{"id":3526,"date":"2016-08-02T10:55:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T15:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2016-08-02T10:55:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T15:55:10","slug":"ego-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/02\/ego-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Ego Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it is nescessary to remind ourselves of our cosmic insignificance. \u00a0At other times, it is nessecary to remind ourselves and those around us of who we are, what we&#8217;ve done, and what we are capable of.<\/p>\n<p>The following is a personal meditation. \u00a0Perhaps others might find value in making one of their own.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><u>Ego Trip<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am the Satyr Magician.<\/p>\n<p>I am an explorer of four worlds,<\/p>\n<p>charging wildly into madness,<\/p>\n<p>with a machete in one hand<\/p>\n<p>and a jug of wine in the other.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have lain with the Heart Encircled by A Serpent.<\/p>\n<p>I have been seduced by both the Moon and the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen visions of the Cosmos and of Elder Ages.<\/p>\n<p>I am an initiate of the Seven Spheres<\/p>\n<p>and of the Underworld and the Four Realms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have battled ghosts and Shadows.<\/p>\n<p>I have been adopted and abandoned both by familiar spirits.<\/p>\n<p>I have been assaulted by Guides and rejected by my ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>My flesh has been home to goddesses and demons.<\/p>\n<p>I have crafted new life from fragments of my soul.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have survived every enemy that has arisen before me.<\/p>\n<p>I have been both lover and beloved,<\/p>\n<p>and I have survived those endings, as well.<\/p>\n<p>I have built myself up from raw earth<\/p>\n<p>only to burn myself down again for fun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am the product of both my experiences<\/p>\n<p>and my ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>I am the Obsidian Dream.<\/p>\n<p>I am Teiresias of Dionysos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it is nescessary to remind ourselves of our cosmic insignificance. \u00a0At other times, it is nessecary to remind ourselves and those around us of who we are, what we&#8217;ve done, and what we are capable of. The following is a personal meditation. \u00a0Perhaps others might find value in making one of their own. Ego &hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/02\/ego-trip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-3526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-witchcraft","tag-meditation-and-visualization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-US","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}