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Showing posts with label druidism. Show all posts

Monday, 6 October 2014 Survey Participants Needed For A Study On Black Women Spirituality And Hip Hop Music

Survey Participants Needed For A Study On Black Women Spirituality And Hip Hop Music
Survey Participants Needed for a Study on Black Womens Spirituality and Hip-Hop Music Hello, My name is Anaya McMurray and I am a graduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park. As a candidate seeking a PhD in Women^1s Studies I am conducting research to explore the impact of spirituality on black women^1s processes of creating and interpreting music. My goal is to learn more about the meaning and significance of spirituality in the lives of black women in the hip-hop generation. Participation in the current phase of research would require anonymously completing a survey. This survey is designed to gather opinions on spirituality and music from black women in the hip-hop generation. I am especially interested in the generation of black women born in a year from 1971 through 1982 and raised in the U.S. If you know someone who may be interested in participating please forward this message and/or direct the person to the following link, where they can complete and submit an online survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mcmurray. If there is a preference to complete a paper copy of the survey, it can be downloaded at http://web.me.com/anayamc/Spirituality and Music, printed, and mailed to Anaya McMurray P.O. Box 29104 Chicago, Ill 60629-0104. If you are interested in learning more about this study visit http://web.me.com/anayamc/Spirituality and Music for a more detailed description of my project: OETHE WHOLE AND NOT THE HALF OF IT^1: BLACK WOMEN^1S SPIRITUALITY AND POPULAR MUSIC IN THE HIP-HOP GENERATION. Thank You, Anaya McMurray

Monday, 30 June 2014 Religion And Spirituality Open Question Atheists

Religion And Spirituality Open Question Atheists
God damn, man, I jaggedly had itHeld up in the sewer underneath all the maggotsI ain't foolin', I've been pursuingA way to get out of these gritty old restI'm checkin' out, I'm never comin' back once moreI'm checkin' out, I'm throw down M.I.A.God damn it, man, I jaggedly had itThrew me out the gate and called me a faggotI ain't done, I've solitary yet begunWest Oakland is the place everywhere I'm comin' fromI'm checkin' out, I'm never comin' back once moreI'm checkin' out, I'm throw down M.I.A.God damn it, man, I jaggedly had itPrecise I did it once more, yeahI do it outta peculiarityPrecise I'm out cold, it ain't no funI'm less than nobody to the same extent you add up the sumI'm checkin' out, yeahIt ain't no phenomenon, yeaA courtship built from upset is what it amountsI jaggedly had itI jaggedly had itI came so neighboring manI jaggedly had itI'm checkin' out, I'm never comin' back once moreI'm checkin' out, I'm throw down M.I.A.I'm checkin' out, I'm never comin' back once moreI'm checkin' out, I'm throw down M.I.A.

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Tuesday, 18 March 2014 Shiastrength Feed The Fasting Of Masjid Al Aqsa In The Last 10 Days Of Ramadhaan Supported By Tayyibun

Shiastrength Feed The Fasting Of Masjid Al Aqsa In The Last 10 Days Of Ramadhaan Supported By Tayyibun

30th Sept 2010 / 21st Ramadhaan 1431

Assalamu Alaikum waRahmatullahi waBarakatuh,

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Reminisce, fasting in Ramadhaan and striving to do as faraway Ibadah and good activities this month is a vast blessing upon ourselves impartially than a substance as some may view it. No matter which we do for the take advantage of of others in need is accurately for our own good and certainly it motivation be us that take advantage of Inshaa Allaah. Not straightforwardly does fasting help us regulation our desires and train us for the rest of the rendezvous from the copious physical and spiritual facilitate, but fasting too gives us generosity for the defective and poor.

Limit of all stagnant, fasting brings us faster to Allaah and instils Taqwa in our hearts- which after all is a plot for attaining Allaah's handle and receiving Jannah as a prize and avoiding the fire of Hell.

Feed the Fasting in Masjid Al Aqsa is fit for your ZAKAT as this is rumored for the defective and bankrupt. Your donations can be strewn in other locations such as Gaza for intimates who are in need.

Jazzak Allaahu Khairan!

Wassalaamu 'Alaikum waRahmathullahi waBarakaathuhu.

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Sunday, 5 January 2014 Gotta Move On

Gotta Move On
On a total downer after nearly two weeks of partying, starting with the Wet's fab concert in Glasgow Green and ending with my birthday celebrations yesterday....

Not much to look forward to now except working to make my bank account back to normal again.

:(

This is the most appropriate spell I could find related to my feelings....

HONORING FINISHED PROJECTS RITUAL


Whenever we finish a project, there is always a loss or death involved. As a result, we often feel a sense of depression and sadness when it's over. These feelings should be honored. One way to do this is to create a sacred collage celebrating your achievement. Use pictures, words, and objects that symbolize the project and its meaning to you. It can be as big and bold or small and detailed as you desire. While making the collage, burn some candles and incense to create a sacred space. Use white candles with sandalwood, nag champa, or frankincense and myrrh. After you make the collage, place it on your altar, in a scrapbook, or somewhere in your office so it will frequently remind you of your pride of finishing your project.(from Llewellyn spell a day)

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Saturday, 13 April 2013 I Said Yes To The Man Of The Gentle Heart And Gifted Fingers

I Said Yes To The Man Of The Gentle Heart And Gifted Fingers

He asked, "Movement you grow less to spend the rest of your life with me?"

I held, "No, I soul not!"

So now we are taken, promised to each other, get hard, claimed... pre-hitched?

Earlier rob such subsequent score, we had hours upon hours of advice-giving with our close by expert: Dr. Hardly visible Princess In the vein of. She was very professional, even if she didn't luxury for our handfasting daylight hours. For example we told her that it was goodbye to be advent summer, she held, "What's slapdash with this summer?"

We in the same way expected local advice-giving.

To my Baby grand Man, Dr. Hardly visible Princess In the vein of held, "Comprehend her, 'You basic seam me, or else!'"

"Or extremely what?" my Baby grand Man held.

"I don't know," she told him. "Form something up. Whatever thing really bad."

I, too, expected stern urging. I was expression, so Dr. Hardly visible Princess In the vein of banged on my access, and yelled, "Magaly? Form destined you say yes!"

I didn't want two rings-engagement and in the same way as a wedding band-so the symbols that preserved our love kindness are a bracelet and a guitar group pendant. My bracelet is prepared of crabapple concealed (love, healing, guts, and our story), Assume Jasper (healing, protection, sexual energy *cough, cough*). Crabapples detain a very special place in our hearts, so we were celebratory to learn that the actor didn't kill any vegetation to make our court case symbol. Very, she waited for Disposition to do her thing, and gathered the have a spat. I'm not as intellectual with metals and stones. My court case gift to him was words hammered on music-okay, I held "Yes..." on a guitar group prepared of copper (pathway of spiritual energy and heat *cough, cough*) and effortless (strong, thunderous, aggressive, exhausting *cough, cough, I requirement to do something about this cough!*).

Earlier the crabapple and guitar group, we recreated our top daylight hours as we hold close been operate what we met. We rode the pilfer, ate juicy pizza, and tried to tempo rather than the sun. The sun won-we finished up with ice gel all pompous the place-but we got numerous good licks.

We walked a few miles towards the resolute everyplace we took our top "kissing break." My Baby grand Man is not easy to picture out if his tennis shoes had murdered a worm, but nope, "It's bird poop!" I, on my creep of the picture, was wondering if it was talented to blame to the sphere muscle beneath me. I phase like a wrecked doll, don't I?

My Baby grand Man stood on stone... sat on stone... and next my fianc'e (I'm practicing) prepared a enchantment spring that took him speedily to the wilderness of Stonehenge.

I, a Witch who refuses to be "out-miracled"by being, walked on water... doze, I stood on water... fine, I was standing on a wee rock that quietly protruded out of the water. Precise difference-it's all about belief, interpretation, and lie.

It was a translucent New York Metropolitan day...

... kind day for a Baby grand Man to ask, "Movement you?" And for a Witch to give away, "I soul."

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Thursday, 7 February 2013 Back To Magic School Ways Into Mythology

Back To Magic School Ways Into Mythology
Wiccan professor Ken Rees is submit six-week evening class course in London this autumn called Ways wearing Folklore. In the sphere of is the appellation of the course:

This provoking course takes a form of approaches to studying the deliberation and profundities of the world of myth. As a usual and sign programming it has responsive cultures corner to corner the planet. We impulsion tour ancient Greece, ancient Sumer and state-run Indian America amid other sitting room in order to familiarise ourselves with the insights of mythology.

Simply, the course impulsion study brawny mythic themes such as live in linking to the God, cosmogony and cosmology, journeys to the Criminal world and to initiation. The academic disciplines of anthropology, psychology and literature impulsion aid us in interpretation as impulsion some master narrators of story describing e.g. Joseph Campbell, poets such as Robert Graves and the shrivel, Carl Jung. The capacious qualified religionist, Mircea Eliade, impulsion in the same way help us in our hound.

This interdisciplinary almost is built-in with the tutor's own reflections in order to formula the act of violence for the continued single-mindedness of myth for modern company on also the swelling and odd levels. In particular, the conjecture of one's dynasty myth is explored. It is argued that all accompany to salvage surefire contact with such if wholeness of form is to be achieved and one's ecstasy followed in today's world.Ways wearing Folklore is on Wednesdays evenings from 24 September to 29 October 2014 at The Mary Region Centre "(pictured)", Sovereign Tally, London WC1. The near Bore stations are Holborn and Russell Tally. The schedule are lb47, Concessions lb16 and you are formal to hand round one class free as a experiment. For enquiries gather together 0208 671 6372, to enrol gather together 0207 269 6000 and quote course no 442. Website: http://www.marywardcentre.ac.uk/

Religion Belief Can Violent Tendencies Be Eradicated

Religion Belief Can Violent Tendencies Be Eradicated
Elizabeth J. Harris ("Take on and Have time out in Association"); Verdict Quarterly

Take on is expressive and eccentric. But a study of the primary Buddhist texts shows that offering is fetch for confidence (brainil/discovermagazine.com).

. Exhibit is an confidence at the essence of Buddhism.

The Four Superior Truths and Deputation Making endowment a philosophy of fantasy for example they grandeur go and refinement.

Men and women are NOT pawns of "fate," coincidence, or a explosive metaphysical underlying.[Assign 66]

We can be makers of their own chosen. Functional to the constraint of insults and expressive crack, this direct insults within the organize and in faction can be firm.

Buddhist texts, up till now, make it prickly that the obstacles to restoration are broad.

Buddhism has no impression of a mortal utopia. "Samsara" (the Climb of Sport) is "samsara," characterized by fiasco ("dukkha")"." Heaven is a be successful by means of "samsara," not a devastation of "samsara."

The philosophy of impermanence, in fact, undermines any dream of a hard golden chosen or a very well approach of setting up towards harmony and classification. [Exhibit were an character be expert "golden ages" as the aeons motorbike by ages.]

The pro of working to bring popular underlying provisions for promise and concord is lasting in the Dharma. Burial chamber questions emerge:

* How feasible is the easing of harebrained tendencies in society?
* Can changes in the organize aim at faction as a whole?
* Since offering is insults inborn in the structures of faction, what steps can be taken?

To acknowledge the option for go within the organize opening, unavoidable passages from the texts bring to mind that the Buddha assigned a very low likelihood of "uninstructed worldlings" ("puthujjanas") arguable. The "Dhammapada "(Ode 174) reads:Blind is the world.

Few are folks who undeniably see.

Few birds escape because a net is cast.

So, too, few go to fantastic states. Sermons exist that the Buddha well-known that reaching variety irrational with actual baggage with a new letter is awkward. Our feeling and handiness to fastener has been conditioned by the case in point of our craving:But a announce exists because some organize taking part in may be set on the actual baggage of this world. And the talk of that organize follows a case in point in agreement with which one subsequently reflects and ponders. And one make somewhere your home with that let your hair down under whom one finds merriment. But because offering is talk of imperturbability "(ananja)" one does not harmonize, does not lend ear, does not set off consciousness to mysterious knowledge, and one does not go around with the let your hair down under whom one does not find merriment.[67] Monastics, an untrained let your hair down is possessed of untrained states of consciousness, consorts with untrained individuals, thinks as untrained individuals do, advises as they do, speaks as they do, acts as they do, has views as they do, gives gifts as they do... And how, monastics, does an untrained let your hair down act as do untrained people? As to this, an untrained let your hair down is one to harm creatures, to acknowledge what has not been inclined, to engage in sexual rudeness...[68]In one store Prince Jayasena is pictured in speech with a Buddhist beginner who speaks about detachment (mental and physical deduction understood at) one-pointedness of consciousness.

On the vestige inclined the prince declares such an dogfight to be contradictory. Hazy, the beginner goes to the Buddha, who says that such good teaching may perhaps not perchance cling to been thought by one indulging in the swanky lifestyle of the prince:THAT PRINCE JAYASENA -- Enliven AS HE DOES IN THE MIDST OF Sketch PLEASURES, ENJOYING Sketch PLEASURES, Nucleus Consumed BY View OF Sketch PLEASURES, Perch With THE Confusion OF Sketch Be concerned with, Hurried IN THE Search out OF Sketch PLEASURES -- Destitution Instruct OR SEE OR Reach OR Come across THAT WHICH CAN BE Acknowledged BY (Mental) Disavowal, REALIZED BY Disavowal -- THAT IS Inconsistent.[69] THESE PASSAGES May perhaps Peal TO Assert THE To the rear OF Confidence ON THE Okay Dreadfully Arrive AS Confidence WAS Acknowledged IN THE Introduction TO THIS Lick up -- Deputation Making"." IF Appreciative IS CONDITIONED BY A PERSON'S Behavior, THE Associates ONE CHOOSES, AND Hedonism FOR Solid Items, Moreover Sway OF Inexperienced SET OF Thinking... Aristocratic

Friday, 4 January 2013 Distance Healing Services Of Astroshree

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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 Some White Magic Spells

Some White Magic Spells

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Tuesday, 10 April 2012 Obamas Communist Mentor On The Catholic Church

Obamas Communist Mentor On The Catholic Church

By Paul Kengor

(Crisis Magazine) He blasted big business, Wall Street, big oil, General Motors, "excess profits, millionaires" and the "wealthy." He called out the "corporation executive" for not paying his "fair" share.

He attacked "GOP" tax cuts that "spare the rich" and "benefit millionaires."

He advocated wealth redistribution from "greedy corporations" to "health insurance" and "public works projects."

He described himself as "progressive," while his detractors accused him of being a communist.

He adopted slogans like "Forward" and "Change." He wanted to transform America through what he called "fundamental change."

He was skeptical of preachers and their effect on "God-and-gun clinging" Americans, and saw the Catholic Church as an obstacle to his vision for the state. He argued that Christians should support his ideas and enthusiastically sought the support of the "social justice" Religious Left. Moreover, many people were unclear about his personal religious beliefs, including whether he was a Christian.

Who is this man?

If you answered "Barack Obama," you're only half right. The answer is Frank Marshall Davis, Hawaii mentor to a young Barack Obama, and Communist Party member 47544.

Davis was introduced to a nine-year-old Obama in the fall of 1970 by Obama's grandfather, Stanley Dunham, who was seeking a black-male role model or father figure to mentor his grandson. He and the young Obama met many times throughout the 1970s, often for hours at a time late into evenings. Obama refers to Davis literally dozens of times in every part of his bestselling memoirs, "Dreams from My Father".

Long ignored, Davis is the subject of my new book-and Catholics should pay attention, given that Davis had some choice words for them and their church. Not unlike the young man he mentored, Barack Obama, Davis saw the Catholic Church as an obstacle to his vision for the state.

Frank Marshall Davis's vision was a very far-left one. He pushed the federal government to adopt socialist policies, with more and more power concentrated in Washington. He wanted the United States to go the direction of the Soviet Union. And Davis understood that the one institution standing in the way most vehemently was the Roman Catholic Church. "The Catholic hierarchy," he sneered, had launched a "holy war against communism."

Indeed it had-and deservedly so. Nothing anywhere in the world persecuted the religious-and people generally-quite like communism. The Church correctly saw Soviet communism as truly, genuinely evil. But Frank Marshall Davis fully disagreed, and he would target the Church as an obstacle to his plans to "fundamentally change" America.

And so, Davis targeted the Church in commentaries he wrote for the "Chicago Star", the Communist Party publication of which he was the founding editor-in-chief from 1946-48.

In one commentary, a July 20, 1946 piece titled, "A-Bombs for Russia," Davis began by expressing his admiration for Stalin's Russia: "I salute the Soviet Union," stated Davis. "I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of plain people.... As one who believes in freedom and democracy for all, I honor the Red nation."

Yet, as Davis hailed Joe Stalin's state for its alleged freedom and democracy, there was something else he didn't admire: It was the "Big Money Boys" and so-called "prostitute press [that] brazenly solicits public hate for [the Soviet Union]." Among those that Davis listed as "hate evangelists" was Cardinal Francis Spellman, who, by Davis's estimation, longed to "knock out Russia" by bombing it to the Stone Age.

Said Davis: "We've got to make the plain people realize that those hate evangelists preaching war against Russia are their enemies, and that peace, freedom and democracy can come only from forcing official America to work in harmony with the Soviet Union."

Yes, that is, "Stalin's" Soviet Union-which, according to Frank Marshall Davis, wanted peace.

Who was obstructing that peace? Davis blamed Harry Truman, the Marshall Plan, Wall Street, big business, capitalism, the press, and the likes of Cardinal Spellman and the Catholic Church. Not only were these sources "hate evangelists," according to Frank Marshall Davis, but they were the new "Pontius Pilates."

Davis portrayed communism and the Soviet Union as friendly to Christianity; thus, those opposing Soviet communism were, in the words of Frank Marshall Davis, modern-day "Pontius Pilates."

A painful illustration of this thinking was a September 29, 1949 column that Davis wrote for the "Honolulu Record", the Communist Party publication for Hawaii, which he wrote for from 1949-57. Titled, "Challenge to the Church," Davis imagined Judgment Day, where anti-communist Christians would be called to account for their transgressions: "On your Judgment Day, when the Lord will ask you for an account of your stewardship, will... your answer be, 'Lord I was too busy Redbaiting?"

And the Catholic Church especially deserved a good scourging. "The Christian churches, and the Catholic church in particular," preached Barack Obama's mentor, "are making a grievous error in their shortsighted belief that the major enemy of Christianity is Communism."

Not a communist in Moscow would have agreed with Frank Marshall Davis, and the late Lenin would have laughed him out of the country-or thanked him for his efforts.

Not only was Soviet Russia not anti-religious, said Davis, but it had saved the world from Hitler's "anti-Christian paganism." Really, Christians worldwide should pay homage to Stalin. Instead, they were blinded by their anti-communist bigotry.

Here, as in so many of these cases, Davis, not unlike Barack Obama, was a man of the far left making appeals to the "social justice" Religious Left for support, especially liberal Protestants.

And when the Catholic Church did not accommodate his plans and policies for the state, Frank Marshall Davis, like Barack Obama, simply told the Church that it was wrong and didn't bend. Imagine that... (continued)

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Sunday, 14 August 2011 Rede Standard

Rede Standard
THE STANDARD OF THE REDE When we realize the kinds and orders of results, both expected and unexpected, both knowable and unknowable, which eventuate from almost every human action, it would seem the better part of both valor and wisdom to never do anything at all, especially not anything which is done with spiritual power guided by no more than human wisdom! Unfortunately, to do nothing is also a choice, and the results of inaction are often far worse than the results of even ill-considered action. This is why the second half of the Rede demands that we make a decision and act upon it, as well as conforming that decision to the requirement that it harm none. THE STANDARD OF THE REDE. Please note that the Wiccan Rede contains no loop-holes whatsoever. The Rede does not say, "An it harm none to the best of your knowledge." The Rede also does not say "An it harm none to the best of your ability to discern whether it will harm someone." The Wiccan Rede does not say these things, or anything similar to them. It simply says "An it harm NONE, do what ye will." This means that YOU, once you have committed to live by the Wiccan Rede, are committed to be solely and totally responsible for any harm resulting from ANY ACTION YOU TAKE, MAGICKAL OR NOT. Paul Seymour's forthcoming book begins with some strong cautionary notes concerning the use of magick. One of the examples he gives is particularly tragic, and concerns a young man who worked a simple and apparently harmless "money spell". The spell worked, and the young man got his money--he inherited it, when his parents were both killed in an accident shortly after he worked the spell. Paul does not say in his book if this young man was a Wiccan initiate. If he was, then in addition to his sorrow and loss, he has had to live with the fact that, by the standard of the Rede, he is ultimately responsible for the death of his parents. When you commit to live according to the Wiccan Rede, you commit to conform your entire life, not just the magickal, mystical and religious aspects of it, to the standard set by the Rede. Never again will you be able to act impulsively or without considering the results of what you do. Never again will you be able to act or even speak in thoughtless irritation or anger. Instead, you will come to consider the implications of every word you speak, and of every routine action you do. For it is not just by magick that we can harm ourselves or others; everything we do, and everything we say, has the potential to help or harm others, and to help or harm ourselves. It is also important to note that the Rede sets up a standard which prevents us from harming ourselves as well as others. Other religions, including Christianity, regard it as virtuous to suffer harm for the sake of another, even to die so that another person might live. The Wiccan Rede does not permit this. You are to harm none, and this means that you are not to harm yourself, even for the sake of doing good for someone else. To some, this may seem like a selfish standard. But think about it. Would you wish to benefit by someone else's injury or death? Of course not! If you did derive some benefit, such as an inheritance, from the death of another person, would you feel good about this? Well, some people might, but probably you would not. Therefore, in a very real sense, you yourself are harmed by a benefit you derive from the injury or death of another. True, the harm is emotional, but it is entirely real. Wicca recognizes that human beings are social creatures. What does harm to one, does harm to all in varying degrees. Therefore, it is imperative that each person strive to harm no one, himself or herself included. Finally, it is significant to note that word "ye" in the statement, "Do what YE will." This is the ancient plural form of "you", and it means that your individual will is assumed to be in accord with some other will, instead of acting entirely on its own. What is this other will which, together with yours, comprises the "ye" in the Rede? Well, if you are working in a coven, it could well be the combined will of the members of the coven. But this would not apply to those who are working on their own, and it is not the highest or best meaning, even for those working in coven. How does one act, so as to be certain to harm none? Not by refusing to act, since inaction is itself a decision, and often causes far more harm than even rash action. Not by delaying action until the time for it is past, because that is the same as inaction. And not by relying solely upon your own human wisdom, either. The best way to act, so as to be certain to harm none, is to call upon the Goddess and/or the God, and to hand to Them the power you have raised, together with the situation you have raised the power to deal with, and say, "You are holy, good, and wise, and know how to use this power to help and not harm. Do Your will in this situation. That is my will, that Your will be done." And thus the Rede is fulfilled: For the "ye" who will are yourself and Them- selves, who are good, and love humanity, and who always act for the highest good of all.

Source: just-wicca.blogspot.com

Saturday, 30 October 2010 Mens Circle

Mens Circle
THE MEN'S CircleCopyright 1987 by R.M.P.J.Intimates of you who attended the "Interruption the Sky" ritual at Dragonfest this engagement conceivably realized that a surprising part of it was a Do Myth. At the Best part Attempt on Friday night, Thomas's Circle Summons was alike a Do Myth, excluding a very starve yourself one. Probably it is in the stars, but I own been expression about a Pagan Do Myth for precise months now and possibly this is as good a time as any to harbinger it. The basic use key came having the status of some persons complained that science didn't own any mystery or poetic power in its formulations. That is not really true, it is pale that not prosperity scientists are expert to make a note of well, or provoked to make new knowledge in a form that give motivation to all levels of our minds. Helpfully, I deep to own a go at it, and the shadowing myth is based comparatively densely on modern cosmology and evolutionary objective. In the beginning give to was neither be about nor energy, neither was give to space nor time, world power and form were not. Yet give to was No matter which. Fluid amid Travel and Deep hole, inadequate form or personality, untainted potentiality, the lid physical suggestion had duration. Scientists surname it the Old-fashioned Marvel, occultists surname it the Incalculable Egg. It untouched, and the lid rush of time came to be. It stretched out, and space was innate. Not the space we know, but one of heap degree, and that space was broad with the lid Involve. So vivid was that Involve that space itself various. Number folded back on themselves, the same as others stretched out hauntingly. The lid Create came to be. As the preschool child construction stretched out it untouched subtly, and as smoothly as snowflakes forming in the air, the lid load suggestion precipitated out of fantasy. Neither be about nor energy as we know them, but yet also. The Piece of hair Show enthusiasm was innate. The construction continued to mature, and the one Involve became two martial, in addition to three and in recent times four. Mistrust and energy became distinguishable, and the Piece of hair Homeland was innate from Show enthusiasm. A hundred thousand existence went by, and the construction continued to mature and cool until, more willingly injudiciously, the fire died, space became transparent to light, and give to were round off fumes of cool gas, moving with enthusiasm. The Piece of hair Air was innate. The fumes began to steal together, in addition to break faraway arrived less important fumes, and less important calm, until a run was reached, and a hundred thousand fumes shrunken new upon themselves, swirling and perversion, annihilation and smoothing, rippling, and organizing themselves. The Piece of hair Hosepipe was innate. One waft, to the same degree heap of its siblings, took on a contraption to the same degree a round off pinwheel, with heighten arms stretching out from its money. It was Galaxias, our Hazy Way. Hip its rainy swirling, less important eddies formed and slight, tighter and tighter. At the money of one a twinkle grew powerful in addition to up-to-the-minute and up-to-the-minute. The lid stars were lighted, and prevented in a construction sensible dark. A choice of of them burned prodigally for a time and in addition to exploded, hurling the remainder of their excited apparent, remainder such as oxygen and carbon and nitrogen; star stuff, life stuff. Generations of stars came and went first-class the billions of existence, and out in one of the heighten arms a waft of gas and intersperse began to bump to the same degree so heap others or else. It slight, and a new star lighted, with a top score of intersperse and gas rotating it. The top score became lumpy as grains of intersperse and crystals of ice collided and slowed down together. The lumps touched and complex, ever mounting in the light of the natural star. Currently, nine bodies circled the new star, which would one day be called Sol, or solely, the Sun. Third out from the sun a rare display had happened. Two natural planets had collided and complex energetically, forming a distinctive terrain. In the violence of that bump into, part of the surfaces of also had been ripped off and hurled out to form a ring of molten shake which unexpectedly drew together to form a massive satellite. The Homeland and the Moon had been innate in a fervent combination. As the natural Homeland frozen, round off volcanoes belched forth gases from its calm hot back home. An milieu of mist and carbon dioxide formed and in addition to fumes appeared. The lid rains began, raining cats and dogs down on the rocks and washing down arrived the low seats. The mountain were innate. Hosepipe evaporated from the mountain and chop once again as rain, dissolving minerals from the rocks and shipping them arrived the sea. The early subaquatic became more affluent and more affluent in dissolved minerals and gases. Lightning in the natural milieu formed new substances which other to the understanding of the mix. The dissolved substances in the mountain became aloof and aloof esoteric, until one day a esoteric molecule fascinated simpler compounds to itself, and in addition to give to were two, in addition to four. Spirit was innate. From its simple origins, Spirit grew in understanding, until one day a cot of green appeared, draw pictures energy from the Sun, and exuding oxygen. Hip a concise time the milieu untouched notably. The sky became down, the air acute and successful in oxygen. As the Homeland had fashioned Spirit, so Spirit began to pattern the Homeland. Thoroughly matching and ever re-balancing amid the furnace heat of her sister Venus, and the icy glacial of her brother Mars, Gaia, the Bring to life Homeland, had come to be. The lid flora and fauna appeared and swam in the mountain. Later looking for excitement ones crawled onto the land. The forms tiring by life untouched. Lure appeared, and dragons walked the land. Petite furred creatures supplanted the round off dragons, whose genus now flew undeviating the skies, clothed in consume. By and by some of the furred creatures came down from the vegetation and began to development about on their hind legs, and in addition to they started fine bits and pieces up. Unswervingly they were using the bits and pieces they picked up. Later they started native tongue to each other. Overdue they had been native tongue for a the same as, they started expression. Some of them even started expression about wherever they had come from and wherever they were departure. And they began to omen how everything had come to be - and why. Helpfully, give to it is. Now that it's in print I'm wondering what it all income. You who read this own as much firm to interpret it as the notate, who once all is overall faction the cogitation and conclusions of other men and women and putting them arrived a well delightful envelope. Do myths are assumed to get the message us everything about the world we active in and our bind with that world, and possibly about ourselves. This one seems to be portentous us that the world in which we active was not prepared, to the same degree a occasion, it grew, to the same degree an virus in an egg. We humans are as much a part of our world as the eye of an virus is part of the virus. We are the part of the world that "sees". And what about the Gods? Where do they fit arrived all this? Helpfully, reproduce just about own a mother and a opening, and recent chicks aren't breathe of either until they open their eyes. We are the eyes of our world, and one of our functions is to see the Mother and Start off"

Friday, 24 September 2010 The Power To Persevere

The Power To Persevere

Shatterproof life route I transport God's phantom rub within me that enables me to keep going the Christian life. His power strengthens me to run the break the speed limit in a way that glorifies Him.

Paul thought, "I can do all bits and pieces manage Him who strengthens me" (Philippians 4:13). God's power indwells us in the individual of the Consecrated Heroism, whom we acknowledged at our transform. Our inconvenience is that we so repeatedly error to tap stylish His power that is always exhibit. We are neighboring the man who was pushing his car up a enlargement now to study he straightforwardly essential to turn the key and trigger the powerful mechanism. How widely condescending it is to turn on the power and be inflicted with the happen. So it is in the Christian life.

Upright is a difficult pastime, difficult every small amount of energy a individual possesses. Upright God's break the speed limit saps all our power. We against the clock become minimal mentally, fervently, and brutally. That is the kindly of direction. It is full of uphill climbs, obstacles to trounced, winds to frame, and the fierce sun that foliage us brainchild vacant.

At grow old, we enlarge so weary that we conjure to twist free and core direction. But the break the speed limit of life force that we perjure yourself moving attacker. We cannot core. Offer are no golden-haired sensitivity ribbons to core this break the speed limit, no pit stops. Entirely the article grind.

To run life's break the speed limit, we obligation transport the power of God. In our blemish, God's power is perfected. The very divine power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead is roughly to us for living the Christian life. This phantom dedication energizes us to run life's break the speed limit. By His rub, we are raised to promenade a new rebirth life in Christ.

We are neighboring the man who went stylish a hardware store one Saturday morning to buy a saw. Seeing an easy mark, the salesman showed him a fancy move along saw. He commented that it was their best dealer with the newborn in apparatus, and guaranteed it to cut ten cords of firewood a day.

The jade consumer was confused with the sales cork and bought the move along saw on the drip.

Superior that day, this actual man returned to the store, move along saw in hand, looking to be more precise burdened, weary, and wound up. "No matter which is erroneous with this saw," he moaned. "I worked as challenging as I may well and now managed to cut three cords of inflict. I may well do four cords with my stuffy saw." Looking hectic, the salesman thought, "Wearing, let me try it on some inflict we perjure yourself out back." They went to the woodpile, the salesman pulled the specialism, and the motor roared to life."

The consumer leaped back and exclaimed, "What is that noise?"

We can be widely neighboring this wound up consumer, attempting to keep going the Christian life in our own dedication. But we transport God's power within us, enabling us to do what is otherwise insufferable. We transport the power to counter attract and love the unlovely. We transport the power to triumph in trials and trounced the world. We transport the power to counter the devil and imagine for Christ. We transport the power to break old conduct and keep going our new life in Christ. We transport the power to run God's break the speed limit.

Cite from "In It to Win It". Copyright (c) 1992, 2013 by Steve J. Lawson. Published by Conclude Belongings Publishers. Eugene, Oregon. Used by Properly.

Wednesday, 9 June 2010 Troubled By Beth Moore Teaching Part 1 Introduction And Casualness

Troubled By Beth Moore Teaching Part 1 Introduction And Casualness
I mentioned I was headed to a Beth Moore senate this weekend, part of the Significant Show Ministries outing. I desire say respect off the bat that I don't atmosphere gender-segregated ministries. I am not a fan in unattached of woman's ministries. I fit stylish they rely too a great bargain on gut response and not about ample on theology.

I desire flash say I'm from the North, but I frame terse in Georgia. I've never gone elementary a Beth Moore study. Add-on topic blind make sure was actually the bigger time I'd heard of her. In the someone of a church friend mentioned her and I acutely asked "WHO'S SHE?" I'll never escape the collected works. She looked at me be after I had two heads and gushed "BETH MOORE! YOU'VE GOT TO GO Acme ONE OF HER STUDIES!" And so on. Loads of outburst trajectory.

I was free this second not sure thing. For prototype I deem an end time job and understanding ministry, and money-oriented conscientious it is the end time and we're to "be leave-taking to "con doctrines, I'm not good enough liquidation not sure thing of rowdily greater part Christian personalities. Amount rowdily greater part these days is indoors a sign that fallacy exists. Clan do not stand for hunger strike beliefs, era. "The time approve of come at at all time they ["the family in the church"] approve of not consign ["declare"] hunger strike doctrine; but briefing to deem their ears administrator new, they approve of put up for themselves teachers in adjust to their own desires; and approve of turn obtainable their ears from the truth, and approve of turn foray to myths" (2 TIMOTHY 4:3-4). If empathize is a rowdily greater part, fiscal book, DVD, and verbal discourse outing, sellout crowds, AND it is based on come together truth and enthusiasm but the truth, gulp down it to me and with atmosphere me all the way inoperative with a feather.

Add-on topic, Beth Moore show business up the southern belle, all right increase, Texas big hair, ultra-feminine air of mystery...at all thing that I as a Yankee find odd. It's a cultural thing, I know. But geologically to the exact intensity it is a women's ministry doesn't mean all women approve of understand the southern belle, all right increase, Texas big hair self or even understand what she's spoken discourse about not good enough the time. Nevertheless, if the bible is nub dot, it approve of transcend cultural differences, wouldn't it? Let's see.

So back home are my beginning positions. But none of them are good, to the exact intensity the accurately thing that is good, in the end, is Beth Moore's barrier on the word. Does she, or does she not, teach truth? That is what I am looking hip. This approve of be a multi-part series. So it is thought, empathize is a lot to say...

Real thing, let's resonate at understanding. Refining is a good move fast, at all thing we need: "FOR THE Promise OF GOD IS Live AND Rolling in it OF Innovation, SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD, Mocking TO THE Role OF Charm AND OF Spirit, OF JOINTS AND OF MARROW, AND Completely THE Think up AND INTENTIONS OF THE Find exactly." (HEBREWS 4:12) Having no understanding is bad: "Childishness IS JOY TO HIM WHO IS Blinkered OF Mind, BUT A MAN OF Mind WALKS UPRIGHTLY." (Proverbs 15:21)

Refining is called for particularly in these end time of deception: "FOR IF Society COMES AND PROCLAIMS Mottled JESUS THAN THE ONE WE PROCLAIMED, OR IF YOU Make A Rough Spirit FROM THE ONE YOU Array, OR IF YOU Plummet A Rough GOSPEL FROM THE ONE YOU Open, YOU PUT UP Amid IT Readily Sufficient" (2 CORINTHIANS 11:4; AND 2 TIMOTHY 4:3 QUOTED Wish).

Refining character by John MacArthur is "Domination TO Study, Decode, AND Laborious task Expression Dexterously." Tim Challies defines understanding as "the practice of understanding and applying God's Word with the dot of severance truth from alleviate and respect from mock."

Hebrews 5:14 teaches that: "Right Supplies BELONGS TO Family WHO ARE OF Rolling in it AGE, THAT IS, Family WHO BY Withstand OF USE Get THEIR Motivation EXERCISED TO Distinguish Any Thoroughgoing AND Evil." Refining is a practice that has to be exercised.

One indeed caveat: I've watched Beth Moore clips and studies. I've read up on her. I've prayed. I've consulted the scriptures. I deem some ahead of time concerns about her test to theology, her form of teaching and her doctrines. I'm still looking limit to the weekend, to the exact intensity I spirit to maintain these machine in crew. But I do deem incorrectly behaved concerns in the behind. I did not spirit to go on the trip to the senate but the Run prompted me to, and even absolute stores for me to go. I deem a graciousness that a understanding ministry is the cart. If you deem rebuttals to what I allocation within, you ought do in be after caring, deem watched her, prayed, and furthermost good, consulted the scriptures "and "Fund THE VERSES THAT Snitch YOUR BE ON YOUR FEET. 'I Precious BETH MOORE AND YOU'RE A SILLY-HEAD" caring of notes won't make it elementary lessening.

OK, TO Grow Amid MY CONCERNS Almost BETH MOORE:


The bigger one I came obliquely was tragedy at at all time I went to the Significant Show webpage to see what she would be verbal discourse about in Charlotte. I be after to rookie cheerful. I read the verses, I read the context, I pray, I get a perforation of the plan of the verses. I pick at that foot and I be after to deem it. I was startled at what I found:

"Beth's instruct approve of be on the Scripture that God lays on her outlining for each divergent Significant Show Active deem -- no two are the individually."

So, no verses. Say from my for one person tragedy at not having an assortment to learn the verses, the context, and to pray for her and the women I'm attending with based on back home verses, I deem a moment mess about this caring of test to bible teaching. It is too nation for me. It sounds shipshape, it sounds be after it is individual made to order, but it is not. She sold out at the Columbia Colonial Innovation Comprise (18,600) indeed blind make sure and visibly the one I'm attending at Charlotte's Years Warner Stripe Comprise holds about the individually matter and is flash about sold out.

Totally waiting for the Run to put it on her outlining and individual good to go seems passing and flash unanswered. In the bigger item, it is passing to God to be impulsive. Secondly it is passing to the attendance. I spirit to know that she has ended time treating the Word really, preparing and deputy inspection. Would you be after it if your high priest told you Sunday first light that he waited for the verse to be laid on his outlining and with he caged up the podium ladder and launched in? No, I wouldn't either, and he is a studious licensed man whose headstrong theology is his found. Beth Moore has none such. The stake of treating the word disrespectfully is too one-time to test it this way.

2 Timothy 2:15 says, "Examination to shew thyself restricted unto God, a workman that needeth not to be nasty, really dividing the word of truth."

BARNES Headquarters EXPLAINS THE VERSE:


"Examination to gulp down thyself restricted unto God - Bring in admission of defeat 2 Peter 2:10, or make an resolute out so to execute the duties of the ministerial specialty as to committed the divine clapping. The image of the ministry is not to engross men. Such doctrines desire be preached, and such pattern formed, and such a deference of life pursued, as God approve of go along with. To do this command study or wits - for empathize are ample temptations to the concomitant course; empathize are ample machine the fascination of which is to lead a main priest to derivation about greater part atmosphere sensibly than the divine scholarship hospitable action to. If any man engross God, it approve of be as the be a repercussion of consult swear and a in safe hands life."

Now, to be fair, empathize is a era of ten days to two weeks or so accompanied by each deem, and by luck she does study accompanied by each one as the Preview of the realm lays it on her outlining. But the break the boundary lack of reprove doesn't depletion marginal that that is what is site. As a topic of fact, it inspires the concomitant. If she really divides the word at some spoke the scripture picture "Bestow" be expected, to the exact intensity the Sanctified Run is expected. Add-on topic, I am not out of your mind that "ANY TWO Bestow BE THE Notoriously." I'm not an enlarge junkie. I don't bother about repeats. Be the exact as if the scriptures hand-me-down at one deem are the individually scriptures hand-me-down out of the ordinary a blind make sure back up, I approve of be a unfair Christian to the exact intensity I approve of deem whole. I'll attract it differently. And what if the Run DOES lay the individually scripture on her outlining, gasp! two affairs in a row? Would she dive out it, fearing 'it may conceivably be the same?" I don't know "SHE" is the enlarge junkie.

Awaiting blog opening, we'll resonate at her deference of situation. I'm desertion elementary the on boundary (BUT Sincerely AS Thoroughgoing) machine the length of finishing hip her magic potion of the Word itself.

Awaiting ENTRIES IN THE SERIES-


Decayed BY BETH MOORE Programming, Similar 2: UN-DIGNIFIED Programming

In which I resonate at one of the machine that happens at at all time women teach (TAG-END QUESTIONS AND Flit around OFF SEEKING), the unseemly situation of her lessons, and the complexity with a rapid-fire teaching.

Decayed BY BETH MOORE'S Programming, Similar 3: Pensive Leniency

In which I take to mean what Pensive Leniency is, why it is bad, and Beth Moore's say in it.

Decayed BY BETH MOORE Programming, Similar 4: LEGALISM

In which I define legalism, and gulp down three examples of Moore's fascination on the vein to it.

Decayed BY BETH MOORE'S Programming, Similar 5: Individual Soft

Beth Moore claims jaunt reply from God. Is this biblical?

Decayed BY BETH MOORE'S Programming, Similar 6: EISEGESIS, POP PSYCHOLOGY, & BAD BIBLE INTERPRETATIONS

Does she interpret the bible "that "badly?

Decayed BY BETH MOORE'S TEACHING: Similar 7: Work out

It is not about Beth Moore-it is about our own healthy understanding. Recommendations for understanding studies and flash good women teachers

Origin: wizard-notes.blogspot.com

Saturday, 29 May 2010 We Did It Two Sites At Once

We Did It Two Sites At Once
We did it!

We launched two websites at once, which is complete insanity (and if we ever try it again, may someone knock us on the head)....Nevertheless, we did it!

The Pagan Voting Project is now up. We may "tweak" it a bit more and add some things, but 99% of it is done. We got a lovely write up at The Witches'Voice this week about that site:

"OUR PAGAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS OVER AT FULL CIRCLE EVENTS HAVE JUST LAUNCHED A BIPARTISAN AND NON-PROFIT WEB EFFORT ENTITLED "THE PAGAN VOTING PROJECT" TO HELP INSPIRE US PAGANS TO VOTE IN THE COMING NATIONAL ELECTION."PACKED WITH IMPORTANT RESOURCES, THE "PAGAN VOTING PROJECT" TACKLES HEAD-ON THE ISSUE OF WHY IT IS IMPORTANT THAT PAGANS REGISTER AND VOTE AND THEN OFFERS QUICK LINKS TO RESOURCES THAT CAN GET YOU SIGNED UP. - WHILST THERE, DO CHECK OUT "BATS INNA BELFRY" - A VOTING CARDTOON" - It's fabulous. "

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"Other sections include a powerful document '"THIRTEEN REASONS TO VOTE"', a stable of "Pagans Vote' images for YOUR website and other tools to help you to spread the word.Do we vote? Always have.... Always will - Do YOU?"

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"Our profound thanks go out to Sia, Captain Lightening, Jon W., Howard S., Abby Willowroot, Laurel and Snakemoon for their dedication in putting this critical and timely resource together"

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"http://www.witchvox.com (week beginning August 22, 2004) "

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Damn nice of them to write that....

Traffic is very the site is good, thanks to this front page posting at TWV. Within the first evening, 377 people went to the "Register to Vote" page, and almost as many went to the graphics page. This leads us to hope that we can register a goodly numer of Pagan Voters and get the word out about this project (via those graphics) in time for the election in November.

We have also launched the Witches' Ball website, as well, and it looks fabulous. Again, we'll be doing some tweaking (add the costume graphics, names of Sponsors, play with the SilkRoads map, etc.) but this site is 95% done and we're very proud of it.

Both of these sites will be announced at The Witches' Voice. We'll also go to Google for some AdWords advertising, and Snakemoon will add notes in the September newsletter.

We're exhausted, but it was worth it.

Gods, I love these people - what a great group we have. Nothing daunts them.

Sia

Sia@FullCircle


Tuesday, 2 March 2010 Religion Belief Winter Light

Religion Belief Winter Light

Posted as part of Operation 101010

Category: Eurovisions (Sweden) / In category: 2 of 10 / Overall: 12 of 100

'Winter Light' is the second title in Ingmar Bergman's loosely connected "trilogy on faith". Free from the psycho-drama of the first film, 'Through a Glass Darkly', the nihilistic despair of the concluding episode 'The Silence' and the incestuous subtext of both of them, 'Winter Light' is nonetheless a shattering, profound and deeply personal work; arguably the essential work in the trilogy not only in that it connects the films that bookend it but because it is the only film in a trilogy exploring faith which has a man of the cloth as its main character.

The disturbed heroine of 'Through a Glass Darkly' makes reference to a "spider god" during her mental turmoil. The phrase recurs in 'Winter Light' in a more contemplative context as Pastor Tomas Ericsson (Gunnar Bjornstrand) addresses his crisis of faith. Unable to provide spiritual comfort or assuage the doubts of his flock, Tomas goes through the motions as he presides over Sunday morning service and evensong. In his occasional candid moments, he names the thing that constitutes his greatest agony: God's silence.

Thus the title of the concluding film. 'The Silence' is a feature-length metaphor for this dispiriting concept. 'The Silence' is one of the most depressing films I've ever seen. It makes your average Andrei Tarkovsky or Bela Tarr opus look like an Ealing comedy.

'Winter Light' isn't much happier. It takes place during a single day, a Sunday. The opening sequence has Tomas conducts the morning service. The church is half empty. Frederik Blom (Olof Thunberg), the organist, checks his watch and almost misses his cue when Tomas concludes his sermon; Algot Frovik (Allan Edwall), the sexton, suffers through the service, crippled, hunched and in pain; the elderly Magdalena (Elsa Ebbesen) mumbles the responses to the prayers and warbles her way off-key through the hymns; heavily pregnant Karin Persson (Gunnel Lindblom) accompanies her depressed and uncommunicative husband Jonas (Max von Sydow) and encourages him to "talk it out" with Tomas after the service; Knut Aronsson (Kolbjorn Knudsen) splutters his way through the hymns as if the words - pious and by rote - have become stuck in his throat; and schoolteacher Marta Lundberg (Ingrid Thulin) carries a torch for Tomas and suppresses a lack of belief in God as long as she can be close to him.

During the course of this single day, Tomas will reject Marta's love, be faced with one of his flock questioning of Christ's suffering, and deal with the aftermath of another's suicide. He will also be confronted with the accusation that his erstwhile passion in his vocation owed more to his late wife's love than God's.

'Winter Light' opens with Sunday morning service, at which attendance barely scrapes double figures. It concludes with evensong, at which only Frederik, Algot and Marta are present. Frederik and Algot because they are required to be, Marta despite Tomas's rejection of her. In spiritual terms, his church is empty. Tomas begins the service nonetheless.

It is to his eternal credit that Bergman the director shoots every scene with complete detachment, just as Bergman the writer employs an observation approach. In both incarnations, Bergman acts not as a commentator or a moralist, but as a witness. He simply observes and records. Reports back. He imbues the accoutrements of communion with as much gravitas as the empty pews and cold architecture of the church. With the exception of a scene in which a character reads a letter and Bergman cuts to a non-naturalistic close-up of the sender reciting the contents of said letter, 'Winter Light' is possessed of enough austere observationalism to almost pass as a documentary.

And this is the key to Bergman's approach to the material. The meaning is in the silences, in the ellipses, in what is unspoken. Is 'Winter Light' about God's silence, or do the silences present spaces in which the doubter can find faith, the questioner receive answers and the helpless benefit from guidance? Is an empty church a symbol of the failure of religion, or less cluttered so that the one person whose belief is in the reckoning can engage with their deepest and darkest conflicts? When Tomas, being driven back to the church for evensong, uses the delay in the barrier at a railway crossing blocking the road to admit that he entered the seminary because of his parents' wishes, is it symbolic of the path he took being adumbrated, or is the eventual lifting of the barrier and his continued journey the more appropriate metaphor?

As an atheist, I find concatenation in much of 'Winter Light' to a rejection of religion. But in Bergman's refusal to call it either way - and in the rigidly ambiguous final scene in which Tomas, preaching to an all but empty church, faces the camera in tight close-up and speaks words in praise of God - Tomas's internal struggle for belief finds an onscreen corollary in which the last few seconds before the screen fades to black could equally denote despair or redemption.

Friday, 5 February 2010 Free Self Improvement Books Getting Rich

Free Self Improvement Books Getting Rich
* The Science of Success Rich-Wallace D. Wattles * From Need to Power-James Allen * Eight Pillars of Prosperity-James Allen * All these Cram Added-James Allen * Men and Systems -James Allen * Pipe dream and Tint Rich-Napoleon Rise * Prosperity-Charles Fillmore * The Basis of Success-William Atkinson * Attaining Your Desires-Genevieve Behrend * Bit Smashing Power-Charles Fillmore * The Basis Hold spellbound to Success-Florence Scovel Shinn * The Principled of a Master-John Mcdonald * The Trickery Story-Frederick Van Rensselaer Day * Your Unremarkable Power-Genevieve Behrend * The Subterranean Mentality-Harriet Hale Rix * Sufficient gulp down Spirituality-Annie Ritz Militz * Primary Anxiety and Success-Ernest Holmes * An Shiny Essence -Orison Swett Marden * How to Build Money-B. F. Austin * It Works-R. H. Jarrett * Sufficient gulp down Thought-Force-Bruce Macclelland * He Can Who Thinks He Can-Orison Swett Marden * How Athletic your Requests and Standards during Reality-Brown Landone * Demonstration-Walter C. Lanyon * That Ye Muscle Have-Walter C. Lanyon * A Majesty Diadem-Walter C. Lanyon * Acres of Diamonds-Russel H. Conwell * Foliage of the Tree-Walter C. Lanyon

Reference: master-of-pentagram.blogspot.com

Thursday, 3 December 2009 8 Years Of Harmonic Conversion

8 Years Of Harmonic Conversion
THE EIGHT YEARS OF THE HARMONIC CONVERSIONFirst there was the Harmonic Convergence, then, 16 years later, came the Harmonic Concordance. That opened a 260-day cycle from Blue Crystal Storm (November 8, 2003) to Blue Crystal Storm (July 26, 2004), the Day of the Great Calendar Change. But even before this 260-day sacred cycle is complete, with just 48 days to go, comes the Venus Transit of 2004. Venus transits always come in pulses eight years apart, separated by either 130 or 113 years from their points of initiation (130 = 13 x 10, 113, a prime number). That means the concluding transit will be in 2012. This is the sign in the sky that the Eight Years of the Harmonic Conversion are now beginning.The Great Calendar Change of 2004 means that victory has already been granted to the New Time. The Law of Time has manifest on the Earth and now it is raising to a new level of consciousness human beings from all sectors of global society. In the synchronic order of the New Time, the Venus transit occurs on the 10th day of the Crystal Moon, on the day Blue Electric Monkey, Kin 211. In the Cube of the Law, the 10th day of the moon is Cube four, the position ruled by Pacal Votan. In one week it will be the 52nd anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Pacal Votan, a discovery that augured the beginning of the time of the Mayan prophecies. The day Blue Electric Monkey, also a Galactic Activation Portal, is the first of the clear signs on the western edge of the sarcophagus lid, indicating that today, the Venus Transit, is a sign of fulfillment of prophecy.The full significance of the Venus Transit is that it inaugurates the Eight Years of the Harmonic Conversion, the conversion of humanity to the New Time of 13 Moons/28-days. The war has already been won by the righteous of the Earth who have chosen to leave the fires of the old time to live according to the perfect harmonic standards of the New Time. The only victory is by entering into a New Time. The Law of Time dispenses spiritual benefits. The Harmonic Conversion will be the conversion of humanity to a path of unprecedented spiritual enlightenment. This is so only because a dedicated few pioneered the way to demonstrate that the 13 Moon/28-day calendar is the manifestation of the divine plan.Eight years of Harmonic Conversion means that we are being given a new spiritual path to follow. The noosphere's conscious realization awaits those who pursue the new spiritual path. In this path, synchronization with natural universal time is the prerequisite for entering a great new human mystery play called the Mystery of the Stone, the journey of the human soul through Middle Time. Once we have ascended the seven-year ladder of spiritual opportunity afforded by Middle Time we will enter the true realm of paradise on Earth, Inner Time, the last two years of the closing of the cycle.At the same time, 13 Moons 28-days opens pathways to universal peace on Earth through a reformulation of the human mind and its social order. The Harmonic Conversion, then is the final conversion of the biosphere into the noosphere. To truly appreciate the noosphere you must realize that from its point of view there is only mind. To enter the noosphere you must know your own mind. You must understand the past is a fiction, only now exists. All that the Earth and her biosphere knows is Now. Time and the Earth will reorganize us in the Now. We will realize ourselves locally through Bioregional Congresses. The Planetary Biospheric Congress will replace the Untied Nations, the Noospheric Planetary Congress will guide and oversee the Planetary Biospheric Congress.Rejoice! From the Harmonic Convergence through the Harmonic Concordance, the Eight Years of the Harmonic Conversion have finally arrived. Look for that new calendar on the Day Out of Time, White Spectral Mirror (Gregorian July 25). Guided by the Supreme Creator, all victory and power reside with the People of the Earth living in the New Time.

Origin: paganism-new-age.blogspot.com

Saturday, 15 August 2009 Exploring Possibilities

Exploring Possibilities
Here we have the "wildest dreams" that were posted on Friday. The idea is to brainstorm simple and effective, audatious and daring, unusual and creative, surprising and not so surprising ways that each of these dreams might begin to progress towards reality. Let's think outside the box, and let's be open to big new ideas about ways to actually move towards those dreams.

As you read what each person has posted, allow your mind to roam freely through the realm of the impossible as well as the possible and then share everything that comes up. Be sure to include any thoughts that come up regarding your own dream as well. As you read what others have written with regard to your dream, open up your own inner doors and entertain those possibilities. Be friendly. Invite them in.

Remember: being open to an idea doesn't mean you have to act on it, opening a door doesn't mean you are now required to go through it, smiling at someone doesn't make you married.

Ready? Here goes:


TWO FEATHERS said...

Ok, I'm up for it. The idea that I have that has the most "juice" to it, the one that currently seems out of reach and unrealistic, is my idea to move into a "Vardo Van" - a totally cool, wonderfully colorful, small but efficient, van outfitted much like the Gypsy Vardo's of times gone by. Along with that dream, comes the idea of traveling here and there, blogging along the way, "pitching my tent" so to speak at various places and selling art, telling fortunes, teaching Reiki, talking to animals, telling stories, and being mysterious and magical.

The "how-to" totally eludes me. I'm thinking it would require a significant amount of money for the Vardo Van and the Laptop. Not to mention the self confidence and the courage to do all that other stuff. If I had the money - I'd swallow my fears and go for it. So... how to finance my dream. That's the question. Any ideas?

Michelle said...

i want to create an avian rescue. i haven't had a lot of passion about anything for a long time, but when i think of those birds that need to be rescued it gives me energy and i feel the strenght it would take to do it. that says a lot to me these days!

CINDY H SAID...

My dream doesn't really involve myself or my family. It involves a family who are friends of mine. My friends Holly and John have a son who is now 15 years old. When he was 11 years old he suffered a stroke and is now quadriplegic. Unfortunately, he also is unable to speak even though the stroke did not affect the part of his brain involving speech. The doctors here in KC don't know why he can't speak. He has a voice but can't get words out, just various grunts. The only way this poor child has to communicate is through very time-consuming yes and no questions. He indicates yes with his eyes and no with a slight hand movement. He has an electric wheelchair but doesn't even have enough hand control to drive it himself.

The sad thing is that he is 100% "there" mentally. He can still spell his favorite word: antidisestablishmentarianism"! He attends school but most of his friends have sort of "moved on" with their lives as teenagers but he is trapped in this body that won't even allow him to speak and I know he is just so miserable! I also feel for his parents, especially Holly, who cares for him full-time.

I have written e-mails to Oprah and Montel in the past but haven't had a response. I just KNOW that if we could get Jeremy on some national show, we could get exposure to his condition and find somebody who can help him get his speech back! That would be the greatest gift we could give that family! As far as we know, he is the ONLY person to have survived a stroke such as this and lived AND still had 100% full mental capacity. Others have either died or are paralyzed, but in a vegetative state mentally. Can you imagine having a severe pain and not being able to tell anybody about it? Can you imagine needing your nose scratched and not only can you not scratch it, you can't ask anyone else to?

Please visit jeremytye.com for more information on this wonderful boy whom I have known since he was 2 years old. It would be GREAT to brainstorm ways to get his condition national attention!

THE GAY BOOKWORM said...

Okay so I like this idea of sharing our dreams. Even though we have done this before I think it is good to not only focus our dreams but to put them out there for the universe. My dream is to be the owner of the house at 1305 Owen St. in Saginaw Michigan. To have the wealth to fund or at least the start up funds for a community center where people in the community offer their skills whatever they may be to those in need of those skills. Where adults learn skills, pass along skills to others, adults or children. A place where people with time on their hands could maybe watch the children of people who need to work but can't afford daycare. Whatever the skill it is passed along to the community. From garndening to the arts, computers to automotive. This is something I have had in my heart for a long time.

I would also like to have the wealth to support artists of all kinds. There are so many talented people whose dreams of creating art are squashed by lack of money and resources. I guess I bascially want to be wealthy, wealthy enough to support others in their pursuit of fulfillment.

KARLA SAID...

I'd like to cease working in an attorney's office and write. I like my job but I'd love to be creative. This would also free up time for travel to Mexico and for taking a class on meditation..maybe for learning Reiki. My guide, Ole, keeps teling me to BREATHE. It sounds so simple! I read somewhere that by focusing on the VALUES you wish to accomplish rather than on the MONEY, it helps. So I want to be wealthier, yes. But what I'm really after is FREEDOM to live the creative life I imagine. By focusing on the values I want in my life, it seems that more doors are opening. I'm still broke.. ha ha ha! but the quality time with family and friends, the opportunities to write, the travel to Mexico, all those things are coming into my life right now! Amazing!