Can you really die from lack of sleep? Yes. There is a rare genetic disorder that stops people from sleeping. They don’t live past their thirties.

Is it because of the lack of change that you die? Exactly.

So in magickal thinking any part of sleep is as good as sleep. It’s power is whole even if you are only touching a part of it. So trance can bring change. Meditation can bring change. Day dreaming can bring change.

So magick uses the components of sleep to do what sleep does. They tell you to lay down and close your eyes, tell you to slow your breathing, because these are parts of sleep and sleep is part of dreaming. Dreaming is part of thinking. So sleep is journeying as well.

Are day dreams any less important than sleep dreams? Not according to magick, just often less on purpose. In sleeping, you give full attention to dreams, while daydreaming you often resist it in part. So the mixed point of view keeps it from doing anything, or from doing very much.

So the reason you have free will is because everything is free will, but only if you free your will.

Stop trying and start doing? Yes. If you insist on being between this and that, you will be neither this nor that, and you will have no power, make no progress.

Sometimes it’s not easy to tell right away which side is best. Because that is a mistaken notion. It’s what leads to fatalism in the first place.

We as a people tend to think of things as good and bad. Desirable or unwanted, but these things do not exist. There is only free will, and no choice. You don’t actually make choices.

I hate being torn. I ask them, “I don’t know, what do you think?” And then they tell me and I still can’t decide. Because there is no basis to choose on. You have free will, because you are a part of all things, and until you can take part in all things you can influence nothing. Some people try to create a shelter against unwanted things by trying to bury themselves in things they judge as holy.

I do want to have cake and eat it too. I just want cake. Indeed, and you have the satisfaction of having the cake, and then keep your freedom to move on.

I want to eat the cake, but not have it. Very cerebral, but also very broken.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~

The world is full of these crushing forces of probability, like huge glaciers sliding down a mountain side, but even the mass of these glaciers can change, even completely disappear. How is this possible?

As soon as the event happens, probability becomes certainty. All probability is certainty, because it all has a quality of inertia. This is the essence of fatalism. The wheel keeps spinning.

The glaciers just change their form, melt or break apart, they don’t disappear. This is true. They do not disappear in the literal sense. Things change based on the interference or support of other things. Seemingly huge and unchangeable forces change by the action of other seemingly huge and unchangeable forces. Now where do people fit in?

A bug squashed beneath the glacier. Living in the glacier, ice worms, and some stay like that. But even the behavior of ice worms can change. The reason all of this can change is actually quite simple. There are not many forces, no big elemental powers we have to fight against. There is only one force.

So if you want to change the way the glacier is going, you divert another glacier into it? Indeed. So we use the force? We do.

Ever notice your life can’t seem to change only by parts? You can’t change one habit and not have it affect other habits. In time, it affects all habits. We do live in a quantum world. Nothing can really be broken into partial entities. Whole entities or no entities, and there is only one entity, the axis mundi. The tree of life. The inner Buddha. The observer. It’s all just this one single sort of thing acting like it’s all the thousand countless things.

Now to take it into a dark corner. When you are dealing with a complete system, does it make sense to try to interact with only parts of the system?

No, I think that’s why science so often changes its mind. Indeed. At one point they were saying quantum mechanics was most likely nonsense. Now they are saying it’s the only thing that really makes sense. They keep changing their point of view, and denying that is specifically what they are doing.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~

To exert control over events, the same reason people pray. Yet the structure of the practice is different. It would seem that structure would be largely if not completely meaningless, yet we do relate to one differently than the other. Why is that?

Structure makes it seem more predictable, less scary. And yet nobody seems to avoid the big scary real world unless of course they lose their minds. And even in that case, their experience in that state of abandoned consciousness is still shaped by those who have not likewise entered that state.

A kid needs to feel a burn to know what hot feels like, so they will avoid it in future. Yes, the burn, feeling the burn. That is the essence of real magick. In fact, nothing is indeed fated, yet likewise nothing is accidental either. Nothing in reality is incoherent.

Real magick is a system of observations, actions, and practices based not on actual physical things. Not on solid objects, but on the little lattices of probability, cause and effect, and it works with the assumption that with the right cause being initiated you can be confident of the desired effect. Where it differs from science is it does not attempt a part by part analysis of the relationship between things, rather than being heuristic and breaking everything down into parts, and saying that everything works in a set way.

I read a book where the Fates used computational DNA to calculate probabilities. Yes, that’s the reason we have bodies. Why we have these forms and these weird patterns of genetics.

Interesting, probability calculators. Yes. Your body is a big calculator, computer, simulator.

In magick, you look at what could be called quantum systems. Coincidence, in a sense, in that they state that things occur in whole patterns, and that these patterns consistently reproduce themselves. But these patterns can be caused by any portion of the pattern in magickal thinking, simple magickal thought.

It’s like a set of dominos where tipping any one of them will cause the whole chain. Yes, that’s magick in the nut shell.

I picture a kaleidoscope. It is a good metaphor. One that you can spin yourself and stop where you want it. Oh, indeed. Very good. Yet each time you see the same pattern, you see different aspects of it so it’s not really the same each time. This is why they say there is a fine line between genius and insanity. The sane person keeps doing the same thing and expecting a different result. The genius keeps getting the same results and seeing a different thing.

I’m a genius. I can believe you are, but can you? Not really. We all can be.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~

There are questions of causality that come up in any magickal practice. Sort of the principle of damned if you do and damned if you don’t, and some think that any magickal practice flies in the face of these notions. Especially when it comes to using darker practices, some people question why anyone would even bother. There is a simple reason for this and we will go into that in this series.

What is fatalism in your words, friends?

Something that will happen no matter what, and I guess fatalism is the belief in that.

There’s not much you can do to change your fate.

It feels to me sort of how it felt to watch Titanic. You knew the ending but still wanted to watch it.

Don’t we all feel this to some degree?

Yes. You know what is going to happen, but you do it anyway and secretly hope that Superman will save the Titanic. You keep hoping and still the film does not change and neither does the history.

Yes. The notion of life being ‘out of our hands’ is common.

I think if you give in to that, then you don’t even try.

People struggle with fatalism a lot, also known as defeatism. It calls into question our feelings and desires, our hopes and dreams, and seems to crush them under foot almost completely.

Even if you assume you will do great things, if you don’t work towards it, it will never come to pass. True. There is some version of cause and effect in play, but does it seem so cut and dry as that?

There is a lot of luck in life, bad and good, out of your control.

I’ve thought there seems to be a weighted probability on things. Some things with high probability are more fixed, if not completely, and others are mutable. Well, we assume that cause preceeds effect as well.

I read in a book once that Achilles was dipped into a pool of zero point probability making his fate set in stone so it was impossible to kill him before that. Interesting notion, and solid thought for the most part.

Consider this. If a huge storm breaks out tomorrow, then it was true today that the storm would occur tomorrow. Now adding in the notion that time is only apparent and not in fact existent, then every future event has already happened and thus all causes are likewise set. A big web of cause and effect.

A psychic told me I was going to be sick and she was right. So I guess I couldn’t avoid it even if I knew what would do it.

I assume since they are all in existence however, that I can choose the one I’m conscious of.

We are indeed getting warmer, as they say.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~

The egg already hatched? Good question. Egg is still hatching. It is always forever hatching. People don’t go to this empty place because it is literally full of everything. Infinity. It is empty because it is all things. The throne is empty because sitting on it is every person.

But does it appear as a void when you’re there? It does at first. The shroud serves a purpose. It’s a mercy really.

That seems very overwhelming, to see just a simple egg and it contains everything. I don’t find it so comforting. You wouldn’t, except it sings and from time to time the ancients sing with it.

To reach the speed of light you would have the mass of the entire universe. Exactly. It’s really quite beautiful.

The shroud has three faces. The three shrouds are the deconstruction of our reality. They are sort of like the sound barrier and the light barrier. When you see past the shrouds then hyper reality becomes your entire reality. You see all realities as chaos and then you start over. Seeing God, if you accept the term, makes you implode. Each time your consciousness collapses you take on a new role.

Like a personal big bang, you enter effectively a new creation? Yes.

I will relate one of my own. I was a part of a hive species, a creature perhaps something between a reptile and an insect, if this worlds terms applied. We were having a bit of a power struggle. Our territory included a nexus of what you would call worm holes.

Was this a dream? I guess you could call it that.

We were at war with ape like things. I have seen images like them in human history, and well, one thing lead to another and I had an encounter with a device, a sphere. Fascinating little device equipped with mechanisms that allow it to make an immeasurable string of observations. These observations or computations, if you will, reach such a critical mass that they collapse anyone in the immediate vicinity. You cease being a probable event, but the consequence of its action is that entire potential gets sling shot into another domain.

So it erases you? From its dimension, yes.

But you end up somewhere else? Yes, no telling where really. The weather between these places is really chaotic, but that is just one experience.

Ever see reality crack? You actually have in all likelihood. It shows up in your environment looking sort of strangely gray and grainy coupled with some degree of pounding in your head. Things seem just a bit too intense for a brief moment like someone turned a light on that nobody is meant to see.

I thought I was just getting old and losing my eyesight. People who are getting older tend to have their own bubble crack, but sometimes it happens on an environmental level.

I think that happened on 9/11 for me and for the whole world. Yes. Key events cause shock fissures. There will be a rash of them very soon, but all that simultaneous psychic distress warps things. Our space is just a soap bubble, not at all solid.

When you collapse and start over again, are you reborn physically, or just mentally? Either is possible. It depends on the balance of things when the collapse happens. It could be called the Lazarus effect.

As a baby? Some babies undergo collapse only to survive and be born. Humanity is rough. It’s a difficult state of being.

Lazarus effect? You live longer? You create a double track, so yes, it would seem that you live longer.

Could what people call a “walk in” be that? The person has been reborn mentally? It can be, but sometimes it’s just recycling. Bodies don’t have the significance people think they do.

Sideways in time to a parallel track? Exactly. Of course, the reverb is stressful if one of the tracks didn’t resolve.

On pathworking, you can find any method that suits you. Native American. Kabbalah. Meditation. Just don’t be afraid to take the blue pill, go deeper.

Your thoughts are welcome. Have a great night. Dream well.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~

It all sounds like any video game or epic move plot, making a journey to a communal place. Does it make it sound unreal? Perhaps it’s where we get the ideas from? Not at all, it’s just how I relate to it. It seems to me like steps you take as you are ready to accept them. Like the Wizard of Oz. You are correct. We tell the stories we tell for a reason. We live them on some level.

I guess that’s why we love those things so much, we can pick up inspiration, the moral of the story. And can at the communal point. The communal point of the realm of the heart is a vast feeling of peace. Some mistake it for the final place, a heaven, and it is the place of creation like an artist’s commune. It’s the source of inspiration, that wisdom that runs deeper than philosophy.

People who have a near death experience, and return to our level, often retain a gate to this level of communion. This is why they often manifest such radical personality changes. But sometimes instead of this, they in their fear fall into the abyss. So not every person who passes temporarily comes back seeming more enlightened, and sometimes they are sheltered from either as they are ready for neither.

Beyond the realm of the spirit, what seems like it’s deep in a woods or beyond a body of water while you are there, is a place that most beings won’t speak of on the lower levels. People often see it as very mysterious. They think God might be there. In a way they are right, because God, however you understand God, is everywhere. But there is the place of no wind. Nirvana. People often cannot reach there, because they can’t overcome their sense of awe. They feel overwhelmed. It goes by other names as well. Valhalla. Arcadia. Elysium. The name isn’t really relevant.

There are those who understand the spirits very well. They come to embrace all beings in a way that few do in any single life time. These are the ancients. The ascended masters, and they meet in this place to discuss matters of evolution or cosmic spiritual progress.

Sounding too strange to accept yet?

I think many would judge themselves as unworthy to make contact with such ancients, wondering why would they ever let me near them. They routinely do, yes. The ancients don’t though. They like visitors. They are very welcoming beings. Coyote often meets someone on the way to the ancients. The trickster tests some who seek this point, and if they aren’t ready they just get lost, but they are always free to try again.

The roadrunner is an ancient? The roadrunner is, as is eagle. Again, many names and among the ancients many forms.

Any animal we personify as an older human? Yes, and many we don’t as well. Some we don’t even like, like spider, and snake, still ancients. These aren’t normal world animals. They are the intelligence that guide the animals. There are even elemental beings. The great earth is a hugely intimidating being.

The God of the spiders has a hand in guiding our evolution? Grandmother Spider does. They cooperate. They are very enlightened beings.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~

At the next level past the realm of intuition, we reach the hall of wisdom. It’s a realm of memory, also called the akashic record. You get there when you move past insight to understanding.

The memory of everything? Yes, and it takes many forms. Some see it as a library. Some as a very deep networking cave. Some as a vast open field of flowers. These are all true.

Like a castle with long stairs going down to a room? Yes, and the room opening to walls you can’t see or otherwise has some sense of depth and history. The challenge of this level is confronting our own history, feeling the weight of our history on our shoulders. You can feel a bit judged in this vast place like everything and every being there understands you better than you do.

With a person standing there and a book on a pedestal? Yes. That is the Book of Life.

The reason people get stuck in this place of history is they have trouble grasping their full life. In the realm of wisdom, you are confronted with the entirety of life. Your mental life, your spiritual life, your physical life, and your past lives. All of this can surface for you here, and people can get to feeling like they have to figure it all out.

That would be ugly sometimes. Yes. For some, the realm of wisdom is a twisted carnival like place.

But you don’t need to figure these things out. You have to give them permission. When you can give these things permission, you will receive a key from the keeper of the great book. It may or may not look like a key, and the insight this key gives you will let you move on. The key is the manifestation of the permission you gave your history. When you gave permission, you received permission.

Because you are giving the permission to yourself? Yes, and you can fall backward, but it won’t be because any being is judging you. In fact, if you fall backward enough, you can go below normal existence into the abyss. But I won’t talk about the abyss tonight necessarily.

You will be judging yourself in effect. Yes. I could be a harsh judge. Indeed, this is possible here.

This is like progressing in the tree of life. It is, yes.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~