There are so many things I could write about tonight, especially after being MIA for the last couple of months where this site is concerned. I’m sure I’ll get around to explaining that but that is for another time.

Right now I want to talk about something I encountered this evening which was very thought provoking and made me realize just how far outside I really am. Tonight I went to a local (i.e. North County) meetup, which I never go to anymore because of reasons that would take a whole post to explain. For you, dear reader, I’ll defer that post to another more appropriate time.

I was there talking with a friend for a little over an hour before anyone else arrived but when they did….they came in a drove. It had been so long since I had been to one of these things that I didn’t think to guard myself and was unprepared for the rush of crap that inevitably comes with these types of situations. People came and it was a whole 30 seconds before I started shaking uncontrollably and started with the migraine. Took about half an hour, easy, before I was able to get myself under control again. I’m not used to having to censor myself anymore and actually protect my vitality from those around me. My bad.

Towards the end of the evening, a new woman brought up a situation occuring with her daughter in school about other people being curious about her being a witch and whatnot. How easily that title is thrown around these days….but again, that’s for another time.

I was confused in the beginning but then I realized that this woman is among the oh-so-many people I’ve met who equate witchraft with wicca and so she was asking how her daughter should handle the curiosity of her schoolmates who think that she can put spells on people and make brooms fly.

Without offering anything I believe, I simply asked questions about why they believe that people *cannot* make brooms ‘fly.’ Why can’t people ‘orb’ like she so quaintly put it? Charmed has done wonders for the pagan community. /sigh

But seriously, here’s my point… Pagans will talk down to people who say that they can do these mystical things. They make jokes about, “Well, if you can do it then why aren’t you sharing the secrets because I want to fly to Hawaii…(insert more idiot comments here)”

My questions were simple. Who’s to say that these people can’t make brooms fly? Who’s to say that these people cannot ‘orb?’ Who’s to say that these things are impossible simply because *you* haven’t seen them? Of course, no one wants to have an intelligent discussion about it. They just want to dismiss it and laugh about it and believe that they know so much more than the naive young ‘uns at the dinner table. You say you want to know the physics behind it? Quantum physics is opening new doors every day. Maybe if you stopped talking for a milisecond, you would dare to step through.

‘Broom flying’ is nothing more than simple levitation. Right? Telekinesis, right? When you talk about flying on your broom it sounds like you’re an idiot. When you talk about levitation, backed up by cutting edge quantum physics now commonplace in laboratories across the world, it becomes more palatable. Broom flying is possible when you see it in that light. Levitation is not only possible but can, and has, been done. How do I know this? Because I’ve done it. I don’t make claims to be able to do it ‘on demand’ like a circus monkey or even to be able to do it on purpose, or well for that matter. But I have done it and I know I am not the only one. Miss P saw me do it on the counter of the store. She’ll tell you all about it, I’m sure. But when I saw that she knew what I was doing, the paper fell over and I wasn’t able to do it again. Doesn’t change the fact that it is possible and I did it. If I can do it, I’m sure there are, at the very least, dozens of others who can do it and do it well. In middle school I was able to do things a lot better, but I think we all have more ‘whatever’ then than we do when we grow up and allow our minds and logic interfere. I’m not claiming it to be magical, it is probably static electricity or something akin.

Anyway….

There are large handfuls of people who have made a difference in how pagans, witches and wiccans are viewed in general society. We are becoming more accepted, or at the very least tolerated. But in this quest for acceptance and recognition those people have not given anything of value to the newcomers. They have fought so hard for the world to accept a *religion* that they have forgotten the magick that we all have at our disposal should we choose to open our minds and realize our forgotten powers.

For most, there is religion here. But precious few remember the magick, the knowledge that all is possible should we simply choose to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that it is!

You said earlier that I am the exception to every rule and in my heart I know that. Try as I might to be ‘normal’ and just like the other pagans and witches…..I know that I am different. I know that the magick is there.