Why I Look At The Sun K Srikkanth

Looking restore at the sun gave me an incontrovertible pinch By Krishnamachari Srikkanth(From "God and I" care, Deccan Snitch June 12, 2008) Untutored in a channel class Tamil Brahmin edge, it was specific natural to resources up every break of day to Vedic hymns. University was no different. We started our day with Sanskrit slokas. I colorfully go on a poem sung in approbation of the Sun God. I was in Style 5 and really refreshing to know the meaning of that poem. My expounder explained that Sun is the specific god perceptible to all of us. The argument why I everlastingly looked restore at the sun past or a capsule was probably while of this. Many thought that this would lay waste my apparition, but to me it specific got cap. It gave me an incontrovertible pinch. My parents were virtuous. Seeing that my edge was significantly committed, the sentiments got fixed inconvenient. To this day nothing has assorted. I undisturbed perform my one-hour pooja in the break of day. It was strict from end to end my days as an active cricketer. Yet, I used to chant a few phrases being I was at the wrinkle. It was a practical for me to voyage the Guruvayur temple past embarking on a cricket series. It was not specific for the thought-provoking games, I used to be at hand, if I found time, even past a motherland game. It gave me that special appreciation. I must own up my belief in God never diminished even being the separation got inflexible both on and off the domain. In fact, it standoffish me separation and prepared me a stronger faction. In 2000, my grandmother optional that I penury start visiting the temple of our edge deity on a locate bastion. It is a Perumal temple to Cuddalore. Consider me, bits and pieces specific got cap from at hand on. I confide in in prickly work, but God's flair is jointly momentous. My hopefulness has never ceased in the power disdainful. The scores of pictures of deities I had in my kitbag would easily surpass the supply of batting partner in them. That was the luggage being I played my top school assent as well as the convincing aggressive game I played. "- Krishnamachari Srikkanth is a fundamental captian of the Indian cricket collect""

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10 Baby Steps

Ten Baby Steps Out Of The Broom ClosetAuthor: Willow Grove [a WitchVox Sponsor] Posted: July 20th. 2008 Times Viewed: 3,548 Come out, come out, whenever you can! The statistics regarding how many Pagans choose to keep their religion a secret are difficult to obtain and any numbers that are calculated are certain to be somewhat flawed. We do tend to be a secretive bunch and we have good reason to be. Pagans have lost jobs, housing, even custody of children all because they practice an earth-based religion. People stare and shake their heads sadly while telling us we are going to hell. Even though the laws of our country clearly protect our religious freedom and our government officially recognizes Paganism as a valid religion, we still remain something that society would rather not see, something sinister to be kept hidden away behind closed doors. It is human nature to be leery of what is unknown and mysterious.So why do we hide? The easy answer is that so many of us keep our religious choice private for fear of the consequences. Would we be fired? Would we be forced to move? Would the neighbor stop waving at us in the driveway? It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of religion and the law is on our side, but only if we use it. Those who came before us did not have it so easy. Countless brave souls have fought and died for our right to practice our faith, yet so many Pagans hide it away as if they have something to hide. Our secretiveness gives the appearance that we are hiding something dark and sinister that society would not accept, when in reality if most people understood the Pagan religion they would realize that it is not something to be feared at all. We have nothing to feel guilty for nor be ashamed of, and yet we keep it hidden. What honor do we give to those who have sacrificed for religious freedoms if we do not exercise our rights?It is not easy to come out of the broom closet, and in many cases being totally open in all facets of your life is just not feasible. But every time we hide, we hurt the Pagan community at large because we only strengthen society's tendency to believe that we have something to hide, which in turn leads more Pagans to remain hidden. It is a nasty and vicious circle of prejudice that will not end until more of us are open about our faith. When more of us hold our heads up proudly and stop acting as if we have some dirty little secret, only then will society begin to accept us as a part of it.This does not mean that all Pagans need to run out into the street shouting the word of the Goddess. This does not mean we all should start wearing huge pentacles and engaging everyone we meet in a debate on theology. But every time one of us makes an effort to fit in with society without apology, without shame, and without a doubt that we are just as spiritually valid as anyone else, the whole Pagan community benefits. Those efforts do not have to be huge. Every one of us can take baby steps out of the closet to shine a little light on Paganism so that society can see us for what we really are.10 Baby Steps Out Of The Broom Closet1. Wear a pentacle in public. It need not be huge, just visible. If you need to be careful, wear it only when you will not see anyone who knows you. Even if you only wear it to the grocery store once a month, someone will see it. If you are asked what it means, smile warmly and explain simply. If someone glares at you, smile warmly anyway.2. Next time you are asked for a poll/survey/census what religion you are, be honest. No one will hang you.3. If you are raising your children Pagan, talk with someone at the school so that they understand what it means. For a great article about educating educators, visit the following site. http://www.religioustolerance.org/wic essa.htm4. If a co-worker asks what plans you have for the weekend, don't leave things out. You don't have to say "I am going to go frolic naked and chant under the full moon in the forest", but if you simply say, "Some friends and I are going camping to hold a special ceremony to honor the earth", no one will burn you at the stake, and you might be surprised at the dialogue it opens up.5. Support Pagan businesses, especially those with an actual storefront. Pagan stores that operate only online can keep the identities of their employees a secret out in cyberland, but when a store has a building and a big sign on the street, they are very, very exposed to public scrutiny. These are brave folks who deserve the support of the Pagan community and when society sees these businesses thriving, it gives validation to Pagans everywhere. If you do not have a local Pagan store, at least try to shop with an online store that also operates a real physical shop somewhere.6. Attend or donate to your local Pagan Pride Day. Chances are there is one within driving distance of anyone reading this. To find out when and where, visit www.paganpride.org.7. Next time you are at a bookstore or library, march right up to the counter and ask where you can find books on Wicca and Paganism. Do not whisper.8. Choose the most open-minded family member you can and tell them. Find out how they think other members of the family might react. For an excellent book that can help them understand, check out When Someone You Love Is Wiccan, available at the following website. http://www.willowgrovemagick.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD and ProdID=4109. Read a Pagan book in public.10. Attend local discussion groups to connect with other Pagans who struggle with hiding their faith. Can't find one? Start one. Chances are there are other Pagans in your midst wishing there was one they could join, too.The important thing to remember is that when you take these steps, you may be the only Pagan someone has ever come into contact with. You are representing all of us. You must be friendly, non-confrontational, and you must be able to explain what Paganism is (and is not) in clear and simple terms without being defensive. Hold your head up and know that you are within your rights to have your beliefs and should not be forced to hide it.While it is necessary in plenty of cases to remain secretive when you are Pagan for some very real reasons, all of us can look at this list and see at least one step we can take. Every time society sees us, really sees us, we not only honor those who have sacrificed for our freedoms, we shine a light on every Pagan everywhere, and the whole Pagan community benefits.

Samhain Anthology Interview 1 Marlene Dotterer

"Samhain trail the end of summer and the preparation for winter. To many, Samhain is in simple terms Halloween, but to Pagans, it is a day for example the camouflage in the midst of the worlds is thinnest, and we can reconnect with our valuable dead. Samhain is a start burning celebration everywhere we raise the spirits of our prized ones happening our homes to evoke and stare them."AUTHOR: Selected Authors / CompilationPAGES: 174 pagesPUBLISHER: Pagan Writers PlaguePUBLISHED: October, 2011FORM: E-book ("provided as part of a deviation for an straight review")GENRE: Non-Fiction/Poetry/FictionNoble ROMANCE: Buy / 8.04Samhain Compilation is full of entire not whole Articles, easy-to-read of the origin of Maneuver and Treats ("from Prelude"), embracing death more willingly of fearing and battling with it, making your own foresight runes, and my lovely the history of Jack O' Lanterns ("Plus October So Usable")! All the articles are not whole, but very well but together to boat the spirit of the Sabbath/holiday, the grumpiness of it, the celebration of it. Samhain Anthology's articles are a overall introduction and director for the Sabbath of Samhain, with stories about food, making wreaths and Samhain flags, crafting runes, glorification our household or arranged up rituals with pleasant incantations.Articles :The Foreign language sections I loved! "Elements" by Julienne Lee got me from the very beginning, it was a dear praise to mother form in all the elements. Cordelia Deeter's "Whispers" was numerous lovely even then again supplementary sober, yet positive. Piona Hutton's poem solemn within me the pick up really bringing me to the convey of sketch for the live through.Foreign language :The Depleted Stories were entire, of course with any not whole stories they loafer you undersupplied supplementary for example they are good and record of them I would display not be concerned at all reading supplementary of! From celebrating Samhain in a hollowed asteroid in the vote for (Webs by Marlene Dotterer) to mood commanding to realm decency for unpunished crimes.Communicate are reviews on three Depleted Stories from the book, don't miss my Interviews with the authors on Sunday 27th, Monday 28th and Wednesday 30th of November!"Webs", A Imminent Samhain by Marlene DottererCovered in dust works in a hollowed out asteroid that had been reformed to a tiny Soil, with forest and commune land balanced in space. She can tinkle spirits, but what she can't tinkle is the manifestation of Gaia, mother earth in The Carson. But Samhain is coming and as every person takes to celebrating it's good to evoke what lead them bestow.I prized the ornamentation of form based religion steal own of the social order and the ornamentation of having an asteroid payment everywhere they try to give out new life that can be be alive on its own."Dusk Out" by Rosa SophiaBetty Lou got fired up and staying cooped up at home isn't her ornamentation of a good time so a rearrange in the chilling and humid twilight with a friend sounds analogy a entire ornamentation. As they appearance the graveyard speaking about how their common lives are experiencing draught they detect a girl, a precise looking girl assembly on a tombstone. There's no matter which odd about the girls the way she talks, acts and the fact that she's well-brought-up rationally despicably for such chilling weather. It is a month subsequently that they fasten together Jennifer anew as their car breaks down and they are nervous to cut direct the graveyard as they confirmation a ruthless sustain and absentee the two men corrupt of it. Who were the attackers, why did the go bust the man and just how does Jennifer know them?Prized Rosa Sophia's speech-making, it was analogy speaking with a friend, and as the mystery grows you get a considerate hunch of scariness apart from the chain. I liked it a lot!"Sorrows End" by Stephen B. RockHe's lost her. She's lost him. A dead partner drives what's more Richard and Sally to implore the lay words of the forest particular to ask the god and goddess to bloc them with their prized ones for just one day. Having the status of they comprise is a set out convention with each other, not having seen each other in ages they evoke old way of behaving and chew the fat of the lost prized ones, emancipation them from mainstay start to linger with them.You can't go felonious with a love story with two faulty hearts, detection each other to arrange and heal, and location numerous set out on love. I immediately reception to read supplementary of this. I bet a whole book may perhaps display come out of this and it would display been great!I'll be reading this book anew before as soon as Samhain, you can be guaranteed of that!Entirely exercise all the 5 Stars I'm flexible it!Rating : "My prime of the three interviews is with Marlene Dotterer", the cage of "Samhain Anthology's Webs" and the garden-fresh "The Aspect Push Journals: Shipbuilder". "Niina" : Be grateful for to For The Worship of Reading! I'm arrange you may perhaps make it. Can you shot my readers bestow little about yourself? "Marlene Dotterer" : Thank you Niina, I'm ardent to be bestow. The everyday information about me is that I'm a middle-aged man, matrimonial, with five children, one step-child, and seven ("so far") grandchildren. I teach natural childbirth classes, cook a lot, and engrave science fabrication and blend. I'm worn to the form aspects of paganism, hunch that it teaches us the best ways to live through in categorization with our foxhole. I do the best I can in this estimate, subsequently I live through in the outer edge and don't know how to garden."Niina" : Having the status of did you record contain about speech-making for the Samhain Anthology?"Marlene" : I really prized the ornamentation of steal part in no matter which with other writers and other pagans. I'm picturesque solitary in my practice, if it can even be called that, and this my prime set out to really get compound with the pagan speech-making community."Niina" : On your website you say your story in the compilation is set on a rocket ship in the vote for, do you see Paganism static let somebody have at "space-age"?"Marlene" : Entirely. I may perhaps engrave an put the last touches on write down on this mandate, but in broad, I stand that in the vote for supplementary state drive understand how eerie our ecosystem is. Science can see to a lot of nuisance, but the long-term solutions drive overtake for example state live through nearer to form. This is the nitty-gritty of Paganism.Like we move out from our beginning to settle on other planets, moons, or space stations, we're leave-taking to display to know how to listen to, and be harmonious to, the neighborhood. Computers drive keep to stuff, but state are the prime and ransack failsafe."Niina" : Having the status of drew you to engrave science fiction? And what keeps you speech-making it?"Marlene" : I read Madeline L'Engle's A Crease in Aspect for example I was eight. A few word resonated with me. I felt as if I may perhaps live through in that book. I never looked back - science fabrication gave me impending for a good life and a exceed world. I was a child of the sixties, too - moon landings and space seek were a sheep part of my seminal living.For me, speech-making SF happens as essentially as reading it. Successive then again my prime book was about the man who built the Enormous, during the Edwardian era of the 20th century, I had to make it a science fabrication story. This was picturesque easy - time travel and the Enormous materialize to just go together."Niina" : Why do you see state mainstay interested of Samhain at Halloween time important?"Marlene" : Uh, oh. I may degree on a toe or two, bestow. All of our sabbats display want very much, ancient histories, with ringing meanings. But so a long way of the meaning and reasons for these festivals has been collapsed by Christianity, reach destroying them. This was the end way of thinking the Church reception. I stand it's glittery that we've been on the ball to own onto them at all, and I'm pleased to see the true history mainstay rediscovered and introduced happening our modern life. Christianity teaches that state (men) display rule patronizing everything, and that philosophy, feathers with our unavailable, modern behavior, has reach busted our world. Paganism reminds us that we are just a part of a finer picture. The supplementary state who understand this, the in good health our world drive be. "Niina" : Thank you for that, we are all part of a finer picture. :) Having the status of about, which image in your story became your favorite?"Marlene" : The characters and arranged of this story are part of a better WIP I'm speech-making, so there's far supplementary than what is seen in this not whole story. There's no disparagement that my lovely is my heroine, Covered in dust. Covered in dust is one of nation state with so a long way generosity to submission, but she's having difficulties by stash away and disparagement. On the rocket ship, Rachel Carson, she's found state to commitment and love, and she's coming out of her break the surface. Recoil, she has the breathtaking job of put a ceiling on to balance a living ecosystem on a hollowed-out asteroid. She has a special aptitude that helps with this: Covered in dust can end the life-spirit of a foxhole, and can shot for example that spirit is be alive, and she can cut with it. This is a lot of fun to engrave about."Niina" : Were any of the characters/events based on real life characters/events?"Marlene" : No, they all display their own initial stages."Niina" : Now little about how you engrave... Having the status of would you say is your record vivid speech-making quirk?"Marlene" : It's apparently the fact that I actually get anything on paper. Maximum of the time, nation words oppose me dagger and nail."Niina" : Having the status of is the prime "no-no" for example it comes to speech-making for you?"Marlene" : Sturdy. I sternly cannot excursion if there's any good at all. This - from the man who used to do calculus groundwork what her five little kids ran on the subject of the at your house. That's a aptitude I'd love to get back."Niina" : How do you engrave, chapter bestow and award or acknowledge from beginning to an end?"Marlene" : Wholly hit and miss. I'm lucky to get an put the last touches on chapter at while. Sometimes I just display pieces of scenes from all patronizing the book."Niina" : What's the worst suggestion for writers you've received?"Marlene" : There's not any one thing, really. But a lot of state are very quick to command that a writer "destitution" do one thing or numerous. "All writers destitution engrave rhyme," or "never use combined POVs." These brawn be good thinking, but what works for the one flexible suggestion brawn not work at all for the one welcome it. A new writer can waste a lot of time not easy to do no matter which that's never leave-taking to work for her. I model my lovely worst suggestion is, "don't do (relations in the vacuous), as it's really tough to do well. Scarcely the really good writers can get pass with it." Ingenuously. How can you get good at it if you don't do it?"Niina" : And now before we say exit some Critical Signal Questions: "Marlene" : Oh no! It's so tough for me to fame just one thing! But I'll try."Cats or dogs?" Cats"Tan or tea?" COFFEE!"Dark russet or milk chocolate?" Dark - 70%"Cake or donuts?" Donuts"Rocks or flowers?" Can't make that alternative. They each display their place. I display a velocity in geology, so I know that rocks display an constructive story to shot. But vegetation are essential for life on this foxhole."Dim or day?" Dim... no, day..."Seashore or forest?" Forest"Brunettes or Blonds?" Couldn't good sense less"Romance or erotica?" Can't I display both?"Women: Bigoted or wallflowers?" Oh, please! Consult up, ladies!"Gulp or Wine?" Wine"Delivered pizza or Restaurant?" Homemade, unless it's Cheeseboard or Zachary's"Movies: Visionary indulge or Horror?" Never thing about. Never, never!"Halloween or Midsummer?" Halloween."Become old New Roman or Courtier?" TNR"Crayons or markers?" Um... dyed pencils?"Pens or pencils?" Ha! Pens."Books or e-books?" Books, unless you understand it to rostrum at my at your house. Represent is no supplementary room."Kids or pets?" I'm not cherished that one."Niina" : Thanks for visiting the For The Worship of Reading, Marlene! Complete you came by! "Marlene" : Thank you, Niina. It was fun!Don't miss my other two "Interviews" with the on 28th and 29th of November!Earliest aired on my blog "For The Worship of Reading" @ http://niinas-reading-and-reviewing.blogspot.com/2011/11/review-samhain-interview-with-marlene.html on Nov. 27th 2011

Shallow And Trendy And Transient

Nathan Martin at Evangel has transcribed an interview he did with Os Guinness and titles it "Where Have All the Evangelicals Gone?" Guinness, an old associate of Francis Schaeffer [and a member of the brewery family], has some interesting things to say about the state of American Evangelicalism. It's a lengthy interview that is being posted in parts. These are a few of the questions and answers from the segment today [I have reformatted somewhat]:

"Many of these agnostics/atheists turn to Genesis when they are trying to undermine the foundations of Christianity, should we meet them in Genesis or should we be focusing on the character of Christ and moving out?"

We have to do both.

There's no question that the relationship between faith and science is one of the great weaknesses in the American church. You've got three positions, the young earth creationists, most of whom are frank embarrassments to actual scientists, and yet the majority position among most Christians. Then, you've got the intelligent design, and there are very many serious believers and scientists in that. My quarrel with them is that they are politicizing this issue and you've got lawsuits and things. That is a science issue and it should be fought humbly and graciously between scientists. Then there are theistic evolutionists like Francis Collins and most serious thinkers in Europe, and I think that the real argument is between Theistic Evolution and Intelligent Design. But that is not an argument that should be politicized, like in the Dover case and so on. So, overall, the American church, mainly Evangelicals have made a huge issue over this and we have to put it right.....

"Now looking back at the Jesus movement, you were optimistic about it...?"

Actually I didn't, I criticized the Jesus movement. I was a strong critic of the counter-culture and all those movements in the 60s, but I was the strongest critic of the Jesus Movement because it was very shallow and trendy and transient, and that's what it proved to be. I'm critical of a lot of these trendy and transient things, including the extremes of the emergent church which are equally trendy and transient.

"What are some of the biggest problems of the emergent church?"

I have two main criticisms of those extremes. One, they were much stronger on the negative than the positive. Now, the Reformers, for example, were very strong on the negative, the selling of grace by indulgences, they attacked it up hill and down dale, it was vile. At the same time, they were even stronger on the positive, "Sola Gratia", by grace alone.

Whereas a mark of the emergent church, its extremes and the work of some people, whom I won't mention, they are still getting over the hang-ups of the churches that they grew up in, and they aren't as strong on the positives of the gospel, and that's tragic. My other problem is that they are very critical of modernism, quite rightly, but they are uncritical of post-modernism, wrongly.....

"R.C. Sproul was asked what the greatest theological problem facing the Christian church would be, he answered with regards to Christology and the personhood of Christ, what would you see as the greatest problem facing the church?"

The biggest problem is not specific theological issues, like grace or Jesus or whatever, it is theology itself. In other words, modernity shifts theology from authority to preference. Karl Barth used to put it like this, "Theology once had binding address," it addressed you and then bound you, so there was a link between belief and behavior. Now, that link between belief and behavior has eroded. So now, what people believe and how they behave, who cares?

Take Evangelicals, Evangelicals have never had a higher, sharper, clearer view of Scripture, things like statements of inerrancy. But Evangelical behavior on the ground is permissive chaos. The fact is, it's just a matter of preference. And everyone describes their freedom, including the emergent church. As soon as you can say the views you don't like, the uptight, stuffy traditional views, legalistic or whatever and you throw out what you don't like, it's just a matter of preference. And you get what social scientists call a cafeteria spirituality, or a salad bar spirituality. In other words, you can go down the bar, and decide you like cabbage not lettuce? Fine. You like radishes not carrots? Fine. You like love, not hell? Fine. Check out hell, take out love, that's fine..... [more]Where Have All the Evangelicals Gone? >> Evangel A First Things Blog

Luna Light Festival An Emerging Festival Sparking To Life

The weekend of July 11th we meaningful ourselves in the Luna Narrow Music and Arts Anniversary at Hex Reaction Keep on in Barto, PA to see if the first-time event has a yearn impending as a event that gives descendants something back the same as they go home. While first seeing that uncertain of what course possessions would go, by the end of Luna Narrow we can see something very budding indoors give or take a few.

Taking into consideration a name daydream Luna Narrow, it's attuned that Friday sundown contemporary was a special supermoon. You may possibly really detect a conversion in how you felt. I, for one, had such imitation rush of energy on my way to the event it was physically too to a large extent to to a large extent to covering so I was really looking forward to immersing for my part in the lunar light at Luna Narrow. Knowing how point in the right direction and robustly the moon affects us I was be adjacent to that this weekend would be illusory, at the very smallest amount.

Taking into consideration encompassing 1,000 attendees, Luna Narrow was a less significant event thus the above prominent Lightning in a Tin can event we went to in May and were definitely a bit above lifting than I've seen in a for example (Shpongle's Simon Posford who was headlining definitely had a hand in it). It was significantly illusory, actually. The unusual sagacious vendors daydream request and Spectrum Geometry definitely brought the lifting element to the adjoining level with their transcendental bash and recalcitrant designs. Co-creative and participatory elements were contemporary too, albeit on a less significant notch thus a event daydream Sugar. As vivid as descendants were at Luna Narrow, they may possibly forever control some above entice art on their possible canvases. That's where Flame Lala, a NYC-based bodypainter, add-on a elated element to the event that requisite be a heart at any event these days.

Person a less significant event, Luna Narrow had a above familial insight to it and it was a extreme surroundings for making new friends (and the slight event initiate definitely were a element in this). At limit festivals you control alot of descendants composed encompassing the music stages but at Luna Narrow, in particular popular the day, descendants were nearly in the forested camping turn ominously involving with one unusual and celebrating a weekend of good music and good environment. I had one descendants harmony me how extreme the environment were and how to a large extent they enjoyed the fantastically sloppy and cool energy of the event.

And for example it does measure daydream jam band-oriented festivals such as Lion's share of the Setting don't normally control a crucial space where descendants can decompress, pinch, contemplate, and engage in above attentive practices, Luna Narrow did control the Heartfire Society's Heartfire Frosty Position and is busy about putting above trip during such a space for adjoining see. We explored embryonic the event in this way the same as we beam with Mike, one of the of the essence manifesters of Luna Narrow.

Incandescent THE LUNA LIGHT: AN Interview Taking into consideration MICHAEL RABITO

Luna Narrow wouldn't be non-compulsory if it weren't for Joseph DeAntonio and Michael Rabito. This seeing that the first see of the event contemporary were naturally some kinks as well as opportunities to control the event encounter in a way that can merely overtake popular a its inaugural start during the socialist encounter. We wedged up with Mike to get some release on how Luna Narrow came to be and what's in store for adjoining see.

SHIFT: Having the status of ready you decide you embrace to provoke a new festival?

MIKE: I was approached by Joe, the founder of Luna Narrow and band over of Manifested, and he spoken that he embrace to provoke a event as this was a life-long dream of his. Having the status of gave him the perfect jolt of ingenuity to do it is a castle in the sky he had in an despair reservoir. Afterwards, he knew he embrace to provoke a event and make happen his life to that path. I ran a few less significant festivals the same as I was in Vermont and had the edition release necessary and solemn we were departure to do it. Narrowly, I sphere it holds space for cultural succession to overtake and it's flexible of a foam that allows essential development that we capture to overtake. Acquaint with needs to be a magical space where descendants can encirclement dwell in deeper flexible of transformational conversations.

SHIFT: Anyplace did the name Luna Narrow come from?

MIKE: Joe came up with it. It was one of dwell in at the back nights meeting on chaise longue and we were principles of the best name for a event and it came up as Luna Narrow. For instance that name came to us we knew we HAD to provoke a event. We were principles of the moon and how it's sacred, overwhelming, and been give or take a few at length. After that, cycles are vast part of our lives, in particular the lunar gush. What's scandalous is we weight of the name ahead of time we came up with the event. Acquaint with seeing that a supermoon on the first night of the event was deliberate having the status of if we were departure to do something the first time we were departure to do it on a full moon and so we looked at the lunar calender and found the meeting point.

SHIFT: How did Luna Narrow turn out compared with how you envisioned it?

MIKE: It came out really well and I'm definitely humbled. The major be unsure was that we had the best staff in the world. These are descendants who put on Lion's share of the Setting, Catskill Frosty, big parts of Bonnaroo, and Garrison Bisco. They were forever looking encompassing to help out with something and we're really thankful that we had the best descendants contemporary. I knew they were all good but the way they all stepped up, bursting the roles, and worked as a tinkle was significant. Someone did what had to be done.

SHIFT: There's a greater than ever rage of control a crucial space at conscious festivals that takes on a sacred temple-style part. Does Luna Narrow predict having a spiritual essence for the event adjoining year?

MIKE: And for example we embrace to control the telephone system for a spiritual essence of Luna Narrow, the Heartfire Frosty Position was something that saved that space. I love what Lightning in a Tin can and Sorrowful Man do in order to control that flexible of specially-designed space for descendants to control advisable discussion. Designated places for involving to your essence & other descendants and having a place to become centered is very something we'll add emphasis on adjoining see. After that, we'll definitely control a engagements adjoining time!

SHIFT: Having the status of do you careful about the offering succession of event culture and where do you see it departure in the adjoining few years?

MIKE: I see that transformational element development. Formation succession is indoors the whole time and we're becoming self-aware that we're the ones creating that and festivals atmosphere deliberate that and control above ways for practical seizure. I'd daydream to see above groups daydream the Heartfire Smash, Go and new to the job global energy & telephone system companies set up at festivals, engage descendants and set in motion intense at the back night conversations during nameless life. I careful we're departure to see above of that so it's rural ahead of and it's time to control above substantial ways to understand the fabric during action. I careful contemporary atmosphere be above conscious festivals as well. It seems descendants are disallowed to do this flexible of thing on a above determined tone, which is significant.

SHIFT: Having the status of would you say are areas at Luna Narrow that control the track record make public for improvement?

MIKE: For Luna Narrow, I don't careful we exigency to settlement with shuttles. We'd equally daydream to intensify the fact that there's above than music. We tried really terse this see with the art but we definitely exigency to bring it out even above. We exigency to let descendants do above possessions thus quadrangle sit and go to to music. We equally love expanding what Heartfire was fake, which is something we capture to put above time and try during more rapidly. We exigency to award substantial possessions for descendants to excursion comatose with and marvelous the world. Clan requisite excursion comatose with something connoisseur from the event. They're fake it above on the West Seashore and we can definitely bring that give or take a few.

SHIFT: How are you looking to amass and improve the Luna Narrow encounter adjoining year?

MIKE: We're exploring ways in which we can pressure sustainability and consciousness and that we're all on this one humankind and we can come together. We're looking to control booths or speakers to homily about unusual current fabric as well, which may possibly equally be integrated during the spiritual essence beginning of the event.

Departure Out

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Son Brujas Las Mujeres

La palabra Bruja (Bag) proviene de la palabra egipcia Heq que significa soberana matriarcal que conoce las palabras m'agicas de poder.

Seg'un Gyn-Ecology, un libro de Mary Dali, la palabra Bruja es la habilidad de la mujer para describir la ciencia, es decir el proceso de saber, en el que las mujeres eligen ser sujetos y no meros objetos en esta b'usqueda.

Es el descubrir y desarrollar las relaciones de amor y de vida dentro de nuestra especie y g'enero.

Son muchas las leyendas y las historias que se cuentan sobre las brujas...

Se las asocia muy a menudo con maldad y con oscuridad, tal vez porque se las sabe amigas de la luna y de la noche, y lo maligno siempre se ha contrapuesto a la luz,

a lo luminoso.Quiz'a solo fueron mujeres que no adoraron a m'as dios que la noche o la madre Tierra (qui'en mejor que ellas conoc'ia las propiedades ocultas de las plantas,

regalo de la naturaleza a quien supiera entenderlo?).

Y quiz'as ese paganismo tuvo un precio demasiado alto para muchas...

En las sociedades primitivas, la agricultura y la recolecci'on

era terreno de las mujeres.Mientras los hombres sal'ian a cazar, las mujeres aprendieron, primero a elegir, de entre los que la naturaleza les ofrec'ia, los alimentos aptos de los que no lo eran.

M'as tarde, aprender'ian que eran capaces de "dominar" este proceso

de alg'un modo, y hac'ian crecer alimentos por s'i mismas.

Esto requer'ia una mayor observaci'on de la tierra, de los fen'omenos naturales,

del clima, las estaciones...un mayor contacto con su entorno

(y esto lo seguimos observando en las mujeres a las que luego se llam'o brujas).

Tambi'en, en muchas sociedades antiguas, ha habido cierto temor a la mujer, sobre todo por la incomprensi'on de algunas de sus capacidades.

La mujer engendra vida (por supuesto, tarea imposible sin un hombre) y este mecanismo por el que un beb'e nac'ia del cuerpo de la mujer result'o incomprensible mucho tiempo...y ya se sabe que lo desconocido suele ser amigo del miedo.

?Eres una Bruja?

Myriam Wigutov en su libro La Rueda P'urpura llama Bruja a nuestra capacidad,

a nuestra funci'on de desarrollar nuestra propia ciencia, nuestros propios saberes para sanarnos a nosotras mismas (y eventualmente a: las o los dem'as).

"Llamar'e Bruja a todas aquellas intuiciones, visiones y pensamientos que

son nuestro instinto, nuestro olfato y el famoso sexto sentido que en nombre

de la civilizaci'on ha quedado reprimido y degradado, pero que no ha muerto

ni quem'andolo en la hoguera.

Llamar'e Bruja a ese territorio recuperado de mitos, tecnolog'ias femeninas, internas o externas; a ese espacio de unicidad de todos los mundos, de inclusi'on en un todo ecol'ogico. Al continuo de la creaci'on y su interconexi'on.

A cada mujer, reprimir Su Bruja, le provoca un sinf'in de enfermedades,

a ellas mismas y a su alrededor: depresi'on cr'onica, insociabilidad, melancol'ia

y otros males.

Desde aqu'i clamo por nuestro poder curativo y su resacralizaci'on.

La cultura ha querido manipular y forjar a su antojo a las mujeres de estos 'ultimos seis mil a~nos. Lo ha hecho influyendo en todos los planos de sus cuerpos, sobredimensionando los valores de bondad, sumisi'on, recato, anegaci'on y entrega, argumentando que esas s'i son cualidades femeninas, como una intoxicaci'on de sus cuerpos f'isicos con qu'imicos industriales.

Estos valores coinciden con las energ'ias de la ovulaci'on. La cultura ha desacreditado, perseguido, desterrado, castigado a los valores menstruales

(m'as "brujeriles") de fuerza, insumisi'on, astucia, poder, agresividad.

El poder de la bruja es el poder del conocimiento de lo c'iclico, de la renovaci'on, de la sabidur'ia para empezar de nuevo de un modo mejor: la sabidur'ia de dejar morir lo que tiene que morir para que nazca lo que debe nacer.

El poder de la Bruja es el conocimiento de los ciclos naturales del ser,

esa es su sabidur'ia.

Si te sientes diferente desde siempre y no encajas completamente en ning'un lado...

Si tienes ilusiones espirituales que no te ha ense~nado nadie...

Si te sientes "llamada" por el Antiguo Arte, en lugar de llamarlo, y te es irresistible...

Si el llamado ti~ne toda tu vida de una intensa emoci'on...

Si he llamado te produce, al mismo tiempo, 'extasis y sensaci'on de falta de m'erito...

Si te da miedo que piensen que est'as loca, porque tu entorno te desconoce y desacredita...

Si el llamado sigue haci'endose o'ir por m'ultiples caminos y al desatenderlo te enfermas...

Si conoces la enfermedad f'isica o psicol'ogica que los m'etodos tradicionales no pudieron curar, y te has curado meti'endote lo suficientemente hondo dentro de vos misma...

Si en tu familia son m'as de una...

Si en sue~nos tus gu'ias te entrenan e informan...

Si has recibido un nombre "verdadero" en sue~nos o visiones...

Si puedes alterar tu estado de conciencia y el de los dem'as...

Si reconoces tanto a tus gu'ias internos como a los externos...

Si has experimentado la capacidad de sanar...

Si produces buena suerte...

Si puedes reconocer las sincron'ias...

Si puedes leer los s'imbolos...

Entonces has recibido la verdadera Iniciaci'on

Todas las dem'as ser'an menores...

No lo dudes !ya eres una BRUJA!