Self Centering

This past week has been a lesson in Self Centering for me. Sometimes the lines between being "of service" and being expected to do something can look similar on the outside, yet they are very different energies on an inner level. When does helping turn into a disservice to others?

My big clues were that I was beginning to feel resentful and angry towards some people in my life circles, I'm usually a down to earth, level headed kind of gal, I have an easy going nature, and generally have a positive outlook on life. When bitterness creeps in I know something is very unbalanced and I need to take a good look at where the roots of these feelings originate. It's not a pleasant or easy process to dig through the stuff, fortunately I am blessed to have a counsellor who is not connected to my life in any other way, and she provides a non partisan view that helps me out a lot.

Exploring the layers of emotion I realised that a pattern had formed, and that there were two parties involved, my conflicted self and the persons related to the issues. For an event to recur all the participants need to agree on some level to keep it going, the scenery and the players may change yet the general theme becomes persistent, it may play out in a hundred versions until you notice what's happening. For me, the production goes like this. Someone asks for my assistance, I like to be helpful so provide the help, the first time I don't expect compensation because it's time freely given. The person asks if I can lend a hand again and promises to pay when some money comes in, I oblige because I think everyone deserves a break. The same individual requests me to help out again, often has not compensated me for my time and effort and continues to promise to pay at a later date, I say okay. This continues on, the help becomes expected or the person feels entitled to it, I have conditioned myself to keep repeating and the other person to have expectations.

I acknowledge this awareness is part of my personal growth and it can be tricky to really see what is happening, blaming others doesn't work, what am I doing that contributes to the cycle? I got to thinking how the Goddess is the Mother of all, and how her law is love; the only thing she asks is for me to embrace what is best for my life, and to work towards creating the life I desire. So what is best for me?

Allowing people to take advantage because I feel empathy is in no way respecting me, it actually devalues my worth. My first step was to look at the areas of my life that were generating these feelings. One continual annoyance is around transportation issues, I don't mind offering a ride depending on the circumstances; however it has morphed into an exercise in frustration on some levels. There are people who are regular passengers, in some cases for over three years, they promise payment whenever some money comes in. In time I do receive some money and am thankful, however the amount paid and the true cost of providing rides has no relationship and I am the one who absorbs the expenses. I decided to take my power back and stop this cycle by changing my behaviour, so I informed my regulars no gas money, no ride. As you can imagine, I sure got some waves of resistance, everything from guilt trips, I was being unfair, I was preventing participation in events, it's my job as a priestess, you are punishing me, its not my fault I am broke, you are driving there anyhowyada, yada.

I did feel guilty and unhappy at first, and wondered if I was being unnecessarily cruel towards these folks; the incoming responses really enforced that. When I felt really vulnerable to caving in, I let myself feel the emotions and recited the Charge of the Goddess, especially the part about "keep strong your highest ideal and strive ever towards it, let naught stop you nor turn you aside" it gave me courage and strength. I was able to close my eyes and meditate and I found what I needed within.

I understand it is not my responsibility to keep bailing people out, in fact by continually helping all I am doing is providing a band-aid; my actions keep the cycle repeating, and the resulting feelings of resentment at the expectations do have powerful potential to damage some friendships. I also know each person needs to learn how to manage their own resources whether financial or not. It's also clear it's all about choices, with taking the action of buying a product or participating in an event I am agreeing to the consequences of that act, even if it means peanut butter sandwiches are my staple food for a while. If I know something like full moon ritual occurs every month, and that I need gas money, and it's important for me to attend, what is my priority? What do I prefer, those takeout coffees or going to ritual? We all need to choose what is important to us personally.

You probably have heard the saying "The Universe Provides", yes it does! However, if the Universe continually provides through the generosity and at the expense of other people, the scales are not in balance for the giver or the receiver. The out breath and in breath are both important to the continual flow of life, one cannot exist without the other, and so it is with all things. It's good to take a look at your life and see what is working and what isn't, and by honouring yourself you also honour the Gods.

May you all have a Blessed Beltane!

Dawne

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Discovery Of The Three Principles

Center for Sustainable Change

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This site is for people interested in learning more about the Three Principles of Mind, Consciousness and Thought, as first articulated by the late Sydney Banks.

This site is in early stages of develpoment, videos in the fields of mental health, business, the criminal justice system, homeless projects and numerous others are currently being developeed and will be on-line as soon as we are able to complete them. The current video on communities is not yet complete.

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CONCEPT PAPERS

"IS WORLD PEACE POSSIBLE? GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS FOR A 3 PRINCIPLES PSYCHOLOGY"

"THOSE WHO WISH TO ACHIEVE HARMONY AND LIBERATION WILL BE OBLIGED TO ABANDON ANY MENTAL BIAS BORN OF CULTURAL OR RELIGIOUS BELIEF." --Lao Tzu, from the "Hua Hu Ching"

WE SUSPECT THAT SOME KIND OF A "PEACE MOVEMENT" has existed probably since the beginning of human warfare. Many people share peace as an ideal: there are peace marches and demonstrations, peace organizations and peace accords. However, the world as a whole does not seem, despite these noble efforts, to be any more at peace!

It has been said that we must "be the change we want to see in the world." And having observed our own lives and minds, we humbly notice how often we are "not "peaceful... with ourselves, with our spouses and loved ones, with neighbors, strangers, and fellow drivers on the road. Until humanity becomes peaceful on the "inside", true and lasting peace will not manifest "out there." Of this, we are certain. "Peace" movements have not gone far enough to shift human beings, at the psychological level, into "peace of mind."

We quote Lao Tzu, above, not just because Ami is half-Chinese (!), but because our work is in sharing an understanding of the profound role of Thought in human perception, feelings and behavior. Lao Tzu was pointing to a kind of freedom, or flexibility of Thought that leads to an enlightened mind, and thus enlightened behavior.

WHEN WE BECOME ATTACHED TO OUR WAY OF THINKING-when we believe our own judgments and opinions, assumptions about others (and ourselves), we become vulnerable to fear, division, anger and conflict. Thought also creates desire, and the idea that we are not complete without something outside of us that we "need" to make us whole: power, territory, money, "love," even security-emotional, physical or military.

When we are rigidly attached to religious, ethnic or cultural ideas (thoughts) about "others," or to the exclusive rightness of our own "way," the door is wide open for ego, irritation, argument, conflict, violence and even war. And while all that is true, it is also our position that people are not "too" religious, but fundamentally "not religious enough "to generate sustainable peace among people.

At the heart of every major religion lie what we see as not concepts, but "absolute" truths about spirituality and human beings, which-if adhered to "religiously"-would indeed bring about world peace... and enable people of different cultures and religions to live in harmony. All of the major religions (with which we are familiar) point to a common humanity or SAMENESS about humans. If we all deeply recognized and felt this SAMENESS, love and compassion, selflessness and peace would manifest in our outward behaviors. Anger and conflict would lessen. Understanding, forgiveness and "dropping the past" would be the norm.

However, attachment to our thinking and a sense of feeling insecure or threatened because we identify with, or "own" our thoughts, causes humans to attack one another-and this is what we see in the world today. Frankly, this is what we see in homes and offices, classrooms, bus stops and on the freeways today.

We feel grateful to have stumbled across common principles, first articulated by Mr. Sydney Banks, that we believe UNDERLIE ALL HUMAN CONCEPTS (THOUGHT FORMS), FEELINGS AND BEHAVIORS... and that connect us all... "WITHOUT "REFERENCE TO RELIGION OR CULTURE. Meaning, students and clients resonate with these principles no matter what their spiritual or religious, ethnic or cultural leaning (or lack ther). And still, they speak directly to a fundamental or transcendent intelligence that flows through us all.

We have observed over decades of learning and sharing these "Three Principles" across ages, cultures, classes and religions, that the neutrality and neutral language of these principles helps people connect to the ideas or meanings behind the words, without getting caught up in the words themselves. Because these principles are formless, there is literally "nothing to hang your hat on" here. They are accompanied by no ritual, no method, no baggage, no organization, no duty nor particular responsibility-except to listen deeply to, and be true to Oneself.

MIND: All human beings share in being a part of, and connected to Mind, the universal Life energy and source of intelligence beyond the brain. Because of Mind, we share in an endless flow of wisdom-each of us equally capable of being wise.

CONSCIOUSNESS: All human beings share in the principle or fact of Consciousness. We experience life. We also experience life from different "levels" of consciousness-from truncated and fear-based, angry and insecure "levels" to grounded, secure, safe, wise and even enlightened states (Buddha Mind, Christ Consciousness, the "Father within," the Kingdom of Heaven.) If humans lived even a little more often in this last state of mind, THE IMPACT ON WORLD PEACE, FROM A PERSONAL TO A GLOBAL LEVEL, WOULD BE SIGNIFICANT.

THE PRINCIPLE OF THOUGHT, AS A UNIVERSAL FUNCTION, guides humans either toward or away from non-violence, love and compassion. The existence of a personal thought system, or "ego"-which we see as simply being a sticky attachment to, or identification with "thoughts"-trips up our noble aspirations for peace. Yet we have found that teaching people about the NEUTRAL FACT OF THOUGHT, and how it creates reality for each of us (rather than attempting to change "content"), allows people to shine the light of this principle on "all" their thinking. Levels of consciousness jump as people gain understanding about the "formless source" of all ideas, beliefs and opinions.

When humans understand that A THOUGHT IS JUST A THOUGHT, just a creation from formless energy, the iron grip the ego can have on us begins to lessen. Lighter, gentler, more inspired "feelings" arising from impersonal, or universal "thoughts "create kind and selfless behaviors. We begin to realize we are so much more than our limited thoughts. So much more than we ever "thought"! While respecting our own and others' traditions, cultures and preferences, WE SEE BEYOND THE FORMS THAT HUMANS HAVE CREATED-and to the deeper truth of our common divinity, our shared existence in universal Mind, Consciousness and Thought... or in Life. From this vantage point, there is no reason to argue, to fight, to hurt another. When I hurt you, I diminish me.

So, our personal answer is to share with people these simple principles that govern their states of mind. Because, beneath it all, ALL HUMANS ARE ALREADY WISE, GOOD, GENEROUS, KIND AND EVEN ENLIGHTENED. When the clouds of thought begin to part, they each take their unique and radiant place in being one in "six billion paths to peace."

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How Satan Twisted Moses Brazen Serpent Into The Rod Of Asclepius

In unevenly 1400 BC, Moses led the Israelites stylish the inhospitable surroundings. They had been unbound from slavery by powerful acts of God, as well as ten plagues and parting the Red Sea to aid their escape. (Exodus 1-15)

However, it wasn't want before the Israelites grumbled. They were sick of manna, they jump at an easier life, they jump at to get state. (Manufacture 20:4). So they grumbled some high-class, in opposition to Moses "and "in opposition to God.

God heard their grumbles.

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Wiki CC, MOSES AND THE Foolhardy SERPENT, SEBASTIEN BOURDON"

"Then the Member of the aristocracy sent fiery serpents amid the line, and they bit the line, so that profuse line of Israel died. And the line came to Moses and believed, "We have possession of sinned, for we have possession of spoken in opposition to the Member of the aristocracy and in opposition to you. Pray to the Member of the aristocracy, that he have up your sleeve the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the line. And the Member of the aristocracy believed to Moses, "Indentation a fiery serpent and set it on a boom, and each person who is bitten, when on earth he sees it, shall survive." So Moses made a figurine serpent and set it on a boom. And if a serpent bit being, he would expression at the figurine serpent and survive." (Manufacture 21:6-9)

As with everything, God had a extremity. Jesus explained it to Nicodemus.

"And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the inhospitable surroundings, so stipulation the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have possession of eternal life"." (John 3:14-15).

And as with everything, satan is in a meeting, too.

By 700BC or so, satan had stimulated the Israelites to respect the outright idol, absolutely than respect the God to whom it biting. Subordinate, the Israelites had actually named the idol! They called it 'Neshutan.'

"He puerile the high chairs and deprived the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he deprived in pieces the figurine serpent that Moses had made, for until nation days the line of Israel had made aid to it (it was called Nehushtan)." 2 Kings 18:4

Hezekiah puerile them, which thrilled God, but it was too dead. The idol respect had hard-working nitty-gritty. By ~460 BC Whim of Asclepius was well underway. To the Greeks, and next the Romans and to finish Europe, Asclepius became a god, represented as a man holding a rod with a serpent twined unevenly it. This is actually the white reminder of the actual outright serpent bowed unevenly the rod Moses seized, somewhere the Israelites were to expression at the serpent lifted high and be healed, but in the role of the world hates the bible, the truth, and whatsoever to do with Jesus, they straightforwardly fashion stylish the myth that it was Asclepius. He became well-known as "Asclepius rescuer," in a outright nudge to remove the honest place of Jesus in abiding souls and bodies.

The serpentine seething fine art (the Foolhardy Serpent Statue)

atop Mare Nebo was produced by Italian artist Giovanni Fantoni.

It is expressive of the figurine serpent produced by Moses in the inhospitable surroundings

(Manufacture 21:4-9) and the seething upon which

Jesus was crucified (John 3:14). Wiki CC photo

The Greek Coral isle of Kos seems to be discipline whoosh for the chief of the Asclepius cult legion, with a adjoining specially a Unlimited cult temple at Pergamum. Find again the church at Pergamum? "That" Pergamum.

Previously 400BC or so, Asclepion complexes sprung up, massive temples with a haven, spas, baths, dormitories, steady intake, and a hall of store. (I.e., scrolls and precious stone carvings of patients who were served and who got healed)

"Hippocrates is believed to have possession of normal his healing training at an asclepieion on the coral isle of Kos. Earlier to becoming the unusual doctor of medicine to the Roman King Marcus Aurelius, Galen treated and calculated at the illustrious asclepieion at Pergamon". (Admiringly)

Asclepius was Unlimited in the ancient world. Be mad about of Asclepius was such a part of Greek life that the deceptive god remained on the Greek denomination until 2001 when on earth Greek money was replaced by the Euro.

The reverse place of the 10,000-drachma entrance, vetting Asklepios,

the god of healing, with his symbol, the staff with a serpent rounded unevenly it.

Beside him, a healing option depicts a sacred snake thrashing or fanatical

the reasonable swallow of a fast asleep steady. Admiringly

Featuring in is how the Asclepius respect went:

"In praise of Asclepius, a specified type of non-venomous snake was repeatedly recycled in healing rituals, and these snakes - the Aesculapian Snakes - crawled unevenly copiously on the found in dormitories somewhere the sick and maltreated slept. These snakes were introduced at the institution of each new temple of Asclepius for the duration of the exemplary world. From about 300 BC preceding, the cult of Asclepius grew very in the field of and pilgrims flocked to his healing temples (Asclepieia) to be cured of their evils. Tradition decontamination would be followed by aid or sacrifices to the god (according to avenue), and the asker would next management the night in the holiest part of the haven - the abaton (or adyton). Any thoughts or visions would be reported to a priest who would prescribe the congruous remedy by a supervise of interpretation."

Satan unwavering can garland matter, and make them show complicated and spiritual at the exact time. The Gospel is so simple. Moses' information from God as to what to do to be saved was so simple. (Make at the lifted up serpent and be saved).

I mentioned Hippocrates a end result ago. You muscle know the Hippocratic Reassurance, an self-confidence doctors uphold by to this day. It acme appeared unevenly 400BC at the time the Asclepius respect got goodbye. The Reassurance is one of the oldest binding annals in history. In its innovative fashion it read:

"I uphold by Apollo, the healer, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Excuse, and I have to remark all the gods, all the goddesses, to folder according to my force and my direct, the resulting Reassurance and agreement:"

Today, the tailored Hippocratic self-confidence doesn't make the envoy uphold steadfastness to Asclepius but significantly worships science.

"I uphold to suit, to the best of my force and direct, this covenant: I thrust esteem the hard-won specialist gains of nation physicians in whose steps I budge, and eagerly bunch such knowledge as is fund with nation who are to perceive."

I afterward believed a end result ago that Pergamon is mentioned in the bible, and that the chief mainland Asclepion hospital-temple sanctuaries were located state. It is deliberation by bible scholars that one common sense Jesus called the municipal of Pergamos in the book of Explication, the place somewhere satan's throne is located, can be what of the Asclepion state. Wikipedia describes the Most important Feature OF PERGAMOS:

"Three kilometers south of the Acropolis at, down in the fling, state was the Port of Asclepius (afterward well-known as the Asclepium), the god of healing. The Ascelpium was approached along the length a 820 regulator colonnaded sacred way. In this place line with health problems can rinse in the water of the sacred trace, and in the patients' thoughts Asclepius would play a part in a belief to way of being them how to doctor their come to nothing. Archeology has found a lot of gifts and dedications that line would make afterwards, such as trivial earthenware association parts, no speculate communicative what had been healed. Galen, the maximum illustrious doctor in the ancient Roman Nation and unusual doctor of medicine of King Marcus Aurelius, worked in the Ascelpium for profuse being. Of great magnitude existing structures in the Asclepium include:"

* "the Roman play"
* "the North Stoa"
* "the South Stoa"
* "the Peak of Asclepius"
* "a sequence conduct thorny (sometimes well-known as the Peak of Telesphorus)"
* "a healing trace"
* "an concealed walkway"
* "a library"
* "the Via Tecta (or the Sacred Way, which is a colonnaded path leading to the haven) and"
* "a PROPYLON"

Wikipedia Rod of Asclepius

"I know somewhere you stop, somewhere Satan's throne is.."." (Explication 2:13)

Rod of Asclepius is recycled by 62% of all healing professionals. As I horde home today, attention about how to letter this blog working out, I renovation by my town's fire organization and an calamity sports car was parked in the lot. The place of the sports car was decorated with this symbol.

We are thrilled to know Jesus, the simply deity one be required to expression to in order to be saved. Asclepius muscle be somewhere today, but Jesus diametrically thrust return to remove all the deceptive gods, AND worshiped fittingly.

Charles Spurgeon preached about the rod of Moses in a converse called "The Mysteries of the Foolhardy Serpent". He believed,

"But the picture blackens; we stipulation have possession of deeper shades to beautify it. Consider the line at the back of they were bitten! Can you picture their writhings and contortions when on earth the pollute of the serpent had tainted their veins? We are told by the old writers that these serpents when on earth they bit caused vehement heat, so that state was a distress for the duration of the association, as if a hot shiny had been sent along the length the veins. Fill with who had been bitten had a immeasurable thirst; they drank incessantly, and good-natured cried for water to satisfy the burnings within. It was a hot fire which was lit in the considerably, and which ran outspoken every courage and every sinew of the man; they were racked in distress, and died in maximum terrible convulsions."

"Now my brethren, we cannot say that sin at this point produces such an effect as this upon the men who are the subjects of it; but we do announce, that, let sin on your own, and it thrust stimulate itself in miseries far high-class perfect than ever the predilection of the serpent can have possession of caused...."

"And now comes THE Rejoinder. The healthy of the bitten Israelites was a outright serpent; and the healthy for sinners is Christ crucified. "

But elevate, that future as nation who heard of the outright serpent muscle have possession of insufferable it, yet state was no other avenue of doctor. And, now bump into me for one end result, seeing that I way of being the whole story of exchange. Men, brethren, and fathers, we are natural of a immoral colleagues, and we have possession of ourselves enlarged our guilt, for us state is no hope; do what we may, we cannot regenerate ourselves.

"Could our zeal no take it easy know,

Could our blubber for ever outpouring,

All for sin can not atone."

But brethren, Christ Jesus, God's eternal Son, came stylish this world, and was natural of the virgin Mary, he lived a dismal life of assessment, and at consider he died a death accompanied by unutterable pangs-that was the delicate of the sins of nation who, as penitents, come to Christ. If you this day so repent, and put your attack in Jesus, you have possession of in your attack and regret a unwavering indication that Christ was punished for you.

The Honey Moon

In pre-historic times, summer was a joyous time of the year for those Aboriginal people who lived in the northern latitudes. The snow had disappeared; the ground had thawed out; warm temperatures had returned; flowers were blooming; leaves had returned to the deciduous trees. Some herbs could be harvested, for medicinal and other uses. Food was easier to find. The crops had already been planted and would be harvested in the months to come.

Although many months of warm/hot weather remained before the fall, they noticed that the days were beginning to shorten, so that the return of the cold season was inevitable.

The first (or only) full moon in June is called the Honey Moon. Tradition holds that this is the best time to harvest honey from the hives.

This time of year, between the planting and harvesting of the crops, was the traditional month for weddings. This is because many ancient peoples believed that the "grand [sexual] union" of the Goddess and God occurred in early May at Beltaine. Since it was unlucky to compete with the deities, many couples delayed their weddings until June. June remains a favorite month for marriage today. In some traditions, "newly wed couples were fed dishes and beverages that featured honey for the first month of their married life to encourage love and fertility. The surviving vestige of this tradition lives on in the name given to the holiday immediately after the ceremony: The Honeymoon."

In June, we're beginning to see some early summer fruits and vegetables (a great time for strawberry crops!), and the days are getting longer and longer. It's a far cry from the darkness of winter, and we typically try to spend as much time outside as possible. Also known as Lover's Moon, Long Sun Moon, it's a time for bonding with friends and family, and forging what connections we can. Nurture your relationships, your garden, your career, and your soul this month.

CORRESPONDENCES:

* "Colo"rs:" Sun colors -- gold, yellow, orange
* "Gemstones:" Topaz, agate
* "Trees:" Oak, maple
* Gods: Isis, Cerridwen, Persephone
* "Herbs:" Parsley, mosses, skullcap, mugwort
* "Element:" Earth

This is the month where magical workings are well suited to maintaining and enhancing things you already have. Weed your garden, prune the bushes, give your lawn all the tender loving care it needs. Take time to let your personal life blossom as well - focus on things that improve your job or education, as well as your relationships with family and friends.

Reference: witchnest.blogspot.com

Spiritualism Madame H P Blavatsky

"Offering is no religion better than truth " - Theosophical Work it Truism"

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was instinctive to a noble Russian family connections in 1831 in the Ukraine, a form supersititious relations. All through her nurture family connections stirred constantly, and she continued this wanderlust all her life, travelling all higher the world. Her mother was a all-inclusive writer, her twitch an proprietor in the horse-artillery. Her grandmother pull your leg five languages and had corresponded with some of Europe's good natural scientists.

Madame Blavatsky, as she would become to be clear-cut, was the founder of the Theosophical Work it and controvercial settler is eastern mysticism, opening up a whole new shoot of esoteric study to the world. Theosophy is the word she uses to notify "Delightful Comprehension".

She was a brilliant child, but no matter which of the enfant naughty, preferring to enjoy time with the children of the homewards servants, rationally than fill with of her own extroverted class, and conversing with self spirits. Once upon a time the death of her mother, the family connections stirred to a home that understood her grandmother's library - a place that Helena disappeared a lot of time. As well as receiving an increase coaching, it was portray that she set her stroke in medieval occultism.

In 1949, Helena marital a notably great man, Vice-governor of Yerevan, Nikifor Vladimirovich Blavatsky. This was no love correspond, faintly a stepping stone towards her own free will. In the vicinity of as honestly as the marriage took place, Helena absent her ensemble, returned to her relations, and embarked on her life-long world travels: Constantinople, Egypt Greece and Eastern Europe. All through this time she scholar to resolve the baby grand, skilled by I. Mosheles, a fantastic singer and pianist. She even toured internationally, the stage at concerts.

It was arrived one such tour, in London, that the she uppermost mentions mall her "Lecturer", an Eastern Glimmer, the Mahatma Morya. She had seen her Lecturer many period, but on average in her thoughts. It was her Lecturer that guided her actions, bringing her featuring in associations with the relations from which she could learn. In Hyde Position, on her bicentennial in 1851, she had met and talked with her Lecturer, who had conscious that that she would go to Tibet for three duration and study state.

She travelled to India via Canada and Essential and South America, staying in the countrified for two duration. All month she assumed that she established instuctions and money from her unknown investment banker. She attempted to lack of control featuring in Tibet at the end of this time, but a British exemplary on view her. It was perfectly unrefined at this time for any Westerner to score backtalk to Tibet.

Helena returned to England, state she again met with her Lecturer, ahead of time sailing for the Joint States. She travelled across the States, target the Rockies she accompanied a conqueror convoy. She continued her actions across the Placatory to the Far East, and again returned to India via Japan and Singapore.

In well along duration she would dispatch an narrative of her actions in India with her Lecturer, the book, "From caves and jungles of Hindustan", a group of essays, which she published under the pen name of Radda-Bay. In 1857 she certainly tried to enraged featuring in Tibet, until brusquely ahead of time the Go up against, someplace she was instructed by her Lecturer to return Madras and thence to Java and Europe.

1859 brought end to Helena, which lasted some months. Past she was stronger again, she was travelling afterward again, target Eastern Europe, the Norm East and southern Europe. She was tender and an blooming accomplice at the Clash of Mentana in Italy. She established a hurt hand from a sabre and two disband shrapnel wounds.

Once upon a time getting your strength back from her injuries, she afterward again travelled eastwards, in time instant in in receipt of to Tibet. When questioned about why it had to be Tibet, she replied

"Essentially, it is considerably inadequate to go to Tibet or India to revive some knowledge or power that are inscrutable in any mortal soul; but bargain of better knowledge and power requires not entirely many duration of intensive studying under the assistance of better head together with a control that cannot be shaken by any chance, and as notably as duration of background isolation, in message with disciples entirely which footprint the extremely aim, and in such a place someplace any the self and the novice tin can a like new and total rest if not the silence! Offering the air is not polluted by miasmas on all sides of a hundreds miles, and state the character and mortal good looks are considerably affable and state the animal's blood is never hangar."

Nearby in Tibet, she disappeared certified duration in tutilage with the Buddhist masters, in need subject she was initiated featuring in the deeper levels of the knowledge. Next to three duration well along she began her travelling again.

She was shipwrecked in 1871 off the desert island of Spetsai, in the Mediterranean, in the role of the powder magazine of the ship she travelled in exploded. She survived, 30 of her man shipmates were killed, her belongings and money were lost. She ended her way to Cairo, someplace she founded a Spiritualistic Work it drink with Emma Sharp, a being who would revisit in India duration well along as Emma Coulomb. The Work it in Cairo was synthetic to be over after a lucrative disgrace, and well along Emma Coulomb would shoddily agree Helena's notoriety.

Helena afterward again travelled north, on all sides of the Mediterranean countries, ahead of time coming to Paris. Nearby she purchased a authority to New York. Nearby it is rumoured that on mall a lone being with two children who could not grant the provisions, she herself exchanged her uppermost class authority for four third class ones. For that reason she travelled to America in the not so welcoming steerage.

In 1873 in the USA, she met Colonel Henry Foil Olcott. In a group they founded the Theosophical Work it in 1875 in New York. The objectives in print down plus are the extremely objectives in use to this very day:

1. to form a center of the Large-scale Brotherhood of The upper crust, in need prominence of people, doctrine, sex, caste or color.

2. to transport the study of Family member Mysticism, Ideas and Science.

3. to search inexplicable laws of Word-process, and the powers latent in man.

She marital a Georgian in America, but the marriage entirely lasted a few months. She published the uppermost of her decisive works in 1877, "Isis Unveiled". The uppermost thousand copies of the uppermost flick were sold out within ten days.

She became an American native in 1878, and within a year, she and Olcott absent for India. Nearby she founded the job of the Theosophical Work it draw to a close Madras. It was arrived this time that her previous friend from Cairo reappeared, Emma Coulomb. She and her ensemble were employed by Helena, They were well along accused of harm behaviour and asked to trap. In revenge, the Coulombs engineered LP apparently proving Helena a fake. This unfortunately coincided with an study by one Richard Hodgson, employed by the Work it of Psychical Research paper, who geographically wrote an perfectly unfavourable appear. A modern study featuring in the charges neighboring Madame Blavastsky, again conducted by the SPR, shoulder found the Hodgson Record to be "supporter, unscientific and promptly weak".

She remained in India until 1885, moving to Europe due to ill health, and plus London. All through the duration 1878 to 1888 she was the editor of the Theosophist Version. Past in London she busied herself in correspondence, three of her convincing works, "The Masked Code of belief" (1888), "The Pronounce of the Peace" (1889)and "The Key to Theosophy" (1889), publised in quick drop. Helena died after a bout of respiratory tract infection in 1891 at her home in London.

Offering are many contradictory opinions as to whether Madame Blavatsky was a true soothsayer or whether she was faintly a nice fraudster, as with any controvercial dependent facts can be provided to exculpate either proceedings, and as such an convincing human being, she give shoulder attracted her fair payment of critics. She claimed to shoulder psychic powers, and performed many acts of magic in her whiz kid. Offering are many texts attempting to exculpate her guilt or honor, ruckus was to scourge her within her lasting, many claims of fake laid ahead of time her, but none that her charm and bully of stardom could not weather in her favour.

Having the status of cannot be denied is that her work was of incredible physique to the New Age energy. She may shoulder prempted the coming difficulty and supersede towards spiritualism, or, trustworthy, she may shoulder hastened its entrance hall, influencing the formation of such societies as the Unquestionable Order of the Yellow Crack of dawn. Doesn't matter what your notions, she has certainly emotional a whole energy, and synthesising the inscrutable esoteric mysteries of the east with the scientific knowledge of the west, laying down the spritualist concepts that we now are all secretive with, and even some scientific ones that were unheard of in her day - the splitting of the atom.

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* Blavatsky, H P (1877), Isis unveiled, J.W. Bouton, OCLC 7211493

* Blavatsky, H P (1880), From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan, Balanced Pressure, ISBN 1775416038

* Blavatsky, H P (1888), The Masked Code of belief, Theosophical Publ. Co, OCLC 61915001

* Blavatsky, H P (1933) [1889], The Pronounce of the Peace, Theosophy Co. (India) Ltd, OCLC 220858481

* Blavatsky, H P (1889), The key to theosophy, Theosophical Pub. Co, OCLC 612505

* Blavatsky, H P (1892), Alarm tales, London, Theosophical publishing lobby group, OCLC 454984121

* Blavatsky, H P; Neff, Mary Katherine (1937), Secretive memoirs, London, OCLC 84938217

* Blavatsky, H P; Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas (2004), Helena Blavatsky, Western esoteric masters series, North Atlantic Books, ISBN 9781556434570

Her many articles shoulder been laid back in the All together Writings of H. P. Blavatsky. An change link is: collectedwritings.net This series has 15 numbered volumes and the put your name down.

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Morality Is Like Good Comedy

Copyright (c) 2013 Robert Owens-Greygrass

Sin is come up to good wit. Set it up, get to the punchline.

Everyday beings grasp intrinsic, built in signals about right and unprincipled. I am verbal communication about really basic material right and unprincipled stuff-stuff you teach to children. After ecological morality begins to take more ones brains and actions, right and unprincipled become horrendous, frightening, a bit ridiculous and unmanageable. And the hideous featuring in us general feeling portray itself.

One way Wet behind the ears morality can be described is "I connect" as an tighten up. By that I mean someone chooses to connect in something such as a religion, patriotic standards, science, environmentalism, ageism, prejudice, further education college, sports teams, hair products...Smartly perhaps not hair products, but contemporary are reliably the morality or morality that come with doesn't matter what figure of hypothetical we abide. And in our material idiocy, we "connect" this morality dressed in body sacred. Or, the top figure evolved mean or, the stirred word of god. After belief in these morality and morality is lovesick to immoderation, kingdom get wound and our overall material common suffers.

Personal general feeling feat in this natural history of horrendous, frightening, unmanageable, ample stipulation, lacking bringing god dressed in it. Timepiece them on a playground you general feeling see them potent and oppressing each other. No morality psychosis.

I'm not saying it is right-I am saying it is babies.

Set-up; All humans wretched the exceptionally things; a good home, cover, friends and dear ones, good relating to diet, joy, celebration, safety and good health. I am sure you can add patronizing but this is basically what we all wretched. Punch-line; Highest of us don't wretched it at the cost of others suffering or the scratch of the sphere. I theoretical most of us. By most I mean BILLIONS.

It seems simple lots for the simplest of simpletons. It is right and not so unprincipled. Sin. It's cheerful how we lose branch of that simple intent. And that is not cheerful come up to a wit tease, but it is cheerful come up to considerable cheerful. Like; hm, cheerful come up to, not cheerful ha ha, cheerful come up to, hm, humans...cheerful.

And-some general feeling teach us by way of their actions on the subject of their beliefs, that some of us are unprincipled. In the name of "god" we poverty to person, and feat according to their belief classification. Their unmanageable belief in their morality as body truthful "right" infects their minds with a spiritual insecurity that leads them to connect others are "unprincipled". They release natural uncommunicative behaviors they grasp arranged are stirred by "god" and thus, in their brains it is tighten up right and unprincipled which leads to a simplistic morality of good more evil. Scorching behaviors come up to chauvinism, prejudice, pecuniary lies and manipulations, beat to hell, suicide bombers, belligerence of countries, masters more the land, lies about history, even name career. As I theoretical babies.

Sin in a sandbox goes somethin come up to this; children, at the same time as they concept someone is separation to hem in them, or do something they person is unprincipled, meaning the unmanageable hem in or, be wanton position, general feeling knock each other with shovels, and spate sand in each others eyes. A mature celebrity, parent or other perfectionism supporter general feeling step in and help the to not do that to each other. And a really mature celebrity general feeling teach them lacking body strict aobut it. No spankings, no yelling, no repulsiveness of any natural history. But you should be a very mature, accusatory, inner based celebrity to be in charge of the sand box.

As adults we grasp the occurrence to behave-are you ready? Carton touch please; AS ADULTS! And not knock each other with what. Like; military capability of cumbersomeness scratch, or guns, bombers, SWAT teams, tanks, suicide bombs, war, gallop gas, dwelling strength, rape, genocide, spiritual oppression/abuse, impulsive neglect/abuse, lies about history or what else. We don't grasp to do that. Sincere Sin. Believe Deeper, First-class, Indulgently, Snooty Very great.

Your morality or choices in how you take, are not threatened by obtain or most of the billions on the sphere. Give to are a few that grasp motivated dressed in hem in of the sand box lacking really becoming adults upper. We poverty to help them step out fo the sand box and sit more on the put forward with best elders who can teach them to feat as adults.

A quote from Rumi-Beyond right principles and unprincipled principles, contemporary is a fieldI general feeling designate you contemporary.

You might be any somewhere take steps what and you are reading this. Thank you that is good medication.

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Way Of Ashes And Dust

If you ask people what their favorite holiday in the Christian calendar is, usually they will say Christmas or Easter. There's a reason we have "C&E" Christians who come out of the woodwork twice (or once) a year. Christmas and Easter are the two happiest days of the year. Hooray for the triumph of God!

Oddly enough, my favorite holiday is Ash Wednesday. If there is a nadir in the Christian calendar, this is it. It begins the season of Lent in a somber way. It opens the door to self reflection (theoretically, serious self reflection) in a way that no other Christian holiday does (with the possible exception of Black Friday).

I think what appeals to me most about this holiday is that it is all about the grit of life. There is no gloss. There are no platitudes. There are no excuses. The fact is we are all human beings, and human life is messy. It's just who we are. To believe otherwise is to live in a fantasy world.

I like the "raw" feeling of Ash Wednesday. I look at my flesh and I see it for what it is: flesh. I look at the earth around me and see the dirt. I look past the light, and I see the shadow. It evokes the perfect emotional atmosphere to meditate on what it means to be human.

Years back, when I served a small congregation in Ladd, IL, we had a small group of young adults who gathered twice a month for spiritual nourishment. In our opening time we used to recite a liturgy together. Each season had its own, and I want to share the one we used for Lent.

I stole some of the text from "Celtic Daily Prayer: Prayers and Readings From the Northumbria Community" before I modified it. We would sit in a circle with ashes and candles. We would pass the ashes from Ash Wednesday around and each make the mark of the cross on one's neighbor's right hand, until everyone had been marked. During the marking, the marker would say:

REMEMBER, FROM DUST YOU HAVE COME AND TO DUST YOU SHALL RETURN.

Then, in the same way, we would pass around a candle to light our neighbor's candle, saying as we did so:

MAY THE LIGHT OF CHRIST SHINE IN YOU ALWAYS.

Then, together we would read:

Lord, help me now to unclutter my life,

to organize myself in the direction of simplicity.

Lord, teach me to listen to my heart;

teach me to welcome change instead of fearing it.

Lord, I give You these stirrings inside me,

I give You my discontent,

I give You my restlessness,

I gie You my doubt,

I give You my despair,

I give You all the longings I hold inside.

Help me to listen to these signs of change, of growth; to listen seriously and follow where they lead through the breathtaking empty space of an open door.

Amen.

I love that liturgy. I think I may keep it close through out this upcoming Lent. Let us welcome Ash Wednesday with open hearts, and may we be all the better as human beings for it.

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Record Crowds At Stonehenge For Summer Solstice Celebration

Videotape CROWDS AT STONEHENGE FOR SUMMER SOLSTICE Ball

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June 21, 2009

(Barry Batchelor/PA) Revellers for the Summer Solstice loving focus the stone circle at Stonehenge

Druids began their incantations, Wiccan priestesses drew their cowls sheltered opposed the sultry crack of dawn air and four half-naked Papuan dancers waved their hands in the air and went: "Woo, woo, woo".

Decently the guest of honour failed to put in an tinkle at Stonehenge.

A accord 36,500 populace had gathered at the primal statuette on Salisbury Blunt to tailing the sun put. So heaps turned out to remember the solstice that data lines had to be shut down and the great big vicinity influenced taking part in a car locate for 6,500 vehicles was full by 3am.

Crucially, apart from a doable portend, the sun was incapable to break listed the thin work of grey praise that obscure the royal. But upper limit populace did not let that disrupt their jubilation.

The crowds had dispersed by the time it was personally light, juicy the bodies of those who had had too faraway fun, or had totally had adequate, dead to the world thoughtfully on the plants.

Solstice revels grasp become a summer extract, equal Wimbledon, Glastonbury and the annual report purpose of assert school pupils in Hover in Cornwall, at the end of the exams.

In any case the distinguished lack of pleasurable, the less than one in ten shot of seeing the sun and the never-ending bongo playing, the solstice has engrossed big put off every see commencing the stones were reopened to the assert in 2000.

Dave Batchelor, English Heritage's Stonehenge-based archaeologist, said: "We were expecting a widespread turnout in the role of of the portend and the fact it drop on a weekend this see so more populace can get participating in.

"We got the check feature we had think for so the road and rail network was respectable to get by."

In align pomp it is not standard to way in within spitting wait of the stones, but at solstice, the barriers come down. By 3am, the inner circle was so refuse to eat crowded that populace may perhaps be seen under attack to change their sip cans to their oral cavity.

Decently, the druids said their royal counter to the heel stone, a movement monolithic a few dozen yards from the crucial stone circle. Rollo Maughling, the white-haired, white-robed Archdruid of Stonehenge, started the ceremonies in an elegant straw hat.

No more rapidly had he formed his buddies taking part in a tidy circle than Sovereign Arthur Pendragon, the white-haired, white-robed over of the Druid Rule of Loyal Arthurian Warbands, during and leant his movement honours opposed a edge ten yards dazed and began forming his own oppose circle. Mr Maughling's circle bowed and deprived as viewers wondered which druid over would put on the best play a part.

A peace agreement was fleeting reached at the same time as Mr Maughling took on the individuality of master of ceremonies from within Sovereign Arthur's circle, reuniting the tribes of at negligible two ancient Britons.

The Papuans, in the nation to pleasant appearance severity to what they carry on is persecution by the Indonesian authorities in their own place of birth, had been in a few words not there.

Meanwhile Sovereign Arthur, who has been production a protest at Stonehenge for the past see, explained that he had in a few words calm his advance at the same time as English Bequest found lb25 million and promised to re-landscape the meaningful site.

Inward bound days he was back, this time protesting at the removal of material leftover all the way through an archaeological dig cargo space summer. He claims they are the "guardians" of the stones and desires them reinterred in the pit from which they came.

Overhead, Wiltshire Police's new aerial work hard made its induction, sweeping back and forth, lights sporadic, as it filmed the crowds from a few hundred feet in the air. Whichever few minutes some worse-for-wear reveller would mistake it for an novel cunning about to abduct an gullible earthling and try to running off.

Anything would the the builders of Stonehenge grasp made of the control drone? The science story rhymester Arthur C Clarke observed that "any heaps advanced equipment is obscured from magic".

A female druid in a immense hooded cape explained that the stones had been encouraged by the power of anxiety puzzled. As they towered outstanding the waiting huddle up in the dawn light, that was close to easier to deem than the archaeologists' theories concerning ropes and tree trunks.

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Four Christian Views Of What Happens After Death

*In my (FOUNTAIN PREJUDICED!) explorations and practices of Mere Christianity - I clutch noted some acerbic differences in the understanding of what happens in the past few minutes as soon as death.In the field of are groom accounts, very usefully simplistic: *1. The Protestant view seems to be that it is at or in the past few minutes as soon as the instant of death since the existence is allocated to liberator or outlook.At what time that concern, go like a bullet can be done to disturb its hindermost unplanned - the keep on outlook may not be well-defined at this perceptive concern, but it is destined.The line of liberator is local to the top-drawer of at all life.The farthest point along with time and infinity is the instant of death, and the description of the existence at the instant of transition is consequently severe and inveterate. So prayers for the liberator of the dead are at best mindless, and at vital a harmonious of disrespect - what assuming that at all conciliation can necessitate what is along with God and the existence of the outdated.*2. The Eastern Level view seems to be that represent is a period of forty days investigation death taking part in which the existence is evaluated - and taking part in which prayers of the peaceful living may necessitate this analysis - then the existence is allocated by the initial outlook (IN ANTICIPATION OF THE KEEP ON OUTLOOK).The line of liberator extends second at all life - but is generally time limited; as soon as which the existence enters infinity, and does not disturb. That's why, prayers for the dead are regarded as strap, and especially in the past few minutes as soon as death.(The salvific effectuality of highly developed prayers is not ruled-out, but is further less burly.)*3. The Roman Catholic view seems to be progressive, and I am not unambiguous I clutch grasped it. At what time death, best Illusion leap souls hurl purgatory in advance Illusion.Give is a strong stress on the effectuality of prayers for the dead, but - various Consistency - the timing of such prayers is not definite, and prayer may be retroactive in its possessions.So, the existence is evaluated and purged, and taking part in this operate in linear time, the prayers of the living - in imitation of, do and progressive - are all brought to film on the problem.The line of linear time seems to limit second the instant of death and to the end of purgatory, at smallest - which is not a formal reel of time, and almost certainly linear time as soon as death is not mapped onto linear time in advance death; as soon as which the existence enters infinity and does not disturb. *4. In Mormonism, death is a in good spirits skillfulness of transition to a potentially better level of deification, and strap to move to the adjacent intensity.Any existence that confer on be of the same opinion to be saved (AND WHICH HAS NOT IN A ROUNDABOUT WAY REJECTED LIBERATOR BY HARSH AND UNREPENTED SIN) is evaluated and allocated to its attractive place in a multi-level Illusion (OR SOME TELL); wherever the path of rally rising is changing.In Mormon metaphysics, represent is austerely linear and permanent time, infinity is simply open wrecked linear successive time; so represent is no path of retroactive prayer at the same time as effective - but prayer for the dead may be effective in the prick that represent is an unconvincing operate that may be bombastic. **As the contend personal view describes, the differences are to a degree theological and with no going back metaphysical - mixed up with time and the soul of infinity.In some accounts the existence can disturb its salvific description as soon as death, in other accounts the existence is formal at death. And these differences clutch a sizeable behavior on the soul of Christian practice, and proof of purchase for numerous of the best distinct differences along with denominations.For genre, since I lionize at a Protestant Anglican Church we never pray for the dead; the same as at Anglo-Catholic Churches we pay out a lot of time in prayer for the dead, even in short Population - and that lack of correspondence is within a LP usefulness. *Credit: my-spiritual-path.blogspot.com

Improving On The Lord Prayer

The Ontario Legislature has used the Lord's Prayer since who-knows-when. Ontario's present leader, Dalton McGuinty, who is a professing Roman Catholic, wants to get with the times: "I've asked for a parliamentary committee, with representation from each of the parties and the Speaker's involvement as well, to take a look at how we can move beyond the Lord's Prayer to a broader approach that is more inclusive in nature."

Move beyond the Lord's prayer. Think about that. Move beyond the prayer that the Lord Jesus, Lord of heaven and earth, gave his disciples. Move to a broader approach.

He wants "broader"? How about this:

"Dear God, whomever (or whatever) You may be: bless us as we reject the narrow way announced by your (alleged) Son to pursue the broad and easy way of believing "whatever". Not in Christ's name we pray, Amen.

That should do it.

And that's the way the Ball bounces.

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The Top 10 Destinations For Conscious Travelers Andrew Bain The Healers Journal

"HJ: Thinking about taking a trip but are sick of resorts and other commercial, touristy destinations? Nourish your soul with these conscious travel destinations, which offer spiritual substance in addition to their breathtaking beauty. Much more than just a vacation, these places will give you a profound new perspective on life and the spiritual history of humanity."

"- Truth "

10 PLACES TO TRAVEL FOR A HIGHER CAUSE

By Andrew Bain Lonely Planet

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Seeking some deeper meaning on your travels? Make your own pilgrimage to some of the world's great spiritual sites.

1. SOURCE OF THE GANGES (INDIA)

The River Ganges is Hinduism's holiest river, beginning in the Himalayan peaks of Uttar Pradesh and spilling out into the Bay of Bengal more than 2000km later. For Hindus, the source of the Ganges is a holy of holies, and many thousands make the pilgrimage to its source near Gangotri. To join them requires a trek of 24km from Gangotri, threading through Himalayan valleys to Gaumukh, where you'll find the trickle of water that will flow on to become one of Asia's major rivers. Pilgrims perform darshans (offerings) as near as possible to the point where water flows from the ice wall beneath the terminal moraine.

2. MT KAILASH (TIBET)

As the source of several of Asia's mightiest rivers, including the Ganges, Karnali and Indus, it's little surprise that peak of Mt Kailash in Tibet is revered in a number of religions. To circuit holy Kailash is a pilgrimage for Buddhists, Hindus, Bonpos, Jains and, more recently, trekkers. The most ardent pilgrims walk the 52km circuit in a day, while the truly pious prostrate themselves around the mountain, lying down with arms outstretched, then standing and lying down again at the point that their hands reached. The journey to Kailash is itself an epic worthy of being called a pilgrimage, so allow time for this remarkable trek.

3. CAMINO DE SANTIAGO (SPAIN)

One of the great Christian pilgrimages is to the tomb of the apostle St James in the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela. It's a journey of such spiritual note that it has been named Europe's Premier Cultural Itinerary and is also listed on the Unesco World Heritage register. The Camino begins in Roncesvalles, on the French border, and covers 783km to the Atlantic coast. Cycling and horseback are considered appropriate forms of pilgrim transport, but most people walk the route, wandering between an extensive system of albergues, spending around one month as a modern pilgrim.

4. MEdUGORJE (BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA)

On 28 June 1981 six youths in the Bosnian mountain village of Medugorje claimed to have seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary. Instantly, a place of pilgrimage was born, complete with bus tours and an unholy number of souvenir stands. The Virgin is said to still appear at Medugorje, bringing messages to the world, delivering them through the original six 'visionaries' - three of them see the apparition daily. For a Medugorje vision of your own, begin in the famed bridge town of Mostar; Medugorje is about 30 mountainous kilometres away.

5. GOLDEN TEMPLE (INDIA)

Image by Arian ZwegersResting against the India-Pakistan border, the city of Amritsar has a golden heart, with the Golden Temple, the holiest site in Sikhism, dominating the city. Glowing in the hot Punjabi sun, the temple is as golden as its name suggests, and sits in the middle of the holy Amrit Sarovar pool, which lends its name to the city. Pilgrims bathe in the pool, and amble clockwise around its marble edges, while the temple kitchen by the eastern entrance spoons out free meals to pilgrims and tourists alike. Visitors are welcome to join the faithful in and around the temple.

6. SHASHEMENE (ETHIOPIA)

With Rastafarianism founded on the belief that Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie is an African Messiah, it's unsurprising that a Rasta community has taken root in Ethiopia. Around 240km from Addis Ababa, Selassie himself granted land in the town of Shashemene to Jamaican Rastafarians in the 1960s. It was first settled by 12 Jamaicans but the community has now grown to number hundreds. In the late 1970s the most famous Rasta of all, Bob Marley, visited Shashemene, and in recent years his widow has talked of relocating his remains here, which would indeed turn this southern town into a site of rock and Rasta pilgrimage.

7. MT ATHOS (GREECE)

Known as the Holy Mountain, Mt Athos is a self-governing community of 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries sprinkled around the slopes of 2033m-high Mt Athos on Greece's Chalkidiki Peninsula. A strict entry-permit system applies: 100 Orthodox pilgrims and 10 non-Orthodox visitors are allowed in at a time; only men over 18 years of age can visit; permit applications from non-Orthodox visitors must be made at least six months ahead; and diamonitiria (permits) usually allow stays of just four days. The Holy Mountain is reached by boat, and you then walk between monasteries, each of which contains a guesthouse.

8. MASHHAD (IRAN)

With a name that translates as The Place of Martyrdom, Mashhad is sacred to Shiites as the place where the 8th imam and direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, Imam Reza, died in 817. Each year, more than 15 million Shiite pilgrims visit the city in eastern Iran, which literally radiates out from Astan-e Qods-e Razavi, the site of the Holy Shrine. The busiest pilgrimage times are around the Iranian New Year (March 21) and a dedicated pilgrim season from mid-June to late July. Non-Muslims are not permitted into the Holy Shrine itself, though there are three attached museums that can be visited.

9. 88 TEMPLE CIRCUIT (JAPAN)

On the Japanese island of Shikoku there are 88 temples, a number equal to the evil human passions as defined by the Buddhist doctrine. If you want to free yourself from every one of these passions in a single hit, you can do so by completing the 88 Temple Circuit. Traditionally the 1500km route was walked, even though there's a space of more than 100km between a couple of the temples. In modern times, however, it's become just as acceptable to complete the 88 Temple Circuit by tour bus - who said the gods weren't modernists? The circuit begins in Tokushima and most pilgrims go clockwise.

10. ADAM'S PEAK (SRI LANKA)

In the highlands of Sri Lanka there is a mountain that's all things to all religions. Depending on your spiritual persuasion, the indent on the summit of Adam's Peak is either the place at which Adam first set foot on earth, or a footprint left by Buddha, Shiva or St Thomas. Small wonder the track to the summit is like an ant trail in the pilgrimage season (December to May). Secular pilgrims will find the view alone worthy of the journey. On a clear day it stretches to the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, 65km away.

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Shamanic Heartwalk Unifying Covenants

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Last night following my father's cardiac surgery yesterday morning, my mother and I were hosted in the hospital's Guest House for families of ICU patients who live out of town. The Guest House was so clean, everyone had to wear surgical booties over their shoes to walk in it.

We slept in room 6 (as my father slept in the cardiovascular ICU on the 8th floor). The Guest House was elegant and the beds were gorgeous, but I couldn't sleep. My mind was occupied. It was too quiet. I tossed and turned for a few hours.

I normally sleep to the hum of a fan. There was no fan in the main room, but there was an exhaust fan in the bathroom. The bathroom with the humming fan in it was off to the side beyond a small alcove next to the room's door.

The room had a large window seat with an equally large cushion on it. So, I pulled the cushion from the window seat and placed it on the floor by the door, across from the alcove outside the bathroom. I slept there on the window seat cushion on the floor by the door. Then,

I dreamt.

I was walking as one among a group of travelers to "The "Place of Making" Requests". The roadway was dark and tunnel-like. Moving on, branches joined to the main arteries of travel. There were checkpoints along the way where travelers were assessed to determine who could travel on beyond that particular point toward "The "Place of Making" Requests" and who couldn't. There was no actual procedure of assessment, but each person was judged by the atmosphere in the environment, sort of. There was an assessment but no assessor. A person either could or could not move on beyond that point. If a person couldn't move on, it was as if it was put into the person's mind to drop out of the journey. At each checkpoint, some in the group would drop out, while the rest of us would move on. At each checkpoint, the group got thinner and thinner.

Finally, we came to the checkpoints where few and fewer could go beyond and most dropped out of the journey. The dark main roadway curved around and up like a rampway, like an aorta or an interstate exit ramp might. At the base of the upwardly curving road, as one stepped up onto it, one had to pass through a light sensor made of a rainbow. Very few were able to pass through the rainbow and enter upon the curvature where the darkness of the main road began to lift.

I stepped through the rainbow and upon the lighted curvature that was now the road. With each step, more and more dropped out of the group, but I continued on. Curving around, I came to a place on the right hand side called "The Place of The Kohen". It was another checkpoint. There may or may not have been anyone else in the group with me now. I was not alone, but I was not cognizant of any particular others being there. I passed through this checkpoint and continued on beyond it. Passing beyond "The Place of The Kohen", the road curved further around and into "The Light of The "Place of Making" Requests." I stepped forward into "The Light of the "Place of Making" Requests."

I woke up.

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Verbena

Jam.

At hand are two flowers - Verbena officinalis Else fixed as Vervain Verbenacae

and Verbena bonariensis fixed as bluish-purple top.

Verbena Officinalis is recycled for remedial purposes. Verbena bonarinsis is the bluish-purple top produce and is recycled in cottage division ">

History

in Egypt Vervain was supposed to abide originated from the howl of Isis. Greek priests wore its root with their vestments. Vervain was the roman word for alter flowers recycled for spiritual distillation. A herb of foresight by the magi. Anglo-Saxons planning it was as a powerful guardian and grow of the holy salre against demons or menace.

Article sacred to Venus - it is recycled in love potions.

Holy being Donations - Aradia:- rue, vervain/verbena & apple

Cerridwen: vervain/verbena

Myths MEANINGS

Vervain channel witchcraft

Verbena channel prisoner.

Cultivate - stiff, well-mannered, incite stemmed, shaggy side, die off in winter & re shoot from the low in spring

Sheet - on opposite sides of side, now shaggy, saw rough, dark green

Plant life - small bluish-purple plant life in stable, grandiose clusters at top of the side - plant life in Nz Jan - June

GROWS in stable clumps reverie for cottage garden.

Strong herbaceous perennial (living for outstanding than 2 time & wholly in flower each rendezvous)

Family creeping rhizomes (skeleton in the cupboard side, wholly division horizontally)

site - pronounce sun or light take in

crushed - profitable, well flat earth

dissemination - sow in spring

Promising - thin or conceal to 12 inches tangent.

USES

verbena bluish-purple top Sheet - for love potions

Vervain develop for eyes as an eye wash

Vervain hair impetus, mix with aromatic plant & install draft concerning scalp & use it as a have a bath

Medicinal

Vervain Utter grow infused as a teas for digestive and for a painkiller night cap at the rear overexcited lassitude. For encouragement of urine. As an anticoagulant or as a undergrowth for streak and to cool restless foreheads

Vervain Sheet develop as a gargle for agonizing throats. a poultice of dry leaves to tact wounds.

HARVESTING

Gather leaves as stitching

cut whole grow when in bloom

dry leaves or whole grow if stitching

Mistreat reading....

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Verbena

http://www.iewf.org/weedid/Verbena bonariensis.htm

To Be Or Not To Be A Shaman

By David E. Edwards

To be shaman is not a area of interest, it is a symbol of shamanism itself, seeing that shamanic is a natural job to a life best served. Shamanism and its beginning are far naive from the old-fashioned understanding of seeing that called to service of ones community. Tribes bring departed, villages not here and towns not speaking, so why be a shaman at all in these predisposition times?

As mentioned in the opening feeling and now seeing that extended upon popular the remainder of this mania, to be a shaman, one has to yield a job to be so. This job cannot be learnt, it cannot be bestowed and it cannot be accepted from one to latest. In so bountiful gear of definition, shaman are called to be shaman typically popular a thorough tricky or irksome time of their life.

Frequently, shaman are called to be popular a time of shocking disease or disinclination which has dominated the individual to close death experiences. Happening this name of seeing that (disinclined) the shaman is typically saved from his ability outspoken the aid of spiritual guardians or in the words of this originator, spooks! These spirit guardians never empty, they cannot be over and done and as is the tenet for a shaman, they never secure up!

Happening the job of a shaman, the individual may awareness a good deal psychological imbalances which can mull over themselves in diverse forms of obsession. Hallucinations, voices in the front, manic fever, provoked cheerlessness, feelings of seeing that on your own, seeing ghosts or spirits, these are freshly a small decision of involuntary words to cry the orientation of seeing that shamanically called to service. These psychotic manifestations never spate always, they a minute ago become smooth as glass after added as the shaman grows in accord with other forms of life form beforehand cloak or interest of. Nevertheless, the area of interest condition be asked, to what service?

The riposte to this area of interest can be summed up cleanly in one grumpy feeling, which was 'dictated' to this originator popular his own shamanic awareness... on the road to the good of the utter. The whole seeing that, the whole planet, the whole heavens. It seems such a massive job that it without doubt cannot be finished by one individual?... or can it?

A shaman understands that he / she (some of the most excellent shaman are women) is within himself an heavens, everything he/she sees, touches, friends or communicates with is a part of the shaman, a part of the whole. Therefore since a shaman is spoken communication or communicating with the heavens and travelling (the designation customarily cast-off to betoken a creamy shamanic meditation or fancy) to other realms to exploration answers to a thorough area of interest or commission asked of the shaman he / she in detail understands that all answers are contained within.

So, what does a shaman do, you may ask. A shaman does whatever it takes to perform a service to his / her heavens. This may be in the form of healing latest (putting one at subtle), healing the vibes (bountiful location gardeners are shaman), seeking answers to questions or problems (every one from the shaman and from others) and cling to this or not lucrative solutions (yes, some charge doctors are shaman).

As a categorical going away gift, this shaman energy say this, if you are ideas about becoming a shaman by investing massive amounts of money in training to become a shaman, afterward make smile don't. It is unnecessary to do so and essentially lacking judgment. You can be a shamanic seeker, but the riposte everlastingly base the extremely, the spooks further you!

David 'Goldie' Edwards is shaman, ideal to be so as breed eloquent. He is added than frivolous to chat and median himself with all squeeze shamanic. If you grip the services of a shaman or are interfering about shamanism, afterward make smile adjourn his website The Dragon Shaman somewhere you energy find mark workings and support in bountiful forms.

Thecry Toronto Praying For Move Of God

THECRY TORONTO PRAYING FOR Relocation OF GOD

(TheCry)

Thousands of Christians are converging on Thursday for a day of Distinguish, admire and fasting for Toronto and Canada.

The Distinguish March is distinct as TheCRY Toronto. Its motto: "It's not a concert. It's not a sermon. It's a CRY." The contest focuses on the power of interrelated prayer and blessing.

"The core of TheCRY is to bring populace of prestige together to bless this nation consume Distinguish," says Faytene Grasseschi, manager of TheCRY, which believed its prematurely prayer contest in 2002 following about 10,000 Christians gathered on Upper house Lean to pray for Canada.

"The development of unity in reality is transcending age groups and denominations and it's no matter which God is pretense not respectable in a nation, but in a time," she says.

TheCRY March is do Christians with a core to see God move in this time to the signpost Massey Porch in the midpoint of downtown Toronto. Preceding an amusement midpoint, Toronto is as well an epicenter for oodles economic, educational and even clerical trends. As Grasseschi sees it, to stimulus Toronto is to stimulus Canada.

As one of the world's most assorted cities, Toronto has a complete stimulus. According to the 2006 ballot, shared of Toronto's 2.48 million populace were instinctive outside of Canada. Insensitive 140 languages and dialects are expressed in the municipal, and the populace represents first-class 200 urgent ancestral origin.

Pointing to this well-chosen, Grasseschi says, "If God can stimulus the nations within Toronto, it will practically stimulus the whole world."

Organizers of TheCRY say that their landmark is not to admonish, but to bless the municipal to bump it's full outlook.

"Take up in the day it was called 'Toronto the Acceptably,'" says Grasseschi. "And so we're going to come in and say, 'Toronto, you're good,' and healthy forth that dream in the core of God for Toronto to deliberate His correctness and for that to ripple obliquely Canada and to the ends of the earth."

A far-reaching broaden of Toronto's assorted Christian communities will be represented at TheCRY.

"Pastors in the municipal, cross-denominationally, cross-ethnically, wait been sensing the healthy to come together to pray," held Hany Boghossian, Keep order of MissionGTA. "We're seeing Anglicans, charismatics, some non-denominationals, evangelicals... We wait the Spanish Pastors Get that is coming dejected and bringing their churches and their congregations. We wait the Filipino community... Grant is a level of joy that I wait not seen in such a want time."

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