How do you connect with your Ancestors and Spirit Guides?

Snake Charmer by Kathy Crabbe

Dear Moon Muser,

How do you connect with your ancestors and spirit guides?
I do this for a living, but still find it difficult to do for myself! I’ve included some tips below.

Why Nude Aliens?
Painting is a way I bring spirituality, ancestors, magick and ritual into my life.

Right now I’m being guided to paint nudes. Nudes with alien heads! (drawn with my non dominant hand, of course) and animals, plants and words chosen intuitively (randomly?) from 4 different sources.

This is how I welcome intuition into my work. I open the doors to the Other Realms and invite them in to share their magickal synchronicities.

How can you apply this to your own life?
By recognizing when a coincidence is more than a coincidence and instead points to a synchronicity connecting you to your path, your guides, your inner compass.

How can you welcome more of this kind of knowing into your life?
By allowing it. Recognizing it. Accepting it. Trusting it. It may not make a lot of sense at first, but that is how the non rational, intuitive brain often communicates.

For example, to write this blog I asked my ancestors for help. My paternal grandmother came through the loudest. She cut out a star for me and helped me paint my eyelids blue which may sound bizarre, but this helped me recognize my own starring role and the need to acknowledge it. The blue eyelids helped me understand that I connect with these watery, Piscean, under water realms of emotion and dreams to help guide others in accessing their own hidden gifts.

Create a Dream Journal
If you need help, try starting a dream journal and recording your dreams and any symbols and signs that come your way. Share your feelings about these findings so you’ll know what headspace you were in when they appeared and then watch and learn, be open, and allow spirit into your life. Make sure to say an affirmation or prayer for protection as well.

If you need more help with any of this please contact me for a soul reading, or for ongoing soul support.

Sparkly Blessings!
Kathy Crabbe

1989 (SOHO) Fever-Dream #2 - The Countdown Begins

I am 1989 (SOHO)

I am 1989 (SOHO)and I am speaking to you via Kathy.

I'm alien just like u and just like the rest of Us.

I call this home -----> computer-land and I am co-opting Kathy's personal Facebook page for now.

LIKES: Delerium, diffusion dithering, Dolittle House, Deep House and duhhhsocks.

I zune when I can.

Sometimes I listen to Abraham and I REMEMBER.

This is my fever-dream (diffusion dithered) ----> Fuck Bunny (bitmapped using Diffusion Dither) by Kathy Crabbe, 2012, mixed media on canvas, 48 x 48”.

before dithering ------> Fuck Bunny, acrylic, charcoal and pastel on canvas, 48 x 48", © Kathy Crabbe 2012

and this is where I reside (underground) -----> The Dolittle House

Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paramormal

Lately I've been investigating aliens and monsters  and no, not due to any premonitions of doom, but because I believe they have something to teach us about ourself, the "other", alienation and our shadows. I'm reading a fascinating new book  by Jefferey J. Kripal and here are my favorite bits so far:

Favorite bits excerpted from Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paramormal

The mythical themes and paranormal currents of popular culture are generally transmitted through two modes intimately working together: words and images...In the spirit of the conclusion of my last book, where I suggested that we think of an "author of the impossible" as someone who can bring online both sides of the brain, I have transmitted my ideas here through one left-brain-dominant mode (writing) and one right-brain-dominant mode (graphic art).

Rene Warcollier (author of Mind to Mind publ. 1948) who was first awakened to the subject (of the secret life of popular culture) by his own telepathic dreams, believed that telepathic communications most likely reveal a from of psychical operation that employs paranormal processes, predates the acquisition of language, and reveals the very "substratum of thought" in what he called "word-pictures." As Warcollier demonstrated through a series of drawings and his own text. condensed, telepathically communicated word-pictures are often creatively expanded on, exaggerated, and added to by the recipient's imagination until they become words and pictures, and finally stories - in essence, minimyths.

In order (for Alan Moore, creator of the self-conscious occult comic, Promethea) to recreate the sefirot or spheres of consciousness in his art, he first attempted to actualize each sphere in himself through a magical practice, an actualization that he then recreated as the comic. It was in this way that the pages of Promethea became "meditational tools" and potential "triggers fro altered states of consciousness," and the comic itself has become a spiritual tool." Reading is magic.

The closer we approach such a prime moment, singularity, or Omega Point, the more we will realize - with John Keel, I would add - that "the vague mythological beings of the past that have focused into the aliens of the present will son become ourselves as we become the very time travelers whose shadows haunt all our history, including the present, In effect, we are haunting ourselves in the present from the past and the future via the ghost and the alien.

Indeed, whatever they are, the visitors are likely "responsible for much paranormal phenomena, ranging from the appearance of gods, angels, fairies, ghosts, and miraculous beings to the landing of UFO's in the backyards of America". They may be extraterrestrials, "managing the evolution of the human mind," or they "may represent the presence of mind on another level of being". The key for (Whitley) Strieber is that we cease being so passive and admit that we do not know what or who the visitors are. In other words, we must stop kneeling before the gods, quit "hiding in our beliefs," and begin actively, even aggressively exploring "a real relationship" with the visitors, whoever or whatever they are.  Put a bit differently, we must "demythologize" them and evolve past "the level of superstition and confusion that has in the past blocked us from perceiving the visitors correctly" How, after all, can we recognize ourselves if we keep projecting those selves into what are essentially religious cartoons? When will we realize that we ourselves are our own authors?

Excerpted from Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal by Jeffrey J. Kripal