None of us is as good as we think we are. Every one of us is more than we think we can be.
Dolores Ashcroft-NowickiWhat we don't listen to, is what I am continually telling people in which nobody really, to get down to the nitty gritty believes, is that there is a piece of Divinity in us.
Dolores Ashcroft-NowickiMagic is a combination of art and science. It's an art because of the traditional parts of things, the graceful gestures, the sonorous invocations, the use of colour, sight, sound, all of these things make it very much an art form. Yet it is also a science as well because we expect something to come of what we do. Using and creating these almost dreamlike inner landscapes in which we can live, move, and have our being.
Dolores Ashcroft-NowickiSound is the basis vibration of the universe All those little vortices may get sent going the other way. Sound is really very powerful.
Dolores Ashcroft-NowickiOne of the things people don't know about exorcism, is that you can't really use exorcism on things that are older than Christianity.
Dolores Ashcroft-NowickiI don't believe in hours and hours of meditation. The mind gets tired and starts to fold in on itself.
Dolores Ashcroft-NowickiI don't regard that as a Guardian Angle. I really do think, in a sense, that we are our own Guardian Angles. But we don't listen to ourselves.
Dolores Ashcroft-NowickiI continue to say that I wish we had another word other than magic. It no longer means what we are doing or we are attempting to do. We have to find another terminology. Magic is first and foremost a way of belief.
Dolores Ashcroft-NowickiI was trained in the Society of the Inner Light. Now that requires that you spend a certain amount of time in meditation, it also requires that you spend this time in early morning, because they say you're closer to the sleep state at that point.
Dolores Ashcroft-NowickiI think that there is something in the human psyche, that when it approaches a big mark up point it tends to get doom laden.
Dolores Ashcroft-NowickiIf you record things, you're going to find, patterns of things, and patterns are important, because you can then see the patterns form before it happens.
Dolores Ashcroft-NowickiNobody really wants to work anymore. Nobody has the dedication to say, "It's going to take me ten years to get through this thing."
Dolores Ashcroft-NowickiThe keys are, or were, the training methods used by the ancient mystery schools. We've got hints and tips, we've got little bits on the papyri, but we don't have, in our hands, a complete curriculum of the ways in which they induced altered states of consciousness and the projection of the mind.
Dolores Ashcroft-NowickiScience, pure science, is leading us in a sense astray. Leading us astray with the idea that everybody has got to have everything that they want even if it means polluting the entire environment. It is a case of lets just keep one or two canisters of the smallpox virus because we'll never know when we might need it. Science is becoming very much a Dark Power, in many ways.
Dolores Ashcroft-NowickiIn magic I believe I can control certain elements of my environment, I believe I can control certain aspects of my endocrine system, through imagination, visualization, breathing techniques, which in a sense come into the scientific aspects. So magic is a combination, its a soup, a delightful combination of art, imagination, visualization, fantasy, with a healthy dose of solid basis, because it is a science. The thing is we've lost the keys.
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki