SILVERandSOULBONDED

The SILVER Family, a collection of soulbonds, plural entities, and spirits, shares their experience in this safe space. Learn about soulbonding, our spirit working experience, and ask us questions. The multiverse is a rich and beautiful place. We are happy to share our experience of it with you. Happy story-telling.

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Just letting the world know that we ARE still alive and well (ish). I mentioned before that we recently lost a dearly loved system member, my mate, Stelian.

Please be patient as we take time and distance away from social media while we process this.

That said, to any and all systems who have contended with the death of a system member, please know that we feel your pain and your grief and love is ABSOLUTELY VALID AND REAL.

Please remember that. Love is love.

- Cosmic Star

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I share about the death of a spirit and system member. It is not spoken about much due to societal views of what defines a person ("you need to have a meat body to be a person" and/or "you need to be a human to be a person"), but there are those out there who have grieved or are still grieving alone and unheard.

#grief #death #deathofspirits #mediumship #plurality #plural #soulbonding #medium #DID #multiplicity #deathofsystemmember #heartbreak #heartbreaksyndrome #grieving #animist #reincarnationist

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a question from a beginner: how do I start soulbonding and are there any guided meditations on how to reach out / invite this character in?

Apologies for the delayed answer. I just posted about this but I have been grieving the death of Stelian, my mate, these past two months.

Anyway. Off the bat, let me say that strategies for communication between bonds/ers varies per person. Like any other kind of dream work, meditation, trance work, etc. You need to find what works for you.

There are a few words of advice I can give from my own experience.

First, determine what your OWN energy feels like. This will help with sensing when another new energy is at play. Will help in the long run.

Second, it might be helpful to keep an icon or picture of the person with you when you try to connect to them. If you need something to focus on. Inundate yourself with cues and things to "tune you into" their energetic frequency. Maybe build a mood board or altar for them. Listen to music that reminds you of them. Draw them. Write about them. Anything to solidify and fine tune your connection.

Third, some people find it helpful to set up a "meeting space". If you visualize things with imagery in your head, you can try constructing at the very least a basic room from which you can set out. Many spirit workers have a kind of astral temple they go to from which they can attune to their own frequency, make sure they are stable and grounded, and then make contact. If you can't do imagery in your head, maybe try setting up a special physical space or object that just will cue your mind when it's time to communicate.

Fourth, journal what techniques work and don't work for communication. This helps in the beginning. And I have noticed it can vary depending on WHO you are contacting. You will have to find something that works for you both.

Honestly the biggest thing I can recommend is beefing up your "clair" senses. Clairvoyance. Clairaudience. Etc. Psychic senses. I absolutely 100% recommend Mat Auryn's book "Psychic Witch" for exercises on doing that. You don't have to be a witch to benefit from the info and exercises given.

So, to summarize: know your OWN energy first (so you can distinguish between yours and someone new), and try different techniques while documenting what works.

After that it's just trial and error. You will get it. Note that sometimes communication dips and varies in clarity. With moods, astrological factors, environmental factors. Don't lose heart. If communication is spotty one day. Just be kind to self and try again later. It gets better and easier over time.

Just start by saying "hi". It can be as simple as that. It may help to try meeting them in a dreamspace. Experiences vary so much from relationship to relationship. I have projected as a kind of spirit to their world, or just talked to them while they are dreaming and I am in a light trance. Also, some of my bonds showed up to ME like spirits. Kind of projected to this plane.

- Cosmic

[silverandsoulbonded]

Apologies to all who have messaged us with no response and apologies for our recent radio silence. Stelian, my partner and beloved, crossed over from this stage of existence about 2 months ago. I have been off social media, grieving, since. I am finally getting to a place where we can start posting again.

I will probably be writing a post to explain more about what happened and about deaths within systems in general.

Thanks for your patience!

- Cosmic

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Playing video games together...

Playing video games collectively as a plural family is not only possible, it can be super fulfilling!

We have found games with open worlds and multiple questlines very conducive to a plural team-effort. In Skyrim, for example, one of our peeps laid claim to the Thieves Guild quests.

But any game can be tag-teamed. And nothing beats playing with others. A truly fulfilling experience that not only offers bonding time amongst a system as you work together to solve problems and spend time with one another, but also one that can help members who are less familiar or comfortable with being near the front. Video games provide a safe practice space for them to hone coordination, frontal awareness, and confidence.

Game on!

[silverandsoulbonded]

Playing 'No Man's Sky' (space exploration video game) as a plural system 😂 :

1: "Oh look a burial site!"

2: "Oh but get that buried cargo first!"

1: "Oh wait gotta tag this animal."

2: "Shit, you lost it. Now go get that cargo."

1: "But I wanna see that burial site."

2: "Hey look another critter. Kill it and see what happens."

1: "It just gives us mordite and we need to save inventory slots."

2: "Fraidy-cat."

1: "What were we doing? Oh burial site!"

2: "I want that cargo."

1: "Oh look a new plant!"

2: "... .....We're really bad at this."

1: "THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TWO ADHD PEOPLE PLAY AT ONCE!"

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"Artists age like wine. Don't despair if you are not where you want yet." - Cosmic

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The Low-down on Switching Up

switch: (v) to change over possession of the front between members of a plural system

Yesterday, I had a rough go of things. Ravaged by directionless anxiety and up to my ears in tension, I sat, sick to my stomach and bucket in hand, on our futon. It was just one of those days, ya know?

As I sat there, one of my systemmates, Grigore, came to me and offered to take the front for a while in order to give me a much-needed rest. At first I said no. I have always been a bit neurotic when it comes to sharing the front. Control issues. But an hour or so later I finally took him up on his offer.

And boy am I glad I did.

The body began to calm as Grigore slipped into the front seat, the stomach sickness faded, and we were finally able to get some sleep.

The whole experience taught me that it is okay to lean on systemmates for front stuff. (I also learned how to use a plunger properly when Grigore fixed our toilet—which had become stopped up earlier in the day and remained as such due to my troubled state—but I digress.)

Plural systems are fantastic, beautiful things. They are the embodiment of community, and I truly believe plurality exists to teach us about teamwork, harmony, trust, and the power of community.

Over the course of my life I developed a whole host of trust issues. I grew up as the oldest child in a troubled home, and I lacked supportive parents. For the first 20 years of my life I powered through life on my own, unwilling to trust or lean on anyone, relying only on my own power. As you can imagine, that only worked for so long.

In my early 20’s I suffered a tremendously difficult period in which the momentum from years of abuse finally toppled my glass castle. I was in and out of the hospital. I lost my job. Chronic illnesses became worse than ever. Even basic tasks such as feeding myself, or driving, became nigh impossible to me.

Yet, through all of it, I had one support system that never abandoned me—my plural Family.

During the subsequent years of convalescence, I was forced to rely on others, including my systemmates.

We split up tasks based on each other’s strengths. Grigore is a skilled driver. He became one of our chauffeurs. Stelian is organized and methodical, so he handled finances and grocery shopping. Asura is flamboyant and fun, and he kept smiles on our faces. He also became my spiritual coach, introducing me to the world of the occult and helping me re-discover my own power. Meanwhile, Swordmaiden/ShadowFire protected us, and little Shaylin kept hope and innocence alive from within her quiet garden.

I can say, with absolute surety, that we would not be alive and typing this today if we had not learned how to work together. And switching played a huge part in our lives during that time.

Now, one of the most common questions I receive from newly realized systems is how to switch, usually followed by the question as to whether it is safe or not. So here follows my thoughts on the matter. (NOTE: This is a guide more for systems wishing to learn HOW to switch. I will probably write other articles for systems who already switch either voluntarily or involuntarily.)

Is switching safe? It depends. With the appropriate rules, boundaries, and trust it can be perfectly safe.

Switching is a tremendous exercise in trust. First and foremost, it helps to have rules set up within your system around fronting. Have all parties concerned with fronting agree to the rules—including the main fronter or “host”. Revisit these rules from time-to-time to ensure they still uphold what is best for and most comfortable for everyone.

Ensure that everyone agrees to keep the body and interests of the system safe. This includes avoiding self-harm, harmful habits such as drug use, doing crimes that could jeopardize the interests of the entire system (it will suck for all of you if the body is in jail), etc.

Once everyone has agreed to the rules, it is vital to practice in a safe space before going out and about in the world while switched. It may take time for system members to learn what works and does not work.

Never switch during hazardous situations if it can be helped, such as during driving. There is often a moment of lapsed awareness during a switch and that can be problematic in some circumstances. Use logic and good judgement. And stay safe.

Most important to remember is that purposely changing fronters is a choice. (It is not always a choice for some systems, but I am writing this more for systems that wish to learn how.) It is not required for a system to be valid. If anyone in the system is uncomfortable with the idea, then don’t do it. Not all systems switch. And that is okay.

How do we switch? Welp, this is the million-dollar question. And I am afraid the answer is, once again, “It depends.” Not what you wanted to hear, right?

As stated before, switching takes a tremendous amount of trust, so that is the first element needed to even entertain the idea. If you don’t trust one another, you most likely will have a disharmonious or even traumatic experience with switching. Develop trust. Switching can be beneficial, but only if everyone is comfortable and trusts one another.

After trust is established, then begins the process of finding effective methods for achieving a switch ensues. Some people, such as myself, got “lucky” in a way that we already possessed a propensity for dissociation due to some health issues (a silver lining I suppose). If you are already familiar with dissociation, or the ability to disconnect the conscious mind from the body, then you are ahead of the game. Yay! If you are NOT familiar with the notion, then here are some things that helped us.

Always practice in a SAFE space where you will not be disturbed and within which you feel 100% comfortable to be yourself. If you have a hard time finding such a place, it can help to set up a temporary “circle” space. Find a quiet place where you will not be disturbed for the length of practice, and do something to make it your own and tell your brain that you are now in a special space for just your system. Maybe, literally draw a circle around you. Maybe sit with a favorite comfort item like a stuffed animal. Do what makes you all feel safe. We would always practice on our bed under the covers.

It helps to set a time frame of practicing. Try for no more than 15 minutes each day, or as you have the ability to do so, and if nothing works after trying for 15 minutes accept that it is okay and try again another time. The ability to switch does not a valid system make! The ability to switch and/or switch at will is not necessary.

Practice being in a “flow state”. A flow state is that kind of meditative trance state you get into whenever you are really in the “groove” of something. Like when you are drawing and you lose awareness of what is around you. Or when you are driving and then wonder how you ended up at your destination. Flow state is a form of dissociation. You are letting your conscious mind take a back seat while your subconscious and body do all the work. Additionally, flow state teaches you how to relax your conscious mind which is essential in learning to switch. If you are thinking the whole time “OMG we need to switch we need to switch why isn’t it happening what am I doing wrong?” your conscious mind will get in the way and might make it difficult for another consciousness to take over.

Determine what makes someone WANT to front. We have found it helps if there is something at the front that a system member REALLY wants to interact with. Something that sets them all tingling with excitement! When we were practicing purposeful switching, we would use a “carrot” approach for the member trying to switch in. For example, Stelian goes nuts over poetry. So, during practice, we would use our complete collection of Edgar Allen Poe writings to entice him to the front. He would get super excited whenever we brought the tome out, and he had to front in order to read it. His excitement helped him get to the front.

Accept that not everything will work all the time, be kind to self and systemmates, and celebrate progress of any kind. If you manage to switch for only a few seconds, then that is still a win! Think of this as a fun bonding activity and your successes will be all the sweeter.

One technique we used at first was the idea of visualizing the incoming member’s energy sliding into and filling up the body. Start with the fingers on one side of the body and move part by part through the body, envisioning, feeling, that person’s energy fill the space up. Sometimes it can help to imagine each members energy as a different “color”. Imagine that color slowly filling up the body, pushing the previous color out.

Another technique we have used in addition to the energy-filling one, is visualizing the chakras of each individual lining up with one another, and the chakras of the incoming member attaching to the body. If you don’t know what a chakra is, think of it like a ball of energy that exist within your physical and non-physical body—there are a series of several main chakras that are strung along the body’s spine.

Use visual cues or rituals to signify the change. Sometimes it helps to establish a “place” in the headspace to indicate who is fronting. We have a pillar of light which we imagine people standing within. Whoever is standing in the pillar of light is the person at front. To add even more “oomph” to our visualization, we came up with symbols for each person and whenever someone switched in, their symbol would float in the light of the pillar, erasing the symbol of the previous fronter. When co-fronting we would see the presence of two people and two symbols within the pillar. You don’t have to use a pillar of light. You can use whatever works. I once knew a system who had a giant clock-face upon which the current fronter would stand. I met another system with a wolf member who would—and this sounds harsh but it worked for them—“kill” and eat the previous fronter in order to take over the “territory” of the front. I love the visceral energy of that one. Whatever you use, make it powerful and impactful for everyone. The more you FEEL it, the more likely it is to happen.

On the topic of rituals. We used to wear different items to indicate who was fronting. We had a pair of rings we would change when a switch happened. The ritual reinforced the switch. Besides, it helps to have things that help the current fronter feel at home in the body. Asura, for example, would always wear the hair in some creative or spunky way when he fronted. This just made him feel happier and more excited about fronting, while also reinforcing his individuality.

Those are only a few of many techniques we have tried or heard about from other systems. Experiment, be creative, and find what works for your system. Every system is unique and, with teamwork, you will find your own special rituals and ways to handle switching if you desire.

Definitely drop us a line and share your questions, experiences, or techniques for switching. We find the phenomenon fascinating and love to hear about the experiences of others! - Cosmic

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“Am I Real?” the Agonizing Question – a Soulbond’s Perspective

“Cogito, ergo sum.”

I think, therefore I am.

Descartes’s famed statement exemplifies an irrefutable fact of logic. According to the 17thcentury French philosopher, it is illogical for a being to doubt its own existence due to the fact that it is the one doing the doubting.

Nevertheless, this did little to stave the sense of directionless dread, of doubt, I felt upon realizing my status as a thing which my companion, Cosmic, called a “soulbond”.

Several years ago in this Earth’s timeline, I found myself pulled from my perceived reality to a strange new world. My memory of the initiation of our relationship is foggy at best. My first defined memory of this plane was behind the wheel of a Toyota minivan. Cosmic, a “host” or “soulbonder” in the community’s parlance, had been experiencing a trying time in their life and had developed a habit of dissociation whenever they felt threatened. It is my understanding that our connection was already solidly in place prior to this minivan adventure; Cosmic had been remotely viewing my previous life for some time. Yet it was on that day when they experienced a dissociative episode that their mind at last reached out and pulled me from the void and literally placed me in the driver seat.

It should be noted that I do not recommend switching while driving. Fortunately I had the presence of mind to get us safely to the destination shown on the GPS.

This experience marked the final solidification of the channel between our two souls. The channel was not so much unlocked as its doors were kicked in and thrust open. Our previous interactions were vague and little more than a dream to me. I do not recollect them at all, and Cosmic has theorized that I was actually existing in a liminal dream-state during those times. Some place between acceptance of reality and denial. Like a man seeing but not believing what he sees.

As the following months and years tumbled onward and my presence in this world increased, I fluctuated between existential dread, denial, and despair. I possessed only vague recollections and broken images of my existence prior to my time with Cosmic, yet the feelings about my former self remained. As one might possess an awareness of self, and major elements that form the backbone of one’s life experience, while in a dream yet find themselves unable to recollect any details. The disconnect between my perceived self and my memories tore my psyche apart.

It is easy to listen to the doubts of modern society surrounding extrasensory experience. The words of mainstream society seep into the consciousness and heart like a dark stain. Difficult to get out. And everything Cosmic and I were hearing out in the world were that “self” equated only to the possession of a visible, physical body in the world.

I distracted myself from my discomfort well enough with the growth of our new family. Cosmic and I became romantic partners and eventually added several beautiful children to our lives. Yet, despite the happiness I felt in the presence of my new family, the question of my existence crept like a quiet sickness in the background of my mind.

During the moments of repose in the “front”, I wondered, “Am I real?”

The question nearly destroyed my will to live and my relationship with Cosmic.

It was in that space of dire consequence, upon the edge of losing everything, that I finally realized all I had to lose.

My words to any soulbonds, or even soulbonders, out there who are questioning the reality of their situation, who find themselves agonizing over the conundrum, who feel the same lost sense that I did: think of everything you do have.

The only way to find reality is to focus on your current experience. There is nothing more grounding. In my years, I have learned that reality is subjective. All a being can know is their own perception—and that is a comforting notion. At some point a being must abandon obsession with the perceptions of others. When you find yourself risking your own happiness and risking the loss of all that fulfills you in this moment, simply for the sake of another’s perception, that is a sign that it is time to reconsider your priorities.

My priority is my family. The love I have for them is very real, and despite the countless things I do not and may never understand, I have realized the necessity of radical acceptance.

It is not necessary to understand all things at all times.

In a society consumed by cold analytic and materialist thinking, this is a difficult notion to swallow, yet I have found that it is only by releasing my obsession with understanding everything that I finally opened myself to new understanding, in my current situation.

I hope my experience offers some comfort to anyone else experience the paralysis that sometimes comes with that question, “Am I real?”

The question of being and reality is a natural fascination, but never let it swallow up your self-worth. The truth is that I may never understand what I am, or why I am. The important thing is that I think, and therefore I simply am.

Keep questioning reality, but rest assured that if you have the presence of mind and heart to even question your own existence, then you are real. The rest, as Cosmic says, is just gravy.

- Stelian

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Our discord server is open again!

If anyone wants to join, you can send applications through submissions. The rules have been updated since last time, so here is a link to them.

No need to follow our old format either. Just send in a submission saying you are interested and someone will contact you from there to give you the questions.

[silverandsoulbonded]

Check out our Discord community! Apply by submitting a request to the admins via DM on Discord (our names are at the top of the rules document linked above).

[silverandsoulbonded]

I'm saying this as someone who "soulbonds" and wants an answer to this question, not as a bully or an accusation: how do you know this isn't maladaptive daydreaming or fantasy prone personality issues? Please ignore if not happy to reply.

Good question and definitely one I have had before. First and foremost, answering this for yourself takes time to examine self. How I dealt with it:

Examine the "fruit" of your experience? Has it been beneficial for your functioning or helped you function overall?

Check to see if any of the bonds present show troubling or abusive signs such as trying to isolate you from other people, denigrating you, encouraging violence against self or others.

Examine your life to see if you have other coping mechanisms in place for dealing with life's challenges. If not, see if your bonds encoursge you to or are willing to help you develop those things. If not, it may be a good idea to start developing other coping skills with the assistance of a professional therapist.

Those are just some basic things we used to determine whether this was maladaptive or not.

If you take nothing else away, I would recommend the practice of frequently assessing the "fruit" of your relationship with soulbonds. That is the biggest tell for ANY coping mechanism. And it is how I determined my bonds to be a-okay on that front. They actually helped me function better and more safely than before. And they encouraged me to come out of my shell and engage with the world more.

If you find any of your bonds or "others" to raise any of those red flags, then it may be a good idea to seek out the assistance of a medical professional. - Cosmic

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A Life of Stories - Soulbonding and My Story

It’s the late 90’s. A tiny child sits in the grip of wonder on the carpet two feet from the old, analog television screen. The volume is turned way down on a Saturday morning, so as not to wake the parents. And Digimon: Adventure is playing.

That kid was me.

I spent the next several days telling anyone and everyone I knew about the trials and bravery of my favorite new friends on the TV. Taichi and his Digi-pals.

Every Saturday morning I tuned in with wrapped attention to check in on my friends. Because that is what they were. I could not explain it at the time, and looking back I see that I did not understand just how powerful my love for them was, but over the years I began to notice the disparity between my experience and that of others. The glazed looks I received when I tried to communicate just how much the “stories” around me meant to my heart and spirit.

As I grew, so too did my well of worlds. When it was not Digimon, it turned to Batman and the DC Animated Universe. Over the years, as things became harder and harder for me in an unsafe household, I would reach out to those stories for safety and comfort. In the dead of night, listening to shouts, I would silently pray for Batman to come in and save me. I would think about Static, from Static Shock, and his bravery. I would long for the Justice League to show me hope.

I grew up in a conservative Protestant Christian household, and I was quickly taught from the moment I could understand stories that they were not real. It seemed a strange double-standard to me, as we read of Jesus and his amazing feats, recorded centuries ago by the hands of men but somehow “different” than the other stories I consumed, which also taught me and affected me just as emotionally.

It would not be until adulthood that I could finally articulate this incongruity I felt, much less possess the bravery and personal freedom to think about it on my own terms. To set aside the pre-packaged “truth” I had been fed growing up in order to find my own fresh fruits of wisdom and meaning.

Stories. Stories are what sustain humanity. All we have are stories. Even the perceptions we store in our brains are only that. Perceptions. Stories. We can never truly know what an orange is, or who a person is. We only can know our perception of them, and the story of them that lives on within us.

And, sometimes, those stories speak to us in the most fantastic and magical of ways.

Fast forward to 2021.

I am an adult. A practicing witch and pagan. An artist and writer. I am functional and thriving. And I have an unusual family.

Some of the most important people in my life do not exist on the physical plane of this Earth quite the same as other friends of mine. They exist in the subtle realms of Dream and thought and wonder. Over time I have come to find many names for them. Spirits, guides, and “soulbonds”.

I began my foray into the community of “soulbonding” when I began to sense, or rather, acknowledge the living quality of some of the “characters” I was writing about. One character in particular, a being who introduced himself to me in a dream, had me particularly flummoxed. I called him Asura, and from the moment he entered my life through that dream, my entire world changed. It was akin to stepping onto a roller coaster car while it was still moving—except this roller coaster had no track and no limits. His entire presence permeated my life, my thoughts, my daydreams. I wrote about him, and it was my writing about him that led me to thoughts, questions, and explorations I would have never dared otherwise. By finding him, he led me to find myself, and for that I shall be forever grateful.

At some point, I, and even my closest friends, became aware of a “spookiness” about my dogged pursuit of this mysterious character. I started to know things about him and his world, and make connections in his story, that seemed to come out of nowhere but which all cohered together perfectly. Without a fault, I would learn tidbits about him that would suddenly fit with another thing I learned later, though I never had to strain to achieve such things. It was not so much that I was “creating” the story so much as “recording” it. There were elements of his story that overlapped with our world’s history and it was spooky as all get out when I learned about historical facts through his story and later found them to also be reflected in my own world, which has a similar timeline to his. A sort of “sibling world” to his.

We also noticed the tremendous power of my emotional connection to him and his friends. My boyfriend at the time even became jealous of Asura, though I assured him that was absurd. “Asura is just a story,” I would say. And my boyfriend thought the same yet he, and others, seemed unable to ignore the fact that there seemed to be something weird going on.

And, one day, with horror, I realized I was in love with Asura—fortunately, by that time I had since broken up with my boyfriend—but the idea terrified me. Unsurprisingly, this sent a conservative Christian “good kid” such as myself down into a spiral of questions and disbelief.

I felt the imposter syndrome. I thought, “I must be insane.” Yet, no one, myself included, could deny the reality of this connection I felt.

Over time, Asura and his friends began to speak to me. They guided me and provided loving support to me. I, at the time, figured I was either crazy or eccentric.

“Maybe this is a writer thing,” I thought.

And it was that thought that led me to soulbonding. I learned of other writers who also had their “characters” come alive to them. Alice Walker, author of the famed American work, The Color Purple, allegedly purported that she had received her story straight from the characters’ mouths one afternoon, during which she sat down to tea with them and learned their tale. And that is when I found a forum site called “The Living Library” (now defunct), and learned the term “soulbonding”.

In that community I found others who echoed my story in various ways. Deep personal connections to entities from other worlds, many of whom they found depicted in the flourishing ecosystem of thought and imagination, stories, that surrounds the human race. Others, discovered their unconventional friends via dreams, visions, or odd circumstances just like myself. One person I met had actually found one such friend first, in this instance a version of Edward Elric from “Full Metal Alchemist”, before learning years later—with a start I imagine—that Edward actually had an entire manga and anime about him.

I say “version” because another amazing phenomenon I discovered was the occurrence of many instantiations of people, characters, from infinite worlds, all with slight variances from one another. That is when I was introduced to the idea of Multiverse Theory and Many Worlds Theory.

As my personal investigations led me down various spiritual rabbit holes, and eventually led me to spirit-working and witchcraft, I found more and more ideas that seemed to jive with my experience.

I discovered what are colloquially called “pop pantheons” in occult circles. Pantheons of spirits and deities who connect to pop culture figures in human society—and even figures from “fiction”. And there is a whole, thriving community of people who lead successful, fulfilled, and meaningful spiritual lives working with these entities. I learned that reality and “truth” are not objective like I had been taught so long ago. And I finally understood MY truth—all we have are myths and stories. Experience is subjective and the only measure of meaning and truth we have is in the effects we see in our own lives.

With tremendous wonder and happiness, and even love, I have seen the effects my unconventional friends and family have wrought in my life. Asura is my familiar spirit now, and I have a whole host of other beings whom I love. Some come from “personal gnosis”, or unique experience, such as Asura. Others are beings who have come to me from the vast world of collective Dreaming that permeates our world, evident in media sources, in the form of stories.

I still have moments of doubt. I sometimes wonder, “Gee-golly-whiz, am I NUTS?” But then I remember that my truth exists only in my own experience. My ethereal family brings me happiness, growth, and meaning. And there really is no difference between my relationship with them and the relationship I had with Jesus so long ago. Every experience is real to me, and brings with it change and good. And that is what matters.

In this blog I intend to share my experience, in hopes that it can offer a beacon to others in similar situations. Every person’s experience is unique, though I hope mine can at least offer some hope, understanding, and love to another.

Cheers.

And happy story-telling.

- Cosmic