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This blog is a collection of thoughts, stories, and insights that have emerged along my spiritual path. Maybe something here will resonate with a truth already stirring within you.
Amethyst
The Amethyst takes its name from the Greek "amethystos" which means "sober" or "not drunk". This naming is most likely due to its ability to keep its wearer cool in stressful situations. The amethyst has proven itself as a test stone; It is advisable to wear an amethyst on your body (in the form of jewelry or as a tumbled stone in your pocket) or to put it on the table in front of you during every kind of test in life.
Meditation Ritual Crown Chakra Activation
Put on relaxing music and, if possible, dress in the colors of the Crown Chakra or Universal Chi, i.e. purple or gold. Put some lavender flowers and cinnamon in the bowl. Mix the two together with your fingers and focus on your intention: to activate your Crown Chakra. You can also ask the lavender blossoms and the cinnamon powder directly, in spoken words, to support you in realizing this intention.
The Web of Wyrd
Back in 2010, I was not doing very well. I had lost my job due to burnout, my doctor wanted me to apply for social care due to my mental insufficiency and I had almost no money because I had already earned very little before. Sad and often alone, I sat at home, diligently wrote applications and studied psychology myself, so as not to get caught in the social welfare system.
Learning to read Life
I have an extremely extensive collection of cards, which would probably make every witch heart beat faster. If you would like to delve deeper into working with cards, I can give you an insight into this world during a Chi Session - from classic tarot to light code tarots and shamanic potency tarots, reading power animal cards, Mayan cards and Runes, everything is there.
Rune Means Whisper
When I was traveling through Ireland in 2011, I received a small polymer clay bead from one of my new acquaintances. It was maybe the size of a penny and had a blue symbol painted on the yellow background. Astonished, I studied this new code, which I hadn't seen before, and then had my friend explain to me that the symbol was a letter from the Celtic Ogham Script.
What it's good for
You don't need a crystal. You don't need an essence. You don't need a coach. It's all inside of you. What you do need to progress is a clear intention, set into focussed action. And that's were the first sentence of this thought excursion gets turned: Often times, I had all these thoughts inside of me, and only when speaking about them to someone, they cleared up.
Love Yourself
"Love yourself", they say. A single sentence that triggers so much in me. "I don't want to be selfish. I don't want to be arrogant. I don't want to put myself above others." - These are all socially shaped concepts with which I do not want to identify. Then a realization: loving myself does not mean putting myself above others. But to finally see myself as an equal. Not only understanding and feeling compassion for everyone else, but also for myself.
Meditation
Meditation does not describe a state of not thinking, but rather the state of having thought through to the end. For a long time I thought I couldn't meditate because my mind wandered to the future, to the past, mostly ignoring the now. Until I realized that I just needed to focus on this mind; namely, any thoughts that I had not finished thinking and any feelings that I had not finished feeling or expressing.
Jedi Mind Tricks
Isn't it interesting that we humans can actually reprogram our conscious and subconscious mind? With every day more I see the neccessity of such a reprogramming - our minds have not been properly upgraded to function well in the modern age. They mostly still operate on software from the stone age and hence need a little reboot to create a smoother experience for the mind, body and soul alltogether.
Ho'oponopono
Forgiveness is not as important to the forgiven as it is important to the forgiver. We have all been hurt, intentionally or unknowingly, by other people. Unfortunately, often precisely from those people who were or are very close to us. However, if we don't heal these wounds, they bleed all over our future.
Two Wolves
When the white man reached Turtle Island, which people now call "The United States of America," he found people there who were different from himself. They only covered their nudity where it was of practical use, and otherwise had very different customs from those known to the white man. For example, the native people of Turtle Island made no distinction between "master" and "mastered" - they only killed what they ate and lived in grateful and humble union with the greater whole.
You Are Enough
You are enough
just the way you are -
you don't have to give me anything
you don't have to say anything,
you don't have to do anything...
because I see you.
And just the way I see you
I accept you -
evaluation creates separation,
creates our downfall.
So, only if you like,
take your masksfrom your face -
others might not like to see
your true nature,
but the others
are not me.
The Teachings of Pain
I wrote the following poem in 2015. It became an important guiding star of everything I create: Never looking to take away the pain, but rather embracing it, absorbing it completely, until it transforms itself from the ashes of the burned past into a beautiful phoenix of newfound insight. Today, in my Chi Sessions, I accompany people through this process.
The Me In Between
My name is Dada, and I have been in contact with the spiritual world and its inhabitants since I was reborn into physical reality in May of 1988. For decades, I was made believe that I am sick, that something is wrong with me - until I came into contact with plant medicines and they became my master teachers.
Weeds
Often I have to laugh heartily at human-shaped words – weeds is one of them. So a herb is not a herb, say a weed, only because it eludes human control. Because it does not do what we want, it becomes an absurdity. There are many things that have become preposterous because they are uncontrollable: Pain. Death. Disease. Most people would like to destroy all of them, like the weeds that stain their garden.
Perception
Perception. A word that we use very often without being aware of its meaning; it's origin is the latin word percipere, which means "to receive, understand". Nowadays we mostly use this word as a synonym for awareness. But awareness originates from old english "gewær", which means to be aware of something. Hence there is a massive difference between these two:
Intention
Isn’t it interesting how much our perception is subject to our focus? Like in a photograph, everything in the background blurs except the thing we focus on. Depending on what we hold in our focus, our reality feels very different. For example, if my focus is on all the things I do not have, but would like to have, I don’t feel that good. I feel as if I am missing something, although objectively speaking, that is not the case. I do not miss this object of desire – I just do not own it.
Structures
On closer inspection, structures are omnipresent in our lives. We do not perceive them because they are invisible – they are the grid that holds creation, the manifested reality, together. Everything in nature has a chemical signature, a code that defines its form in manifested reality. An embryo follows in its development exclusively the sequence genetically proclaimed in its DNA – not a millimeter is deviated from it. Each network follows solely the binary code that underlies it; a single mistake in this code makes the whole thing fail.
Unalome
The Unalome is a symbol from Buddhism and is often described as a sign of the path to enlightenment. Since the concept of enlightenment is a very abstract concept in the West, I usually say that it is the symbol of the path from separation to totality. The symbol begins at the center of the spiral; This point symbolizes our birth into the earthly sphere. Here we find separation; Separation from the maternal body; The experience that our body is our own and we are ‘alone’ in it.
Demons
“Perhaps the terrible is basically the helpless that wants help from us.” Today I stumbled upon this quote from Rainer Maria Rilke, and it has caused a lot of Dadaistic thoughts in me. Not only that I fully agree with this statement, no, it also reminds me of a practice called Chöd, which was very common among the shamanic Tibetan healers.