Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Balancing Perspectives, Connections, Moral Ambiguities

Movie Review: If not for all the magic, the 8 Harry Potter films would be the most Christian shows we’ve seen in a long time!

I’m thankful to author, J.K. Rowling, for writing the Harry Potter books on which all eight films were based. And while these were intense, and of course, were all about natural magic–including potions, spells, and poison, they were great! So clean! No F-bombs. No sex, okay a bit of “kissing in the halls” kinda teenage stuff, but it wasn’t blatant. And no gays (and if there were–not front and center).

We loved watching all the children age a year or so every single night. Yes, we watched each of the films (one per night) in succession. We enjoyed seeing many of the older actors that we don’t see as much too, like the incredible Maggie Smith (whom we loved in Downton Abbey), Alan Rickman (the character we love to hate from Die Hard), John Hurt, Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, and Verne Troyer, and how many remained in their roles throughout the 8 films. I loved watching how they changed Emma Stone’s hair throughout, it was a mess in that first movie, much like my long naturally curly hair was when I was that age. And Daniel Radcliffe was good, but one could certainly appreciate how he grew his acting skills along with way. Rupert Grint did a fine job throughout as well, though there were a few times when we weren’t sure he should have been jealous, though that’s “per the script” and direction too, perhaps not his acting choice.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

Screen capture from IMDB for the list of Harry Potter films. –IMDB.com

I’m not anti-gay. But over the years the gayness has increased across the board. It seems now that EVERY movie or TV series we’ve watched in the last 10-20 years has been overrun with gay content. Or perhaps I could say, the gay story lines/content is disproportionate to the amount of gays among us.

Of course, we laugh at Little Britain. We own the DVD series of that British comedy–and we used to laugh at Russell Brand’s audacious stand-up comedy routines too! And my gay friends are funny (hilarious at times in fact!) because they don’t take themselves so seriously. Something I struggle with–taking myself so seriously.

But they’re adults, and we’re adults. I know no one wants to DO adulting, but come on. We know people are people and each have free will to live as they choose and love who they want. We simply don’t want to see gay themes in EVERY SINGLE show. Sorry. We don’t!

We just watched Mark Wahlburg in Balls Up last night and thought it was hilarious–I’ve never laughed so hard during the first five minutes of a movie!!! And there were gay references in it, but Mark scored points for Jesus in it too, and for me, it was a GREAT BALANCE!

Per Google (just now): “Based on global surveys, approximately 3% of adults worldwide identify specifically as gay or lesbian, while around 9% identify as LGBTQ+ overall, according to a 2023 study across 30 countries. The broader LGBTQ+ figure includes bisexual (4%), pansexual (1%), and asexual (1%) identities.” And they do allow for generational differences, regional variations, and data limitations.

I’m simply saying that Hollyweird (Disney, in particular) has gotten to the point where everything, even Star Wars, has gone gay. (Talk about Girls Gone Wild.) Geesh! The Acolyte did no favors for witches (or women) either, by burning them all in that one scene. Ugh! Why can’t we all just get along? As an occultist (one that likes to study the hidden, that does not mean demonic or evil stuff), I was offended!

Mostly, this is why I think Taylor Sheridan has done such a great job on his shows. He’s found a way to balance things. Yes, I know he stretches history. I hear some guys say he emasculates his male characters. I hear the negative rants about Taylor.

But as much as we love The Chosen it was becoming one of the few shows we could watch that was as clean as Harry Potter!

Spoiler alert: As I’ve written about before, I watch a ton of YouTube because even Stranger Things, which I had looked forward to its season 5 for so long–ended on a huge gay note! And speaking of endings, we were SAD when Doby died! Hubby says, “That last Harry Potter flick didn’t have to end that way.”

I’m compassionate and empathic, and I know everyone has a gay member in their family or circle of friends. We do too! Or at least a non-binary, whether they claim to be gay or not (which is none of my business). And I want to support them. But as for the cult-like LGBT+ community, when it was simply LGB I did support them. When they added the T and the plus–which stands for all the other bizarre stuff and wanted the rest of us to think it was all NORMAL… nope!

I wasn’t one to talk about the “slippery slope” stuff either years ago, but now, I see where it HAS been a slippery slope!

We went to Disney once during “gay days” and lived in St. Petersburg, Florida where they love their Pride parades. Well, I have an issue with Pride on the whole anyway, as a concept, and rarely use the word. So no, I don’t go out for those kind of events either.

Bash me. Call me a hater. So be it. You say that like it’s a bad thing. I’m entitled to my opinion just as you are to yours. And I won’t call you a hater, though I may unfriend/unfollow you (and probably will) if we can’t agree to disagree on this one aspect of life. I’ll go back to listening to my Tom Macdonald songs.

Rant, er, review done. Bring on the comments!

Integrating the Spirals – JIGGLE WIGGLE

In my YouTube channel, I encourage those “over 50” to:

  • Open to lifelong learning (observe, gently question, and loosen up pre-conceived beliefs, aka ‘Programming’)
  • Become more aware of our thoughts and emotions to encourage more ease 
  • Loosen up and move our bodies (we’re stuck in our heads also due to our “Programming” and physically unhealthy)
  • And become strong and resilient in spirit, soul, mind, and body. 
  • And to question EVERYTHING!

Link to my YouTube channel where you can see the videos: https://youtube.com/@spiralsister

Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. All while doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling thought ride to better health, through doing more with ease, to help us sustain the JOY in our lives! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey

The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.

About us

My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey

Here’s a video (on Vimeo) of us performing back when we lived in an RV on an off grid plot of land in the woods of northeastern Florida: https://vimeo.com/416711742?ref=fb-share

My books on Amazon

I have five books in total for sale on Amazon. The newest book is: We Are All Connected: The How and The Why, plus these: Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life: Reversing Asthma and Other Chronic Illness Naturally and Blue Eyes: Ethereal Messages of Connection as well as two other co-authored books.

Connect with us

Social channels where I am most active:

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Connections, Expanding Consciousness, Metaphysics, Mind-Body, Multifaceted

Integrating the Spirals: More brush tip marker and oil pastel sketches to usher in Spring in New England

I’m continuing to play and sketch per my soulie sister type friend, Linda Lewis from Arkansas, who now lives in Thailand–she’s a lifelong artist. And we connect on many levels. So, I’m sharing two sketches I did, following her painted sketches as models.

See Linda’s painted sketches on her blog at: https://creativeartworksblog.com – Each of her blog articles that I used as a model are included below the images:

Per my husband’s suggestion, I used dual-tip brush markers to fine line some details and color in the darker portions. I began the sketch and colored in using oil pastels, so I changed up my process a bit. I think it worked better. Linda suggested I sketch with a pencil and use an eraser as needed. I may do that soon, as I goofed on the second sketch and had I drawn it with a pencil first, for sure I would have fixed that elbow! Ha! But I’m not aiming for Perfection, so there’s that.

Screen capture from Linda’s post on 4/9/2026; All credit goes to Linda Lewis: https://creativeartworksblog.com/2026/04/08/thursday-4-9-2026/
My oil pastels sketch with brush tip marker used to enhance black lines. –Sheila Murrey
Screen capture from Linda’s post on 4/20/2026; All credit goes to Linda Lewis: https://creativeartworksblog.com/2026/04/20/monday-4-20-2026/
My oil pastels sketch with brush tip marker used to enhance black lines/areas (I’m really not good with arms/hands!). –Sheila Murrey

Happy Spring! We’re enjoying one of our first 60+ degree days here in New England (New Hampshire, USA). And it’s been sunny too! We had some warm days before this but then they were rainy days. Ugh.

Classes

I did a two-day online class with Tony Robbins and Dean Graziosi this week on AI. I learned a couple things but mostly, it was a waste of time. I did a lot of chatting during the presentations though (they streamed it with canned applause, which I don’t like), but when they got to the sales spiel, I turned it off. I went to try the first thing “animate this” on Google Gemini and it wanted to charge me $3.99 a month (for the first two months, then it would cost $7.99). No. There’s too many AI apps to choose from for me to pay anything of them–and hubby pays for ChatGPT so if I really need something that badly, he’ll use that to create it for me. I just wanted to test what I’d learned and wanted to animate my book cover to see what it would do. I wasn’t going to pay Google (of all companies) to test the new prompt. Ugh.

I then also took a five-day online class with Dr. Sue Mortimer. She sort of does what I do in Integrating the Spirals, and so it was neat to get a new fresh take on the whole breath work thing. And she is an excellent presenter. I simply have my hands into too many things to sign-up and pay for anything right now. Thus, I took these free classes to sort of see how I align with them. I liked Dr. Sue, but I am sitting with a couple of things she said as I wouldn’t present “the soul” the same way she does. And that’s okay. Just different. Dr. Sue has great things to say to us, heady people. And as you know, and as many of you are too, when one is an analyst, writer, researcher, philosopher, and/or intellectual, we sit a LOT! And she did a good job of explaining how we need to bring our breath INTO our bodies (using central channel breathing). Again, her presentations were worthwhile. I’m thankful for the ripples she puts out into our world!

As for Tony Robbins though, I’m thankful he feeds so many people. But I think he’s off my radar now. I put some opinion on Facebook. I don’t know if I should post it here. But let’s just say, bottom line, he’s a trans-humanist. And I am NOT. I do not want nano bots injected into my body. He’s for that. You may wonder why he brought that kind of thing up while talking with a worldwide audience of something like 800k people, yeah, when it was an AI class. I wondered that too. It didn’t leave me with a good feeling. Sorry, Tony!

Health update

I’m done with the chiropractor, at least for now. The naturopathic doctor has helped me immensely just from ONE visit! I really must leave Dr. Paterson a Googe review because I am still amazed at how much better I feel, again, after just my first visit. I go back to him in a little over a week. He did something called myofascial and positional release (I think). At least I know he did myofascial release and then I looked up the last two words. He’s also a DOM, Doctor of Oriental Medicine, and I’d thought he might use acupuncture on my left foot, but no, at least not yet. He was much more gentle than the chiropractor too, so there’s that. It’s almost like he must work on people who have rheumatoid arthritis or fibromyalgia or such and can do so much good, even using a gentle approach.

I have movement in my two toes (big toe and second toe), though the inner portion/side of each is still numb–but there’s no pain–on the left foot now (I estimate about 40% improvement), and the sciatica pain has reduced about 75%! Plus, I ran out of nerve tonic and I noticed I don’t have nerve pain from the shoulder situation anymore. YAY! I plan on resuming dancing soon, maybe even, (gasp!), tomorrow!

In Progress

I’m also in the process of putting together a keynote speech for new friend, Gina Virginia Casella’s upcoming conference. I’m thrilled to do it and it’s been fun thinking of ways to explain Interconnectedness along with introducing my new book.

The podcast conversation we recorded the other day should be Live soon–I’ll keep you all posted. And I enjoyed the gemstone reading Gina gave me. You can see examples of how she does those, as well as find the last conference recordings at: https://buymeacoffee.com/ginavirginiacasella/

We finished the 8 Harry Potter movies and I’m drafting a review of these with a great title that just dropped into my head last night. I should have it out tomorrow.

As I said, I have my hands in a lot of things right now. Ha! Apologies as always for my lateness in responding to your comments. I do love reading your comments though!

I’m still reading Russell’s book and others, the new Tarot book came in and I’ve already been taking a look at it.

And let’s continue sending prayers and loving vibes to our author friend and blogger pal, Michael and his family in the UK (https://peacefulrampage.wordpress.com), as his half sister is recuperating from an incident and she lives far from him. I sure know that feeling when we lived so far from my daughter during that time in 2022 when my husband had a stroke. Distance makes things harder when there’s serious injury or illness within a family.

Integrating the Spirals – JIGGLE WIGGLE

In my YouTube channel, I encourage those “over 50” to:

  • Open to lifelong learning (observe, gently question, and loosen up pre-conceived beliefs, aka ‘Programming’)
  • Become more aware of our thoughts and emotions to encourage more ease
  • Loosen up and move our bodies (we’re stuck in our heads also due to our “Programming” and physically unhealthy)
  • And become strong and resilient in spirit, soul, mind, and body.
  • And to question EVERYTHING!

Link to my YouTube channel where you can see the videos: https://youtube.com/@spiralsister

Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. All while doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling thought ride to better health, through doing more with ease, to help us sustain the JOY in our lives! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey

The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.

About us

My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 1,000 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey

Here’s an older video on Vimeo of us performing back when we lived in an RV on an off grid plot of land in northeastern Florida: https://vimeo.com/416711742?ref=fb-share

My books on Amazon

I have five books in total for sale on Amazon. The newest book is: We Are All Connected: The How and The Why, plus these: Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life: Reversing Asthma and Other Chronic Illness Naturally and Blue Eyes: Ethereal Messages of Connection as well as two other co-authored book

Connect with us

Here are the social channels where I am most active:

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Balancing Perspectives, Connections, Expanding Consciousness, Holism, Metaphysics, Mind-Body, Spirit

From an Analytical Empath: Next Steps on the Metaphysical Path

As we continue along the metaphysical path, that takes us from the knotted center of the spiral onwards and adding space as we go, to the outer bands. This becomes the snail’s path too, the longer we’re on this path. Eventually, we look back to see how far we’ve come and observe the spiral! Thus, you glimpse what I’m talking about when I say, “Integrating the Spirals.” Ha!

When we integrate too fast, or begin to jog along the spiral snail’s path… we can hurt ourselves (as I did in January when I went from dancing to two songs–6 to 7 minutes of movement–to three songs! Ten minutes of dancing was simply too much for me! After all, I’d only been dancing daily for six months. What the heck was I thinking?

I am such a heady person. An analyst. A writer. Philosopher. Intellectual. And I sit a LOT! While my heart wants to love, I can still get stuck from time to time. I talk with folks on Zoom often and type every day, and forget to show my SELF care and love, as I might someone else (like my husband (who lives with me), son (who lives far away), and daughter, granddaughters, and son-in-law who all live next door)!

Doctoring

Thankfully, I had a chiropractor near that I could go see and try to get my body back online (and dance again). But for whatever reason, and though he was doing an aWEsOMe job on my neck, back, and such, I found that my shoulder would feel better, but then I’d have lower back sciatica! Ugh! And then I found this issue with a tendon in my foot (or so I’d thought). After a few more chiropractic sessions, I felt like I needed additional help with the foot.

I looked up “naturopaths near me,” because this is how I practice holism. (Smiling. Just kidding. Well, sort of.) and found my new doctor! I say that because I made an appointment and saw Dr. Paterson yesterday. Wow! He totally impressed me as he did quite a bit of myofascial release and positional release on my L5 spinal area, left knee, and left foot! Here’s his info page that describes some of that along with his story: https://centredownehealth.com/dr-brian-paterson/

Mixing it up

Hubby and I have been watching each of the Harry Potter movies on HBO. (No, we don’t subscribe to HBO, but the family does for a few months a year and we get an account through them.) So, I’ve never read the books, nor seen any of these before. So, now, I’m getting to watch all the child actors age a year or more every night as we view a new film. We’re up to about film #6 at this point. Wow! I can see why kids became so enraptured by these stories! How creative and imaginative is J.K. Rowling!?! Amazing!

Yesterday and today I had the JOY of meeting and talking with Gina Virginia Casella. We recorded a podcast conversation yesterday, so I’ll have a link from that to share here with you soon, as well as a gemstone reading (Gina’s own discovery – and you can see more here: https://buymeacoffee.com/ginavirginiacasella/) to uncover if/where I had any issues going on (and I do!) in, through, or around me.

Using metaphors, Gina offers ideas and then it’s up to me to know or feel how they may apply to my life currently. I’m sure a reading like that might change daily as our lives move on. It’s a bit like receiving a tarot reading.

Oh, and speaking of tarot, in my book club I learned that another participant has written a book, so I ordered it! Laurie Watts-Amato wrote a book to help us read our own tarot cards. It’s on Amazon and is called, Tarot Insights – and here’s the link: https://amzn.to/4vMdYsj

Lastly, for my Christian readers, I watched a couple of dynamite videos that I think you will LOVE!

I’ve followed Russell Brand for YEARS. I used to love his Under the Skin podcast and YouTube channel interviews and comedic take on the news. I know he’s evolved now, and while I questioned at first, why he chose Catholicism when he accepted Christ Jesus, I knew he would eventually let us in on his story and he has. Thus, I bought Russell Brand’s new book (How to become a Christian in 7 Days), on Kindle, and I’m reading a bit of it each night before I fall asleep. It’s been fantastic so far, AND bonus with it, I’m learning some new words! And yes, Russell tells us as we read along what those words mean, which is GREAT! Here are the links: https://youtu.be/ISETUBf6aoo?si=zEoRKY1z61BdGfPs

And someone new to me, Tim Alberino expounds upon a fascinating journey through Bible times and talks about giants here: https://youtu.be/CiQTBOQ1dTg?si=Cqil8CJbBQoZmRGs

I know I’ve given you several links already, but as I only found out this morning and had this post in draft prior, let me add one more. David Wilcock has purportedly taken his own life. While many of us who have watched David for YEARS (mostly on Gaia TV), it’s hard to believe–we know these things can happen to anyone. Circumstances in life, body pain, or foul play can happen anytime, anywhere. I’m sharing this video to honor and respect the sensitive man, the parapsychology teacher, and the astounding researcher David was: https://www.youtube.com/live/VbXvRyKeWp8?si=dOnA8Zv_ijOGaHHb Blessings to David’s friends and family at this sad time.

If you’re still here, I’d ask for prayers and loving vibes to be sent along to our author friend and blogger pal, Michael in the UK (https://peacefulrampage.wordpress.com) for his family too.

My new book, We Are All Connected: The How and The Why

Here’s the link where you can grab a copy of, We Are All Connected: The How and The Why. An analytical mind searches for answers.

See me talking about my new 5th book on YouTube –>> https://youtube.com/shorts/RKmIIucsMs4?feature=share and here’s how to get a paperback copy of, We Are All Connected: The How and The Why. https://amzn.to/4s7n3Jg or eBook version: https://amzn.to/3PAvfUK

Integrating the Spirals – JIGGLE WIGGLE

In my YouTube channel, I encourage those “over 50” to:

  • Open to lifelong learning (observe, gently question, and loosen up pre-conceived beliefs, aka ‘Programming’)
  • Become more aware of our thoughts and emotions to encourage more ease
  • Loosen up and move our bodies (we’re stuck in our heads also due to our “Programming” and physically unhealthy)
  • And become strong and resilient in spirit, soul, mind, and body.
  • And to question EVERYTHING!

Link to my YouTube channel where you can see the videos: https://youtube.com/@spiralsister

Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. All while doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling thought ride to better health, through doing more with ease, to help us sustain the JOY in our lives! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey

The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.

About us

My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 1,000 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey

Here’s a video of us performing on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/416711742?ref=fb-share

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