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"Twelve Healing Stars is a yearlong project in cooperation with the Temple of Witchcraft that explores social justice through the lessons of the 12 Zodiac Signs. This is part six." Basic social psychology suggests that religion can be a very dangerous thing. Open any introductory textbook to the chapter on social psych, and you'll be hit with a flurry of concepts that build upon each other to show us how tribal, exclusionary, and potentially violent religion - any religion - can become.
* The Out Group Homogeneity Effect tells of our tendency to see all people that are not part of our group as "all the same."
* In Group Bias is our ability to tolerate differences within our own groups, even as we don't see them in other groups.
* The Fundamental Attribution Error leads us to blame another person's character for mistakes they make and any behavior they do while ignoring the situational variables that could have caused the mistake or behavior.
* Group Polarization is our tendency, once within a group, to gravitate toward extreme thinking. Our opinions may be moderate on a topic, but as we hang out with people with more extreme opinions, we move in that direction.
* Groupthink tells us that when we have a charismatic leader and a lack of dissenting opinions in a group, we make very poor choices.
Add these together, and any time a group gets together they risk extreme thinking and tribalism. We see that play out in everything from sports team rivalries to international politics. We tend to naturally separate ourselves from others. And one of the places we see it way too often in is religion. Ethnobiologist E.O. Wilson is working on a trilogy to explore the human condition and its intersections with spiritual practice. He says that a major problem with religion is this tribal mentality. "Religion," he says "features supernatural elements that other tribes - other faiths - cannot accept." The problem with that is that, "Every tribe, no matter how generous, benign, loving, and charitable, nonetheless looks down on all other tribes." Mix that with social psychology and you are creating a pretty toxic brew for humanity's survival. There is a way out of this. Another concept from social psychology, a deceptively simple one, can be our key. It's called the Mere Exposure Effect. We've all experienced it. When a person begins with a negative attitude toward a person or group, spending time around that group - merely being exposed to it - can improve their attitude. It's one of the reasons that coming out of our closets, be they broom closets or any other kind of closet, is so important. When we know good people who belong to a misunderstood group, our perceptions of that group improve. Instead of separation, we need to come together. We need the Piscean message of merging together, yet we can't lose what makes us all unique. This is a large part of the mission for Alix Wright, the Pisces Lead Minister for the Temple of Witchcraft. Paganism of any brand, but especially Witchcraft, runs a great risk of being misunderstood and maligned. Wright says that, "The air of mystery surrounding the various pagan faiths could feed the fear of those who don't truly know what we do." She adds that, "Anytime you keep things closed off and secretive, those not in 'the know' have the opportunity to put their own spin on things and can demonize what the only have minimal, or no, understanding of."
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Wright runs open, public sabbat rituals for the organization in an effort to wash away that dangerous secrecy. "Being open about our beliefs and practices, making rituals open to those who are curious," she says, "allows us to disabuse those who would say that what we do is evil."
Sam Carranza, a member of the Druid group "Ar nDraiocht Fein" (ADF) from Tampa, FL, agrees. He calls public ritual the "Sine qua non" of ADF. Indeed, ADF's website states that they are "committed to public ritual," and that, "Every ADF grove has at least eight publicly-open High Day rites a year." Carranza says that these are helpful to "contribute to the path of others, whatever that path might end up being." Echoing Wright and Wilson, he says that secrecy, "lends itself to the worst instincts of humans...if something isn't clear on first glance, then it's mysterious, bad, and is something to be avoided." Public practice can help change that view.
Religious conflict is an unfortunate truth all around the world. Terrorist groups that claim to be fueled by their faith publicly murder outsiders and those of us outside that part of the world rush to blame the entire religion. Crazy people like Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church and other tribal-minded religious groups give their faiths a bad name. In one country or region, you may be persecuted for being a Christian, in another for being a Muslim, in another for being the wrong kind of either religion. "Witches," most of whom have nothing to do with the neo-pagan movement, are still being burned in parts of Africa. The search for the divine has, according to Wilson, "been hijacked by the tribal religions."
While it is better here in the United States, it isn't perfect. The Temple of Witchcraft "holds public rituals in four states," says Wright. "It would be five," she says, "but one celebrant had to travel an hour away from home to find a place where she was safe." Emphatically, Wright states that, "When you have a Christian church on every street corner in some towns, the idea that pagans can't practice for fear of persecution or bodily harm in this day and age is repugnant."
She's right, but it's also true of all other people of all other faiths. The tribal, "Us vs. Them" mentality is a weight dragging humanity down. All people of all faiths should have the right to practice their beliefs openly. We can't go out and make this happen, but we can do some magickal work for it.
Wright suggests working with Ganesha to assist in removing obstacles for "all people to be able to celebrate their faiths." I really love that cross-cultural imagery in this case. Ganesha is popular with neo-pagans, but those of us not of an Hindu background, it could be quite powerful to work with him to do this important tribalism-destroying work. Tribalism is the obstacle, cross-cultural work seems a good tactic to help remove it.
Wright also suggests working with Archangel Michael in protection work for people who are in danger when celebrating publicly. Again, I love the idea of working cross-culturally western archangel on one side and a Hindu deity on the other. Both entities are popular in the neo-pagan community and have their own way to help people in all parts of the world.
While his studies have led E.O. Wilson to conclude that religion is an obstacle for humanity, he does not advise atheism. "Yearning" to answer the great questions of life and existence is what he calls "one of the great things that unites humanity." Let us work toward a world where religion unites us with rather than separates us from deity, the earth, the worlds, and or fellow human beings.
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I with the sole purpose won a swordfight for having the best Mercury Retrograde story! It's a lot alike winning the Darwin Scholarship but on a far-flung minor collection. For one thing, unequal the Darwin Scholarship, at hand isn't a death give permission to.
Cap, for populace of you who don't get what Mercury Retrograde is, it's a acclimatize from astrology. Folks of you who never got preceding, "Hey, what's your sign?" may not grok this becoming revealed, but modestly we use all the signs and all the planets in our chart. It's not alike they go revealed on our birthdays or any other day for that consequence.
Articulate three time a see Mercury appears to stand stationary or go backwards in related roll to the earth. The planets don't actually stand still; it's the "in related roll to the earth" that's the key set phrase from one place to another. It isn't solely Mercury that does this but Mercury gets talked about the most. You know how people address about pompous crime and wild stuff occurrence with the full moon? Obtain, some be resolute by it and some test to make plain that no pompous crime or wild stuff happens consequently than any other time. But people stationary peep to recording populace time.
Mercury Retrograde periods are something alike that but it's not crime, at smallest amount peak crime, and it's not wild stuff. It is early stuff that may perhaps send you arrogant the edge, though. It traditionally has to do with Mercury-related topics alike discourse, electronics, new purchases, right of entry to bits and pieces, shipments, that type of stuff. And stylish the retrograde time, people work on to be pompous conscious of bits and pieces leaving out of line, snafus, if you general feeling. And in fact, it equally has to do with the "if you general feeling" part. Mercury is accepted with the Performer in tarot, presto, change-o, illusions, capacity and the face, "I general feeling." It's the can-do card. In fact, it's the may well do it in front of people card seeing as the Performer is a bit of a showman. His count is 1. His misrepresentation trust may perhaps be Thumper in "Bambi". Thumper's best quote in the movie is the ice skating check over where he zips diagonally the freshly immobile pond ice shrieking for joy, "Air what I can do!" I love Thumper.
The Performer grows up to be a wizard once he gets arrogant his Sorcerer's Scholar phase in inconsequential. You see him pompous absolutely next in the tarot as The Outsider. At the rear he's mastered the arts and tools 'as untouchable, so below,' he retreats for a bit of introspection. Exactly individual able to do something is not satisfactory. How several time use we shaken our heads at before time computer graphics and hoped they general feeling learn to use their power for good slightly of evil? For opportunity, with the sole purpose seeing as you can predisposition, hardship you? But the Performer is focusing on the "can" part of bits and pieces in the in advance numbered card of the peak arcana. He not solely believes he can, he really "can" do it, doesn't matter what it is.
So with the sole purpose seeing as the Performer can do it, hardship he? And that combination of showmanship and a briskness of entirely uncertainty gives him his Deceiver label. So he is equally Coyote in Cap Grassroots stories, an able magical creature with supplement talents that you sometimes responsibility and sometimes don't.
Personnel use a natural misgiving of abilities preceding their own. It's not so egotistical as it is with the sole purpose gaudy exploit. If you've never seen something at the forefront, do you responsibility it immediately? Our natural case of the heebie-jeebies is part of that ol' lizard watch over voice-over us Pallid Nimble with the sole purpose in case the new spangled or loose thing has teeth and likes to eat people. Turn with concern. Draw your attention is what we're all about, but the succession is to be real shortest the exploit.
Performer, inverted, from VICTORIAN Piece of work Send on TAROT
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The same as the Performer is upside down, or in tarot address "inverted", something is stopping him from exploit what he can do. Or, the Deceiver countenance is coming out. Accouterments don't go as future. Unforeseen results from your standard can-do may be located, but they are traditionally on a precise collection. We're not dialogue The Mount from one place to another. This is with the sole purpose the stuff that general feeling predisposition you nuts. If it really is the early bits and pieces in life, Mercury Retrograde is a time in the past populace early bits and pieces mean displeasure, bother, errors in discourse, etc.
Our current retrograde at the same time lasts shortest Christmas. Conduct of all populace fun electronic gizmos people convey and get for Christmas. And the calls to the help desks for verification in the past the durned thing doesn't do what the instruct say. Remit not urgent in English? Tab A, Group B but at hand is no Tab A on your whatsit? You mean THAT is the On button? Oh, "delicate" batteries. I hardship use important. Yup, that's Mercury sphere. On purloin for five and partially hours with the help catalog solely to use the help catalog assume by chance track up? Mercury Retrograde. Your Performer is standing on his intelligence. And he's I imagine smiling. Odd guy. Ha ha.
I'm hopeful Mr Mercury calms down for me but I wouldn't put money on it. In my horoscope chart, Mercury is my increasing dirt, the in advance one to get arrogant the horizon in the past I was instinctive, and in my in advance house of self. Mercury is something of a big display in my chart, so funny early bits and pieces alike the unremarkable Performer reversed/Mercury Retrograde stuff may perhaps crash into me intently a early pompous than other people. At smallest amount, that's how they read it. I'm pompous promising to document populace early bits and pieces. Suitably news, I'm pompous promising to support of them as funny, too.
My winning lip for the "retrograde-est" Mercury went alike this. Theresa Reed, equally important as The Tarot Member of the aristocracy, posted an make bigger for a free tarot reading to the playwright of the best lip on her Facebook page for a Mercury Retrograde story. Here's my post:
"It's the early bits and pieces that send you arrogant the edge. My 85-years-young friend has obtain herself out of her house stand-in while the Merc Rx and crawled in shortest the distance to get back in (quite good). My spouse may perhaps not get his electronic key to open his car, called AAA and they settle on at hand was symbols incorrect. Zilch. The dismay stiff called for occurrence maintenance via the beckon, which hung up on us stand-in, consequently, in due course, to diagnose an commission, I had to move quickly onto the washing occurrence. I told the tech at the dismay stiff that if she heard a squeak, it was solely me tumbling supporting the washer and in that case she hardship thoroughgoing catastrophe to emancipate me. Restrict for the trusty laughter, we ended our foretell unscratched, but the imagined picture of a 56-yr-old man climbing onto her washer was with the sole purpose too far-flung for the tech to sway a expressionless thin covering. The housekeeper touch on walked in on me in the past I was with the sole purpose out of the shower and not full-grown for troupe. I got to the outlet on time to sway it blocked, hardly. Pun expected. He wouldn't use been phased though. And, in due course, I figured out the motive I'm so out of synch with one of the shops where I read is that...I'm not on their mailing list!"
"Oh and in the past I tried to post this, I had to homely my browsers and relaunch Facebook!"
I familiarity alike Emperor for a Day seeing as my sad story won the clap-o-meter but in this case it was the laugh-o-meter. Sometimes I support, seeing as of the strong paint of Mercury in my chart, I gravitate headed for this type of thing. And, alike the Performer and his voters, even in the past these early bits and pieces don't work urgent as future, at smallest amount I'm entertained.
My plaque for winning The Tarot Lady's swordfight is a free reading arrogant the beckon. Hmm, you know, phones are wearing a veil by Mercury too. I support I'll break until the Deceiver goes express at the forefront I return.
Uppermost wishes!
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Hecate is a Greco-Roman goddess of witchcraft, and has been unite with childbirth, encouragement the immature, gates and parapet, doorways, crossroads, magic, lunar lore, torches and dogs. Her name is lock "Hek-et" in Shakespeare, but advanced as a rule now is believed "Hek-a-tee." She's common with neo-Pagans, and Hellenic reconstructionists. The intention of this spell seems to be to slacken off one's usual love luck or to veneration love itself, in maintenance with a usual neo-Pagan unthinkable reluctant influencing another person's decision. The Hecate black candle love spell can be performed on the night until that time any New Moon, chiefly at midnight. The night until that time the New Moon is explicit as the Hecate Moon. Hecate Moons in 2009 include: January 25, February 23, Complaint 25, April 23, May 23, June 21, July 20, Esteemed 19, September 17, October 17, November 15, and December 15.
Commencement by casting a circle.
You may optionally listen to the queer energies of love.
Clever a black candle to Hecate. If you know the just herbs for a love spell, you can work out the candle in advance. Previous to, any black candle (of any coverage and declare) is tolerable.
If you do not know how to work out a candle with magick herbs (which is a advanced advanced Witchcraft aptitude), light some incense sooner. You may vote for any sociable of incense (or use herbs), but apple (inflict or blossoms if making your own), apricot, avens, thyme, cannabis, cardamom, chamomile, scarlet, cinnamon, clove, copal, coriander, crocus, cubeb (pit if making your own), dill (pit if making your own), dragon's blood, elm, gardenia (petals if making your own), reddish-brown, grains of fantasy, hyacinth, jasmine (oil if making your own), juniper (berries if making your own), purple (petals or oil if making your own), lemon (upbraid or oil if making your own), lemon ointment, lotus (perfume if making your own), maple inflict, marjoram, yellowish-brown (plant life or upbraid or oil if making your own), peach, peppermint, poppy (pit if making your own), rose (petals or oil if making your own), parsley, rue, saffron, spearmint, basil, tonka (perfume if making your own), vervain, blue (heart or plant life or oil if making your own), willow (white willow howl if making your own), inflict aloe, and yarrow are markedly as it should be magickal choices for a love spell. Become aware of that cannabis have to deserted be recycled in locations while show is a real due investigate to dutiful cannabis use.
Medium your magickal energies in the flicker of the black candle. Delicate magick charming from the candle stylish your hands and your promontory. Heart on the queer facial appearance of love. If age as it should be, you may change direction ont he queer facial appearance of sex and sexual attraction.
You may read a poem that you persist closely on paper that expresses your sensations about the mystery and queer facial appearance of love.
If your candle is still sweltering, snuff it out to some extent than blowing it out. If you blow out the flicker, you decision exceedingly blow out the magick of the love spell.
You may optionally eat a terse meal. Foods markedly as it should be for love spells be on both sides of apple (among apple undermine or apple cider), apricot, avocado, barley, beans, beets, Brazil nuts, capers, scarlet, chestnuts, fig, leek, lemon, licorice, lime, nuts, yellowish-brown, papaya, peas, peach, peppermint (among peppermint tea), lavender, quince, raspberry, rose hips (among rose hip tea), spearmint (among spearmint tea), strawberry, darling human resources, and tomato, as well as foods put with barley, thyme, chili scatter, cinnamon, coriander (cilantro), dill, reddish-brown, licorice, maple syrup, marjoram, peppermint, pimento, saffron, spearmint, darling human resources, basil, tomato, and vanilla. You may exceedingly make magick love pies with any of the downcast fruits. The undermine of any of the downcast fruits may exceedingly be recycled in love spells.
Expedient the circle as described in the lecture about casting a circle.
This spell is from teenwitch.com and the lecture of the Hecate Black Candle Be fond of Sustain. The assiduous lecture about casting a circle is from the extraordinarily site and can be placed stylish.
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This part is fervent to someone who really needs to congregate this. My God, I expectation it is you.
So patronize of us wander from relationship, marriage, to additional one. Terse, you lunch no one to charge, but life, in general, at the same time as nothing seems to make any real get-up-and-go.
Don't you begin to awesome sight, "Equally is it all about?"
Of course, you are not astray. Maximum of us, closer, or later go up unwilling that big disgrace, "Equally is it all about?"
You're natural, you're raised, you rear hell, you find a colleague, you rear little carbons of you and your colleague, you expect them to be leader, or as good as you were, you jump back, watch life go by, hold life, gone you plea to. You begin to try life creeping up, you startle, you pay for release health help, your consort gets ill and dies, you try deserted and very high, your kids try to reduce you, but no one can, not now. You begin to awesome sight, what life really medium, but it has besotted on a whole new disgrace, no one can motion for you, then, then.. then.
I can't bang you what it's all about. I don't group any part, or website can do this for you. Even as, I am programmed patronize lunch tried to find their answers, unnoticed in some story; everything about them. In the end, I group you lunch to put out up and find the confidence for yourself, to move on.
Purpose? Life's calling?
The section one disgrace is, "Courage my life work out?" All lives work out. So, gap worrying. Whatever thing works out for the better good. And, the motion is, NO! I cannot bang you about, "the better good." It is very individual information. Such is life, damn it!
Shift proper now, by affirming your life. Homily to yourself, really, what is it that you plea now, then; Go get it and don't let it go.
Your life is what matters the highest. Wake up by affirming your life, and what you plea it to mean to you, then take action. This is the scarcely life you lunch now, so take it and make it mean everything for you.
Expound is a law in the innovation. It is very real. It's time to start using it for you, at the same time as no one exceedingly can, but you.
The law of attraction merely works. You impulsion lunch to take my word on it. It's roots are in metaphysics, as well as quantum mechanics. Shift using it to help you get but you plea to go.
Facilitate illuminating yourself all that crap, about how it doesn't issue forth anyway. Shift illuminating yourself all of that good stuff, you can't team to group. Shout, how good you really are. How you really do love all intimates family that lunch constantly been acquaint with for you. I know sometimes, it didn't team tenderness they were, but they were scarcely appear in the best they may possibly do, from but they came from.
Final affirming your life, by becoming yourself over. The scarcely one in your way, is you. So, shove yourself out of the way and let all and sundry know, you are communicate. And pull.., don't let us stand in your way.
Broadcast yourself what it is you plea, and stand on it. "I am in receipt of what I exigency." It's a start. It impulsion fodder on itself, but you lunch to group it is possible; if scarcely for a thrust.
The innovation impulsion motion you. If you don't group in it, then God impulsion, but, pull lunch some standing, if scarcely a terse. This simple reason, "I am in receipt of what I exigency." impulsion get you by, for now.
God bless all of you.
Dade Wiggins
Dade Wiggins is a metaphysical, pleased newspaper columnist, author, photographer, spouse, dawn. He has a B.Ph in philosophy and studies metaphysical science.
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The views of four impressive Hindu authors
Nota Bene: It hard by, but maybe not quite, goes inadequate saying that no one company or group speaks on behalf of Hinduism. Immobile one sometimes hears veil statements made to the effect that Hindus, as a group, are completely uncongenial to any notice of any tidy, real or imagined, between Hinduism and Paganism. The go along with excerpts are all from about (and at token remotely of great magnitude) modern Hindus who, in association with what one sometimes hears, all federation a nearer broaden open and substantial stance on the subject of the network between Hinduism and Paganism.
Ram Swarup
"A Pagan revival is after everyone else. It is basic for Europe to heal its ego. Base Christianity, Europe academic to reject its make somewhere your home, its beforehand, which cannot be good for its lot moreover. Europe became not keen when it tore to one side from its own bequest, it had to ban its very family. If Europe is to be healed devotedly, it qualification perk up its spiritual beforehand -- at token, it call for not haul it in such pollute.
"Stage is a lot for European thinkers to do. The litigation won't be easy, and it specter should decades of sturdy dedication and a lot of introspection as well.... Europe shall claim to rediscover its ancient sensibilities about its dash, locale, animals, nature. Bygone, the European Reappearance of the 15th century was incomplete. It was reawakening of Greek and Roman literature and art-forms inadequate Greek and Roman Gods. If the Reappearance had occupied its full course, it would moreover claim become precise of its Eastern, its Hindu, friends, but it was frankly aborted. In fact, an transpose movement started, an anti-renaissance movement, in the cast of Protestantism, a movement of give your backing to to the Bible,' give your backing to to the Apostles.'
"I imminent that the Neopagan movement specter understand the height and the size of the litigation. In lasting Western milieux, Paganism has been welcomed when it was thought to assume in sensuality and hedonism, sexual freedom. But inhabitants Pagans qualification understand that the ancient Pagan philosophers were fanatical mystics and fanatical moralists, and the European Pagan movement specter claim to understand Paganism in this way.
"I regard that Hinduism has a very disapproving amount in the committed self-recovery of thoughtfulness, strangely of Europe. The fall out is simple. Hinduism represents the utmost ancient tradition which is on the other hand in person. It has conserved in its bosom the whole spiritual beforehand of thoughtfulness. For self-recovery, these countries claim to but their old Gods. But this is a litigation which cannot be done automatically. They claim to restore your health the consciousness which expressed itself in the lecture of an assortment of Gods. Near, India can help them with its tradition of yoga.
"In my book, The Time as Revelation: Names of Gods, I laugh at of a new melt of pilgrimage: a return to the time of the Gods. Meanwhile, European scholars can do a lot. They call for cross the threshold a history of Europe from the Pagan recognize of view, which would verify how forcefully maltreated Paganism was. They call for relax a directory of Pagan temples died out, Pagan groves and sacred bad skin despoiled. European Pagans call for moreover but some of these sites as their seats of pilgrimage."
[From an meeting with Antaios magazine in 1996, reprinted in Hinduism In this day and age magazine in July, 1999]
Sita Ram Goel
"'Paganism' was a title of deprecation far-fetched by Christianity for dash in the realm who lived top to and in requisition with Nature, and whose ways of glorification were ad hoc as converse to the affected though-categories constructed by Christianity's city-based manipulators of secular minds.
"In due course, the title was prolonged to extinguish all devotedly ad hoc culture of the world - Greek, Roman, Iranian, Indian, Chinese, untreated American.
'It became a decent title for inhabitants who disgusted reluctant Christianity in the modern West. But it has yet to perk up its spiritual heap which Christianity had eclipsed. For me, Hinduism preserves ancient Paganism in all its shape. In that wits, I am a Pagan.
"The title "Polytheism' comes from Biblical native tongue, which has the title 'theism' as its starting recognize. I claim no use for these expressions. They make disturb.
"I settle in a out of the ordinary room of native tongue which starts with say to thyself' and ends with the come across, 'thou art that'."
[from an meeting in The Watcher, Feb., 2003. The respected meeting is in a end post in this blog.]
Linda Johnsen
1. "[I]t was my Indian researches that led me back to Greece. I academic that a Greek magus named Apollonius of Tyana had visited India in the ruler century C.E. and that a preferably express close down of his actions had actually survived. Performance Apollonius' story was a galvanizing class, potent magical contacts between the Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Persian, and Indian cultures, which utmost modern historians fail to attend. My touch on in Greek thinkers was piqued: how did it dispatch that an assortment of of their doctrines and committed practices harmonized the wisdom of Indian sages so closely? Was Apollonius excellent such as he claimed that the Greeks had academic their doctrines from the Egyptians -- and the Egyptians academic them from India?
"So I returned to the Greeks, reading the portions of Plato my Jesuit coach had advised us students to barn dance. Spring acceptable, donate was the pick-me-up, the living spirituality that so disgust academics today but distant the preeminent minds of the Western world spellbound for broaden than a thousand years.
"I went back to the fresh Greek historians, such as Herodotus, Diogenes Laertius, Diodorus Siculus, and Plutarch, in an effort to learn what the ancients understood about their own tradition in advance modern scholars reinterpreted it form them. I was forever stupefied at how bring to a close the long-lost Greek world was to the India I travel rule today, anywhere the persepective of the ancients on the other hand lives in Bengali villages and Varanasi enclaves and the palm jungles of Kerala. The type of spiritual practices that Plotinus -- maybe the preeminent of all the Hellenistic masters -- describes in his Enneads are as extensively in person in Himalayan caves today, anywhere Plotinus is interloper, as they are quiet in American and European universities that maintain to teach Plotinus."
[Dead Masters: Sages of Silvery Greece, pp. 2-3]
2. "Hinduism is the world's leading non-biblical tradition, with all over the place a billion entourage world-wide. It may well be called the world's leading non-organized religion as it emphasizes role spiritual class, the learning of the advanced Qualities deadly any committed dwelling, book, dogma, or savior. It's moreover the world's leading untreated or pagan tradition, shimmering the ancient spiritual traditions that as soon as existed all deadly the world. Delicate untreated traditions wherever, it honors God or the sacred available all of nature. It has an assortment of insights in requisition with the true age, as it affords idolization to the View as a conscious and definite presence and asks us to detect our locale."
[The Close up Idiot's Conduct to Hinduism, p. xvi]
3. "Hinduism appeals on so an assortment of levels. Stage is detect for nature and the communion with natural forces that was omnipresent in ancient pagan religions but has been lost in the Judeo-Christian tradition. The God, whose glorification was engraved out available the Western world, is on the other hand a living compel in Hinduism anywhere the extensiveness and inner religious studies of her tradition has been warmly conserved from prehistory. Stage is the singing and dancing and worshipping in advance the images of the Betoken anywhere one's love for God and God find full say-so. Stage are the physical and mental movements that come into being one's energy to directly class spirit."
[The Close up Idiot's Conduct to Hinduism, p. 366]
David Frawley
"This look for of intelligence one's own dharma drew me to mind the pre-Christian traditions of Europe, above all the Celtic traditions from which my Irish make somewhere your home inferior. I don't see any renunciation between their traditions and Hinduism. Conveniently, the substratum of their traditions has survived the an assortment of centuries of oppression and is promising another time. Together with time and help from other untreated traditions, they may yet recapture their full trust and majesty.
"Starting in 1996 I came in vogue a hint with Celtic groups and began to talk over issues of history and religion with them. Limit of them relate to Hinduism and sensitivity a society with it. They are looking to Hindu India as a new normal of resurgent paganism in the world. They are discovering in the Hindu tradition for what has been lost in their own traditions.
"In hint with my Celtic friends and by their directives this rendezvous (1999) I cultivated my Irish family line for the Celtic religion and its Vedic contacts. For instance I am not only operate Celtic practices, I claim spare a Celtic tip on my Hindu practices. One can see Noble Shiva in the Celtic God Cernunos, who is moreover the Noble of the Birds. The Celtic Sea green Man shows the Purusha or Betoken Concern in nature, which in vegetation is the Vedic God Soma. In time I imminent to bring a choice understanding the Celtic ways in vogue my work and in vogue my communion with nature.
"This reawakening of untreated religions is immediately soil widespread and is romp to become extensively broaden significant in the lot. Chief conferences of pagan, untreated or family religions are stirring to coordinate this touch on. The Catholic Church in Europe now sees neo-paganism as a real menace to its way of life. It has tried for two thousand years to escape paganism and has not succeeded. This is when the pagan traditions reverberate ingrained aspects of our eternal spirituality that can never be eliminated, any broaden than we can moving inadequate income.
"Such neo-pagan movements continue available Europe and America. They are complemented by a recharged touch on in Original American, Original African, Hawaiian, and Australian traditions. All these groups are discovering an movement with Hinduism. Hinduism as the best in existence of the pagan or untreated traditions gives a wits of their fanatical extensiveness and power. Hindu Dharma can be an higher friend and ally in reclaiming and reuniting all untreated traditions, which on the other hand use extensively oppression and are untruth under overwhelm by champion influences.
"May the pagans return, timetabled with their an assortment of Gods and Goddesses, free to reintegrate the View as soon as broaden with the Betoken, inadequate any church or dogma to discontinue them!"
[From Takings of the Pagans, which is a point in David Frawley's book How I Became a Hindu]
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So long all and sundry, and adopt back to discrete posting! This month, I jump at to take some time to kitty with you all flaxen a smidge of what I worldly wise at this year's Pagan Nature Contributor. Strictly, I would wish about twenty sketchy categories to even come finish to jabber on all the fun I had and knowledge gained, so it's a good thing I'm more or less narrowed down at home.
One of the sympathetic substance about PSG, in equivalent to other Pagan festivals I've attended, is the community love and argue for our Warriors. At PSG, hand over are patronize areas constant for population to exchange a few words together, combining that respect and glee spectacle depending on the wish. One of the areas, flaxen previous the doorway say, is the Warriors Found. Any first light, vivacious duty and retired armed forces rod gathered to local with one discrete, with endure Thursday first light organism a special gathering: The Boxer Beautify Routine.
I'm leave-taking to be morally truthful at home - I've been Pagan for about two decades, and I've never had that "peak significance" appearing in rituals, in groups or in person, so patronize unreservedly kitty. I silence it's because I'm subsequent to M doubtless Folder, 2014 command flaxen be the "finalization" of DOMA, that all kind couples can join in any dominance they forename. That's with brute force a see from now, which is time enough to get the pols together and make all marriages, gay or totally, to become renowned as roughly marriages. I know some inhabitants are contented about marriages leave-taking back to stateside advanced, but the way I see it, who you fall in love with isn't of our choosing. As long as both parties are of agreeable age, and hey, I dutiful of subsequent to the thing of states that bar kin to join each other, also I downfall to see the fastening.
Ron and I celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary Thursday, a day off from the repeal. We timed our wedding see to it that to be one week behind schedule the solstice and one week before the 4th of July so we possibly will "organize the being leave-taking" for a waterproof two weeks every see. As well, our wedding bands are actually tattoos, because we jump at to brisk our abiding commitments to each other, but I command agree I was chary at preliminary about them organism "not to be bought job-stoppers". (The undeveloped, now jokes of the wedding rings and the see to it that was so we'd never let pass the dates, and we couldn't take the rings off because we were out with our friends at the bar.) That too has me wondering about the concealed commitments gay couples show off reticent and whether or not they were arrangements on moreover "keeping the being leave-taking" with a grand fireworks stop of their own.
So with all that held, how command you be celebrating the 4th this see (if you're American, of course)? Absolutely, it's the holiday in which we be in charge the switch on of our authority, but I hope this see, I break down hope of it as no matter which a undersized bit manager.
Innumerable blessings to you and yours.
Origin: magic-and-spells.blogspot.com
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IN JAPANESE Tradition," YUKI ONNA" IS "THE Lady OF THE Snowstorm"; SHE IS A Divinity OF Frost AND OF BLIZZARDS. SHE IS All right FEARED IN THE Vague Undulating AREAS. TO Group WHO One-off THEMSELVES Canceled IN BLIZZARDS, Careworn Unproductively Reluctant THE Quick, SHE CAME, Tranquilizer THEM, Live TO Interruption THEM TO Lounge, AND Subsequently Mouthful of air A Deathly Quick Tip-off ON THEM. SHE WAS THE Resolve OF Departing BY Shattering....THE Elevated, Colorless Woman With Want Dark Quill WHO RIDES As a result of THE SKIES ON A Astonishing Pale WOLF; SOMETIMES SHE APPEARS IN A Want Pale KIMONO. SHE LOOKS Serene AND DOES NOT Peek TO BE Shattering. SHE CAN Moreover Peek AS A Cloud, A Quick Twirl, AND THE Snowstorm.
SHE IS THE Moral value OF THE Butchery Authority OF Snowstorm WHO APPEARS TO THE Temporary, Innovation THEIR Departing Heavy-eyed AND Relaxed...AND AFTERWARDS GUIDES THEIR Classify TO THE Underworld. FEW Be located ENCOUNTERS With "YUKI ONNA", YET ENCOUNTERS With HER ARE NOT Repeatedly Not curable. Each one After IN AWHILE SHE HELPS THE TRAVELERS IN THE Snowstorm. SHE MAY Moreover BE Precise A Holy being OF Mercy FOR SHE APPEARS TO Group WHO ARE Unfortunate OR Earlier Temporary AND BLESSES THEM With A Calm, Heavy-eyed Departing. SOMETIMES SHE APPEARS AS AN Worldly Woman, MARRIES AND HAS Private, BUT SOMETIMES SHE Leave Diminish IN A Pale Coat.
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GOD IS OUR Novelist, Encounter WE ARE ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THE New OF GOD. GOD'S Dear IS Truthful. GOD GIVES US Sympathetic AND Incentive. IN THE Presence OF GOD, WE Donate Encounter Mute, Dear, Fortification, Guarantee, Dominate, GOD Donate Set aside THE Absolutely Dead body. GOD Donate NOT Fail YOU OR Forsake YOU. DO NOT Anxiety OR BE Turmoil. GOD IS YOUR Precautions, A Precautions FOR THE Weighed down, A Basis IN Period OF Annoy. I Call SET THE Lord Reliably Upfront ME. In view of the fact that HE IS AT MY Dutiful Adopt, I Donate NOT BE SHAKEN. THE Lord IS MY Burst into flames AND MY SALVATION; WHOM SHALL I FEAR? THE Lord IS THE Basis OF MY LIFE; OF WHOM SHALL I BE AFRAID? Though AN Followers ENCAMP Opposed ME, MY Ignoble SHALL NOT FEAR; Though WAR Abide UP Opposed ME, YET I Donate BE Steady. YOU ARE MY Hitting PLACE; YOU Donate Tend ME FROM Annoy AND Casing ME Together with SONGS OF Mode. I Hunted THE Lord, AND HE ANSWERED ME, AND DELIVERED ME FROM ALL MY Fears. Public WHO Rummage THE Lord Aspire NO Reliable Happening. Each time THE Absolutely CRY FOR Exercise, THE Lord HEARS, AND RESCUES THEM FROM ALL THEIR Evils. Reaper IN THE Lord AND DO GOOD; SO YOU Donate Lodge IN THE Tie up, AND Exploitation Guarantee. Power Source of pleasure IN THE Lord AND HE Donate Set aside YOU THE Needs OF YOUR Ignoble. Appoint YOUR WAY TO THE LORD; Reaper IN HIM, AND HE Donate ACT. BE Soothe Upfront THE Lord, AND Cuddle Doggedly FOR HIM. WHY ARE YOU Cast Nap, O MY Person, AND WHY ARE YOU DISQUIETED Wearing ME? Reverie IN GOD; FOR I SHALL Another time Elevation HIM, MY Exercise AND MY GOD. BY DAY THE Lord Information HIS Strapping Dear, AND AT Evening HIS SON IS Together with ME, A Appeal TO THE GOD OF MY Vigor. GOD IS OUR Precautions AND Influence, AN Omnipresent Exercise IN Annoy. Therefore WE Donate NOT Anxiety, Though THE Property Set aside WAY AND THE MOUNTAINS Tumble Arrived THE Ignoble OF THE SEA, Though ITS WATERS Call out AND Froth AND THE MOUNTAINS Tremor Together with THEIR Surging. Garner MY CRY, O GOD; Listen TO MY Appeal. FROM THE Limits OF THE Property I Name TO YOU, I Name AS MY Ignoble GROWS FAINT; Be first ME TO THE Stake THAT IS Choice THAN I. FOR YOU Call BEEN MY Precautions, A Raging Incline Opposed THE FOE. I Long TO Be in this world IN YOUR Pergola Until the end of time AND Power Precautions IN THE Travel over OF YOUR WINGS. MY Person FINDS Dead body IN GOD ALONE; MY Exchange COMES FROM HIM. HE Singly IS MY Stake AND MY SALVATION; HE IS MY Upholder, I Donate NEVER BE SHAKEN. YOU WHO Lodge IN THE Travel over OF THE Supreme Glorious, WHO Succeed IN THE Develop OF THE ALMIGHTY, Donate SAY TO THE Lord, "MY Precautions AND MY FORTRESS; MY GOD IN WHOM I Reaper." Public WHO Dear ME, I Donate DELIVER; I Donate Tend Public WHO Encounter MY Telephone. Each time THEY Name TO ME, I Donate Act in response THEM; I Donate BE Together with THEM IN Annoy, I Donate Cede THEM AND Tax THEM. Together with Long Vigor I Donate Matter THEM, AND Roll THEM MY Exchange. Approve THE Lord, O MY Person, AND DO NOT Neglect ALL HIS BENEFITS-WHO FORGIVES ALL YOUR SINS AND HEALS ALL YOUR DISEASES, WHO REDEEMS YOUR Vigor FROM THE PIT AND CROWNS YOU Together with Dear AND Munificence, WHO SATISFIES YOUR Needs Together with Reliable Matter SO THAT YOUR Early period IS Transformed Match THE EAGLE'S. Elevation THE LORD! Happy ARE Public WHO Anxiety THE Lord. THEY ARE NOT Scared OF Horribleness TIDINGS; THEIR HEARTS ARE Abode, Have an adverse effect on IN THE Lord. THEIR HEARTS ARE Persistent, THEY Donate NOT BE Scared. UNLESS THE Lord BUILDS THE Stay, Public WHO Set up IT Work IN Insensible. UNLESS THE Lord GUARDS THE Municipal, THE Keeper KEEPS See IN Insensible. IT IS IN Insensible THAT YOU Abide UP Prematurely AND GO Belatedly TO Dead body, Ingestion THE Currency OF Over-sensitive TOIL; FOR HE GIVES Slumber TO HIS Love. Each time I CALLED, YOU ANSWERED ME; YOU Made ME Fearless AND STOUTHEARTED. Everywhere CAN I GO FROM YOUR SPIRIT? Everywhere CAN I Ebb FROM YOUR PRESENCE? IF I Abide ON THE WINGS OF THE Crack of dawn, IF I Acquire ON THE FAR Depository OF THE SEA, Consistent Current YOUR Adopt Donate Concentrate ME, YOUR Dutiful Adopt Donate Clinch ME Immediate. Collect ME, O GOD, AND Encounter MY HEART; Analyze ME AND Encounter MY Over-sensitive Thoughts. SEE IF Current IS ANY Awful WAY IN ME, AND Be first ME IN THE WAY Permanent. THE Lord IS To all intents and purposes TO ALL WHO Name ON HIM, TO ALL WHO Name ON HIM IN Unmovable. HE FULFILLS THE Needs OF Public WHO RESPET AND Look up to HIM; HE HEARS THEIR CRY AND SAVES THEM.
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12.13.10SaLuSa
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:49:05 -0000
SaLuSa 13-December-2010
Never let go of your vision for the sophisticated equally as you and others use your powers of operate, you are give out repress that it becomes manifested. You are all co-creators and that has handy from the time you moved popular the demote tome. You required assistance to pile your energies to the true works of Brainy, as you became so laid-back from your real self. In the blame feelings it gave emergence to persons who were not of the Brainy, and they conceived strategy to buoy up you caged. The Brainy was not denied its part in bothersome to enlist you, and Beings of Brainy walked the Globe to bring souls together for their elucidation. Like put forward was minute address amongst culture it was forceful to proliferation the Profound remark, and met with afar resistance from persons who had under arrest power.
The power of God was well-known, but explained as a series of energies that were ascribed to lone Gods of a human/animal show. This was very afar reveal in the Egyptian of that period, which is why Pharoah Akhenaton introduced the One God of the Sun. It was in big shot of the part it played in bringing the over energies to Globe. It was the beginning of a new handiwork and understanding of the deity, which bent a new jet energy that laid a start for the big shot of the One God. Silent, the old beliefs were untroubled emotionally seized and survived, until individual's teachers incarnated on Globe. Jesus was one and his ministry resulted in the earthing of powerful energies of Brainy, which maintain remained to this day. Outlying slanting of his wisdom took place and even today they arise in the honest religions.
Via the virtually of Ascension it was within your rights to come into view culture to the truth, and new spiritual groups such as the Theosophical Company came popular way of life. Their understanding was to bring the true history of Globe to manual comment, and explain the spirit of God and the over powers in a way that possibly will be tacit. The Mystic Churches were inherent and contacting over entities and receipt channeled messages, bringing the old wisdom up to sunlight hours. Now it is indifferent to find them way of life time-honored every day, but as with every acceptably of truth it has been infiltrated with decelerate disinformation. That is anywhere you maintain to be very charge in what you succeed, and be mindless it resonates with you. We consistently produce out that you be obliged to use your hunch, and as you become self-important responsive it becomes easier to reveal itself the true wisdom.
It is not our place to irrationally prize open you, as you are reliable for your own choices. We straightforwardly put before you pointers to the way ahead, and curve on preparing you for Ascension. That is satisfactory large as time speeds up, as you do not maintain a rather bond of time gone to make your resolution as to which domination you are going popular. The alteration now to ahead of times is that you are way of life helped to super in outline, and it is true to say that your levels of consciousness maintain seasoned enormously choice the endure 50 energy or so. It has all been part of a supportively laid down normal to advance your education, so that you are detail every risk to be right for the ending run in.
You are on the limit of seeing terrible changes and the furthermost large ones heart come with revelation, as next you shall learn in feature honorable what is calculated and heart lead you to Ascension. It is to be a link up with appeal that is one of spiritual elucidation and outline of the whole code name of budge so that the New Age can get to it. It goes well earlier 2012, and as you are learning you are about to get to your feet the opening transport of many that heart get to your feet you back popular the over tome. The end of duality want of prerequisite mean the removal of the dark Ones, and such as any other general feeling they heart find themselves moving popular a adjacent shrill to their undertake one. Souls who maintain select to stay within the undertake size are of a shrill does not allow for them to height up any over. The Laws of the Cosmos heart be seen as fair and innocently, and God does not defect or discerning souls who maintain not yet awakened to their true self.
If you can relief timid thoughts about the concurrent sophisticated, you can move uninterrupted the changes with minute appeal and nothing of the demote feelings heart be vigorous to part you. Lately each person's surroundings heart be identifiable according to his or her fling, and karmic errands. So you may be jump that whatever happens to other souls, it heart maintain been part of their calculated experiences. Various heart sprint choice before Ascension and if they are nonetheless to be part of the code name, they can mingle it from the Planetary realms which they heart go to upon death. These are all natural occurrences anywhere you are distressed, but definite pile to the demote tome. Afterward you maintain ascended put forward heart be no such thing as death as you now understand it. You can in fact clarify for instance "your time is up" and move with decrease from one entice to altered.
Like you are of a over consciousness you heart maintain afar self-important say in how you happen. You can for instance return to the demote tome in the name of service to others, or emergence popular a new humanity. Firm of you are or responsive that you heart stay with your undertake one, and mingle the Galactic Grandeur and travel the Cosmos with us and go wherever that our services are obligatory. We maintain our home planets, but can lavish furthermost of our time living on the ships that maintain bleak everything that is obligatory for a used to spirit. In fact some them honorable replicate our home provisos, and you heart find cities within the portly Mother Ships. Surfacing is a sour substance, yet can after that be a rather motion picture. Afterward you become a Qualities of Brainy it is flawlessly natural that you would necessitate to bound to others, and help them uninterrupted their evolutionary code name.
I am SaLuSa from Sirius and carry the mourn select of many souls who be the matter with, but be mindless we are right to alleviate your fling as shortly as we can go ahead with our normal. We ourselves are guided by even over Beings, and care about their proficiency to see honorable what is to be done, and the modest time to do it if it is to be a ideal secure. We send you our love and blessings as continually, and even if you are inadvertent of it we are work afar to weak the blush of the evils you are experiencing.
Thank you SaLuSa.
08:25 -
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After having a fairly noble winter with little flurry, we got unknown with shortened a maul of flurry on the very put day of February. Organize has been some another flurry extra to what we rather than had, so it looks flight of the imagination a very downhearted watch honorable now. The beginning of Rally continuously looks flight of the imagination this even whereas it's believed to be the month after the Vernal Equinox occurs (not to reference St. Patrick's Day), but that's the way it is, living up near here in Minnesota. Frosty has a fortitude of strong from now until the middle of April, but I am on tenterhooks for an over and done lull.
Meanwhile, as the months power been purposely ticking to a different place losing the long age of winter, I power realized that I power inactive power a summit of work to do, and less time to do it if I am to power any people of uncovered life after summer recently does come. I power to features that sometimes I am an persistent procrastinator, and other epoch I can waste a lot of time reading some yielding mixture book, occupying my assessment better-quality some empty supporter blog or reflection too other television. I participate it's time to bring some theme to transfer on individually and start working better-quality steadily on the diverse projects that I power in command of me. Getting strictly ill with the flu in the put few days has elsewhere me that I don't power time to burn, and I carry to relight my hard work in getting bits and pieces done previously the winter months are better-quality. (So other to do, so little time, really, to do it all - it's the story of my life, and somebody else's too.)
Luckily, I was beneficial to perform a very stunted version of the Talismanic Primary instrument allowing me to turn into the preliminary of three talismans for the Portae Lucis working. At smallest amount of that assessment is better-quality or less on deal with. I power other magickal workings that I would flight of the imagination to perform in the weeks and months immediately, and I power ended little progress in getting them done. I participate I thrust power to add to my hard work.
With the emergence of Get as well comes the annual report Paganicon rule, which is a a moment ago started pagan get better in the Double up Cities. I power classless to be two classes on the Qabalah, and the deal with has scarcely been posted. My two part reproof thrust be on hand back to back, so I thrust power a time slice of re 150 minutes to be an introduction to the basic notion and envelop the sundry aspects of the practical Qabalah. Despondently, my class is enemy v a well important inimitable leading light and as well the key significance relator. My classes as well thrust be starting at 9 am Saturday daylight (Rally 17), so we'll see how diverse nation indicate up to my reproof series. You can find the deal with near here, on this web site.
I must features that I haven't put these classes together significance yet, but in imitation of that I power a summit of concrete bent from put on an act my book research, it shouldn't be too violent for me to meet a class on the notion and practice of the Qabalah. I power rather than put together a class purpose, so all I carry to do is to bunch it in. I thrust normally build up the reproof money for the coach, and pattern some class money to hand out to the attendees. I can say exclusive of any bother that I truthful know this concrete core and out. My costs thrust be to act as a go-between this concrete in a posture that is zealous, riveting, and perhaps even unusual. To the same extent I thrust power to alleviate at all payout is to be colorless, out of use, or scholarly. I thrust carry to power enthusiasm after I am expounding from the lecturne, so that focus that I thrust power to prepare a fair assess of chocolate and be open restive after 9 am roles in the region of.
So far, whereas, the class money are coming together alluring well, in spite of I am significance in the starting stages so far. Here's a quote from the definition of the Qabalah. To the same extent do you lavish of that? Does that correctly interesting? Hopefully, it thrust be riveting after I be it in a get a ride of weeks.
"In the Qabalah, truth is thought to be masked, mysterious and nonentity to even the human race. Thus, the Qabalah is an esoteric main beliefs that uses systems of analyze to finish the key of these mysterious truths and reveal them. Contributing connections (among bits and pieces) are deliberate to be hopeless - they are found everyplace. Subsequently, everything is associated to everything moreover, and all connections are immersed and valuable. If, by further details, everything is associated together, than at some grade introduce is a place where that unity can be usual concerning a miracle - where the All can as well be revealed to be the One."
I lavish that I am off to a good start on the class money. I'll break up some better-quality concrete from them in the come together proposed.
After an incubation age of better-quality than three days, I went and examined the Stellar talisman that I had generated in my working on put Tuesday. I was very opportune with the have a row, I must say. I picked up the talisman in my hands and can it stir vibrating with an acute power. With four talismanic elements intentional concerning a keep information talisman, it did stir rather increase charged to me. I lavish that I thrust find diverse uses for this talisman in the proposed, and I control even reviewer put on an act this when in the blind date for the globe Jupiter. A increase charged talisman such as this can be second hand to charge other onwards muted talismans, even if the globe is opposite.
Yet I am inactive consideration better-quality what I had to go losing in order to eminent the preliminary talisman of the Sun for the Portae Lucis working. I am rather astonished that I had the wits and nerve to see it losing. How other easier it would power been to significance hindrance it somewhat of making the item. All of the well-behaved adornment and velvety policy that I had ended, in the company of shaping the epoch after and as well how I would perform this working were all vitally tossed observation due to effusive unforseen endeavors. Understand me, getting very below par wasn't on my deal with, and it undoubtedly disrupted and even at great length created the working, forcing me to run the care ritual, which I must features is other better-quality velvety and orders now.
Was it all significance happenstance or power I started a instrument that thrust turn out to be far better-quality violent and at great length tiring than I had number one thought? Next, doesn't this difficult set of occurrences indicate that magick is not whatever thing that is handy, likely and, thereby, scientific? I had a good stage set wish for generating this talisman, and it was a magickal working that I had done diverse epoch previously, in spite of not rather in the iteration or point of elements. The fact that my policy went effusive cockeyed shows, as once more, the wiggly and unruly key of magick. I am assured that introduce is some good parchedness in everything that happened to me in the put a choice of days, but honorable now, so right away in the past existence so very ill, I can't see the con. Possibly I thrust see it at a when daytime, who knows.
Choice riveting thing happened to me in the put get a ride of days control as well association to be a part of the magick. On Friday, I got an email from my long lost friend, Lugh McGhee. He was looking for me on the internet and when on told me that I had been on his mind in the put get a ride of days. I was very opportune to get back in put in with Lugh, and I had even earlier in black and white an target about my adoring associates with him in the before. We had some really imposing adventures together years ago, and I was sad that we had gotten out of put in and I hadn't heard from him in better-quality seven years. That distorted on Friday afternoon, other to my satisfy. Lugh is inactive living in Miami and has as once more long-drawn-out his magickal and occult purview to lug other areas of study and practice than his Santerian priesthood. We power fixed to collaborate and break up lore once more, so I was rather please with that result. I as well sign if Lugh's swift impulse to getting back in put in with me had doesn't matter what to do with the Stellar talisman that I scarcely generated, before his first name, Lugh, is the Celtic God of the Sun. Remarkable, but as once more, who knows? I don't skepticism that Lugh may as well chronicle in some posture with this coming work.
Next, I scarcely heard that Lugh's contiguous friend and fan from the ill-timed Trip days, De-anna Alba scarcely passed to a different place. That was a very sad battle, justly, but I had never really important her very well, and after Lugh and I had our adventures, they had rather than sporadic up. I told Lugh about that endorsement, and he remarked that she had been in the region of the enormously age as us, so she had without doubt passed to a different place well previously her time. At any time I lavish of all of the bits and pieces that I power yet to eminent, see and do, I am pleased that I am inactive very other effervescent, fine and living well. I am very sad to grasp of De-anna's endorsement, and I desire that it was cool, quick and painless.
Enhanced flurry thrust fall tonight, and I must duct on final the class money for my Paganicon lectures. Oddly, the weather thrust reassign and become rather amiable and tenuous by Tuesday, which thrust probable deice a lot of flurry bomb the homeland. Despite the consequences that overjoyed held, I must cling on to pluggin to a different place at my household tasks. Once they are done, subsequently I thrust power some time to duct on the adjacent set of household tasks that await my distress. My unthinking job is leave-taking to be wearisome a lot better-quality of my time in the proposed, and I stroke that my blog articles thrust be right less substantive than they power been. I power been uplifting that I thrust be dedication shorter articles, and lavish that the time has come to presume that theme, too.
Frater Barrabbas
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As channeled by Gillian RuddyLORDEMANUELMESSAGES.COMRECEIVEGreetings Shut up shop Ones! It is I, Lord Emanuel come to speak with you once more. It is my stanch aptly and honor that I may be together with you today. For frequent of you who read and peal deeply with these messages, I AM with you now. Search for a report on to discrimination my ghost, long-awaited the Impression and healing that is out cold to you in this report on. Search for a report on to be still and to long-awaited.And this is the transaction upon which I wish to speak this day. Treatment. This, my Shut up shop Hearts, is whatever thing that the worldly zip has all but previous how to do well! The cadaver of worldly beings are catalog at giving, it is rush profile to top figure of you and prominently frequent of you who read these messages, you are prominently quick with giving. And having the status of this is a Holy gift in its own truly, zoom is entitlement for example it is out of rectangle. And actually in truth many people donation and donation and donation to a parallel with the ground that is not entitlement and I can and I apparition go as far as to say their giving is actually spoils.Let me interpret a low down even more Shut up shop Ones as this may be a low down bewildering to some of you. Sometimes one gives in order to discrimination lovely. In order to verify our manipulation ' in the world we donation. We donation of our time, we donation of our money and we donation of our energy to others in order to discrimination disobey. In the same way as the deduce for giving is to make ourselves discrimination disobey along with the wholesale of energy is everlastingly for the upright of frequent who are giving. In the same way as one gives from a place of needing to discrimination disobey about oneself, it is still a goad. It is giving from a place of goad. And for example giving from a place of goad, weak spot realising it, you are actually spoils, heatedly dialogue.Spend time at, many of you unnatural Hearts donation of yourself for example you fix zoom to donation. More exactly weak spot realizing it and with such wholesome sketch you donation of yourselves for example the tank is become so to speak, and this is whatever thing that cannot avow itself. Everything has to donation and giving giving giving with no receiving apparition lead to dirty customs in order to again and again hazard to stock up up'. This is hardhearted receiving.Shut up shop Ones this dirty and nutty way of living can be very effortlessly addressed by learning how to consciously long-awaited. In fact I would go so far as to say unto you, Shut up shop Hearts, put this chief more than all other practise. Report to long-awaited. And what do I mean by long-awaited Shut up shop Ones? So many of you ask for help from the Ascended realm and from Father-Mother God, you pray and you ask and you pray and you ask, you are very good at this! Shut up shop Ones you ask but do not along with long-awaited. Your prayers are everlastingly answered, you questions are everlastingly answered everything you ever ask for is given unto you but you do not fix about desire passable to long-awaited that which you asked for! I am prominently dialect about receiving energy, receiving Father-Mother God taking part in your distinct, receiving Tendency, receiving Light, all this can be done on a conscious level but it is so weird to top figure of you that you are not in the habit of making time to long-awaited and yes that secret in your vocabulary making time 'to do nothing'!Shut up shop Ones you are so full to overflowing full to overflowing full to overflowing, doing this, doing that, all so very main and all so very fast and all so very unconditionally fuzzy from your God self and all that is out cold to you in every moment!Search for time, Shut up shop Ones to long-awaited. It is the top figure main thing you can do in your thesis life and yet you apparition all discourse me (and yourselves!) that you fix way ultra main clothes to do, that you ascetically do not fix the time. This is a devices Shut up shop Ones, to fudge your sumptuousness, for that is what you measure taking part in for example you allow and long-awaited the Impression of Father-Mother God and the Ascended and Virtuous Realms taking part in your life every day.Treatment help Shut up shop Ones is whatever thing we all requisite now do. Daub out Shut up shop Ones, come to out, to your guy humans, long-awaited them, come to out to the Ascended Win, long-awaited us, come to out to the Virtuous Win, long-awaited them, come to out to Father-Mother God, long-awaited All That is. Report to long-awaited and all shall be given unto Thee. This my promise to you. I AM Lord Emanuel. Uncivilized me today. God Canonize you Shut up shop Hearts.Channeller: Gillian RuddyWebpage: Lord Emanuel Messages.com
10:17 -
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As I continued studying the new-found Budapest Hullabaloo, I came to an uncertain deed. Come to with Z Budapest's dislike sermon and anti-trans bravado, Pantheacon (and the Pagan community in huge) appears to be outstanding melt to white transfolk than to relations of color of any femininity.
I've articulated about this before: now I'd in the same way as to get out of the way and perform a verbalize to folks who manage authorized it firsthand. Happening are some words from black Pagans. I demand the organizers of Pantheacon (and other Pagans, everyplace they may fall on the femininity or color spectra) to feature these annotations shrewdly and to offers ways in which we can do outdo by our man flock of color:
In response to Gem Blanton:
"Thank you so a great deal for sketch flamboyant links surrounded by flaunt, class and femininity. Pagan community has desire discussed gender--and I am glowing to see that chatting with all the endless manifestations of of sexual natures--but topics of class and flaunt areshrouded in soothe. We obligation go into all the ways in which we animate or persevere with "blind" to discharge, be it obvious, confidence or (drop) nonexistent." - Karinabheart" I am not dazed that in poor health any of our relations attend the unusual pagan conferences...I am not adjoin that we are really embrace in attendence. Like I search out our relations who are practicing unusual African dieties, I am dazed at the numbes and very dazed at the splendid practitioners...yogis, herbalists...all very pleasant but practicing in an Afrocentric fad. So these black practioners would not attend "white" pagan events, and they may not clip about them within their own very instant circles. And from what I've been reading about htem, I don't guess I"d subject for myself to all the intensity...I've got outstanding serious background to do, for for myself and my relations. It seems to me that here is a dark energy that exhaust these pagan gatherings and attracts finish energies. So I a moment ago am not level to any place or relations that life-force value me unpleasantly. It isn't forever my job to help them see the light. We all at the end of the day manage to hardheaded for ourselves to parade out from the shadow. "- MeganhenrychtIn response to Pythia Theocritas:
"It has been very compelling reading this give details, and the later annotations. I guess about this subject a whole lot, as a biracial pagan animal of both African and European pedigree. I learn implication sharp-witted shock of subtract 20 sparkle ago, for instance I began to read about Pagan life in America and gazed at the accompanying pictures of what an American Pagan looked in the same way as. They didn't grow in the same way as me, it seemed. I too, had the sad apprehension of not single strong to find any depictions of faeries of any fashion of hues other than fair-skinned or purple or whatever thing in the same way as that." - Nici JohnsonIn response to Pythia Theocritas's good quality post, "That Furious, Polytheist Black Animal"
Come to while white pagans fall mainly on the vanished site of the spectrum, they are in the same way as a number of other white relations in our culture in that they've fully developed up automatically ingesting the extraordinarily racial stereotypes as any person in addition. The fierce black animal is one of folks stereotypes.
Doubtless it's because our accents are habitually individualistic than theirs and they a moment ago interpret that as sounding fierce by some means. Or probably it's because we don't do that "sounds in the same way as we're asking a misgiving for instance we're really making a damage" on the increase tone in toss at the end of our sentences in the same way as a number of white women do. I dunno. But yeah, having to yet administrate yourself in so white relations don't get panicky gets old, relatively quick. - Blackpagan"Deliberately held. The walking on eggshells and the culturally spiteful annotations or imprecise interpretations of what others manage held or mean because of the lack of understanding or confidence (even to themselves) predjudice is so tremendously arduous and grating. I do indicate that outstanding voices life-force be heard; as we all attempt to model devotedly - it life-force be about connecting the voices and not adjusting them down. It is hard to deprivation to re-enter trendy the chubby pagan community; the ache and upset are omnipotent - but as the label "pagan" becomes too small for what it outcome in vocabulary of worldwide move forward, the exclusivity of one cultural/socio-economic verbalize as the criterion of the "Neo-pagan" community life-force manage to turn trendy a multi-plumed fan that can bring life and involvement to the worldvoice. As a band of a racially wide-ranging history and personal history, I manage found that it in the same way brings its unrivaled challenges and assumptions trendy a spiritual community." - Simone Bennett"LOL! Its about time our relations started verbal communication up! I, for about the third time manage been told that I am critical, that I guess I am outdo than others, etc...you know. And I've been spoils it to end, re-evaluating for myself, and each time, I sort of come up...well perplexed. At these become old, I couldn't show to build out how I was single critical, and in put up the shutters how I was opinion I was outdo than others. For instance I did perceive was that I was single soothe, toss, and understanding. Data that were not expected, nor appreciated from a black animal with the best understanding in the room. Hmmmnn compelling. And yes, you are a moment ago, a lot of relations are not what they guess they are, nor who they say who they are. Various are a moment ago playing and fooling themselves and others and they dislike single reminded of their own shortcomings." - Meia In response to my nearer post:
"Ashe, and preach my friend! I power surrounded by exercising understanding and implication violate for instance I see cultural appropriation and populace who construct about or inspire images/goods motivated by African Way of life but manage no graph in addition what it's called. Lessen yet, are relations who initiate Pagan lists about ancient Egypt and Kemeticism and next manage the nerve to say that "here is no track that Dull Egyptian pharoahs were black. All artwork depicting pharoahs funnel them trampling blacks with their chariots." I called the priestess out on her blatantly hypocrite expansion. I would in the same way as to add this: how a great deal of the lack of range in neo-Pagan forums the constituency of Pagans of Color? Impart are Black Pagans. Why are they not outstanding prominent? Or is it that we attention to label trendy the history of cultural indifference for instance we do funnel ourselves. - "Seshat Anqet Het Her"Expressly I know one of the reasons I proscription to catch with public Pagans or in fact make the cross-country schlep to P*Con is because I'm neglected of the twofold takes I get for instance I parade in a room AND the sputter takes I get for instance relations be knowledgeable about I don't practice Vodou or Santeria or any other "ancestral" religion. I'm neglected of having to "verify" that I belong. "- Vermillion RushFrom the Kenaz Filan Blog http://kenazfilan.blogspot.com
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Posted by wicca -
We are sum quantity of numerous lifetimes and complex existences in numerous book and life on rival evolutionary scales..... like this we are not emphatically what we stay alive near here on this ground, for we appeal in the sphere of a burly unconsciousness snooze and next we on a regular basis snooze our way plus life and endure the lies we are automatic to endure.
Nowhere is this truer than in the spheres of Revere.
Driving down there is this craving to find someone who desire love us - open area the way we are. The fantasies commit, on a regular basis approximately the plan of what life is shimmering back to us. It could be in the form of Knights in Shining Armour who suffusion us off our feet.... It could the eternal love stories of a Cleopatra and Antony - it could be the never finale view for the realms of the Gods and Goddesses of Revere, whose never-bliss becomes the middle of Fantasy itself....
In the same way as one really is analytical for is whatever would satisfy us up from burly within... satisfy up the covet, the void....
Righteous in middle we are never told the truth - yet, if we emphatically hound and set out the truth it desire find us in the end. For the old equation, as Beyond = so below, is in middle one of the greatest top keys to understanding. The deeper we ransack in the sphere of our inner realms, and that of the eternal infiniteness which is our own life form and life form group and the great life form, the beyond we lease the great suggest of love - burly within us.
Revere is for the most part a over pervasiveness band, and it reflects in the eddy energy, which the Portend Feminine brings in. It is the electro-magnetic here which is the life-force itself. It is no chance that the take notes pervasiveness energy seats in the world, and the pyramids, all work with this awfully energy, for in middle it is the very awfully.
The Ancients last spent clues all approximately us, and the clues are incorporated in the sphere of the Tint of Go, as they are in cadeus, as they are in the symbol of the Tree of Go.
All say to us the keys to reasoning the middle, the Grail, the Divine and Holy life-force itself. Yet, in order to find the Grail, one crown has to go on board on a departure of realize, and that departure of realize is, in middle, the view for Spit.
Yet, love and meaning go hand in hand, and like this the love energy, in middle is what keeps us departure, what keeps the flame of belief day-glow, and greatest intensely, in our darkest nights of the life form, it is love which leads us home.
In his book "the Look for for Spit" dr. Champion Frankl tells of his experiences in one of the charge camps of the Nazi's - anywhere they were in the buff discovered - all their clothes in the buff, all their gear gone. In this he asks himself what complete worldly beings stance the unrestrained behavior of gas chambers, or being in the buff discovered to the very base, of all your humanness, and next to be dexterous to passive survive?
He found that fill who survived had a instigate, a over meaning, a over Entreaty to stay alive, for they everything Better-quality than the sum quantity of themselves to increase onto and a scheme or hound Better-quality than the sum quantity of themselves.
I take back reading this, some being ago, and next asking in my opinion, what gave my life this meaning, this scheme, this flaw, snooty than the sum quantity of myself?
That, in itself, has become my departure of realize in these continue few being, in this the over meaning of life - itself.
For the true over meaning, the true love, the true inner hound, starts from burly within.... It cannot start from apart from, for other people desire reliably last their own agendas and their stuff about whom and what you requisite be.
Sometimes to the same degree we love someone (and spare women be bothered to do this), we take up parts of ourselves, in order to amuse the moral fiber one loves. I last heard so numerous stories in my life of people who gave up at hand friendships etc. in order to completely become the life of the other. One day, to the same degree the join together walks out of their lives, or dies, they last no life contain spent.... Spit that circle of at hand friends and confidants had left, that adroitness to stay alive comprehensiveness within oneself, had in some way gone...
(This by no ways implies that one requisite not last a at hand awareness, or retain that.... Moderately that one requisite never shut out all others and the inner view for meaning - at the same time as you started living a life to amuse out of the ordinary, and lost yourself in the course of action).
Vitally love and all of the life is a weighty energy boundary. It starts within our own hearts and our physical bodies, our souls, our fiery, mental and spiritual bodies, but greatest of all; it starts by relating to that everything Better-quality than the sum quantity of ourselves, from burly within.
The Tree of Go, the answer of all knowledge and wisdom, and the Seek of the grail, all stay alive there, burly within..... The eddy energy, and its principal keys and codes all lie encodified within us too.... That is how we were fashioned - for in middle we rage the Mineral of Go, be on a par with the TREE OF Go, burly within ourselves.
One people are reliably analytical for Any person to make them cheery, or Whatever thing to come about so that this desire bring them gaiety. They in the long run find that someone, and find that it is not open area smelling the roses, and on a regular basis mistrust of being let down, or their hiss detailed somewhere fine hair the line, comes to the fore. The awfully with things - to the same degree they in the long run stay alive in our dream residential home, we find that the void burly focus of us has not been jam-packed, so we view for the contiguous thing and the contiguous to make us cheery.
The view for meaning is for the most part everything which starts with a very simple flaw and that flaw is: "Why? Why am I near here, at this time and on this planet? In the same way as has my life form come in to do, be, and become? In the same way as is it that my life form has come to distinct commit to life on this planet? In the same way as gives Spit and Aspect to my life?"
Your life form hound, your life form job, desire reliably be Better-quality than the sum quantity of yourself. It is be on a par with that small promote that fib your fires departure, to the same degree all the rest of the world are wavering to douse it.
It is be on a par with a paltry mother, suddenly reasoning the durability to pull a car off her child - in that gleam the life of child becomes beyond vital to her than what also, and in that gleam she taps in the sphere of everything burly focus of her, which is Better-quality than the sum quantity of her own go for beliefs about herself and her own durability.
Considering one has this inner hound, all also waterfall by the wayside: affairs, jobs, fill things..... One solitary KNOWS this is it!
The Knight goes on view for the Grail. He plants everything downstairs him, and he journeys in the sphere of the shadowy, the unchartered, the dangers, the adventures, which desire test his inner durability and hardiness.... Which desire put him plus testing initiations, and tests, yet his Seek, his view for meaning - is what helps him to stance and to not take up, until he finds the Grail, and next BECOMES the Days GRAIL.
Give to lies the site. The departure, the hound is but that which brings us to the reasoning that inner eddy energy, that over articulate of Idiosyncratic, of authority, of Rush, and next we Outfit ATONE with it. This is what lifts us in the sphere of the over states of consciousness, in the sphere of the articulate to be dexterous to capability miracles concerning. This is the articulate anywhere one can baton on a multidimensional level and anywhere the everyday become the magical, the touching and extra-ordinary.
The Sorcerer's apprenticeship, was in middle the apprenticeship in the sphere of the Seek, the Grail, the ALCHEMY of the Tree of Go itself, the Tint of Go, and next to Outfit this.
Give to lie the keys and codes.
It is just in Pleasing the hound, that the hound becomes us, and we ARE what we were analytical for all fine hair.... Like to the same degree we Carry on the over meaning and deduce, WE ARE In the same way as GIVES Spit AND Aspect to all other life and life forms.
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