Hello everyone!
Szalvias is the name I always go by online (I'm big into pc games), I'm 31, soon to turn 32 years old.
I read the tarot, scry, and among my friends and aquaintances I am often called upon to investigate hauntings (mostly this is people with nightmares and rats and fog but occasionally....) and sometimes to deal with whatever the problem may be. I will also randomly go into a trance-like state while scrying.
I am Buddhist and also pagan but not any particular belief system beyond that. I prefer to keep an open mind and I constantly research different ways of looking at spirituality and life in general. I base my personal ethics and principles in Buddhist teachings, but um... I am a very bad buddhist.
I first became aware of my own spiritual journey during adolescence when I began to reject the ideas I was raised with (a very puritanical and restrictive form of christianity). This moved on to a very long period of practice in wicca. To this day all the ideas, sights, sounds, scents, and symbols associated with that tradition effect me deeply though I no longer consider myself a witch by any means.
Shortly after my initial investigation into witchcraft I began to learn the Golden Dawn system of ceremonial magic and have continued that practice to the current day. It was this way of looking at the world that caused me to open up spiritually to the point that I do not follow a set path, but appreciate and learn from everything I encounter.
Typically I am very very private about my spiritual life, and especially my practice, but recently I have experienced a dryness, a lack of feeling and insight that I am unable to move past on my own. So, after a while, I figure it's time to network and learn and seek what help I may.. and here I am!
I hope I can be a help to some of you as well.