Author: Lori Ann Lothian

Lori Ann Lothian is a spiritual revolutionary, Hellenistic Astrologer divine magic maker and all-purpose scribe. She writes about love, relationships, enlightenment and even sex, at Huffington Post, Good Men Project, Yoganonymous, Origin magazine, Better After 50 and more. She is also a senior editor at the online magazine, The Good Men Project, where she founded Good for the Soul, a section dedicated to the exploration of men and spirituality. Lori Ann lives in Vancouver, Canada, with her husband and daughter, where she has learned to transcend the rain and surrender to mega doses of vitamin D. Tweet her at Twitter or friend her on Facebook at Facebook.

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge — Dare Greatly to be Shameless

hame is a cover-up. It hides perceived imperfection at the expense of revealing your true shameless glory. — Let’s be clear. Shame is not about having a healthy conscience or feeling guilty for a transgression. In fact, the role of guilt in its healthy emotional expression is the inner admission “I made a mistake.” Shame, […]

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Forty Day Magic Challenge — Why Forgiveness Does Not Work

Day 33: What if abandonment, betrayal and shame are fictions? What then? You probably never stopped to think about what being psychologically wounded really means—what happens when we are shamed, betrayed or abandoned? At its core, each of these wounds is a dent in your sense of innocence. But how that dent impacts you precisely […]

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Forty Day Magic Challenge — Three Archetypal Wounds that Block Wonderment

Day 32: A state of wonder is your natural state. But hidden wounds can be road blocks on the path of magic. I’ve had a lot of psychology training. I did an undergraduate degree in psychology and started on a graduate studies path years later in transpersonal psychology. You name it, I’ve tried it. From […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge — Look for Synchronicity Patterns

Day 30: When synchronicity begins to show up in repeating themes, a soul message is being delivered. Receive it with your attention. Have you ever had a string of meaningful coincidences that clearly repeat a particular theme? The more you play with synchronistic reality, the more likely you are to graduate from one-off wonders to […]

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Forty Day Magic Challenge — Enter the Spiritual Heart

Day: 28: There is a secret doorway to abiding magic. Here’s the Key. So far you’ve been playing with magic tools and learning to pay attention to the non-ordinary. And you’ve probably noticed the more you pay attention, the more synchronicity shows up in your life, along with precognition, deja-vu, telepathy and more. You are […]

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Forty Day Magic Challenge — Recognize the Real Magician

Day 26: The thinking mind is not the creator of magic. It is simply the observer of it. When you are playing with the magic of your being, the temptation is to get caught up in desires and wants, expectations and hopes. Because after all, so much cool stuff is happening—the mind-blowing synchronicity, the entangled meeting […]

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Forty Day Magic Challenge — Be a Superconductor of Grace

Day 24: Open yourself to being an instrument for the divine. It’s what you were born for. — This poem by St Francis of Assisi is the heart of today’s challenge: Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is […]

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Forty Day Magic Challenge: Moving to Private Access Only

Doors to Magic are Closing October 2nd! For the last 21 days I’ve posted a daily magic challenge (see first post here) —which has resulted in over 200 participants actively engaging in the laboratory of non-ordinary reality with me —by daily email assignments and on a dynamic private Facebook group. With over seven thousand followers […]

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Forty Day Magic Challenge — Open to Numbers Guidance

Day 21: You are being guided. Pay attention. As we pass the halfway mark, the place of natural turbulence, obstruction and self-doubt, it’s time to truly pay attention to the guidance that is available all of the time. At this juncture, however, consciously choosing to see the signs around you as not only intelligent design, but […]

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Forty Day Magic Challenge — The Dark Night of Midway Points

Day 20: Make chaos your ally and transform doubt to faith. There are no coincidences, as you’ve learned, because everything is interconnected by hidden threads of meaning. Your task as a Mage-in-training is to make these invisible connections visible so that you can begin to operate at a level of the knowing heart instead of […]