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Re: The quotes of togetherness?

http://singerseeker.gaia.com — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:35:39 GMT

welcome to Gaia! You may wish to check out the active Discussions - this group is not much used.

Love,

Nicole

Re: The quotes of togetherness?

http://therebornempire.gaia.com — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:03:00 GMT

i like this last post by you. im new on here so help me out a lil please

Re: My Religion=My Faith

http://theredeemed.gaia.com — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:56:35 GMT

I've had a somewhat similar experience. I never really knew anything but Christianity, but the religion itself just didn't call to me...I resigned myself to agnosticism for the rest of my life. But then I started reading about Wicca, and various other forms of paganism, and found that it really spoke to me more deeply than anything else I'd ever heard.

I'm still in that year-long period of study that they reccomend before dedication, but I find the more and more I study it, the more I feel that it's for me. I love that it emphasizes a respect and love of the natural world, and encourages harmony with all things living.

Re: My Religion=My Faith

http://wolfmuse.gaia.com — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:05:07 GMT

One of the things I love best about wicca is that as long as no one is harming anything it is ok for everyone to believe the way they want to and they can all go to heaven (or where ever) they want. I hope someday that everyone believes that also, that we can coexist.

Re: My Religion=My Faith

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:38:09 GMT

I feel similarly about Wicca; I did try Catholicism for a while, but I couldn't get into it. I'm still in awe of the beauty and the power of it and of how strongly people worship, but I've always been a witch at heart, even when I was a really litle girl. I thought stories where witches were portrayed as evil were awful and I did my best to turn those stereotypes around.

My Religion=My Faith

http://wolfmuse.gaia.com — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:39:19 GMT

When I was younger I was Christian, although my parents tell about a time I tried athieism. Several years I spend trying to creat my own religion, but it never felt quite right. Eventually, I drifted into Wicca/Druidry. Now I just believe in what feels right to me. It is a mix of many different mythologies, with a great deal of Wicca and Druidry. Athough I communicate with different deities I know that there is one great source that we are all a part of. I can feel it when I listen and when I look with my eyes closed.

This is how my religion became my faith.

Re: What is magic?

http://htheriault05.gaia.com — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:05:44 GMT

I experience magick every day and i have since i was about 6 years old. My family is Catholic but i am Wiccan and i think that i am happier being a wiccan than when i was catholic. with wicca i am free to express myself in a way that i couldnt with catholicism.

An interesting one I had

http://wonderlandalli.gaia.com — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:02:47 GMT

Happened June 25, yay for storing this stuff in LJ!

I tucked a crow's feather, a two pointed crystal, and the 6 of Swords under my pillow. I dabbed frankincense on my third eye without diluting it first (bad Alli lol) and burned a mix of linden, eye bright, and damiana in my Little Baby Cauldron.

I intended to do some journey work because last night I had a dream about all different planes of existence, trying to move around them, and my sister moving on for reincarnation. But I couldn't remember as much as I wanted to. So I wanted to get back there.

Let's note that if you use as many influences for getting visions as I did, control of the journey might be taken from you...

I started off asking the Crow to take me. There was a lot of flying and trying to get to the island on the 6 of Swords card in the Robin Wood deck. If I tried to influence the journey the bird got offended and took me elsewhere. Unfortunately for some reason I couldn't help myself for interfering.

He took me to Halifax, to a specific afternoon I had walking downtown there where I saw an owl out in daylight being harrassed by crows. Crows do not like owls, and even more so in their hunting time. The owl was young and confused and couldn't find it's way back to the woods it came from. There wasn't any dialogue really except for squawking but the energy swirled around them like a hurricane. In reality that day I had fussed at the crows trying to shoo them before going back to my class. In this journey I climbed up the tree and released the owl. The crows were pleased I went into the tree and released it. Their idea of a natural order had been restored.

Sweating and not feeling comfortable in my own body, I eventually gave into sleep.

Into the dream: I wandered a shopping center and went into a Naturalizer shoe store to try on some cute shoes I saw but they did not fit. I had actually walked to the store, found no employees, took the pair over to a second Naturalizer in the same center and tried them on there, and then they were saying the other store had called to say they were stolen when I had taken them to another store to try on, but they didn't fit and I wasn't stealing them so I gave the shoes to the employee (who was my friend Sara Assayed). Disapointed they didn't fit even though they were my size, I left the mall. It was dark. Two cadillacs pulled up and two shady men in coats with shot guns got out. At first they didn't see me but then they noticed me standing nearby. They were going to shoot at me and I screamed and fled inside the building. Now the building was an ice rink not a mall and there was a wierd balding cowardly fellow fleeing with me, and we skated out into the rink where olympic hopefuls circled around and hid in a closet. The men were looking for us and wouldn't have found us but I was shaking so hard I rattled a bucket and they found us. They took us to their boss, a woman sitting at a table in the food court with tons of long curly black hair, pale skin, a white sweater and white skirt. She started asking all kinds of questions about me, I knew she was judging me. Things about my personality, character, enviromental concerns, etc. She liked me well enough but didn't really like the cowardly guy that had been following me. She let me go and I never saw it but I think she had him destroyed.

Then I woke up.

I was thinking about the woman some more and I think it was me cleaning house emotionally, so to speak. Giving myself tough love.

Thinking more on the crows and the owl... It was a barn owl (not all white, brown with a white face so the face really stands out), both IRL and in the dream. I remember because they have a face like the moon.

The two species do not get along. Maybe it was about setting myself in the right balance spiritually so the owl does not kill the crow? Releasing the owl to go to it's territory so the crows had theirs?

Crow: A reminder that magick is very much alive during the day, not just the night, due due its nightblack feathers being out in the daytime. Crows are seen as sentinals from a myth in which a white crow watches over Apollo's pregnant lover in Delphos. Crows watch out for one another and alert each other of predators, and I've heard of Crows partnering with other animals and cawing out when predators are around. (I think it was deer and I can't remember where I heard that, but I thought it was a cool thing)

"The great horned owl is probably the most deadly enemy of the crow. If an owl comes into the area of a crow it will mob the owl and chase it off. Crows know that if the owl discovers its nests, the night could bright death. Many crows have lost their life to the silent hunts of owls."

Crows have precognition, anticipating weather and such. So it's also about being on watch, seeing the danger, and anticipating how to handle that danger.

"Wherever crows are there is magic. They are symbols of creation and spiritual strength. They remind us to look for opportunities to create and manifest the magic of life. They are messengers calling to us about the creation and magic that is alive within our world every day and available to us."

Owl: According to Animal Speak... (in which Ted is quoting Medicine Cards,) "Owl medicine is symbolically associated with clairvoyance, astral projection, and magic, both black and white." Interesting because almost all my astral and clairvoyant experiences happen at night when I am sleeping... Owls are associated with Athena and represent Wisdom, perhaps the curly cold biatch was Athena making me sort out myself? It did come in the dream after I freed the owl... Barn owls are also called Ghost Owls and represent spirit and ghostly contact. I had never researched owls before but in my mix of Hecate keys on my altar I have on small one whose handle resembles an owl's face, or at least that's what I see looking at it.
"Next is the barn owl. This owl has a heart shaped facial disc which is unique among owls. This reflects the ability to link the heart and the mind. It is part of what this owl teaches. It also has darker eyes. It has golden buff feathering on top, and white feathering beneath.
The common barn owl has a variety of names. When seen at night from below it has a ghostly appearance due to its white feathering. It is this aspect which has earned it the name of Ghost Owl. It is an owl whose medicine can connect you to old haunts and spirits of properties and homes that may still be lingering about. It;s medicine can be used to help develop mediumship and spirit contact.

The barn own is the master hunter. Many farmers have shot at barn owns and tried to replace them with cats. Unfortunately, the farmers often do not realize that 'one pair of nesting barn owls can eliminate more mice per night that ten cats put together.'

It is the barn owl's hearing ability which makes it stand out as a hunter. In fact, a large portion of he barn owl's brain is devoted to sorting out the auditory signals it picks up. It has the ability to use echo location, a kind of sonar, in locating prey. For those with this bird as a totem, the ability to hear the inner voice and even spirit (clairaudience) will definitely begin to develop.

Barn owls are inventive opportunists. They are adaptable and will take food wherever they can find it. Their most common prey is the mouse, and those with barn owl medicine should study the qualities of the mouse as well."

Clairaudience I had more strongly I think when I was a teenager, then I bitched at the whispers once for distracting me during a test and they silenced themselves quite thoroughly. I haven't heard them in a long time.

Favorite Poems or Poets?

http://WiqkedWombat.gaia.com — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:50:47 GMT

I like amny poems, but it seems that aside from the bard, the two most favorite poets would be Neruda and O. Paz.

Re: WHEN THE HOLY THAWS

http://WiqkedWombat.gaia.com — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:48:39 GMT

What a lovely poem. I study history & the middle ages quite a bit, and never came across that work. Thanks for sharing it w/us all.

WHEN THE HOLY THAWS

http://shantimeera.gaia.com — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:10:46 GMT

WHEN THE HOLY THAWS

A woman's body, like the earth, has seasons;
when the mountain stream flows,
when the holy
thaws,

when I am most fragile and in need,
it was then, it seemed,
God came
closest.

God, like a medic on a field, is tending our souls.
Our horns get locked with desires, but don't hold yourself
too accountable; for all desires are
really innocent. That is what
the compassion in His
eyes tell me.

Why this great war between the countries – the countries –
inside of us?

What are all these insane borders we protect?
What are all these different names for the same church of love
we kneel in together?

For it is true, together we live; and only
at that shrine where all are welcome will God sing
loud enough to be heard.

Our horns got locked with the earth and sky in some odd
marriage ritual; so what, don't worry. We should be proud of
ourselves for everything we helped create in this
magic world.

And God is always there, if you feel wounded. He kneels
over this earth like
a divine medic,

and His love thaws
the holy in us.

~ St. Teresa of Avila ~
(Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West –
versions by Daniel Ladinsky)

Re: Nothing and Everything

http://shantimeera.gaia.com — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:37:57 GMT

That really is Beautiful! The dance of everything and nothing, who can understand it? :)
Itreminded me straight away of this quote that I pulled from a newsletter just yesterday.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
-Paul Valery, poet and philosopher (1871-1945)

Love

Nothing and Everything

http://mirnas.gaia.com — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:41:33 GMT

When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that's wisdom;
when I look outside and see that I am everything, that's love;
and between these two my life turns.

- Nasargadatta Maharaj

I would like to share a poem I wrote bout every-1...Any comments?

http://bodiesofexperience.gaia.com — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 04:06:11 GMT

i am the context of my monad in manifestation;

the ripple of the wave which vibrates from the ocean;

the taste of the paste which ferments from my liaison.

and the exposure of the smell from the odor of my occasion;

i am the average of the maths which was found in calculation;

the signal which was received from the tuning of the station;

the meal that was served from the ingredients of my preparation;

and the class which was ass-ed from my edge of sophistication.

i am the effect that was set by the input of my participation;

the crest of the mountain which was climbed in moderation;

the thought which is brought to the boundary of my wisdom;

and the the mind which is empowered from the insight of idealism;

i am the peace that is breached from the lease of my action;

the light that is reflected from the art of my observation;

the idea which is sprung from the well of my conclusion;

and the bodies that were experienced from the rise of my creation.

New Favourite

http://shantimeera.gaia.com — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:09:16 GMT

REWARDS FOR CLEAR THINKING
~Hafiz

Think about this for a second:

God (being God), having Infinite knowledge,
Not only knew your every thought and action
Your life would ever experience

(Even before you were born)

But he also, being the divine Creator,
Has etched every moment of your existance
With His own hand

With the precision and care
No artist ever could.

Think about this for a moment:

I have never head a bird or the sun
Ever say to God,
I am sorry.

There seems to be a great reward
For clear thinking:
All existance is a pawn in the friend's hands.

Look, one gets wings and gifts to the world
Music each morning;
One turns into such an extrodinary light
He actually becomes the sustainer of a whole planet,

One makes a thousand moons go mad with love
And blush all night

When one can surrender the illusion, the crutch, of
Free will,

Though still live- for the benefit of others-
The highest of moral
Codes.

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My philosophy of life.

http://ian-maleny.gaia.com — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 07:19:33 GMT

My philosophy of life is set out in detail in my book The Milk Is White and in my blog.
To access the book, free, click here.

a collage of movies

http://bodiesofexperience.gaia.com — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:02:10 GMT

id like to sum up movies that have really helped me to transcend and transform my world-view, the way i actually experience the world and not just understand the world.

one of the first was 'a waking life'. absolutley brilliant.

then of course the is 'what the bleep do you know' and its sequel, 'what the bleep: down the rabbit hole'.

then there is 'goroko' and 'baraka'.

'the celestine prophecy' based on the bestselling book.

'the secret' which im sure everyone already knows about.

'i heart huckabees' is a nice movie too.

awesome series a current movies looking to explore the realm of spirit and consciousness.

Amit Goswami

http://bodiesofexperience.gaia.com — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:57:22 GMT

you may remember him from the what the bleep series. he is pushing for a new world-view, anew paradigm. currently, the materialist paradigm says that matter is the ground of all reality, where he is looking at a monistic idealism paradigm, in which consciousness is the ground of all being. this is not new, the mystics of the acient past have been saying for centuries, although Amit uses quantum physics to demonstrate that science can now advocate for that position. its the aim of merging science and spirituality.

i recommend books such as 'the self-aware universe' and 'physics for the soul'.

get there!!!!!!!!!

a collage of dreams

http://bodiesofexperience.gaia.com — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:48:07 GMT

dreams are a way of delimiting our experience of reality so that the laws of physics do not apply.

recently, i have had many empowering dreams. one as a modern day superman in which the sun was falling into the planet. instead of flying into it to move it, i used the mental tool of psychokinesis to send it flying away from the planet. although this dream may be egotistically oriented, i still felt a feeling of eternal contentment.

another i was on a foreign planet and soon realised it was completely occupied by evil. everything was negative and uneasy, so i soon made the decision to transport myself from it so i was looking at it as if i was looking at the earth from the moon. i made the decision to blow it up so using the power of my mind, the planet exploded into a ball of fire. and that was the end of that.

another was a sleep paralysis moment. it only lasted 15 secs and when i realised two very transparent orbs were floating around my head, and that i couldnt move, i wasnt sure what to do. instead of being scared, i decided to blow a kiss at it, then realising that i could move my mouth decided that i could move my entire body. i quite comfortably rolled over, payed no more attention to it and went back to sleep.

there has been plenty more of these crazy dreams but my point is that this is such a wonderful reality to explore. whether or not it is parallel worlds, lives or universes, or just the neurological activity of our sleeping brains, it is an experience. and that to me means that it is real, no matter in what context.

a new love

http://bodiesofexperience.gaia.com — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:37:00 GMT

isnt it amazing the diverse spectrum of the experience of love. i recently met a girl, only 20, who lived in the same dormatory as myself at uni. knowing that i am leaving for australia very soon, getting into a relationship that is based on commitment was out of the question. but we decided to spend the two months that we potentially could have with each other, with each other. because i have had this same experience before, i knew what to expect, and i knew as long as that everything was open and honest, it would work well.

it was amazing. we fell in love and spent a magic moment in time withb each other. we also forged a relationship that would always be there, although im assured that this connection was intimately interwoven already from an eternal perspective. our essential selves were only caching up this life. but for her, the experience of a love that she did not know to egotistically exist was such a gratifying feeling that i feel we both really learnt from our rendezvous.

love can be experienced through many mediums and as long as the positive is focused upon and any negative bypassed, as we did, there is no 'normal' way to love.

i love love...