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		<title>The Trance Of Judgment And Comparison</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This very body we have that’s sitting here right now, with its aches and its pleasures&#8230; Is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive. –Pema Chödrön Imagine yourself standing naked. Behind you stands your mother, naked as well. And behind her, your grandmother. Behind her is your grandmother’s mother, and&#160;<a href="http://awakeningwomen.com/2012/05/12/the-trance-of-judgment-and-comparison/">[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Are you looking for Movie tips? Here are 2 movies worth your time.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dancing in the Flames ~ with Marion Woodman and Andrew Harvey (yes for real!) &#8220;Dancing in the Flames is a brilliant and intimate documentary into the life of Jungian Analyst, Marion Woodman, who is known for her ground breaking work as a teacher and author on feminine psychology and addiction. We are taken into a&#160;<a href="http://awakeningwomen.com/2012/05/01/are-you-looking-for-movie-tips-here-are-2-movies-worth-your-time/">[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/are-you-looking-for-movie-tips-here-are-2-movies-worth-your-time</link>
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		<title>Please visit me over at Elephantjournal.com today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today my article &#8220;Don&#8217;t Resist the Holy&#8221; was published on Elephantjournal.com, and it would mean so much if you could visit it over there. You see, if we have a group of people reading it early on, it gets a bit more visible. Here is the link: http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/04/dont-resist-the-holy-chameli-ardagh/ and thank you, so With Love, Chameli&#160;<a href="http://awakeningwomen.com/2012/04/25/please-visit-me-over-at-elephantjournal-com-today/">[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/please-visit-me-over-at-elephantjournal-com-today</link>
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		<title>Maia: the Goddess, the Month and the World-illusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maia is the second month of the year, the "goddess" of spring and the illusion of worldly existence.]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/maia-the-goddess-the-month-and-the-world-illusion</link>
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		<title>In surrender you find your power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As write this I am on my way into a full month of Durga Sadhana, first a weekend retreat here in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and then next week we kick off the 21 day online Durga Sadhana Immersion. I feel a subtle tremor in my soul, similar to what I imagine&#160;<a href="http://awakeningwomen.com/2012/04/18/in-surrender-you-find-your-power/">[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/in-surrender-you-find-your-power</link>
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		<title>Unplug from the drama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you feel that knot in the belly, when there is a court drama playing in your head, when you panic, when you worry, when you regret it the moment you push the send-button. When you hear yourself say yes, or no, again, shrinking inside. When it’s not enough, or way to much. When his/her&#160;<a href="http://awakeningwomen.com/2012/04/18/unplug-from-the-drama-and-plug-right-back-into-the-fluid-dance-of-shakti/">[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/unplug-from-the-drama</link>
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		<title>The Day of Maia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Day of Maia is a minor festival dedicated to the all-creative principle of nature.]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/the-day-of-maia</link>
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		<title>Infinite Enlightening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Progress is only possible through longing. And as the path of progress is infinite, there should be infinite longing. Thus longing becomes itself a form of the infinite, to be desired for its own sake. This is why the mystics idealize longing. The other name for longing is love. Irina Tweedie What a wild ride&#160;<a href="http://awakeningwomen.com/2012/04/15/infinite-enlightening/">[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/infinite-enlightening</link>
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		<title>A 21 day Durga Sadhana Immersion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sadhana means spiritual practice, spiritual practice is love. For 21 days you offer yourself onto the altar of awake living, and with the support of a global circle of wild hearted Dharma sisters + daily practices and short sutras of awakening, you will re-connect with and re-commit to a truth which is  deeply rooted in&#160;<a href="http://awakeningwomen.com/2012/04/13/a-21-day-durga-sadhana-immersion/">[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/a-21-day-durga-sadhana-immersion</link>
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		<title>Don’t resist the Holy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[She sat in front of me with that burning heart that I have come to recognize as the very essence of a Yogini sister. So in love with truth, so dedicated to the “real deal.&#8221; I could spend my whole life just kissing her feet. We were in a gathering with a group of yoginis,&#160;<a href="http://awakeningwomen.com/2012/04/05/dont-resist-the-holy/">[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/don%e2%80%99t-resist-the-holy</link>
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		<title>Tribute to Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche</title>
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		<link>http://willendorf.org/tribute-to-chogyam-trungpa-rinpoche</link>
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		<title>With the expansion comes the contraction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday evening after I came home from Monday night Women’s Temple my love asked me, tell me, how is it to be you? Like moss, like warm velvet. Infinite. Still and held. Not in any way airy, it is full. Full of dark softness. And no impulse, what so ever, to do, anything. This is&#160;<a href="http://awakeningwomen.com/2012/03/27/with-the-expansion-comes-the-contraction/">[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/with-the-expansion-comes-the-contraction</link>
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		<title>sister hold on…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Out Of a great need We are all holding hands and climbing. Not loving is a letting go. &#160; Listen, The terrain around here Is far too dangerous For that. &#160; -Hafiz &#160; Photo Credit to Mikaela Larm]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/sister-hold-on%e2%80%a6</link>
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		<title>Easter Hymn for Devotees of Our Mother God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Easter Hymn for Passiontide, expressing the wasteland quality of the time between the Daughter's death and the New Year with a discussion of the nature of our feminine Easter.]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/easter-hymn-for-devotees-of-our-mother-god</link>
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		<title>The Last Day of the Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rayadi Moura 28th (Sunday March 18th) is the last day of the year in the Filianic calendar. It is the day that the Daughter goes down into death and the world above becomes a wasteland.

This year there is a two-day hiatus, so the following two days ha...]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/the-last-day-of-the-year</link>
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		<title>THIS BLOG IS AN ARCHIVE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peace SistahWombyn,For the last year I have received emails asking about this blog and if people could get permission to read it again. Many times I thought about deleting it but I think it now represents a powerful moment in my life (one of many). Now...]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/this-blog-is-an-archive</link>
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		<title>The Question: A Tale of Queen Werde</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this traditional tale, a maid looking for answers to the mysteries of life encounters Queen Werde. This story is followed by a commentary.]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/the-question-a-tale-of-queen-werde</link>
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		<title>The inner voice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WHY IS IT WHEN WE TALK TO GOD WE&#8217;RE SAID TO BE PRAYING, BUT WHEN GOD TALKS TO US WE&#8217;RE SCHIZOPHRENIC? ~ Lily Tomlin For 14 years, Meinrad Craighead lived as a nun in Standbrook Abbey in England. Now, she’s an artist in New Mexico, spending her days creating lush, colorful paintings and charcoal drawings.&#160;<a href="http://awakeningwomen.com/2012/02/28/the-inner-voice/">[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/the-inner-voice</link>
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		<title>Cyclical time? Or Spiral Time?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cyclical time is known to be the traditional way of understanding history, as opposed to modern ideas of linear time - but in certain senses it is more accurate to speak of "spiral time".]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/cyclical-time-or-spiral-time</link>
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		<title>A Conspiracy With The Gods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From a certain standpoint, heathenism is a conspiracy with Gods who have  been partially exiled from the world by encroaching, invading spiritual  forces of corruption, deception, illusion, and seduction, and aligning  oneself with them in order to ret...]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/a-conspiracy-with-the-gods</link>
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		<title>Not An Archipelago, But A Globe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heimdall represents the dawning of that living fire of awareness in humanity that stands before its powers and potentialities, and brings craft to stand as a means of realizing this potential.Heimdall's coming thus represented the catalysis of the next...]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/not-an-archipelago-but-a-globe</link>
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		<title>5 Reliable Anchors to Sanity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am in the middle of a creative explosion. I could call it challenging, trail blazing, obsessive, divinely inspired, mad, exhausting, blissful, meaningful. High. Fast. Vast. Ferocious (and many more words if I was more fluent in the English language.) Lets just call it intense. It is in times like this I get to experience&#160;<a href="http://awakeningwomen.com/2012/02/22/5-reliable-anchors-to-sanity/">[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/5-reliable-anchors-to-sanity</link>
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		<title>Discarding the Scientific World View</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader writes:

In your Notes on Descartes, Annalinde Matichei says:

there is no possible step beyond the cogito ergo sum in the absence of the traditional understanding of Pure Intellect. Logically and legitimately, empirical thought stops right th...]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/discarding-the-scientific-world-view</link>
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		<title>Descartes imagination and reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the bourgeois materialist world shaped by Descartes, imagination and reality are regarded as very distinct. But in fact the modern world-outlook has no real criteria for judging between the two.]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/descartes-imagination-and-reality</link>
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		<title>All about Moura</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moura is the Thirteenth Month and the Fifth Season of the Sacred Year of Our Mother God. Learn all about it.]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/all-about-moura</link>
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		<title>Blushing before Baldur</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone blushes a bit at mention of Baldr, because even in the presence of his name, which alone carries the reputation (let alone his strong and bold and shining presence itself), living in an age of shame, one's best deeds themselves seem to shrink ...]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/blushing-before-baldur</link>
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		<title>Getting Your Good From Passed Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to encourage a little more rigor in the evaluation of passed relationships. It is mental and emotional laziness to focus solely on the sour, and to fail to adequately appreciate and assimilate the lessons we were gifted in the relationship. The ...]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/getting-your-good-from-passed-love</link>
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		<title>Families? Or Tribes?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate to burst anyone's bubble in nuclear family-worshipping America, but the family is not the primary social organization of Homo Sapiens. It is, rather, the band, and the tribe. In other words, Aristotle was right : man is the political animal, the...]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/families-or-tribes</link>
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		<title>The feminine body is an expert in pleasure</title>
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		<link>http://willendorf.org/the-feminine-body-is-an-expert-in-pleasure</link>
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		<title>Longing is the deepest design of the Universe.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest offering by Sukhvinder Sircar The universe as we know it was at origin one unmanifest whole, the remembrance of which lies deep in every particle of it. The secret &#038; spirit of evolution is embedded in this longing. Longing is not a sign of incompletion. It can exist even in the most peaceful and&#160;<a href="http://awakeningwomen.com/2012/02/03/longing-is-the-deepest-design-of-the-universe/">[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/longing-is-the-deepest-design-of-the-universe</link>
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		<title>On Wizards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A wizard goes beneath and beyond. A wizard has penetrating sight, and sees through. A wizard assimilates and grasps learning(s) at a much deeper and less literal level than most. A wizard is comfortable with contradictions and riddles.For these reasons...]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/on-wizards</link>
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		<title>George Lakoff, Metaphor and Metaphysics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[George Lakoff and his research on the universality of metaphor shines an interesting (and unintended) light on the fundamental metaphysical basis of human thought and speech.]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/george-lakoff-metaphor-and-metaphysics</link>
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		<title>Arrogance Beyond Belief!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader comments on our recent article on Spiritual Evolution:

The behavior of "Swami" Kriyananda is really astonishing: He goes to an Eastern society, is welcomed into their religion, defiles their Holy Orders with gross sexual misconduct and then a...]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/arrogance-beyond-belief</link>
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		<title>Pour Some Loving Kindness Into the Place of Not Enough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you first arrived into this human form you came with exuberance, eager to show the world the gift of YOU. Then a little time passed by, and slowly you began to feel a vague sense of not being “enough”. Just as the air we breathe is shared by us all, sadly this underlying current&#160;<a href="http://awakeningwomen.com/2012/01/31/pour-some-loving-kindness-into-the-place-of-not-enough/">[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/pour-some-loving-kindness-into-the-place-of-not-enough</link>
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		<title>Spiritual evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Spiritual evolution" is one of the key notions of the "New Age" movement. We examine this deceptive and anti-traditional doctrine.]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/spiritual-evolution</link>
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		<title>Are you allowing yourself to be supported?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my Yoga class this morning I found my self  leaning my legs up towards the wall, a blanket was rolled up underneath my thighs. I had two pillows supporting both my wrists, and one under my head. Oh, and did I mention the warm soft blanket hugging my whole body? This was the point&#160;<a href="http://awakeningwomen.com/2012/01/23/are-you-allowing-yourself-to-be-supported/">[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/are-you-allowing-yourself-to-be-supported</link>
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		<title>Eckhart Tolle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have read about Eckhart Tolle and his philosophy.  Apparently many people find it appealing.  However, something about it is disturbing to me.  Would you please comment on whether his ideas are compatible with the Deanic/Filianic Faith or not and why...]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/eckhart-tolle</link>
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		<title>On Using a Statue of Kuan Yin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Annalinde Matichei wrote the following as part of a discussion on worshiping the Daughter in the form of Kuan Yin:

This is an interesting question. I have a statue of Thousand Hand Kuan Yin as my main Altar-piece. Do I "worship Kuan Yin"? What would t...]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/on-using-a-statue-of-kuan-yin</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year!  I've moved the blog over to a new address.  Hope that you'll come visit me and will adjust your settings.]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/happy-new-year</link>
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		<title>Hello World, Here I am!</title>
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		<link>http://willendorf.org/hello-world-here-i-am</link>
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		<title>Some of the Other Angels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many devotees of Dea are familiar with the names of the Seven "Planetary" Janyati.  However, many of us have also heard mention of other Janati.  I would imagine that there are many Janyati whose names we do not know.  However, I would be interested in...]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/some-of-the-other-angels</link>
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		<title>One day you just find yourself dancing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The infinite universe planted a seed. Inside the seed is all the wisdom, the inspiration and clarity, everything the seed needs in order to grow into what it is meant to be. It has the spark of life within it, and will, in one way or the other, grow to fulfill its incarnation, because there&#160;<a href="http://awakeningwomen.com/2012/01/11/one-day-you-just-find-yourself-dancing/">[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/one-day-you-just-find-yourself-dancing</link>
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		<title>Urd Offers Choices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let the world teach you how to be old ; let death teach you how to be inevitable, unstoppable, inextricably woven into the heart of things. Life is a frightening adventure of peeling back fear to reveal treasure and grandeur, if we will dare to step ou...]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/urd-offers-choices</link>
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		<title>Inevitability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a certain bleak inevitability to the Northern way that superficially has gloominess and grimness to it. But beneath this is great joy, and endless faith in life's powers. The hands of Urd the Great hold us all, and this is a deep, loving inevi...]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/inevitability</link>
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		<title>Bring the Gods Together in Your Heart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You must find the Gods and bring them together. They have left their traces deep within the sinews of the world, but within the world, to surface-eyes, and minds scarred by the axe, they appear to be in contradiction in the tangle of complexity. To hav...]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/bring-the-gods-together-in-your-heart</link>
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		<title>I am a billion sparkles of light.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[:: I am a yogini. I am timeless. I am a woman offering myself as truth, as a throbbing yearning heart. I am a roar I am a sigh I am a billion sparkles of light. Come closer to me, I will hold you. Come with me into the realms of constant blossoming, in to&#160;<a href="http://awakeningwomen.com/2012/01/10/i-am-a-billion-sparkles-of-light/">[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/i-am-a-billion-sparkles-of-light</link>
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		<title>Who &quot;Borrowed&quot; Epiphany?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The High Feast of the Epiphany of God the Daughter falls on the 12th of Herthe (6th of January). Surely worshipers of Our Mother God "borrowed" this from Christianity?

No indeed - it is exactly the other way about. Learn more about the Feast of Epipha...]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/who-borrowed-epiphany</link>
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		<title>&quot;Little Nativity&quot;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Herthe 11th (January 5th) is Duodecima - the Twelfth Day of Nativity. Herthe 12th (January 6th) is the High Feast of the Epiphany, popularly known as Princesses' Day.

Epiphany, the showing-forth of the new-born Daughter of Dea is often called Little N...]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/little-nativity</link>
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		<title>Millions and millions of women have prepared for this time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know that life sometimes sucks, I know you have been through hell.  I know people have disappointed you, hurt you, that you have failed many times, that you have regrets and unfulfilled dreams. I know that your body does not always fit into the image that you want it to be.  I know relationships&#160;<a href="http://awakeningwomen.com/2012/01/04/millions-and-millions-of-women-have-prepared-for-this-time/">[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/millions-and-millions-of-women-have-prepared-for-this-time</link>
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		<title>A 21 Day Lakshmi Sadhana Immersion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ ~ aligning your life with your souls desire With Chameli Ardagh &#038; The Global Awakening Women Circle January 25 – February 15,  2012 You are invited! Get all the details here. &#160; &#160; &#160; Image: Bibbi Friman ]]></description>
		<link>http://willendorf.org/a-21-day-lakshmi-sadhana-immersion</link>
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