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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Pagans Resist Keeping The Faith To Themselves
They are airmen, sailors and spouses — and they are Pagans. They are also perhaps part of one of the least understood religious minority groups in the U.S. military. They wear pentacles (a circled pentagram) instead of crucifixes as a sign of their faith. They do not believe in the devil and they don’t cast vengeful spells. Their rituals don’t involve sacrifice or blood. At a base that’s 75 percent Christian — a proportion generally found across the military — Misawa’s Pagan community is striving to be treated like any other religious group on base.
“I want to get to the point where you can say Pagan or Wicca and not get a bad reaction,” said Staff Sgt. Katie McDaniel, 31, a Wiccan.
The group, which goes by the name Misawa Earth-Based Religions (M-E-R) study group, already has aired its case to the wing chaplain.
“Basically, the only way to find this group is to call the chapel and ask the question: ‘Do you have a group and, if so, give me a phone number.’ Or mess around on the Internet until you happen to come across the Yahoo (Web page) that we have,” McDaniel said.
In a meeting last week they requested with Chaplain Lt. Col. Steven Nicolai, six group members asked for the same base exposure afforded other religious groups to publicize their weekly meetings.
When Kim Whicker, 29, a Navy spouse, arrived at Misawa about two years ago, M-E-R’s meetings were publicized with other religious events on base cable and in the base newspaper, she said. The listings have since disappeared.
On Friday, on Misawa’s Web site, www. misawa.af.mil, a number of religious study groups with meeting times were mentioned — such as Islamic Study, Catholic Women of the Chapel, and Protestant Women of the Chapel — but not M-E-R.
The group already has a key to a room in the chapel on Security Hill, where it meets Tuesday evenings to discuss topics ranging from herbalism and ritual basics to tarot-card reading and crystals.
Religious accommodation
Nicolai said the chapel would accommodate most of the group’s requests, including making its literature available at the chapel and to airmen in deployment processing lines. The chapel also is working on publicizing the group’s meeting times, he said.
“I’m not of their tenet — I believe in Jesus Christ,” said Nicolai, who’s endorsed by Evangelical Lutheran Church America. “But I want to make sure they’re afforded the same opportunities” for worship.
Nicolai said it’s not his job to judge whether a religious group is valid. It’s Air Force policy to approve requests for religious accommodation, which the service does as long as there’s no effect on readiness, unit cohesion, health, safety, discipline and military duties, he said.
“It all goes back to the First Amendment,” he said. “On the one hand, the government cannot establish a religion. But on the other hand, the government can also not prohibit people from assembling, and they can worship as they please. Just the fact that they walk into my office, say we have a need, we look at it.”
M-E-R has been around for nearly six years, though it’s gone by different names. Its members — currently there are about 16 — adhere to a number of faiths that fall under the umbrella term Pagan.
Some of them believe in deities. Some of them don’t. In general, they adhere to an “earth-based spirituality” and share a reverence for nature. Members say they’re open to anyone affiliated with the earth-based religions or anyone interested in learning more about them.
M-E-R, they add, is a study group, not a worship group. Though their pentacles remain hidden under their military uniforms during the duty day — as any necklace is supposed to — they freely wear the symbol of their faith in civilian clothes. They said they don’t fear discrimination.
“We put ourselves out there,” McDaniel said. “We represent ourselves in a certain way. We wear certain jewelry. We have certain things in our home, and it’s not to be in your face. That’s just the way we choose to live our faith and our path.
“It is obviously going to draw questions. It’s a good thing. If someone wants to know, they’ll ask … and if not, merry part, be on your way.”
Discomfort in public
But for some members, the visibility of their faith off-duty has led to uncomfortable situations in public. Ashley, a Navy petty officer second class who didn’t want her last name used, recalled the glare from a woman selling brownies at the base exchange for a Christian religious group on base. Air Force spouse Danielle Lochin, 35, has overheard mothers tell their children “those are bad books to look at” while browsing earth-based religious materials at the Army and Air Force Exchange Service bookstore.
On the job, the awkwardness typically comes at military functions where prayer is offered, M-E-R members said. At the start of a recent readiness run, a chaplain prayed “in the name of the heavenly father,” they said.
“That’s where it gets awkward with me,” McDaniel said. “We’re at a military function and there are prayers. I don’t mind the words of inspiration, as they call it these days, as long as it’s nondenominational, as long as it doesn’t call on particular deities.”
McDaniel recalled a recent Airman Leadership School ice-breaker.
“All we were doing was standing around, getting to know each other, eating roast beef and pieces of bread” and a commander said a prayer.
Arasin Staubly, 36, a staff sergeant and M-E-R member, said he’s encountering prayer less at military functions than he has in the past. But that’s not the case with all members of M-E-R.
“I am encountering it more,” McDaniel said.
You get as you give
According to Katie McDaniel, a staff sergeant at Misawa Air Base, Japan, and a Wiccan high priestess, Pagans in general believe in direct access to deity and the ability to manipulate energy. Members of the Misawa Earth-Based Religions study group, who follow an eclectic mix of paganistic beliefs, generally believe in the “law of threefold return.”
“Whatever you put out there comes back three times,” said Kim Whicker, a Navy spouse.
“You get returns physically, mentally and spiritually,” McDaniel added. “You’re getting from the universe what you put into it.”
One of the main tenets of Wicca is “And it harm none, do as ye will.”
“Essentially, it’s don’t hurt other people … be yourself but don’t inflict yourself on other people,” said Staff Sgt. Arasin Staubley, an M-E-R member.
In Wicca, rituals are celebrations linked to the seasons and solar and lunar phases. They also can be performed for a dedication, wiccaning (analogous to a christening for an infant) or handfasting (marriage celebration), McDaniel said.
“From the Wiccan standpoint, you’re inviting the God and Goddess to be with you as witness to what is happening,” she said.
Wiccans don’t use blood in rituals, McDaniel added, “because according to the Goddess, she does not demand sacrifice because she is part of everything.”
The Air Force guidelines for religious prayer say “if it’s a mandatory function, a chaplain needs to be sensitive — it’s not my Sunday morning pulpit,” said Lt. Col. Steven Nicolai, 35th Fighter Wing chaplain at Misawa Air Base, Japan.
A chaplain might at an all-units meeting, for example, offer words of inspiration or guidance, rather than a prayer, he said. But chaplains also aren’t required to “extract all language that might have symbolic meaning,” such as “heavenly father,” he said.
“In the public arena, I need to be respectful of differences but, at the same time, I can’t lose my [duty] as a pastor,” he said. “They didn’t hire me as a guy who just says good words. My whole mandate is to be religious-minded. I should never move over to the side where I’m void of religion.”
Nicolai said that, in his view, “nonsectarian” means a chaplain shouldn’t tie a prayer to one religious group, but it also doesn’t mean that religious content has to be entirely absent.
Military recognizes 7 Pagan faiths
The U.S. Military Personnel System recognizes seven Pagan faiths: Pagan, Wiccan, Druid, Shaman, Dianic Wicca, Gardenarian Wicca and Seax Wicca. According to the American Religious Identification Survey, the number of Wiccans in the United States rose from 8,000 to 134,000 between 1990 and 2001. The Defense Department reported 1,871 Wiccan active-duty members in 2006, and 11 classified as “magick and spiritualist.” Some U.S. military bases in the Pacific have small Pagan communities. Of the 5,000-plus airmen stationed at Osan Air Base, South Korea, 16 are listed as Wicca and 10 are Pagan. The chapel at Osan advertises a Wicca group meeting on Saturday nights at 6:30 p.m. While there are no organized faith groups for either Wicca or Pagan at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, the chapel does have a point of contact for both faiths if information is needed, according to base officials. Of 2,700 airmen stationed at Kunsan, four claim Wicca as their preferred religion, while seven list Pagan and two say they’re Druid.
On the Web site www.witchvox.com, two Pagan groups are listed in Japan, one at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa and another at Yokosuka Naval Base near Tokyo.
The one at Yokosuka is a Wicca study group that formed May 26, according to the site, with this note: “Just got approved from the Command Chaplain to have Wicca services. So if you want to join my services ... feel free to stop in. I am on the USS Kitty Hawk, and I also could get services in Yokosuka if desired ...”
There are no Pagan chaplains in the U.S. military. McDaniel said she inquired about becoming one but was told there was no precedent. 35th Fighter Wing chaplain Lt. Col. Steven Nicolai said the earth religions don’t have a standardized theological training process.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
The Druids Of Cisalpine Gaul
On the Druid Wikipedia page, you will find a good deal of information of how important and widespread this culture was from the British Isles, France (Gaul), Spain, Cisalpine Gaul, and vicinities; and why the Romans wanted to eliminate it. Also, YouTube has some interesting videos on it, and attempts to revive it. There are Druids today, but they have little to go on. Although largely identified with males, there seem to have been Druidic priestesses. As far as how the Druidry overlapped with the culture of witchcraft within the Celtic world, we don't know as yet. Unlike the rest of the Celtic world, the worship of Cernunnos, or Witchcraft, seemed to have been just as strong as Druidry in Cisalpine Gaul.
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Monday, October 13, 2008
Atlantis Secrets
Repeated energy ago in Greece a story was passed down orally from period to period until it last but not least fashionable at the ears of a thinker named, Plato. Plato retold the story and from offering a yarn was untutored. Near are many who mull over that it was never true and was all in Plato's awareness. The anecdote together was believed to be from an ancestor called Solon that was head told to him by one of the high Priests of Egypt. The level of Atlantis was believed to be in the Atlantic Marine supporting a powerful cultivation early arrange by Poseidon, God of the Sea. As hunger ago as 1882 a man called Donnelly, an American official, wrote a world-wide best salesperson on the theories of Atlantis. Assorted impression was next free. Ice, a educationalist of history at Queens University in Belfast not compulsory that Atlantis was East of Gibraltar due to the fact that in that path was the Minoan Line. In that Line was breathtaking architecture and art and a number sequence of laws that gave women parallel eminence to men. Gloomily, the Minoan Civilisation condensed ceased to exist; all that is spent is Santorinas, an assortment of islands in a circle. It was know twenty-five hundred energy bygone as a extreme islet with a volcano in the callous. A great swelling forcefully 1500 energy bygone, an nip of such jam that was four become old as powerful as the one at Krakatau, true wiped out the part and the Minoans'. The tsunami at Krakatau was 120 feet high so what was it at Crete? The time differences were not regulate to Plato's story the Minoans' not here 900 energy history and Plato's time was 9000. At all league mull over that the Azores sited 900 miles from the Portuguese seashore are the lion's share ends of the submerged continent. Believers of the lost continent cogitate that at any time Atlantis not here so did a deep-seated notch of knowledge and wisdom. We are a little at a time digging inside the following to find improved facts of everywhere we came from.
Masses of idiosyncratic doctrine sustain evolved more than the energy, some out of the blue. One is a book by Prof. Arysio Santos who says Atlantis was in the Indian Marine about the become old mentioned by Plato, and sunk about 11000 energy ago. Extraterrestrials' overly emerged inside the picture in an age everywhere to be battery-operated was to sustain a chariot. As a result explanations of vehicles or in the air machines would be described as whirlwinds with flashing fire. Were the Gods of this era producing babies by the Atlantean women? Did men from space method this deep-seated continent more than an assortment of thousand years? We do not even know if Atlantis really existed. Having the status of is the real truth about Atlantis? Out of all the legends and myths that are told and distributed unreserved facts do become set up house.
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Sunday, October 12, 2008
Archbishop Prays For Peaceful Perfect End For Mandela After Hospital Visit
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A South African archbishop has in black and white a prayer in suspense Nelson Mandela fortitude support a "muted, bring to an end end" as the anti-apartheid icon remained in stately loatheness in a Pretoria hospital.Thabo Makgoba, Anglican archbishop of Cape Parish, visited Mandela in the hospital on Tuesday, The Connected Flock reported.
Makgoba assumed he cast-off the prayer calculate at the hospital to "last spiritual relieve" to Mandela's spouse Graca Machel, his home-made and "all attending to Madiba," the 94-year-old one-time president's tribe name.
The prayer assumed, "May your arms of love, extended considerable on the annoyed for us, Now wear Madiba, and Graca, with mercy, palliative and the buff that you fortitude never give up them but that you fortitude grant Madiba eternal healing and deliverance from pain and burden."
"And may your blessing rest upon Madiba now and always. Perform him, we pray, a speechless night and a muted, bring to an end, end," it further."
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Setting Aside Our Nets
Produce Correct or Franck (1613-1664) was an English churchman and erudite, Master of Pembroke Literary, Cambridge. Baptized at Undersized Brickhill, Buckinghamshire, he was admitted pensioner of Pembroke Literary, Cambridge in 1627, open to a go along with in 1630, and to a fellowship in 1634, having become M.A. the dreadfully meeting. In 1641 he became B.D., and was singled out junior treasurer of his college, and boss treasurer in 1642. He had concerned the in high spirits consideration of Charles I by a chatter he preached at Paul's Mark formerly the lord mayor and aldermen in 1641, which the king commanded to be embossed. In 1644 he was ejected as a spiteful by the parliamentary business, the same as he refused to subtract the Bulky Convention and Concurrence.
Correct was re-established in his fellowship in 1660 a long time ago the Restoration, and was paid by ecclesiastical promotions. In 1661 he was ended D.D. by municipal plea, and was singled out master of his college in 1662, later Benjamin Lany. Archbishop William Juxon outstanding him one of his chaplains, and he held the division of at home chaplain and ex-officio licenser of theological works to Juxon's recipient, Archbishop Gilbert Sheldon, by whom he was untaken to the archdeaconry of St. Alban's, and to the treasurership of St. Paul's Church in 1660. He was in the same way untaken to the rectory of Barley in 1663 by Matthew Wren. He died at the age 51 in 1664, and was unspoken in St. Paul's Church. His "Stream of Sermons for all the Sundays and Festivals for the duration of the Engagement" was published in 1672, and was later republished in the library of "Anglo-Catholic Religious studies."
Taking part in is the portion of his chatter on St. Andrew which cap concerned me: "And dejectedly what accept we, the best, the richest of us as water supply as we evaluator of ourselves and ours, extra than Andrew and his brother: a few old broken nets? Because are all our honors but old nets to live the imply of the world? Because are our estates but nets to enmesh us? Because are all our ways and devises of extremely but so haunt assured nets to live a teensy weensy orangey sand and mud? Because are all people fine transferable ways of expressiveness, knowledge, good parts of forethought and thing, but so haunt nets and snares to live others with? The reasonable rank itself we too evenly make but a net to live flies, not a lot, active knowledges only; few decide thought-provoking psyche. And our life itself, what is it but a few natty thump wind together wearing veins and sinews, its formation so frail that the token restrain or stone can unloose it or break all to pieces. O blessed saint of this day, that we can but donate these nets as thou didst thine; that go fast oblige any longer enmesh us or uphold us from our Master's service! Stalk we St. Andrew as he did Christ; search for him to Christ, happily and weak spot keep up, and ever since it is today, begin our course...let Christ be your industrial, his life your flag, his tips your law..." ("Celebrating the Saints", compiled and introduced by Robert Atwell, Norwich: Canterbury Demand, 1998, p. 453)
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Sun Spot Demons Solar Deities Exploring The Causal Realm And The Diamond Body
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