The Official Bumming Period Is Almost Over :P

My official annual bumming period is almost over... :P I actually have other bumming periods as well, but I'm being recalled back to "work" next week :(

Well, this means I'm gonna have less contact with the people I wanna avoid at Da Bear's. Hopefully this also means I'm gonna meet new people.

I'm actually feeling a bit of anxiety regarding the big meeting tomorrow. And I'm not too sure why I'm feeling this. The "company" has called a large briefing of all "team leaders" .....:P I hate the meetings, so very long...its gonna be a 4 to 5 hour snooze session. :( I really really do not feel like going tomorrow....

Although it has its perks, sometimes this "job" can be really really onerous. I dunno how much more of it I can take before I decide to do something else. However, I am told that this is a job that suits me in a certain way.....:P After all, one HAS to do SOMETHING to survive..... and honestly, most people who do "magic" for a living do not earn much... unless they are total frauds who also don't mind milking people for every single dollar. The new age industry is full of those.

I mean, I demand a high degree of proof from practitioners, and personally I feel compelled to hold myself against my own metre of evaluation. I think that is the only responsible thing to do.

At this point I recall James Randi's million dollar challenge, found on < http://www.randi.org/ >. The challenge is simple actually, to claim the prize money a person making a supernatural or paranormal claim has to reproduce that supernatural claim/incident/ability 2 times in front of a panel of credible evaluaters. This test can also be done in public in a program aired by a major international network.

Despite having been around for years. No one has ever been able to claim the money. It saddens me because some very sincere people have tried this challenge. So far, no one can prove the existance of the supernatural or of a paranormal or psychic ability. It also really does not help that a lot of obviously fake psychics have also attempted this challenge.

Some psychics have excused their failure claiming that the unbelief of the people they are exhibiting their ability to has caused it to fail. While I think that the energetic intentions of people are powerful enough to cause or prevent stuff from happening, I personally think that the failure to show a paranormal or supernatural ability is more tied into the fact that if there is any psychic power at all, it is very very diluted in this day and age. And that, those who do have the ability and are strong enough are well... mostly living in third world countries like Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and some parts of South America ... to name a few places.

I have heard more than once from different individuals that if you want to look for a strong spellcaster the best countries to find them are Tibet, Thailand and Indonesia... I even got comments that western magic on the whole is "too weak". Personally, I don't disagree with the comments made. I mean, if you are an Asian, ask yourself honestly, who do you fear more.... an Asian bohmoh/witchdoctor from the jungles of Borneo or a western witch living in the States.

And unfortunately, well, guess who has greater access to http://www.randi.org/? No wonder the culture of spirits and magic is weak in "developed" countries.

I think I may have mentioned this before on the blog. Once, some years ago, in a state of mental exhaustion over my own personal demons, I asked F if she knew where to find a real spellcaster, who is "strong enough". Now F knows enough new age people on two continents to fill up just about every category of new age practitioner.... heck she even knows Doreen Virtue....:P has this to say....

"There isn't any around.... your best chance of finding one is to go to traditional lands and just start walking into the desert or forest and hope to bump into one..."

:P

Needless to say, that was one of the lowest points in my spiritual path.... I remember spending nights sleeping curled up in a tight corner on a cold tiled floor simply because I was frozen in fear and it was too hard to overcome some of the stuff I was experiencing, and I had problems understanding what I was encountering.... I had felt if I spoke to someone like me, I could come to terms with my own issues......

But there you have it..... there wasn't anyone else at that time.

Since then, I've been looking for people like me... and sadly.... if they are "strong enough" or if their gift manifests itself sufficiently.... they end up in the loony bin talking to unbelieving doctors. Well, I did recently meet someone like that..... I wonder what I will learn from the interaction...

I guess only time will tell.... :)

I live in hope.