Kimberly Steele

I am delaying Part 2 of my dissection of Diddy for yet another week as I don't want it to be a focal point during an especially trying era of history. I hope all of you will continue saying the Pledge at least once a day. I like to say my polytheist adaptation of it whenever I receive a political spam text, which is at this point about 25x per day.

Banishing the Flu

It begins with a slight burning at the back of the throat. You become conscious of what you were not conscious before. You become acutely aware of a strip of flesh stretching from nostril to sinus. Perhaps you develop a throbbing sinus headache. Mucus thickens and becomes sludgy, prompting you to hock a loogie or if you are more civilized, to find a private bathroom and a box of tissue to empty your nasal cavity and throat.

We sort of know what happens when a human being catches the flu: after initial entry via one of the body's many vulnerable intake passages, the virus sets up shop and begins to hijack cells in order to rampantly reproduce itself. A battle is waged as the host's immune system sends out arrays of white blood cells to engage the invaders. By the time a sore throat and inflamed sinuses arrive, it is already too late: symptoms are indicators of the war being fought.

You are Here, and Here is Awful

What we don't know at all (or have forgotten is more like it) are logical strategies for winning wars against misunderstood viral invaders. The fight against the flu is merely the tip of the iceberg. The flu is the final, physical manifestation of what comes down the pipe from the spiritual plane. Meatworld sucks and it was designed to suck. It is as if we all dwelled within a gigantic classroom where lead eventually (very, VERY eventually) gets beaten into gold.

Therein lies the rub: even enlightened people who are a stone's throw from ascension out of physical incarnation get sick. Why? BECAUSE. Sickness is a common effect here because this is Meatworld. Viruses or whatever forces that cause flu that we have primitively dubbed "viruses" are the yin to the blood cell's yang. Death and decay are as normal and indigenous to Meatworld as birth and growth. Nobody beats natural law, and sickness is an inviolate rule of Meatworld existence. It is as if death is a symptom of life... or is it life that is the symptom of death?

Modern allopathic medicine has utterly failed to come up with healing modalities in general, and modern allopathic remedies for the flu are especially misled and vile (cough self-assembling MRNA graphene nanobot vaccines uncough). Modern allopathic medicine replies on two specific crutches to replace the legs it cut out from under itself. Both of these crutches are designed solely to benefit the middle managers of insurance companies and Big Pharma lackeys. Notice the patient is not one of the benefactors. These two strategies are:

1. Amputation: Cut out or cut off the offending body part
2. Drugs: Chemically blitzkrieg the offending body part

To play devil's advocate, sometimes amputating body parts is a good idea, especially in cases of triage. A relative of mine had a uterus so full of tumors, she thought she was pregnant. Her false pregnancy ended in a life-saving hysterectomy. In my own case, a combo of genetic wild cards and years of hormonal birth control landed me on the surgeon's table. My gall bladder was gangrenous and about half an hour away from killing me. Obviously, it was removed because I am still here. Amputation may have saved me but it was hormones that likely caused my gall bladder disease to begin with.

Modern medicine has lost the formula of health maintenance in Meatworld. In order to build any kind of good in Meatworld, we must strengthen the good that is already there while avoiding and ignoring the negative, despite that being really hard to do at times. Modern medicine suffers the delusion that this "building good/ignoring bad" strategy can be sidelined. It cannot. The only strategy to heal or better yet to avoid flu is to build up the patient's natural immunity and strength so he or she can avoid or overcome random pathogens.

Vaccinating babies does not build their immune systems. Instead, the infant's body is turned into a battleground the exact moment he or she needs to be sequestered in a sanctum far away from fighting and war in general. It is no wonder that perfectly normal, intelligent, happy babies and toddlers are transformed into stimming, hostile idiots a few hours or days after pharmaceutical Walpurgisnacht is injected into their fragile flesh. This is done by a compliant crew of well-meaning but also well-bought-off medical goons who call themselves educated. In this way, a series of unfortunate events rolls itself into a generational avalanche. Woe be to the Zoomers and those after them.

We cannot help the poor souls trapped in iatrogenic autistic hell. We can, however, be the change we want to see in the world. In a world of medical bunglers Charlie Chaplin-ing their latest pharmaceutical shuck and jives, we can opt to heal ourselves at home. We can surreptitiously avoid the system that profits from know-nothings who attempt to indoctrinate and force their quack potions into us and our children.

Step 1: Banishing the Flu by the Power of Water

Water should be the first defense against the flu. There are many ways to use water to beat back the flu, but the best by far is the nasal wash, also known as Neti pot or sinus irrigation. In what used to be called the Third World but is now more patronizingly referred to as "developing nations", the nasal wash has been the go-to method for prevention and relief of respiratory illness since God was a boy. There are two types of sinus wash: salt-water only and disinfectant-added. The salt water only wash can be done every day up to four times a day, especially when allergies are kicking up. The disinfectant-added wash is the equivalent of getting out the big guns and should only be done for more severe allergies or when there is a headache and thickening or dripping of mucus.

Recipe for Salt Water Only Sinus Wash
¼ cup lukewarm water
¼ teaspoon salt

Recipe for Disinfectant-Added Sinus Wash
¼ cup lukewarm water
¼ teaspoon salt
4 drops Betadine or ¼ teaspoon hydrogen peroxide

To do the sinus wash, mix up the wash and snort the water by either pouring it or pumping it into each nostril a little at a time, allowing it to flow out through the mouth via the back of the throat. Double the recipe for every extra hundred pounds you weigh. If you weigh 200 pounds and not 100 pounds, use ½ cup of water and ½ teaspoon salt and 8 drops of Betadine or ½ teaspoon of hydrogen peroxide.

Taking regular baths or showers is an imperative when you are fighting a virus. Viruses are most active in the etheric body, which is a non-physical body that extends beyond the Meatworld body by a few inches. Scrub every nook and cranny at least once a day, making sure to wash your hair. Finish with a rinse in the coldest water you can stand, even if this water is merely lukewarm. It still helps. Make sure to clean and rinse the back of your head and neck and the crotch and armpits, because this is where negative etheric energy builds up the most.

Step 2: Banishing the Flu by the Power of FIre

It may seem redundant to bathe and then immediately exercise afterwards, because you get clean only to sweat yourself dirty again. When a virus is sabotaging your system, desperate times call for desperate measures.

Do 5-15 minutes of the hardest exercise you can stand. You should be huffing and puffing and your heart rate should be the thumping. Occultists will understand we are following a watery, lunar technique with a fiery, Martial, solar one. In my own case, I do jumping jacks, squats, and push ups for about five minutes, often several times a day if the illness is manifesting mild symptoms and I am not all that sick. Basically you need to use your judgement. If you are truly sick, you will have to skip the Fire part and put yourself to bed, or sip on some hot tea.

Step 3: Banishing the Flu by the Power of Air

Materialist allopathy skips the realm of air entirely, amputating the natural, sacred breath itself by telling its adherents to don a Satanic symbol in the form of a mask. I hope it goes without saying that the very last thing you should do unless you are removing asbestos or literally performing brain surgery is to wear a mask.

The reason we banished with water first via the nasal wash was to clear the breathing passages. We then bolstered and encouraged the natural immune fighters inside us with vigorous exercise. Now we take eight deep, slow breaths. Do this preferably sitting down with your feet on the ground or standing erect. Imagine the eight breaths infused with golden light. In my case, I like to envision my favorite school bus yellow, which is somewhere between a taxicab and turmeric. For extra oomph, chant a holy name, Om, or Awen on the outbreath. Just breathing while visualizing yellow is fine if you cannot chant.

Step 4: Banishing the Flu by the Power of Earth

This process grounds out the energies invoked by the previous steps. There are many, many ways to ground, so by all means experiment and see what results you get. I would love to hear what you did in this space if you can find something that gives you traction. The simplest way to ground is to take your shoes off and put your feet on the floor or better yet, the naked Earth. Simply doing this and feeling the weight of your earthly body as you visualize the virus sinking into the ground is good enough.

In my own case, I like to ground by doing a self-belly massage with massage oil. I rub the oil into my hands and then press deeply into my abdomen from lower right, up and around to the lower ribcage, and then down to the lower left in a slow circle. This moves waste the way it is supposed to go. At any rate, this kind of self-belly massage is perfect especially if you are prone to tummy aches or constipation.

Yet a third way of grounding is to eat. Eating the Earth's food is the most grounding activity of all. Be sure to say a short prayer of thanks and blessing before you eat the food, for instance "North, South, East, West, may all who brought this food be blessed" or the even simpler "Itadakimasu".

While you ground, employ the most crucial element of all: gratitude. Gratitude is the world's greatest healer. The great healer Jesus knew this and was able to sublimate himself right up to heaven by refusing non-grateful emotional states. Clearly his suffering made even the worst flu look like a fun trip to the candy store. As most of you know, I am not Christian, but if the analogy fits, I tend to use it.

Finally, I conclude this group of suggestions with a recipe for a particularly healthy soup I am calling Everything Soup because it has a bit of everything in it. Soups are gentle and easy on the gut; be sure to eat them even when you are not sick! The gut comprises 75 percent of the immune system. Even allopath dummies can agree that gut health is important. Adapt this recipe to your own needs and preferences, by all means.

Everything Soup

1 onion, chopped
2 T oil or butter
3 stalks celery, chopped
3 large carrots, chopped in large chunks
Some garden tomatoes, chopped, or leftover salsa
½ cup chopped bell peppers
1 cup of frozen corn, pea, green bean and carrot mixture
1 can tomato puree (about 12 ounces)
2 medium sized potatoes, washed but not skinned, chopped
2 cups split mung beans, split peas, or brown lentils

Herbs and spices
½ teaspoon thyme
2 Tablespoons minced ginger
½ teaspoon garlic powder (if I wasn't mildly allergic to garlic, I would use 3-4 cloves of fresh, minced garlic here)
dash of cloves
dash of nutmeg
2 tablespoons mushroom broth powder or other bouillon
2 teaspoons Turmeric (add after soup is cooked for maximum benefit)

8 cups water

Turn pressure cooker or crockpot to a low setting and saute the onion in the oil or butter for about 5 minutes. Add all herbs and spices except turmeric. Add all remaining ingredients, finishing by mixing and taste-testing for saltiness. If it needs more salt, add salt in small increments and stir until you get the exact saltiness of broth you want.

Pressure cook for 10 minutes on the soup setting or if using a crockpot for 4-6 hours on low. The cooking directions are the same on the stovetop -- saute the onion and herbs and spices first in the bottom of the pot, add the veggies and beans, then low boil it until the lentils, carrots, and potatoes are tender and soft, which on the stovetop will take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour. Add turmeric last once the soup is cooked. Stir well and serve.

Image Credit: Malcolm Lidbury (aka Pinkpasty), CC BY-SA 3.0

Witch bottles are a classic example of a type of natural magic that is no longer appropriate and that should only be used as an absolute last resort under the careful supervision of an experienced practitioner of natural magic, if such a human can be found (highly unlikely). The witch bottle is problematic because it is a form of etheric bait. The etheric plane is the layer of energy between us and the world of images; imagine it as one plane more subtle than smell.  Placing your own nails, hair, and other effluents into a jar is a way of siphoning off a bit of your etheric energy.  The purpose of a witch bottle is to entice the evil person or the spirit sent by her into attacking an etheric lure. The reason it contains sharp metal objects is to trap the witch tricked into attacking the bottle.  The witch or her familiar sees the witch bottle radiating etheric energy from whatever astral spying she has done upon the victim’s house and commences an astral attack on the bottle, mistaking it for the victim. When she does attack, her etheric body is bound by the magic of the bottle and punished by the pins, nails, and other sharp objects.  If the witch bottle works as planned and the witch's etheric body is damaged, her physical body will also be damaged here on the meat plane.  

What if the Witch is You?

The trouble with witch bottles is not their ineffectiveness.  The trouble with them is the intention of the creator/victim. I have never met a miserable, unlucky person who was not at least partially responsible for their own misery and bad luck. We humans are experts at getting in our own way and making our own lives difficult and depressing. A person who fails to look at herself as a potential cause of her own problems is overlooking Prime Suspect Witch No. 1. Creating a witch bottle almost always traps the creator of the bottle. If the witch bottle’s creator is plagued by hatred and paranoia, the witch bottle becomes a literal etheric extension of that hatred and paranoia. Anyone considering making a witch bottle should first ask herself, “What if there’s no witch out to get me?” Linking yourself to fear and paranoia through your physical action of making a witch bottle means that you are prone to fear and loathing of witches without evidence, analysis, or reason. If you are indeed the cause of your own woes, then you just did the magical equivalent of walking into a booby trap that you set for your enemy.

Alternatives to Peeing in Glass Containers

In the Cosmic Doctrine, Dion Fortune set you never overcome evil by fighting it directly. Instead, you build your own strength and use evil as a stepping stone or thrust block while overwhelming it with sheer force. If you do have a bona fide witch cursing you, don’t lure her to your house by peeing in a jar! Instead, ignore her whenever possible and build your own self until you dwarf her foul influence.  Vanquish her by ignoring her and leaving her to her own toxic fate.

“I Don’t Know Her”

Once upon a time, Jennifer Lopez, a celebrity known as J.Lo, decided to pick a fight with Mariah Carey, another celebrity on the same record label known for her amazing voice. Despite frantic efforts by J.Lo and her team over the course of multiple decades to engage Mariah by asking the singer for her opinion of J.Lo in interviews, Mariah repeatedly claimed “I don’t know her”, refusing to acknowledge J.Lo or their alleged fight. In one interview, a prodded Mariah commented “Singing is first and foremost, it’s a God-given talent that I’m grateful for. Her thing is something different.” Without speaking J.Lo’s name, Mariah decimated the opposition. The subtext that J.Lo’s singing voice profoundly lacked in comparison to Mariah’s was crystal clear. One could picture J.Lo fuming like Snow White’s wicked stepmother in front of her mirror while Mariah practiced pentatonic runs, even if the image was far from the truth.

The moral of the story is that witch bottles are better left to the rare expert or the rarer individual who isn’t at all responsible for her own self-sabotage. Instead of creating a potential etheric booby trap for yourself, spend time in discursive meditation getting to the root of your problems, starting first and foremost with the ones you laid upon yourself. If you have zero responsibility for causing your current set of problems and you have an expert natural magician on hand to help you craft a witch bottle, then have at it. If you don’t, consider avoiding witch bottles altogether.