Yes, Phil, one may take all manner of dualities and liken them to the light/dark. Definitions are important, and in this context, especially for the word power, as the imortance of power is how one finds and weilds it in one's self (for good or ill, there is a learning curve, there). Within light th...

As a high functioning alcoholic I can attest, power is no illusion, but the misled/misguided/misinformed might see some external person/circumstance/substance as wielding power against one's powerlessness, whereas in truth they have merely not seen fit to garner their own power to themselves and for...

It is Resolve against which the self is broken, Resolve in this sense being the attribution of Spirit, a pre-existing pattern, an archetype if you will. While in your experience you are the originator of Zonbi Nindo, and in mine I am the originator of Podunk Magic, there is something these systems a...

Ah, but be reminded, FA, that I have also made brief aquaintance with a pair of black kittens in west/central MS who also had fully functioning opposable thumbs, each thumb possessing a double claw. I believe the age of kittehs may be closer than we think....

In a Metaphysical context, the Resolve is depicted by way of the concept of discipline. The rods are equally the tool for exerting the resolve, as they are the tools by which the PERSONAL application of eliminates impurity, irresponsibility, and artifice. To apply the rods to the world and NOT the ...

I face similar challenges with my practices. Playing-with-kids Meditation, Petting-cats Meditation, and more recently, Pecked-at-by-chickens Meditation, all in all, difficult forms to master.

Some familiar faces brought me along, only to see one I would specifically avoid. Ah, there is the foe button....

No harm in deceiving deceivers, in tricking the tricksters. Saying no to the master, I ain't got no power, sir, all the while gathering the power necessary to secure one's freedom. It is the wiley way, and at the end of the day, they got theirs while I got away.