Hello, everybody. Welcome to part one of our reading of the return of the Divine Sophia, Healing the Earth and the Lost Wisdoms, Teachings of Jesus, Yeshua, Isis, and Mary Magdalene. I know I said we were going to do our roundtable on the Sophia Code before we started this book, but it's been a little bit of a delay in scheduling that roundtable. That roundtable is coming up, but I thought I would just go ahead and start this book because I know everybody who's been aware we were going to do this book has been very, very excited. So we're going to go ahead and start it today. I will be putting a link down in the description box if you haven't ordered this book yet and you want to follow along with your own copy. That link again will be in the description box. If money is tight for you right now and you can't order your own copy, that's totally fine because I'm going to literally be reading verbatim what she has written in the book. So you can just count this as an audio book or something like that. I do want to mention that I do have Sage burning off to the side here. So if you see smoke coming in front of the camera, that's what that is. It's just Sage. And I also wanted to bring up my necklace. I had somebody ask about my necklace on a comment section because it is the evil eye. Now this person was being very snarky, basically making it seem like I was wearing something nefarious, which is not true at all. This is first of all, this is not the eye of porous, which is what we see the controllers using, even though the eye of porous is actually a positive thing, they just inverted it. This is the evil eye, which is used to ward off hexes, curse, evil spirits, all that kind of stuff. I have it on my wrist as well. And I also have a dream catcher that's above my bed. That's also an evil eye too. So this is not something that's bad. And I just want to remind you guys once again, once again, darkness cannot create anything. Only the light can't. So everything that the controllers have inverted in their own rituals originally came from the light. All right. And if we get rid of everything that the controllers have touched, we would have nothing left. Now also because these signs, these symbols were originally given to us by the light, they are very powerful, which is what the controllers know, which is why they stole them and inverted them. And it's our job to take that back. It's our job to take back what has been stolen from us. I also really want to emphasize this idea of derangement and delusional thinking. All right. Spellcasting is very, very, very real. And part of derangement and part of delusional thinking is what is called black and white thinking. Painting something completely black or painting something completely white. Most things in life lie in shades of gray and it moves back and forth up that spectrum depending on what energies are around it. All right. When we look at things in black and white, we go again into derangement and delusional thinking. Derangement and delusional thinking is a negative polarity. All right. So the spellcasters that are infiltrated into YouTube know this. All right.  So I would just really, really, really hope that you guys would take this into consideration. Please read the law one. Please do your own studies of spiritual scripture so that you understand what is happening to you. Okay. The other side of this understands all of this. They understand war tactics when it comes to spiritual warfare and they're using everything against you and they're hoping that you won't figure it out for yourself. All right. Take your power back.  All right. Don't go into delusional thinking. Don't go into derangement. I want to do a video soon on Occam's razor, which is super important when we're looking at theories and stuff like that. Story for another day, video for another day. But I do kind of want to start to talk about this more because in my life I've been very privileged to be able to deeply study these old scriptures and understand this stuff for my job outside of YouTube. And it would be negligent of me not to say something that would be karma that I would accumulate for myself. Now again, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. I can give you all the information you need. I can tell you what books to read, what to study, but you have to be the one that actually takes the bull by the horns. That's claiming your sovereignty. That's true spirituality is claiming your own mind back. Okay. So I just wanted to put that out there once again. The evil eye is not bad. In fact, I feel like this evil eye has actually protected me. My dream. Well, hold on. I'll show you my dreamcatcher. Hold on. So this is my dreamcatcher that sits above my bed.  And I was actually with Stephanie when I got this dreamcatcher. I got it up in Connecticut and I really needed it. It turns out that I actually do know how to astro travels. The things you learn in this great awakening. And it's gotten really strong for me lately. And I've also had the ability to see portals, which Steph and I will talk about that again in another video. And a lot of this has happened to me at night. Astro traveling doesn't just happen to me at night. I can actually feel it now and it's about to happen. And Stephanie can attest to that. There was one day we were driving and I felt it coming and we had to rush home so I could go sit down on the sofa and go. And I'm always only gone for like 30 minutes. It's never, never that long that I'm gone. But anyway, I was in a shop with Stephanie and I was having some rough nights because I have the ability to see portals. And I was, it was just rough. We'll, again, we'll get into the details of that later. And I saw this dream catcher and something told me like, you have to, you have to buy that. That's what you have to buy. And then I bought that dream catcher. My night's got a lot more peaceful. And so I do sleep with it above my bed. Now I sage it every night to make sure that it's doing what it needs to do to protect me to protect my vulnerability when I'm asleep. And so I just want to put that out there that these evil eyes are not bad, right? They're not bad. I mean, I'm just appalled at the derangement and the delusion that we're seeing on this side of this community. And we need to understand that these symbols and these signs have been around since the beginning of time. And they were given to us by the light. Again, it was the controllers that stole it and inverted it. And I'm very grateful for these evil eyes because it's allowed me again the opportunity to actually get sleep. And I'm very grateful that God pointed that out to me. So that I can very in a very healthy way understand some of my abilities that I have and have had. But now are just kind of now coming more to fruition so that I learned how to control them and how to use them for the greater bit of humanity. So I just want to put that out there. Okay, just I want to put that out there. Please be very careful that you're not falling into derangement or delusional thinking when it comes to what is good and what is bad. When you're in a war, like an actual war, not a spiritual war, both sides are using the same instruments, right? They're both using these all sorts of stuff. They're both using the same tools, but for different purposes, right? Same thing in spiritual warfare. In spiritual warfare, both sides are using the same tools. Okay, they're channeling different beings, but they're using the same tools. So we just need to be aware of that. Okay. All right, let's get into the return of divine Sophia. So we're going to start with the introduction, which is page one in my book. Today, perhaps more than any other time in human history, we are seeing the rebirth of unity consciousness that incorporates many ancient strings of knowledge with the desire to write a new destiny for the human race. This rekindling of ancient wisdom with modern day mysticism is being brought about by the quest to bring deeper meaning into a world that appears to have lost it. A fast-paced materialistic world that seems to be obsessed with violence, death, and killing. Perhaps one of the reasons this resurgence is needed is that we can see how badly the world needs balance. We find it personally in the stress of our daily lives, the imbalance of our relationships, and the ecological crisis of the earth herself. Yeah, we need balance. I was literally just talking about this with deranged thinking when you find yourself in black and white thinking or derangement, you're out of balance. And also, you know, a lot of this stuff that we're looking at with derangement and delusional thinking is coming from the ego. And the ego is the fault sense of self as we've said many times on this channel. And the ego really has power when the person's ego is being used coming from a place of fear. So people who have really big egos are in a huge state of fear. All right. And there is a difference between ego and confidence. Like for example, Mr. T. Mr. T is confident. That's not his ego. That's his confidence. If he was using his ego, he wouldn't have done what he did. Okay. Because the ego is vulnerable. When somebody again is cowardly, is not standing up for what's right because they're their pride. That's coming from a wound of fear. Yeah. The true self, the pure consciousness of soul doesn't have ego. The ego, just like in the Ramayana, the ego tries to steal the soul away from God. It's Rabbanah stealing, seek death and wrong. All right. So we have to have that courage to understand that. And so if you feel yourself going into derangement or delusional thinking, ask yourself where you're feeling fear. What are you afraid of? Where are you lacking courage? In the midst of this chaos, a new kind of human being is emerging. A being that I call the homo-luminous, a man or woman of inner life may perhaps be the next step in our evolution of species. Yes. And in saying this too, sometimes our ego has to get really big in order to provide that friction. Right? We talk about the friction a lot. There has to be that friction in order for change to occur. If everything's nice and easy, change will never occur. There are people who yearn to create the type of world where war, pollution, struggle are things of the past. We have an innate sense of sacredness of life and are committed to finding a way back to it. If you're reading this book, you may be one of these people. As forerunners, to the more enlightened kind of human, we seek to move past the distractions in our outer world to find more eternal truth. We want to transcend the chaos of our heavy-handed politics, our material co-opted media, our patriarchal religions, and the dysfunctional patterns of our relationships that have been handed down by our families. We are people who search for the beautiful, the true, and the eternal. These luminous human beings know that in order to bring a new and better world into being, we must somehow align ourselves with these more eternal principles. If the world we are living in now is ever to be healed, exactly, the macro and the micro, again, that's why I keep saying the crux of this great awakening is you.  You're an antenna of vibration, right? No one's coming to save you. No one's coming to save you. That's matrix thinking. That's matrix thinking for you to think that there has to be an elite group of people that are responsible for saving you. There is no such thing as an elite group of people. Everyone's elite. Everyone is spiritual royalty. You carry the spiritual DNA of God in you. So stop waiting for someone else to come and save you and save yourself.  Stop thinking this is a movie. It's not a movie. If we believe this is a movie, then we ignore our guts because if it's a movie, there's a script. And if there's a script, that means the end is already written. So that means that if we have a feeling in our gut, then our gut must be wrong because we have to follow the script. Stop it. The movie talk is putting a spell on you to get us to go into a negative timeline. 100% you are the storm. It's not a movie. It's a war.  The Kennedys aren't going to save you. The Trumps aren't going to save you. You've got to save yourself. And that is a mighty privilege to hold. But discovering what has caused this imbalance in the world is not an easy task. Untangling the strings of history, culture, religion, and power is not something generally discussed on the evening news. No, because religion is part of the news. Religion is owned by the same people who own the news. It's all part of skull casting. This book is a journey towards unraveling these elements of cultural belief that have caused us to fall out of rhythm with the cosmos. By understanding how our past has shaped our present and how our theological beliefs have programmed our societies, we can then choose whether to continue the path we are on or rewrite our own destinies. The mysteries of the past hold keys to recovering this inner balance that can help us transform our world. These ancient teachings were taught within the great mystery schools some 4,000 years before the birth of Jesus or Yahshua and some 400 years after the crucifixion, which the crucifixion we know never happened, because Yahshua, the real God, does not demand human sacrifice, only Lucifer does. So Jesus is Mithra, Yahshua is the Christ, two different people. Sages associated with these mystery schools saw the universe as infinitely vast and also profoundly personal embracing the concepts of both God within and the God without, concepts that we now call immanence and transcendence. They integrate the disciplines of philosophy, religion, and science into one unified field and they honor the creator of the universe as the Divine Father and Mother of it all. At the heart of this wisdom is the inner alchemy that Jesus called the Way, or Yahshua called the Way. Again, Jesus is Mithra, Yahshua is the Christ. It is the path of integration and transformation that embraces both the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine within the heart. It is the inner path of sacred union taught by Yahshua and by Magdalene. But these teachings have also been taught by thought, the God of Wisdom in ancient Egypt, by the sages and Taoism in the Sufi world and in the old religions of the Goddess, with people who live close to the land in the natural cycles of nature. Intrinsic to the Way is the reclaiming of the Divine Father, Mother God within the heart. This creates a wave of enlightenment for ourselves and our societies, giving us the power to change our worlds. Many of these secrets were encoded in the language of sacred myth and stories that they could not be forgotten. Yet most of us can no longer translate the meaning behind the symbolism steeped as we are in a less than enlightened society. It is only now as we embrace the sciences of astronomy, cosmology, genetics, biology, and quantum physics that we are really beginning to understand how these myths are founded on deeper truths. This book is a journey into the teachings of the Goddess, the inner alchemy of sacred union, the wisdom of the masters, and the path that will lead us back to the wholeness as a planet. As a long-time student of these mysteries, I am pleased to take you on a journey into the heart of this wisdom. To do so, I must go back to the beginning of my own journey and the discovery of the Divine Feminine. I will share parts of my story that will help you to discover a hidden world of wonder, beauty, and infinite possibilities, a world that the most famous mystics have taught their disciples in secret. I encourage you to take the journey with an open mind to consider that the imminent imbalance we see in our world around us is the result of something precious we have forgotten, and that must now be remembered. This wisdom lies at the heart of all great religions, and its discovery is the path of the true initiate. Alright, so before we proceed further, I'm just going to call on Gabriel, who is the Archangel of Communication, and I am going to call on Michael to also be here to protect this recording, protect the space, protect the vocals, and I'm also going to call on Sophia to come in and help us get this message across, help me get the message across that you want to come across. As always, I am just a conduit. Alright, let's try this again. So since this is my second time at reading chapter one and chapter two on this recording, there are some things that I was able to reflect on last night when I realized I was going to have to do this again. And one of the things that I've actually been reflecting on is this idea of a patriarchal society. Everybody wants to say, oh, we're coming out of a patriarchal society. We're coming out of a patriarchal society. We have to bring the divine feminine back, blah, blah, blah. Sounds a lot like the feminist movement, right? And we know that the feminist movement has been hijacked. I am going to beg to differ though. I'm going to say that we haven't been in a patriarchal society. I'm going to say that we've been in a Luciferian society. Why do I say this? Because we know that divine creator, source creator, there is a divine masculine and there is a divine feminine. Of course, Sophia being the divine feminine, the creatress, the creator, the womb, the holy womb. But as I've said many times, even within a human body, so for me, I'm very, very feminine. I do identify as the divine feminine in a relationship. But I also carry masculine energy. The same thing with the masculine. The divine masculine also carries feminine energy. We spoke about this briefly with one of the sections on the Magdalen manuscript. When we took the divine feminine out of society, we made her the prostitute, just like Magdalen was turned into the prostitute, that also took a part of the divine masculine away as well. So for me, when I look at a perfectly balanced divine masculine, I'm looking at that energy of masculine, of divinity, as being the alpha, as being the protector, the provider, the strong one, but also having that intuitive side, that sensitive side. I've said before, there's nothing sexier than a man who can cry. When a man is showing you his emotions and he gets emotional, that's sexy. But also on the flip side, he's able to be strong and protect and be that masculine, that alpha energy. That's the balance.  Even though I don't have children, I very much do have a maternal instinct. I know most women do. Even if they don't have kids, they have that instinct about them. Well, men are also born. Divine masculine are also born with a paternal instinct. It's very common to see little boys playing with dolls sometimes. It doesn't mean anything. It just means that they're exploring their paternal instinct. Now, I do know that these two energies are different, the maternal instinct and the paternal instinct. For example, I know that a woman becomes a mother the minute she finds out she's pregnant, where in most cases, a man becomes a father the minute he sees his baby for the first time. I know there's differences in that capacity because the woman is the one that actually has to carry the chalice, has to carry the baby. I know that women, like for example, my mother used to say that she could smell it. She could smell it in the air if one of her kids was about to get sick. I know that women carry a little bit of a different maternal instinct than the men, but the men still have that intuitive feminine quality. It's just like for me as a woman, as the divine feminine, I totally want to be the feminine in my relationship, but I'm also very independent. I want a man that's going to treat me like an equal. I want him to open the door for me. I think that's hot if you open the door for me. Yes, I do am working on my work right now, allowing a man pay for me. That's been hard for me because of past trauma, but allowing a man to actually pay the bill. You know, having that man provide, that's something that I want, but also I'm also a human being and an equal to him. So that's balancing out the masculine with the feminine as well. I hope that makes sense. So what we're seeing from this patriarchal society isn't the divine masculine. The divine masculine is just as wounded as the divine feminine is. It's Luciferian. And we're going to talk, I think in the first chapter, she gets a little bit into this like the old God, the God of the Bible being this judgmental God, this violent God. That's Lucifer, right? That we know that the God of the Bible is Lucifer. So I just wanted to make that very clear. I think we have to start changing our view on this idea of a patriarchal society, because it's not. We haven't been in a patriarchal society because the divine masculine has been wounded just as much as the divine feminine. They come together. They come in balance. If one is off balance, so is the other. I hope that makes sense. All right, let's get started on chapter one. So before chapter one, we get to part one, the departure. Humanity has imagined her as the immense city of cosmic space, as the moon, as the earth and nature. She is the age old symbol of the invisible dimension of soul and the instinctive intelligence that informs it. We live within her being, yet we know almost nothing about her. She is everything that is still unfathomed by us about the nature of the universe, matter, and the invisible energy that circulates through all the different aspects of her being. She spends and weaves the shimmering robe of life in which we live and through which we are connected to all cosmic life. Andrew Harvey and Ann Bering, the divine feminine. Chapter one, the priestess of Isis. In the beginning there was Isis, oldest of the old. She was the goddess from whom all beings arose. As the creatress, she gave birth to the sun when he rose upon this earth for the first time. Barbara Walker, the woman's encyclopedia of myths and secrets. I sat up abruptly in bed still in the other world. The blue-black shadows on the bedroom wall looked almost like hieroglyphics I had seen painted on the walls in the dream. Where was I now? Oh, I was asleep in the dormitory of some college. I had returned to school for my master's degree. Now I remembered. I turned my head slowly remembering the strange extraterrestrial language that appeared on all four walls of the room only moments ago. They had looked like codes or symbols, some kind of light geometrics written vertically on the wall of the small college dorm room. As I fastened my eyes back on the wall, I could still make out the faint inscription of some of the symbols. How could they still be there? I wasn't still dreaming was I. They seemed like characters in some ancient Egyptian language, and I zeroed in on them. My eyes came to rest on one in particular. It was a circle with a dot at the center. What did it mean? Abruptly I heard the answer in my head. This is the beginning of all things. The beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega. I lay back down. How did I know this? It felt like a galactic language, universal among higher life forms. Somehow I knew that this symbol was a code for something much more ancient than our human tongue. It came from the language of light, the language of the angels. This happens to me all the time. Actually, the other night I woke up and I reached for my phone, and it was 11 o'clock at night. It wasn't even midnight yet. I was in a deep sleep. I woke up and I had no idea where it was. I didn't know who I was. I have learned throughout this journey that a lot of times, the Native Americans believed that our dream space was another reality where we lived. We went back and forth between two timelines. Now we could have understand that as the quantum. There is this idea of the quantum. The law of one talks about this. The Cassiopeans talk about this.  It's like what half the world did. Your higher soul is off doing something while the lower soul is still here in the earth plane. And the more ascended you become on the earth plane, the more you can tap into both realities. If that makes sense. So a lot of people I know are feeling like they're battling at night. They're waking up tired. That's kind of what this philosophy is, is that you are tapping into this space within your being that's not necessarily the dream space, but it's more of the quantum. And I know in more scientific studies that when we get to REM sleep, which if you've been through massive trauma, you're probably not going to REM sleep conversation for another day. But our body does go into a sort of paralysis almost, like our body releases a chemical that paralyzes us so we don't act out our dreams. And so our body can regroup and heal from the day before. Well, what if that paralysis, that kind of paralyzing you for a moment, is so that your soul can actually leave your body to go and accomplish some other task while your body is being held down so nothing can come in or come out of it. I hope that makes sense. I'm talking about, I think a lot of us have experienced before. Stephanie and I are going to go into a video soon over portals where this happened to me with a portal in her house where I literally woke up, got out of bed, checked the time, and went and stood and watched a portal open and closed.   But apparently I know how to close portals. I learned that. So I think a lot of us are the veil of amnesia is lifting the more ascended we come, the more we work on ourselves and go inward, the more we can see the truth for what it is. I mean, that's part of the yoga practice, right? That's when the crux of the yoga practice is learning how to see the truth through the illusion, right? To let go of the illusion, the ego. And so I think the more we ascend the more we work on ourselves, the more we become aware of what we're actually capable of. And the reality, what is it Mark Twain said? Truth is stranger than fiction. Sure is. All right. I cannot keep my eyes open. I slid back into sleep on the dormitory bed, succumbing once more to the dream time. Hours later I awoke disappointed to see that the astonishing writings had disappeared from the walls. Sitting up in bed trying to remember I finally forced myself to my feet. I hurriedly dressed and went down to the school library a vast wood polish sanctuary with rows and rows of research books. I was determined to find some reference to the one symbol I could recall. The circle with a dot at the center. I was deep in study when a student assistant found me. Excuse me, Miss, but there's a phone call for you, he said. For me, I queried. That was odd. No one even knew I was here. How could there possibly be a phone call for me? Surprised, I followed the young man back to the front desk. Yes, I sent to the mouthpiece of the library phone. May I help you? Is this Trisha McCannon, on the other end of the line, asked? The voice was cool, even and familiar. Yes. But who is this? We've called to tell you that your dreams are real. She said quietly, What? I uttered an astonishment. Who is this? There was a moment of hesitation. I am from the priestess of ISIS and that's all I am permitted to tell you at this time. The click of the phone was audible as he hung up. Unable to speak. I said they're astonished for a long time, looking at the phone. Whoever were the priestess of ISIS and why were they calling me? Furthermore, how did they even know about my dreams? I conjured up the symbols in my mind. The writing was so familiar. Years later, I was to discover that this symbol was the ancient glyph for the sun, the first principle of life. It was the shape of the almsound created and enchanted. It meant the Christ, the limitless light. It was also one of the members of the Council of Nine. And so, yes, the almsign actually have a tattoo of the almsign right here on the side of my chest, my rib cage. Only certain people see it. You know what I mean? Even bathing suits cover it. The almsign are the alms symbol. The alm vibration is the vibration of God given to us by Patanjalin through the Yoga Sutras which were allegedly written about 5,000 years ago. And if you're going to take the course, my course, and we'll talk all about this because in the Yoga Sutras, Patanjalin, you know, the three stars of the Yoga Sutra, again are Purusha, Prakati, Ishwara, Prakati Nature, Purusha, the Soul, Ishwara is God. And Patanjalin basically says the only proper name for God is om because om is a vibrational sound without a beginning or without an end. And if you chant the almsound, you feel the vibration, the residue of the vibration on your lips which move down through your body. It's also if you've never done this before, I would highly suggest doing this. If you can find a place in nature that's really far from traffic, from any type of towns, for me, I have to drive about two hours out of the city to go onto the trails in Appalachia to find this type of piece.  Because God is within us and without us. God runs through everything. God is the thread that leaves everything together. Right? And so that's the almsound. And so yes, and it is the sound that many planets make if you get close enough to listen. Right? It's a very soothing sound. It's usually if you ever start a mantra meditation, then usually alms is one of the first mantras you're given just to get comfortable with that sound. And it's a little bit more precise than that with the lips. And again, I'll go through that in the course. People who take the course how to properly do it as far as a mantra. But yes, she is correct. And I also want to just point out if I have anybody watching that was born maybe after the year 2000 once upon a time, kids we didn't have cell phones nor did we have Caller ID. So having someone call you on a landline and not know who it was or that was normal like but of course she said no one knew she was at the library.  For example, I still remember the phone number to the back office of my dad's clinic where we used to call to talk to my dad. We would call the back office again before cell phones my landline growing up as a kid I still remember it. I still remember my grandparents landline. I still remember some of my aunts landlines. I remember my friends growing up. I remember their parents landlines. So this was normal and it was normal to pick up the phone and not know who was on the other end. There was once upon a time where we didn't have even a Caller ID when before we had Caller ID at my house growing up my sister and I used to race to the phone to see who could answer the phone first to see who was on the other end of the phone. So that if you were born after the year 2000 that might seem weird to you that someone called the library but for those of us that were born before the year 2000 once upon a time that was normal. All right. The phone beside the bed rang insistently. Without thought I reached over to pick it up. This time as I opened my eyes I realized that I was at home in Atlanta. I was in bed there was no library no college campus nothing except my strangely lucid dream. It had all taken place in the inner worlds. Now I was back in the world of photography advertising and work and it was dawn. As I replaced the headset and its cradle I slowly realized that I had had the dream within a dream and there have been a double message within it. The Priests of ISIS and some kind of language. I knew it was important but I had no idea what it meant. I was still trying to make sense of things as I got into my real Honda sedan the next day and left for work. Who were the Priests of ISIS and why had they contacted me? Was this some sort of secret cult from Egypt? Did they still exist today? I started the ignition and why had I remembered that symbol? I slipped my car into gear deep in the mystery. Two months later the answer began to arrive. I had stopped for lunch at a new restaurant and there was a long wait. Atlanta is known we are known as a foodie city. I'm not a foodie but people do come to Atlanta for the food like we are known for that. To pass the time I wondered into a beautiful gift shop called Aluminum. As I opened the door onto the richly appointed carpet the stores exquisitely lit crystals and one of the kind joy looked unlike anything I'd ever seen before. Immediately my eyes landed on an Egyptian statue. Transfixed. I went to stand before it. Letting my eyes sweep over the smooth black sculpture of a beautiful Egyptian woman with two tall feathers at the crown of her head. The saleswoman behind the counter leaned forward over the highly polished glass fixing me with her eyes. Do you like Egyptian things? I gassed in a voice softly modulated with power. I turned to the sound. She was probably 45 with a long mane of thick salt and pepper hair and a strong attractive face. Her eyes were gray and piercing. I stammered feeling a bit self-conscious. Yes, in fact, I had been having dreams about the priestesses of Isis. Her eyes widened slightly and then seemed to grow sharper as if she were seeing something around me for the first time. She extended her hand slowly, never blinking for a moment. Welcome to aluminum. My name is Shasta. I shook her hand. Hi, I'm Trisha. I said feeling electricity go through me. Would you like to tell me about your dreams? She suggested. I blushed. Well, I'm not sure I even understand my dreams. I looked away self-conscious trying to decide how much to reveal. After all, since I had been working for many years with masters in my dream state and had been a clairvoyant from the time I was a child, I certainly couldn't assume that a perfect stranger would follow my line of thinking. I'm not sure you'd understand them either, I added lamely. Her eyes brightened in a mysterious smile played across her lips. Let's just say I might. I'm a high initiate of the priestess of Isis. This brings us to chapter 2, there are some things I want to talk about because she's going to bring up the concept of witches in this chapter. If you mentioned right before we closed out chapter 1, she mentioned that she had been a clairvoyant since she was a child. This is something that I have recently discovered. I think I kind of knew this already because of my study into Native Americans and the Skinwalkers and the Navajo and their look of black magic and white magic. But I wanted to kind of propose this to you guys just to kind of, we know that the word witch has been very much inverted by the controllers. And there are really, really bad witches out there. There are really, really bad covens out there. I mean dark covens have been what's been ruling our world for a while now. It's the battle we're up against, you know. Well what has become apparent to me is that light workers are good witches are born. They're born with abilities. They're born partly ascended. They still have amnesia, but they have certain abilities. I was born with certain abilities. She, the writer was born with certain abilities. A lot of you watching were born with certain abilities. You were born technically a witch in the good way, a light worker, right? Now what I have learned is that the dark covens, the bad covens they're not born with abilities. They sell their soul for abilities. So most people who are of the light will have crazy childhood stories to tell you. I have crazy childhood stories to tell you dealing with the other side of the veil and the quantum and things that happened to me a lot. A lot of people I know were born with abilities especially in this spiritual community were born with abilities that are just now starting to understand. But if somebody who's doing magic didn't have anything weird in their childhood or wasn't born with any type of abilities and all of a sudden they're doing magic they sold their soul. That's what happened. They sold their soul for something that wasn't their rightful inheritance, right? Because white magic is when you learn how to use your abilities to work with God to flow with nature. Black magic is when you use nature, you've been nature to your own will. So I want to put that out because knowledge is power and knowledge protects. So if you're working with someone that wasn't born with abilities then I would be very skeptical of working with that person because chances are they sold their soul, right? And that's why we're starting to see some of these spiritual people in the true their community shape shift on camera. They sold their soul. And why those of us who never sold our soul are not doing the shape-shifting, but they are. I hope that makes sense. Now she's going to talk about witches only being Wiccan. I don't agree with that. Wiccan is a very new religion. I have some friends who are actually Wiccan and they're lovely people but it's a new form of like paganism, right? So it's not the term witch isn't just given to this one religion because this religion is new, all right? So I just wanted to put that out as well. All right. Chapter 2 The Magic House by the Grove I am nature, the universal mother, mistress of all the elements, primordial child of time, sovereign of all things spiritual, queen of the dead, queen of the immortals, the single manifestation of all gods and goddesses that are. A week later, I pulled into the dead in street hidden in one of the oldest sections of the city of Atlanta. This was the address Shasta had given to me after extending an invitation for me to visit. It was a short road, perhaps less than 50 yards and it appeared at the end of a triangle of vines and bushes. I parked on one side of the road staring straight ahead of me. The house was supposed to be there. I read the address again checking to be sure that I was on the right street. But all I could see was a forest of kudzu trees and vines. Suddenly as if a veil had been removed from my eyes, I realized that I was looking at a little white cottage hidden among the greenery. It looked like a fairy house. Shells, crystals, flowers and bones were strewn down the path that led to the front door. The wooden porch was full of deer skin. Indian blankets, rocking chairs, baskets of guards and Native American dream catchers. And this is so funny. So Stephanie started reading this book before I started reading this book and this was before she had come to Atlanta and so she called me immediately and she was describing the neighborhood that this house was in seeing if I would recognize the neighborhood. And I have to tell you guys, Atlanta is also one of the greenest cities that you will ever visit. We're known for that. We have parks everywhere and every time someone comes and visits me, they're always shocked at how green the city is. And so a lot of these neighborhoods, especially in the older sections of Atlanta all are very, very dense with trees. Like I live a block from Piedmont Park and there's a section of Piedmont Park that's in the woods and it's in the middle of the city. So I don't know where this house is. I suspect I have my suspicions that this house is either in Inman Park, Reynolds Town, Kirkwood or off of East Atlanta Village near the Flat Shoals area. That's what I suspect. But I could be wrong. It could be in the Old West End, the Old Fourth Ward. There could be plenty of other places. This is a huge, huge city. So there could be many places where this house is located. And I will say that having like shelves and installations outside of Atlanta is also a very eclectic city. It's a very artistic city. And we have a section here called Cabbage Town. It's very near Inman Park. Cabbage Town was an area where there used to be a mill. And so all the houses are mill houses. They all look very similar. But now Cabbage Town is probably the most bohemian part of Atlanta. And so all these houses, if you're ever in Atlanta, you just want to go walk around and see equal houses, go to Cabbage Town because all these houses have these huge installations, these really eclectic stuff in their front yard. And so that in itself is also not abnormal for Atlanta, Georgia, to see this stuff outside, right? So this is not a house that you would just notice because a lot of houses are like this. All right. To one side of the front yard were old metal chairs overgrown with Ivy. A hand knotted rope with brass bells served as a doorbell. And on the front door behind the dilapidated screen swung a wooden heart. I stepped cautiously up onto the porch looking at everything with wonder. Very different from my own lovely artistic but very neat and proper house. This cottage felt very much alive. Its magic was palpable. I sent out my inner senses and I felt like decades of history were sequestered there. Ghost of ancient wise women whispered in the air. A spirit house I thought filling the power of the ancestors gathering around me is if they knew I had come. I felt as if I just arrived in some Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale and as I pulled on the bell rope I realized that I was in a completely unchartered territory. Shasta came to the door. She practically purred as she led me into her quiet little cottage humming with energy. My eyes drank in everything. The first room was completely empty except for an old stone fireplace and four altars. One at each of the room's corners. I got a glimpse of the large coiled stuffed snake mounted high in one corner. A large statue of Mary and another with roses at her feet and in a third corner a cat head stained glass goddess about four feet tall staring back at me. Who was she? Egyptian I thought and then I was past her living room and moving into the kitchen. Now I want to say too because they're going to talk about this land and the only place I hope this house is not by is the Land Trust. I don't like the Land Trust here in Atlanta, Georgia.  Like that is not good energy at the Land Trust. I really hope that this house is not in Candler Park by the Land Trust because then I'm going to be like very, very skeptical of this story. The Land Trust, I mean it's all land is God's land so I know it can be cleansed but the Land Trust is dodgy as hell. Like do not, I mean there's been some, I'm sure I can feel it when you're there.  It is some backwards bullshit demonic spirits on the Land Trust so I hope that this is not where this cottage is located because but I also want to say if we remember, you know Stephanie and I have been working off these old maps that say you know that where I live in Georgia and the deep south in general is the old Egypt that where we think Egypt is today is not actually Egypt and the original Egypt is the deep south with making New Orleans Alexandria where the famous library was which makes sense because New Orleans is magical making the Mississippi the mighty Mississippi the original Nile right and so when she's talking about when she gets into talking about this land being part of a place of the Priests of Is she saying that this was Atlanta was one of the capitals of Egypt it was one of the biggest cities and we know Atlanta comes from Atlantis we know that this city was originally called Martha'sville why the hell did they change the name to Atlanta they always have to tell us the truth somewhere you know so I just wanted to put that out there and also with ancient Egypt when we're looking at Atlantis the Egyptians carried the faith of the Atlantis right and we know that the Egyptians were not one race they were all races I mean look at Magdalene Magdalene was blonde hair blue-eyed like myself she was Kentucky and her mother was Kentucky and she did not look like what we would think an Egyptian would look like but the Egyptians were all different races it was just a group of people there was no specific race to the Egyptians we see this in the in the hieroglyphics we see this all sorts of people so I want to put that out there too so if you're a white person and you feel drawn to Egypt chances are it's in your DNA it's well even though you're white right okay would you like some tea Shasta asked in a softly modelled voice a white cat jumped down from the kitchen counter looking up and meowed there were four white liquor chairs with a small coffee table between them nested beneath a set of double wide windows this was clearly where she ate read and even served guest two other cats looking profoundly pleased with their lounging activities yawned up at me one of them from a chair sit down I'll put on the tea while she was busy in the kitchen I looked around trying not to be rude the cottage was laid out in a simple square pattern at the left front was the living room with the kitchen to the rear on the right side of the house I guess was probably Shasta's bedroom and somewhere tucked towards the back right was the bathroom I have several earth choices she said across the countertop I make them fresh from my garden would you like some dandelion or catnip tea I grow it wild here I never even heard of catnip or dandelion tea before I had only had herb tea made from celestial seasoning boxes and having hot tea in the south is very very rare most of the time if you go into a southerner's house they are not going to offer you hot tea they are going to offer you cold sweet tea I had never had hot tea until I was in college my whole life if you came over to somebody's house a proper southern woman always has a picture of sweet tea and I'm I'm going to find my grandmother's my dad's mother's recipe for sweet tea it's somewhere she my grandmother I know she didn't need her recipe she just made it from scratch but my grandmother grew up in south Georgia her family came up through New Orleans and she would have a pineapple juice in her sweet tea and she always had a picture always so I'm going to find that recipe I'm going to have to text some of my cousins and see if somebody has the recipe because that's some real special south Georgia sweet tea alright and nothing is hotter than south Georgia I mean talking about a bowl of hot soup like you are constantly it's funny my grandmother my dad's mom I know I've mentioned this before out of all of my family members she was the one that was most like me or maybe I was most like her she was always the mystical side of life she was very much into reincarnation she would hide books on reincarnation under the bed for my grandfather you know she started meditating long before meditation was even known in the deep south she tried to teach me how to meditate when I was 8 years old and so I do feel like my I know grandparents don't have favorite grandchildren I get that like you don't have a favorite child but I feel like there was a very special bond that my grandmother had with me because I think she saw a lot of herself in me and I think she saw with my life that I was able to do things as a southern woman that grew up in an upper upper aristocratical southern family both of my families were upper upper class southern families so there's a there was an expectation you know that the debutant the cocktail parties the country called there was an expectation and going off to India and studying spirituality is not part of that expectation and so I think my grandmother did did as much as she could for her generation you know she went to college she was a valedictorian of her college class she kicked the ass she kicked boys ass when it came to education she was a master pianist she even went back and got her masters in psychology she worked that was crazy for a woman of her society to work she worked she was a rotary club you know and I think that she when I came along and she saw that same fire in me that questioned the church questioned life I questioned stuff I think she kind of pushed me to go down this road a little bit further and when I started going to India to study a lot of my family members were not very happy about that they did not think that that was something I should be doing but her she was very excited that I was going off to India all these years and studying and every time I came home for a break from being in India she would like want me to teach herself at this point towards the end she already had Alzheimer's she was already dealing with memory problems but I tell you what I would come into her house and she would immediately want me to teach her whatever I learned in India and she was so fascinated and so interested in anyway I'm digressing but I asked her once a few years ago I think I have it on recording somewhere I said grandmother what got you interested in meditation from a woman that grew up on a plantation in South Georgia on a dairy farm what got you interested in this there wasn't like there was like yoga classes for you to go to and equipment Georgia and she said in all seriousness she goes you know I think living and growing up in such a hot climate there were just days where all you could do was sit and stare that's all you could do and she goes I think that's how I found meditation it was just too hot to do anything else but just sit and I like that answer I also believe that here in the Deep South and I think this is why it's important that this book takes place in Atlanta the Deep South is magical I mean that was the whole point of why I started my channel when I started my channel I was only doing folklore and legends from the state of Georgia that's why it's esoteric Atlanta it's magical down here there's no other place in the world that I would rather be from than the Deep South I find it a privilege that I was born in such a fantastically magical place we have so much folklore I grew up knowing that if you put red clay at your door your enemies can't come in I grew up knowing that if you put a broom upside down in your room hags can't get to you because they have to count the bristles first before they can get to you this is folklore I grew up with I grew up around hoodoo and hoodoo and with the church and this is normal to me I grew up with ghost and legends of shapeshifters if you look on my channel there's the story of the girl who was a werewolf down in South Georgia near where my grandmother was from and I know that other places of the world are magical too but they're just not as magical as the South you go to this place breathes this land is alive down here and it holds secrets and it holds legends and it holds information for at anybody it's thick with humidity and it's haunted and it talks to you you know it's a Stephanie and I are going to get into Salem when we went into Salem I was appalled there's no history in Salem are you kidding me it looks like a movie set you want to see history go to Charleston, South Carolina go to Savannah, Georgia go to New Orleans go to St. Augustine go to little towns around Georgia, Alabama Mississippi you're going to see more history more cobblestones more energy there than you will ever see in Salem Massachusetts which again we'll get to when we cover the witch trials but this is all important guys because this is they're telling us there's something about the deep south I think it's because this is Egypt this is Egypt alright let's keep going when the tea is finished steeping we'll go out and sit in the garden through the side window I could see that the garden was wild with kudzu I could also see a little area where the land had been cleared and vegetables planted but beyond that almost everything looked half hidden in green the trees the rocks even the arched arbors of this magical little valley from here it looked like an enormous green vortex where the earth dropped away into the center of the yard leaving the entire perimeter rimmed with trees wild roses cover the old fence around the property making her home almost invisible to those not trained to know what they were looking for the grove is hundreds of years old Shasta explained as she saw me studying it women have been coming here for centuries to pray let's read that again women have been coming here for centuries to pray why is that this is fucking Egypt that's why that is I am the keeper of the grove along with my old friend Jeremy Jeremy I asked her chin gestured to the little hidden house on the other side of the sanctuary I had not seen it before he is the guardian of the grove just as I am the priestess I wondered if he was half as fascinating as she was Shasta poured the hot water from the kettle into our cups of dandelion do you like honey I nodded Shasta do you have a restroom I can use she smiled gesturing go back to the living room into the healing room it's on the opposite side of the house I wondered through the rooms my eyes large as saucers I saw turtle shell snake skins cow skulls and fur throes there were baskets of nards on several corners in a book case of well-loved books this time as I passed the altar with a beautiful cat headed being I studied it more carefully it looked majestic and proud definitely Egyptian in a second corner I realized that a white wolf pelt was draped beneath the white cow skull what could that mean one thing I knew though the whole place felt alive as I entered her bedroom which she had called the healing room I noticed how pristine it was lace candles rattles that lay near the mirror above the dresser in a large double bed with a white lace bedspread stood against one wall with a couple of overstuffed chairs then I was at the door of the bathroom from the moment I entered it I could tell that the house was watching me a strange sort of power emanated right through the floorboards there was one window that threw triangles of light into the room and the afternoon sun was subdued everything was white except the walls the fixtures the towels the rugs but the walls were painted purple with strange swirling symbols spirals and portals on them I felt as if I knew these images were they a part of the language I had seen in my dream a shiver went through me this was a place of power it felt as if the living intelligence of the land was here like some ancient being was watching I knew that whatever energy the grove had this room was one of his exit points and it seemed as curious about me as I was about it Shasta was ready with the tea when I returned interesting bathroom I commented Riley she gave me a sideways glance I thought you'd like it she held my eyes for a moment it was watching me I said she smiled yes I know the grove I thought you'd like it I thought you'd like it she held my eyes the intersection of two blind springs springs that run underground but do not surface this creates a powerful magnetic field through which river woman can speak come we'll go out into the garden Shasta opened the door and stepped outside onto the porch into the afternoon sun the light seemed to glisten off the railings the tea cups even her earrings I took a deep breath and I followed so that's fascinating guys I have talked about Atlanta another another legend we learned growing up and allegedly the fountain of youth that Ponce de Leon was looking for when he came north is now under Ponce city market in Atlanta Ponce city market is off of Ponce de Leon road which we just call Ponce here in Atlanta and I do believe as everything is inverted that the controllers have their version of the fountain of youth and the light has its version of the fountain of youth maybe that's why the Olympics happened in 1996 in Atlanta were they harnessing that energy I don't know but that's interesting maybe you know think about legends and vocalors they don't just appear out of thin air there's always some truth to them right so is that the actual fountain of youth these two streams these springs that run underground where the river woman speaks here in Atlanta Georgia river woman the meaning of her words who was river woman I thought she meant the primordial intelligence of water itself as I thought of the water all over the world having an active intelligence I realized that water pass through everything cities mountains meadows towns water even pass through the ocean in the skies rainy water pass through humans and animals and return to the earth if water could communicate its vast wisdom to someone who truly knew how to listen one could learn a great deal simply by being beside water Shasta seemed to be reading my mind in the ancient days the woman made their homes near water this was not only practical it was also for understanding a wise woman from the village would go down to the water and listen each day in this way she would hear news from the spirit of the water about all the happenings in other villages upstream she would know before anyone arrived to tell the elders this was part of the teachings of river woman I nodded not even sure how to respond it was an entirely new way of thinking think about it Shasta went on if all water is connected to the great ocean then everything is connected this is why the goddess was always called Lamar Mary Mary or the great mother that I disagree with because of my research Mary was a demeaning name for women not a good one all right so Jane Doe she's the ultimate healer on a planet like this one a water planet one can sit in this grove and learn a lot about what is happening all over the world just by being still we picked up our mugs descended the steps and entered the magical glade I followed her silently through the foliage into the back three huge grandfather oaks oversaw the little valley and beyond it were even more woods buffering her from the world from one oak hung a rope swing we had a rope swing in our front yard in our house growing up I don't know if my mom actually when she sold her house I don't know if she actually took the swing with her I kind of hope she did but if she left it then the new family gets to enjoy that rope swing that rope swing hung in our front yard throughout my whole childhood and damn was that a strong rope swing we got it and I remember when we got it when I was really little there is this group of shops called hammock shops in near polys Island South Carolina that's my mom's family's from the coast of South Carolina so we would spend our summers there and we got it at the hammock shops when I was little and that swing lasted it never broke and I tell you all the kids in the neighborhood were on it all the time like that rope swing that was a good rope swing so I'm sure that rope swing if it's still hanging in that tree carries all the energy the good energy from all the little children who played on it so including my sister and me so rope swings are big in the south the Grove looked for all the world as if we had stepped into an 18th century painting several alcove gardens had been hidden in foliage and now shops to lead me into one of them a statue of Maria of the woods overhung the altar offering in half melted candles attested to the fact that other initiates had visited here Mardi Gras beads ceremonial objects and prayer ties all hung from the trees and a loose assortment of benches rugs tables and candles were half obscured beneath the canopy of foliage and are of reverence emanated from this place Mary is the patron state of our woods Shasta explained many people have gathered here to speak to her I nodded not even able to formulate a question despite my years of spiritual training this was all new to me the healing energies of sacred ritual were gathered in the silence shall we sit Shasta asked leading me toward a wicked sofa where I could see down into the little bowl shaped valley for the first time there was a fire pit and four altars one for each direction I could feel the power rising from the ground like a pulse I knew that if I were left alone in this grove I would be able to hear the earth speaking suddenly I spotted three huge cauldrons turned upside down in a circle the site sent a shiver through me I knew from my Christian upbringing that witches use cauldrons fast pointing at them dubiously she laughed amused by my fundamentalist sensibilities don't be afraid she reassured me patting my arm in a matronly manner cauldrons are only iron kettles you know people have cooked in them for centuries I smiled sheepishly feeling chagrined my southern Baptist training was rearing its head the cauldron you see is like the womb of the earth the womb of women everywhere it is dark and round and mysterious and from it life springs even if that life is only a well-cooked stew she laughed and I laughed with her half embarrassed half still ill at ease what have I gotten myself into the earth is the same as the cauldron Trisha the nurturing powers of the feminine grows something wonderful from the dark womb that is our mother earth although most people take this for granted because they are disconnected from the natural world it is still true the mother gives us everything air, food, water, all our plants our trees, our wood, our fabrics even our animals it's all offered from the bounty of mother life germinates in the womb this is true for all creatures it is part of the great mystery of life, death and rebirth cauldrons represent the alchemical laboratories that symbolize the nature of women and sacred life this is also why the cauldron was used in alchemy alchemy I swallowed my adrenaline humming what do you mean alchemy she laughed seeing my discomfort but her voice was patient alchemy is transmutation Shost explained personal inner transmutation are chemical scientific transmutation it's all the same the alchemy of transformation is always done with the four elements because that is the paint box of the divine I held her eyes but didn't speak thinking about her words the paint box of the divine what a strange thought but true I realized I wanted her to go on she said let me ask you a question Trisha what do you think the world is made of I looked around the trees the sky the bench my own clothes I wasn't sure what she wanted me to say elements she said plainly lots of elements like those you find on the periodic table and each of these elements is composed of some combination of air earth fire or water aren't they yes I thought that was true wasn't it it was also proportion of these four simple elements plus the element of life or spirit that animates it when Shosta put it like this it was easy to follow she continued so all science is the study of the elements and how they respond to one another whether it is the science of chemistry biology astronomy physics or even medicine from herbology to pharmaceuticals we are talking about how things combine how they transmute and change and interact with one another that's alchemy isn't it yes and so let's pause here for a second and talk about that because as I've said the dark cannot create anything it can only mimic the light and as I've also said both sides in this polarity the darkness and the light use the same tools right just like tarot cards the good side and the bad side are using tarot cards the cards are just cards it's the conduit using it so when we look at pharmaceuticals of course pharmacia is the Greek word which actually means sorcery right and herbology is using God's plant so in true in true alignment with nature you're going to use plant medicine because that's what God gives us we're going to combine the herbs and the plants to heal people in the Luciferian side of things we're going to use pharmacia chemicals right because they're trying to be God they're going to use the elements to try to connect that themselves but it's both alchemy one is for the good and one is for the bad it's both alchemy I hope that makes sense she was right I realized science is basically the empirical study of how the universe works how it combines and operates within our abilities to perceive its laws Shasta went on but there's a deeper level that is known as the great work this is the alchemy of the human soul and it is done within a laboratory of time I opened my mind to let these ideas come in the past, the present and the future these were all known in ancient mythology as the three fates the three norms that sit beneath the one world tree one world tree I asked a symbol of the absolute behind it all I looked at her hard trying to follow what she was saying she smiled as if dismissing a subject that was too large for the moment anyway that is what we do here in this growth transformation, connection, prayer, ceremony the alchemy of connecting the soul with the divine behind it all that's the magician's quest I thought the philosopher stone these were part of the secret societies connected with the search for the holy grail I knew that for centuries there were legends of medieval alchemists who sought the formulas that would turn lead into gold create the fountain of youth and allow them to obtain immortality these were clearly metaphors for something far deeper yeah, because you are the holy grail this is what Shanti talks about a lot and I do as well through yoga that you are the holy grail it's you surprise, that's the plot twist you're the holy grail, you watching right now you're the holy grail you have the ability to turn your lead into gold you are the alchemist it's all about you Shasta went on whenever someone goes to church to worship the church uses the same elements, don't they the Catholic fathers took this knowledge of ritual and ceremony from the priestess as long ago because it engages the inner senses as well as the outer ones I thought about what she was saying yes, they did use air, earth, fire and water these four elements were part of every religious ceremony I had ever attended the burning of incense used both air and fire so did the lighting of candles water was intrinsic to baptism and the sprinkling of holy water which represented cleansing drinking wine and eating the communion wafers were part of the earth as well as the golden chalice the sacred cup would represent anything from the act of receiving to the womb of the holy mother herself at the Eucharist we would even say take, eat, this is my body that was given for you and for all of men Shasta was right this was how most beautiful ceremonies were done in virtually every religion and so I am going to say as I've noticed in this book there are some places where the author of this book is still very much programmed into the matrix even though she's pretty awake and Catholicism is Satanism communion is cannibalism but yes, they did steal elements of rituals from the light from the priestess hood of Isis right, invert everything the narrative they tell us that the priestess of Isis and Osiris were bad and that Christianity is good, flip it, it's all flipped okay and so everything they're doing in the Catholic services or Christian services in general is an inversion of the light it's serving Lucifer, it's an inversion of what is good so even though it might look the same and they're using the same elements they're doing alchemy for the dark not for the light cannibalism is never good guys it's never good they use the four elements because they work she said now she opened her hands and gestured around the yard now look around you this is the goddess' true cathedral treasure made from the natural elements this is why our ancestors built campfires and sat around them it wasn't just to stay warm or cook food it was to dream with the fire anyone who has gone camping knows this when we stare into the flames we enter an altered state a place where our vision takes us beyond the mundane things of life and to the dream time she looked out at the grove those cauldrons were merely holders for the alchemical fire of transmutation like the chalice it is as simple as that and again we talk about fire in the body because we have to have fire we have to have sweat, we have to have grit friction in order to transmute that's the fire in your body that's why sweating is important all the old religions the priestess of Isis, all of them incorporated physical exercise physical movement because that's the alchemy within you as the conduit the fire, the chalice the fire in the chalice no wonder they painted the cauldron as being bad because the cauldron holds that fire again it's the womb once you see it you can't unsee it this is why they made it bad this is why they didn't want you to look at it this is why, I mean nothing pisses me off more in this world than birth control and I'm not saying that everyone should have like 20 kids I'm not saying that there are ways to plan your family and to not get pregnant without using chemical birth control I've never been on birth control nor will I ever go on birth control my womb is too important I'm not going to do that to my body and I'm 39 and I've never gone pregnant it's possible they want, they do these hysterectomies they want to put us on birth control they want to put IUDs inside of us guys, girls listening, they're trying to take the magdalen away from you, that is the cauldron magdalen, that is the holy womb is the womb of the woman your womb is part of your special powers it's your portal, why are you going to mess with it? don't do that alright I took a deep breath her words were part of something I always felt as if nature itself were the real holy place not a house of worship I realized then that my silly fears were part of a rigid prejudice against all other faiths spawned by my own Christian upbringing it was based on ignorance we had always been taught that anything Earth centered was evil although stepping back from it now I realized this was patently absurd the earth was the only reason any of us had life at all each day we ate from her drink from her and breathed her air how could anyone consider that evil it was like separating yourself from the sacredness of God even though I thought I had graduated long ago from the overt oppression of the church clearly there were still pockets of upside down logic left in my psyche as beautiful as organized religions can be I had long ago realized that the church separated people by assigning blame and judgment I had long been on a path of listening to the inner voice that speaks to all of us who come in a period of heart yet until that moment I hadn't realized how firmly the fear of witches had been implemented on in me are you a witch I blurted out blushing my scarlet with my own lack of tact I laughed and sugar head unruffled Noah which is a person trained in the Wiccan path not true that's not true again the Wiccan path is newer okay that is not my training my path is a path of the goddess I am the priestess of the divine mother in all of her forms my personal circle is Isis, Quan Yen and Shekmet the cat headed being that you saw inside the Wiccans work with both male and female deities is that why you have three cauldrons I asked trying to keep my distress from my voice she smiled yes they represent the triple goddess I had no idea what she was talking about she saw that and went on there are the three stages of life that everyone lives through the maiden the mother and the matron these complete the will of life death and rebirth the divine mother encompasses them all I had a lot to learn what about God I asked a bit where does God fit into all of this her eyes blaze Trisha the male version of the crater has been has had plenty of press these past few thousand years not true but will continue like I said in the beginning the patriarchal society is not the masculine God it's not the divine masculine it's Lucifer okay let's get that straight the divine masculine has also been robbed and changed and suppressed just like the divine feminine there are many advocates for vengeful God a God who separates divide to judges and condemns a God who destroys or conquers everything that will not submit I thought the power touched her like a flame I for once use life I choose a crater who unites I choose peace and unity not division and war our world has enough of that to last many lifetimes so again the patriarchal God is Lucifer divine masculine God has also been suppressed just like divine feminine the divine masculine himself has also been not only should we be celebrating the divine feminine but we should also be celebrating the divine masculine coming back into balance too we can't have one above the other guys it's not about the females being up here and the males being down here flipping back and forth it's equal right and the divine masculine divine feminine were both shoved down to allow for Luciferianism make sense to me she was right condemnation of punishment original sin blame and shame seem to be called patriarchal religions from Islam to Christianity all Luciferian religions not divine masculine they said they revered women and yet they oppressed them they said they were bringing forth the teachings of the prophets of love yet they were more eager to tell you that you were going to go to hell exactly Luciferianism to me something was fundamentally wrong with any version of the creator who would only bless one group and send the other into oblivion into a world where men taught oppression in the name of God and their way was taking the entire planet down a path of abuse we saw it in the exploitation of children the killing of animals and the pollution of natural resource they gave no thought to the generations that would come after their only concern was for their own prophets right now again at service to self that's Luciferianism I'm going to stand up for the men right now that's not patriarchal the Luciferian patriarchal society is matched with the matriarchal society it's divine masculine there has been no masculine it's the divine masculine has been pushed aside to just as much as the divine feminine because when you take away the intuitive arts from a man as well you're crushing the man too I hope that makes sense I remember that the creed that our Native American ancestors had tried to live by make notice decision that does not serve seven generations forward this ensured that we would become wise stewards of the land and the people I flashed on the words of the Bible and the tree shall be known by its fruits well our culture and its fruits clearly sprang from a warped and twisted tree the seven is a big it's a God number they say that with yoga too so if you practice yoga in this lifetime you are cleansing the karma karma of seven generations behind you and you're changing the karma of seven generations after you so seven is a big number Shasta's voice cut in pulling me from my contemplation but who remembers the great mother who actually creates everything the one who gives everything on this planet life who honors her tears spring to my eyes I could not I could think of nothing to say and I will add to that who honors the masculine creator as well we've been honoring Lucifer this whole time not source creator father mother so not only does the great mother need to be understood again but also the father as well the true father not Lucifer all things are born of women Trisha Shasta continued in a voice soft with power it was so plain and true that I cannot believe that it never occurred to me before she was right nothing would be born or live without the creative power of the female show me one living creature born of a man it doesn't happen the best we can offer is the androgynous earthworms also I think um what are they called horse fish or guys when I'm talking about doesn't the male carry the baby in the horse fish community I don't know let me know in the comment section below I laughed out loud the image of men claiming supreme dominance as a huge aggressive earthworm was just too fantastic the laughter broke the tension after a moment Shasta joined me I knew we were visualizing the same thing honestly Trisha in all the cosmos it's only the mother who is the life giver how can God be male I ask you males do not give birth do they I looked at her beneath the mirth there was a serious glint in her eyes she is both the queen of heaven and a mother of earth but she has been forgotten by her children dishonored and mistreated when you come here to this grow you honor her I looked at the racket beauty of the half wild garden hidden by the kudzu just like the goddess I thought hidden unless you have the eyes to look for her Shasta's words brought an entirely new way of thinking into my world I realized then that in some straight way I had always accepted God as being male I had accepted the inner picture of some guy with a long white flowing beard who judged and punished us if we didn't do as he said Shasta I turned and made my prescience gifts for speaking I know the time will arrive when I will come here to study with you with that time is not yet there are other things I must do first but I'm sure this is why the priestess of ISIS contacted me in that dream she nodded so when I'm ready will you teach me a mysterious smile played around her lips she fixed me with her piercing eyes so shall it be and the years to come may you discover for yourself the answers to who the great mother truly is


In this introductory segment, I would like to introduce you to learning objectives of this course, some learning outcomes, and I would be introducing you to some of the textbooks which I would like to recommend for making learning efficient for this course. This course will cover a number of themes but we will be in general focusing on three themes. Number one, we will cover fundamental principles governing Islamic banking and finance. We would also focus on theory and practice of Islamic banking and finance and of course, given that we are based here in Pakistan, we will be focusing on Islamic banking and finance practices in Pakistan. So these will be the three broad areas this course Islamic banking and finance focusing on. And we would also like to emphasize right from the beginning what are the learning objectives of this course. There are three learning objectives. Number one, this course aims at introducing the students to Islamic banking and finance in a comprehensive way. Comprehensive way means that we will cover a lot of topics. It also aims at highlighting major differences between Islamic and conventional financial products. The importance of this is that a lot of people think that Islamic banking and conventional banking are almost the same thing. In this course, we would like to say that Islamic banking and conventional banking have some very major differences. And the third learning objective is to prepare the students to pursue a career in Islamic banking and finance. And this is a tangible outcome. This is a tangible objective which would have a tangible outcome. With this, I would like to introduce you to learning outcomes of this course. At the end of this course, the students are expected to attain basic level of competency in Islamic banking and finance. Also, you are expected to have developed understanding of Islamic banking and finance such that you are able to appreciate differences between Islamic banking and finance. So these learning objectives and learning outcomes you have to keep in your mind when you have to complete this course with me. Learning objectives and learning outcomes will be easy for us. The purpose of this course is to give you a toolkit with which you can work in Islamic banks or other Islamic financial institutions. The third learning outcome is that you can prepare yourself for the entry level in Islamic banking and Islamic financial institutions. Some of you would like to study more about Islamic banking and finance after this course or after your degree. So this course should allow you to prepare yourself for another higher level of degree or qualification in Islamic banking and finance. I always tell my students that there is no need for books in this course. So whenever you want to get information about something new or if you want to learn something new, first google it. After this module, if you google Islamic banking, you will get a lot of information online. Despite this, I think textbooks are still important. So we are recommending three textbooks for you. Number one Islamic Law of Contract and Business Transactions by Dr. Tahir Mansoury. This is a very important book on Islamic contracts as the name suggests. Islamic Finance by Dr. Muhammad Imran Ashraf Usmani, the revised version by Mizan Bank. That is another very useful textbook. And the third one, which is a very comprehensive textbook, it's called Understanding Islamic Finance by Muhammad Ayyub. So these three textbooks along with online sources and resources available, that should allow you to prepare yourself for Islamic banking and finance for learning. And of course afterwards, once you have finished your course, it should prepare you for a successful career in Islamic banking and finance.


We've been able to see someone who thought that maybe the days of challenging themselves and pushing themselves to limits ended when they took off their uniform. And then getting to see them, you know, fly down a mountain on a monoski, that's really inspiring. My name is Charity Edgar and I'm a Navy reservist and I am a veteran of Afghanistan. The Winter Sports Clinic is an adaptive sports clinic for severely ill and injured veterans and what the clinic does is it lets them know that they can still challenge themselves. They just have different challenges but it's just as rewarding and they can push themselves just as hard if not harder. I had a really great friend in my reserve unit and she suffered a pretty debilitating injury and Sled Hockey helped her regain her life. Getting to see experiences like that every day at the Winter Sports Clinic, it's really meaningful. That's why I think DAV is great because it's veterans helping veterans so they know what you've gone through, they know what your struggles are. I find it just so inspiring that these veterans, you know, come up to a mountain and they're able to reclaim their lives and I don't think there's a better feeling than that. I'm a veteran and my victory is empowering fellow veterans.