Birthday Coming Up

For those who care, my birthday is coming up at the end of the month, on the 29th. I’m saving to buy a compost turner on Amazon.com, so anyone who wants to give birthday gift items is recommended to purchase Amazon gift cards. My email address is sheta@rendingtheveil.com. I’d be very excited to be able Continue reading →

Upcoming Prezzies for My Crew

This year, I hope that Rending the Veil becomes a more professional enterprise, and to promote that, I have ordered business cards for myself, Gerald, and Cally. I’m posting them because I want to. lol. I really need to sleep some more, but for now, have a gander at these…       I did Continue reading →

Announcement of Interest

Since I’m scrambling around here posting email reminders between holiday gift-wrapping, I wanted to let my readers here know that we’ve created a Google group for readers of Rending the Veil. It’s an open discussion group, and everyone is welcome. It’ll help get everyone over the yearning for new RTV content during the hiatus (kidding Continue reading →

Getting Hard For Me, Again

It’s time for another cycle of “Where do I really need to be?” introspection. This whole magazine move for Rending the Veil is falling apart. I am starting to think it might be time to seriously consider giving it up. I don’t want to do that, but I can’t continue like this. When I put Continue reading →

Rending the Veil Urgently Needs Tech Help

Rending the Veil is in urgent and immediate need of webmaster help to facilitate the server move. I have no frigging idea how to set up or tweak this Simple Machines Forum (SMF) that my current advisor has installed as our content management system (CMS). It’s asking for an upgrade but errors when the test Continue reading →

An Open Letter to All Concerned

I’m crossposting this to relevant places (and email) to reduce my catch-up time. I bet some of you are wondering where I disappeared to for so long. I live on Trinity Bay just east of Houston, about a mile from the mouth of the Houston Ship Channel. Hurricane Ike forced a mandatory evacuation of my Continue reading →

Rending the Veil Coming Soon

The Lughnasadh issue of Rending the Veil will go public on August 1. Here’s the content you’ll see: “The Rapier’s Edge – An Interview with Donald Tyson” (interview by Sheta Kaey) “Ocular Distortion,” a photography column this issue featuring an image by Gerald del Campo: “Ginkgo” “A Magical View of Spirits and Evocation” by Patrick Continue reading →

Recent Sheta News

As per usual, my energy is scattered due to severe disorganization. I actually tend to be an organized person by nature, but I organize in spurts which are followed by a steadily gathering layer of chaos. My chaos has reached such a level that it’s interfering with my ability to manage my time efficiently, which Continue reading →

Just a Warning

Well, the site crashed again and I’ve lost a variety of settings. I’ll try to re-upload the database again later and see if they return, but if not at least I have my posts. My life is chaos and I’ve been alternately stressed and depressed with random bouts of deeply morose reclusiveness. I need to Continue reading →

Funky, Weird, and Out of Sorts

There’s so much to say and so many things going on lately that my mind is actually blank. I don’t know where to start or what to include, and let me tell you: it’s a rare day that I’m at a loss for words to put in my blog. This mood, whatever it is, is unusual enough that I can’t readily identify it.

There’s been a strange dichotomy in the events in my life lately, more diametrically opposed than the average day’s routine would typically include. For instance, there have been an inordinate number of large creepy-crawlies in my house and in my bedroom, which I find highly upsetting. There’s been an opposite in the form of (for example) extra encounters with soft, fluffy animals and, more meaningfully, a noticeable

Multi-tasking? More Like Juggling Cobras

I met my new therapist today. He’s the first therapist I’ve had since 1995. I have had a total of three in my life, and two of them were bad experiences. The last one was fantastic. The psychotherapist I met today, Dr. T, seemed to be open-minded enough. I told him that I was very spiritual, into metaphysics and the occult, and that if a therapist wasn’t open to these things that 90% of my life would never enter into discussion. I really live inside my head much more than outside it. This blog, to me, is just an expression of that – I consider this and discussion on these topics to be “inside my head” stuff; they’re not concerned with paying the bills or mowing the lawn, etc.

The Perils and Pitfalls of Mentorship

This is my column in the new issue of Rending the Veil. I thought I’d share it here, since it’s relevant to events in the recent past. The title is in the subject line, and my regular column goes under the general title of “Into the Aethyr.”

Over the past seven or eight years as I’ve progressed substantially in my personal practices, I’ve encountered many people who wished for me, Meridjet, or both of us to mentor them. While initially this struck me as patently ridiculous for my part, I have always been willing to act as channel for whatever Meridjet wished to do to help, and over time I’ve grown more open to the idea that perhaps I have something worthwhile to offer. By some high cosmic irony