CharmingOwl

I am wondering what it is like to be a ghost or to experience reality without a physical body like the people who have died or live in haunted houses. Some people describe it as relaxing and other people say it's scary or unfulfilling if they did not accomplish things they wanted. If you guys have ever died or are currently dead, what is your experience?

Once upon a time, there was a wise old man reading from an ancient book explaining the origin of poverty to children. He told them a complex story with various gods and deities to explain why people were poor. In the middle of this, The Jade Chairman walked into the room and stopped him. He passed out copies of socialist theory and explained that poverty must be understood within the context of class struggle, or it is anti-proletariat and only exists to justify bourgeois systems. He explained to them the economic systems the world had, but few could understand, and even less could make the connection to class oppression. Those who did went on to become revolutionaries.Since then, poverty has been understood as something man-made, and not inherent to reality.

The Driftwood God is a male manifestation of The Lady Of The Waves representing oceans, sailing, piracy, or spirituality in general. He is also referred to as The Drowned God or The Black Flag God by followers but the name Driftwood god is used to prevent confusion. He can appear as a skeleton wearing a sailor’s uniform or a man made of water holding a trident. His symbol is a pineapple.

Many items are associated with The Drowned God. Driftwood is special because it represents the sea changing the natural world, and also because of how similar it is to human bones. Blue gemstones or those with water energy are also connected, and oceanic ones like Caribbean calcite, blue apatite or aquamarine are especially connected. Other substances are seashells, shark teeth, fish/pirate/ or ocean related imagery are also good for connecting to the driftwood god. Offerings include alcohol, tobacco, oranges, pineapple, coconuts, or anything that is useful on a ship, precious from the ocean, or that prevents scurvy. The Driftwood god is very masculine so colognes and tobacco products also work. taxidermy sea animals are good for setting up on a shrine to the drowned god, especially the jaws or teeth of a shark.

I have been meaning to write something about the ocean goddess Darmala. She is a complex deity representing the ocean, peace, anti-government sentiment, motherhood, piracy, alcoholism, looting, stealing, fighting, and spirituality. She is also the god of sailors and can be felt in all water to an extent. She can grant her followers a natural affinity and skill towards spirituality, meditation, anti-government activities, sailing, fighting, using guns and cannons, stealing, or generally causing chaos. In some cases she can also grant impunity from the law or a fruitful catch during fishing.

To connect with the Lady of The Waves, try researching piracy, the ocean, or marine life. You can also look into more esoteric concepts like deities of the ocean, worlds of the ocean and demons with a water aspect such as lord Leviathan.

Besides that, you can give offerings of seashells, rum, swords or weapons, or valuable items such as coins. You can also give offerings of food such as meats, fruits, vegetables or even flour since hardtack did not go bad on ships. Even blue candles or paintings work for shrines and can be used in spiritual workings to help connect you to the ocean.

Humanity was given food from different worlds through their development. In the beginning, they were given food from the world of plants, and the king of plants gave them berries, bananas, coconuts,and other vegan foods like soy milk and tofu. Humans would be given plants to eat and would replant their seeds to get more of them. This was good, but the plant-based milk was not suitable to give to infants, so they made the deal with the king of animals that animals and humans may hunt each other for food. They got food from the world of animals, which was the second. They hunted animals with bows and spears and ate meat, but during harsh winters the plants did not grow and the cattle subsequently died as well, leaving them with nothing to eat.

They called upon the god of bread who came from the third world which was the world of bread and bakeries. The people stored grain to survive winter and also used bread to make pastries and other good foods that people enjoy such as baguettes and ciabatta bread. However the bread would get hard after a couple of days, so they called upon the more controversial world of candy.

The god of candy gave humanity sugar canes and corn sugar that they could put into food. It gave people diabetes and made them gain weight, but it had a preservative effect so it was widely adopted as a way to preserve food. Now, the people eat sugar but they must be careful not to eat too much of it or they become diabetic, become obese, or die. Sugar can also be used to contact the gods that live in the candy world.