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Musing of Twilight
Twilight’s grieving of a day gone by.The doorway into the dark of the day. Samhain the doorway into the dark of the year. Memories of in-between, lifetimes ago, snippets of others who slipped into their iterative incarnations. Marines Marking time to a duty, remember Greek warriors. Two warriors with duties on the opposite ends of…
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A Tribe in the Making – Sacred Space Conference
There is a treasure, beautiful, a natural resource, that deserves to be cherished and nourished. This treasure is in plain site and is hidden by those who should see it and who don’t know what to look for. If I can say how great my experience was at my first Sacred Space Foundation conference this…
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Tribes for the Future, A Pagan Perspective
A Pagan perspective, an opportunity for creating an evolving society through a tribal level of organization. Pagan social circles search for a sense of community. The problem is that our social context has been without tribes for 2000 or more years. Tribes have been destroyed in the past 2000 years or more. Outlook and Methodology …
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What role does surrender play in your practice
What role does surrender play in your practice, if at all? If you are a magic user, where is the balance between accepting the will of the Divine and asserting your own will? What is your relationship with the Divine and Reality? Is it a relationship of submission? Are you friends with a much more…
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Truth, Healing, Balance and When to Let Go
Truth, Healing, Balance and When to Let Go Shamans, or spirit workers of different traditions, are healers, intercessors or just the crazy person that has the idea that will work. Truth is the foundation from which they work. Without Truth death and destruction follow them faster than a freight train while standing on a railroad…
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In response to a lament of the loss of Elders
The Rantin Raven : This is why we can’t have nice things. “On Patheos: Agora” I saw Elders being pushed to the side over 25 years ago. And others going solitary. I see some elders being respected in some communities. It depends on the type of community and the personality of the groups of people…
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Shaman, energy workers and Medicine people a Diversity that we need.
Traditional shaman, who deal with spirits initially, whether from the land and the culture or being so close to death, they are patterns of the same process. Getting accustom to each pattern and living it, takes a lot of personal energy. And it has costs. The ordeal by spirits whether by ancestors, planes or by…
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A Pagan Teacher that I am
And that I aim to be. A local leader in our greater Atlanta community came up with some great questions seekers should ask prospective teachers. I will narrate the answers as best as I can. I also look at a western Pagan culture that is steeped and colored by Wicca that took it…