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November 4, 2012
Win a Copy of Weird Tales…
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Goodreads Book Giveaway
Weird Tales
by G. Michael Vasey
Giveaway ends December 31, 2012.
See the giveaway details
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Christmas Gift Idea
Christmas is fast approaching so how about sending someone a book personally dedicated to them by me the author?
Right now I have copies of;
Inner Journeys – 16USD or 9.95GBP + postage and packing (I can quote on demand)
Weird Tales – 9.95USD or 6.20GPB
and I am hoping to have also The Mystical Hexagram shortly at 15USD or 9.35GBP
Contact me at gary@asterothsdomain.com if interested….
I can accept payment via paypal and can offer a discount of 10% on more than one book purchased.
Thanks,
November 1, 2012
This Time of Year
I love this time of year. The cold crispness on starry nights and the halo of ice crystals around the Moon or the cold dampness after a cleansing rainfall. The idea and joy of life as everything is dying as winter approaches. There is a magical feeling to it. The cycle of life as the leaves fall to eventually create the rich humous from which new life will blossom. As a teenager, we used to go camping for Bonfire Night down by the Humber near Goole. It was damp, misty and cold but magical. I have an abiding memory of how that felt that can be triggered into full sense at anytime. The colours of autumn are unique and to be treasured. As I said above, the feeling of being alive while watching the gradual cycle of death and decay soon to be followed by the emptiness of winter and then the emergence of new life in the spring. Love it!
October 29, 2012
Win Inner Journeys…
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Inner Journeys
by G. Michael Vasey
Giveaway ends December 26, 2012.
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October 28, 2012
Soul for Sale?
What do Jimmy Saville and Lance Armstrong have in common? They both fooled everyone for quite a considerable time and both were considered heros. I feel a deep sense of disappointment and outrage regarding the pair of them and others like them. They are not alone. Without perhaps subscribing to what I consider to be rather silly conspiracy theories, I have long suspected that many successful people have ‘sold their souls’. No, I am not saying that they wrote some contract with Satan or Elizabeth Hurley! I am simply saying that at some point either their quest for fame led them to do things that otherwise they may not have done in order to succeed or perhaps, having succeeded their egos got so engorged with fame, they decided they could act anyway they pleased. They were somehow above any laws and normal standards of behaviour simply didn’t apply to them.
If we create our own realities – which I propose that we do – then these people’s realities were heavily influenced by their desire for success, fame or whatever.
Is it wrong to want to succeed? No, it is not. Visualizing or imagining one as successful is in my opinion just fine but hopefully it is done without an ego-tainted desire (shall we say lust?) for power or whatever that makes it OK to abuse self or others along the way. And, once successful, shouldn’t that success have some purpose other then mere self-gratification?
If you have read Frabato by Franz Bardon, you will be familiar with his description of a powerful black lodge. At all times the Lodge has 100 members and every year a lot is drawn and one of the Lodge is killed to make way for a new recruit. Each new recruit is provided with their personal demon who will ensure that whatsoever they desire will be theirs. The Lodge he describes is just one of many worldwide. It’s tempting to wonder as to whether such black lodges exist and I must admit, when someone famous dies I do wonder – did they draw that year’s lot? Compare that with the rumours rife in London and elsewhere since the 60′s which are now a subplot once again in the Saville case – satanic cults with paedophile needs that perputrate Government and High Society….Makes you wonder.
From my point of view, I know quite a few people in and around the esoteric or ‘occult’ and all of them I would characterize as not seeking fame nor fortune but most often living ordinary lives and quite often struggling financially. Once again, it comes down to motivation. These people are not motivated by ‘things’ by money, fast cars, drugs etc. They know these things are an illusion designed to trap us into the reality created for us. Instead, these people work to free others and help them to create their own realities.
I think the World is full of people who somehow have sold their soul. Either for success or power or perhaps just to remain asleep. The latter, the vast majority, are there to be the tools of the former it seems… Meanwhile, I remain convinced that the true reality is inside of us and it is boundless. We simply need to seek inside of our selves. At the same time, we must know ourselves – every wart – because we are all human and we can all succumb if not constantly on our guard….
October 26, 2012
Enter to win
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Goodreads Book Giveaway
The Mystical Hexagram
by G. Michael Vasey
Giveaway ends December 09, 2012.
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October 12, 2012
Labyrinth of Time
Tonight I found in my mailbox a copy of Anthony Peake’s Labyrinth of Time book. I can’t wait to read it and post a review here later. I reviewed Anthony’s first book some time ago and he has gone from strength to strength with several new books all building in one way or another on his first Is There Life after Death?. I recently made friends with him on Facebook and hope to catch up with him and his activities soon in more detail. I will also be interested on his take on our new book – The Mystical Hexagram.
The amazon description of the book is as follows - In The Labyrinth of Time, Anthony Peake explores the relationship between consciousness and reality, and in the process puts forward an amazing hypothesis that can explain many enigmatic phenomena, including deja vu, precognition, near-death experience, and altered states. It features a cutting-edge account of modern time theory covering “time slips,” precognitive dreams, and the elasticity of time during moments of extreme stress, near-death experience, and certain stages of hypnotic trance. The Labyrinth of Time is as compelling and persuasive as Peake’s groundbreaking Is There Life After Death? and The Daemon.
Check back soon for a review.
October 5, 2012
Life as a Symbol
I read recently somewhere on the internet that inner contacts can be viewed simply as symbols. I apologize to whoever wrote this as I cannot recall where I read it and who wrote it but it was a bit of a critique of the concept of inner contacts altogether! But the thought has persisted with me.
Standing outside just now puffing on a cigarette, I noticed a mall patch of moss. It was bright green and truly beautiful. As I noticed the moss I started to look around and observe. The trees, the blue sky, the birds singing. The amazing beauty of nature. All symbols. Life is a moving movie of symbols that we simply need to observe and puzzle out their meaning. That bright green moss, that little islands of emerald greenness shimmering in the sunlight reflecting from the dew that had settled there. What did that mean to me? It reminded me to look. To observe and to marvel.
Asteroth too is a symbol. It is a symbol that speaks to me of inner truths and yes, beauty too. She is the archetypal Goddess, the inner me. She has shown me other symbols including the hexagram and helped me observe this symbol in many different ways – many planes of reflection – some of which are described in the book The Mystical Hexagram. But she has also pointed to other symbols – even created them in my inner reality awakening something magical and something delicate. Places with spiritual purposes for quiet contemplation.
Reality is a set of symbols to be observed, contemplated and learned from and if we miss an important symbol then it keeps arising in our conciouness until we notice. Perhaps this is the synchronicity that occurs to people where some symbol repeatedly occurs in our lives. It’s our innerselves way of saying – look, observe, contemplate and accept.
October 4, 2012
Officially Released….
Here is the official announcement of the new book…
October 3, 2012
Whom does the Grail serve?
Meditation today raised the question “Whom does the grail serve?”
This last few weeks has been difficult. It is still difficult. I am melancholy, in a deep dark hole. I am sick and can’t seem to get well. Everything suddenly seems gray, unexciting, uninspiring and difficult. Perhaps it is no coincidence that tomorrow will mark the first anniversary of my Father’s passing.
In my mind, I saw my Father and I understood his great joy at my birth. His love for me his eldest child and I guess the child he really hadn’t wanted. But, somehow, my birth became a moment of significance in his life and how he celebrated Fatherhood! Becoming a father changed him fundamentally and I think, gave him meaning. My brothers will agree that he was the archetypal Father figure that in later life became our friend. He gave unselfishly of himself for his boys and he enjoyed every moment of it.
In thinking of this I couldn’t help think of my current demise. What gave my life meaning in the same way that children did for my Father? I love my kids and hope I am a good Dad but I can’t say that they have been the central anchor of my life in the way that we were for our Father. I couldn’t and cannot yet answer that question. But that is when the voice in my head asked the question about the Grail.
Suddenly, I understood that I am in the shadow phase again. From where I am everything in my reality looks gloomy and why wouldn’t it? I make my own reality. I determined to work my way out of this hole again step by step, little by little. It’s all about acceptance you see. I have never learned not to fight. It’s funny, but it’s all in Inner Journeys.
When you enter the pool, the surface is absolutely calm but your body movement causes ripples and activities on the surface. The more you thrash around the more the waves and ripples grow in intensity and knock you off track. The more you fight the more ripples and waves and the harder it gets. Go with the flow, align yourself with the will of the Creator and minimize the waves (Inner Journeys: Explorations of the Soul, p.87)
And then there was Asteroth’s advice…”Stop struggling and listen. Attune to your inner self, become who you truly are and stop struggling“(p.85)
You know, I thought to myself, I am doing this to myself – AGAIN!
Somewhere inside me there is an aspect of self that seems to want to self-destruct. He and the Shadow work very hard to bring me down and I am so stupid as to forget what I have learned and let them do it. I am a Fool and not the Fool I want to be because, honestly, I want to be the Fool as depicted in the Tarot. I want to be foolish, laugh at myself and relax. Not take things so seriously. Accept.
The answer again was provided by Asteroth…
Today, Asteroth told me write about love.
I asked for more detail and she said ‘love as acceptance’. I didn’t need anymore words because the words themselves conveyed the entirety of the suggestion. This is a difficult concept to explain but it seemed as if the words themselves conveyed the feeling and understanding of love as acceptance. It’s as if the words are only a key to a packet of understanding which opens up and engulfs me.
What those words conveyed to me was along the lines that when we are told to ‘love one another’, we are told to accept one another for what we are and what we have the potential to be. It’s a surrendering of one’s own ego and viewpoint. A letting go of our own conditioning and biases allows us to see our fellow humans simply as they truly are. In itself, this is an act of magic since it involves first changing ourselves in order to see more clearly – to see the divine spark in each and every person.
Part of our problem in trying to love one another, perhaps the entire problem, is that we have a habit of projecting ourselves onto those around us. When we interact with someone and dislike them it’s really because in that person we see the reflection of something we dislike or fear about ourselves. We constantly measure others by projecting ourselves onto them. Our ego doesn’t allow us to see this for what it really is – after all, I am an individual, separate, and by the way, I am surely superior. My views, my beliefs and my conditioning are used to synthesize and process my view of the other person and I find them wanting in some way. Indeed, I may violently disagree with them and set them up as my ‘enemy’. However, if I truly know myself, understand myself, and see myself for what I really am then it surely becomes clear to me that I am a child of light, imperfect but evolving with life’s lessons to a higher place in that eternal process of evolution.
If I know myself then I recognize my ego for what it truly is and I place it to one side and tell it that I, the real me, I am in charge here! If I can learn to accept myself through self-knowing and coming to terms with who and what I really am then I learn to love myself. In learning to love myself I am able to love others through acceptance of what they are and where they are at in their own journey. Acceptance is a process of letting go and as we let go we no longer feel the need to struggle. We forgive ourselves and we forgive others and we learn how to truly love. It is only when we truly know and love ourselves that we really gain the right and ability to guide others knowing how to help and correct without damaging that person’s self-worth and progress. Otherwise, any act may be based on something less than love, it may be based on our distorted perspective of ourselves.
Indeed, love is acceptance.
(p 58-9, Inner Journeys)
Funnily enough, the mechanisms suggested by Asteroth to learn how to do all of this are in the Exercises in the new book The Mystical Hexagram and indeed are enshrined in that symbol.
Who does the Grail serve? Well, shouldn’t that be me?
