You know, any member of this group can post stuff relevant to the group, and I don’t mean stupid jokes or videos. Relevant to the group is what to look for. Unless it’s a joke related to the subject matter, or a pun. There’s this woman who is posting irrelevant junk to our groups on Google. I don’t know how to get rid of her because she changes her email addy constantly. My pleas to her to change the subject matter of her posts to reflect the subject matter of the group have seemingly fallen on blind eyes. How do I get rid of her?
What would be relevant would be questions on magick, how to use it, what it’s good for, and other topics within the vast realm of magick. This is the main group, from which all the other teaching groups proceed. I may refer you to another of our groups on another network, where this question can be answered more easily. I won’t necessarily refer you to a Yahoo group because it’s easier to find groups on other networks, since Yahoo has made it so difficult to navigate within their platform. Another good topic would be to discuss your own magickal experiences. But please, although Stephen is an inveterate gamer, I’m not, so please have it be an experience you had in real life, not a fantasy roleplaying game. Hearing people discuss their experiences in a dungeon is rather like hearing some old fart talk about his latest operation. So unless you want me to go on for pages and pages about the operation on my ankle, and the two days I spent in the hospital last year, please keep your relating to real life experiences.
Another person we will be discussing at length will be Philip Emmons Isaac Bonewits, who has been a part of Abbott’s Inn from the getgo. These posts are mutual post between me and AD Stephen Abbott. For the most part, I type, and he dictates, although I do go off from time to time. We do it this way because I hate working on Stephen’s pos (piece of shit) computer. Imagine I’m working on a 6 almost 7 year old computer which crashes and freezes less than his 1 ½ year old computer. As a reminder, if you have Yahoo groups, and you get an indication of no new activity, post immediately because if there is no activity in 6 weeks. On the other hand, the Monty Pthon Fan Club, a group I have been trying to kill for months still hangs in there. So they do play favorites, and are not even handed. As far as Stephen is aware, they don’t censor, they just kill the group. Tell all your other friends who have Yahoo groups to watch their asses in this manner. We lost 9 groups because of this inactivity BS. For this reason and because of their difficult and draconian categorization process they have you go through, Stephen and I will add no new groups to Yahoo. We advise you to do the same. Go to one of the Ning sites, or Facebook. They are pretty good on Facebook. Good networks are: Paganspace.net, and .com, Wiccantogether.ning.com, Blessedbeuknetwork.ning.com, and Ceridwenscauldron.ning.com (Avalon). All of our Abbott’s Inn networks, of which there are 8. If you want to know what these are, Stephen is going to put all the inks in the links section. Still another good network is Myspace.com, Googlegroups.com, Tribes.net, and Hi5, to name but a few. If you have a Pagan-based network that you want to see our groups on, please let us know. We are still looking for new staff members of Abbott’s Inn International (the entire school)
There are three books which any aspiring magician/wizard/witch should keep up. They are: The Grimoire which is a catalog of spells, the magickal journal/diary, dream log/journal. This will be sent to Blogger, which is part of Google. In theory, there is also Adsense, which will supposedly send you money every time someone clicks on an ad by your blog. All right, well start with the Grimoire/BOS. Whether you call it one or ‘tother depends on whether you consider yourself mostly a Witch or a magician. They are basically the same book, basically a collection of spells/rituals. The BOS/
Grimoire is spells, rituals, and incantations you do or come up with. There is a difference of opinion between us whether you put your psychic experiences in your BOS/grimoire or your magickal diary/journal. He says BOS/grimoire, I say magickal diary. For all you Chartmed fans out there, their BOS is a great example. The four witch sisters Piper, Pru, who later dies, Phoebe, and Page, would constantly be adding nrew spells to their BOS. This constant adding of new spells made it transform from a large book to a huge tome of magickal knowledge and made it have a life of its own. Towards the end of the series, the Witch sisters added not only spells, but their own, making it more of a magickal diary. In Stephen’s own personal magickal experience, my magickal diary has been transformed into a series of magickal notebooks and diaries. No set only BOS. It is one of his goals to eventually have a BOS once again. It will be huge in scope.
One of the things Stephen loved about the Charmed BOS was that it was profusely illustrated. Many of the illustrations were created by the book itself, not the four Witches. Both Stephen and I highly recommrnf that you think about putting illustrations in your BOS/grimoire. In Charmed, the four Witches had illustrations of the demons they fought. You can substitute Gods and Goddesses. I would now like to talk about the privacy issue. Stephen thinks that most privacy issues are BS, while I think it’s up to the person involved. Stephen doesn’t mind sharing his magickal diary/BOS with other magickal people. I will share mine with a partner, or a student. That is all. Stephen puts on his BOS a frontispiece with “the magickal record of AD Stephen Abbott with a disclaimer saying that only magickal people he trusts will be allowed to see that.” Stephen and I are different individuals. He is not a very private person. I am in matters pertaining to my magickal practice. Both Stephen and I encourage you to use whichever magickal system floats your boat. We’re all different in the eyes of the Goddess. Show your differences and creativity. Don’t take what we say verbatim. Do your own research and experiment. We all make mistakes, we’re not infallible, and we’re not Gods and Goddesses yet. Your BOS/grimoire should be a compendium of all your magickal lore day-to-day, says Stephen. I don’t necessarily feel that way. I think you should add to it when the spirit or the Goddess moves you to. Besides recording spells, incantations, and rituals, you can also record magickal herbs and their properties, magickal oils and scents, amulets and talismans, semi-precious and precious stones, magickal tools and weapons, symbols and signs, magickal alphabets, magickal layouts such as the Tree of Life, the chart of magickal planetary hours, magickal and bardic songs, color magick, magickal names and numbers, and your favorite magickal myths and legends, If you’re not a good artist and know a Pagan artist you can hire hir to do illustrations. Stephen and I have a rather famous Pagan artist Walter Rhoads whom we also promote. If you’re in Sacramento, go check out Gallery 14th Avenue and 60th Street. For more information on the BOS/grimoire check out Mind-n-Magick.com. Get the free toolbar. There is a plethora of information on the BOS on this site. Check the Paganpedia on the site. Also check out the out the BOS groups on Yahoo and Paganspace.net. . . . . .
The magickal diary/journal is basically a lab notebook wherein you would refer to the spell or ritual you’re performing and what happened; the results thereof. If you got your spell out of a book such as the Element Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells, you would copy the spell down in your grimoire/BOS along with any changes you felt it necessary to make. Some do fancy things like write it in Theban or some other magickal alphabet, but I don’t feel that’s necessary. For one thing, we are no longer in the Burning Times, despite what people like Sarah Palin have done to try to bring them back. For another, my writing is such that no one will be able to read it anyway. You’ve heard of calligraphy, well, I do cacography or ugly writing. You can also describe other uncanny experiences you’ve had such as visions obtained during meditation, etc. It can also be called the magickal record. What to put in your magickal diary/journal/record: your daily magickal/psychic experiences; astrological aspects of the day. For this purpose, get yourself a Llewellyn astrological calendar. There are others, but I find that Llewellyn’s is the best. Magickally related dreams can go into this book. Times and duration of the event is very important. Write your events marking all the senses including psi. Example: what did you feel during the experience? Were you fearful, exhilarated, peaceful, calm, angry or agitated?
The third book is the dream journal/log. The dream journal/log/record is about all dreams that you have, not just obviously magickal or spiritual dreams. I like to put down the sun sign and moon sign, but this is a habit I got into when I was in the OTO. Every morning Stephen and I have a session in which I write down our dreams in our dream journals. This keeps the dreams fresh in our minds, which leads to the technique Stephen uses to recall his dreams. As soon as he wakes up, he says out loud several times, “Low Self, I will recall my dreams.” I prefer to say just as I’m going to sleep, “Conscious mind, move aside. I want to talk to my subconscious. I recall all my dreams.” I prefer to put it in the form of an affirmation. My shaman teacher, LadyofLov, taught me that technique. I should write her and tell her I need a refresher course. Stephen’s technique is Huna from Max Freedom Long’s work. There is also a guy named Arnold Steiger who wrote a lot of books on psychic and Pagan topics,. Scott Cunningham also wrote about Huna, leaning heavily on Long’s work, as well as his own research. Long’s work is a little dated. Cunningham brings a freshness to the work. When I get the refresher course, I will post it here and in our sister group Dreamwork for Pagans and all its numbers. Try both techniques and see which one you like. Or use both, what the heck?
Dell has really messed up Stephen’s work. Don’t buy Dell. Also, if you’ve been watching those Blue Hippo commercials, don’t do business with Blue Hippo either. The CEO is a cokehead and a ripoff artist. His computers, if you even get one from him, suck out loud. If possible, they’re even worse than Dell. We mention these things because we care about our Pagan community, and we want people to know what is going on both with us and in the world at large. Doc said that 1 in 6 Dell computers (of both kinds) don’t work right out of the box. Stephen must’ve gotten that one in six because he’s had nothing but trouble with it from day one about 17 months ago. We were working on a new blog for Keen and lost it because Bailee sat on the keyboard, and made it crash twice.
Yahoo has been revamped completely. I got the new Yahoo toolbar, and added a bunch of our stuff to it. The new Yahoo has retooled both the toolbar and the home page, where you can add your own stuff. Also Yahoo has improved its messenger in the video talk aspect. We are still dissatisfied with Yahoo’s draconian policy of deleting certain groups after just 6 weeks of inactivity. It would be ok if they were even handed about it, but they seem to only delete certain groups, while others they leave alone. For this reason, and because of their draconian categorization process, we will not be putting any more groups on Yahoo. Google has also revamped their toolbar and googletalk.
Do not do business with IMVU. The new management of IMVU is a bunch of right-wing Republican Puritans who are utterly anti-Pagan, anti-women and anti-sex. I had my bank disallow IMVU from deducting money from my checking account. Fully 40% of the people on IMVU are Pagans. If all the Pagans left, we might not put the network out of business, but we could definitely make it feel the pinch. I think that even the Pag-Symps would leave after the Pagans left, especially the ones interested in cybersex. Charles, also Carey, the new CEO is a conservative Baptist, who has no business running a network like IMVU. In the name of “making the Internet safe for kids”, he and his henchmen are making IMVU no fun for anyone. I feel that having an age restricted section is protection enough for the little nippers, and that adults should have a section where they are totally free to do as they will. Stephen is furious, but I am indifferent. IMVU was nothing to me but an exercise in frustration that I spent way too much money and time on. I think it’s a waste of time and money, but Stephen lives most of his life on IMVU, and so is really bummed out by these developments. They have blocked out all the cool body enhancements and furniture Stephen got from Twinkle so they can’t be seen by anyone but him. IMVU is being investigated by: the FBI, Better Business Bureau, FCC, and FTC for its fraudulent and unethical business dealings. They have a file on IMVU the size of my 3rd exhubby, and he is big. He’s gotten even larger since we’ve split up. It makes me wonder why Doc had the heart attack, and not him. If you have any fraud complaints, contact the FBI Fraud division and the Better Business Bureau. .
I have just joined Stephen on KEEN. I am also doing readings outside of KEEN. I charge $15 for a fifteen minute reading. I got a webcam, and a mic/headset, so will be able to do readings on Yahoo and Windows Live as soon as they get hooked up. I am hunting for a publisher, since FireDrake’s Weyr unfortunately got closed down. Readings and classes are our currency. I am also helping Stephen promote our friend Walter Rhoads’ art, their art gallery Gallery 14 and Julie’s tax service. I’m doing everything to raise money except sex. I refuse to get involved in porn, and I don’t have a very sexy voice.
Stephen wants to thank all of you for calling him at (land-line) 916-455-2267 or
(cell) 916-612-2504 and ordering either a divination reading or a class for just $31.95. With webcam and voice on Yahoo IM, Windows Live Msgr, or Skype, it’s almost like being here. For the reading, you got to choose a deck, method, or tool from a vast array of decks/methods/tools. For the class, you got to choose from a myriad of topics in the vast area of magick. Some of you couldn’t decide between a reading and a class, and so for just $59.90 you knew you could have both.a reading and a class; how perfect is that? You can have a reading then in the class find out how he did it. Or you can have two classes, or two readings as long as they are on two separate and different topics/questions. And thank you too for using and spreading around his Zodiac referral number 1-800-280-8496. You told your friends, relatives, in-laws, neighbors, coworkers, colleagues, teachers, kids’ teachers, fellow parents in your PTA, bus drivers, beauticians, and anyone else we might have left out. If you know of any other categories I may have omitted , do tell me. We would like to have other sites where we can have our groups.
So basically what we want is some action from you people. We want your feedback. We know we can always count on Dylan to give feedback, but he’s a partner in this venture. How about the rest of you? This is supposed to be a cooperative effort here. For those of you who are on Red Light, Stephen is doing readings for the cost of 10 rays, and classes for 20 rays. Red Light is a network that is more liberal than IMVU has become, since that Charles guy took over.
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