Psychic Witch by Mat Auryn

Author:Mat Auryn
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: CVR05242019;psychic witch;psychic witchcraft;witchcraft;pagan;paganism;intuition;intuitive abilities;what is a psychic witch;being a psychic witch;how to be a psychic witch;matt auryn;mat auryn;CVR12032019
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2019-12-11T20:15:15+00:00

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11. Christopher Penczak, The Three Rays: Power, Love and Wisdom in the Garden of the Gods (Salem, NH: Copper Cauldron Publishing, 2010), 61–67.

12. Orion Foxwood, footnote to “The Witch Lives” in The Flame in the Cauldron: A Book of Old-Style Witchery (San Francisco: Weiser Books, 2015), xix.

Chapter 7

The Lower Self

and the Shadow

The Lower Self is the aspect of yourself that feels and is connected to our physical, emotional, and energetic environment. It is primal consciousness. Because it has a perception of time and space as always here and now, it holds on to emotions and energies from the past and experiences them as if they’re occurring now. Some traditions of witchcraft call this soul the “Sticky One” and I think that’s a very apt description. It implies that it acts as a sponge, absorbing and taking in everything from its environment, but also that it is the messiest soul in some regards. The Lower Self is pre-verbal and communicates much like a child who hasn’t learned to speak yet, or an animal companion trying to relay information. It speaks through feelings, cravings, and desires.

The Lower Self is often described as being animalistic, primal, child-like, instinctual, and sexual. Being primarily composed of blood and flesh, the Lower Self comes from the ancestors, and the ancestors live through us in what witches such as Raven Grimassi refer to as the River of Blood, the unbroken lineage from our first ancestor to now.13 As such their wisdom flows through us in the form of evolutionary instinct and ancestral knowledge, and we are in tune with their guidance and help if we’re open to it. Upon death, we return this favor when the Lower Self merges back with the ancestors with the knowledge and healing accumulated from that incarnation—which is why the ancestors choose to join with the Higher Self to begin with. The Lower Self is where we come from in the spiritual evolution of humanity. It is our ancestry and our ancestral gift.

When it comes to psychic ability, the Lower Self assesses its environment and relays that information to the Middle Self, which interprets the bodily sensations, emotional feelings, instincts, gut feelings, and hunches into thoughts and words. When the Lower Self and Middle Self are in alignment they have a conversation, which we call intuition. We intuit information about ourselves, others, situations, environments, and possible paths without knowing logically why.

The closest psychological parallel that the Lower Self has is the id. While the Lower Self isn’t the id itself, the id is a part of the Lower Self and helps us understand what the Lower Self is. The id is the impulsive, primitive, aggressive, sexual part of ourselves that consists of all the things we’ve inherited biologically from our parents. A newborn child is all id, and later develops an ego, and a superego—just as the progression of the evolution of the human soul consists of the Lower Self as being where we came from, the Middle Self being where we are, and the Higher Self being where we are going.

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