laalbieglna wrote:You can buy Florida water on Amazon. My favorite Bible translation for Psalms in spellwork is the NAB, because it essentially has the potential magical purpose basically listed above each one.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!! This is very useful information for me. I don't know why I didn't think of Amazon before. While looking for various ingredients on-line I came across some sites that really "spoke" to me. One is a store in New Orleans, who's name, of course, I don't remember. Looking through their store I felt like a kid with his nose pressed against the front window of a candy store.
Another thing, Bata Drumming.
I had never heard of it before eight or nine years ago. I will not pretend to understand the depth of it's significance in Santeria, although I have no problem at all understanding the significance of sacred drums. I have heard a bit of it on CD's from Matanzas, Cuba.
My approach to it is not particularly scholarly. This is deliberate. I don't want to “over-think” drumming. I “over-think” everything in my life, everything. I don't want to “analyze” drumming until I'm picking it apart like a frog in a high school biology class. That, to me, is the antithesis of African, and African Diaspora, drumming.
90% of what I want to say doesn't really have words anyway. (And a good thing for people reading this) I could say things about “being in the moment” or “transcending the Material Plane” and they would be true, in a rather limited way.
There is only one word I have found that can come close to summing it up. Take that back, TWO words. Connection, and Love. Don't ask me to explain beyond that. I know what it is when I'm experiencing it. It isn't “indescribable” because it is so complicated, it's indescribable because it is sooooooo basic, so simple. It is at the heart of everything, and I do mean EVERYTHING, on this Plane and all the others.
And it is so utterly simple, so profoundly simple, most folks would reject it for that very reason.
What I see here on this board, working with Demons and spirits, what I see in those following the Path of Santeria and other Traditions is the “drawing in closer” Learning connection. Embracing Spirit and those on the other Planes who wish to aid us on our paths.
They really, really do want to help us! Help us learn how powerful we actually are! Help us with our “day to day” lives because, while we are incarnate, “day to day” living IS our lives.
We might find a lot of it boring (like work) or incredibly exciting (Like going to a concert or going out on that 7th date when you KNOW this is someone special) but it is all “day to day” living, and, ...we are NOT alone in this.
Does this count as a “rant” or an “Educational post?” I'm hoping the latter.