Hello, it is June 21, 2010, solstice has arrived and here in central Florida the weather is gorgeous. It's 86 degrees with a heat index of 86. Not too shabby. My name is Asterion and I am creating this blog as a place to communicate with fellow occultists and other people who don't follow mainstream religions in an oppressive manner, but with an open mind. Let me give you a quick background on my spirtual journey through life. I became a christian in 1975, at the age of five. I attended a baptist church until about 1980, when my family switched over to a pentecostal christian church. Until 1991, that's how it stood, I was a spirit-filled christian. Things didn't work out between myself and the "man" upstairs, I wasn't happy with the way religion was taught and how people were treating it, so I denounced my faith in 1992. From there I went into seeker mode, reading books on Buddhism, trancendental meditation, Hinduism and various new age stuff and I got on the bus with the Grateful Dead fans. What a long strange trip that was. But all in all, I grew less spiritual and more high on drugs and drunk. The sad truth was that I had too much mental baggage at the time and ended up denying spirit altogether and labeling myself "atheist". Not a sensible, scientific minded sceptic. I was an angry ex-christian who would throw off anger and heresy at the mere mention of God.
In September of 2008, I decided to end a 20+ year habit of consuming 12+ beers every day, 12 was bare minimum. I usually drank more than that. It took me until the following February to pull it off, but it went down and I haven't had a drink since. The clarity that I gained from stopping the alcohol intake allowed me to examine myself, and I didn't like what I saw. A major change happened in the way I view the world and I have come out with a way better attitude than before, and I'm back on an upward spiritual path. This is what I want to share with my friends...
