Esoteric Wishes
Now that there are turkey sandwiches in the making and Black Friday’s malay is over (let’s say a prayer for the gentleman who was trampled to death at a Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, NY), we can look forward to Cyber Monday. Personally, I managed to avoid the darkness of Black Friday, its blatant commercialism and materialism (though I understand that good deal is a good deal), and am now indulging in my own cup of capitalism.
I have spent the early morning playing with CEIVA’s Sit on Santa’s Lap Experience. Basically it is a kitsch sort of thing, selling CEIVA’s digital frames, which are pretty interesting in themselves. They offer a picture plan so that people can send images to the frame (family and friends) no matter where in the world they live. Pretty unique. The Experience is also advertising their Got a Wish Sweeepstakes. You can upload your photo (I used my avatar from a past Esoteric Saturday) and the premise is that you get to sit on Santa’s lap (supposing that you did such things when you were a child) and tell him your Christmas wish. But it makes a nice technological switch because basically your picture shows up in a frame at Santa’s workshop and he discovers your you wish by looking it up in a book. At the end of the Experience, you have an opportunity to win your wish - or rather $500. For several days, leading up to Christmas, Santa will pick a name daily and award the prize to that person.
So, the question is - what is the Transparent Hypnotist’s Christmas Wish? Sure I can go all out and wish for a new video system for the office or how about those chairs by Martha Stewart, but that seems so selfish for some reason. It is all always “me, me, me, me, me.” Yuck. So, I could wish for the overachievement and cliche of world peace (good luck with that, Santa). Okay, as you can read, I have given this a bit of a thought.
Here is my Christmas Wish. It is still a bit self-serving, but it also fills that philanthropic need I have just now. My Christmas Wish is to help women who have suffered from years of abuse, gain some self-esteem and make positive changes in their life. This is a cause very near and dear to me. And perhaps, with a bit of Santa help in the form of $500, I could embark on a not-for-profit venture to work with those in battered women shelters here locally. This way, as a hypnotist, I can pay for the fundamentals needed in beginning such a campaign.
There, that’s my esoteric Christmas wish. What is yours?
