in draft. One of them was a failure from which a lot can be (was) learned.

And more…

Tarot, wand making (remember that one?) human energies, courses exploring the paranormal and holistic healing. Note…Gwas has already put forward his exciting sacred site course.

Presentation…

I expect to be providing some audios and videos of our explorations having got hold of After-Effects and other editing software. So I’m looking forward to sharing that with you.

Last word…

I have to laugh, I just read Gwas’s expectations and wrote an email to him saying, “Isn’t it strange that the year turns out more exciting than our expectations of them”

Kal Malik

Wiccan Year

The world has changed.

Sacred calendars tell us of the seasons and festivals. The next one that is approaching is the winter solstice. It is at times such as these that people of old would gather in the fire-lit halls and celebrate or await the reawakening of the world.

These festivals mark the energy of the world as it traverses the sun, astral energies in there truest sense. But what the equation forgets is personal energies.

As Gwas and I have found over the last couple of years is that Earth days are not exact for us, rather what we often find is that alignmentAlignment relates to the concept that humans have their own energy fields that are oriented or formed in a specific way such that the person is either suited better to one energy source of another. Some people have their energy fields empowered by the direct subtle energy force of The Sun, whilst others are empowered by the indirect subtle energy of The Moon. Due to the historical associations and symbolisation of The Sun with masculinity and The Moon with femininity we designate these alignments as either being ‘male’ or ‘female’ alignments accordingly. We interchangeable refer to people as being ‘sun-aligned’ or ‘male-aligned’ and similarly with the female alignment. occurs for us on days that are out of the sacred calendar.

We put this down to the following reasons:

• Sometimes we are more aligned with lunar energies and so that becomes the “best” time for us.
• Also we feel that the sacred dates are on a sliding scale and so it’s “ok” for us to go about our work on days that are close to the sacred ones.

Both of these are excellent and valid explanations. In this post I would like to offer, not an alternative, but a complementary notion.

Personal Sacred Festivals

My idea is this. Sacred days are days that have to take into account the energetic state of the person celebrating them.

The energetic state of a person is holistic. It should take into account the current energy of the person, there astrological (birth time and place) energy and the energy of their current location i.e. where they are (intend) to celebrate the sacred day.

Given these criteria a sacred date becomes altogether personal doesn’t it? We can see how it got usurped by having a general date for the festival, right? After all such a date would have tremendous social value (protection, social conformity, news gathering and of course collation of energy)

But let’s go back to, what I’m going to call, personal sacred festivals.

First of all, if we examine the equation we note that the most powerful of these components is the Worlds Energy i.e. the sacred date as we know it. So it would make sense that our personal sacred date would be close to these. Second is the power of social energy. With every other Wiccan giving of celebrating energy on the calendrical sacred date, this would draw us to that date too.

Of the birthdate and the current energy of the person? I asked the dowsing rods as to which was the more potent and the answer was half and half – further investigation revealed the following:

• Earth date 60%
• Location 17%
• Birth date 10%
• Current energy 10%
• Social 3%

Surprising results!

Why did I begin this investigation? Well, looking back to last year I felt that the turning point of the year was a couple of weeks earlier than the calendrical (Winter Solstice) date. This year it feels the same too. In fact it feels like today – the 5th of December is pretty close to it. Perhaps another couple of days.

Indeed, now that the Full Moon is upon us, I have complete confidence that today is the day. Time to journey the next rung of the spiral.

See you on the other side

Kal Malik

ps – would love to hear if you guys have had similar experiences or do you feel that the sacred days are the points of change for you?

Douglas Adams

A few years ago we lost that remarkable genius, Douglas Adams. Both Gwas and I have been a fan of his work for years. From the original Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (known amongst aficionados as hhgttg, or H2G2) to the less famous, but equally recommended Dirk Gently series.

Not a month goes by when we come across a life situation that is comically mirrored in either of the above mentioned series. One such example we have purloined for the energy world was referred to in the hhgttg as The S.E.P Field.

Somebody Else’s Problem

From the book then we have…

An SEP is something we can’t see, or don’t see, or our brain doesn’t let us see, because we think that it’s somebody else’s problem…. The brain just edits it out, it’s like a blind spot. If you look at it directly you won’t see it unless you know precisely what it is. Your only hope is to catch it by surprise out of the corner of your eye.

The technology involved in making something properly invisible is so mind-bogglingly complex that 999,999,999 times out of a billion it’s simpler just to take the thing away and do without it……. The “Somebody Else’s Problem field” is much simpler, more effective, and “can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery.”

This is because it relies on people’s natural predisposition not to see anything they don’t want to, weren’t expecting, or can’t explain. [source]

As I said, Gwas and I have purloined this phrase to describe a rather interesting phenomena that is put out (or radiated like a field) by energetic entities. As you will have read on a few occasions Gwas and I have interacted with energetic awareness or entities that have been bad for our energy. Out in the wilds we have sometimes referred to them as Leprechaun EnergyAn intelligent and aware energy with a penchant for causing mishaps, stealing treasured items, and being territorial.. The SEP field described herein is more to do with bad energies we have found in homes.

Often we have found these entities lingering in homes (even our own homes) and have thought to do something about them. Which (again as demonstrated) we are quite able to do. However an unusual energy that these entities put out can only be referred to as an SEP field. Basically the phenomena can be described thus…

We will find, or be told of, a bad energy in a home. We will resolve to do something about it. We might get a look in to dowse the thing but whenever we think to do something about it, a lethargy sets in or some other task will seem more important or we will just plain forget it. Only to recall hours later (or even days) that we were meant to fix something.

We have named this phenomena an SEP field, in honour of Douglas Adams, whose works continue to inspire us. Some other notes on this field are…

• Distance seems to be a factor in that the further you are the more you can think about it.
• It is usually something in your own home rather than someone else’s (we seem to be able to deal with entities in other people’s houses).
• We are more able to talk about them with each other rather than think about them when we are on our own. This seems to be related to the above point in that the SEP field might only affect the home owner/resident.
• This invisibility field is related to the strength of the entity. The stronger the entity the stronger the field.
• Putting up protection does not seem to work in resolving the field.
• It seems that they really do have to be caught off guard. i.e. in passing we will think of it, grab our rods and do something about it.

To say that these fields are annoying is an understatement. Because they seem to affect the owner (in this case Gwas or I) we have founded them (and I quote) “Maddening”

Kal Malik

Dark Entities and SEP fields

Gwas here. I’d like to add my information as a supplement to Kal’s points. I agree with everything he’s said so far, but there are a few additional things I’d like to explore that have come to my attention about this problem.

The first aspect is that the phenomenon may not be linked solely to “bad”, “dark” or “ill-intentioned” energy forces. Certainly, is it much more within the nature of the deceitful spirit to want to keep its presence quiet, or force anyone’s attention away from its workings. That is defnitiely one aspect fo what’s going on here. However, I feel that all intelligent unseen entities have this capability. How it gets used may differ according to the entity’s personal character and motivations.

So, I think there is a level of assumed intelligence in operation here. That means that you are potting your wits against anything that you can detect is using an SEP field to distract your thoughts away from its work, and you may question why it would want to do that to you. Is it for your benefit, or because it wants to keep you in a particular state of iignorance and apathy?

This would be the point at which you should determine whether you are a “food source” for this entity!

Draining and complaining

Why am I so tired

One of the symptoms of being energetically drained by an intelligent entity is that the “victim” begins to complain about lethargy. As the victim’s energy field is depleted they may begin to take steps to generate mroe energy, but to no avail. They may begin to do more exercise but just feel tired. They may eat more but not be satisfied. They may do more spiritual or psychic work but find that this is not as productive or as helpful as they are used to. They may become ill more frequently. At this point you may begint o get really concerned about the effects of this force, and rightly so.

As Kal has pointed out, putting up protection is not going to stop you being drained. If you are already having your energy depleted then whatever protection you put up is likely to be at the very least weakened, and at best it may have a temporary protective effect, but it’s going to cost you energetically to maintain this protection. So what can you do? Get help! Either from someone who knows what they’re dealing with, or if you have the knowledge of how to do this yourself, then begin to take steps to deal with it. Here is my recommendation for the self-help process:-

1. Get out of its way – go somewhere far away from it’s influence, and make sure that you haven’t taken it with you.
2. Visit a place of power. Open yourself up to this place’s healing and re-balancing, its energising and nourishing energies, and get your energy levels back up. This may take more than one visit. You wil have to identify such a place of power yourself. You already know one, even if you think you don’t.
3. Learn about the entity. You may need to be far from it to do this. Why not start in your place of power? Find out about it – male/female, beneficial/harmful, strength, any impressions about its intentions, was it human once/nature spirit, and so on. Knowledge will help you. Tarot cards are a good way to reveal information.
4. Confront it when you’re at your strongest. Catch it off guard. Psychically get hold of it and act out the act of cutting the connection it has made to you. Then send it away with your strong intention and the pwoer of your will. Act this out physically if this helps, with gestures and expressions.
5. Seal the area. Put up protection around yourself and the affected area (maybe your home) to prevent it coming back in easily.
6. Watch for its return. Some entities are clever and persistent, and will try to get back at you if you have been a good source of energetic ‘food’. Watch for its return.

Of course, these are pathetically generalised instructions, but they may help you find your own way to deal with these things.

Other things that can help you focus are: burn incense to clear the space, use crystals (especially quartz) to focus intent and energies and offer some additional protection.

I would recommend reading about other methods by such writers as Ted Andrews, David Furlong or Judy Hall. Fore-warned is fore-armed, as they say. My main advice is – don’t ignore these things just because they want to be ignored. That’s usually a sign that you should be finding out what it is that wants you to be unaware!

Gwas.

Later...

Kal here again. I was pondering this some more last night when I had a thought. Perhaps the reason why our protection against such SEP fields wasn’t working was because they were already inside our threshold?

Thinking back over our experiences, I feel that the SEP field is more like a chameleon’s camouflage i.e. something innate rather than something that is intended. Just a feeling I have. Also I suspect that historically we were more able to see/sense these creatures than we are now. Hence why there were more reports of supernatural beings in the past than there are now. Perhaps this is because belief has waned?

I really like Gwas’s self-help ideas. Perhaps a how-to post is in the offing? I would point out though that the SEP field itself stops us from doing these things. Even as I write this I know that there is some energetic thing in the other room that is actively stopping me from thinking about it. Maybe I should do something about it now…just let me finish another post…

Kal Malik

Recently I had my first experience of Thanksgiving in te States. I was excitedly looking forward to Macy’s parade and was wondering what kind of energy would be floating around.

I know from experience and dowsing that the energy of crowds is fascinating and disturbing. From experiments I have conducted in shopping halls I have learned that it isn’t the wandering around shopping centers that makes you tired it is the rustling interaction of aura energies that is the cause.

When we are in such an environment where people are moving hither and thither (often frantically) and passing quite close to each other, through each others personal spaces (auras), then this interaction causes upheavals or eddies in our own auric energy. This turbulent energy causes us to become:

• Tired
• Irritable
• Moody
• Angry

and other synonymous emotions.

Macy's Parade

As I set of for the parade my expectations were that a similar effect would be experienced. To this end I spent a few minutes re-arranging my aura to fit snugly about my body and also some levels of protection around me. I hoped that this would keep me from the energetic maelstrom and my emotions would be my own.

The number of people watching the parade is staggering. Down each of the (seemingly narrow) streets people thronged for the merest glance of the floating balloons, nevermind the actual people parading. My girlfriend and I found the going tough as we tried to get close to the avenue that the parade was flowing down.

As we pushed our way through I realised that I wasn’t feeling the effects that I associated with being in crowded places. My aura shrinking plus protection must be working well today I thought, even though the number of people was immense. Having failed in anyway to get close enough to the parade we gave it up and stood (pressed in from all sides) some thirty foot from the passing parade.

As I looked around me I noted with some pleasure that even though the people were hopelessly too far to see the parade they were still pretty amiable. Considering the often bumps and grazes they were taken from people still trying to move forward and indeed people giving up and moving back out of the gathering. Every so often a cheer would erupt when one of the mighty balloons (visible from afar) would pass by.

Having energy in mind from the outset my curiosity was peaked. Why weren’t the crowd feeling the effects of interacting energies? With some trepidation I lowered my protection and set about making my aura its normal size.

By making my aura its normal size I simply removed the intention for it to be fixed close to my skin and to puff it up with air so that it ballooned out.

Having done this I tried to forget that I did it so as to later see how my feelings had been. All the while this was happening my girlfriend, who is not fond of crowds at the best of times was getting more and more irate. At one point she decided enough was enough and began making her (crushing) way back out of the crowd. Dutifully I followed her and we were able to take refuge in a cafe close to where the crowd was thinning out.

Whilst she was trying to collect her thoughts (and her energy) she looked across at me in annoyance. Why are you so cheerful? she asked. I reflected upon my mood and realised that I was indeed cheerful. I said that the mood of the crowd must have affected me.

Even as I said it, my mind was formulating an idea. Could it be that the crowd having a collective psychology during the parade also had a collective energetic state too? Did the crowd have a kind of collective aura too? One that you naturally tapped into (if you didn’t have protection around you)? If so, why wasn’t my girlfriend affected in the same way? Why wasnt her aura joining in so to speak?

It was time to dowse some answers…

• Did (or do) crowds that have a purpose or intent create a collective aura? Yes
• Was reconfiguring my aura stopping me from interacting with the crowds aura? Yes
• Was placing protection around me also interrupting the joining of auras? Yes
• When I lifted the aura configuration and protection, did I join with the crowds aura? Yes
• Was the whole of the crowds mood like it was because of the crowd aura? No
• As a percentage how much was psychological and how much energetic? 25/55 (I know the figures don’t add up, there is a missing component that I couldn’t find). Note though that 25% was psychological, I wasn’t expecting that at all.

A curiously interesting set of results I have to say and another avenue of energetic exploration. But a point still remained on my to ponder list. Why wasn’t my girlfriend affected by the crowd aura? I questioned the rods…

• Had my girlfriend put some protection around herself? No
• Had she intentionally shaped her aura? No
• Was she being affected by the crowd aura? Yes
• Was it having the same effects on her? No
• It was having a negative effect.

There was obviously some reason as to why she wasn’t being affected in the same way. Then it came to me, was it because she was going through her period? Yes! Aha! What a finding. Definitely more to explore about energies here.

Kal Malik – Solving puzzles