Rich Witches
How do you tell whether you are rich or not?
How do you tell whether you are a witch or not?
How do you usually compare a haven and a coven?
Even though there is much corruption in political organisations, religious organisations, government organisations, business organisations, and even non-religious charities, attempting to be non-corrupt is a devotional practice in itself.
Excessive wealth corrupts.Perhaps you have spent much time transferring yourself and/or your assets between offshore havens over the past few years.
Perhaps you are unaware of what is justifiable and what is not.
There is much wishful thinking involved in pseudo-witchful practices. There is often a focus on the imaginative and the aesthetic and the consumerist and the ritualistic rather than the ethical.
That not only applies to wealthy witch-like inidividuals but also to persons seeking to become wealthy through witch-themed products and/or services and/or complaints.
Perhaps you believe you gain empowerment through crystals, incense, candles, card readings, moon phases and herbal teas, rather than through your ability to make purchases.
How do you distinguish between such practices and commercial activities?
How do you distinguish between spiritual practices and the healing arts?
How do you distinguish between the spiritual and the political?
Perhaps you even associate spirituality with escapism.
Perhaps you associate wealth and music with escapism.
Perhaps you think witchcraft is much like any other subculture or hobby or business or expression of self-identity.
There are people who believe witches place curses on them. Such people may even pay money to someone to have the curse removed.
What do you know about wishes, wishful thinking and wish fulfilment?
What do you know about self-fulfilling prophecies?
What do you know about schizotypal personality disorder and other personality disorders?
How have you been learning from, and interpreting the past?
What do you regard as your responsibility towards your own future?
What do you regard as your responsibility to the future of other people, and other species?
The desire for wealth is much like the practice of alchemy, as is the desire for healthy longevity. Yet reaching a financially comfortable old age may be experienced as insecurity, not security.
Yet how do you distinguish between frugal savings and displays of excessive wealth?
What do you know about the hoarding of wealth, especially the illegal or immoral hoarding of wealth?
Perhaps you meditate on the themes of wealth, abundance and prosperity.
Perhaps you even pray for wealth.
Perhaps you mainly associate witches with dramatic narratives rather than economic power.
Perhaps you associate witches with rich musicians.
What do you regard as blessings, and why?
Perhaps you assume extremely wealthy people are much like you, even if you are not particularly wealthy yourself.
Yet wealth makes people very different indeed from the non-wealthy. Wealth provides choices in life unavailable to most people.
To have choices is to have power. But having too many choices can be stressful.
What have been your experiences of psychological stress?
What have been your experiences of financial stress?
Perhaps you attempt to cope with stress by being a spendthrift.
If you are from a relatively wealthy background, or you have acquired wealth relatively easily, and possibly even illegally, do you regard yourself as a witch?
What is your acquaintance with the Pygmalion effect?
What is your acquaintance with the Dunning-Kruger effect?
What do you know about unrealistic optimism?
How do you distinguish between happiness and morality?
How do you attempt to combine happiness and morality?
Perhaps you give a name to the technique you use to achieve that combination.
Witchcraft is all about the interpretation of meanings.
How do you interpret meanings etymologically?
How do you interpret meanings linguistically?
How do you interpret meanings politically?
How do you interpret meanings philosophically?
How do you interpret meanings psychologically?
How do you interpret iconography?
Perhaps you regard wealth and witchcraft in much the same way, even without realising that you do.
Perhaps you regard wealth as a threat.
Perhaps you regard witchcraft as a threat.
Perhaps you regard poverty as a threat.
Perhaps you regard capitalism as a threat.
Perhaps you regard socialism as a threat.
Perhaps you regard taxation as a threat.
But do you regard militarism as a threat?
Do you regard militancy as a threat?
Do you regard religion as a threat?
Do you regard financial markets as a threat?
Do you regard particular systems of government as threatening?
If you are rich, you have much more of a responsibility than poorer people to answer the above questions honestly, accurately and with adequate knowledge.
If you are not particularly wealthy but you have an unusual level of influence, then you also have considerable responsibility in relation to answering important questions.
What do you know about the power of images in relation to influences, inferences and indoctrination?
How do you compare one image with another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another?
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How do you interpret the work of artists, and other people?
How do you identify the influences on their work, and on their lives more generally?
How have artists and other people influenced you?
What is your image of witches, and why?
What is you image of wishes, and why?
How do you tell the difference between one way of making money and another?
How do you attempt to avoid the need for more money, if at all?
How do you know your assets have been legitimately acquired?
What do you know about your liabilities?
How do you assess your investments?
What is your influence in relation to productivity?
What is your relationship with various means of production?
If you run a business, what is funding it, and who is funding it?
If you run any other sort of organisation, what is funding it, and who is funding it?
How do you usually assess the sources of funds and the uses of funds?
What do you know about financial stress tests?
What do you know about economic fragility in relation to financial markets?
If you have made decisions in your life based on the anticipation of inheriting wealth, why have you done so?
If you have made money as a consequence of a privileged upbringing, useful social contacts, prestigious educational advantages, and very good health, how do you compare your success with the achievements of other people?
Perhaps you do not know how to define a privileged upbringing.
You may not even be particularly aware of the associated dangers.
Perhaps you do not associate wealth with responsibility.
Perhaps you are more likely to regard wealth as a tool with which to accumulate even more social, economic, educational and political advantages.
There are many organisations, groups and individuals acquiring money from the rich in fair and/or foul ways.
The unjustly powerful know how to make the non-rich into military, policing and/or security personnel and/or criminals.
The unjustly powerful may also gain and/or maintain political power through the exploitation of vulnerability.
How have you assessed your vulnerability in relation to your socioeconomic status, your net worth, family background and upbringing?
How do you compare the desperately poor with the relatively poor?
How, for example, do you compare one image of poverty with another, and in which cultural, political and historical contexts?
What do you know about the political causes of extreme poverty, and extreme wealth?
Extreme poverty has been the usual way of life for most people throughout history. That does not imply that such poverty is inevitable.
To be in extreme poverty is to have no economic power.
But what does having political power mean in practice?
If you are a rich witch, you are likely to have economic power and political power.
If you are newly rich, you may enjoy the novelty of economic grandiosity, but do you understand the causes of secondary poverty?
If you have inherited wealth, you may enjoy investing your financial resources in various ways in order to pass on even more wealth to the next generation of your family, but do you do so in a miserly or otherwise unethical way?
Perhaps you are asset rich and income rich but time poor and/or unwell, or otherwise experiencing stress.
Perhaps you are income rich at present but asset poor.
Perhaps you are not particularly competent regarding financial management and/or property management and/or time management.
Perhaps you have plenty of paper wealth and very little real wealth.
Perhaps you have insufficient revenue streams, inadequate cash flow, no financial assets, no intention of selling off other assets, and quite a few looming debts.
How do you tell when a life or social relationship or household is badly managed?
How do you tell when a society is badly managed?
What do you know about credit risk?
What are your personal real estate assets currently worth, and why?
What other real estate assets do you currently own in whole or part, and how?
How do you usually assess the worth of various parts of planet Earth?
How do you assess the value of natural heritage and cultural heritage?
How do you define the highest human good?
How do you define high society?
Perhaps you associate wealth with self-esteem.
Perhaps you believe positive affectivity is associated with achieving happiness and acquiring material success, and possibly even love.
How much of your happiness is a consequence of genetics and other factors beyond your control?
How do you tell the difference between popularity and success?
How do you define success?
What do you know about the document you are currently reading and the reasons for its production?
How do you discern the truth about indirect payments, and indirect debts?
Real witches may be rich though they are often not particularly rich at all in financial terms. Yet they know how to value real assets. They do so in terms of rights and responsibilities.
What has motivated you to read the document so far?
What has the document revealed to you, if anything, about tangible assets and intangible assets?
What do you already know about human capital?
How do you know when an organisation is experiencing financial distress?
Perhaps you have defaulted on your payment obligations at one time or another.
You may have taken on too much debt and/or earned too little income and/or spent extravagantly and/or you were forced to pay much more for something than you anticipated and/or you were unable or unwilling to save for such contingencies and/or you experienced a major crisis in your life requiring unforeseen expenditure.
How well do you assess financial balance sheets?
How well do you assess moral balance sheets?
How have you been assessing your own?
You may not have given much thought about how you will influence the world after you permanently enter the ethereal realm of history.
But what do you believe to be your most important responsibilities in the present, and why?
How did you acquire those responsibilities, and how much volition did you directly and indirectly possess in that regard?
How do you usually assess the value of your privacy?
How do you usually assess the value of your dignity?
How do you usually assess the value of your time?
You obviously value your time here at present, otherwise you would not still be reading this rather long document.
How do you know you are not involved in a criminal network or any other morally dubious organisation?
If you have any unworthy associates, how have you attempted to distance yourself from them, even if they happen to be family members?
But what is a wise decision?
How do you assess the value of health, wealth and wisdom?
How do you assess the value of knowledge?
How do you assess the value of banking?
How do you assess the value of philanthropy?
How do you assess the value of volunteering?
How do you assess the value of patronage?
How do you assess the value of governments?
How do you assess the value of advocacy?
How do you assess the value of activism?
How do you assess the value of art?
How do you assess the value of history?
How do you assess the value of education?
How do you assess the value of medicine?
How do you assess the value of people?
How do you assess the value of documents?
How do you assess the value of other objects?
How do you identify charlatans?
Banking, insurance, medicine, law, education, science and government are all activities requiring the assessment of trustworthiness.
But what happens in practice?
What do you know about the semantics of trustworthiness?
What do you know about dependence, independence and interdependence in relation to trustworthiness?
Wonderful witches work for inclusive wealth, whether they are personally wealthy or not. They also work for evidence-based governance, in all situations.
Perhaps you would rather light candles and incense and chant a soothing slogan over a collection of crystals or other objects rather than actively work for good in the world.
Perhaps you would rather focus on enjoying life instead of actively contributing to the reform processes necessary if less fortunate persons are to be able to do the same.
What are the most urgent reforms required, in your view, and how are they likely to occur?
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