Wicca – Meaning old English word for male practitioner of witchcraft.
Wicce – Meaning old English word for female practitioner of witchcraft .
Occultist – Meaning a practitioner of magick.
Wizard – Meaning wise person, much like Sage, or philosopher.
Sage -Meaning wise person.
Wise Man – Meaning a man that is wise.
Wise Woman – Meaning a woman that is wise.
Wise (gender name here) – Meaning a (gender name here) that is wise.
Magician – Meaning a practitioner of magick.
Mage – Meaning a practitioner of magick.
Magus – Meaning practitioner of magick, or a Zoroastrian priest.
Magickan – Meaning a practitioner of magick.
Magican – Meaning a practitioner of magick.
Magick Practitioner – Meaning practitioner of magick.
Practitioner – Meaning a person actively engaged in an art, discipline, or profession.
Spellcaster – Meaning one who sends out spells, and is a practitioner of magick.
Spell Chanter – Meaning one who sends out spells, and is a practitioner of magick. Does not necessarily have to chant.
Charmer – Meaning a practitioner of magick who cast spells upon entities, and constructs.
Thaumaturge – Meaning one who practices thaumaturgy, or low Magic.
Thaumaturgist – Meaning one who practices thaumaturgy, or low Magic.
Theurge – Meaning one who practices theurgy, or high Magic.
Theurgist – Meaning one who practices theurgy, or high Magic.
Mystic – Meaning a practitioner of mysticism.
Seeker – Meaning one who searches for truth, wisdom, knowledge, and/or enlightenment.
Neophyte – Meaning a person who is new to a subject, skill, or belief.
Adapt – Meaning a person who is well studied, and practiced in a subject, skill, or belief.
Metaworker –
Meaning a someone who mostly practices energy work, astral travel, and spirit work.
Skill-based names:
Elementalist – Meaning one who works with the elements.
Enchanter – Meaning magickal practitioner who practices enchantment magick.
Enchantress – Meaning female magickal practitioner who practices enchantment magick.
Sorcerer – Meaning a practitioner who summons forth entities to aid them, or do their bidding.
Sorceress – Meaning a female practitioner who summons forth entities to aid them, or do their bidding.
Summoner – Meaning a practitioner who summons forth entities.
Diviner – Meaning a magickal practitioner that practices divination.
Fortune-teller – Meaning a magickal practitioner that practices fortune telling.
Dowser – Meaning a practitioner who uses the divination practice of dowsing.
Soothsayer – Meaning a person who speaks the truth usually relating to a practitioner of divination.
Exorcist – Meaning a practitioner who casts out, and banishes entities.
Astrologer – Meaning a practitioner of astrology.
Astrologist – Meaning a practitioner of astrology.
Demonologist – Meaning a practitioner of demonology.
Alchemist – Meaning a practitioner of Alchemy.
Empath – Meaning a person who receives emotions from other entities, or constructs.
Oracle – Meaning a practitioner who can Divine prophecies, and the will of the Gods.
Necromancer – Meaning a practitioner of necromancy
Palmist – Meaning a practitioner of palmistry
Palmreader – Meaning a practitioner of palmistry
Ritualist – Meaning a practitioner, or authority on ritual practices, or religious rites.
Scryer – Meaning a practitioner of who divines through the act of scrying
Lightworker – Meaning a new age practitioner that tries to better the world through their spiritual understanding of it.
Spiritworker – Meaning a person who works with spirits.
Conjurer – Meaning a practitioner who calls forth entities.
Psychic – Meaning a person who has extra sensory perception.
Medium – Meaning a person who can communicate with spirits, and ghosts.
Shaman – Meaning a practitioner of shamanism.
Chaote – Meaning a practitioner of chaos Magick.
Root Workers – Meaning a practitioner of rootwork, or hoodoo.
Stage magic names:
Illusionist – Meaning a practitioner of stage magic.
Prestidigitator – Meaning a practitioner of stage magic.
Derogatory Names:
Warlock – meaning a oathbreaker, deceiver, betrayer, traitor, scoundrel, monster, or the Devil.
If you have any more names, or titles that you would like added to the list, or if you see anything wrong, tell me about them and I would love to add them and/or fix them.
My only complaint with thia list is that a regular witch or practitioner cannot perform what is commonly thought of as an “exorcism”. When people use that term, what theyre oftwn thinking of is a very specific and specialized ritual thats performed by a highly trained and authorized Catholic priest. In addition, each individual practice has to be approved by the Pope and the church, so unless those conditions are met its not an exorcism. We can banish, purify, cleanse, disperse and all of those things may accomplish the same thing but we cannot perform an exorcism.
But, the practices of exorcism have been found in many different cultures, traditions and religions, and is not exclusive in any way to Catholicism. Even other sects of Christianity have forms of exorcism, so I do not believe that catholic exorcism is the only definitive version of exorcism. The word itself even means:
“A religious, or spiritual practice of evicting demons, or other spiritual entitiesfrom a person, or an area, they are believed to have possessed.” –
Exorcism is the act of driving out, or warding off, demons, or evil spirits, from persons, places, or things, which are believed to be possessed or infested by them, or are liable to become victims or instruments of their malice;
Which in no way ties the practice of exorcism only to catholicism. The catholic priests do have there very specific, and specialized rituals that they perform to do so, but the rituals themselves are not exorcism, they accomplish the task of
exorcism just like many other practices do. Banishment, and cleansing are completely different processes than exorcism, and they all accomplished different tasks.
Banishment is the act of sending an entity away.
Cleansing is the act of setting the energy back how it was in its normal state, and is also used to remove energies that it has picked up along the way.
Exorcism is the act of forcing out an entity that Is possessing a specific person, object, or place.
Where did you learn that exorcisms can only be performed
by a highly trained and authorized Catholic priest? I’d love to hear more of your understanding.
It’s normal to experience moments where you suddenly remember the dreams you had last night. Your previously-forgotten dreams may suddenly pop up in your mind unexpectedly and generate a deep sense of familiarity or even nostalgia. While it’s common to suddenly remember your dreams from last night, it’s also possible to suddenly recall dreams from months or even years ago. It’s difficult to determine what causes this spontaneous recall. Very vivid or lucid dreams are hard to forget, but we often forget many of our mild and non-lucid dreams. Usually, when we experience spontaneous dream recall, we are remembering a dream that we forgot about up until that moment.
In this post series about how to work with your dreams, so far I have focused on dreams you already have had. Now let’s take it to the next level, and learn how to ask for the dream you want to have. Known as dream incubation, this ancient method for asking for guidance from the dreamworld is scarily effective.
“The manifest universe is just a tiny island of comparative order, set in an infinite ocean of primal Chaos or potentia. Moreover, that limitless chaos pervades every interstice of our island of order. This island of order was randomly spewed up out of chaos and will eventually be redissolved into it. Although this universe is a highly unlikely event, it was bound to occur eventually. We ourselves are the most highly ordered structure known on that island, yet in the very center of our being is a spark of that same chaos which gives rise to the illusion of this universe. It is this spark of chaos that animates us and allows us to work magic. We cannot perceive Chaos directly, for it simultaneously contains the opposite to anything we might think it is. We can, however, occasionally glimpse and make use of partially formed matter which has only a probabilistic and indeterminate existence. This stuff we can call the aethers.”
Peter J. Carroll, Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic (Cape Neddick: Weiser Books, 1987), 192.
The Four-Part Breath, also referred to as Square Breathing and Box Breathing, is a controlled breathing exercise wherein the duration of inhalations, pauses, and exhalations are equalized to a count of four seconds. The exercise is commonly employed to help reduce stress and anxiety, to affect near immediate relaxation, and to quiet the mind. It can be performed from nearly any position, be it seated, standing, or laying. Those with medical conditions that could be adversely affected by slowing their respiration or holding their breath should consult with a licensed medical professional first. A single cycle of the exercise is performed as follows:
The ability to have control and consciousness in the dream
state, also known as lucid dreaming. According to Hereward
Carrington (in his book Higher Psychical Development, 1924)
dreamers can keep conscious control up to the moment of falling
asleep. He advises:
‘‘When you have learned to do that, then construct before
yourself, mentally, a definite scene, which you must hold firmly
in mind. Then, as you are falling to sleep hold this scene before
you, and at the very last moment, before you fall asleep, consciously
transfer yourself into the scene—in other words, step
into the picture; and if you have developed yourself to the requisite
point, you will be enabled to carry over an unbroken consciousness
into the dream state; and in this way you have a perfect
continuity of thought; there is no break in the
consciousness; you step into the dream picture and go on
dreaming consciously. That is the process of dreaming true,
and after this dream is fully enacted, then you should remember
perfectly all that has transpired during the sleep period.’’ In the book The Projection of the Astral Body by Sylvan J. Muldoon
and Carrington (1929), Muldoon remarks that these instructions
are in harmony with the method of dream control
used to induce the astral body to move out into space. An article
in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research (vol. 26,
July 1913) records van Eeden’s experiments in dreaming true.
The British psychical researcher J. Arthur Hill vouches for the
truthfulness of
the experiences in The Dreams of Orlow (1916),
by A. M. Irvine.
J. Gordon Melton, ed., “Dreaming True,” in Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, vol 1. (Farmington Hills: Gale Group Inc., 2001), 449.
Excerpt from Experimental Parapsychology by Richard Broughton
The 1960s have been characterized as a period of ferment and experimentation. The ‘new generation’ of scientists that were attracted to parapsychology as a research problem were not content to follow Rhine’s path. New developments in psychology and neuroscience suggested other ways in which ESP could be investigated.
Dreams has always been one of the most common states in which people experience ESP. Kleitman’s discovery that rapid eye movements (REM) were a reliable indicator of dreaming-periods opened up the dream state for ESP research. In the mid-1960s at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, a team of researchers led by Stanley Krippner and Montague Ullman developed a new methodology to investigate ESP in dreams. Subjects spent the night in the hospital’s sleep laboratory wired up for REM monitoring. In a room located elsewhere in the hospital a staff member served as the agent, equipped with a set of targets in sealed envelopes, usually four in number. When the investigator in the sleep lab noticed that the sleeping subject was entering a REM period he signalled the agent by means of a one-way intercom. The agent then used a randomizing process to select one of the envelopes, take out the content and begin trying to communicate the target material to the sleeping subject. When the REM record showed signs of ending, the investigator woke the sleeper and asked for a description of the dream that he or she had just been having. These details were recorded. Throughout the night the process was repeated (except that the target remained the same) for each dreaming period.
To take advantage of the rich imagery of dreams the researchers used art prints as targets initially, but later turned to more elaborate immersive experiences. They adapted the ‘free-response’ method used in the early days of psychical research, in which the subject responds freely, reporting whatever images, memories and feelings, come to mind. In the case of dreams, the subject simply reported whatever he or she was dreaming about, no matter how strange or bizarre. To ensure that the other elements essential for ESP testing were present, once the target was randomly selected there could be no communication or sensory leakage of the target back to the sleep lab. To assess whether there was any evidence of ESP in the subject’s dreams, outside judges – usually psychologists familiar with dream interpretation, but who of course had no knowledge about which picture of the four that had been used in the session was the actual target – ranked each dream transcript according to its similarity to each of the target pictures. These rankings were then subjected to statistical analyses.
The Maimonides Dream Lab closed in 1978 when funding expired. Over a dozen formal studies had been completed, many with strikingly successful results. A latter assessment of the whole program, including pilot and screening data – in which a hit was defined as a ranking in the upper half of the possible range of rankings – found that there were 233 hits in 379 trials, an accuracy rate of 83.5 percent where chance would predict 50 percent. The odds against chance for that result were better than a quarter of a million-to-one.6
Because dream-lab studies were inherently very expensive to conduct, they were not continued in parapsychology, and there has been only a single, small independent replication effort; this differed markedly from the original studies and failed to find evidence of ESP.
More common in recent years have been ESP dream studies in which participants sleep at home and record their dreams at the bedside or in the morning. The dream reports are later brought to the laboratory where they are compared with the target or targets that had been randomly allocated for their session using appropriate blind judging techniques. While such studies cannot offer the same degree of precision and control as sleep labs, results continue to demonstrate that dreams are a valuable source of ESP evidence.78
There’s a world that lies on the border between wakefulness and sleep, in the realm of the subconscious. Between the conscious and unconscious, sounds and images auto-generate rapidly in a seemingly random succession, much like they do in the dream world. This world is witnessed only while you fall asleep, in transit. Whether you are inducing a lucid dream consciously or falling asleep in a normal fashion, you will pass through this in-between realm, which is similar to a lucid dream, yet noticeably different. It’s a blendbetween the physical world and the dream world… a crossroads of some sort. Thoughts take on a new quality here… they become vaguer and occur more automatically, with less intention and effort. Events, people, places, things, and sounds all appear underneath your eyelids while you still vaguely sense your physical surroundings. This is the place from which you cross into the realm of the unconscious mind (the dream world).
Occult Aspects 