Over the weekend i attended a HayHouse seminar here in Seattle. It featured several authors: Gregg Braden, Cheryl Richardson, Bruce Lipton, a couple of others. I want to say that it was really good, but to be perfectly honest I was really ho hum. Not very inspirational, pretty low in energy, nothing to practice at home. Except Cheryl's tip on writing down spontaneous affirmations. I tried it today and my mood elevated from about 4 to a 9 at the end of the second page. As i was sitting there I thought to myself that I would much rather be chanting and dancing in candle light, getting into trance, and rupturing from joy; doing something weird, funky and creative- anything but sit in a chair all day looking at graphs and charts, listening to watered-down magical techniques. To give some credit to the presenters I have to say that this was a seminar for a thousand people; it's kind of hard to get that many people in a circle and wave their arms around (although it's surely possible, just wasn't the intent in this particular case) NEway, my own observation of boredom, wondering mind and longing for more 'hands on' mysticism says one thing to me: i am actually a lot more of a witch and practical magician than i like to admit. I would've so much rather enjoyed the ministry and wisdom of Christopher Penczak, or sweated in some bizarre off the wall banishing with Andrieh Vitimus. I am so most definitely a witch and got to stop living in denial of my very own shamanowiccachaotic spiritual highway.