Hey :) I have a daughter, and this has been a very tricky area to navigate. This is a great topic of discussion. I don’t think you should take any general advice you’re given on this topic too seriously, because it’s completely different child to child, and it depends on what her mother is comfortable with. I will say a lot of witchcraft practices are incredibly beautiful. I think it’s an awesome way to bond with your sister and niece. Children understand more than they are given credit for. If your sister, her momma, is all about it, I personally think it’s amazing. She can learn a lot of great things. With my own daughter, I’m honest about our limited perceptions as humans and how everyone is ultimately guessing. There’s no way to know anything for certain as a human. I share with her what I think, but I encourage her own critical thinking. I personally plan to show my own daughter all kinds of religions, religious practices, etc. I trust her, and what she’s drawn to. I think you’re inspiring a lot of great critical thinking in your niece. Again, every kid is completely different. Follow your intuition, if something feels too heavy or too soon, you’ll know. There are really beautiful like slavic/Ukrainian practices where they make these vyshyvanka dolls! I think that’d be cool for your niece! Baba jaga is a great teacher.There’s a lot of good teaching in her lore. I also want to say I think it sucks that you asked a genuine question about how to bring up stuff like this to kids, and instead of people sticking to that exploration, they started asking you to explain and support and defend your decision to practice witchcraft. A lot of witchcraft practices are very private, actually a lot practices in general are. I hope you don’t feel any pressure to sit here and explain yourself, because you don’t need to. I don’t think this thread should turn into a question about whether or not witchcraft is okay. That’s not the question you asked. You asked an awesome, sincere, thought-provoking question about sharing religious/spiritual topics with children. That’s what I think this thread should focus on. Thanks for a great discussion question!

I’m honestly just curious what comes to someone like you (pretty at peace) in a state like that. Like once you master that…does tripping change? Do you get cool exclusive knowledge?

It’s beautiful! I love it. Life is really cool with the cheeky synchronizations. Haha. Thanks for sharing this. It’s really lovely. :)

Hey there :) I think everyone gave you good advice, I’d just like to add something I wish someone would have told me: Be careful with trying to confront/fix/move on from things all at once. Making a list of everything you wanna fix sounds really healthy, but when I tried something similar in the past, it was overwhelming. Especially with more complex traumas/ones I struggle to remember. The whole reason for understanding your past traumas, is to understand where you got certain unconscious behavioral responses that may be effecting you negatively today. And these will come up naturally. You don’t really have to seek them all out, right now, and focus on moving forward as fast as possible. If you’re patient, at least in my experience, I’ve found things just come up. Like you snap at someone over something stupid and then you go sit down and go: “why did I do that…?” Then you can trace the reaction back. For example, maybe when you were a kid that phrase that “triggered” you was used to make you hopeless or helpless, so now you have an emotional response to it. After that, you can slowly expose yourself to that “trigger,” the thing that someone said to make you snap, while your body feels safe, and kinda get used to reacting/responding differently. I think Erhard said this well when he mentioned being aware of how the past shows up in the present. I’m not sure if it’s possible to just write everything down and force yourself over it. That can get dark. If your intention is to be better, and you work towards that, a lot of times you’ll just end up stumbling onto relief and understanding. If you’re paying attention. I tried to do it all at once, in my own timing, and it was hell. I wish I would have just let it be until the lesson presented itself to me. Like what Kleder said about existing and finding a natural way to deal with the movement.

Very cool, dark experiment. Zimbardo wrote a book where he talks about it a lot more, and some other cool stuff, it’s called “The Lucifer Effect.” (: social experiments, especially the older ones (they were less limited morality wise), are a really fun rabbit hole. They can be a little depressing, but I think it’s cool you took something so positive from it.