Greetings Everyone!

 

     I am so impressed with your progress so far and I am excited to see you not giving up and pushing forward in your meditations.

 

     Have you ever woken up in the morning...or think you have, but for a moment you're not sure?  Perhaps you even swing your feet out over the bed and stood up, ready to begin the day.  But then you paused because something just didn't feel right or familiar.  Just as the question, Is this real or a dream? began to take form in your mind, you suddenly found yourself lying in your bed actually waking.

 

     Have you ever been so absorbed in a favorite book or movie that the world disappeared and you became part of the story?  As the credits rolled or you closed the pages, it may even have taken you a few minutes to realize where, and sometimes who, you really were.

 

     Have you ever wandered into a daydream during a business meeting, vlass, o in the checkout line in a grocery store--the kind where you became so engrossed that it took someone repeating your name or even tapping you on the shoulder before you realized that a response was being requested of you?

 

     Each of these examples is a form of trance or altered state of consciousness.  These changes of consciousness take you from the ordinary to ...well...somewhere else.

 

    We, as witches, can enter into these inner "transes" by choice.  Altering of consciousness in accordance with will is one of the primary skills of magick--the art of creating change.  For this reason, many of us spend a lot of time learning how to enter and return safely from these states.  It is important in ritual and in meditation.

 

     In the next meditation, I would like you to control your inner self as you meet another in the meditation, mentally ask questions and then write down the answer that is given.  Explore and physically look around and see what you can learn from the surroundings of the meditation.  This is the beginning of you controling your meditation and your pathworking.