My life in another’s underpants: Chris' Adventures in Neverland. I am writing these articles for Brigid for two reasons: She is a good friend and I agreed to give content to an already content rich site, and I wanted to practice my writing to help the personal understanding of my reality along. For an introduction, I will tell you a little about myself and other things you'll probably forget in within the next couple articles, whenever they come. I am currently a student at Alberta College of Art and Design working toward my goal of a Bachelor of Design. So please forgive any spelling/grammatical errors that are bound to pop up. I am currently in my first year, and trying hard to get into the Photography program. I live in the same city as Brigid, and I actually really enjoy living here, going to school, working and living my life. I am a pagan. I am not clinically depressed and I celebrate Christmas with my family. Being "pagan" began 6 years ago. My mother flipped out and I thought I was badass. The television had a show, called "Travellers" on, I was watching that and they happened to be in Salem watching real live witches conduct a ritual and named them wiccans. Wide-eyed, I began my hunt and being the child of the internet that I am - I went straight to a search engine and plunked the word "wicca" into the box, hit the magic grey button and explored. Soon spells wet my whistle and I read and read and made stupid questions and learned many things. I would usually happen upon and site and read everything that was there to read, everything.I usually happened onto sites like this, and sometimes I got to sites that were bullshit. I learnt how to cast a circle, I learned the mechanics of spellcasting, I learned how to invoke the elements and I learned how to construct my very first altar which is still sitting in my room collecting dust, harboring my incense, lighter, trinkets of the craft (you know, my stones, my knife, my incense holder, my extra candles, my oils, my list of spells and the contorted pile of printings from websites, not to forget a tarot deck or two, an altar cloth and some statues). I conducted rituals and spells, many working and many which didn't and I questioned why they didn't. WHY didn't they work? and why the hell are my parents forcing me to go to church, don't they know I'm PAGAN?! Late one night, I discovered the wonderful world of internet chatrooms, on Dal.net. I discovered the others had my interests and I talked. I talked out of my ass. I found new friends and learned even more things, I even found more websites (score! more sheets of paper to pile up in my altar!). I learned more than I could ever imagine! I learned how I can perceive my world, how spells work and what will played in my reality. I learned people aren't who they are, I learned how malicious people can be. I also learned what it meant to follow my path, hell! to HAVE a path, to own my world and become a God! Past the shock of so much learning, I am calming down and learning to learn again. I learn so much everyday I can't comprehend most of it. By writing these articles/rants I hope to teach and figure out some things for myself. Through this "column" I hope to teach people, or at least get them thinking and I also hope to understand myself better. ---- I want this column to be a question and answer type deal. If you want to ask anything, or want me to talk about anything please feel free to email me, I will do my best to answer everything to my best ability. One question at a time though, I will post/write as they come. I realise this might take a while to begin with, so I will conduct the first couple without emails (or even better if I get emails, I will use those.) Thanks for taking the time to read this and please email me at this address: chris@brigids-haven.com