Power in Visualization or Vivid Imagination

I remember another moment from childhood with a crisp visvidness. It was perhaps the first time I can remember feeling astonished by being met with an expression of the metaphysical theorys my young mind was working on.

My mother and I were coming out of a hardware store in the Summer, and there was a sidewalk sale. It was the early eighties, and in the small suburban town I was in, this was almost something of a social event. There was a vendor with cotton candy. There were tables of stickers and toys and other things for very low prices. I'm sure there were hotdogs. I remember that there were games. One of them involved spinning a roulette wheel after guessing a number. If it landed on your number you won a prize. I wanted the little stuffed puppy, and badly. I guessed my favorite number, and the roulette wheel spun round and round. In my mind, I VIVIDLY IMAGINED that ball landing in the numbered spot I wanted. Just as the picture was totally clear, the spinner stopped. On my number. I got the stuffed puppy.

My imaginary friend said “ Well, now that you know how that works, life is going to get extremely interesting. “

I was about seven, and I still remember that moment very clearly. It's curious, the way such things come so naturally to children. I think there really must be something to the idea that children have not been taught to believe that magic isn't real yet, that their ideas are not steeped in the knowledge of a firm set of rules for reality, and that their experiences of fairytale stories and superhero cartoons in fact sttep them in the idea that magic really is real and the adults don't get it. That in fact is why Peter and Wendy didn't want to grow up- they didn't want to loose the land of make believe and the feeling that it has a certain kind of reality to it.

25 years later, I'm more rather than less sure that what we believe and dream are possible, and how we think on those things, has a -dramatic- effect on the courses and pathways of our lives. Whether we know it or not.

Updates on this page and explanations for the existance of the platypus

I think I've already made a nice start here, and I'm glad. I can't wait to be able to fix my old computer and get the information of a hard drive that needs repaired- I have all of the documents for a class I taught on Wicca and Paganism for two years, and all of the notes from a class I taught on Tarot.

Back when I was teaching there were always plans for a website, but I didn't have the knowledge to do it. Now, I can preserve and share the work that I did in this format, and over time build a website from all the notes. Particularly after a letter I got from an old friend today, I feel moved to do so. Apparently something I said to him ten years ago in a conversation we had about Paganism actually made some kind of positive difference in his life. Knowing that made me feel very warm and fuzzy, and it also made me feel even more as though now would be a good time to make those things available for folks who might get something out of it.

Now, things are still informal, and I suppose I could just chatter about my experiences and background so people reading these notes can get a feel for where I am coming from.

I grew up in Michigan, and had what I would call natural mystical leanings as a child. I had an affinity for playing in the woods, with friends and especially alone. When I would wander around in wooded areas by myself as a young girl, I had moments of blissful feeling that made me have a sense f being connected to everything in the universe, and as though even being was an act of communion with the Divine. I was only about nine when I developed an interest in actually studying and trying to experiment with these Mysterious and Natural Spiritual things I could sense, but not exactly see or touch. I remember reading a few new age books on extra sensory perception and metaphysics, and getting a sense from them of things like techniques and uses of visualization and relaxation. They also showed me my first guided meditations, which I tried out on all of my friends at slumber parties and walks in the woods. ( LOL- but true. ) It was around then that I got my first deck of fortune telling cards, in a clearance bin at a hardware shop after Halloween for a Quarter. LOL. I taught myself how to use those, too, and also practiced at the coveted slumber party gatherings.

Funny enough, that was about 23 years ago.... and I -still- read cards, and have done so to make a living for a good many years!

Anybody who doesn't see a delightful and sometimes charmingly ironic sense of humor in the Divine has not heard of the platypus!

Love,
Nicolette