No one will believe this, but that's ok. We'll couch it in a what if to make it easier to digest.
What if, when you brought your creative will to bear, the energy that drove you to create was bound in your creation? A piece of your soul woven into reality. What would that look like from the other side of veil?
What if I spoke to someone from the other side last night, and they said that these creations are alive? That they ripple like firefish on the surface of an obsidian pond, the poetry swimming with the music, slipping through art and magick in fractal schools of imagination, the brilliance of math waltzing with philosophy, storytelling a prophecy of infinite possibility.
What if they sang that the Akashic record is a living ecosystem of imagination when seen from the in-between? And that the most curious thing is that even as we create it, it creates us - our dreams brush it as we drift in sleep, our desire is born within it, and we ourselves are the result of the creative spark in our parents eyes (or thighs, as it may be)....?
And what if this is why the fractal elves (themselves woven of this weave) laugh at us when we cross the boundary - just as we laugh at NPCs and characters like Deadpool who break the 4th wall?
Magicka is a beautifully illustrated book focusing on self care through natural spiritual practices. Carlota Santos’ art is very unique and I love the classical look of the book. From Herbalism to Astrology and Tarot, the explanations are clear and simple.
Testing this method on posting to Kbin from Mastodon shows that the post will appear in the Microblog section when you:
@[community name]@kbin.social
Hashtag additions to magazines/communities on kbin are inconsistently publishing at the moment, so if you want to make sure your post gets published, use this method.
For those wishing to publish on the 13th Floor Microblog, include the following in your mastodon / pixelfed / tweet style post:
pagan.plus: My home Mastodon/Hometown server! Our admin is fantastic and communicative, and he really cares about the safety of everyone in the community. There's 0 tolerance for any kind of bigotry here, and kindness/respect are highly emphasized. Plus it's filled with all kinds of awesome pagan folk!
the.occultist.space: A brand new occult-oriented Calckey server. Even though only a few people have joined so far, it seems like a promising space. Some trolls from a different server tried to harass me when I first joined, and the admin was very quick to respond and put a stop to it. The admin seems dedicated to making a safe server for all folks and isn't afraid to admit and fix mistakes.
weirdo.network: While I'm not a member of this Mastodon server, I follow a bunch of people from it. It's a paranormal/high strangeness server! Lots of cool stuff gets posted here.
When I dream, I often feel like I'm borrowing someone else's life for a little while. My age, race, and gender are often different from my waking life. I occasionally feel like I'm visiting a "what if" version of Earth, an alternate. Sometimes, I even find portals between possibilities.
These stories are all based on dreams I've had.
I'll add more as time goes on.
Sometimes, in my dreams, an endless stream of things will come out of my mouth. Glass, metal, living things, goo. Sometimes, things come out of other places.
Sometimes, when I dream, there are magic spells, and elemental manipulation, and communicating with anything, animals, insects, the earth itself.
Sometimes, I'm in danger.
Sometimes, when I dream, I walk through walls, I peer into directions that I have no names for, I breakthrough to some greater understanding of the universe.
Sometimes, it starts small. It starts with self-preservation, with fear.
But that's not how it ends.