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Ghetto Priest

1/17/2020

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Ghetto Priest

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Melancholy as a Spiritual Practice !

10/29/2019

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Melancholy as a Spiritual Practice !

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I have been  melancholic my whole life, as a child i would have what i would call my ' black moods ' and hide myself away for a few days at a time with the curtains drawn in darkness , huddled up in a ball, preferably under a shelf or in a cupboard isolated away from everything.
I had no idea what was happening all i knew was i could somehow feel the pain of the world. It was like there was no filter between me and the soul of the world, Somehow in them lamentable days my small body held all sorrows, all sadness, all grief.

Of course at the time i had no way of describing these concepts as i am now, all i knew was that it would overwhelm and consume me totally, i would huddle up and shiver waiting until the darkness  passed. Upon which i would resurface from my small hide away extremely emotionally fragile but hyper sensitive to colour and light and the agonizing beauty of life itself.

I was never the child that saw spirits, that had psychic premonitions, that remembered themselves in past lives etc, i was the Shadow boy, the one who felt everything. As stated before i had no facility for describing this process when i was younger but it has continued my whole life. 

In my teenage years i dealt with it by taking vast quantities of drugs ending up a full blown heroin addict, the ultimate pain killer, that numbed out everything.
Eventually i died, not physically but mentally, emotionally and spiritually i had a total breakdown and was taken to the pits of hell within myself, where i was devoured completely by intense demonic forces.

Yet here i am 27 years clean from all drugs, apart from cigars of course ha and still this cycle persists in my life and why i wanted to write this short piece.

These last 27 years have not been without intense suffering also but now i have learned to use this process to my advantage and realize that actually this descent into the underworld, this dismantling of my psyche is in actual fact part of my spiritual practice, my shamanic path.Now when the darkness comes internally i honour it, i bow before it, i offer myself to it. First with a prayer, then the great descent. 

Roughly every five years my entire internal map of who i am, what the world is and how i relate to it goes through a huge alteration through this death rebirth cycle. Literally everything i think that i am is confronted and then destroyed. It is the most agonizing experience and can take months and months for me to get through.

Nowadays if i went to a doctor or shrink I'm sure they would say I'm suffering from depression and offer me medication for it, this undoubtedly would place a chemical mask over the process, it would possibly make me more functional in the world but oh so much would be lost from taking it.
If anyone reading this now is already on medication i don't want you for a second to think my experience is yours and stop your meds. You have your own path and its your destiny to figure your way through it.

I only share this as my own experience and to say that spirit not only lives in the light and the upper world but also deep within the darkness of suffering, down into the blackened bed of trapped souls, that which needs to be excavated re integrated, embraced and communed with.
Many of my now familiar spiritual allies reflect this aspect of transformation, Crow, Raven, Snake, Horned God, Ellegua Alagwana, Babalu aye etc. All of these spirits are gate keepers to the mysteries of life and death and are no easy medicine to take or Ase to align with.

I can't help but laugh at those that wish to be a ' Shaman ' etc, of course drum circles are nice, journeying is helpful and fun but when its time to pay the Keepers their due most would run screaming and rightly so, the door to the devouring mother is narrow and full corpses who thought they would come looking for power but instead ended up dead or insane.

There is however a simple practice that anyone can do to transform the shadows back into colour and that is embrace the pain and surrender to the darkness. Take time to be with yourself, identify where the pain is within you, that's the thread, the tap root that will eventually unwind the entire Dark Bundle. 

Now pray fervently for guidance and fully enter into it, surrender to your suffering. I know it feels like your enemy, that instead it should be banished and broken but in truth it is your soul screaming for attention, crying from the darkness to be recognized, to be seen, to be embraced and most of all to be loved.

My experience has always been that in the fires of hell and the depths of the underworld, at the core of darkness lyes something more beautiful than can ever  be imagined, more tender and sweet than any blossoming flower. It is the Great Secret to all the Mysteries, it is the seat of the soul and the pain of its birthing pangs back into the world.
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​Melancholy is a spiritual practice, only those that dive deep ascend to the heaven.


​Bless you all on this Samhain, may the Gates enamour you to action !


​Images; 
Jacek Solkiewicz
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Evidencia

10/15/2019

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Evidencia

The other day at LaBotanica a friend came to visit with her 10 year old daughter. I felt an immediate kinship with her as we played and talked showing her various things in the shop.
When they left and were on the ferry back home to North Amsterdam Lot { thats her name } turned to her mother and said she recognized me from a past life in a First Nation/Native American village, where i was a shaman/doctor and gave every new-born child presents. She said she was my best friend and the village's hairdresser for special ritual festivals and that i had a wolf, a bear and two cats as Allies.... In Espiritismo we call this an 'evidencia', a true confirmation from Spirit..
I have never met Lot before yesterday, she knows nothing of my connection to Native people's or the fact that i have both Bear and Wolf in my spiritual framework. I knew i knew that little girl as soon as i saw her, now i know why !
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Skyshaker

9/30/2019

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WickerWolf Invocation

8/20/2019

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Wicker Wolf Invocation

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Y.Zsigo performing Wolf Invocation at Wicker Wolf Ceremony Castlefest 2019

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Ancestral Memory

3/24/2019

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Red Road

3/4/2019

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RED ROAD

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Magik incites th ....

2/17/2019

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I often ponder what exactly is going on when we perform our various ceremonies, rituals & prayers !
Somehow and that's the magik, it creates potential and possibility inside the otherwise impossible and miraculously transforms & manifests it.
If this is the case and i know without a shadow of a doubt it is, then something so strange and marvelous
​would be hard to find.
It is a constant fascination of mine, that if this method works, if communion and response from an intelligent universe is real, then what is going on here, what is it that we are immersed in.
This is not a question to answer but a rather mystery to relish & explore in !
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Feed the Demon

1/22/2017

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Feed the Demon

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When battling ones enemies and those of imbalanced force that wish to influence negatively on us or our beloved's.
There is no need for warfare, no need for pacts with Demons of the same recourse.
All that is required is that ones enemy be fed to their own Demon, the one that has attached itself to them,  the one that stole life force from others and that will now feed upon its host.
The one that called it forth into the world, influenced by the lies of all demonic force's, that if you side with them, if you agree at any level to their terms of so called empowerment, in hope of  riches, glory and control, that eventually you to will  meet your demise by the claws and lips of that which deceived them.
In this way the debt is balanced, the demon satiated, the enemy destroyed and the Shaman/Magician free to wander all Three Realms as he pleases !
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La Botanicas ~ Mojo MarketĀ 

11/23/2016

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La Botanicas ~ Mojo Market
Amsterdam
www.labotanica.net

Slowly but surely LaBotanica's Mojo Market is coming together more and more. 
So proud of all the artists creating unique one of a kind juju items.
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The Initiation

9/8/2016

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The Initiation
Before salvation comes damnation.

It is in fact this descent into darkness that IS the Initiatory process.

The place where all fears, pains and demons surface to devour the unwilling victim.

There is never any guarantee of success, in fact if this process were not life threatening, it would not truly be Initiatory.

Only when every last morsel of mortality has been devoured and the final spark of one’s essence is cast deep within the crooked pot.

Only then when the Great Mother, the birther of souls, reduce's one’s spark to complete finality does the alchemical process truly occur.

Only then when the last thought trembles and is lost, will she birth a new soul.

Back up through the searing heat, gasping its first breath, into and beyond the gates of the
3 realms.

Where the spirits of the sky decorate and dress the now dancing specter.

Not in the attire of old, but instead in the gleaming new rags of the twice born.

Now adorned in the bellowing ribbons of rebirth that float gently back down to the quivering earth.

No longer alive or dying but instead revived, released from the land of the dimming lights.

Changed, transformed, now unrecognizable,

Except to the dark mother that birthed them.
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AnimismĀ 

9/6/2016

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Animism

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I have been thinking a lot lately about the term 'Shaman' and its constant dilution within the new age and believe it or not shamanic communities and have come to the conclusion that i no longer wish to by known by or associated with this term any longer.
Words have power and as far as im concerned it may as well now just be called 'sham'~anism !

At heart and in everything i have ever done i view everything through the perceptual lens of 'Animism'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism
So from now on i will be using the word Animist to describe the various types of spirit - works that i perform.
It also fits in descriptively perfect in reference to the folk ~magical, espiritista and Orisha work that i do.
Mucho blessings to you all and may your journey be guided by the good spirits.
​Bless




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Lady of Guadalupe

9/4/2016

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Lady of Guadalupe

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Nice ~ Illumination in the face of terror !

7/16/2016

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Nice ~ Illumination in the face of terror

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The Graveyard at Castle Hill
Obviously the energies here in Nice right now are more than a little disturbed... Big big shout out to all the people that have contacted me and my family to check in that we are all ok, thank you so much for your care and concern...

People have been asking me if there is anything they can do spiritually to help and all I would say right now is miracles can happen with a simple candle and a prayer.

As for me I have been very clearly instructed from my Eggun to do absolutely nothing until Monday evening.
It was only after this guidance that I checked the date and, sure enough, it is very close to a Full Moon around  that time, the perfect moment to perform such a working.

What has happened here in Nice is horrific and there will be many lost and extremely confused souls on the other side right now, looking for assistance in their time of transition.

I DO NOT RECOMMEND anyone that is not highly trained in this area to do any kind of shamanic work for these souls at this time. For sure pray, for sure light a candle, for sure send light, but work at your peril if you journey into this spiritually chaotic sphere right now untrained and without clear intentional focus and extremely strong Allies to help in the delicate task of transitioning souls to be with their ancestors.

The Ancestral mound of Nice is the ‘Colline du Chateau’ (Castle hill) - it is not only one of the oldest settled places in Nice with its ruins etc but there is also the crowning Graveyard up on the hill, that literally acts as a doorway to the land of the forefathers in this area. I have been working with these spirits at the graveyard there for over 3 years now and am very familiar with their heralds.

This, in my humble opinion, should be the place of focus for our light and prayers on the full moon evening of Monday the 18th August, not necessarily the Promenade des Anglais where the attack happened.
It is this guiding light and the spirits that await there, on Castle Hill that can help to transition the recently departed souls into the afterlife.

If such work is not done correctly when terrible things like this happen the place can literally become cursed, whereby the etheric stain created as this nightmarish act ripped through the ethers, can create a kind of negative vortex - a ‘Dark Bundle’, so to speak. This attracts into its sphere more accidents and bad things to occur in the future. I have seen this happen more times than I can speak of and am often called to peoples’ houses etc. to do cleansings when something extremely bad may have happened in the past, like a murder or suicide etc.

This is not enjoyable or easy work and not something to be done lightly as I have stated before, there are many, many things that can go wrong, whereby the spirit itself and the negative influences that have gathered around such a lost soul can attach themselves to the Spiritual worker and cause further havoc in their lives, instead of the intentioned task of them passing smoothly into the spiralling cycles of the afterlife.

I will be making offerings to the spirits of the Graveyard including Oya/Our lady of Candelaria, who stands at its gates all this weekend, beckoning that the spiritual doorway be open to receive the recently departed souls.

It needs to be understood very clearly that time within these astral realms is experienced completely differently to how we perceive it; a year can be experienced as a day and vice versa. For this reason many apparitions are seen enacting a certain pattern over and over again, the spirit itself not realising that many years, if not centuries, have passed. For whatever reason they are unable to let go of that which they wanted in life and in a sense are unaware that they are dead or of the length of time that has passed here on earth.  This being a large reason that negative spiritual influence can appear to hang around so long in this earthly realm and another reason it can be so difficult to clear.
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Our Lady of Candelaria
At 21pm { French time } on Monday 18th July I will be performing Ceremony on my own here in Nice, journeying forth into these spiritual realms to literally create an avenue of luz/light from the Promenade des Anglais to the ancestral gateway at Castle hill. This illuminated trail will allow many of the traumatised souls to literally follow the trail of light into the Land of the Ancestors.

If anyone is at all interested supporting this work I simply ask that they either light a white candle, praying and send the light to me { Not to the scene of the attack } whereby me and my Allies can utilise this power in formulating this spiritual road, or in turn that you light a large purple candle to Oya/ Our Lady of Candelaria, asking that she open the Gates to the otherworld and welcome the lost souls home.

Once again I cannot overemphasise that these simple prayers be conducted as requested and that you DO NOT enter into the place of the attack, either imaginatively or intuitively but instead focus as requested.
                                                                                                             
​Bless
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Soul Stealer

5/13/2016

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Soul Stealer

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