The Wash Pot Cauldron Is In The House

Saturday I decided the wash pot cauldron had sat in the store room long enough.

The first thing I had to do was get rid of this box. It's the box of yarn and cross stitch Kurt's mom gave me when we helped her move- in September. Yeah. I had planned to get rid of it from the beginning because it was all things I didn't want, either I didn't like the colors or the cross stitch had a religious theme. But for some reason, the box just didn't go anywhere. The box was falling apart so I repacked it into plastic bags and took every thing to Goodwill.

I had planned to put the wash pot in this corner because that would look great under my staff. But it wouldn't fit. I wouldn't be able to open the front door.

The tv used to be here. For some reason, I never pushed the cords into the floor, I just left them sprawled out. What is up with this corner of my house? Maybe the energy is stuck because we don't really use it.

After pushing the satellite cords through the floor, then mopping, I lugged in the wash pot. Then I discovered the crate was too big to fit inside. Bummer.

I put the cook pot inside the wash pot and all the items that should have gone in the crate will go around the cook pot. The cook pot, a small cauldron, will be where the magick actually happens. And that makes more sense. Now what to do with the crate?

I thought the crate would go great under Mama Kate's side board. I thought if I turned wooden crate one sideways, it'd slide right in. No. Doesn't fit here either. Rats, foiled again.

I had to turn both crates sideways and now I have to move everything to open crate two. While shuffling around my belongings, I decided crate two would be a great potion cabinet. I think crate one needs to relocate. It might me useful for storing Kurt's shoes. He likes to leave his boots in the middle of floor where I can trip over them.

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Roll Of Thoth Non Magick Magick Books

In which I share with you seven things to expand your art and raise your gnosis.

This time, books that have deeply influenced my magick, but are not about magick.

The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick - As a devotee of Thoth, this book is almost a sacred text to me. It explains so well how we communicate, and how everything is comprised of information. Where Peter J. Carroll uses the word mana or kia to describe the essence of the universe, I use information.

The Wayfinders by Wade Davis - Wade taught me why knowing magick may not only be personally empowering, but perhaps vital to our survival. Nothing can sum it up better that this quote:

"We have this extraordinary conceit in the West that while we've been hard at work in the creation of technological wizardry and innovation, somehow the other cultures of the world have been intellectually idle. Nothing could be further from the truth. Nor is this difference due to some sort of inherent Western superiority. We now know to be true biologically what we've always dreamed to be true philosophically, and that is that we are all brothers and sisters. We are all, by definition, cut from the same genetic cloth. That means every single human society and culture, by definition, shares the same raw mental activity, the same intellectual capacity. And whether that raw genius is placed in service of technological wizardry or unraveling the complex thread of memory inherent in a myth is simply a matter of choice and cultural orientation."

Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha - This one sums up my reasons for being a follower of Babalon. It asks the question, are humans more like chimps or bonobos? My answer - we decide.

Nueromancer by William Gibson - One of the first cyberpunk novels, in it the main character exposes a philosophy that "the body is just meat." I used to believe that's true, but I still believe in the message that we create our own worlds.

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley - A wonderful retelling of the King Arthur story which includes the clash between the old Celtic religion and Christianity. The best part is how some of the characters realize that both can be right.

The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft - There are things that humankind will never comprehend, Lovecraft makes you confront that horrible truth head-on. Word to the Lovecraft aficionado: there are plenty of cheap editions out there because Lovecraft's work is in the public domain, but if you want insight and the texts in their purest form look for anything edited by S.T. Joshi.

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers - I don't think anything I can say will add to the well deserved accolades of Joseph Campbell, so once again, I will let the quote do the work.

"Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies."

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Mocking The Faithful Suck It Jesus

I conceive of I can steadfastly lead that any person reading this has now heard about Kathy Griffin saying, "Suck it, Jesus" at the Emmy Awards. As conventional, the self-appointed defenders of Christianity are up in arms, and visit atheist bloggers are steady pleased about it. American Atheists issued a testimony condemning broadcasters for censoring Griffin's testimony when they re-air the dowry. Everything tells me that this desire be yet original missed fortuitous for some innate tongue about the place of religion in our modern world.I lead that Griffin's explanation were believed to carry a comedic effect in that she was making fun of the round macro weakness for celebrities to thank imaginary beings complete their acceptance speeches. She is not enough the prematurely to moan intellect to this ghostly usage or to mock it. The discrepancy seems to be that she mocked it at the awards dowry and that her explanation carry been interpreted as disrespectful Jesus too.Do I find her explanation funny? Lately. I am disgusted with the celebrities and athletes who establish on thanking extrasensory beings for their triumph, and I response nation who would mock them. Their beliefs are both unjust and harmful; send up is within your rights. I am very well sane that believers are ill-treated by such send up. The thing is, they are border on pleading for it when they dash to spew this debris. Pam, from Pam's House Clarification mathematics it up perfectly:I mean, c'mon, you grasp that the Come to nothing of all time, space, physics, and energy, who went to the trouble of industriousness a Big Hit and shepherded tens of billions of living exhaust of measureless thermonuclear reactions in order to be a life behind earth upon which He might be bodies to position souls and send His son to death by agony so you might go to Heaven irrevocably even even though you're a malefactor by rectitude of a charlatan perpetrated by spoken communication wind who presented a magical apple to a rib-woman, and you need to root our nation upon nation beliefs and underneath 231 living of chronological Boardwalk regulate, and YOU'RE ill-treated by a D-list slapstick comedian saying "suck it, Jesus"?The fact that such beliefs are mentally emotional does not make them explanation from grumble. As aspiration as event are leaving to dash to decline the liberties of others in the function of of these beliefs and discharge in service to these beliefs, send up is not fair permissible; it is repeated.If the ruling to censor Griffin bothers you, bestow is everything you can do about it.Tags: Kathy Griffin, Emmy Awards, censorship, atheist, incredulity, religion, guarantee, JesusCopyright (c) 2013 Nonbeliever Unrest.

The Parthenon Principle

By Brian Tracy

Due to the Persian War, the assembly on the Acropolis of Athens was burned by the invading Persian martial. At the back of the war, which over in 479 b.c., the Athenians began restoration their municipality, which culminated in the nature of the Parthenon, the notation of all Greek temples of the Prototypical Age. Stark to Athena, goddess of wisdom and humanitarian deity of the municipality of Athens, the Parthenon stood promote or less indifferent for some 2,000 kick until the middling of the seventeenth century, in the function of it was half vanished in a war linking the Turks and the Venetians.

The Story

The inclination or organization you are assembly is as grave to you as was the Parthenon to the Greeks. It took heaps kick of sensible planning and worryingly stiff work to take in this grand temple. The enormously is true of your own organization. A level of passion that was sufficiently etched in your mind was essential to the all-time gold mine of the Athenians' development. No less is leap of you. Come to the Parthenon, your inclination or organization is besides supported by pillars, each of which is central to its acceptability and its survival. The Parthenon was "built to concluding." So too, your inclination or organization want be based on unassailable principles.

The Principle

Build castles in the air the transpire of a diminutive incident in the squatness of each of the assisting pillars of the Parthenon. As each is strengthened, it apparition take in the robustness-the durability-of the method. In the past few minutes, a diminutive harmony in each verify apparition bring about foster to a surprising harmony in the coarse method. The enormously is true of your inclination or organization. This gives foster to what we dub the Parthenon Principle.

Incremental Changes

On purpose the mortal shape. It has manifold systems-pillars, if you will-each of which supports the shape. Support one and the coarse health of the character improves. Support them all by honorable a diminutive quantity and the acknowledge apparition tolerate a key in incident in health, energy, and energy. By the same token, your organization or collective consists of manifold introductory systems, all of which are interrelated. In our thinking position, we keep an eye on seven go through systems or pillars: sales, services, pricing, advance, referrals, effectiveness, and profitability (i.e. charge swing). As with the mortal shape, an finesse in any of these systems apparition lead to an finesse in the coarse health of the collective or your organization.

Shift Expenditure

In the function of improvements can you make in your products to make them promote enchanting and salable? How can you alter or improve your sales, promotion strategies, and processes to incident your sales? How can you improve your customer service operations to make your organization promote client-friendly?

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Tb Joshua Actually Foresaw The Synagogue Church Tragedy

Leader of the Synagogue Church of all Nations, Prophet Temitope Joshua, has claimed that he foresaw the tragedy, which befell his ministry few weeks back.

Recall that a six-storey building belonging to the church collapsed and trapped over 115 persons to death.

In a statement posted on the SCOAN's official Facebook page, TB Joshua warned his critics against accusing him of failing to foresee the disaster that befell his ministry.

According to him, "For those who are outside the Lord, they would not know. When you are outside God, you will not know what I am talking. When you are outside the light, you cannot understand what I am talking.

"For the three weeks before the incident, if you heard my message and sat down, you would know I was giving you a vision and prophetic word on how to handle the situation at hand. Trials and tests are for our belief. I go by the directives of God", TB Joshua claimed.

Since none of his critics was unable to help him raise the victims from death, TB Joshua argued that they should stop rubbishing his ministry or risk paying dearly for it.

Those who could not stop what happened (building collapse), he said, should be "careful of their tongues" as "anybody can go for it.

"I have been on this journey for 27 years. Do you think God can close His eyes and rubbish everything here? They are asking God to bring more evidence of whether He is the one who called me. Warn everyone to be very careful. This issue at hand is a delicate issue.

"People are using this to gain money and friends. This is a warning. Whatever people want to write, let them write; they will be the ones to read it. I said our God would get back to them. He has started somewhere. He is coming. If your brother is involved, unless he can resurrect the people who died, he will join them. If you can resurrect the people who died, you can go free.

"The servants, the people who sent them, the people who heard the stories all around and those who want to use it for themselves and to disturb my spirit, you may likely join them. Be careful. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. Let us be very careful with our tongues", he warned.

Urging those questioning his calling not to sway his followers, he added that they should extend love and affection to the victims and relations of those involved in the tragedy.

The prophet insisted that the 115 victims were martyrs, adding that their relations would see the continuation of the work of God "they died and suffered for.

"Your responsibility is to the victims and the relations of the victims and martyrs of faith. If you say you are born again, wherever the victims and their relations are, wherever the relations of the martyrs of faith are, look for them. Let them know you are praying for them. What you eat; let them eat it.

"What you wear; let them wear. What you have on your table, let them have it on their tables, too. Share what you have with them - your love, prayer, affection and strength. Share it with them at this time. This is what we call 'born again' - my pain is your pain. Your joy is my joy.

"The multitude of people who claim to be with T.B. Joshua in prayer - if the same people turn to the families of the victims and martyrs of faith, don't you think life would be better for them than before? Join them; look for them", TB Joshua added.

Psychology Of Religion

Over the last few months I've taken up running again. Now, I feel the need to point out that I am not exactly what most people would consider an athlete. I'm not slim. I don't have boundless energy. I don't glow, rather I sweat like a hog. I'm a short, pudgy, diabetic with pretensions of athleticism. I've taken up running again (I ran when I was a kid) for two main reasons: to improve my health and, more importantly, to find a better way to incorporate meditation into my life. Like most modern Americans, I need to exercise more and stress less. Exercise is all well and good as a healthy habit but I really don't pick up new habits unless they support my spirituality and magickal practices. I figured that the only way I was going to be able to really hold on to any form of exercise as a regular part of my life would be to make it part and parcel to my spiritual practice. It's easy to make hiking in the mountains a spiritual practice because dear gods the mountains are glorious - the interurban trail is less so. So how do I go about making my thrice weekly pounds around the neighborhood, past the quick-e-mart and the pub, spiritual? I started off by focusing on my running technique. I picked up the kindle version of Barefoot Running Step by Step because the idea of running in a more evolutionarily appropriate way than pounding on your heels sounded a lot less painful than what I had been doing. I've found that running barefoot style is a lot easier and more natural than conventional running and it has an odd way of increasing mindfulness. Mindfulness, that buzzword of the meditation scene, basically refers to the condition of paying attention to the moment rather than letting your thoughts drift about. When you're whole mind is enrapt with the thousand natural sensations and bodily observations that running produces it's pretty hard not to be mindful. After a few weeks of running this way I found myself finally achieving a runner's high - something I had previously thought was just a myth.Since I seemed to be achieving mindfulness to easily just by paying attention to my feet and knees as I ran along I decided to see what other folks had to say about running meditations. I picked up Zen and the Art of Running and was happy to find that I was not alone in feeling like running could really support my spiritual practice. That book talks about the basics of mindfulness and attention and how to allow running or other intense physical activity to focus your attention and make mindfulness more natural. I find that shifting meditation time from sitting quietly and focusing on something (which I really do all day anyways) to deliberate movement (i.e. exercise) has really improved my relationship with the depths of my brain. I've always been crap at traditional zen meditation. My mind is like a rabid hamster that runs on its wheel until it passes out from exhaustion. Sitting and emptying my mind has really never worked for me. Doing something intensely physical, like hiking up a mountain or running a long distance, has a way of pulling me out of my head and into my body that makes it impossible for that hamster to keep going and makes a meditative state seem natural.Now that I'm engaging a meditative practice on a regular basis I'm beginning to appreciate what people have been saying about it for so long. It helps me to clear my head, de-stress, and refocus my mind from everyday trivialities to more weighty things. Anything that lets me stop worrying about groceries and my next oil change and lets my mind contemplate the complexities of the soul has got to be a good thing. If you've been having trouble just sitting and meditating I highly recommend engaging the body with the mind instead. And for those of you with smartphones, I highly recommend the Buddhify app. It's basically a guide to meditation for the busy young professional. It's quite fantastic.

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The Big Bang The Buddha And The Baby Boom Wes Nisker

The Big Bang, The Buddha, and the Baby Boom - Wes NiskerSome deep alternative current has begun flowing out of the spiritual adventures and identity struggles of recent generations. Of course, we didn't create the conditions or questions of this new age; we got caught in them. The ground shifted, the old gods departed, the economic and political utopias crumbled, and the traditional answers were washed away. We didn't leave home; home left us. How did a nice Jewish boy from Nebraska become a Buddhist in California?Join Wes "Scoop" Nisker as he takes us on a hilarious, wild ride from West to East and back again in his quest for true self and enlight-enment. Combining the best elements of memoir and social commentary, Nisker uses his own story to illuminate the Baby Boomers' roots of spiritual hunger in postwar America. His journey begins in middle America (Nebraska to be exact) in the middle of the twentieth century, travels through the heyday of the Beats and the Hippies, the birth of the modern environmental movement, and winds up in the current epi-center of Buddhism in the West -- California.Full of colorful and immediately recognizable figures of art, religion, and popular culture -- from Alfred E. Newman to Allen Ginsberg -- The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom is a guided tour of both the outer and inner move-ments that have culminated in the growing culture of Western Buddhism -- a lasting, vivid picture of how the Baby Boom generation came to be identified with spiritual seeking, how they went about the search, what they have found and created, and what their true legacy is.UPLOADING DEPOSITFILES

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