About me

    Greetings and merry meet.
    I shall present myself under two names: Skadi (my shaman name, short from Skjalddís which means shield maiden) and Deorwynn (my artist's and writer's name). My legal name is different at the present time, but I do not give it much significance for that is not the name chosen by me, myself. After all, names as such are not really important in the spirit world. For entities and spirits, names are simply an invention of the humankind and they do not need to use them. We do not need to use them either, but it makes things somehow easier in the material realm. In fact, entities present themselves to us by the names they chose themselves. If they are spirits of deceased beings who lived on Earth, they usually pick the names from their best lives/incarnations. But the truth is, we can simply recognise entities, spirits, and even people and animals, by reading their energy signature.
    By now you can surely tell that I am going to be posting about spirituality, psychic and paranormal phenomena, astral traveling and lucid dreaming; ghosts, aliens, spirits and other entities; magick, energy works, meditation, crystals and alchemy; yoga, tai-chi, food, nutrition, healthy lifestyle, herbs and traditional medicine. If you are interested in these topics then you surely do not want to miss out what I will be posting about! Please subscribe and feel free to comment and ask questions, you are most welcome in my cosy imaginary hut! Just make yourself at home ;)
    A little something about me. For a period of time I used to work on eBay as a seller of spells and spirit bound items. At around the time of banning the metaphysics category from eBay, I ran into some trouble and I had an overall life crisis for about half a year. I have dealt with it for the most part and I am back. I have decided to focus mainly on shamanism now, but I will be posting about various magickal teachings. I can not wait to share with you, guys! My eBay shop was called Mortrag Castle which was very suitable since there were several of us with different specializations, but since it is only me who will be posting here now, I will simply call this page a Shaman's hut. Plus, it is not a shop but merely a blog. I might open a shop again elsewhere later and I will definitely let you know if I do that. :)
    I have always been a creative person. I love art, especially drawing, painting, writing, playing my flute and singing. Actually, I shall be posting some art pieces of mine here as well, if related to the topic. I might also make some special art for this blog. There are also other things that I am interested in, such as traveling, cooking, learning foreign languages, history, listening to all sorts of music, watching movies and playing some computer games (mainly Daggerfall, Morrowind, Dungeon Master 2, Lands of Lore 1, Skeldal, Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Might and Magic series, Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and 3, Icewind Dale 1 and 2, Drakan).
    I have been aware of the paranormal since I was a little child. It all started at around age four, before I even went to the elementary school. One night I was sleeping in my bed when something touched my ear. We had no animals at home at the time. I had no idea what it was so naturally I got scared and covered my head with the bed sheet. Since then, things of this nature had been happening to me on a nightly basis. To sum it up, I was able to see, hear and feel beings from other worlds and dimensions that were, for some reason, drawn to me. Yes, I was one of those children with "wild imagination". I still remember how these beings looked like so I can draw them for you to see. I cannot tell you "it was a unicorn", or a dragon, a gnome, a fairy, etc. I have never seen anything else like them in my life. But I do know that they were NOT ghosts. Oh, and did I mention they could move things around, too?
    Sounds like I made it up (or that I am crazy), I know. But I did not. Everything I shall write in this blog is true unless I say I am unsure or that the resources may not be 100% accurate. We all deserve the truth! Anyways, these beings liked to show up when I was alone in my room in the evening, or at night when my sister was sleeping (we shared the room). If the door was not closed, it would start closing either by itself or by a small hairy creature. The lights would go dim, flicker or stop working at all. I would hear the beings calling and I would feel them somehow drawing me away from the door. I would lose voice and my body would go rigid so I could hardly move. They would also come in the middle of the night when both me and my sister were sleeping and they would wake me up, sometimes by touching my face or other parts of my body. One night I woke up and even though it was utterly dark in the room, I simply knew there was something in front of me. As soon as I got that feeling, my face got touched - sort of like lightly punched with a soft object. Other times I woke up to see these beings raking in our drawers, or throwing around papers from the table and so on. Overall, I did not try to talk to them as I was too scared to interact with them in any way. And if you are scared, you attract a good deal of other scary things to you! Back then, I did not know this. I would run away to my parent's bedroom to wake up my mother, who got terrified as well for I was absolutely convinced what I had seen was real.
    One day she told me I could wish for anything and that she would get it for me. I am sure that she knew what I was going to wish for and that is why she asked. I wished for these strange things to stop from happening. She told me I should simply close my eyes when I go to sleep and not look around the room. Something from that moment must have built a block in me as when I went to sleep, I did exactly as she told me and I never had any strange encounters, nightmares or otherworldly beings touching me for long, long years. For years I lived without anything remarkably strange happening to me. I lost my belief and just like (almost) all adults, I thought it was nothing more than my imagination and I doubted the existence of anything non-material. But even though I had my doubts, I never lost interest in these things. Maybe I was chosen not to walk away from this path. There are people who are never to leave it and the fact that you are reading my blog probably means you are one of them. :)
    Several years ago I got myself involved again, this time purposely. My life has changed again, but this time I am ready.

P.S.: I was just thinking of going to get a grapefruit from the kitchen when my father appeared in my room's doorstep, asking: "Would you like a piece of grapefruit?" Ahh, sweet intuition... :)

P.S. 2: I am new to blogging and to this site, therefore I will probably be doing some changes in the template, layout and some other things so please bear with me and please feel free to subscribe!