Kabbalah

Releasing Yourself From the Bondage of Inner Slavery

A few weeks ago, Jacki Smith called me and asked a rather simple question – “What is a miracle?” To be frank, it is a rather interesting question that has eluded the secular world for eons. In fact, pop culture has “dumbed down” miracles to the point that it’s a glamorous word that more closely resembles luck or fortunate happenstance than anything divine. Needless to say, the word is perplexing. I was plagued pondering the meaning to this for several days. Of course, I eventually pushed miracles aside and began to study Passover.

During the season of Passover we celebrate the Israeli liberation from the Egyptian Pharaoh and the story is found in the book of Exodus. It occurs on the 15^th day of the Hebrew month of Ares (Nissan) and always occurs during a full moon. According to the story in Exodus (Shemot in Hebrew), God inflicts ten plagues upon the Egyptians culminating with the worst of the ten plagues being the “death” of the Egyptian first born. In order to protect the Israelites, God instructed them to make their doorsteps with the blood of a slaughtered lamb so that the spirit of the Lord knew to “pass over” the Israeli first born – which is why the holiday is named Passover.

5 Keep It Magic Topics You Do Not Want To Miss

In the summer of 2011, I was in an awkward state. I began psychotherapy a few months earlier for unresolved sexual abuse trauma and social anxiety disorder. I was doing well – or at least better than I had for the 10 years prior. I was getting the relief I needed, and began to live my life rather than let life live me. After doing years of radio prior (hosting 2 radio shows and the co-host of another), doing another radio show was the last thing I thought I would do.

Enter – Jacki Smith!

Jacki and I had worked on a radio show together in the past. She contacted me to see if I would help her with her own show which she wanted to call “Keep It Magic”. I offered to help her get her show going and would host the first 10 episodes with her so that she would eventually feel comfortable running her own show.

Keep It Magic was born in the fall of 2011. It is now the spring of 2014 and we are in the middle of our third season. I guess you can see that Jacki talked me into more than ten episodes. Moreover, the last 100 episodes of KIM (our shortened name for Keep It Magic) have been awe inspiring, transformative, and the most fun I have had in radio. Our goal is to provide our listeners with as much content as possible in order to help them achieve their own personal desires in their lives.

In order to celebrate this milestone accomplishment, I have put together a list of my favorite “Keep It Magic” episodes. These are the episodes that helped change my perspective on living and helped me “Keep It Magic” in my own life. Hopefully, they will help create some magic in yours!

5. Honor Thy Mother and Father With Reservations:

This episode was produced during the holidays and one of the most frustrating and stressful time for our listeners. Often we are forced to deal with relatives that we have unresolved issues with and/or have to deal with past traumas of our childhood. This episode explores how to honor your roots and at the same time remain an individual and firmly planted in your boundaries.

4. Getting Your Needs Met Once and For All: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

This series was divided into three parts. Jacki and I explored needs from a spiritual, magical, and astrological perspective. This is a great show if you feel lack in your life and what you come up empty handed in regards to getting your needs met. Sometimes what we think we need and what we really need are actually different.

3. Does God Really Wear Lipstick? Part 1 and Part 2.

In this series we explored Karen Berg’s book, “God Wears Lipstick – Kabbalah for Women”. Since I know Kabbalah and its theories pretty well, listening to Jacki’s experience was rather interesting to say the least. Her first reaction was that Kabbalah had the same misogynistic ideals as other Judeo Christian religions, but as she got deeper into the book she realized how different it actually is. This series will teach you the Kabbalistic purpose for women on this planet and how they can help others achieve fulfillment.

2. Dispelling Inner Ghosts and Demons: Part 1 and Part 2

During the month of October, Jacki and I decided to take a detour away from the traditional pagan and Wiccan ideals of Samhain and instead focused on the inner world. If you are haunted by things from your past and need to learn how to manage your personal ghosts then these episodes will truly waken you up to how much our personal hauntings control us in our day to day lives.

And finally…

1. Getting to the Core of Your Desire.

Danielle LaPorte’s latest book, “The Desire Map” is one of the most transformative books of my life. It is ground breaking and eye opening. If you live your life based on attempting to achieve goals and satisfaction through the physical world, then this episode will help you flip the switch. You will get to the root of your desire not through what you achieve, but rather though your feelings through the process.

Plus… don’t miss the latest episode of Keep It Magic

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Having Gratitude In the Midst of Pain

I must admit that while I am writing this post I have just received news that one of the most fundamental teachers (Rav. Phillip Berg) to my spiritual beliefs has just passed to the other side. It is surreal and as I sit here and question things (his teachings taught me to question everything), I have noticed how much I have changed over the past few years.

For me, pain was something that was just expected. The easiest way to handle it, was to shut it off. Become numb. To not feel. To throw myself into something that would divert my mind from dealing with whatever issue (and sometimes multiple issues) I needed to deal with. If you avoided it well enough, it would eventually go away. The last thing I ever thought I would be able to do is be grateful for pain… until now.

Storm Cestavani on Almost Heaven

Let’s face it, there are a lot of gifted mediums in the world. You may have heard of some of them – Lisa Williams, John Edward, and James Van Praagh; however, in my experience, the most gifted medium I have ever encountered is Elizabeth Gillam aka Lizzy Star. I recently was asked to be a guest on her talk show, “Almost Heaven,” and had a great time discussing astrology, tarot, and my recent recovery process. The interview was one of the best I have ever had the privilege to do. The show also featured the talented Bear Medicinewalker, and a gifted medium in her own right, Barbara DeLong.

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Daily Practices That Improve Your Spiritual Connection

What type of relationship do you have with your higher power (god, goddess, or the universe)?

I will tell you right from the beginning – the level of your happiness is directly proportional to your connection to your spiritual source.

For years, I spent a lot of time wandering around the physical world “acting as if” I had the perfect spiritual life. After all, I had all the head knowledge. I knew the language of Kabbalah and other metaphysical sciences like I knew the English Alphabet. But, I had a little dirty secret – I knew the language, knew the words, I knew how to go through all the motions, but I had not applied the principles to my life. In fact, it took 11 years (and a spiritual awakening guised in a brekadown) to actually begin my REAL spiritual journey and create the actual connection to the light of the creator that I truly desired. I realized that spirituality and my personal connection actually took work, effort, and daily practice.

Now, before you get confused. I am not a saint, I did not grow angel wings, and I have not yet learned to levitate. I (like everyone else) have made some stupid life decisions that were not in my best interest. I still get caught up in obsessive thoughts, anxieties, worries, struggles, battles with my self-defeating behaviors, but what I have learned is that I always have a remedy to these particular problems. Applying these solutions has helped me become truly free.