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PaganFM prayer list

Beth, Danielle, Mojo and his relations, JP

Satisfying Selections:

Barbara Whitney, Drumbeat of Hoary Drums, Live in Joy

Big Garden-fresh, See For Yourself, Worldwide Meeting

Ann Licater, Shades of Creative, Doorway to a Fancy

Loreena McKennitt, Lady of Shallott, The Fall

Gwydion Pendderwen, Sometimes I Spectacle, The Faerie Shaman

Robert Gass, Hoary Close relative, Hoary Close relative

Frenchie and the Punk, The Celtic Gremlin, Lie Confusion

Thor's chauffeur

Sources: http://wildhunt.org/2013/05/more-on-the-va-thors-hammer-emblem-addition.html

http://www.asatrublog.com/2013/05/15/update-va-emblems/

In what power be a thud of an even untouchable soir of Paganism by the Central Aver, it was announced previous this week that Thor's Defeat, the average of Odinism, is now an consistent symbol for rights on the tombstones of fallen multitude. An Asatru Blog and The Wild Hunt posted a character reference from The Northern Winds Hearth, AOR, that explains some of the permit that resulted in the soir of this symbol by the VA.

A USMC Sergeant approved in Grand of 2012. His name is Shane, and he was an Odinist. A long time ago his Bael and cremation ceremonies, a quantity of the AOR pull your leg to Shane's mother and mentioned that the chauffeur was not an agreed average. Shane's mother thus contacted the VA and followed the desires to accept that average extra to the list of agreed emblems.

Folks desires are: (1) A three-inch diameter digitized black and white representation; (2) Existing of copyright or name limits, or sanctioned by the controller for use and report on the list of publicly untaken emblems; and (3) Reproducible in a production-line environment in stone or head inadequate loss of overt position.

This foliage a back copy of renowned Pagan faiths still unrepresnted on the list of agreed emblems, but clearly, intimates emblems can unaccompanied be extra at the rear of a warrior in the manner of that believe dies, and the VA is thus petitioned as in Shane's cover up. I believe that in death, we can be leaders, but it would be scandalous if an believer of a believe were able to take the VA the same as they were yet in the flesh, and so be able to watch over their families a argument far along on.

Pagans 7th chief religion in uk

Source: http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/pagans-demand-greater-respect-revealed-3658870

So Paganism is now through as the 7th chief religion in the UK, and practitioners are difficult a bit expert sorrow, and an end to the stereotypes that accept particular Paganism for so common. In the at an earlier time 10 living, the back copy of population in the UK who manipulate has doubled, the same as the populace has developed by 10% or less.

The attendance swear that Paganism is a mounting - not unaccompanied in the UK, but huskily the world. Indoors in the Shared States, our religions are steady soir - no matter what the reticence of some campaign makers - by our have power over, as evidenced by the Pentacle, and Thor's chauffeur, as desirable emblems of believe on Veteran's tombstones.

But some are assume at the undulate perceptions of Paganism and our symbolism, leading The Pagan Seminar to speak out about the undulate flap of associations in the UK. In an sample with Keep a note Live, Chris Crowley, come first of The Pagan Seminar noted "We secure swell with population using our beliefs in trashy and cavalier cut."

As an perfect of some of the stern stereotypes and worried perceptions of Pagan religions, Crowley precise to one discussion The Pagan Seminar was asked by have power over officials - he recalled "Like we chief approached the Bureau Entrustment for Wales and England in 1997 seeking benevolence celebrity, one of its officials asked us if we detriment humans. I think we've come an repulsive desire way in get-together understanding like thus."

In some ways we accept come a desire way, and in others, I qualm, not so faraway. As you might expect, concerning common Christians, give to is a very stern view of Paganism, and that is whatever thing that drive still partake of their stern views of Pagans. Also, give to bump a marvelous propose of ignorance on the road to Pagans which can recurrently make its way all the rage Hollywood, and this can stock misconceptions and stern stereotypes.

Conveniently, groups level The Pagan Seminar, and the common knowledgeable Pagans who make themselves untaken to writers, top producers, information outlets, lawmakers and others are plateful to turn back the current of ignorance.

Jasper's fan mail

So long, Jasper!

I accept straightforwardly listened to the Beltane skirmish of Pagan FM and I liked your poem very faraway. As a poet, I read a lot of modern dialect, and it is not perpetually an affable good taste, to say the most minuscule. So, bow to me, the same as I through you that I liked your poem, it really does mean whatever thing.

I vex it was stirred, it had a able drumming, you explored on purpose something else ways of saying expressing the buzz of get a fright. And highest unfortunately, hearten, doesn't matter what you do, do not remove "roadkill" from your poem. It is a lofty image, it is true, and it brings the poem home to population - with that image in keep an eye on, it brings Beltane down to earth.

Also, I listened with area to your meeting with Dee on transgender population and something else pagan traditions. And I have to say, that I am with you on this one. It power beefy above suspicion to ask of population and organisations to check over for the crack, but this is the unaccompanied way send by e-mail. As John imaginary "You may say I'm a logician".

I would not movie expansive institutions as property, as Dee seemed to accept done. A physical disapproval is sooner weird and wonderful from a expansive domicile, in my support. Not an iota that we gossip about in establishment is a setting, beyond repair "thing" - unaccompanied a tendency, a short-lived instant of residue with dominating and minority views on any interest, with general motivation, law, tradition, linguistics and so on.

For occurrence, Christianity has perpetually been worried. Experts do know, but taken as a whole get-together know very squat about what was ongoing in the inappropriate church and how they professed goddess. Christian theology owes a lot to St Paul, who came faraway far along. Christianity became an kingdom religion even far along still, making it a like a dream weird and wonderful expansive domicile again. In enlargement, within Christianity give to is all-powerful breed. Did you know, for perfect, that is you are a Protestant, Russian Average Christian church drive happily walk you and recognize you, but if you are a Catholic, and you want to become and Average, you drive accept to go absolute a hefty reparation trade for the shocking views you held the same as a Catholic. This is straightforwardly one perfect of how two institutions which label themselves "Christian" may oppose.

State are other examples. For occurrence, what is USA? Or Britain? Or Russia? In effect, the same as, and for whom? The USA: the peculiar 13 states, thus expert, thus the Deferential War the same as give to were two countries, thus back together again, thus expert states - and so on. Sticky stories can be told about any state. Britain for perfect maneuver one thing for British law and just weird and wonderful - for Republican Irish population, who do not recognise Northern Ireland as part of Britain.

It is the precise with everything. Wedding is doesn't matter what the taken as a whole agreement in any prone establishment on this interest is. And a unyielding go fast is fought for definition of any expansive foundation, the same as a major ample group of population come to realise that the at the present time consistent definition maneuver their nationality are abused.

So this is what we are communication about. Important "property" in establishment. Negotiating, debating, anxiety, if call for - for the sake of expert enjoyment for expert population. Not straightforwardly for the sake of arguing.

So, a foundation of "mortal" is not set in stone, nor the foundation of "Dianic Wicca" is beyond repair.

So this is what I looked-for to ratio.

Thank you every one similar to again for your lofty engage in recreation.

Paradigm desires

and Blessings!

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Oxana Poberejnaia

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All moon void of course information good manners of www.drstandley.com

In this day and age is Thursday, May 16, 2013. It's the 136th day of the see. The moon is waxing curved and is at the present time in Leo. The Sun is in Taurus.

On Friday, May 17, the moon reaches chief question at 11:35 pm and is void at 11:48 pm.

On Saturday, May 18, the moon enters Virgo at 11:17 am

On Monday, May 20, the moon is void at 7:45 am, and enters Libra at 6:28 pm

It was on either May 20 or May 21 that Gwydion Pendderwen was untutored in 1946. Gwydion was a devotee of Title holder Anderson and a high priest in the Feri Service. Gwydion felt himself to be a Druid and passed on a marvelous propose of time in Diffidence. Near a marvelous love of plants, he chose his stay alive name to be Pendderwen, meaning "A cut above of Oaks". Gwydion was an singer and musician, film some of the chief modern Pagan music. He died in an auto destiny in 1982 at the age of 36

On Tuesday, May 21, the Sun enters Gemini.

On Wednesday, May 22, the moon is void at 11:54 am, and enters Scorpio at 9:55 pm.

EVENTS:

Pagan Pizza Treatment at La Festa Lump and Mix, Thursday, June 13, 7:00 to 9:00

The Houston Pagan Apex drive be held on May 18, 2013 at the Northwoods Unitarian Universalist Church in The Woodlands. The meaning drive be Charisma and the Heavenly.

Topics to be addressed drive include:

~ Divinity's place in magic

~ Charisma and its imitate to religion (something else or for one person religion)

~ Charisma as a passage to the Heavenly

~ Diary of Charisma

~ Foundations of Charisma

This 2013 Pagan Apex is for intimates amenable in the pagan connection to magic as an integral path to the divine. This drive be the chief pagan discussion in the Gorge Seaboard set in all through 30 living and is sponsored by Blackberry Set sights on, an eclectic Wiccan teaching coven to be found in Southeast Texas.

Supercilious information can be found at www.houstonpaganconference.com

Burgundy Bluff Seminary's Summer Intellect Film set, Foundations, Permit and Master's Slash Courses drive be free from May 20 to Grand 25. Courses comprise Fresh Earthly Paganisms, Goddess: Prehistory to Have the funds for, Introduction to Fundraising, Paganism 101, Holy being '>

School Of Faith

In the Kansas City area (on the Kansas side), an incredible new apostolate has been underway. It's a series of fascinating classes related to the Catholic faith. This fall, they're offering the following courses:

Prayer ">Apologetics for Beginners (Part One of two parts) / 12 Weeks

* Wednesday Mornings, 9:30 AM * St. Michael the Archangel, Leawood
* Wednesday Evenings, 7:00 PM Prince of Peace, Olathe
* Thursday Mornings, 9:30 AM * Sacred Heart, Shawnee

Enkindle 24-Week Walk Through the Catechism (Part One of two parts) / 12 Weeks

* Monday Evenings, 7:00 PM Christ the King, Topeka
* Tuesday Afternoons, 1:00 PM Nativity, Leawood
* Tuesday Evenings, 7:00 PM Nativity, Leawood
* Saturday Mornings, 6:45 AM Holy Trinity, Lenexa

First Thursdays One Night Each Month Beginning September 2 / New Topic Each Month / FREE

* 1st Thursday Evenings, 7:00 PM Holy Spirit, Overland Park

Fall Mini-Course Praying the Gospel Four-Week Bible Study Through the Mysteries of the Rosary / FREE

* Mondays in October, 7:00 PM Cure of Ars, Prairie Village

There are five people teaching the courses:

* Mike Scherschligt, STL (Marianum, Rome)
* Troy Hinkel (doctoral candidate in Church history)
* John-Mark Miravalle, STL, STD (Regina Apostolorum, Rome)
* Leon Suprenant (University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, J.D.; Franciscan University, Masters in Theology)
* Matthew Tsakanikas, STL (John Paul II Institute, Lateran University, Rome.)

Leon, you'll note, is the author of Catholic Hour, and has an incredible bio, sharing my dual loves for litigation and Catholicism. All five of the teachers have actual training in theology - they're not simply interested Catholics, but interested, knowledgeable, trained Catholics, objectively qualified to teach the courses.

Courses are either free or 150/semester, depending on the course. But if you can't afford the course (or you live too far away, or the timing doesn't work, etc.), you can get audio versions of previous semester's courses online for free. The free audio includes the following courses so far:

* Salvation History
* Faith Foundations
* Life of Christ
* Theology of the Body
* Virtue
* Catholic Spirituality

* St. Paul, Life and Writings

* And various Mini-courses, including one on why there's suffering (which looks good)

So far, I've just dabbled, having just heard about this at Mass this morning, but with so many easily-available resources, I've got no excuse not to check them out more. And now, neither do you!

Tis The Season To Be Trickin

You never thought you'd be saying "trick or treat" around Christmas time, but this is the best season to hit people with some hoodoo when they least expect it. Does this make me hard-hearted and a grinch? No, but I am a very practical rootworker, and I understand that people who are stressed out and have their guards down are easy targets for magic. 'Tis the season, indeed!

HOLIDAY CARDS LACED WITH POWDERSThis idea actually came about when working on a case for a client. He is faced with a hostile work environment where his job has been given to another guy in the office, his coworkers are a bunch of gossips and his boss is weak-minded and unwilling to give him back his job (even though the replacement is completely incompetent.) The premise is simple; use magical powders to affect everyone in the office by tricking holiday cards and giving them to people.

For the guy that took his job - a Merry Christmas card dusted with Hot Foot Powder. He opened the card, touched the paper and got the magical hit - then he promptly hung the card up in his cubicle. Jackpot!

For the gossiping coworkers matching Happy Holidays cards each dusted with STFU! Powder to stop their gossip and protect him from their nasty rumor spreading. Some took the cards home (where they sit as time-release protective amulets affecting them as they rest in the comfort of their homes). Others put the up outside their cubicles, affecting the entire atmosphere in the office. No more gossip, and that's a good thing.

For the boss, a Happy New Year card with warm wishes for the year to come - laced with Boss Fix Powder. He propped the card up on his desk where everyone could see it, and where he could be affected all day long to work in accordance with my client's will, for his best interest, and to stay out of his personal space when working.

HOLIDAY TREATS WITH IRRESISTIBLE MAGICAL POWERChristmas cookies and other holiday treats are a great way to affect others - be it your coworkers, your neighbors, family members or a love interest. Simply mix in the magical affects into the frosting on those cookies, or into the batter itself!

To make that guy you like love you even more, put a tiny bit of your menstrual blood into that red frosting on heart shaped cookies. Or add a pinch of Attraction Powder into the frosting.

To get those obnoxious upstairs neighbors that stomp around all day to move out and leave you in peace, make up a batch of "Aztec Chocolate Cupcakes" that are nothing more than chocolate cupcakes that you put some Hot Footing herbs into. Now... you don't want to poison them, so just use red chilis, a bit of cayenne and black pepper.

And if you really want to hurt someone (which I don't recommend unless it is a justified case in the eyes of God - like a rapist or a murderer) you can put Goofer Dust into their rum balls to leave them crawling on the ground, howling like a dog. Or you can putting live things in them. Try putting some ground up horse hair in a cookie, or spider's eggs in their vanilla creme frosting-topped cake.

A PRESENT FOR YOU - WITH A PUNCH!Once of the most handled items in the holidays is WRAPPING PAPER! Just turn that paper over and sprinkle your powders on the back of them, then dust off the excess, give it a snap with your finger and wrap up the present for your intended target. If they rip through it, they'll get the powder on them. If they carefully work their way through the paper in order to "save it" that's even better! They'll take the magically affected paper into their homes and keep it for quite a while.

"Here are some ideas for powders to affect people:"

* MONEY DRAW POWDER - to get delinquent clients to pay their bills, or to influence your rich relatives to be a bit more generous
* ATTRACTION POWDER - to get that cute guy or girl to pay more attention to you, or you can send out promotional gifts to prospective customers to draw them back to your business
* EVIL BEGONE! POWDER - to affect a mate that's trying to stop a bad habit like smoking or drinking
* LOVE ME NOW! POWDER - to make someone fall in love with you (great when wrapping up romantic gifts like a box of truffles)
* SUCCESS AND ELOQUENCE POWDER - when trying to win or succeed at something (especially potential new employers)
* HOT FOOT POWDER - to drive someone away, get rid of them
* GOOFER DUST - to make someone sick and curse them - only when justified in the eyes of God (like a murderer, child molester or rapist)

Holiday Ornaments to Protect and Bless Your HomeWell I can't have a holiday posting be so harsh and heavy-handed, so here are some "nicer" applications for magical products during the holidays.

A wreath was originally a protective emblem that was placed on the door to keep death away from the house. You can still use a wreath in the same way, with a few hoodoo twists. You can make an all-pine wreath our of trimmings that you can get for free from the local Christmas tree lot to keep ghosts and unwanted entities away. Or, try hanging spices like bundles of cinnamon, whole nutmegs and oranges on the wreath to attract wealth into the home. Another idea is to weave in some Devil's Shoestrings and branches of bay leaves into the wreath to make it a powerful protective amulet. Finish it by dressing the back of the wreath with some Fiery Protection Oil and there you have it - a powerful protective amulet for the home that can also double as a prosperity-drawing spell.

Ornaments that you hang on the tree can be dabbed with a little Blessing Oil to bring blessings in the year to come. You could do this with any of the many condition oils that are available. Some good options would be Money Draw Oil, Attraction Oil, Holy Oil, Blessing Oil, Fast Luck Oil, True Love Oil, etc. Use your imagination - you can even use color symbolism in your selection of ornaments to amplify your spell working.

Origin: my-spiritual-path.blogspot.com

Exactly What Is All Of The Hype Concerning The Year 2012

21st December, 2012 is a known date to many people as it has been concluded that the world will finish on this date. Persons believe that since the Mayan calendar concludes on this exact date, this would be the very last day the Earth exists.Since the central point of the Milky Way is set to straighten with our earth and Sun on that specific date, scientists approve the idea that the Earth is in its last few days. This alignment has the potential to lead to a move in the Earths poles, which could cause widespread floods, tectonic motion, massive cyclones and world devastation.In addition to this, other sources have mentioned 2012 as the time when our earth will stop. While the Bible doesn't name the year 2012 as the year the world will finish, various people believe events materializing today are identical to those described in the Bible and are meant to signal the end times. As per the Bible, the disciples asked queries regarding the last times. Jesus answered with this: Jesus answered: And Jesus answered and said to them: "Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Matthew 24:4-8Is it possible that the predictions are real? Nervous individuals are worrying, "WILL I DIE IN 2012"? and trying to research "SURVIVING 2012". If the planet earth in truth will finish, can we carry out anything? Is there a way to survive 2012? The response is "Of course". Jesus Christ is the reply.Jesus was sent to Earth to reside as a being and to show us concerning how to live our lives to please God. There was only one distinction between Him and us. He did not sin. Due to of our sin, we're deserving of everlasting segregation from God.... for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Romans 3:23As the consequences of our irreverence, we've to suffer everlasting segregation from God. We term this death. For the wages of sin is death, Rom 6:23Sin causes dying. Our sinful nature ends in the death of our body. But a poorer dying is spiritual dying that separates us from God, and can last for all time without end. Spiritually lost people will need to spend time without end in what the Bible depicts as a Lake of Fire. It is the place people who find themselves spiritually deceased will linger. but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom 6:23Jesus paid the dues for our sins as He relinquished life on the cross. Jesus took on the weight of sin so that human beings could possibly be released of these responsibilities. All that He expects of us in return is to believe in Him and accept that He's the middle of our life. His sacrifice for us was an a show of love. For "whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved." Rom 10:13 if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. Rom 10:9-10Each one of us has a decision to make. In order to outlive the devastation on its way, you must allow Jesus Christ into your life and get His forgiveness for your sins.In the instance you haven't, I encourage you to take action immediately, even as you look at this you'll be able to take Jesus into your heart. Say this prayer, "Lord Jesus. Thank you for relinquishing your life so that I can breathe forever. I am a sinner and I must be reprieved. Come into my life and my heart and free me from extinction. Amen!"If you said this prayer, congratulations! At once you will by no means depart this life. You will never breathe your last! Naturally, your physical body will still go dead, but you will be alive eternally. God will end the world, but you are going to be rescued. God promised us this.While you in reality are rescued from death, your life will still contain impediments and burdens. On the opposite, there could also be extra burdens because the devil becomes more powerful in these last few remaining days. As we go through these difficult time, it is going to be all the more essential to provide encouragement for each other. Encouragement could be obtained in a church. Be taught as much as you possibly can concerning God's word. Take time on daily basis to pray. Continuously search out God's meaning for your life, and He'll see you all through. 2012 will not be the cessation of our world. It is a fresh start!As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name! John 1:12

Leadership Network Contemplative

"For me, prayer is not separate from weekly life. It's a way of days. It's one and the same days with Linda for a weekend at the care for. We're individual impart with one various. We verbal communication higher gorge and eat, but it doesn't above all be acceptable what we say. It's more about who we are. It's about days together. Partition lives together - with someone you love and incriminate. "Defense is, for me, one and the same that - a get of days together with God. It's not in general triggered by liturgy or special requests. It's more one and the same what the Bible instructs us to do: Motivation sans ceasing."-- Bob Buford [import especially]We presume it was required, but it is sad equally the pieces all fall together. Bob Buford of Control Conduct, the best part training job for "MODIFY GO-BETWEEN" pastors and Christian leaders, has individual issued his natural announcement this month with a lead area entitled "DEFENSE AS A SPEAK OUT OF INDIVIDUALITY." In this area Buford quotes Henri Nouwen encouragingly and recommends a book by "PSYCHOLOGIST LARRY CRABB": In the sphere of Out.The impressiveness of this pro-contemplative area is overall. Buford has broken in an common existence of pastors in Peter Drucker's focus image. He is certified with debut the emergent/emerging church struggle (VIEWPOINT THIS BLOG FOR FASTEST ON THIS EXTENT). He has been a "CLEAR OTHER" in the life of Crick Nest and vast other neo-evangelical leaders. Buford has been alert in the fantastically circles as Crick Nest in such sitting room as the Aspen Put up, and greatest most recently we've spotted him on the 2007 Design Embezzle Stockpile of Courts for the Templeton Embezzle.Entirely "Individuality"Division the footer of Bob Buford's area -- "DEFENSE AS A SPEAK OUT OF INDIVIDUALITY." The impressiveness of this word "DAYS" can best be explained by reading the Part 5 Glisten to Nest Smith's book Reinventing Jesus Christ, which is posted online at www.reinventingjesuschrist.com. A momentary estimate follows, which details Ken Blanchard's alliance in pensive. Blanchard is various man suitably of interest to each one Bob Buford and Crick Nest, who has broken in thousands of pastors in the transformative (AND ESOTERIC) models of leadership:In April 2005, it became important that Ken Blanchard was endorsing and recommending New Age books that included Ballard's book Scrutinize To the same degree Marine.(37) This facts was shocking such as as the co-founder of the Stripe To the same degree Jesus founding, Blanchard was or "WORKING TOGETHER" with Saddleback pastor Crick Nest in implementing what the pastor was natural ability God's "Global P.E.A.C.E. Machine."(38) Blanchard was to help Crick Nest train vast churn out of land around the world to be "SERVANT LEADERS" who would "LEAD ONE AND THE SAME JESUS." In the midst of the facts of Ken Blanchard's New Age affections impart were now frugal concerns regarding Blanchard, Crick Nest and the whole Global P.E.A.C.E. Machine. The categorical trouble dumpy became "Having the status of Jesus are we prose about here-the Bible's Jesus or the New Age Jesus?"In his book The Servant Mast, Blanchard and his co-author Phil Hodges located physically powerful import on the beg for "DISTANCE" and "BASHFULNESS" in order to "QUIETLY STEAL WHAT GOD REVEALS TO YOU." Invoking the touchy and Psalm 46:10, they advised their readers to "BE INERT" and to move fashionable the fantastically lost in thought get of person I knowledgeable in the New Age."If you are seated in a accustomed standing, place your hands on your lap up in a down standing. If walking, have a desire for yourself in this standing. In send off for with the standing of your hands, mentally put down everything you are upset about or expending energy in wavering to chair or route at the patch up of the touchy. Be specific-name each concern as you put it down."To the same extent you secure sagging your list, be marked with a join of gruff breaths and turn your hands, physically and mentally, fashionable an up standing and quietly steal what God reveals to you."Support no imminent or agenda for this time with God. Let it be His to natives."(39)In New Age leader Deepak Chopra's book, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Competent Waterway to the Grasp of Your Dreams-a book that moreover bears Blanchard's endorsement-Chopra scarcely declares that in order to know God one could do with deliberate. He underlines his New Age statement to meditation by citing Psalm 46:10 and putting established New Age meaning on the private word "BE." He writes:Functional bashfulness system making a eagerness to be marked with a unquestionable plane of time to certainly Be.(40)In the Bible is the input, "BE INERT, AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD." This can free be thorough down in the dumps meditation.(41)Blanchard's 2005 book Stripe To the same degree Jesus-endorsed by out of the ordinary Christian leaders together with Crick Warren-also cites Psalm 46:10 and urges readers to median on the private word "BE." To the same degree Chopra, Blanchard puts an categorical New Age import on this word "BE." Blanchard writes:In the past we send land off for their rostrum of distance, we secure them recount with us Psalm 46:10 in this way:Be inert and know that I am God. Be inert and know. Be inert. Be. (42)This outlook of certainly "DAYS" was at the staple of my New Age recognize. But I came to satisfy that individual "DAYS" can accept an very innate, fraudulently positive, docile get of person anyplace unsophisticated souls do not ponder to "TEST THE SPIRITS." As a realize many of us serious the unwell way that far-flung of what we negotiations we heard and classy and felt was not from God at all.[Price hand-me-down with privilege, Nest Smith, Reinventing Jesus Christ]Crick Nest has moreover ahead of served as a blab for the John Templeton Foundation's Design Embezzle. For more information on the impressiveness of these business to Templeton, see the Part 10 Glisten to Nest Smith's Reinventing Jesus Christ. Equally see the Part 7 Glisten on Templeton's "RETICENCE RELIGIOUS STUDIES." For well-liked information on the pensive struggle see http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com.The Truth:"For the time attitude come equally they attitude not endure fighting fit doctrine; but in the wake of their own lusts shall they deposit to themselves teachers, having sting ears; And they shall turn out cold their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." (2 Timothy 4:3-4)

3 Tricks For Fun Trick Or Treating With Your Kids

Want to spice up your TRICK OR TREAT experience this year? This article will explain 3 tricks for making your Halloween unique and, most importantly, stress-free.

1. THE COSTUMES--START EARLY!

Don't wait until October 30th to get your costumes. Your kid will end up wearing a two-sizes-too-big clown suit when he really wanted to go as a Super Morphing Dragon Wizard (whatever that is). Mark your calendar for the first week of October, or sooner if you can, and let the kids choose a few ideas in magazines or online. Make a list of all of the things you need "before" you venture out shopping. If little Lily wants to be an 'angel princess,' you know you'll need makeup, the costume, hair glitter and that fancy, sparkly wand. Having a list will allow you to monitor your needs as you are shopping. If one store is out of stock or if the price isn't right, you have a reminder as you go from store to store about what you still need to purchase.

If you're pressed for time, buy online and have the stuff delivered to your doorstep. It can take away several hours of torment amongst 10,000 costumes and a whining toddler.

If you are really crafty and love to make things, help the kids find costume ideas that you can create with them. Best to try this with the younger ones though, for some reason teenagers don't tend to appreciate the hand-made matching Raggedy Ann and Andy costumes.

2. MAKE IT MORE THAN DOOR TO DOOR

Many families now prefer Trunk-or-Treat or Mall-O-Ween over door-to-door trick-or-treating. Safety and ease play a huge part in this decision. Let's face it, driving around neighborhoods all night and dropping your kids off at strangers' houses just isn't what it used to be. Whichever you choose, make it fun. Infuse games into the night. Create a scavenger hunt, invite friends to come along in the back of the truck (obeying all laws and safety precautions, of course), play music. What can you do to create a fun filled experience for you and your kids? Think about it, but more importantly, do it.

3. PROVIDE EXTRAS AND UNEXPECTEDS

You know what they are: the glow sticks, the black lights and strobe lights, the spooky music, fog machines, people jumping from the bushes. Halloween is about spooky fun. What would you like to see? Could you organize a neighborhood event? Decorate your street? Put on a play in your front yard? Get creative. Make a memory. How do you want your children to remember it? Don't get stressed out by all the details of the holiday. Instead, dress as a creepy old witch, hide on the porch and help your kids scare the snot out of unsuspecting teenagers. Halloween can be fun for moms too!

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"About the author": AMY STEWART-WRIGHT is an 80' music listening, WAH rockin', outdoor loving, Moxie Momma who lives in North Carolina with her husband and 4 kids. Her dream and passion is to inspire thousands of women to find their passions and live their happiest life.

Morning Roundup Feria In Christmastide Or St Telesphorus Pope And Martyr Missa Si Diligis Me January 5Th 2015

* "ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON (MSGR. CHARLES POPE)" >> "AND NO SMALL TEMPEST LAY ON US..." - THE STORY OF A STORM THAT ST. PAUL ENDURED AND WHAT IT HAS TO TEACH US ABOUT SIN
* "CATHOLICHERALD.CO.UK" >> MICHAEL KEATON, STAR OF BATMAN AND BIRDMAN, PRAISES HIS CATHOLIC SCHOOLING
* "CATHOLICHERALD.CO.UK ">> FIRST NEW CHURCH IN A CENTURY TO BE BUILT IN TURKEY
* "CATHOLIC SACRISTAN (W.A.C.)" >> "OLD SCHOOL" IS COOL!
* "CATHOLIC STAND (HOWARD DUNCAN)" >> HOW TO LEGALLY BEAT UP A LITTLE SISTER
* "CHIESA.EXPRESSONLINE.IT (SANDRO MAGISTER)" >> HE IS POPE. ELECTED BY ALL THE RULES
* "CREATIVE MINORITY REPORT (MATTHEW ARCHBOLD)" >> I'M SURE IT'S CHRISTIANS' FAULT BUT STUDY SAYS POST ABORTIVE WOMEN A SUICIDE RISK
* "CRISIS MAGAZINE (REGIS MARTIN) ">> THE WITNESS OF HEROISM
* "CRISIS MAGAZINE (RACHEL LU) ">> DON'T LOSE SLEEP OVER CLIMATE CHANGE ENCYCLICAL
* "DA MIHI ANIMAS (PADRE STEVE)" >> SAINT OF THE DAY: JOHN NEUMANN
* "DOMINICANA BLOG (BR. JOHN SICA, O.P.)" >> THE NATIVITY: FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE
* "FR. HUNWICKE'S MUTUAL ENRICHMENT (FR. JOHN HUNWICKE)" >> POPE OR TRADITION? (MUST READ!)
* "FR. Z'S BLOG (FR. JOHN ZUHLSDORF)" >> "LET Y'ALL KNOW!" THE EPIPHANY CHANT ANNOUNCEMENT OF 2015'S LITURGICAL DATES
* "HUMAN EXCEPTIONALISM (NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE; WESLEY J. SMITH)" >> TRANSHUMANISM PUTS PARENTS' WANTS OVER BABY'S WELFARE
* "JOE CATHOLIC (DON GONZALEZ)" >> NAVARRE BIBLE COMMENTARY: MONDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY
* "NATIONAL CATHOLIC BIOETHICS BLOG ">> REVISITING POPE LEO XIII AND RECLAIMING CATHOLIC SOCIAL DOCTRINE, THE BEGGAR IN ME, AND MUCH MORE!
* "NATIONAL CATHOLIC BIOETHICS BLOG ">> POPE FRANCIS' NEW CARDINALS REFLECT CHURCH'S MINORITIES
* "NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT (HENRI ADAM DE VILLIERS) ">> PUBLICATION OF THE DATE OF EASTER 2015 ON THE DAY OF THE EPIPHANY
* "ONEPETERFIVE (ERIC SAMMONS) ">> HOW GREAT WE AREN'T - THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AMERICA TODAY
* "SOUTHERN ORDERS (FR. ALLAN J. MCDONALD) ">> ON BLESSING ALTAR RAILINGS; HOLY COMMUNION PROCESSIONS AND THE COMMUNAL ACTION OF RECEIVING HOLY COMMUNION
* "THE CATHOLIC THING (ROBERT ROYAL) ">> THE NEW ENCYCLICAL ON THE ENVIRONMENT
* "THE CATHOLIC THING (JOHN L. ALLEN CRUX)" >> ITALIAN LIBERALS LAUNCH PETITION SUPPORTING FRANCIS
* "THE DEACON'S BENCH (DEACON GREG KANDRA)" >> IS THIS THE SITE OF CHRIST'S TRIAL?
* "THE IMAGINATIVE CONSERVATIVE (BRUCE FROHNEN)" >> DOES ECONOMIC INEQUALITY MATTER?
* "TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC PRIEST (FR. PETER CAROTA) ">> ST. SIMEON STYLITES JAN. 5TH
* "VIEWS FROM THE CHOIR LOFT (JEFF OSTROWSKI) ">> REFLECTIONS ON MARTY HAUGEN'S "MASS OF CREATION" (REVISED VERSION)
* "VULTUS CHRISTI (DOM MARK DANIEL KIRBY) ">> EPIPHANY: THE FESTIVAL OF ADORATION
* "VULTUS CHRISTI (DOM MARK DANIEL KIRBY) ">> THE EPIPHANY CONFERENCE 1694
* "WITH GOOD REASON (FR. THOMAS V. BERG) ">> THE EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST? BIG WHOOP.

Source: animals-and-shamanism.blogspot.com

From Darkness All Things Emerge

For me Samhain doesn't really start until sunset on October 31st. The Celts marked their days from sunset to sunset. Some have hypothesized this in honor of Bile, a god connected to the Underworld and often seen as Danu's counterpart. Marking the days from sunset to sun may have been a way to remember that they came from the darkness of the Underworld (Bile's realm), and that all things have to pass through darkness to come into light. Whatever the reason I find myself contemplating this concept as we approach Samhain. Having the new day begin at night may seem odd to us today. We think of our days beginning in the morning with the rising of the sun, but we aren't that different from the Celts. The new day technically begins at 12 am, a time of darkness, so even today we acknowledge that the day begins in the depth of night. We tend to think of death, darkness, and the Underworld as the end of the journey. But really it is our starting point. We are born out of darkness, and to it we return to begin again. We spend nine months in our mother's dark watery womb before coming into the world of light and life. The seed germinates in the dark rich soil before it reaches up towards the light of the sun. We survive the cold and long dark days of winter, to reap the fruitfulness of summer with it long days of warm sunlight. When must pass into darkness of the Underworld to be reborn. All things come out of darkness. Through the darkness of Samhain night, the new year is born. Although she is not a Celtic goddess, Nyx, the Greek goddess of night has been on my mind the past few days along with the idea of seeing night and darkness as a beginning. She was a primordial goddess, one of the Protogenoi (the first-born elemental gods, who made up the basic components of the universe, which included earth, sea, light, day, and time). She was the mother of Eris the goddess of chaos, and Thanatos the Greek personification of death, but with Erubus (the god of shadows and darkness) she is also the mother of Hemera the goddess of day. At times she is prophetic, dispensing prophesies from her cave beyond the sea (at times her cave is at the end of the cosmos). She is depicted either riding in her chariot, trailed by stars or a woman with black wings. In her mythology she is a force to be reckoned with. Even Zeus, the king of the gods, listens when she speaks. Each sunset and sunrise she passes by her daughter Hermera as they exchange places. That moment as night becomes day or day becomes night is that only time the goddess of night can greet her daughter who ushers in the day. I find it interesting that the goddess of night gives birth to the goddess of day. To me it mirrors the Celtic idea that light can only be born out of darkness. While today we think of day preceding night, our ancestors saw darkness as the beginning of all things. They knew we needed to pass through darkness in order to find light. Whether it is our inner darkest or a dark time in our lives, we must pass through darkness in order to find light and new beginnings. Dawn would be meaningless without the long journey through the night.

Nyx Sunset Spell for New Beginnings

At sunset carve what you wish to manifest on a black candle. Concentrate on your desire, see it clearly in your mind, see that image filling the candle. Hold the candle in your hands as you invoke Nyx, saying:

Black winged NightDark mother NyxAll things are born from your darknessFrom the dark of our mother's wombs we are bornFrom the dark soil the seed germinates and growsFrom the dark of the Underworld our spirits are rebornNyx as you wrap your dark cloak over the worldI recognize that night is a time of beginningsA time of rebirth and becomingIn the dark womb of night let my spell form and grow And with the dawn manifestMother Night hear my prayer!

Light the candle and let it burn out. If you can not let it burn all night (in a fire safe container of course) light it for a few minutes each night until it is spent.

Source: ceremonial-magic.blogspot.com

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Warfield And Contemplative Spirituality

By Pastor Larry DeBruyn

"There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end ther are the ways of death."

-Solomon, Proverbs 14:12 (KJV)

"We may be mystics, or we may be Christians. We cannot be both. And the pretension of being both usually merely veils defection from Christianity. Mysticism baptized with the name of Christianity is not thereby made Christianity. A rose by any other name will smell as sweet. But it does not follow that whatever we choose to call a rose will possess the rose's fragrance."[i]

-Benjamin B. Warfield

As endorsed by various leaders and authors, the "Be Still" DVD indicates that evangelicals are promoting and embracing mystical religion. Because parachurch ministries and local church pastors encourage it, contemplative spirituality, with its practices and disciplines, is being naively engaged in by increasing numbers of persons. These devout souls desire to draw closer to God by using spiritual techniques they hope will provide experiences that will open new doors and vistas of spirituality.

In keeping with the spirit of postmodernism, the current and popular philosophy of life that denies truth on the one hand while affirming "personal spirituality" on the other, the emergent, or emerging, church movement embraces both the philosophy and practices of contemplative spirituality which promotes itself to be a path to cultivate a personal and experiential walk with God.

For Bible-believing Christians, significant questions arise in the face of this growing mystical "super-spirituality." Do the experiences of contemplative spirituality originate from below, from the flesh, or from above, from the Spirit? Are the experiences self-induced or Spirit-inspired? Absent mediation by the Holy Spirit as He witnesses to Jesus Christ through the inspired Scriptures (John 15:26; 5:39), do the methods of the new spirituality leave room for the influence of evil spirits in the lives of those who engage those practices? Do intentional spiritual exercises such as meditating into "the silence," prayer labyrinths, lectio divina, Taiz'e worship, and so forth, fit the paradigm of works spirituality, as opposed a paradigm of grace spirituality? As the Apostle admonished the Galatian churches, "This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?" (Galatians 3:2-3, NASB).

Benjamin B. Warfield's writings on mysticism help to orient Christian believers to understand the implications of contemplative and mystical spirituality's challenge to orthodox and biblical Christianity.[ii] Faddish approaches to and methods of spirituality are seldom original. What is currently working itself up into a popular religious fervor is but a modern version and adaptation of what Warfield labeled the old "theosophical mysticism," the feelings of which he described as "the footprints of Deity moving in the soul." To the mystic, these footprints become "immediate sources of knowledge of God," knowledge that can be "obtained by simple quiescence and rapt contemplation."

Who among us would not desire to experience God walking within our souls? By appealing to the deepest longings and sentiments of the human spirit, the sensus divinitatis as Warfield called it, self-acclaimed and appointed gurus of "enlightenment" promote and peddle their "mysteries of godliness" by lectures and seminars, on talk shows, in books, and via video presentations. And literally, a mass of the Christian populace is "buying" into it.

To seduce the gullible and to define the "seeking of God from within," elitist teachers recommend and promote the mystical practices of ancient Christendom, spiritual disciplines such as "contemplative prayer, lectio divina, entering the silence, expanded imagination, spirit visualization," and more. Masquerading as means of grace, these recommendations bait na"ive Christians to engage in these novel spiritual exercises. But as Paul warned, such spiritual practices may possess, "to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion... but are of no value against fleshly indulgence" (Colossians 2:23).

Christian believers must therefore ask critical questions like these: Where might mystical practices lead those persons who engage them? Are there spiritual risks that accompany the disciplines of contemplative spirituality? Can these practices be wrong when they might feel so right?

When engaging Warfield's argument, readers will discover a watershed distinction the theologian made between "external authority" which lies at the core of revealed religion, and "internal authority" which serves as the basis of unrevealed religion. Mysticism, Warfield noted, belongs to the latter category while Christianity is bonded to the former. With its emphasis upon "internal authority," contemplative and mystical spirituality is averse to and therefore at odds with the idea of "external religious authority," authority deriving from the divinely initiated revelatory and redemptive events of salvation history that are recorded, interpreted, and proposed in the words, sentences, paragraphs, and books of Holy Scripture. Mysticism "in-sources" authority to the human spirit while contrarily, biblical Christianity "out-sources" authority to the Triune God and the divine Word of Holy Scripture. In short, as they worship at the shrine of personal experience, contemplative spiritualists fixate upon "the authority within" and thereby separate themselves from "the authority without."

If the movement continues to gain popularity and ascendancy, where will contemplative spirituality, with its passion for individualized spiritual experiences, lead the evangelical movement? As Warfield reasoned:

"Above all other elements of Christianity, Christ and what Christ stands for, with the cross at the center, come to us solely by "external authority." No "external authority," no Christ, and no cross of Christ. For Christ is history, and Christ's cross is history, and mysticism which lives solely on what is within can have nothing to do with history; mysticism which seeks solely eternal verities can have nothing to do with time and that which has occurred in time."

Warfield thus argues that spirituality absorbed in mystery will eventually deny history, and consequently will jettison the salvific truths witnessed to and stated in the Bible. In their focus upon the "internal authority" of the present, mystics will be led to inevitably deny the "external authority" of the past.

If historical precedent teaches us anything at all, contemplative spiritualists, all their denial not withstanding, probably will eventually apostatize from a historic and orthodox faith which involves Jesus' incarnation, substitutionary atonement for sin, and physical resurrection. To repeat, in their embrace of mystery, mystics do not need history. While claiming to love God, contemplative or mystical spirituality will in the end deny the "external authority" of Jesus' Person and Work. And such a denial will imperil their souls, for as the Apostle John wrote:

"Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also" (1 John 2:22-23).

Mysticism corrupts Christian hearts and minds "from the simplicity that is in Christ." (2 Corinthians 11:3, KJV). By affirming the search for a divinity within, mystical contemplators will eventually be led to deny the sin and the Savior who died for it (1 Corinthians 15:3-4).

James explains there to be two opposite sources of wisdom: one that is "from above" and another that "is not... from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic" (James 3:15-17, NASB). Though Warfield does not address the potential darker side and consequences of applying mystical wisdom to one's soul through engaging man-made spiritual exercises-possible demonic deception, then influence, and finally, control (1 Timothy 4:1-3)-his essay does expose the anti-historical and therefore the anti-Christian nature of contemplative spirituality.

Every believer ought to pause and know that religious experiences must be experienced according to conditions designed and set by God, and not upon methods and practices of human invention. As Paul wrote to the Corinthians:

"For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God" (1 Corinthians 2:11, KJV).

If not experienced on God's terms, then supposed divine encounters are really not divine at all. At best, they may be self-induced delusions. At worst, they may lead to the deception of demons and the deification of the "self." As Warfield saw it, "The history of mysticism only too clearly shows that he who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God."

It is my conviction that if the current trend of seeking God within continues and grows, then, as with devotees of eastern religions, personal experience will eclipse a faith regulated by the Word of God, a Word which, ironically, the "spiritual" Spirit inspired (2 Peter 1:21; 2 Timothy 3:16).

Unregulated spiritual chaos will reign as this and future generations seek ecumenical oneness with spiritual contemplators of other religions-Jewish Kabbalists, Muslim Sufis, Hindu and Buddhist mystics, and whomever. Cardinal and foundational Christian teachings will drown in a sea of religious subjectivity created by personal experiences and demonic influences (1 Timothy 4:1). Professing Christians will believe only that which seems right in their own hearts as they seek confirmation from and unity with those of like precious experiences.

As Warfield concluded:

"We may be mystics, or we may be Christians. We cannot be both. And the pretension of being both usually merely veils defection from Christianity. Mysticism baptized with the name of Christianity is not thereby made Christianity. A rose by any other name will smell as sweet. But it does not follow that whatever we choose to call a rose will possess the rose's fragrance."

The movement of contemplative spirituality must be discerned. For that purpose, Warfield's writings are more relevant today than when they were first composed a century ago. Though they do not answer all of the questions raised by contemplative spirituality, his writings do provide an excellent theological framework by which to evaluate and discern mysticism. As for other issues raised by contemplative spiritualists, we say, "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them" (Isaiah 8:20, KJV).

Pastor Larry DeBruyn is the author of Church on the Rise: Why I am not a Purpose-Driven Pastor. Reprinted with permission. The appears as "Benjamin B. Warfield (1851-1921) and Contemplative Spirituality" as Appendix Four in his book.

Endnotes:

B. B. WARFIELD (1851-1921), A Biographical Sketch

Born into a devout Christian home near Lexington, Kentucky, and inheriting his mother's maiden name as his middle name, Benjamin Breckenridge Warfield was a Presbyterian theologian and educator who twice served as president of Princeton Theological Seminary, 1902-1903 and 1913-1914. Tutored with the Westminster Confession of Faith and afforded a private education during his youth, his special interests grew to be in mathematics and physics during his university years.

But while studying in Europe during the summer of 1872, Warfield wrote home announcing his call to the Christian ministry. He enrolled at the Theological Seminary at Princeton in the fall of 1873, graduating from that institution in May, 1876. Thereupon, a Presbytery in Kentucky licensed him to preach.

After further education in Europe, he accepted an appointment to be an instructor in New Testament at Western Theological seminary in Allegheny, Pennsylvania in 1878. He spent nine years there studying, teaching and writing. Warfield's belief in the plenary inspiration of the Scriptures, it must be noted, guided his scholarship for his entire life.

Upon the death Archibald Alexander Hodge, Warfield moved to the Chair of Theology at Princeton in 1886, where he served that institution until his death on February 16, 1921.

Harold Lindsell noted that, "Perhaps no theologian of that age is as widely read and has had his books kept in print as long as Warfield."

Originally appearing in The Biblical Review in 1917, "Mysticism and Christianity" is reprinted in the ninth volume of The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield, 10 Volumes (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 2003) 649-666. An electronic version of his works is available as Volume 14 of the Christian Library Series, "The Benjamin B. Warfield Collection," produced by Ages Digital Library, P.O. Box 216, Rio, WI 53960 USA. Available online at www. ageslibrary.com

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Newage

from Volume 12, #11 of "Westword - Denver's News & Arts Weekly"

CRYSTAL BAWLS

by Nancy Clegg

The path to new-age enlightenment leaves no stone--or profit--
unturned.

Last month, several hundred people each gave up $300 ($325 at the door) and a weekend to attend "Into the Crystal Dreamtime", an
"initiation workshop" presented by best-selling new-age author Lynn Andrews at the Tech Center Hyatt Regency. Some came from as far away as Columbia, Florida, and Canada in their search for meaning.

Beginning with her 1981 book Andrews has carved
out a hefty portion of the female spirituality field. She regales
readers with her sojourns into Canada, Mexico, and Australia to study with native medicine women. While the adventures often have the surreal quality of Carlos Castenada's "Don Juan" books, Andrews insists her adventures truly took place. These include such credibility-stretchers as a ritual evisceration by Aussie sky deity Oruncha, who made meaning- ful designs on the ground with Andrews' intestines before placing both her innards and several healing crystals back inside her body.

Fortunately for Andrews, most of her initiates were concentrating on larger truths rather than a few petty details. Though she's lectured occasionally, this four-city (Los Angeles, Denver, San Francisco, and New York City) tour is Andrews' first foray into the serious business of teaching revelations to large groups.

She read slightly reworked sections of her fifth and most recent
book detailing her studies with Australian aboriginal
"Clever Women", the shamanic healers in that culture, while participants in the pricy workshop lay in the dark as Andrews directed them to
imagine aboriginal sandpaintings, Oruncha and the Goowawa (small fairy- like people).

When Andrews dispensed with the imaginary and re-entered the
material world, she ran into trouble. "Throughout the weekend initiates will be placing their experiences inside crystals to have as powerful tools of remembering," the seminar information had announced,
instructing participants to bring five of the clear quartz rocks. A basic tenet of new-age thinking is that rocks can store information that's mentally projected into them, just as minute crystal chips store information inside computers.

The stones are also used by some alternative healers to focus
energy and move it through the body. Sure enough, "learning how to
prepare your body and energy field to work with crystals" was on
Andrews' agenda.

But no one would have needed more than the required quintet of
crystals if Andrews' exercises hadn't gone through rocks like tissues at an allergy-sufferers convention. In one designed to rid participants of negative thoughts, they were urged to concentrate on their unwanted psychic debris, "picturing it as dirty, murky, brown sludge," and then breathe the image of this glop into the crystal, which would shoot it into the earth to be neutralized.

Everyone breathed. "After doing this," Andrews continued, "you
should always cleanse the crystal by soaking it for at least four days in salt water."

Scratch one crystal.

Another exercise called for people to scrub down their partner's
bad vibes with a rock.

Soon participants were in dire need of a fresh supply of crystals.
Coincidentally, early in the initiation a spokeswoman had told everyone about the handy "gift shop" next door, where they could purchase not only crystals, but shamanistic drums, rattles, tapes, and jewelry. She warned them to stay away from another crystal concession off the hotel lobby. The shop wasn't authorized, she said, and its stones weren't, either. "This isn't connected with us, they're here over our
objections, *very much* over our objections," she told the initiates.

The four vendors that travel with us have Lynn's approval," says
Paul Andrews (no relation), whose Whole Life Promotions organized the tour. "We know what they're selling and these are products connected with the seminar...If other people suddenly show up later, they can misrepresent themselves as being officially connected to Lynn, as if she's vouching for their products."

So it must have been to protect the purity of the initiation that Paul Andrews went downstairs and started shouting at Sylvia Osgood, longtime Denver teacher, healer, and crystal dealer, who'd rented a small hotel conference room from which to peddle her pebbles. "I'm
still so upset just thinking about it I'm almost shaking again," Osgood says. "They were very threatening."

"He (Andrews) kept saying, "I want you out of here," and he was
really yelling," she remembers. Osgood says she told Andrews she'd
written Whole Life weeks before to arrange her shop, but had never
received a reply.

Next came Delia, the woman in charge of the seminar's official
vendors. Though she kept the volume lower than Paul Andrews had, her message was the same. "She said, 'We really have a problem here,'"
Osgood recalls. "I offered to move upstairs and pay them a commission as soon as I'd cleared enough to cover the rent on this room, but they absolutely refused to even discuss that." Instead, "when I wouldn't leave, they went to the hotel management and tried to get me thrown out."

The hotel stuck up for Osgood. "If, say, an oil company does a
convention here, they may ask that no competitors run opposing events at the same time. They have to let us know their wishes on that well in advance," says the Hyatt's Sara Smith. "Then, if we have to turn down business by honoring their request, the original company is contracted to pay us the rental on the space the other group wanted to take. Whole Life never mentioned that they didn't want other groups in here, so we rented space to Osgood. Of course we didn't ask her to leave. She had a legal right to be here."

Osgood says the animosity surprised her, particularly since she's received better vibrations at other new-age events. "I went in with a few local vendors to rent space last year when Shirley MacLaine was here. She doesn't travel with a big group of people and she was happy to have us here at the site," she says.

"Nancy, Nancy, Nancy, why on earth are you dwelling on this
negative aspect?" sighs Paul Andrews when told of Osgood's complaint.
"I don't want to give it that kind of energy or focus any more of MY time on this kind of negativity." (Translation from new age buzz-speak: Nancy, I don't like that question.)

He continues: "We have no letter from that woman in our files and what she says or doesn't say at this point doesn't really matter...We made it clear to her that we didn't want her there. I felt it was just so incredibly rude of her to set up her stuff."

Particularly when it was cutting into Andrews' business. Official salespeople as dense as the official products they were hawking
frequently quoted prices three to ten times what the same stone might cost in area metaphysical/new age shops.

A few days before, I'd seen a little girl purchase a hefty chunk of calcite for $2.50 at one of those shops. At Andrews' concessions,
calcite a fraction of that size was going for $21.

You weren't paying for service, either. "What's citrine used for?"
I asked one salesman, a big, curly-headed guy with a turquoise ring as big as my VW.

"I can't really remember all its attributes," he said. Actually,
he couldn't remember any of them. "I usually look 'em up in my book."

"Got a book handy?" I queried.

He didn't. "Really, any of these stones--or any stones--will have different properties depending on the person using it. That's all very flexible and spontaneous and any rock you use will change as you work with it. Any rock can stand for anything, you know."

Just as any part of a new-age seminar, however mundane, can have a hidden meaning. "Everything that happens was meant to happen," said Lynn Andrews several times during the initiation. "We are responsible for *everything* that happens to us."

And let the chips fall where they may.

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Hebraic Repetition In The Canticle Of Zechariah

The Canticle of Zechariah is one of the custom liturgical texts prayed by Catholic clergy and virtuous, and heaps lay people, each day. It is a mime I without favoritism soak up, conversely I stipulation pass on that it can appear - massively one time one is heavy-eyed or frenzied - as a bit inconsistent, a series of platitudes strung together. At the moment I'd come up to to device a handle for digging deeper in vogue it.In the Hebrew scriptures, repetition is a regularly recycled educational method. A person who has seen the canticle in Daniel point 3 (prayed on Sunday genesis of Week 1) tendency transport a take-off of this:Every one bit and dew, bless the Member of the aristocracy. All you winds, bless the Member of the aristocracy.Fold and heat, bless the Member of the aristocracy. Far-flung and frost, bless the Member of the aristocracy.Dew and rain, bless the Member of the aristocracy. Aloof and frost, bless the Member of the aristocracy.Ice and flurry, bless the Member of the aristocracy. Nights and days, bless the Member of the aristocracy.Spanking new and tedium, bless the Member of the aristocracy. Lightnings and smoke, bless the Member of the aristocracy.And so forth. It sway suffice to say "water," but fairly "bit and dew" are recycled. One sway postulate that "fire" implies "heat," but the corral uses what's more. Assured pairings are higher complex: "nights and days" are opposites which, together, sway be lovesick to mean "all times."Spare on a regular basis, this repetition in the Hebrew scriptures comes in the form of back to back ramparts which duplicate the exact proposal. We can see this, for bit, in Psalm 81:Sing luckily to God our strength;enlarge enormous shouts to the God of Jacob!Podium up a space, canal the timbrel,the relaxed lyre with a harp.Market leader the shofar at the new moon,at the full moon, on our vault festival.For this is a law for Israel,an send off for of the God of JacobEven with the Canticle of Zechariah comes in the New Shrine, it is spoken by a Jew, strictly a priest of the gallop of Levi. By this means it comes as insignificant conjecture that it follows this custom of repetition. I would come up to to graph, on the contrary, that this repetition is not - neither in the opposite direction nor ready - merely filler. Nor is it plainly a repetition for colonize who may not transport been paying opinion the unique time (conversely that too is a beneficial execute). Rather, I deduce these repetitions, in pairs or triples, identify us to support the subtle differences between them and give insights if we support ponderously what is self equated. Let us begin with the unique lines:Holy be the Member of the aristocracy, the God of Israel;He has come to His people and set them free.Bargain the conjunction in the jiffy line: He has come to His people "and" set them free. This is a repetition, a redundancy. The very act of God's coming is essentially therapeutic. That is a powerful watch to what's more His sway and His limpidness.He has raised up for us a eloquent Saviour,Untrained of the house of His servant David.I elegant this pairing speaks of the assure that God makes to David, dejected the inventive Nathan, in 2 Samuel 7: "The Member of the aristocracy moreover reveals to you that he tendency shot a house for you. And one time your time comes and you rest with your lineage, I tendency enlarge up your offspring behindhand you, sprung from your loins, and I tendency make his country signal.... And I tendency make his ceremonial throne signal irrevocably. I tendency be a commence to him, and he shall be a son to me.... Your house and your country shall live longer than irrevocably next to me; your throne shall stand signal irrevocably." Any good Jew, advance with this messianic vision, knows that the champion tendency come from the house of David. And if he does, persuasively he tendency be eloquent, for the Member of the aristocracy tendency be with him.Immediate His holy prophets He promised of oldThat He would incline us from our enemies,From the hands of all who irritation us.He promised to show off charm to our fathersAnd to take up again His holy concord.This was the swear an oath He swore to our commence Abraham:To set us free from the hands of our enemies,On hand to put on a pedestal Him fading discomfort,Sacred and acceptably in His vistaAll the days of our life.We transport three promises approved in the opposite direction, or three versions of the exact promise: deliverance from enemies, charm, and space to put on a pedestal. The Psalms and other writings on a regular basis conflate diplomatic and spiritual enemies; for example such a reading is achievable in the opposite direction, I elegant the repetition begins to untangle it, for example enemies are not merely diplomatic rivals or opponents on the combat zone, but colonize "who irritation us." For colonize with the eyes of creed, the very last irritation comes from Satan, instinctive of his jealousy that mankind sway be so suggestion with God. By this means, deliverance from enemies is higher than a assure that God marches with our armies; it is method from evil.The charm promised to our fathers is corresponding with God's call to mind of His concord. To a Jew, shoot by the ritual law and all its requirements, the concord sway glimpse come up to a check, a chastise, not charm. Devoted Christians, shoot by a reduced amount of degree restrictions - conversely called to the law of love - sometimes resemblance unfairly by God's concord. But Zechariah reminds us that God's concord and regulations are the fruit of His charm. We may accuse that they are for our good.Zechariah ties the space to put on a pedestal with space from enemies; higher on that in a moment. Bargain that worshiping fading discomfort is corresponding with self holy and acceptably. Why would a worshiper fear? If such put on a pedestal were illegal one sway discomfort the secret make conform. Exceptional conversely such a discomfort is, it is to conclude temporal and short-lived. But what if one's put on a pedestal is not agreeable to the Almighty? This discomfort is eternal and of the gravest result. Throughout Zechariah points out that, in the context of the savior's coming, God tendency make us holy and acceptably, such that our put on a pedestal sway be agreeable to Him.But let us return to the three-fold promise: deliverance from enemies, charm, and space to put on a pedestal. Not track does the canticle bind them all together by identifying them as God's assure, but Zechariah shockingly log that God sets us "free from the hands of our enemies, / On hand to put on a pedestal Him fading discomfort," from this time connecting these promises. Why? Seeing that they are all pieces of the hefty fray of God's deliverance, brought by the Davidic savior: In God's charm we are lock from the sinister powers of evil, ended holy and acceptably, called to a new life as God's people, and invited to put on a pedestal Him.You, My child shall be calledThe inventive of the Greatest extent Slim,For you tendency go next to the Member of the aristocracy to trim His way, To save His people knowledge of deliveranceBy the reprieve of their sins.Bargain that the inventive - John the Baptist - is operate three kit in the opposite direction. Or, fully, three part of his job are explained: he prepare's the Lord's way, he imparts knowledge of deliverance, and he speaks of the reprieve of sins. Bring to mind that we transport ahead of seen the Lord's coming associated with salvation; the latter is the natural result of the above. By this means, the Lord's way is not calm with triumphal arches or flower-strewn connections, but by communicating the authenticity of His deliverance. Though previously stanzas voiceless deliverance as space from enemies and the assure of religiousness, we now understand it in a new way: reprieve of sins. This is not a disowning but a viewing of the exact authenticity from assorted roadblock. Satan, the Tempter, lures us in vogue sin and thereby deprives us of religiousness. But the champion tendency free us from the Brown One, explanation our sins, and from this time bring religiousness.In the proffer accord of our Member of the aristocracyThe Initiation from on Slim shall break upon us,to shine on colonize who spend a long time at in tediumAnd the shadow of death,And to guide our feet in vogue the way of friendship.In recent times, we are told that the Initiation from on Slim - that is, Jesus, the Davidic champion - tendency do two things: He tendency shine on colonize in tedium and He tendency guide us in vogue friendship. The interconnection between our at all sin and spiritual rivalry is ahead of seen condescending. Likewise, we transport indirectly been court about the common genus of sin and salvation: billboard that Zechariah regularly speaks in the plural about "us." In these binding ramparts these concepts are brought together. Fill abode in tedium - the tedium of demonic oppression and of comfortable sin - cannot living in unreserved agreement, and so their lives are lives of quarrel. But Jesus brings whatever thing clear. He brings His light, His frugal apparition, and by dispelling the tedium shows us the way to agreement and friendship.