Guest Column By Laura Kipp
Known to many simply as Fade, a dear friend of mine has spent most of the last 20 years as an inmate incarcerated in Washington State and is currently appealing his conviction. Alongside his legal fight, Fade has cultivated a deep spiritual practice that he describes in his own words below.
Q: How would you describe your spiritual gifts and abilities?
A: I’m a psychic medium and Magickal practitioner. I study esoterica and rely on divination, trance meditations and the study of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) to tune in and spiritually discern. My spiritual practice centers on grounding meditation, harmonizing with chaos and invoking protective forces through prayer and visualization.
I am an eclectic mix of faiths, empowered by Christian mysticism, Kabbalistic Magick and Rootworking, invoking the God of Abraham alongside pagan spirit guides. Through all of this, my gifts have become both my challenge and my means of surviving and understanding the unseen world.
Q: What is it like coping as a psychic medium in prison?
A: Intuitive abilities tend to run wild in hostile environments. The brain is like a radio that tunes to what it focuses on, and in prison, prayer, meditation and focused visualization are a spiritual sensitive’s primary route of avoiding invasion by nightmarish spiritual presences influencing one’s frequency.
Practicing the craft can become a necessity to understand and master what is happening to your aura as you navigate such an environment with spiritual gifts. It is always a huge challenge for one’s sanity, no matter what.
Q: How did your awareness of your gifts change when you were incarcerated?
A: It truly drove me to the edge of my sanity for years because the painful empathic signals and nightmarish spiritual experiences around me were steeped in hate, fear and anguish among unhealthy people. I eventually grew in raw focus and power by meditating on these perceptions and experiences to remain calm and somewhat detached. It helped me forge my abilities in a crucible.
Q: How do you learn to differentiate painful spiritual signals from signals that originate in your own personal struggle as a wrongfully imprisoned inmate?
A: This is, admittedly, the hardest thing to do. I generate a lot of powerful signals myself and went through significant traumatic abuse and brainwashing. Nonetheless, I have improved through meditation — but to be honest, it takes a lot of willpower and analysis to stop the confusion to this day.
I depend on divination and relaxing trance meditations to tune in and spiritually discern what may actually be going on as opposed to what merely seems to be happening. The study of NLP also helps. Because I am highly aware of the occult, it is especially necessary to weed out paranoia. My overall health affects this a lot, too.
Q: You mentioned prayer, meditation and visualization as critical to your spiritual survival in prison. What would you describe your spiritual practice in prison as being?
A: First and foremost, grounding meditation with the sounds and images I was experiencing — learning to relax and harmonize with the chaos — was absolutely indispensable. Prison for psychic mediums is like living in a monster zoo while on a shrieking roller coaster, so grounding was a must. Music really helped with this when I could get it.
While I originally described myself as strictly Pagan because I didn’t fit into my church of origin, I was introduced to the Golden Dawn and began to be empowered in Christian mysticism and Kabbalistic Magick as well. I have to admit that I still invoke the God of Abraham for protection and healing, although I continue to encounter many pagan spirit guides in my visions.
My prayer is a mix of traditional Christian prayers to God — on hands and knees — and powerful invocations of angelic magick with pentagram and cross banishing, using the Zodiac and the Four Quarters. I also conjure colored candles and nature images in my mind to establish boundaries, which is especially linked to Rootworking. I am thus now an eclectic mix of faiths.
Q: What are your plans for your future?
A: As my Libra sun progresses out of its first-house Scorpio phase and into my second-house Sagittarius progression, I’m noticing gradual but improved fortune. I just won the aid of a famous attorney who aims to exonerate me and secure my freedom, so that has been on my mind a lot!
I would like to become an entrepreneurial media educator and creative research consultant, publishing extraordinary content on metaphysics and the occult with a traveling team of spiritual explorers. I already enjoyed some success in this department while on parole, so I hope to continue on this path — inspiring others with scientific insights into the esoteric mysteries of the mind, the body and the soul.
Q: What services are you currently offering?
A: I specialize in metaphysical consulting through intuitive spiritual readings, astrological reports and research content production. To learn more, people can reach me through Laura Kipp (the column’s author) by emailing thewizardshelpdesk@gmail.com.
The views expressed in this opinion column are those of the author. They do not necessarily reflect the views of FāVS News. FāVS News values diverse perspectives and thoughtful analysis on matters of faith and spirituality.
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For most of the 70’s I followed a path similar to what Fade has taken, learning as much as I could, but only dabbling in the practices. I did meditations, bio feedback, guided imagery, “Think and Grow Rich”, etc. and I still study some of the beliefs. Little has changed.
I started to read the Bible in the mid 70’s because it was high on every list of “wisdom literature”. In the narratives, it became apparent that those that trusted God and forsook all other gods were blessed and lived on a higher plane. They had what I wanted, the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, and peace in the midst of chaos. But it came at the cost of pride. Longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance are from a humble spirit that is in direct opposition to a spirit that seeks its own.
It took 5 years of study and a change of churches to finally figure out how to achieve my desired goal: complete surrender of my will to God. HE changed my mind and heart; something no pagan religion or philosophy could.
Why can’t other beliefs change us? because it is our effort, our strength, striving, struggling, manipulating, conjuring whatever we can to achieve what WE want. And yes, there are demonic spirits that will help those that seek self-promotion.