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Hello!

I was just doing some research and I happened to stumble upon this forum and I recognized a few familiar names, so here I am.

I have been studying the occult for a little over a year now and I still feel like I know nothing at all. It must take a lifetime to scratch the surface.

I seem to personally be leaning towards the left hand path of it all, because I do not desire any judeo-christian elements in my personal practice.

But, even though I disagree with some practices/concepts in other paths I assure you I have no prejudices agianst them. I am an english major and I want to minor in religion. I want to get my masters degree in composition and rhetoric. Depending on how that goes I might just turn the minor into a dual major. I think it would be cool to teach a religion class. I am good about separating my personal views from my academic studies, and keeping religious discussions unbiased.

I look forward to learning and talking with you guys!

Much Love,
T

I love your story. It's short, sweet, to the point and wise.

I always say that nothing in the universe is only either black or white, so why should our concepts and understandings be so?

It also reminds me of this:

"Day gives way to night and summer to winter, calm follows storm, what is born must eventually die and what grows strong will in time grow weak. But they(Greek philosophers) did not think the universe could be entirely explained in these terms. They believed that there was something which held them in balance so that the pendulum swung regularly to and fro, from day to night and back to day, something of which the opposites were themselves a part.
The magician's search is for this 'something' which underlies and connects the opposites, the mysterious One which reconciles all diversity in unity. The path to the One lies through the reconciliation of opposites. To experience and master all things is to experience and reconcile opposites-- good and evil, the spritual and the material, freedom and neccessity, reason and passion, laughter and tears. In magic, as in Hegelian dialectic, progress comes through the reconciliation of opposites, thesis and antithesis, in a sythesis which transcends them."

The Dark Arts by Richard Cavendish
-page 9

This book answered many questions for me and I love it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Was that story about you?

I often feel similar. I have always been the person that walks the middle ground, is unaffected by the majority of what affects others, and the mediator between extremes.

I even have similar issues with friends and coworkers. The only people I can really talk to is my friends online and my boyfriend. Everyone else's brains seem to melt in front of me the more I talk to them. lol. They think I'm F'ing nuts.

I am by no means where I wish to be though. I have realized I seem to be a natural empath. I work intimately with the public in sales and customer service unfortunately, and people's emotions wear on me really hard sometimes. I have been struggling with that. My co workers have even noticed it before. To them it looks like a might have a bipolar flash. lol. They know me to be calm and down to earth and typically mellow mannered, so they were actually concerned and didn't see me as being freakish. lol. I don't try to explain the experience and it's not that bad often enough. lol.

I also struggle with how much I am affected by death. That shoots me straight through the core everytime it affects me.

This post has been edited by Tigeress: Sep 8 2009, 10:34 AM