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Scott K Smith

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Author/Writer, Artist, Practitioner. Unless otherwise stated, thoughts expressed are my own. It’s not murky, AI is Theft. Witch, Mystery School Teacher and Aries Lead Minister at TempleOfWitchcraft.org

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Scott K Smith @scottksmith.bsky.social · Jul 25

Updates.

Thank you everyone for shares, donations, and building awareness as we move into this new phase. It is very helpful.

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 10h

There’s a rule, either you do spiritual practices, or the unconscious will force you to act them out in pseudo-ritual ways. I really believe that a lot of the addictions and compulsive behaviors are unconscious rituals.~Robert Moore, Facing the Dragon

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Scott K Smith @scottksmith.bsky.social · 1d

The magick of the hidden, the invisible reel, opens up, when you do not spill her work out before the public, and keep it, within the sacred crucible, of the temple, the circle, the sacred space.

Scott K Smith @scottksmith.bsky.social · 1d

There is an added layer. I think that is the time and tides which are now that make the spirit work that much more potent.

With the extra special layer of “to keep silent,“ around who those spirits are and what that magick is, is up leveling.

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Scott K Smith @scottksmith.bsky.social · 1d

This year I realized that the intimate spirit connections that I have, which I will not name in public spaces to the general public, have become so much more tangible, visceral, and real.

While I’m working on material from The Society of the Temple, Yellow Ray II, material @templeofwitchcraft.org

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Dr. Tamara L. Siuda @tamarasiuda.com · 2d

We’re gonna need a bigger spaceship.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 2d

Nearly 8% of the people on our planet are farmers who produce more than a third of the world’s food on small plots of land...just an acre or two each. These farmers want to work, produce, feed their families, sell what’s left, and stay on their farms (cont.)

Farmers Embracing Smart Agriculture

YouTube video by Classroom Europe

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Scott K Smith @scottksmith.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know if you intended it, but I sang it as the beach boy song

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Scott K Smith @scottksmith.bsky.social · 4d

The week asks us to consider: Am I stinging in a way that is justified for myself, or am I doing this to cause pain?

Nothing in the universe is free; there is no action without consequence. Spiritual growth this week comes from learning to live with limitation.

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 5d

Some thoughts from one of my favourite books-- Swamplands of the Soul -- by James Hollis. I have returned to it often.

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Scott K Smith @scottksmith.bsky.social · 5d

I'm writing a weekly and I would like to quote you on this and point to your bsky account. Is that ok?

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 6d

Exactly what I have been telling my creative writing students. I am glad to see this kind of messaging on more and more literary agents' submission guidelines.

#EduSky #creativewriting #amquerying #humancreativity #AIResistance

@ecniumata.bsky.social

erinniumata.substack.com/p/why-i-cann...

Why I Cannot Represent AI-Generated Work

It has its uses but not in fiction.

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 7d

The more we seek the light, the more darkness forms in compensation, in an attempt to make us whole.”

The Shadow’s Gift
Robin Robertson

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Scott K Smith @scottksmith.bsky.social · 7d

Oh how weird…

Scott K Smith @scottksmith.bsky.social · 7d

One time someone said in a sneer, “you always have to pay the coin with you people,” and I said, “nothing in the universe is free, there is no action without reaction, there is no action without consequence. Unlike other beliefs, Witchcraft is a practice that recognizes and respects that.”

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 7d

RIP to Jane Goodall, who opened the world's eyes to our closest relatives. (Photo by NatGeo's Hugo Van Lawick)

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Scott K Smith @scottksmith.bsky.social · 7d

@heathergreene01.bsky.social penned this piece.

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Heather Greene @heathergreene01.bsky.social · 7d

My latest are @rns.org

religionnews.com/2025/10/01/p...

Patricia Crowther, pioneering Wiccan priestess, is dead at 97

(RNS) — Crowther was one of the last remaining direct initiates of Gerald Gardner, who founded Wicca in the mid-20th century.

religionnews.com

Scott K Smith @scottksmith.bsky.social · 7d

I wonder what that must be like.

Scott K Smith @scottksmith.bsky.social · 7d

I am truly grateful for her contributions, being in a Wiccan influenced tradition, and understanding her significant contributions to the modern movement. I’m glad to know I was even remotely connected in any way.

And

Scott K Smith @scottksmith.bsky.social · 7d

Out of the corner of my eye, all the green plants glowed with an electric lavender light. It felt good.

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Temple of Witchcraft @templeofwitchcraft.org · 7d

Ancestors for the Outcast
by: Debbie Stellhorn

Samhain season is important to Witches for many reasons; it’s the end of the harvest, it marks the beginning of the new year, and the veil is thin, making it easy to feel the presence of spirits...

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Althaea Sebastiani @althaeasebastiani.bsky.social · 7d

Often, ancestor work is a process of reclaiming what was lost, what was stolen, what was kept from us. It is a process of restoring connections that would hold us firm in the world, anchored in community and in the land.

#WitchSky #PaganSky

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Scott K Smith @scottksmith.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you so much

Scott K Smith @scottksmith.bsky.social · 8d

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Scott K Smith @scottksmith.bsky.social · 8d

My bills are piling up, my funds are low, and we’re scratching by.

The following are ways that you can assist:

The GoFundMe:
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Cash App:
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Donate to Brandon Finch's Care After Traumatic Brain Injury, organized by Tasha Arratia

Hi, my name is Tasha Arratia, and I’m organizing this fundraiser on… Tasha Arratia needs your support for Brandon Finch's Care After Traumatic Brain Injury

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Scott K Smith @scottksmith.bsky.social · 8d

bureaucratic process is in order to even see if we qualify for anything.

The One silver lining is I did qualify for the caregiver subsidy and I will be paid for the work that I have done and I continue to do, however, it is still not here, and we were told that we can wait up to two months.

Donate to Brandon Finch's Care After Traumatic Brain Injury, organized by Tasha Arratia

Hi, my name is Tasha Arratia, and I’m organizing this fundraiser on… Tasha Arratia needs your support for Brandon Finch's Care After Traumatic Brain Injury

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