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A comment following our last post:
People who see ghosts and go on being rationalist/materialists do so because their social conditioning is stronger than the evidence of their senses.
Whenever there is a rupture between the two it is uncomfortable, …
The following note came in a discussion at the Heartbook Clubhouse. We thought readers might find it of interest:
Sushuri-chei wrote:
“For example, if you see a ghost walking with her knees at floor level, or a foot above the ground, you can be sure …
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Isn’t this great? I’d scheduled it some time ago to post just before Litha. Over the weekend, the wonderful Joanna Colbert beat me to it! Blogger, in its infinite wisdom, went ahead and posted it here and then wouldn’t let me in, until this morning,…
And, so, just like that, we’re headed, will-we-or-nil-we, towards Litha. The great Sumer Solstice. The fire festival, when Sol Invictus stands highest in the Summer sky. In my tradition, this is the Feast of the First Harvest. (Is it so, for you, a…
Here’s an interesting article about a great effort to get Australian Pagans to list themselves as “Pagan” on their census. That’s a very worthwhile goal and I hope that Mr. Hepworth is successful. I’d like to use the article to, once again, illustrat…
When We Win from scoutwillie on Vimeo.Go, Scout!
I love flowers I’d love to have the whole place swimming in roses God of heaven there’s nothing like nature the wild mountains then the sea and the waves rushing then the beautiful country with fields of oats and wheat and all kinds of things and a…
There’s this:and there’s this:
My regular readers know that I’m given to rants about how acquiring things is not the same thing as practicing a serious Nature Religion. You can buy every book that Lewellyn publishes (my bookshelves house more than a few). You can have Celtic-this…
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The Truly Great~Stephen Spender I think continually of those who were truly great.Who, from the womb, remembered the soul’s historyThrough corridors of light, where the hours are suns,Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambitionWas that their lips, st…
This new book looks fascinating and I’m going to add it to my (already too long) reading list.The newly released novel “Buried: The Discernment of Pagans in Ancient Rome” (ISBN 1456471651) opens with a hostile confrontation between [P]agans and Christi…
Meditation at Lagunitas~Robert HassAll the new thinking is about loss.In this it resembles all the old thinking.The idea, for example, that each particular erasesthe luminous clarity of a general idea. That the clown-faced woodpecker probing the dead s…
Sobeit has up a great post today about the need to consult our landbase when we make important decisions.In all [E]arth traditions there is an understanding that the land is a witness to truth, that its very molecules do not lie, that its constituent f…
Last night, I had dinner (on the porch in spite of the record-breaking heat here in the mystical MidAtlantic! Of course, we did have shade, the ceiling fan, and a bottle of icy grand cru from Arnould & Fils, recommended by my brilliant friend Stoat) w…
A commentator on the Amazon World History Timeline at All Girl Worlds writes the following:
The yugas or ages are concepts of Vedic knowledge. The yuga’s first introduction is in the Mahabharata. According to Vedic knowledge the duration of each yug…
David Salisbury asked for some pictures of my garden. I’m the world’s worst photographer and I’m always too busy to run inside and get the “real” camera, so I wind up using my iPhone. But here are a few that I’ve taken over the years, in relatively s…
Hi..greetings from Malaysia…My name is Tesh
recently i have read about the final judgement thingy…and i would add on…
in Eastern philosophies…(all the same as Vidya, She is Omnipresent) the Final Dissolution or the “destruction of the world” …
Here’s what looks like a pretty neat film. I’d like to use it to make another in my regular series of points about dealing with the media. Observe the difference in how Francesca De Grandis and Joan Marler come across. Both women make incredibly val…
A Lesson from James Wright~Mary OliverIf James Wrightcould put in his book of poemsa blank pagededicated to “the Horse DavidWho Ate One of My Poems,” I am readyto follow him alongthe sweet path he cut through the drynessand suggest that you sit nowvery…
Just the first few minutes of so much empty space allows my breath to sink deeper into my belly, my spirit to expand. My INTJ self looks at those images the way a thirsty woman looks at pictures of icy water. The times in my life when I’ve been most …
I rail pretty regularly about Pagans who, IMHO, shoot themselves and the rest of us in our collective feet when they talk to the media and defensively announce, “We don’t eat babies/worship Satan/dance naked around a fire (which we, you know, do)/do sp…
Blogger is apparently determined to behave in a completely erratic manner. Perhaps it will stay up long enough to let me share a few thoughts on McCollum v. CDCR, 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 10971, (9th Cir., June 1, 2011). Warning: Some of this will be a lit…
In our feminine embodiment practices we are not so interested in “why”. Analyzing has its place, of course, but in terms of exploring the deeper layers and the piercing potential of the feminine path, we are encouraged to let go of the linear “cause and effect” thinking. Everything is connected, but in a much multifaceted [Read More...]
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