Are you a Witch or are you just Mental?

  Focusing crystals, crystal balls, scrying mirrors bowls and pendants. Divination is a large part of the modern Wiccan craft, and for the most part it seems that the naturally sensitive, the mediums the automatic writers, psychometric and precognitive are highly attracted to the occult.

  This poses the question is spell casting “the act of affecting the world with focus energy rituals” and Psychic phenomenon “receiving information by the power of ones mind” tied together or separate but similar. Are you a Witch or are you just mental? Can you have one without the other? Can you have both? Can one lend its self to the other improving your future seeing abilities through spiritual exorcise?

  In gypsy culture it is believe that every woman has the gift of sight and is a born healer. In the Native American view those bless with insight were cast in to the roles of medicine men. The common belief in “Two Spirits” a person possessing two soul both male and female was used to explain gender transcendence and homosexuality in the Native tribes. Believing these people were blessed with the ability to see the world from two perspectives they were considered holy and the most venerated of medicine persons. This belief was so pervasive that sexual relations with a two spirit were culturally considered a blessing that would protect you in a coming battle.

One tribe even sent there Two Spirit as a representative to the White House.

Now this was a combination of nature and nurture where a path was set out for someone reflecting a perceived gift. But in modern Wicca this line has blurred to the point of vanishing. Unlike other religions the craft has very few set Dogma and few rules.

Would structure benefit those seeking enlighten or is the cost of independent spiritual responsibility to important to install that level of change?

This is one of the few subjects that I have no clear opinion on. All I can say is that many witches are Psychic and many Psychics’s become witches. The cross over is unclear as are the benefits.

This is also one of the few articles I would ask for and appreciate some feed back comments on.