Preface^9
You see, the status quo doesn’t like people like me. The status quo wants you to
just accept what you have been told and not question the world in which you live. Fol-
low the standard operating procedure. Conduct business as usual. Oh, I am not always
right, and sometimes it takes me far to long to admit when I am wrong. But that which
drives my spirit, the Ka that motivates my Ba, the Yang that rocks my Yin, the Yo that
completes my In, and the mind that guides my soul, leaves me with no choice but to put
forth to this world the many things that it has seen and the many questions that it has
formed.
So what do I do for a living? I am a professional Witch. “Professional” because
such is my love of Witchcraft that I have worked it into not only my personal life, but
into that which I do to fund that personal life, my work. “Witch” because I question the
world in which I live. Oh, I know some folk have heard stories that Witchcraft involves
the worship of Satan or other boogiemen. Others have been convinced that Witchcraft
is the oldest religion the world has ever known. But the truth is where it is often found—
someplace in the middle.
Witchcraft is not the world’s oldest religion by any stretch of the imagination. Should
one insist that words have specific meaning, then Witchcraft is much too diverse to be
called a religion. While one might say that Witchcraft is a religion, one would be in
error if they put a period at the end of that definition because it is so much more. It
would be better to say Witchcraft can be a religion.
While definitions come and go, when I think of a Witch I think of someone whose
spirit has a certain quality. Half of that spirit is a zest for life and all things living. The
other half asks why there is this zest for life and why there are all things living. So when
I think of one who is a Witch, I do not think of one who follows one religion or the next.
Instead, I think of someone whose soul gives one no alternative but to love life as well
as to identify why it is that we live. A Witch is one who, in determining what is what and
who is who, allows his or her Spirit to decide, rather than simply believing what one is
told.
Is Witchcraft the worship of Satan? Well, what is Satan? When we consider the
word satan, we see that its original meaning was nothing more than ‘to accuse’ or to ‘act
as adversary.’ With this understanding of the word satan, the next step in answering the
question is obvious: What is it that you are asking if Witches are averse to? If you are
asking if Witches are averse to being told what to think, then you probably think you
know my answer. Chances are you are wrong. You see, while Witches are definitely
averse to being told what to think without being allowed to think for themselves, they
do not worship that aversion. Their Spirit is that aversion.
Witches are averse to the standard operating procedure that has caused this world
to slip into the place where it now rests. Not only does the potential for World War III
loom over our heads, but even if we survive man’s inhumanity to man, the rate at which
plants and animals are becoming extinct has now reached a point not even rivaled by
the global extinction rate that destroyed the dinosaurs. Our world is dying, and the folk
who refuse to accept the standard operating procedure that has brought this on are
called extremists. Like Witches, they are taunted, laughed at, and vilified. Like Witchesd WB Preface.p65 9 7/11/2003, 5:45 PM