Hello Ryan, and welcome.
Hello to everyone.
I haven't been posting here lately at all. But I'm still actively involved with my studies and practice of witchcraft and shamanism. I've been mostly focusing on the shamanic journeying. I'm not having really great result right now, but that's ok, I think things come in waves, and the time just isn't right. I think now with Beltane here things may change soon. I've been doing a lot of gardening and spending time outdoors more often now.
I've also been getting side-tracked back into physics and math.
I just love that stuff, I have no clue why. I get my fill of it and leave it for a while, but inevitably I always find myself being called back into it.
Anyway, nothing new to report on the shamanic front.
I have been reading a lot of books lately. Mostly on Faery Teachings and Journeying into the underworld.
I got R. J. Stewart's book, The Underworld Initiation. But I can't say that I'm overly impressed with it. Too much mention of Jesus and Christianity. Clearly this guy must be some kind of Christian Celtic. Or at least he refers a lot to Christianity and Jesus. I confess that I have to put the book down. I just don't need that slant on things anymore.
Fortunately most of the Faery Teachings books I have don't bring up Christianity much at all.
I also have a book by R. J. Stewart on the Celtic Qabalah which is quite interesting. Obviously it mentions the Jewish slant, but it doesn't focus on it. He does a good job of keeping it fairly Celtic. I like the presentation and it has actually led me to create my own qabalah which I'm excited about.
In any case, I just thought I'd report in and Just Say Hi!