October 2009
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Pagan New Year
Samhain is identified as the beginning of the pagan year.
Of the eight annual festivals, Samhain is the highest, celebrated with a great assembly at the royal court in Tara and lasting for three days. The festival celebrates the first half of the year, which also represents the Other, dark, half of the universe. It is a time when meta-physical entities to pass between the worlds to socialize with...
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Alchemical Birds
I would like to consider the following symbolic sequence, one which occurs in various alchemical sources: Black Crow - White Swan - Peacock - Pelican - Phoenix - as these correspond to a developing inner experience which involves a progressively deepening encounter with the inner spiritual dimension of our being.
The Black Crow sometimes also the Raven is the beginning of the great work of...
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Extropy →
Extropy is neither wave nor particle, nor pure energy. It is an immaterial force that is very much like information. Since extropy is defined as negative entropy — the reversal of disorder — it is, by definition, an increase in order. But what is order?
“Away, away, from men and towns,
To the wild wood and the...”
– Shelly, An Invitation
Face to faith: Freedom of religion should be... →
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2009 Black Rock City from Orbit →
Deepak Chopra's Wizard Archetype
The following is a collection of excerpts from the book The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want by Deepak Chopra: A wizard exists in all of us. This wizard sees and knows everything. The wizard is beyond opposites of light and dark, good and evil, pleasure and pain. Everything the wizard sees has its roots in the unseen world. Nature reflects the moods of...
Entheogens in the Vajrayana Tradition →