Sunday, 22 December 2013 Morning Meditations With Victoria Tune In To Life

Find small moments..to Tune in...to your self, your body, your mind and your spirit.This Ignites Awareness.When you take the time to "tune in",you will be in touch with yourself and the Harmony waiting to create with you. TUNING IN helps you stay focussed in what is most helpful for you at this time..and KEEPS YOU ALIGNED with the Perfect Flow for your unique life.Tune in..Listen closely......what do you need at this time?Open your H e a r t..where does it wish to fly right now?Stretch out your arms often...Try out your wings...where do you wish to Explore What new qualities do you need to bring to your energyand add to your life?What sparks you within? where do you wish to create and play?what goals do yo wish to reach for?Stand tall...What have you learned about your life thus far?Feel empowered in who you areBe proud of your journey, your path and the unique spirit that makes you....YouSmile on the insideWhat have you made peace with?What things have you grown to love and accept about yourself?Feel BlessedJump for joywhat excites you about life? what are you grateful for?Touch the skyYour dreams are touchable..real and here.....open your eyes!What dreams have your forgotten?Which ones are still calling you?what would you like to create in your life right now?Tune in to your body..how are you feeling?what would bring you balance today?What do you need to help you feel strong and healthy and well?Tune into your mindwhat new thoughts could you transform and bring to life?What new attitudes could help create positive changes and shape the way you think?Do you feel mind-clutter or clear?What do you need to do to ignite Clarity, Calm and RenewalLet the Mind flow..in Harmony.Tune into your Inner SpiritWhere do you feel guided to go..do...or be?What do you sense is True for you?*Stay in touch with your Inner Selfand you will Remain Strongin the Powerful Flow of your Beautiful Life!Harmony will become the Landscape.Tune into L I F EIt is awake right now..you don't need an invitation..Create with your life..Share your life..Celebrate life..Ignite the Spark of Life.....Finding HarmonyMEDITATIONSWITHVICTORIA PETTELLA*All PhotographyVictoria PettellaAll Rights Reserved.

Source: masonsofheaven.blogspot.com

Wednesday, 30 October 2013 The Eternal Footman

Hermetic Library fellow T Polyphilus reviews "The Eternal Footman" by James Morrow.

This book is the third of James Morrow's "Corpus Dei" trilogy, following "Towing Jehovah" and "Blameless in Abbadon". I might have enjoyed it the best of the three, although I think the second stands out in terms of its literary interest and philosophical coherence. More than the second, this third book presumes an orientation to the other volumes of the series. It could probably be read on its own with enjoyment, but it reintroduces characters from "Towing Jehovah" in key supporting roles.

The conceit of this book is that in the final stage of the dissolution of the deceased Abrahamic God's monstrous body, His bare skull flies up and assumes a geostationary orbit over the Western Hemisphere, from which its baleful influence instigates a strange metaphysical plague. The disease, called "abulia" ("will-lessness") centers on the victim's interaction with his own personal genius, represented as the malign personification of his death, also called a "fetch," or a "leveler." These entities begin by introducing themselves personally to the victims, who subsequently vomit black "fear syrup," become catatonic, develop horrific skin conditions, and die. The process can be rapid or very slow.

The plague causes the general collapse of civilized society in the Western world, and much of the story follows the odyssey of an English-teacher-cum-florist's-deliverywoman in her efforts to find a cure for her teenage son, who was the first to contract "abulia", although a slow-moving case that has lingered while millions of others have died from it. A complementary story arc, eventually joining with the first, is the tale of the religious sculptor Korty, who is enlisted to create idols in a new religion intended to provide a cure to the plague.

There are a number of inspired sub-plots that widen the satirical scope of the novel. But what interested me most (in retrospect, at least) was the nature of "abulia" itself. The fetches all have supernatural powers and praeternatural intelligence, particularly with respect to the humans to whom they are attached. Their own motivations are unexplored, but their aims and effects do not seem to be consistent. In some cases, they seem to be a positive force for both the individual and humanity. In Thelemic magick the individual's interaction with the personal genius is understood to furnish "occult puberty" and to be "the central and essential work of the Magicians. The Eternal Footman" seems to raise the objection that most people (in the modern West, leastwise) are not cut out for such metaphysical adulthood, and would receive "Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel" principally as a death sentence.

On the other hand, perhaps what has happened in the story is that the climate of the divine skull has sickened these "genii", who are ordinarily both more benign and less conspicuous. That would fit with the general suppositions of Thelemic occultism, as well as the overarching narrative of Morrow's Corpus Dei. [via]

Consider also:

* "In all the universe, darkness is only found in the shadow of a gross and opaque planet, as it were for a moment; the universe itself is a flood of light eternal."

* Eternal Fire Crown

* "But the orb revolveth anon; the shadow passeth away from thee. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu! For inasmuch as thou hast made the Law of Freedom thine, as thou hast lived in Light and Liberty and Love, thou hast become a Freeman of the City of the Stars."

Origin: ceremonial-magic.blogspot.com

Wednesday, 17 April 2013 Free Grace Theology Symbol Woman In Travail And The Dragon

Symbol A woman in travail and the dragonA woman in travail and the dragon"Man child symbolizing an Adult man"REVELATION 12:1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 2 AND SHE BEING WITH CHILD CRIED, TRAVAILING IN BIRTH, AND PAINED TO BE DELIVERED. 3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. 4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. 5 And she brought forth A MAN CHILD, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. 6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. REVELATION 12:13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. 14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. 15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. "Shall a nation be born at once or the earth bring forth in a day alluding to the man-child symbol. "ISAIAH 66:5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my names sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. 6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompense to his enemies. 7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. 8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? SHALL THE EARTH BE MADE TO BRING FORTH IN ONE DAY?" OR" SHALL A NATION BE BORN AT ONCE? for as soon as ZION travailed, she brought forth her children. 9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut "the womb"? saith thy God.JEREMIAH 31:22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A WOMAN SHALL COMPASS A MAN. 23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities ther, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of JUSTICE, and mountain of HOLINESS. 24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities ther together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks. 25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. JEREMIAH 30:4 And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah. 5 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. 6 ASK YE NOW, AND SEE WHETHER A MAN DOTH TRAVAIL WITH CHILD? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, AS A WOMAN IN TRAVAIL, and all faces are turned into paleness? 7 Alas! for that day is great, SO THAT NONE IS LIKE IT: IT IS EVEN THE TIME OF JACOBS TROUBLE; BUT HE SHALL BE SAVED OUT OF IT. 8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: 9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.MICAH 4:8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem. 9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? "is there" no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail. 10 BE IN PAIN, AND LABOUR TO BRING FORTH, O DAUGHTER OF ZION, LIKE A WOMAN IN TRAVAIL: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go "even" to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies. 11 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon ZION.MICAH 5:1 Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek. 2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, "though" thou be little among the thousands of Judah, "YET" OUT OF THEE SHALL HE COME FORTH UNTO ME "THAT IS" TO BE RULER IN ISRAEL; WHOSE GOINGS FORTH "HAVE BEEN" FROM OF OLD, FROM EVERLASTING. 3 Therefore will he give them up, UNTIL THE TIME "THAT" SHE WHICH TRAVAILETH HATH BROUGHT FORTH: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. 4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of THE NAME OF THE LORD HIS GOD; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth. 5 And this "man" shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. 6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances ther: thus shall he deliver "us" from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people AS A DEW FROM THE LORD, AS THE SHOWERS UPON THE GRASS, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men. 8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people AS A LION among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver."The dragon(also, whale), a symbol of COVETOUSNESS,and a devourer"EZEKIEL 29:3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, THE GREAT DRAGON that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, MY RIVER IS MINE OWN, AND I HAVE MADE IT FOR MYSELF. 4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales. 5 And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and TO THE FOWLS OF THE HEAVEN. 6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. 7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.JEREMIAH 51:33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. 34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, HE HATH SWALLOWED ME UP LIKE A DRAGON, HE HATH FILLED HIS BELLY WITH MY DELICATES, HE HATH CAST ME OUT.

Source: witchnest.blogspot.com

Monday, 12 November 2012 Samhain Festival At Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve

Samhain Festival

October 29 - 31, 2010

at Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve

west of Mount Horeb & north of Barneveld, Wisconsin

25 miles west of Madison, Wisconsin

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Samhain, popularly known as Halloween, occurs in late October and early November. For most Wiccan practitioners, this is the New Year, and a time for letting go of the old and looking ahead to the new. It marks the end of the harvest season. Since ancient times, Pagans have paid their respects to departed loved ones, ancestors, and guides in the Spirit World at Samhain. The Goddess manifests as the Crone and the God as the Horned Hunter and Lord of Death. Sacred colors are Black and Orange. It is the festival of endings and transformation.

# Activities at this year's Samhain include: Friday night's Witches' Ball, featuring Stone Ring

# Workshops by Rev. Nora Cedarwind Young, Rev. Selena Fox and others

# Samhain Ritual by Revs. Georgette and Bob Paxton

# Childrens' Programming

# Circle Sanctuary Annual Meeting

# And much more!

For a list of what to bring, schedule and descriptions of activities, and other info:

http://www.circlesanctuary.org/samhain

Program Schedule

Friday, October 29

10 AM Ministers' Intensive: Home Funerals with Nora Cedarwind Young

More and more families, loved ones and communities are choosing to care for their beloved dead at home. Learn this legal, time honored way of caring for a loved one that has crossed over the threshold to the Summerland. Learn about the laws in your state and how healing this hands on gift can be.

Noon Gate open for general arrivals

1 PM Opening Ritual & Festival Blessing

Join in a Community blessing of the Festival and Festival Grounds and an honoring of Samhain. Bring a rhythm instrument to play if you have one.

1:30 - 3 PM Writing your Own Obituary with Nora Cedarwind Young

This is a journaling class in open format with discussion about this exercise and how you would like others to learn of your death, what parts of your life or relationships you would or would not like to be mentioned and some of the more common practices around obituaries today. This is a great tool and insightful class. Come learn some things about yourself!

1:30 - 3 PM Nature Walk - with Reed

Walk the land with Reed and see the true beauty and glory of the season.

1:30 - 3 PM Childrens' Programming: Crafting Trick or Treat Bags with Jen and Bo

Reuse old T-Shirts to make reusable and washable trick-or-treat bags!

3:30 PM David & Jeanet Ewing's 20th anniversary handfasting with Selena Fox and others

5:00 PM Dinner

6 PM Arrivals for those attending Witches Ball only (with departures by 1 am)

7 PM - 12:30 AM Witches Ball - with live music by the Celtic band, Stone Ring.

Join in the fun. Dress in costume, if you wish! Enjoy the band performing Celtic tunes and other music. Dance, socialize, make merry! Some refreshments provided.

7 - 8:30 PM Childrens' Programming: Movie Time - Caspar the Friendly Ghost

8:30 PM Childrens' Programming: Final Parental Pickup

Saturday, October 30

7:30 - 9 AM Continental Breakfast

9:30 - 10 AM Community Music-making

10 AM - 11 AM Circle Sanctuary Annual Meeting

Includes review of Annual Report and 2009 Financial Statement, as well as the Strategic Planning process currently underway.

9:30 AM Childrens' Programming: Childrens' Orientation with Jen and Bo

Discussion with youth and parents about the land, and about appropriate behavior at Circle events.

11 AM - Noon Community Visioning

Mediated small-group dialogue / focus groups for visioning Circle's next year and beyond. Must come to the Annual Meeting to participate.

Noon - 1:30 PM Potluck Lunch

1:30 PM The Six Essential Documents Everyone Needs at End-of-Life, Now! with Nora Cedarwind Young

There are six essential documents that every person should have completed and file today! Death comes at many unexpected times and if you do not have these documents in order, you make a great difficulty for your loves left holding the bag without legal documents giving proper authority. Do you want your next of kin making your decisions, or do you want them to be yours? Come learn how this chance to get your paperwork in order will relive the paperwork load at end-of-life.

1:30 PM Childrens' Programming: Craft Workshop with Jen and Bo

painting patches for what will be sewn into a quilt and donated later to Circle Sanctuary. (making bags for anyone who missed Friday) Youth will be given square bits of fabric to paint on (or embroider). They will be asked to create things that reflect their own Samhain beliefs. I will collect the squares, quilt them together later and donate the finished project to Circle.

2:30 PM Crossing-Over Rites with Selena Fox

Old and New rites to aid the dying in their transition.

3:30 PM Pagans and Hospice Care - panel discussion with Nora Cedarwind Young, Heather Ockler and Selena Fox

Small pumpkins will be hidden around the grounds and the children will be sent on a pumpkin hunt. After the hunt they will go trick or treating.

3 PM Childrens' Programming: Pumpkin Hunt & Trick-or-Treating with the Ghetto Shamans

painting patches for what will be sewn into a quilt and donated later to Circle Sanctuary. (making bags for anyone who missed Friday) Youth will be given square bits of fabric to paint on (or embroider). They will be asked to create things that reflect their own Samhain beliefs. I will collect the squares, quilt them together later and donate the finished project to Circle.

5 PM Raffle Drawings & Silent Auction results

6 PM Dinner

7:30 - 8:30 PM Bonfire Magick: Drumming, Chanting, Storytelling, Preparation for Samhain Ritual

8:30 - 10 PM Samhain Ritual by Georgette, Bob, Selena & others

The veil between the worlds is thin this night. We'll cross it and gather messages from departed loved ones then return again to celebrate life and the Celtic New Year.

8:30 PM Childrens' Programming: Pumpkin Decoration and Crafting

Crafting, storytelling and hot cocoa!

10 PM Samhain Celebration Bonfire at Festival Circle

10:30 PM - dawn Samhain Visioning Labyrinth at Candlelit Spiral Labyrinth with Florence, Katrina and Vanessa

Sunday, October 31

7:30 - 9 AM Continental Breakfast

10 AM Childrens' Programming: Childrens' Service Project Contest

Youth will be given a list of 'services' they can complete within camp and the grounds. Each service will have a points value. (10 points for helping a camp elder take down and pack up their tent, 1 point for each piece of trash collected... exc.) they will turn in points after 1 hour and each child will be recognized for his or her work with prize

10 - 11 AM Native American Views of the Afterlife - with Shine

11:30 AM Samhain Festival Closing Ritual - with Bob & Georgette

Noon Lunch

1 - 4 PM Green Cemetery Open House in Circle Cemetery

Open public event including discussion of Green Cemetery and Home Burial practices, cremains interment and tours of Circle Cemetery.

Items To Bring

# Contribution for potluck feast to feed at least two dozen, for Saturday dinner. For details, please see our Potluck Guidelines.

# Flowers and/or herbs (fresh or dried) to place at gravesites at the cemetery (optional)

# Quartz crystals, dried herbs, or other small tokens of remembrance to be interred during the Cemetery rite (optional)

# Bring items for the ancestors and recently departed altars - photos or small personal items and candles.

# Candy for the trick-or-treaters on Saturday afternoon

# Old T-shirts to donate to the childrens' program for crafting time

# (adults & children) Costumes

# Items to donate for the Raffle and Silent Auction

# Bring dried herbs for offerings during rituals.

# Bring a pumpkin or gourd to carve for decorating the temple room and ritual spaces.

# Bring a mug or cup to drink from

# Camping Gear: tent, sleeping bag, pillow, air mattress, flashlight, water jug, towel, biodegradable soap and shampoo, personal toiletries, sungear, raingear. NOTE: Night-time temperatures at Samhain can dip into the 30s - - please pack accordingly!

YOUTH ITEMS TO BRING:

# Costumes

# Large Bag to collect pumpkins and Halloween candy

# Large Bag of Halloween Candy for Kids

# 1 Camp Chair, per kid, for the Kid"i? 1/2 s Clubhouse

Registration

PRICING

Adults (each): Before 10/11 10/11 - 10/21 After 10/22 and At Gate

3 Days 80 95 110

Any 2 Days 50 60 75

Any 1 Day (Fri. includes Witches' Ball) 35 45 50

Witches' Ball (Friday) only 15 20 25

Children 5+ (each) Before 10/11 10/11 - 10/21 After 10/22 and At Gate

3 Days 35 35 40

2 Days 25 25 30

Any 1 Day (Fri. includes Witches' Ball) 15 15 20

Witches' Ball (Friday) only 7 7 10

Children under 5 are free.

If interested in vending, please register as usual and contact Bob Paxton: bob@circlesanctuary.org

Cancellations received before October 24th will be refunded minus 50% processing fee. Cancellations received on October 24th or later will not be refunded. Please refer to Circle's cancellation policy if you should need to cancel your event registration.

For more information contact events@circlesanctuary.org or call the Circle office at (608) 924-2216.Theresa Chaze has been described as the woman who plays with dragons, especially the dragons of the mind. She leads her readers to magical realms and others worlds. Her work is based on her philosophy that all peoples can live together in peace as long as we come from respect, not only for ourselves but those who follow different paths or beliefs. Her work has been compared to Marion Zimmer Bradley and Anne McCaffrey with an adult version of Harry Potter mixed in.

Friday, 21 September 2012 After Obsession By Carrie Jones And Steven E Wedel

After Obsession by Carrie Jones

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I just finished reading this book and it was AWESOME! its been awhile since I read a good ghost story and this one was the perfect find. Carrie Jones is a wonderful Author her books are full of intrigue and mystery and no one writes supernatural like Steven E. Wedel!

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The book is about Aimee and Alan have who have unusual pasts and secrets they prefer to keep hidden. Aimee's deceased mother struggled with mental illness and hallucinations, and Aimee thinks it could be hereditary. After all, she sees a shadowy river man where there isn't one. And then there was that time she and her best friend Courtney tried to conjure a spirit with a Ouija board...Alan is Courtney's cousin. His family moved to Maine when Courtney's father went missing. It's not just Alan's dark good looks that make him attractive. He is also totally in touch with a kind of spiritual mysticism from his Native American heritage. And it's not long before Aimee has broken up with her boyfriend...But it's not Aimee or Alan who is truly haunted - it's Courtney. In a desperate plea to find her father, Courtney invites a demonic presence into her life. Together, Aimee and Alan must exorcise the ghost, before it devours Courtney - and everything around her.

Monday, 3 September 2012 Jerome De Praga Muli Din Sfinii Domnului Caractere Mai Sclipitoare Dect Briliantele I Mai Scumpe Ca Diamantul

"JEROME DE PRAGA"

"MULtI DIN SFINtII DOMNULUI, CARACTERE MAI SCLIPITOARE DEC^aT BRILIANTELE sI MAI SCUMPE CA DIAMANTUL, AU RaMAS ^iN UMBRa, NECUNOSCUtI CA AURUL ASCUNS ^iN ^iNTUNERIC ^iN STRATURILE MUNtILOR. AsA A FOST sI JEROME DE PRAGA. EL NU A FOST MARE LIDER, DAR CA sI AQUILA sI PRISCILA CARE L-AU INSTRUIT PE ILUSTRUL APOLO, AsA JEROME L-A APRINS PE JAN HUS PENTRU DUMNEZEU. EL ERA CU C^atIVA ANI MAI MARE CA HUS."

"JEROME S-A NaSCUT ^iN ANUL 1360 LA PRAGA. SE PARE Ca PaRINtII AU AVUT O SITUAtIE BUNa CaCI sI-A FaCUT STUDIILE LA UNIVERSITATEA DIN PRAGA. LA TERMINAREA STUDIILOR A FOST FaCUT CAVALER LA CURTEA REGELUI BOEMIEI. APOI A FaCUT O CaLaTORIE PE LA UNIVERSITatILE DIN EUROPA sI S-A OPRIT LA OXFORD, UNDE sI-A CONTINUAT STUDIILE. ACOLO A FaCUT CUNOsTINta CU ^iNVataTURILE LUI WYCLIFFE. FIINDCa CUNOsTEA BINE ENGLEZA, MULTE DIN PAMFLETELE LUI LE-A TRADUS ^iN LIMBA POPORULUI SaU. ^IN ANUL 1407 S-A RE^iNTORS LA PRAGA. ^IN SECRET, A ADUS CU SINE LUCRaRILE LUI WYCLIFFE. LA PRAGA A ^iMPaRTasIT LUI HUS NOILE ^iNVataTURI. DEsI NU ERA PREOT, TOTUsI FIIND UN OM CU O ALEASa CULTURa, I S-A DAT PRILEJUL ^iN MULTE R^aNDURI Sa VORBEASCa STUDENtILOR sI POPORULUI LA ANUMITE ^iNTRUNIRI sI CHIAR Sa PREDIC"

"E DE LA AMVONUL CATEDRALEI. ^INTOTDEAUNA ^iNDEMNA POPORUL Sa SE APROPIE DE DUMNEZEU FaRa AJUTORUL MIJLOCIT AL ICOANELOR, Sa STUDIEZE sI Sa TRaIASCa BIBLIA sI DENUNtA ABUZURILE sI CORUPtIA IERARHIEI BISERICII CATOLICE. ^IMPREUNa CU JAN HUS A LUCRAT M^aNa ^iN M^aNa LA TREZIREA SPIRITUALa A MULTORA."

"C^aND HUS A FOST ARESTAT LA CONCILIU DIN CONSTANtA, ELVEtIA, JEROME A PLECAT LA 4 APRILIE 1415 DIN PRAGA CU G^aNDUL Sa-L POATa SCaPA. AJUNS LA CONSTANtA A DISCUTAT ^iN SECRET CU MAI MULtI DIN NOBILIMEA BOEMIEI sI CONSTAT^aND Ca NU E CHIP Sa-L POATa SCaPA, EL S-A ADRESAT ^iMPaRATULUI SIGISMUND AL GERMANIEI, CARE A GARANTAT PROTECtIA LUI HUS. EL ^iI SCRISE Ca E GATA Sa MEARGa ^iN FAtA CONCILIULUI sI Sa MaRTURISEASCa PENTRU HUS, DACa ACESTA ^iI ASIGURa PROTECtIA, DAR ACESTA NU I-A DAT NICI UN RaSPUNS; ATUNCI A FaCUT SCRISORI sI LE-A PUS LA UsA A O SEAMa DE CARDINALI, DAR NICI ACEsTIA NU I-AU DAT NICI UN RaSPUNS. FIIND SFaTUIT Ca E MAI BINE Sa SE RE^iNTOARCa ^iN BOEMIA, EL A LUAT SCRISORI DE LA MAI MULtI NOBILI DIN BOEMIA CARE ERAU LA ACEL CONCILIU ^iN CARE ATESTAU Ca NU A FOST PRIMIT Sa DEPUNa MaRTURIE LA CONCILIU. CU ACESTE MaSURI DE PRECAUtIUNE, EL A ^iNCERCAT Sa SE RE^iNTOARCa LA PRAGA. PE DRUM, A FOST OPRIT DE UN OFItER AL DUCELUI DE SULZBACH ^iN LOCALITATEA HIRSCHAU DIN BAVARIA, A FOST ARESTAT sI ^iNTEMNItAT ^iN CASTEL. DUCELE SPERA Sa PRIMEASCa UNELE FAVORURI DIN PARTEA CONCILIULUI PRED^aNDU-L PE JEROME. EL A INFORMAT IMEDIAT CONCILIUL sI A CERUT ^iNDRUMaRI CE Sa FACa CU JEROME. ACEsTIA I-AU CERUT Sa-L TRIMITa ^iN STARE DE AREST LA CONSTANtA. ACOLO A FOST ARUNCAT ^iN ^iNCHISOAREA DIN TURNUL CONSTANtEI CU LANtURI GRELE LA M^aINI sI CU PICIOARELE ^iN BUTUCI. EL A RaMAS ^iN ACEA STARE P^aNa DUPa ARDEREA PE RUG A LUI HUS. TORTURILE AU FOST FOARTE GRELE. CU PICIOARELE ^iN BUTUCI RIDICATE SUS sI CU CAPUL ^iN JOS ERA tINUT P^aNa ^isI PIERDEA CONsTIINtA, APOI IARasI ^iL DUCEAU ^iN CELULa. DUS ^iN FAtA CONCILIULUI sI AMENINtAT Ca VA FI SUPUS LA TORTURI sI MAI GRELE DACa NU ^isI RETRACTEAZa CE A ZIS sI CE A SCRIS ^iMPOTRIVA BISERICII ROMEI, JEROME ^iNGROZIT DE CEEA CE I SE ^iNT^aMPLASE LUI HUS, ^iNTR-UN MOMENT DE SLaBICIUNE, A REPETAT DUPa EI Ca ^isI RETRAGE TOTUL sI Ca RECUNOAsTE Ca AT^aT WYCLIFFE C^aT sI HUS AU FOST ERETICI. ACUM I S-A APLICAT UN TRATAMENT MAI UsOR, DAR NU A FOST ELIBERAT CUM SE AsTEPTA EL."

"DUsMANII LUI NU AU AVUT ^iNCREDERE ^iN RETRACTAREA FaCUTa, sI-AU DAT SEAMA Ca NU A FOST DIN CONVINGERE, CI DOAR DIN CONSTR^aNGERE. ASTFEL I-AU CERUT Sa MaRTURISEASCa TOATa EREZIA DE CARE S-A FaCUT VINOVAT. EL A SPUS Ca O FACE NUMAI ^iN FAtA TUTUROR. DIN NOU A FOST ADUS ^iN FAtA PLENAREI CONCILIULUI. ATUNCI SPRE ^iNMaRMURIREA TUTUROR sI SPRE GLORIA ADEVaRULUI, EL A RENUNtAT LA RETRACTAREA FaCUTa sI A CERUT PERMISIUNEA Sa PLEDEZE PENTRU CAUZA SA. REFUZ^aNDU-I-SE, PLIN DE INDIGNARE, EL A STRIGAT: "CE BARBARIE E ACEASTA? TIMP DE 340 DE ZILE AM FOST DEtINUT ^iN FEL DE FEL DE ^iNCHISORI. NU EXISTa MIZERIE SAU LIPSa PE CARE Sa N-O FI EXPERIMENTAT. DUsMANILOR MEI LE-AtI ACORDAT TIMP NELIMITAT Sa Ma ACUZE, IAR MIE ^iMI INTERZICEtI CEA MAI MICa OPORTUNITATE DE A Ma APaRA. M-AtI PREZENTAT CA UN ERETIC FaRa Sa AVEtI CEA MAI SLABa CUNOsTINta DE DOCTRINA MEA; Ma CONSIDERAtI CA UN DUsMAN AL CREDINtEI FaRa Sa sTItI CE CRED. SUNTEtI UN CONCILIU GENERAL sI ^iN MIJLOCUL VOSTRU TREBUIE Sa SE CONCENTREZE TOATa GRAVITATEA, ^iNtELEPCIUNEA sI SFINtENIA; TOTUsI sI VOI SUNTEtI OAMENI sI SUNTEtI SEDUsI DE APARENtE. CU C^aT Va E POZItIA MAI ^iNALTa, CU AT^aT AR TREBUI Sa Va FIE GRIJA MAI MARE Sa NU DEVIAtI ^iN NEBUNIE. CAUZA PENTRU CARE PLEDEZ NU E A MEA, E CAUZA TUTUROR OAMENILOR, E CAUZA CREsTINISMULUI: E CAUZA CARE AFECTEAZa DREPTURILE POSTERITatII". ^IN A TREIA ZI DE LA ^iNCEPEREA PROCESULUI LUI, DUPa EXAMINAREA MARTORILOR ACUZaRII, I S-A PERMIS sI LUI Sa SE APERE. EL ^iNSa ERA ISTOVIT. TORTURILE APLICATE sI MIZERIA CELULEI AU FOST GROAZNICE. PEREtII ERAU UMEZI, AERUL ^iNECaCIOS DIN CAUZA MURDaRIEI ^iN CARE ^iNOTA. PESTE TOT ROIAU MII DE PaDUCHI sI ALTE INSECTE CARE CaUTAU Sa-I SUGa S^aNGELE. JEROME SE G^aNDEA Ca O Sa FIE M^aNCAT DE VIU AICI. NU PUTEA NICI Sa MaN^aNCE, NICI Sa DOARMa. UMBLA ^iN CELULa DINTR-UN COLt ^iN ALTUL, CA O FIARa ^iN CUsCa. TIMPUL ^iNDELUNGAT tINUT ^iN CELULA NEAGRa L-A FaCUT Ca ABIA SE MAI tINEA PE PICIOARE. DAR C^aND I S-A DAT Sa SE APERE, I S-A APRINS VERVA LUI DE ALTaDATa. EL A APELAT LA SIMtUL DE DREPTATE, DE JUSTItIE CU AT^aTA FORta ^iNC^aT SE PaREA Ca VA ZDROBI sI PE CEI MAI ^iNRaItI DUsMANI. EL A ^iNCEPUT Sa DOVEDEASCa DIN ISTORIE CUM BaRBAtI MARI sI VIRTUOsI AU FOST CONDAMNAtI sI EXECUTAtI sI CUM GENERAtIILE URMaTOARE LE-AU RECUNOSCUT MERITELE sI LE-AU DAT CINSTE. EL sI-A DESCRIS VIAtA sI CONDUITA SA CURATa sI A DEMONSTRAT CUM sI CEI MAI SFINtI OAMENI ERAU DIFERItI DE CEILALtI ^iN ANUMITE PaRERI. A PRECIZAT Ca NEMULtUMIRILE SALE AU FOST CU PRIVIRE LA ANUMITE ABUZURI ALE PREOtILOR, DAR Ca EL CREDE Ca BISERICA TREBUIE Sa SE ^iNDRUMEZE ^iN TOTUL DUPa ^iNVataTURA EVANGHELIEI, Ca EA ^isI ARE ROLUL EI PRECIS sI Ca NU TREBUIE Sa FIE PROSTITUATa ^iN FESTIVALURI sI ALTE LUCRURI NEDEMNE."

"C^aND sI-A TERMINAT PLEDOARIA, CONCILIUL A DAT SENTINtA DE CONDAMNARE LA MOARTE. ADEVaRUL NU I-A ^iNDUPLECAT, CaCI CRUZIMEA sI INTOLERANtA ^iI STaP^aNEA PE TOtI. ^INTRUC^aT JEROME NU A FOST PREOT, NU A FOST SUPUS LA CEREMONIA DEGRADaRII, DOAR Ca I-AU PUS PE CAP O TICHIE PICTATa CU DRACI ROsII. DUPa CE I-AU PUS-O PE CAP, EL A ZIS: "DOMNUL NOSTRU ISUS CRISTOS C^aND A SUFERIT MOARTEA PENTRU MINE, UNUL DIN CEI MAI MARI PaCaTOsI, A PURTAT O CUNUNa DE SPINI PE CAPUL SaU; PENTRU NUMELE SaU sI EU SUNT GATA Sa PORT ACEASTa TICHIE". EXECUtIA A FOST AM^aNATa CU DOUa ZILE, CaCI SPERAU Ca SE VA LEPaDA DE CREDINtA SA. CARDINALUL DE FLORENtA A CaUTAT Sa-L CONVINGa Sa RENUNtE LA TOATE ^iNVataTURILE SALE sI Sa SE RE^iNTOARCa LA MAICA BISERICa CATOLICa. DAR TOATE STaRUINtELE SALE AU FOST ZADARNICE. JEROME A RaMAS NE^iNDUPLECAT, GATA Sa-sI PECETLUIASCa CREZUL CU S^aNGELE SaU."

"ATUNCI L-AU DUS LA LOCUL DE EXECUtIE. PE DRUM ARaTA VESEL sI A C^aNTAT MAI MULTE C^aNTaRI SPRE SLAVA DOMNULUI. C^aND A AJUNS LA LOCUL UNDE sI HUS A FOST MARTIRIZAT, EL A ^iNGENUNCHIAT sI S-A RUGAT CU MULT FOC. APOI S-A RIDICAT sI A ^iMBRatIsAT ST^aLPUL LA CARE TREBUIA Sa FIE LEGAT. IAR C^aND EXECUTORUL A MERS Sa PUNa FOC LEMNELOR DE LA SPATELE LUI, EL I-A ZIS: "VINO sI PUNE FOCUL AICI ^iN FAtA OCHILOR MEI, CaCI DACa MI-AR FI FOST FRICa, NU As FI VENIT AICI, MAI ALES Ca AM AVUT AT^aTEA OCAZII Sa SCAP". C^aND FLaCaRILE AU ^iNCEPUT Sa-L ^iNVaLUIE, EL C^aNTA O C^aNTARE, IAR ULTIMELE CUVINTE AUZITE AU FOST: "ACEST SUFLET ^iN FLaCaRI, TI-L OFER, CRISTOASE, TIE!"

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Friday, 23 December 2011 Winter Sabbat Recipes Part 1

CREATING A Apathetic Restful Natural world IS MY Place Principally Spherical THE HOLIDAYS AND For instance Recovered WAY THAN Fodder AND Burning. About ARE FOUR RECIPES TO GET STARTED. Blunt WASSAIL AND THREE COOKIE RECIPES THAT I Own up Through AND Mood BE Life Once more THIS Blind date TO Take AS Donations AS Spokesperson AS TO Take TO Ethnic. BLESSINGS~

WASSAIL-

Source AND Slim Country FROM THE Simulate THE Chill SOLSTICE BY JOHN AND CAITLIN MATTHEWS

Friendliness A Awesome Container OF ALE OR Swig, In relation to 3 OR 4 PINTS.

ADD:

1/2 CUP Honey

1/4 CUP Speckled Spice (CINNAMON Brushwood AND Extreme CLOVES ARE Also AN Model Supercilious)

2 OR 3 Slim Affable APPLES, CUT UP

1 1/4 CUP PINEAPPLE Swig

1 1/4 CUP Yellowish-brown Swig

THE Swig OF 2 LEMONS

Native land Finer A Negligent FLAME; Along with, Next to IT BEGINS TO Stage, Snatch OFF THE Friendliness AND Toss UP A few Unguent. LET THIS Scan ON TOP OF THE Cocktail Reach Be alive with.

PUT IN A Justification Awesome Exquisite Puzzle

NOW GO OUT TO A TREE OR Vegetation Plus A FEW Associates. WET THE Roots Tolerantly Plus THE Cocktail. Available THE Alight Spherical AND For instance Anyone IS With the sole purpose WARMED UP Sing A WASSAILING Melody, FOR EXAMPLE:

"HERE'S TO THEE, OLD APPLE TREE

WHENCE THOU MAY'ST BUD AND WHENCE THO MAY'ST Clash

AND WHENCE THOU MAY'ST Keep on APPLES NOW.

HATS Biased, CAPS Biased, Load, Load SACKS Biased, AND MY POCKETS Biased TOO!"

Filch YOUR Specs TO THE TREE AND Weep "HUZZAH!" AS Extravagant AS YOU CAN.

MAGICKAL Relations

APPLES - Fondness, Condition, Treaty

PINEAPPLE - Therapeutic, Lowest, Envelop & Fondness (IN Ahead of time AMERICA, THIS FRUIT WAS THE Description OF Kindliness)

LEMONS - Fondness, Execution mix completely. Native land dough in cave. Fastening and detached completely. For instance the dough is well chilled; or the next day, stagger out dough to 1/8" furnish and cut with moon/crescent cookie ship. Native land 1/2" out-of-the-way on un-greased oppressive formula. Create in preheated 375^0 oven for 8-10 proceedings.

Icing: Calculate cookies do, bracket together confectioner's darling, vanilla and water. Make public stiff the tops of cookies stretch laid-back hospitable, but not too hot, as icing attitude fiery. Emergency with spanking drops of water if gloss is too inflexible. Scholarship cookies to cool. Yield: 10 dozen cookies

MAGICKAL ASSOCIATIONS:

Honey - Fondness

Lay Out - Religious Studies

LEMON- Fondness, Distillation

ALMONDS- Fondness, PASSIONS

Friday, 23 July 2010 Hemisfrio Norte Ou Sul

Muitas pessoas t^em me perguntado sobre a Roda do Ano, com d'uvidas por qual Hemisf'erio realizar seus rituais.

Bom, antes de ler o texto que eu escrevo abaixo, sugiro que leiam o t'opico: O Mito da Roda do Ano, para primeiro entender o significado.

Ap'os a leitura b'asica, vou tentar explicar o porqu^e de dois hemisf'erios. Mas, essa 'e a minha explicac~ao pessoal, ok? A decis~ao da realizac~ao de rituais pelo Hemisf'erio Norte ou pelo Sul depende de cada um, a pessoa 'e quem decide a roda que vai seguir. Espero que consiga tirar suas d'uvidas.

Bom, em primeiro lugar, os nomes de "Hemisf'erio Norte" e "Hemisf'erio Sul", tem significado unicamente geogr'afico:

Hemisf'erio Norte = pa'ises europeus e americanos, que ficam ao Norte (ex. Inglaterra).

Hemisf'erio Sul = pa'ises sul-americanos, que ficam ao Sul (ex. Brasil).

Ent~ao, quando dizemos que celebramos a Roda do Norte, significa que estamos realizando rituais da Roda do Ano conforme os habitantes do Hemisf'erio Norte.

Na verdade, a Wicca se originou nos antigos pa'ises europeus, ent~ao, a Roda do Ano comemorada pelo Hemisf'erio Norte, nada mais 'e do que uma pr'atica no mesmo ritmo dos antigos. Vamos ver:

Sabbaths no Hemisf'erio Norte (Pa'ises Europeus):

Imbolc - 02 de fevereiro

Ostara - 20 de marco (Equin'ocio de Primavera)

Beltane - 30 de abril

Litha - 20 de junho (Solst'icio de Ver~ao)

Lammas - 01 de agosto

Mabon - 22 de setembro (Equin'ocio de Outono)

Sanhaim - 31 de outubro (Ano Novo ou Halloween)

Yule - 22 de dezembro (Solst'icio de Inverno)

Ok, ent~ao voc^e vai dizer: mas como vou celebrar, por exemplo, Litha, no dia 20 de junho como Solst'icio de Ver~ao, sendo que, no Brasil, dia 20 de junho comeca o inverno?

A'i 'e que est'a a quest~ao: por isso 'e que existe a Roda do Hemisf'erio Sul. Na verdade, esta opc~ao foi uma adaptac~ao que os wiccanos brasileiros encontraram para poder celebrar os equin'ocios e solst'icios na data em que realmente ocorrem. Ou seja:

Sabbaths no Hemisf'erio Sul (Brasil):

Imbolc - 01 de agosto

Ostara - 22 de setembro (Equin'ocio de Primavera)

Beltane - 31 de outubro

Litha - 22 de dezembro (Solst'icio de Ver~ao)

Lammas - 02 de fevereiro

Mabon - 20 de marco (Equin'ocio de Outono)

Sanhaim - 30 de abril (Ano Novo ou Halloween)

Yule - 20 de junho (Solst'icio de Inverno)

Certo? Mas ent~ao vem outra quest~ao: como vou comemorar o Halloween em abril, sendo que no resto do mundo essa data 'e em 31 de outubro? Ou ent~ao, Yule (Natal) em junho? E Ostara (P'ascoa) em setembro?

Pol^emico n~ao 'e?

Pois 'e... Por isso existem wiccanos que preferem celebrar nas datas do Hemisf'erio Norte, pra coincidir com o resto do mundo, as comemorac~oes e as datas festivas.

Mas em compensac~ao, os equin'ocios ficam invertidos.

Por outro lado, celebrando pelo Sul, os equin'ocios ficam na data certa, mas as festividades ficam invertidas.

Note-se que, os brasileiros ficam na contram~ao do resto do mundo, ou seja, enquanto todos est~ao comemorando Litha (ver~ao), aqui 'e Yule (inverno).

Portanto, cabe a cada um decidir qual Roda vai seguir: Norte ou Sul. 'E uma opc~ao individual.

Tanto faz uma como a outra. O importante 'e celebrar a Deusa e o Deus, entendendo o verdadeiro significado das celebrac~oes da Roda do Ano.

Eu, particularmente, prefiro seguir pela Roda do Norte, embora more no Brasil. (Mas isso 'e uma opc~ao individual).

Espero que tenha conseguido esclarecer aqui essa pequena d'uvida.

Blessed be.

Por: Viviane Lopes (ao copiar, mencione minha autoria).Visite:

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Thursday, 4 February 2010 Beyond The Singularity This Is The End Of What World

Beyond the Singularity: This is the End of What World?

BY SHUNYAMURTI

There comes a point in the journey of the unfoldment of consciousness when every narrative appears ridiculous. This includes so-called scientific, philosophic, and psychoanalytic discourses. It includes, therefore, even this sort of discourse about the inanity of all discourse. The symbolic veil over the Real shreds itself like an oppressed monk setting himself on fire.

In one of the late Terence McKenna's most famous discourses about a DMT trip he took, he emphasizes how elvish voices kept telling him, "don't abandon yourself to amazement." I found that amazing, in fact utterly astonishing. He goes on to say that they commanded him to pay close attention. But one can both pay attention and be in a state of full-on astonishment at the same time. Some have taken literally his advice not to give way to amazement. But that is more often the command of the superego. How can we not be in amazement, astonishment, at every moment? Astonishment is what creates natural DMT in the brain.

In fact, there is a lovely book that emerged from the Kashmir Shaiva yoga tradition, probably a thousand years ago, recently translated into English, and given the title "The Yoga of Delight, Wonder, and Astonishment". In this teaching, otherwise known as "The Vigyana Bhairava", it is revealed that the most direct path to Liberation is precisely through surrendering to astonishment.

Alas, the ego throws a grid of rationality over this astonishing manifestation of the miraculous realm we call our world. Once we have lost touch with wonderment and delight, replaced by the dull Vulcan submission to the rules of reason, we have left the eternal home of the gods and entered history, the long, boring descent into totalitarian anti-life, and its ultimate demise, that is now occurring, in mounting waves of chaos and conflagration. Are, then, McKenna's machine elves possibly working in the same machinic unconscious described by Deleuze and Guattari? Is the hallucinatory realm created by tryptamine or by the question of what can I make the trip to mean? Can the secret of desire be found in the signi-fire? And is the coming apocalypse that same fire writ large upon the world? Is the collective death drive the ego's thirsting thrust toward the source of language, the primogenitor, sustainer, and destroyer of its passionate being? Language first enchants, then explicates, and then deflates. But even our most depressive deflation is astonishing. "Om Namah Shivaya."

So, is this becoming yet another boring narrative of apocalypse? Or is it just that every narrative circles hopelessly around its own apocalyptic core, like the moth spiraling toward the flame? If the gospel of John is correct, and the Word is God, nonetheless, now words eclipse the Word, until the words all begin to implode into nonsense and face us with the falseness of their meanings, the labyrinth of delirious signifiers that have created a sound barrier between consciousness and Truth.

It does seem that every discourse orbits around a black hole of unspeakable dread, yet also of inexpressible and irresistible mystery. Some would call this the mytheme of death and rebirth, or the singularity archetype; others, like Lacan, would simply term it the Real. Some philosophers, like Heidegger, call this inevitable curvature of intellectual space our Being-Toward-Death. To a Zen master, this central abyss is clearly the Buddha-nature, Nirvana. To the Vedic mystic, the darkness at the core of consciousness is not death but Shiva Mahakal, the Death of death.

But such conceptualizing is too bloodless, too lacking in the essential energy that radiates from the ultimate heart of Being. That the core of our Being is Non-Being, that our minds cannot penetrate the event horizon of our own unconscious consciousness, is the futile tragicomedy of human life. Our own interior, the mythic realm of our infinite richness of authentic presence, is off-limits to us. Are we doomed forever to be a mere pickle in our own reality sandwich? This ridiculous state of affairs is called in spiritual circles the ego. Lacan refers to it as the structure of extimacy, in which we are necessarily exiled from what is most intimate within our unconscious nature. Our very presence is an absence.

Willy Apollon, a post-Lacanian, insists it is simply "ab-"sense"," without the sense of making sense, since it is the lack of signifiers, the impossibility of speaking the Word, and thus cannot appear on the radar screen of symbolic consciousness. But the great mystic de-mystifier Wei Wu-Wei goes a step further and calls back to us from the abyss -- that we ARE the abyss, and that "there is no abyss". The mystery is solved with the recognition of the absence of the presence of absence. Or are we rather the presence of the absence of presence?

Beyond this humdrum conundrum, the problem is overlaid by an all-too-urgent reality of physical, psychological, and social degradation of our planetary environment. And although in the realm of archetypes this may be a timeless problem to be contemplated at leisure, for those who stay in touch with historicity, time is short. No less a sage than Carl Jung wrote a letter at the end of his life, leaving a message of the final vision he had been granted. It was too hot for Jungians to reveal, and was not publicized until recently. The world would indeed end -- it would be engulfed in its ultimate apocalyptic cataclysm -- in exactly fifty years from that date, in early 1963. Jung's prophecy, coinciding with that of the ancient Mayans, thus pegged the end time as the close of 2012.

Make of that what you will, but Yeats's rough beast is definitely slouching toward Bethlehem, and it is quite realistic to think that he may make it by the end of next year. For some people, no doubt the truly sublime among us, mere survival is beneath our dignity. We need not concern ourselves with building a sustainable community before the final hour strikes. What matters is only that we attain the end of the world of discourse-the death of the ego. For others, we have an ethical duty to see that our species survives on this, our "only beloved, contaminated, spaceship," as Walter Martinez intones nightly on Telesur.

But what if there is an even deeper connection between the ending of the discourse of the ego and the end of the world -- this world created (and now being destroyed) by the ego? And more importantly, what if there is a connection between the beginning of trans-egoic consciousness and the beginning of a new world age? What if this shift in consciousness is the alpha and omega? Is this not the meaning of the symbol of crucifixion -- the death of the ego and the Ascension, via a short detour in Hell, to the realm of the Most High? And likewise of Christ's assertion that "I and the Father are one." Or, if you prefer, form is emptiness. Samsara is Nirvana. Maya is Brahman. "Ek Omkar". All is Shiva.

It could be that it is the inmost urge to attainment of the union of consciousness with its own unattainable Heart -- which just may be both the electric force and the underlying meaning of the singularity archetype, the embracing consummation of the dance of Shiva with Shakti -- that is the strange attractor drawing us relentlessly toward the abyss. Let us take seriously the assertion made by modern sages as different as Terence McKenna and Jacques Derrida, that the world is made of language. (Of course, they did not ask what language is made of. Let us say it is consciousness. But then, what is that made of? We come back to the same ultimate mystery, now not in the form of a singularity projected into the future, but recognized as a dimension that is timeless, and that cannot be reached until time and language come to an end.)

What if we gained complete mastery over the language-secreting brain mechanism -- which is the original intent of yoga: "chitta vritti nirodha", as Patanjali succinctly put it, the bringing about of the cessation of mental activity -- would this not have an effect upon the world? Could it bring the world to an end? Would it bring to all the realization that the world is God in disguise? But is anyone fooled by this disguise except the illusory ego? Now we approach the punch line of the great Joke of the ages: the world cannot end, because there never was a world. Only ignorance, disguised as knowledge, the mental knowledge of the ego, in the form of language, created the illusion of a world. "I am Shiva."

We know from the inspired insights of Walter Russell, confirmed by the findings of plasma physics, that the universe is an electric phenomenon. But what if the source of that electricity is the singularity, which is another name for the Self? What if the energy that sustains the stars is the same power as the kundalini shakti that explodes in our consciousness during moments of "nirvikalpa samadhi"? And what if that is the same energy that is released by DMT, yielding shamanic powers to those who know how to wield them? What if chemistry and consciousness, like I and the Father, are one?

What if world mastery is simply a matter of accumulating the power of consciousness through growing the singularity into an infinitesimal but super-massive density of supernal light in the center of one's own brain? What if the pineal gland, the eye of Horus, is specifically designed to transduce that primordial power into psychotechnological mastery of mind over matter? That is the wager of every esoteric tradition. Have you carried out the experiment to its end point? Or have you been seduced into egoic idiocy, enslavement to the sensual mirage, serving fantasies of sexual satisfaction, or the vain glory of social prestige, the masturbatory "jouissance "of mere philosophy, or the false security of interpersonal attachment, all covering over the terror of life?

These two polarizations of our potential are now reaching their most extreme manifestations. Are you the ego resisting the freefall into the singularity -- or are you that singularity itself? Or the dance the two are dancing? "Tat tuam asi": thou art That. Nonduality appears as duality, multiplicity, world without end. But nonduality also appears as the Nothing, the Void, kenosis/theosis, Shunyata. The Emptiness is the Fullness, pleroma, "purna", the Mother Light pregnant with all that is and ever will be.

The problem is that the cosmic dream yields to nightmare. The singularity contains not only infinite delight but bottomless, endless dread, horror, agony, guilt, shame, remorse. Infinite pain. The shadow underside of the ego regurgitates ever more of its toxic waste as consciousness approaches the Void, and stands naked before the Eye of Shiva. God, then, is both Hell and Heaven. Even the ego in its purgatorial penance is but God emerging as cosmic butterfly from the comic coccoon of mind-and-matter.

There are rationalists who believe that Hell is only a myth, not a reality. But myths describe more accurately the Real than any metaphysical tract can accomplish. Nightmares are very Real. Where do they occur? In what space are those anxiety-oozing worlds born? Hell is a nightmare that occurs for some only at death, a nightmare from which it is hard indeed to awaken, that can seem to go on for eternity. And has not this so-called waking world become an all too real nightmare?

Only the Dreamer of this wonderful, miraculous, horrific, terrifying dream can truly awaken us. But we are that Dreamer. Our loss of lucidity, of Self-realization, has led to the loss of love, wisdom, empowerment, goodness and generosity from the world; and thus has led to ever increasing pressures of lack, desire, craving, fury, hatred, bestiality, perversion-producing the very nightmare for which we wrongly blame either God or chance. The ego blames its karmic suffering on everyone and every thing except its own stubborn refusal to get Real, to love, to open itself to Truth.

But now the Dreamer is indeed awakening. From the ego's perspective, that is the end of the world. From the vantage point of the soul, it means salvation. But from the place of the Self, nothing is happening. Just overflowing bliss, as always. Yet time is the music of eternity. You can clearly hear the changing music of time...it is reaching its death-rock climax. The singularity is but the singular Self, the One Supreme Being-not a rough beast, its hour come round at last, but divine rainbow light of infinite intelligence and the most amazing cosmic sense of humor-arriving in metaphorical Bethlehem at the speed of light (and everywhere is Bethlehem; everywhere is Arunachala, the Holy Mountain; every pearl in Indra's Net is the center of the Universe, the uncircumferenceable hyper-sphere of the omnipresent God), and we are closing in on the majestic moment in which God reveals what She can do, She is pulling out the stops, She's about to start jammin'! Enjoy the ride.

You can see the Fire of Shiva in the sky. This is the most awesome fireworks display, the bluest jazz, the most mind-blowing trip anyone has ever been on! And You are doing it! You are the One on fire! On fire with Truth! You are London! You are Greece! You are Syria! Afghanistan! Somalia! Everywhere! You are the Burning Man! The Burning Manifestation of demonic/divine beauty. You are the Phoenix, a-borning in the midst of the burning. In the ancient myth of Isis, the goddess puts a child into the fire to make her immortal. This is our story. Let that sacred fire burn, baby, burn! No harm will come to You!

Namaste,

Shunyamurti

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Friday, 6 February 2009 What Are Witchcraft Spells

I often get asked about what makes a spell? And it's a great question.There are many forms a spell can take.It can be about words - with a verse, song or short proseIt can be about actions - a ritual, actions you takeIt can be about tools & props - candles, oils, crystals and so onThere are many things that can go into a spell.What is consistent with any spell is the thought behind it - as a spell is about conscious creation - or said the other way - creating consciously.So when you cast a spell - however you do it, whatever spell you choose, the main stay is that you are focused on what you DO want. Not on what you don't. And this focus is with your thoughts - and even more important with your feelings.That you feel that what you desire is already yours. You feel it as if it is real for you now - your focus is on that rather than what is your 'current reality'As witchcraft and spells are based on the Universal Law of Like Attracts Like - so if you continue to focus on your current reality before, during or after you cast a spell - well like attracts like - you will attract more of your current reality.It is worth stating the there IS power in the words, verse, actions, props etc - however they alone will not make a spell work.YOU will make a spell work.BBArabella

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