MAGIC & RITUAL FINALE!!!

In lieu of the Portfolio Show our final class on Thursday, March 27, will begin at 5:30pm.

We will be conducting our final giant meditation (!) and presenting/compiling our Book of Shadow and Light. 

Please make sure to read the homework page to understand what your final assignment consists of!!

In the meantime, if the healing meditation did wonders for you today in class, give it another try this week.

p.s. The link to download the "secret book" has been sent to your emails : )

You're almost there!!

At the end of the quarter, that is!! Some of you may be pulling out your hair, or perhaps on the verge of another meltdown. But before you go there, take 5 minutes, maybe even 10 minutes to do our usual mindful breathing meditation or perhaps a walking meditation that we learned in class. Please give it a try!!

See you all next week, Week 10. We are back in our regular classroom!!

Don't forget to breathe!!

Outer action with inner meaning

A pilgrimage is a very good example of what we consider "ritual" - outer action with inner meaning. This week you will be designing your own pilgrimage based on the handout.

Happy journeys everyone!

No class today!! SOUL RETREAT instead!!

Hello everyone!!

Just a reminder, we will not be meeting for class today. Instead, you will be using this week to do something that FEEDS YOUR SOUL!!!! Please shoot me an email today by 10pm with a brief note on what you plan to do. This email will count for your attendance.

Have a fantastic soul reviving time!!

See you all next week (Week 8).

The underlying meaning of the world and our lives through numbers!

Hello everyone!!! Guess what our class number number is?? SB311 --> 1+2+3+1+1=8!!!! SPIRITUAL FREEDOM!!

As next week is our SOLO RETREAT week, and we will not be meeting at school,  the assignment from this week (Week 6) and next week (Week 7) will be due WEEK 8.

Remember, next week, we will not be meeting at school. Instead you will use that time to do something that FEEDS YOUR SOUL. Make a promise to do this thing next week. And send me a short email describing what you plan to do. This email will count as attendance.

See everyone in 2 weeks!! (Week 8)

The sacred in everyday spaces + MIDTERM PROJECT

Hope everyone's hands are ok from all the speedy writing yesterday!

Please download the Temple in the House handout from yesterday and the word document with the questions you will need to answer. Please consider this as your midterm report project! Print and bring to class next week. This will be the writing for this week so you do not need to turn in anything else.

Also part of the homework is to change up one thing about your surroundings/routine (based on the questions you answer).

Let's bring back the sacred into our everyday spaces!!

What's in the cards....

Sound is color..color is sound...7 chakra assessment

Hello everyone!! Great job today on doing the crystal bowl meditation and for taking an inventory of your 7 chakras. A link to download the mp3 (2 of them, intro and the meditation) has been sent directly to your email so please check it out.

See you all next week for card readings!!

Hello psychics!!!

You all did marvelously last week!!! As we all saw, there is a world that exists in the unseen world just as strongly as the seen world!!

Good luck with your intuitive readings at home and see you back in class on Thursday!

Welcome to Magic and Ritual!!!!

Hello everyone!! This website is our one stop shop for all things Magic and Ritual. Here you will find lesson plan schedule, homework assignments, and tutorials on exercises covered in class.

Looking very forward to our 11 weeks together!!

Outer action with inner meaning

"Pilgrimage is a journey, a ritual, a commemoration, a search for something, perhaps something the pilgrim cannot express in words, perhaps even something the pilgrim does not fully perceive...They speak to the human spirit and even transform the pilgrims." - The Archetype of the Pilgrimage

This week you will be designing your own pilgrimages! The sky, your heart and imagination are the limits! Planning a pilgrimage to Mordor or Hogwarts? Excellent. Visiting your ancestral home? Fantastic. Making a pilgrimage to the Nintendo Headquarters in Kyoto? Do it! Making a pilgrimage to mark letting go of heartbreak? It's time! Feeling the urge to follow in the footsteps of centuries worth of pilgrims on the Camino del Santiago? They await you.

Visit the homework page to download the Pilgrimage pdf that will guide you in putting together your own pilgrimage packet.

Happy travels!

Walking meditatively and walking into the past....

In preparation for our journey into the ritual of pilgrimages next week, this week we tried a walking meditation and a past life regression visualization. Check the tutorials page to read a recap on how to do the walking meditation and check out the homework page for the past life regression visualization. 

Solo Retreat!!

Hello everyone! Just a reminder, this week is solo retreat week!! You will be spending class time (or another time if you are switching things around) to do something that feeds your soul!! Your write up for next week (Week 8) will be about your solo retreats.

Have a wonderful Monday and Veterans Day!!

Seeing the sacred in everyday places

Hi everyone. Apologies for the late post! This past week (Week 5) we looked into sacred patterns that exist in the everyday spaces that surround us (home, work, school). We studied the work of architect Anthony Lawler who says that a "hero's journey" can be found in how all spaces are set up.

We can think of it like this - think of Neo (from the Matrix!), or Buddha, or Jesus Christ - they all led normal lives until they started to have questions - is this all there is to life? Unable to shake the question, they finally decide to embark on a journey to find answers. On their path, they experience many obstacles and challenges, but to keep them on their path they also have moments of insipration and reflection and finally realization. Every building can be seen as a manifestation of this journey. A "gateway" into a home is the decision to embark on a journey, the "path" is the route taken to the point of realization - the "lotus seat" - the place where you go to sit once home. "Steeples" and "Sanctuaries" provide places of inspiration and reflection along the way.

What do the cards say....

Hello Readers!!! The classroom was definitely abuzz today!!! Check the "Homework" page for what this week's assignment and of course the "Tutorials" page will have instructions on how to do what we covered in class today.

Chakra Inventory!

Think of yourself as running on 7 cylinders. When we run on all 7 evenly, we are running smoothly. Of course, some cylinders run more strongly than others. This week for your homework will be to continue the work you began in class and to take a closer look and inventory all 7 of your chakras. 

If you'd like a little tune-up, try the crystal bowl meditation we  tried in class! (Download link has been emailed to everyone)

Happy inventory-ing everyone!!

Hello Psychic cats!!

Great job everyone!!! Remember that you can find instructions on how to repeat the class exercises from today on the "Tutorials" page. A description of the homework can be found at, you guessed it (!), the "Homework" page.

Have a great week everyone!

WELCOME TO MAGIC & RITUAL SB311 for the Fall 2013 Quarter !!!

Time Transfixed by Rene Magritte, 1938

Hello everyone welcome to Magic & Ritual. We're going to have a wonderful 11 weeks together. This website is your one stop shop for all things related to this class.

Please bookmark this site immediately!! http://magicandritual311.blogspot.com

Also all emails related to this class should go to: magicnritual@gmail.com

Here we go!!

(from the syllabus)

Students will learn to dig beyond the surface and as artists unearth and reconnect with their own intuitive language. This class will help students to bring forth their deepest, most creative voice with confidence and joy, while also helping them to live the non-artistic parts of their lives with more imagination and creativity.

Pilgrimage Assignment, Past lives, and Week 9 field trip!!

Hello everyone!! A few key things-

DESIGN YOUR OWN PILGRIMAGE
Your pilgrimage assignment is due not next week, but Week 10. For those of you that missed class, download the class handout here and start designing your pilgrimages!!

PAST LIFE REGRESSION HYPNOSIS MP3
Please check your emails. A link to download an mp3 past life regression hypnosis exercise has been emailed to you. Again, if you try this, please DO NOT do this while driving!!

WEEK 9, SATURDAY, MARCH 9 MEET AT THE VINCENT PRICE MUSEUM
We will meet in front of the museum at 1:30pm. We will be there to check out the exhibition SANCITIFIED as well as participate in a KRYSTAL KRUNCH workshop. 

Vincent Price Art Museum
East Los Angeles College
1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez
Monterey Park, CA 91754   


For driving/parking/public transport directions click here.



 

One reality....Archery in Balboa Park

Hi everyone,

Since everyone seemed very intrigued by Samuel's archery adventure, I'm posting a yelp link giving more information on where/when to go to the archery range in Balboa Park.

And here is a wonderful quote from the book "Zen in the Art of Archery" by Eugen Herrige ~

 "In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but one reality."