Monday, June 22, 2026: 9:45 AM: Despite a nice brisk walk this morning, my fury with matters of family, church and state is still something to behold. We all have racing thoughts about others from time to time, sometimes in our imaginations doing the most horrific things to those we know to be a threat to us. Does this make us bad or somehow mentally unstable?
So long as it all remains in our imaginations, the obvious answer is, “No.” Therefore, I’ll continue treating these intrusive, racing thoughts as a warning, let my response play out in my mind, and trust the magic of imagination to do the rest.
Author: Brian Schnabel
A resident of Newtonian Gardens in New Jersey, he is a witch in the nontraditional sense: an explorer of consciousness, meditation, dreams, intuition, manifestation, and the strange territory where inner experience meets everyday reality. Accepting claims solely on the authority of a teacher, book or tradition isn’t in his DNA. His approach is experimental rather than prescriptive: he tries various techniques, observes what happens, journals, questions, and adjusts his practice accordingly. For him, witchcraft is a conscious practice of working with attention, intention, language, and intuition to explore personal transformation. He writes honestly about that ongoing experiment, sharing successes, failures, doubts, surprises, and unanswered questions here. He does not claim absolute answers as to what an experience means.
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