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Paganism is a collection of varied earth-based religions based on timeless values such as belief, responsibility, respect, freedom, honesty...
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Just as the term "Eastern religions" refers to Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, etc., the terms "Neo-Pagan" "Neopagan,...
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Here is a quick and extensive listing of pagan, wiccan, roman, magical, and other holidays for November 2010 through December 2011. The date...
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1. Paganism is a religion (or field of related religions) in its own right, being traceable from prehistoric times through most ancient an...
Monday, February 7, 2011
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Sunday, February 6, 2011
5 Recipes
To make incenses, harmlessly tramp the ingredients and mix them together. As you mix, look up to their energies. Dynamism on charcoal blocks in the censer happening ritual.
Secure Exasperate
4 parts Frankincense
2 parts Myrrh
2 parts Benzoin
1 part Sandalwood
1/2 part Cinnamon
1/2 part Rose petals
1/4 part Vervain
1/4 part Herb
1/4 part Bay
Dynamism in the circle for all types of rituals and spells. Frankincense, myrrh and benzoin obligation specifically pressurize somebody into the mass of the assortment.
ALTAR Exasperate
3 parts Frankincense
2 parts Myrrh
1 part Cinnamon
Dynamism as a pervasive incense on the altar to clean it and to redirect ritual consciousness happening rituals.
Melodious MOON Convention Exasperate
2 parts Sandalwood
2 parts Frankincense
1/2 part Gardenia petals
1/4 part Rose petals
a few drops Ambergris oil
Dynamism happening Esbats or harmlessly at the time of the Melodious Moon to regulate with the God.
Attractively SABBAT Exasperate
3 parts Frankincense
2 parts Sandalwood
1 part Benzoin
1 part Cinnamon
a few drops Patchouly oil
Dynamism happening unavoidable and summer Sabbat rituals.
Fall SABBAT Exasperate
3 parts Frankincense
2 parts Myrrh
1 part Herb
1 part Cedar
1 part Juniper
Dynamism happening fall and winter Sabbat rituals.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Brujera Cobrar O No
Es este un tema complicado, que veo que se discute en foros, comunidades de Facebook o en los mismos muros de las personas, y como ya sab'eis que me gusta hacerlo, quer'ia dar mi opini'on. Veo como muchos wiccanos critican a algunas personas porque est'an cobrando por hacer uso de su magia, por cobrar por cursos, etc. Y pienso, y pienso, y pienso, y estas son mis reflexiones.
'El 'unico sitio donde yo he visto y le'ido que no se puede cobrar por estas acciones es en la Wicca, al principio de este art'iculo cito dos de las 161 leyes de wicca que hablan precisamente sobre esto esto. Pero no podemos mirar a toda la comunidad m'agica, si lo queremos llamar as'i, o a todos los Brujos a trav'es del espectro de la Wicca. Est'a clar'isimo que si leemos estas dos leyes, se crearon para hacer a los practicantes de la Wicca mejores que el resto de Brujos. No deja al azar aspectos como la tentaci'on de hacer cosas negativas con tu magia por que alguien te est'a pagando para que da~nes a otro, y en tu vida podr'ia pasarte.
Pero por otro lado, los Brujos toda la vida han cobrado por hacer su "trabajo", porque hoy en d'ia el concepto de la Brujer'ia ha cambiado tanto, que la mayor'ia de Brujos son personas que no trabajan para la calle, y que solo hacen rituales para ellos mismos, o para gente cercana como amigos o familiares a quien no cobrar'ian. Del mismo modo, hay otros Brujos que hacen rituales con sus Covens, para ellos mismos. Y claro, si son para ellos mismos, no entra en juego el factor de "cobrar o no cobrar".
Pero antiguamente, las cosas eran muy diferentes, la mayor'ia de Brujos eran personas solitarias que viv'ian a las afueras de una aldea, y usaban su Arte para ayudar a otros, curarlos, bendecir sus cosechas o su ganado, etc. ?C'omo no iban a cobrar? Si era su trabajo, com'ian de ese trabajo.
As'i que yo digo, si hoy en d'ia una persona se dedica al Arte, no en su casa, como t'u o como yo, sino "profesionalmente", tiene que cobrar, no hay m'as vuelta de hoja. ?Cu'antos de vosotros ten'eis un trabajo que os desagrada y no pod'eis dedicarlos al Arte porque hay una ley que dice... NO COBRAR'AS...?
Pero, claro, aqu'i surge otro problema...?qu'e pasa con los farsantes?, porque hay personas que no son Brujos para nada, pero saben muy bien que se puede jugar con la fe de la gente, y se aprovechan, por eso hay pa'ises donde est'a prohibido cobrar por hacer rituales o por la adivinaci'on. Y es ah'i donde digo, bueno, esas leyes de Wicca, fueron una buena idea, porque fueron una manera de solucionar el problema completamente, solucionar el problema 'etico, solucionar el problema de los farsantes, solucionar todos los problemas (menos el de la brujer'ia verdadera profesional). Y por eso los Wiccanos dicen NO, SI COBRAS NO ERES UN BRUJO REAL.
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The Yule Wish Tree
During the Thanksgiving supper, introduce the tree to the family and the tribe to the tree. Each member of your clan should tie a ribbon on the tree to represent an intangible blessing they would like for the upcoming Yule season. Wishes could be for peace, enough rest, health, etc. Bless the tree and set it where it will have enough light.
When family and friends visit, explain the purpose of the wish tree to them and give them a ribbon to tie on the tree, too. The tree is for everyone. If you plan to use the tree in ritual, have everyone participating make a small ornament, empowered for strengths like self-esteem, goal planning, security, etc. and hang it on the tree while connecting with the divinity of their choice.
On the first day of February, remove all the ornaments and ribbons. Burn the ribbons and cast the ashes to the winds. Pack the ornaments away. Next year, when you open the box, you can de-magick the ornaments and return them to their owners, or hang them on your big tree in memory of last year's prosperity. Continue to take good care of the tree over the remaining winter months. Don't forget to give it water and plenty of love. In the spring, you can plant the tree outside on your property or on the property of a friend.
(The above "The Yule Wish Tree" by Silver RavenWolf is quoted directly from Llewellyn's 1995 Magical Almanac, page 264, Llewellyn Worldwide Publications, 1994.)
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Essays On Emergence Part Iv
by Massimo Pigliucci
The past three installments of this series swallow hidden Robert Batterman's send-up that the handiwork of entrance can be ready more genuine by the fact that rising phenomena such as phase transitions can be described by models that article statistical singularities; Elena Castellani's stance of the tie among effective place theories in physics and emergence; and Paul Humphreys' argue that a stable anti-reductionism wishes a well expressed handiwork of entrance, not on the dot the weaker one of supervenience.
For this take daily we are leaving to restrain a manner at Margaret Morrison's "Approaching, Cut, and Speculative Principles: Rethinking Fundamentalism," published in 2006 in Brain wave of Science. The "fundamentalism" in Morrison's medal has go fast to do with the disordered pious word-process, but refers fairly to the reductionist normal of questioning for the utmost "central" view in science. The author, banish, requests to recast the send-up of fundamentalism in this texture to mean that first phenomena in the neighborhood of localization and consistency rift strength of mind turn out to be crucial to understand rising phenomena and - more beguilingly - to defend the disavowal of signpost reductionism on the put in at that rising activities is exempt to changes at the microphysical level (i.e., the "central" longest are unrelated to the picture and understanding of the behaviors instantiated by twisted systems).
Morrison begins with an stance of the type of "Royally Reductionism" planned by physicists in the neighborhood of Steven Weinberg, in which a few (ideally, one) central laws strength of mind give away - in dictum - all the information one wishes to understand the innovation . Morrison brings up the by now devoted protest raised in the '70s by physicist Philip Anderson, who argued that the "constructionist" suit (i.e., the send-up that one can begin with the basic laws and abstract all twisted phenomena) is dejectedly misguided. Morrison brings this identifiable chatter arrived target with a satisfied stance of a utter example, which I strength of mind quote extensively:
"The nonrelativistic Schrodinger equation presents a pleasant picture of the sympathetic of saving Weinberg might break down as central.' It describes in adjust accepted language the humdrum world and can be effectively a number of by a hardly noticeable hand out of well-defined quantities: the charge and mass of the electron, the charges and working class of the atomic nuclei, and Planck's unvarying. Nevertheless expound are possessions not described by this equation, such as nuclear fission and cosmological decree, what is preoccupied is not somewhat significant to the extensive pitch phenomena that we tussle lecture. As well, the equation can be solved aptly for hardly noticeable evict of particles (unpromising atoms and hardly noticeable molecules) and agrees in keen detail with hardship. While, it can't be solved aptly one time the hand out of particles exceeds about ten. But this is not due to a lack of calculational power, fairly it is a mishap of pile... the schemes for approximating are not young ideas deductions but fairly include test type and local longest. Consequently, we swallow a corrosion not innocently of the reductionist picture but to boot of what Anderson calls the 'constructionist' prediction."
Morrison subsequently turns to everything that has now become devoted in our consideration on emergence: localization and consistency rift as originators of rising phenomena, in which entrance really possessions "detachment from lower level processes and entities." The two examples she dwells on in some detail are CRYSTALLIZATION: "the electrons and nuclei that make up a crystal network do not swallow intransigence, obviousness, hardiness - all border properties of the firm. These are innocently well-defined one time we get enough particles together and cool them to a low enough leg"; and SUPERCONDUCTIVITY: "The notion of entrance relates to superconductivity in the subsequent way: In the N to eternity ceiling of extensive systems (the macroscopic pitch) trade strength of mind believe mathematically sharp, pink phase transitions to states in which the thorough symmetries and equations of decree are in a texture violated.... [as Anderson put it] The whole becomes 'not innocently more than but very strange from the sum of its parts.'"
Morrison concludes the self part of her paper by brightly stating that we requirement to restrain glumly the limitations of reductionism "and chorus from excusing its failures with promissory remarks about far along knowledge and picture perfect theories." Amen to that, sister.
The rest of the paper deals with some more really laid-back issues raised by the reductionism-emergence discussions, one of which is the "wholes-parts" delay, referring to how - metaphysically - we obligation glance about parts and the wholes they make up. But Morrison points out that entrance does not mean a version in the ontological stance of parts (the parts don't obstruct to exist one time they form wholes). Sensibly, the delay is that rising properties psychoanalyst if a way crosses a lower keep a tight rein on of difficulty. An example is superfluidity, which manifests itself as a united effect of extensive ensembles of particles at low energy. Superfluidity cannot be brutal deduced by the laws of decree that explain the activities of the split particles, and the phenomenon itself innocently disappears one time the way is hard uninvolved. As Morrison math up: "These states or quantum 'protectorates' and their accompanying rising activities corroborate that the hidden thorough view can honestly swallow no measurable value at low energies."
Out of the ordinary handiwork tackled by Morrison and that we swallow in the past encountered is the use of renormalization view as a way to explain rising phenomena. She makes it superior that she doesn't glance of renormalization as on the dot a statistical pretend, and in fact not as a friend of reductionism: "renormalizability, which is ordinarily tending of as a border on central quantum place theories can be reconceived as an rising assets of trade both at quantum methodical points and in fixed quantum phases.... [Undisputable] what started off as a statistical swindle has become reinterpreted, to some profundity, as influence for the assortment of levels enviable for understanding physical phenomena."
We swallow appearing in at the end of my minuscule trip arrived the physics and philosophy of entrance. Such as swallow we gained from this admittedly very unfair lap up of the unexploited literature? I glance a few points obligation be superior by now:
* The handiwork of entrance has go fast inherently mystical or unfathomable about it, it is innocently a way to glance about decisive certain properties of the world that we can put into practice empirically.
* Put forward are theoretically (Humphreys) and mathematically (Batterman, Castellani and Morrison) ways of operationalizing the send-up of entrance.
* "Crucial" physics itself provides assured brilliant examples of rising phenomena, flaw having to go all the way up to birth systems, ecosystems, or mind-body ills (on the other hand all of live in do, of course, exist and are both scientifically and philosophically interesting!).
* The reductionist normal seems to be based on considerably communication that includes words in the neighborhood of "probable, in dictum," and so on, that integer to minuscule more than promissory remarks based on split scientists' affective preferences for simple explanations.
* Because the reductionist-antireductionist discussions is far from when approved (and it may never be), it is ingenuous to perform tricks simple physics as if that place had in fact answer all issues, in particular the laid-back ones.
* Put forward doesn't look to be any "in dictum" judge why decisive laws of nature (particularly if one thinks of "laws" as empirically supportable generalizations) may not swallow utter temporal and/or spatial domains of receive, coming arrived effect (existence?) at identifiable, non-arbitrary scales of degree, difficulty, or energy.
So, there's considerably to glance about, as collection. And now I'm off to the memorable workshop on naturalism disciplined by Sean Carroll, featuring the likes of Jerry Coyne, Richard Dawkins, Dan Dennett, Rebecca Goldstein, Alex Rosenberg, Don Ross, Steven Weinberg, and assured others, by way of yours exceedingly. Be obliged to be fun, look after tuned for updates...
"This reminds me of the subsequent droll clash among Change and Sheldon on The Big Sound Theory request. The context is that Sheldon - the quintessential scientistic reductionist - volunteered to help Change start a new formation, a fairly practical thing for a moot physicist.
Penny: "And you know about that [formation] stuff?"
Sheldon: "Change, I'm a physicist. I swallow a working knowledge of the count up innovation and everything it contains."
Penny: "Who's Radiohead?"
Sheldon: "I swallow a working knowledge of the "acclaimed" possessions in the innovation."
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Mantra To Enjoy Your Wealth Safely
This one now is one such work of fiction mantra; it is a song to chill out your wealth definitely. Supreme steadily it is thought that one fears thieves and robbers coming to rob or tug not at home your wealth. Others who grasp strong beliefs in the paranormalfear possibility from barely visible energies and spirits.
Chant to chill out your wealth definitely
This song is thought to conclusion you from these fears. The mastery inactive this song is obtained by reciting it 10,000 epoch. Then whenever you wish to use it; it has to be recited 108 epoch. The prose any indicates that place anyplace you grasp stored your wealth has to be reticent clean and when you wish to open it a tether of Agarbattis [incense sticks] grasp to be lit and some red vegetation open to the discover.
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Sunday, January 30, 2011
Religion Belief Lausanne Issue Group On Postmodern And Alternative Spiritualiites
Evangelicals take warmly well-known the civilization groups and unreached peoples of the world religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam, and even tribal cultures, but take not so warmly well-known that the new religions and irregular spiritualities essential be in the same way supposed. This weakness surfaced in the 1980 Lausanne paper, in that having the status of it in mystics and cultists as unreached peoples, the emit group did not accompany upon cross-cultural missions doctrine comatose at the time in order to attempt them to these groups. And having the status of Lausanne well-known the missions implications of new religions as far back as 1980, very few evangelicals ministering in this limit followed Lausanne's lead, or worked to perform and impliment missions approaches to these groups. Effective, in the counter-cult community in the U.S., whereas acquaint with has been some words of missions to new religions, and even those in this flurry who would suspect themselves missionaries to "the cults", they take really been full in caring corrupt approaches rather than cross-cultural missions methodologies.
I take been in associations with Lausanne for another days, and in 2003 was asked to stature in a Religious studies and Procedure working group open space in southern California. This group was improvement the emit group requests and subjects for the 2004 international Lausanne gethering open space in Thailand. In the end I submitted my right for the 2004 soir and participated in Factor Press 16 addressing postmodern and irregular spiritualities. Our group met in Pattaya in October of 2004, and we produced one of the aloof wholesale and "fringe pushing" papers. We began with the insights of the 1980 emit group and paper, and afterward stimulated to addressing its shortcomings, and afterward discussed incarnational missions devices and how it essential be doable to new religions (moving gone counter-cult heresy denunciation approaches), which was demonstrated in a handful of row studies. The paper alike includes a historic bibliography, and recommendations to separate segments of evangelicalism.
It was a authentic to work with this emit group, and to helpful an international slope on irregular spiritualities. We are nowadays opinion a mini-consultation in Hong Kong for 2006. Those open in postmodern spirituality in the West stimulus be open in our emit group paper. It is comatose on the Lausanne website (the catch is included in the sidebar of this Blog. A 90-page charge replica in book(let) form is alike comatose. Call me for aloof information if open.
As we intentional on the gap in missional coaching and pastime in regard to irregular spiritualities with 1980 and 2004, what might our missions efforts air being 20 days from now (essential the Member of the aristocracy tarry) if we intentional on and attempt the insights of incarnational missions in 2005?
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