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@Delano I like that idea and yes I will share my experiences. I've only shared my knowledge of magick in my debut novel. I've always been too embarrassed to share the practice publicly, the fact that I used to practice magick and how today, I'm still energized by the subject means I shouldn't ignore it. As you mentioned there are many levels of magick and they can overlap. When working within nature there's a real possibility to invite those in from other dimensions that may revel in destruction. This is what I found when I was completely immersed in the practice. As an alchemist, you have to be mindful of your vibrations (energy levels) at all times. Sadness low energy/ low chi brings about forces who are "hellbent" and destruction and those forces will use your low vibrations to complete any task. I was once so sad that I was laid off from my job that I made myself sick with fever. I drifted off to sleep and felt as if I was on fire. I began to toss and turn from what I thought were the effects a high fever. As I rolled over in my bed - my former co-worker text me to tell me my immediate supervisor and my departmental co-worker were trapped in the office and the section of the office building was on fire. They got out unharmed but very much shaken The fire investigation revealed ongoing construction in that section of the building as the cause.

Donald Trump will be the most unifying divisive President. He is divisive in speech and ironically this causing people to form allegiances.

Derek Walcott, Toni Morrison, and Wole Soyinka... And two (Morrison and Walcott) have appeared and been honored at the National Black Writers Conference at Medgar Evers College. Clarence

Mel Hopkins I will be checking into the forums more know that there is a companion voice to Cynique. Thank you.

Troy here's a link to the cities that had marches, not St Petersburg in Florida is on the list. https://www.womensmarch.com/sisters/ Firstly the March on March wasn't just about Trump it was about equality. If you go to March on March they have photos from all over the World. And they have a 100 day action plan. I didagree Troy by April 21, 2017 the TRump Presidency will look very different. Donald Trump is the most unifying divisive President. I have said that before and will keep saying. It will be similar to my saying Trump could be President when very few people thought so. He is not bullet proof. H is going to be one of the most important president's ever. I feel sorry for him because he is going to have some very public failures, which he has earned.

In view of that, he might've suspended marching for white acceptance and focused more on blacks coming together to love and respect each other Yeah. Infact he was starting to do THAT before he was killed. King wasn't a god, but his powers were clearly SUPERnatural.....true to it's definition.....in that his powers of influence and persuasion were above that of most natural human beings. Most leaders have a measure of charisma and influence over the people, which is how they became leaders in the first place. However people like Malcolm, Garvey, and King were not only exceptionally intelligent and socially shrewed, but also EXCEPTIONALLY CHARISMATIC. It's very important to undertand this fact because it's one of the key reasons I believe that had he still been living the problems that affect the Black community wouldn't have grown to nearly the extent that it has. He wouldn't have just stood by with a sour look on his face wringing his hands in helpless frustration like so many self-appointed Black leaders do today. In the 70s and probably all the way through the 80s he would have been so active in establishing economic and political gains for the Black community that the situation we see today would be non existant. The thing that would have made Dr King so effective is his unprecedented power and influence over wealthy, middle class, and well educated Black people. The base of most "Black leaders" are the poor and those on the street level, but King had most of the well to do "responsible" Black folk in his corner and this influence over them would have forged the economic and political institutions that would have sky rocketed Black progress. Ofcourse you'd still have SOME poverty and violence and division in the Black community as you had even 100 and 200 years ago, this exists in all human communities. But I seriously doubt that had he lived that things would have degenerated to this point.