Pretty much everyone who criticises pagans, if they stop doing the ‘it’s just silly’ routine go onto ‘but you have no proper ethics’. This has everything to do with the assumptions that ‘proper’ religions come with a rule book, and not having a rule book obviously means that we don’t have any rules. I could get distracted here down a side track about the precise usefulness of rules that are 2000 years and more out of date.
Queen Mary prayed for all the waters of the earth. I prayed for all the love stories of the earth.
I have posted a selection of comments on the original post I reproduced from Memebase.com. Maybe it’s not true, but it’s certainly plausible. WMDs in Iraq were a similar excuse for war. USA has a long history of similar policy decisions overseas.
Back to reading my Dickens now.
From Chakra Healing and Karmic Awareness by Keith Sherwood (2005 Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul Mn USA) :
“Below you will find a series of commitments that will sever your links to non-physical beings outside your energy field… and will bring you in accord with the will of the Self as it emerges through your higher and lower mind. In addition, these commitments will safeguard your energy field from any further intrusions of non-physical beings by strengthening your boundaries on all worlds anbd dimensions, including the world of spirit, intellect, soul, lower mind, world of the chakras, and the levels of the splenic chakras.
If you know it’s appropriate to make these commitments and you know you will keep them permanently, then simply read the commitments below, repeat them out loud, and affirm, “I agree to these three commitments.”
The first is:
“If I have given permission or inadvertently given permission for any nonphysical beings to be in my world of my spirit, my world of my intellect, my world of my soul, my world of my chakras, my world of my lower mind, my level of my upper splenic chakra, and my level of my splenic chakra, I revoke that permission now and permanently in the future.”
The second is:
“It is my desire and my will that all non-physical beings depart from my world of my spirit, my world of my intellect, my world of my soul, my world of my chakras, my world of my lower mind, my level of my upper splenic chakra, and my level of my lower splenic chakra now, and remain permanently outside them in the future. I want you to leave now.”
The third is:
My world of my spirit, my world of my intellect, my world of my soul, my world of my chakras, my world of my lower mind, my level of my upper splenic chakra, and level of my splenic chakra are my sacred space. It is my desire and my will that they be occupied solely by myself and the light of God now and permanently in the future.”
If you know it’s appropriate to make these commitments and you know you will keep them for the rest of your life, affirm out loud, “I agree to these three commitments.”
By making these commitments (it’s only necessary to make them once) and keeping them, you will be taking responsibility for your inner life and will be committing yourself to a life of personal integrity and truth. In addition, you will be signifying your intent to put union with the Self (god, universal life force) above the needs and desires of the mundane world which emergeexclusively from your individual mind and ego.
Many people before you have made these commitments and have experienced an immediate shift in their condition, as prana– which had been blocked and prevented from radiating freely by subfields of qualified energy and non-physical beings– is set free…Although you may not have been aware of the cause and effect relationship between non-physical beings within your energy field and your internal state of well-being, the fact is that non-physical beings integrated into and feeding from the individual mind and ego are the greatest cause of human suffering.”
More information on Keith Sherwood is available at onewholelove.com
Helgaleena knows it is theseason for spring cleaning. In order to get anything in the external world accomplished, I needed first to do something about my personal condition. I dig out of the accumulated piles of exfoliated skin cells and dust bunnies and discover there is air warm enough to fling open a window or two. I spring forward.
If your personal domestic space is better order than mine, perhaps you are ready to journey forth to new dimensions. Bon voyage.
Paypal and other credit corporations are attempting to prohibit the sale of online erotica they think is too immoral, by their arbitrary standards.
Helgaleena says that they might change those standards at any time to prohibit the Healing Line. But Nature made these imaginings, even the horrifying and disgusting ones. Nature is good, even when it isn’t what nourishes our little bodies and brains.
Pottery, Druidry & Christianity | Order of Bards and Druids.
I am giving link and quotes from the blog of the Druid group OBOD, our neo-Pagan siblings.
This is the essay of a Canadian member of RDNA called Sebastien Beaudoin,
about how ceramics helped him to understand druidry.
I take it to heart because I too, began in ceramics.
The little girl who was to become Helgaleena used to ride around happily upon her mother’s kick-wheel as if it were a carousel, when that mother was pursuing her MFA. She wed herself to the Earth with a piece of atelier solder, fortuitously shaped like a ring.
Later, during my own study of ‘studio arts’ I was much influenced by the study of its chemistry, physics, and choreography. At the same time that I joined the group called ‘Druids’ I was exploring my own incarnation here, and the retorts and furnaces of the ceramic arts were my personal road to alchemy as well as dance. My final project was a tripartite melding of ceramics and ritual through which I explored the divinity in all things as filtered through me.
I got ‘er done, as they say. Then my vessel broke and I have spent decades on its mending, a real ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’. I can’t actually make the pots anymore; I’m arthritic and uprooted from what forces it requires. The deep bodily wisdom earned from it though, I refer to daily.
We are vessels, just as are the vessels we create, and we have a hand in our own shaping on many energetic levels. That is all I will attempt to convey in this short posting. It is the sort of wisdom which athletes know in their bloodstream and limbs, which therapists utilize in prescribing, relieving, listening. It is wisdom which can give each of us the keys to ourselves, if only we will seek it. And by our fruits you shall know us; we are living instruments that do not crumble as fast as clay, even clay that has been through fire.
It is so very heartening to know that I am not alone in choosing a particular ‘road less traveled’.
BIG VICTORY! Re: Lesbian Torture Clinics
FROM:
Patrick Schmitt, Change.org
TO:
helgaleenas@
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“After ten years of outcry, the nation of Ecuador — through the Ministry of Public Health — has entered into a commitment with civic organizations, and society in general, to deconstruct the belief that homosexuality is an illness and root out the use of torture in these clinics. We extend our thanks to all the men and women who signed our petition — it’s been an invaluable support in starting to change this reality.” – petition creator, Fundacion Causana
Dear Helgaleena,
This is the beginning of the end — the end of women suffering physical and emotional abuse (and even torture and sexual assault) in Ecuadorian clinics trying to “cure” them of being lesbians.
All around Ecuador, countless women were being held against their will in hundreds of these so-called clinics. For ten years, a group of brave women in Ecuador who call themselves Fundacion Causana tracked down survivors, documenting their stories and bringing them to light. But the situation wasn’t changing.
Then, something incredible happened. A petition that Fundacion Causana had started on Change.org calling on the Ministry of Health to take action was signed by more than 113,000 people around the world. Suddenly, officials were ready to meet with Fundacion Causana and take responsibility for the violence against women and LGBT Ecuadorians happening on their watch.
Now, the Ecuadorian government is working hand in hand with Fundacion Causana to eradicate these clinics from Ecuador, free the women trapped there, and run a national public awareness campaign to fight homophobia.
Sometimes, it takes a decade of fearless commitment before starting a petition on Change.org tips the balance. Sometimes, a movement is sparked by one person starting a petition. But almost everyday now, there’s a victory.
Change.org’s mission is simple: to empower anyone, anywhere to start, join and win campaigns for social change. We’re excited to help you win your own campaign — the first step is to start a petition. Just click here to get started.
Thanks for being a change-maker,
- Patrick and the Change.org team
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I am pleased to announce that an article from here has been featured in The Druid Inquirer,
Year of the Reform XLIX,
Vol. 27. Issue 8, Dec 31, 2011 c.e.
and also a very short review of my favorite present this Solstice, which was a book.
