Comments on: The Dangers Of Virtual Reality And Magick — A True Story

By: Winter MoonWolf

Winter MoonWolf — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:55:15 +0000

I want to echo Heartsong’s sentiment. I had no online access yesterday, so just read it. It is very honest.

By: Lauri

Lauri — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:12:36 +0000

That seems like such a harsh reaction from your HP and HPS. I would have thought that that would have been a time where you would have needed their guidance more than ever. And then to reject you after completing the year? I don’t get it.

Regarding the virtual reality and role playing stuff, though, I wonder if similar things happen to people who write fiction. That reminds me of the movie “Rowing With the Wind” which is about Mary Shelley who was the author of “Frankenstein”. In the movie, after she had written the book, there were a number of deaths in her family which were portrayed as if she had created an entity with the book who was bringing these tragedies to her family. I don’t know if that was how she had felt about it in real life, or if someone just thought it would make an interesting movie. It’s food for thought, though.

By: Avren

Avren — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:26:20 +0000

Sitara, It is amazing how painful growth can be. It isn’t until way later you can fully understand how far you have come. I knew this story because you were kind enough to confide it to me, thank you again for sharing it. Baring these kinds of scars take courage, of witch (small pun! ) you have tons! The thing that stands out to me is how you teacher rejected you wrongly, in my opinion. I guess it goes to show you “teacher” are not perfect. I too am interested in serpent magic. My birth totem is the snake. In that vein it stands for transformation. Now get better! I saw your tweet! You don’t want to be thin butter! LOL

By: Winterhawk

Winterhawk — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:24:03 +0000

My dear sister, this posting reminds me that though I love you well, I still don’t know you as well as I would like. You had never told me about what happened to your father during that time you were sent away. It truly does explain why your faith runs so deep: it has been sorely tested.

No, I don’t believe your teachers knew what they were doing when they put you under that geas. However, I believe the Gods did. You needed strong fires to forge your steel. You are an amazing person and an even more amazing Priestess. Your blog bears that out.

Thank you for not giving up, even when you were given impossible tasks. We are most grateful to have your Star shining in our universe.

By: Heartsong

Heartsong — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:11:07 +0000

What a courageous and personal story to share so freely. Nothing to add…just love.

By: Millie Fee

Millie Fee — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:45:32 +0000

OMG Hon! I’m so sorry that you had to ever go through something like that! No one deserves it and it just brings the lioness out in me that someone could do that ! Not only to your Father but to you also!
I don’t understand these MUSH games…My oldest son is into that…really into it, but I have enough to do here in the real world without trying to keep tabs on who did what to who for 5 jelly beans, on one of those. And that whole eye hand control bit dosen’t work so well with Arthritis.
If I want to enjoy escaping; I listen to music and read books, things like that.

By: Katie

Katie — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:41:43 +0000

I have also experienced rejection from a teacher, though definitely not to the same degree that you have. I’m not the type of person who lets things go, so this still upsets me greatly. I’ve tried to leave it behind me for the most part, because otherwise I would be totally cut off, and I did that over the summer, and it sucked. I didn’t like it. It’s hard to respond to an article like this, because, well… geez. They were setting you up to fail, and quite possibly kill yourself. I might not have gone back to them, simply because of that. But that’s me, and I’m about the same age you were when all this happened.
On a different note, what do you mean by serpent medicine? I’ve never heard of it before, and have absolutely zero clue as to what you’re referring to.