Halloween customs have meaning. We may think of Halloween customs as being simply part of the fun and games of dressing up and celebrating the macabre. However, these ancient customs have sometimes very serious meanings. Yet, many of them have been adopted and incorporated into modern culture. Costumes: Costuming and walking around dressed in costumes
How do you apologize to the dead? I was recently asked by a distraught young woman how she could apologize to the dead. It was someone who is now deceased. She’s letting me tell you her backstory. She didn’t like her freshman college roommate. They were people from two different worlds. While this woman struggled
Psychic kids are real. I was one of them. I was born psychic. This is an almost hereditary trait. However, I was also encouraged to develop my psychic ability whereas most children (unfortunately) are not. In fact, most psychic kids are discouraged from exploring their abilities. Yet, all children are naturally psychic. We know this
This is a continuation of a two-part series. You can read the first part here. The difference between a curse and a hex. Hexes are a slightly different breed from curses. A common misconception is that hex is another word for curse. A hex is actually a spell that a person performs in order to
Curses are real. Curses are as old as civilization. However, they’re really not older than civilization, since most of the mechanism of a curse relies on people living together in groups. You may read about agrarian villages where people believe that a witch cursed their cattle or crops, and that the only way to lift
Ghost Sex is real (though I have only heard this) Here’s a story for you about ghost sex: A man comes to me at a my shop in Miami. This was around the time I had just moved. My website wasn’t up yet, so the only way he could have found me was through word-of-mouth.
The Salem Witch Trials Wasn’t About Witches. That’s right: the Salem Witch Trials wasn’t about saving the good Puritans from the influence of witchcraft. It was about persecuting women in general and people who didn’t fit in. The victims were people who didn’t fit in for some reason, or people who stuck out and didn’t
Clairolfaction is the ability to smell what is not there. Clairolfaction is one of the psychic senses. For example, you may have had the sensation of walking into a room and smelling something that isn’t there. It likely reminds you of someone who has passed. For example, you may smell cigar or pipe smoke, and
Love at first sight is real. Lately, I’m being asked if it’s possible to have met one’s soul mate or to just know when you’ve met the love of your life. While most cynics may tell you otherwise, I believe love at first sight is absolutely possible. For example, I knew my wife was the one when
Mind Over Matter? You may have heard this one. Have you ever psyched yourself out of doing something relatively easy simply because you worked it up in your head that it was difficult or impossible? You may have gotten the jitters and literally dropped the ball. Or, do you know any spry elderly people who