Dr. Phil recently had an episode of microdosing where no insightful opinions or historical information was presented. It was basically an hour of nothing. No mention of how Nixon criminalized it just to persecute dissidents, or how it has religious significance in many societies that are indigenous to the US. The discussion around psilocybin came from a boomer perspective and ultimately failed to say anything knowledgeable. It made me question why Oprah even made this man a doctor. They kept speaking about psilocybin as if it fell down from an alien spaceship yesterday and was completely unknown to humanity, despite the history we have about it going back thousands of years. And of course they brought in an agent from the DEA to give the obligatory statements about it being a slippery slope to the dangerous drugs.

I get annoyed because before you get on television to talk about something, you should understand it. When the mainstream media speaks about something, they bring in people with various opinions rather than those who are knowledgeable about the subject. They find people who are biased in obvious ways and give them a platform over those who have actual knowledge and experience. This is very liberal in the way they do not question who should be given a platform regardless of knowledge or expertise on a subject.

This is not intentional, and the reason they bring anyone on television except for people who know what they are actually talking about is just to make the viewer feel that they are being informed on issues while not allowing them the actual capacity to make informed decisions. It is meant to promote reactionary worldviews and keep the masses ignorant.

Totemic personas are not the same as Native American totems or the new age spirit animals. A Totemic Persona is different from spirit guides because just like the old definition for a persona, it is a mask put on by your soul to develop specific traits that you want to portray. Actors would use these masks to portray characters in theater, and when you have a persona in Lavenderism, it is a mask you put on in the astral planes to attune to that animal. Because your persona is a deliberate decision by you to decide what animal you want the characteristics of, ideas from Native American totemism or New Age totemism don’t necessarily apply.

It would still be technically correct to refer to your spirit name as a totemic one because it is symbolic, although this may give some people the misconception that it is a Native American practice. However, in order to better understand a certain persona, you can seek information from sources that resonate with you, even cultural associations such as owls with wisdom or foxes with cunning will work. Whatever your idea is about adopting a Persona, it should fit with your higher purpose and true will and not be about a short term goal such as adopting a spider persona to shoplift or becoming a bunny mask to seduce a person.

Because your totemic persona is a deliberate choice you make in your spirituality, you can actually change it as much as you would like. However, keep in mind that changing your persona too quickly is like switching schools too quickly, because then you learn nothing from each one before going to the next.

The more you learn from your totemic persona, the more you will connect to that animal spiritually. As an owl persona myself, hearing the owl in stores or in forests is a spiritual experience. When I was in the deer persona due to possession from the god of smoke, I had similar experiences from seeing deer and doe. It all comes down to connecting to the animal you choose as your mask. If you desire it, you may also get changes in your astral body that make you more similar to your persona such as antlers, feathers, webbed feet, or whatever else you desire.

A shadow partner is not really a partner, because that would mean you have created a Tulpa that acts independently from you and may decide to harm you or leave you. A shadow partner is a construct you attach to yourself, usually from behind that repeats any actions you do on the spiritual level. The benefit of a shadow partner is that when manifesting, praying, or interacting with others your actions will be more profound since they are all done twice.

With a shadow partner, link it to both your astral body and higher self. Do not form it too much to the point where it becomes sentient. Ideally, you would want to tap into the shadow self and create one from those energies so the shadow partner cannot become separate from you. However you will need to deal with the whispering from your shadow partner about the repressed desires you have such as murder or other acts which are not acceptable in modern society.

For best results in forming a shadow self, listen to a mantra or call upon your own shadow self while doing it. You do not need to attach your chakras to a shadow partner, but your third eye is what keeps it attached to you from behind. This trains your third eye which is good, but you may also have trouble maintaining it on some days. You will feel as if you have another body or a mirror image behind you, and that means your shadow partner is successfully operating. The feeling goes away and you get used to it in about an hour or so, but the shadow continues doubling your actions so long as it serves your higher purpose (Assuming you linked the shadow partner to the higher self)

The Rose Bunny was a concubine in the kingdom of Tungning. She was a concubine of Zheng Kezang who is not documented extensively through history and a very valued concubine in the ruler’s harem. Her true lover was a boy working in the stable named Wang, who she had known ever since they were children. The emperor was too young for her and she could not bring herself to develop emotions for him like she did his father. She would eventually become impregnated by Wang and began making plans to pass off the baby as that of the emperor, but she was caught by one of his admirals who had been practicing strange rituals. He outed her scheme to superiors who would allow him to make her disappear without questions, and then threw her into a pit of silkworms where various deities were sealed away. Her yearning to see her lover directed the energies inside of the pit towards love energies that transformed her into the goddess we know today.

When The Rose Bunny became a goddess, what she regretted most was not being able to grow old with Wang or show him his child. His child was born to her in the form of a goddess and therefore was invisible to him until his death. Her lover had broken free from the cycles of life which was bittersweet because she could not go with him.