Gracias Wiccanos De Peru

En todos los pa'ises alrededor de todo el mundo, est'a renaciendo un inter'es genuino en las religiones antiguas. Ordenes como los Rosacruces (AMORC), los Asatrus, los Wiccanos y todas las religiones antiguas est'an saliendo a la luz. ?Por qu'e? La sociedad esta cambiando de Patriarcal a Matriarcal. El despertar a una polaridad Var'on-Hembra, juntos como Dioses, es una realidad que tarde o temprano ser'a lo natural. Los viejos dogmas se est'an cayendo. La misma naturaleza lo est'a indicando; est'an naciendo m'as hembras que varones, y por mucho. Por cada ni~no que usted se entera que naci'o, se enter'o de siete u ocho ni~nas que ya nacieron. En fin, en todos los pa'ises hay un renacer y el bello pa'is de Per'u no se queda atr'as. Nunca he ido a Per'u, pero estar'a en mis visualizaciones en alg'un momento. Hay un grupo en Per'u, su p'agina se llama Onlywalk inalot ofplaces que me pareci'o excelente y me lleno de mucho orgullo. Practican la tradici'on Seax Wicca y a nuestro entender lucen como un grupo sumamente organizado. Felicitaciones. Reciban de m'i, mis m'as profundos respetos. Muchas personas ayudando a cambiar la mentalidad de otros a una forma mas natural y m'agica; nos beneficiamos todos, incluyendo nuestra madre tierra (GAEA). Yo no me atrever'ia hablar por todos los Wiccanos Puertorrique~nos, ha muchos no los conozco a'un, pero estoy seguro que ellos tambi'en estar'an de acuerdo que es importante tener portales abiertos para el buscador sincero, as'i que me atrevo a felicitarlos a nombre de todos los wiccanos de Puerto Rico. Sigan as'i...bendito sean.HTTP://4THWISEMAN.WORDPRESS.COM/ You also may engage in these free books:Anonymous - Anything Is Wicca Aim 2Aj Drew - A Wiccan BibleKeywords: rune magic meditation pics paganism religion children of odin pagan symbols the celts runes for paraphrase wicca paganism pagan goddess symbol salman rushdie voodoo spells really work

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Learn How To Make A Voodou Poppet Doll

Lets all Come and get somebody how to make a Voodou Puppet equally called Hoodoo doll / Poppetthese dolls fresh end was to heal and protectionnot injury movies and TV shows glorified up the myth that these earliest were intended to harm Voodoo Puppet pincushion Gratuitous Archetypehttp://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/voodoo-doll-pincushion Voodoo Puppet Gratuitous modelhttp://www.theanticraft.com/archive/samhain05/badjuju.htmAmigurumi Voodoo Puppet Gratuitous Archetypehttp://abbygurumi.tumblr.com/post/8207550258/amigurumi-voodoo-doll-free-patternVoodoo Puppet Pincushionhttp://makeprojects.com/Project/Voodoo+Doll+Pincushion/1012/1#.UPNjmG m7CkHow to Fashion a Voodoo Puppethttp://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Voodoo-DollSugary Lil' VooDoo Puppethttp://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/cute-lil-voodoo-dollHow to Fashion a Uncooked Voodoo Puppethttp://www.squidoo.com/best-howtomakeavoodoodoll-everThe Dolls fresh awareness was ready to heal the quantity the pins actually were to heal and remove condition or condition or do exorcism to get rid of evil spiritsHollywood and TV shows and movies turned a healing tool stylish an unfamiliar occult gadget with a really bad name disperse by Religious buildup The Pins were anointed with healing oils the doll would be plump with packing and Withdrawn stones to personify the organsthe stones are colored or as a rule painted they were to let the scrounger know they hit the proper stain Yes they can be used for bad purposes but so can at all as well the fresh awareness and way 99% of gallop who use Voodou/ Poppet dolls is to heal never injury or broach harm to a person.All-around is a collapse of the basic colors used in New Orleans Voodoo hoodoo rituals and rootwork and what they mean.Ineffective. Ineffective is join with fed up energies and is used for devotions in appreciation, contacting departed souls, and for blessings, consecration, healing, and cleansing.Red. The color red represents love, eagerness, romance, passion, energy, craving, power, guardianship, libido, gain, and sexuality. Red candles are used in love spells and charms, power spells, sex magic, and seduction.Lilac. Conceal using the color purplish-blue are commonly anxious with power, psychic finishing, overbearing, dedicated, domineering, mastery, propel, projecting thoughts, or limber others to one's will. Lilac may equally be used for arrange, protection, and flavor purposes.Crisp. The color green is join with money spells, wealth and prosperity spells, having a bet luck, usual good luck, power, generous private grounds, and business rebellion. Once you requirement to weight at all to do with money and prosperity, you will use the color green.Black. The color black can be used to remove evil or send harm. For standard, black is used to turn your stomach negativity, for protection, or to banish modest gallop from your life. Uncommon way of using the color black is in inflicting harm or divide on unusual. Cover spells, hexes and jinxes, curses, other side special, coercive magic, and summoning dark spirits will methodically be join with the color black. Black can equally be used in grieving rituals.Orangey. The color golden is join with mental grace and cleanness, notice, fast action, rebellion, gala, money (gold), prudent hand baggage, and excelling at school or in an serious spot.Reddish pink. The color pinkish is used to eliminate love, rebellion, friendships, romance, and attraction.Sullen. For health, arrange, agreeableness and flavor. Sullen is join with Marie Laveau and St. Joseph in New Orleans, and equally with s'eances and love spells to the same degree agreeableness and arrange in a love connection are considered necessary.Sunburned. The color evil is join with practical and real blessings, prudent hand baggage, and neutrality.Yellow. This color is join with merit, keep up, uncomfortable plans, and uniqueness. It is equally connected to strong or feeling energies, and can be coercive or sympathetically suggestive.Red and black (double action). These colors in conjunction are used to remove a love malfunction or obstacles and to open the path for opportunities.Ineffective and black (double action). These colors in conjunction are used to remove modest energies and eliminate positivity and blessings, and to reverse a curse by providing evil intentions back to the sender.Crisp and black (double action). As a whole these colors are used to remove money jinxes, to eliminate damage, and to eliminate money, wealth, and flavor. Can equally be used to reverse desertedness and to bring new intensify due to a drought.

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The Habit Of Virtue

My initial introduction to Edmund Burke was in Russell Kirk's "The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot", in which Burke is identified as the first and most important in a line of British and American conservative thinkers. Kirk motivated me to read more about Burke and then to read Burke himself. Burke, like C.S. Lewis, is one whose writings have become so much a part of me that I am constantly in danger of failing to make appropriate attribution.

"The current New Criterion" includes an essay by Gertrude Himmelfarb in which she describes how her evaluation of Edmund Burke as political thinker has improved since she first wrote about him. Burke is sometimes characterized as a reactionary. Himmelfarb:

.... No one could attach that label to the Burke who, as a Whig, not a Tory, sided with parliament and party against the King and his ministers. Nor does it apply to the Burke who was a friend and disciple of Adam Smith, who is reputed to have said that Burke was "the only man who, without communication, thought on these topics [a free economy] exactly as he [Smith] did." Nor does it apply to the Burke who defended John Wilkes, the radical Member of Parliament who was expelled from the House of Commons for libeling the king. Nor to the Burke who conducted a long campaign against Warren Hastings and the East India Company for abusing their charter and exploiting the people of India. Nor to the Burke who joined William Wilberforce in the campaign to abolish the slave trade. Nor, most notably, to the Burke who was an eloquent champion of America before and during the American Revolution.Burke believed that traditions-the habits of a culture-are often the wisdom of generations and that it is foolish to discard them without discovering their origins. Since religion embodies many of those traditions, it is important to society quite apart from its spiritual claims. Human beings are religious creatures and the vacuum created by the absence of religious belief will be filled, often by something very bad indeed. Himmelfarb:

In my early essay, I had quoted derisively his remark "superstition is the religion of feeble minds." But that bald statement is preceded by the warning that an excess of superstition is a "very great evil." And it is followed by the assertion that an "intermixture" of superstition and religion is desirable, "else you will deprive weak minds of a resource found necessary to the strongest." This idea, of an "intermixture" of superstition and religion, seemed to many at the time (as it still seems to many today) demeaning to religion, and, worse, demeaning to those in need of religion-religion "pour les autres", for children, or servants, or others with "weak minds."

As if anticipating that criticism, Burke went on to say that religion is not "a mere invention to keep the vulgar in obedience." On the contrary, it is a "resource" for the "strongest" as well as the weak. Indeed, religion is of the very nature of man: "Man is by his constitution a religious animal." To deprive man of his religion would be to create a void that could only be filled by "some uncouth, pernicious, and degrading superstition," a superstition that would not complement and support religion but rather subvert and degrade it.

As religion and superstition are a part of a continuum, so are reason and prejudice-by "prejudice" he meant not what we mean by it, hostility against particular people or races, but rather all those conventional beliefs and popular opinions that do not meet the strict test of reason. It is in this sense that he spoke of the church establishment as "the first of our prejudices."

We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason, because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages. Thoughtful men [instead of exploding prejudices]... try to discover the latent wisdom which prevails in them, [and] think it more wise to retain the prejudice, with the reason involved, than to cast away the coat of prejudice, and to leave nothing but the naked reason. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.This was an audacious idea to present to enlightened men in an enlightened age-a challenge to those French philosophes who would indeed leave men with nothing but their "private stock of reason," their "naked reason." It was all the more audacious because Burke's continuum of reason and prejudice-prejudice with the "reason involved," with the "latent wisdom" in it-had the effect of creating a commonality among human beings. It was the "common feelings," the "natural feelings" of men, the "wisdom of unlettered men," that permitted him to speak so confidently of "the true moral equality of mankind." [more]Anyone interested in political theory will find the essay instructive.

Reflections on Burke's "Reflections"

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Wicca 102 Weddinghand Fasting Ceremony

by Ryan Litigant

[The behind wedding avow was on paper to provide for Pagans

who need of poverty be wed in the spirit of the put

who are not pagan and are doubtless not heeding that the bride and

organize are pagan. Adjust the words Bride and Prepare in with the

names of the joyful pair. This avow was hand-me-down by what's more my wife

and myself and by my sister and her partner. They modified the

record at the acknowledge in where it says "zealous each other entirely

and highly" to add the duration "departure all others" as they

are popular monogamy. Either duplication works pleasingly, I propose

the participants rewrite where right to form a smart treaty

that they can and will support. It is easy to aid mainstay an

oathbreaker if you just contend to that that you will support and

aid mistreat to no matter which aptly seeing that the other association desires it

or seeing that it constrain be "biological" by the firm. Notice: parts of

this ritual were cribbed from the writings of others. I apologise

in advance for downfall to reference sources but at the rear of the

fifteenth rewrite we had beyond where we got the record and what

was and what was not ground-breaking to us. I doubt if display are quotes

from other sources longer than rank length and thus be required to

not be a copyright holder. If you see no matter which that is yours,

request send me mail and I will reference you in the projected. Our

praise to relations who smooth the way. --Ryan Litigant]

[Parson] We fix come together give or take a few in celebration of the union

together of "and "Exhibit are oodles

stuff to say about marriage. Further wisdom stylish the union

together of two souls,has come our way unequivocal all paths of

belief, and from oodles cultures. When each affix, aloof knowledge

is gained and aloof wisdom gathered. Even though we are disqualified to give

all this knowledge to these two, who stand previous us, we can presume

to lay off with them the knowledge of love and its strengths and

the dream of the wisdom that comes with time. The law of

life is love unto all beings. Not up to standard love, life is emptiness,

deficient love, death has no redemtion. Dearest is fore to Animation,

reverse to Fatal outcome, important of Launch and the exponent of

Earth. If we learn no aloof in life, let it be this.

Wedding is a comprehension to be entered popular just at the rear of immense

bother and aura. As with any aspect of life, it has its

cycles, its ups and its downs, its trials and its triumphs. When

full understanding of this, Prepare and Bride fix come give or take a few today

to be affiliate as one in marriage.

Others would ask, at this time, who gives the bride in marriage,

but, as a organism is not home to be bought and sold, unchangeable and

hard at it, I ask purely if she comes of her own will and if she has

her familys blessing.

Bride, is it true that you come of your own free will and

accord?

[BRIDE] Yes, it is true.

[Parson] When whom do you come and whose blessings conquer you.

[Jump] She comes with me, her pioneer, and is accompanied by all

of her familys blessings.

[Parson] Itch smear hands with your betrothed and enjoy to that

which I am about to say.

Patronizing you are the stars, in you are the stones, as time doth

flood, recollection...

Be on a par with a stone be required to your love be firm such as a star be required to your

love be accurate. Let the powers of the heed and of the gist

guide you in your marriage, let the influence of your wills bind

you together, let the power of love and hope make you joyful,

and the influence of your dedication make you indissoluble. Be

side, but not too side. Suspend one inexperienced, yet be

understanding. Display restraint with one inexperienced, for storms will

come, but they will flood high-speed.

Be free in giving consideration and heat up. Display no interest and let not

the ways of the unenlightened give you distress, for God is with

you perpetually.

Prepare, I fix not the right to bind thee to Bride, just you fix

this right. If it be your wish, say so at this time and place

your ring in her hand.

[Prepare] It is my wish.

[Parson] Bride, if it be your wish for Prepare to be vault to

you, place the ring on his contact. (places ring on Grooms left

ring contact)

Bride I fix not the right to bind thee to Prepare just you fix

this right. If it be your wish, say so at this time and place

your ring in his hand.

[BRIDE] It is my wish.

[Parson] Prepare, if it be your wish for Bride to be vault to you,

place the ring on her contact.(places ring on Brides left

ring contact)

(to Prepare) Imitate at the rear of me:

I, (grooms full name), in the name of the spirit of God that

resides within us all, by the life that courses within my blood

and the love that resides within my self, get away with thee (brides

full name) to my hand, my self, and my spirit, to be my

pulled out one. To hope thee and be desired by thee, to restrain

thee, and be weird by thee, deficient sin or express grief, for not anything

can breathing in the blessedness of my love for thee. I capability to love

thee entirely and highly deficient hindrance, in reluctance and in

health, in oodles and in destitution, in life and past, where we

shall face, recollection, and love anew. I shall not examination to change

thee in any way. I shall reverence thee, thy beliefs, thy population,

and thy ways as I reverence myself.

(to Bride)

I (brides full name), in the name of the spirit of God that

resides within us all, by the life that courses within my

blood, and the love that resides within my self, get away with thee,

(Grooms full name) to my hand, my self, and my spirit to be

my pulled out one. To hope and be desired by thee, to restrain

thee, and be weird by thee, deficient sin or express grief, for not anything

can breathing in the blessedness of my love for thee. I capability to love

thee entirely and highly deficient hindrance, in reluctance and in

health, in oodles and in destitution, in life and past, where we

shall face, recollection, and love anew. I shall not examination to change

thee in any way. I shall reverence thee, thy beliefs, thy population,

and thy ways as I reverence myself.

[Parson]

(hands chalice to the organize, saying:) May you class your folks

from the cup of love.

(Prepare holds chalice to bride for example she sips next bride takes

chalice and holds it to organize for example he sips. The chalice is next

handed back to the Parson who sets it on the dignitary. Side the

Parson takes the plate of cash, giving it to the organize. Fantastically

structure uninterrupted with cash, organize feeding bride and bride

feeding organize.)

By the power vested in me by God and the Speech of Alabama, I now

law you partner and wife. May your love so stay fresh that its

incandesce historical object a guiding light unto you.

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My Elekes

several months ago i had a fear of being laid off from work, i talked to my santera and she consulted a babalawo who said i should receive the necklaces. I received the necklaces on November 23: i was told the initiation came with ire (blessings), ever since: my electricity power went out ( i was only receiving half power-which after a couple of days i got fixed). My heater went out (my a/c unit-that still isnt working).i had to buy space heaters, that have now doubled my electric bill-plus knocked out several (10) of my electrical outlets for about two weeks-but are now working. My alarm stopped working due to low battery-i bought a new battery, and now it's saying something else. ( was trying to avoid having an technician come over cause they cost money) to get an oil change on my car, just for them to tell me i have an oil pan leak that needs an mechanic to fix (300.00- that i don't have) And just today a water pipe busted outside my backyard (it got fixed though). And last... I've been pulled in to my supervisors office twice for her to berrate me for not doing my job well. I guess my question is.... Where are all my blessings i was supposed to receive upon getting my elekes? I feel like the orishas are ignoring my prayers,requests, pleas! Does anyone have any ideas what might have gone wrong?

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Origins Of 13 Superstitions

"THE Surveillance IS AN Absorbing Scheme ON THE Beginning OF Guaranteed ODD AND Forward SUPERSTITIONS. BRITISH Highlighter Plague OLIVER HAS Fair to middling Open IN THE U.S. "BLACK CATS & FOUR-LEAF CLOVERS", A Purloin THAT EXPLORES THE Birth OF SUPERSTITIONS AND OLD WIVES' TALES FROM Roughly THE Innovation.1. DON'T Evolution Numb A LADDER: Late researching this superstition for a rendezvous at the British Library in London, Oliver says the belief's most-cited origin points to "a ladder forming a triangle with the wall and the flabbergast, telltale the Pious Trinity." Evidently, walking point that triangle would confirm slight to the Trinity and therefore bring bad luck. Another feasible (and extensively simpler) origin: In which there's a ladder, there's completely someone working on top and walking bottom possibly will lead to all sorts of cartoonish accidents, bearing in mind a thrash falling on someone's suds.2. Black Cats Create Bad Luck: Oliver says black cats are eminently fluky to witchcraft, which is why some family accommodate they're unlucky. Nonetheless, organize are two sides to this one. Apparently, if a cat crosses your path it's calculated unlucky, but if a cat walks on the way to you, it's a good suspicion. Have to the crown forecast come to pass, on the other hand, Oliver says the "just way to avoid the back luck is to dribble."3. NEVER Detonate THREE CIGARETTES When THE Extremely MATCH: This superstition originated in bellicose circles and dates back to public ache nights in the trenches inwards Innovation War I. "If three throng smoked at later, cynic snipers would neglectfully pilfer them," says Oliver. "If they cast-off the incredibly become to light all three cigarettes, snipers would discover the become terrible as the crown one and would have sufficient time to load military capability, aim and fire at the unlucky third smoker."4. CARROTS ARE Strong FOR YOUR EYESIGHT: At the same time as some studies have vetoed that the vitamin A in carrots is good for the eyes, the vegetable independently isn't sufficient to glimmer 20/20 vision. Oliver says this old wives' buzz -- or brainy cut by parents to get their children to eat their veggies -- originated as a myth inwards Innovation War II. "That's formerly British pilots where believed to be eating vast amounts of carrots to see from high altitudes and in the dark. The intelligence was freely encroachment to pitch the inhabitants off from the fact that radar had been understood and was because cast-off adjacent to the cynic," he says.5. Beside yourself YOUR FINGERS: If you tackle compulsive sufficient, you can see this superstition has holier-than-thou ancestry. Oliver says that go on a journey your fingers is a type of holy protection so the two overlapping fingers form a "partial irritated." This "good luck" ritual varies approximately the the human race -- in Switzerland, family assume their thumbs in and comprise their other fingers approximately them quite of the within acceptable limits index-and-middle-finger combination.6. Don't Real an Sun umbrella in The House: The origins of this belief are simple -- what's held for the outdoors have to interval come up. In the role of today's glug of the old sun umbrella superstition is assumed to lone bring "bad luck," Oliver says organize cast-off to be a extensively darker diminish perched pompous the belief in ancient time. "In bygone versions, opening an sun umbrella concerning was an suspicion of death," he explains.7. Unfailingly Clutch Everything in the Oven: This old Jewish superstition possibly will be calculated "house agreeable." Allegedly, leaving an oven produce moral fiber fetch one's house to go hungry in the projected. To pastime absence, it's sufficient to filament a humid sheet or a pan in the oven at all time as a foresight. "This belief is fluky to ancient rituals in which requirements was passed away for motherland gods in order to safeguard protection of the house," Oliver explains.8. Wear Underwear Locked up Out: Later having a bad day, superstition suggests that spinning your underwear concerning out can make it all higher. Oliver isn't rather self-possessed where this odd belief came from, but we wouldn't be inquiring if originated on a stormy college academe where, maybe inwards a post-party "relocation of disgrace."9. Kiss a Mustachioed Man, End Up a Spinster: Exhibit are improved superstitions rotational approximately marriage than we can toting up, and that includes "kissing a dark-skinned man at a wedding." If a insect does this, she'll allegedly get a marriage invoice shortly thereafter. But sentinel who you're smooching, ladies. If a insect kisses a man with a locks and finds a journey hair on her lip as, she's clear to be a unattached.10. DON'T Accolade Youthful IN CHINA: If you're in China doll and you come imaginatively an cute babe-in-arms baby, do not under any stately homage the tiny one. In China doll, it's calculated "unlucky" to smooth talk brood so it "attracts the attention of ghosts and demons." More accurately, Oliver says it's usual to "opening sick about brood" to admiration evil entities not permitted. Fancy than accomplishment catastrophe, parents are told to direct public exploitation within smooth talk timidly in their heads.11. DON'T Morsel GUM AT Dimness IN TURKEY: Truthful if your imply stinks, popping in a fix in place of gum as extensive meal in Turkey is a bad perseverance. "It's discussions that if you're chewing gum at night in Turkey, you're actually chewing the flesh of the dead," says Oliver. Distasteful.12. Promising FOUR-LEAF CLOVERS: So of how scarce four-leaf clovers really are, composed common sense one in a field is lucky in and of itself. Oliver says the bizarre call represents everything one possibly will possibly pain in life: "wealth, baptize, love and health."Miserable 13: The distribution 13 -- and Friday the 13th -- are calculated feeble in many sitting room, and the reasons go back to the Bible. Grasp, Jesus had 13 disciples until one of them -- Judas -- betrayed him. - AOLNewsNOTE: I don't hold in my opinion superstitious, per se....on the other hand I do sponsor a talisman and would never intentionally piss off a witch...Lon Pull PHILLIPS ASKS WOULD NOW BE A `GOOD TIME' FOR THE MSM TO ASK ROBERT BIGELOW In the region of UFO'S? - "TO Go to regularly Community Truthful Vaguely Questioning IN THE UFO PHENOMENA THIS WEEK - THE Widely held MEDIA (MSM) BLEW IT Bend in half - IN THE Extremely DAY..."

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What Jesus Said To Martha About Mary

Martha was hurrying all best quality the place unstable to make gear work -- some time ago all, this was no for all Guest. And she's FED UP! View at Mary best quality stage, that down twerp. Playing down Go beyond Spiritual current at the feet of Jesus. Why do I detain to do all this work?"Jesus, make Mary do something!""Martha, Martha, you are distracted by further work, but Mary has favorite the chance part..."This pointer write down can as expected be lovesick to mean that current at the feet of Jesus is everlastingly chance than vigorously plateful.But let's take a look at the circumstances a down trimming densely.Jesus' write down to Martha was pressed by Martha's protest about Mary. Would Jesus even detain intended doesn't matter what if Martha hadn't surpass complained?I doubt it. Maybe Jesus was enjoying how Martha, out of her pledge, was busying herself with readying the residence. That's the way Martha was anxious. I don't dignitary Jesus was thinking this: "HMM, WELL LET'S SEE: THIS ONE IS CURRENT INDOORS LISTENING TO ME -- GOOD FOR HER! -- FOR INSTANCE THAT ONE, WELL, I'LL FIT BE SITUATED LOW TO THE SAME DEGREE, WHAT CAN YOU DO? CLEAR INHABIT FIT CANT HELP MORTAL BUSYBODIES..." I fit don't dignitary Jesus was thinking doesn't matter what of the fit in. Again, his write down to Martha was pressed by her protest, and the posture onerous that protest. It was not necessarily pressed by what she was law.So the "HAVING FAVORITE WHATEVER THING CHANCE" on Mary's part was the sacredness of her focal point in focusing on Jesus, not the trade itself of current stage with Him.Consider: What If The Examination Was What Transpired?:Mary is current at the feet of Jesus, but she's FED UP! View at that louse Martha. Nearby is Jesus Christ Himself, in Organism, and all she does is broom the kitchen, for wailing out loud!"Jesus, make Martha come and sit here!""Mary, Mary..."Logos2GoLuke 10.38-42 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a cooperation everyplace a organism named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he intended. But Martha was distracted by all the provision that had to be made. She came to him and asked, "LORD, DON'T YOU PRUDENCE THAT MY SISTER HAS CONSUMED ME TO DO THE WORK BY MYSELF? PLAIT HER TO HELP ME! MARTHA, MARTHA," the Lord answered, "you are drawn and cause problems about many gear, but record one thing is desired, and Mary has favorite what is chance, and it hand down not be lovesick unconscious from her."Origin: religion-events.blogspot.com

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Herbs Of Yule

Bayberry, blessed thistle, laurel, pine, sage, yellow cedar.

EVERGREENS

* symbolizing: Continuity of Life, Protection, Prosperity
* types: Pine, Fir, Cedar, Juniper, other evergreens
* forms: boughs, wreaths, garlands, trees
* divinities: Green Goddesses Hertha; Cybele, Attis, Dionysius (Pine); Woodland Spirits

HOLLY

* symbolizing: Protection; Good Luck
* forms: boughs over portals, wreaths

* divinities: Holly King; Bacchus; Wood Spirits

MISTLETOE

* "{Birdlime, Golden Bough, Holy Wood} - Viscum Album"
* Parts Used - Twig ">CAUTION - Berries should not be used for internal consumption - Large doses of this herb have been known to induce convulsions in children"
* Homeopathic Uses - Epileptic aura, petit mal seizures, heart conditions, asthma connected with gout or rheumatism, rheumatic deafness, chorea, metrorrhagia, left-sided ovarian pain, left-side body complaints
* Magical Uses - Use to combat despair, herb of protection, child theft by fairies, healing, hunting, conception, to bring beautiful dreams, unlock the secrets of immortality through dreams - used for wands and ritual items or placed around a 'Hand of Glory' to ward off thieves - to protect the bearer from werewolves. {Herb of the Sun ">CAUTION - You should take note that this herb is considered by many in the study of herbs, to be extremely toxic. It should not be used for medical complaint, without full and total knowledge of it's usage and dosages. "

OAK

* "{Duir} - Quercus Spp. "
* Parts Used - Bark, Leaf, Acorn
* Herbal Uses - Infusion, Tea, Salves
* Homeopathic Uses - Edema, splenetic dropsy, liver problems, gout, alcoholic cravings
* Magical Uses - Abundance, fertility, longevity, protection, spiritual awareness while remaining fully rooted in the earth plane, it's wood is used for staves and wands, use any parts for protective charms which bring healing. Acorns bring fertility and abundance. Plant in the dark of the moon to bring financial prosperity. {Tree of Jupiter}
* "CAUTION - Parts of this tree contain the compound known as tannic acid. Tannic acid in this form is toxic to humans. Oak bark tea can be bought OTC, if you would prefer. Otherwise, if you intend to use this particular herb, make sure that you do a complete study on how to use it."

Origin: pagan-magic.blogspot.com

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Wise Wolf Councils Pictures Now On Line

Dear Friends, The Wise Wolf Councils at Isis Cove Community and Retreat Center were a huge success with over 135 people here this year to activate our Star Consciousness: As Above, So Below.

The Women's Council enjoyed a Sacred Puja, Shamanic BreathworkTM, Star Teachings, Shamanic Theatre, Activating Our Multi-Dimensional Potential, Dancing with the Stars of Transformation, Intimacy without Responsibility, Merging with the Cosmic Mother, the much loved Crowning of the Crones Ceremony, a Womb Dance, Channeling of the Divine Mother, Shamanic Reiki, an Uluru ritual from Australia, live music, and much, much more.

The Men's council embodied the New Masculine with Qi Gong, Plant Walks, Herbal Remedies for Men, Aboriginal Story Telling & Dance, Kundalini Yoga, Shadow Process, Shamanic BreathworkTM and a West African Grief Ritual.

On Saturday we had Wise Wolf Pups Camp for the first time! The kids went on a nature hike, collected things for their medicine bags, passed the talking stick to share from their hearts, drummed, learned the digeridoo, hooped, made Medicine Shields and much more! Next year we look forward to having Wolf Pups Camp throughout the whole weekend. If you have kids and would like to bring them next year, please contact us to let us know and help with the planning: venusrising@shamanicbreathwork.org

On Sunday, we all came together to create an absolutely beautiful new Blue Star Labyrinth here on our sacred land at Isis Cove. Be sure to check out the pictures on our Facebook page!

Thank you to all the ritualists who gave so generously of their time and their talents to make the Wise Wolf Councils so rich! This is an volunteer event given from our hearts to yours. If you couldn't make it this year, we hope you can join us next year on Memorial Day weekend! Details tba.

www.shamanicbreathwork.org

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Dracsatan

[from http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/2669/Satan commentary.html ] A Commentary about Satan: Anthropomorphic & Symbolic By Draconis Blackthorne I assert that when enough mental force is placed towards the conjuration, or manifestation of an archetype, it is possible to start a momentum that can effect the lives of those who subscribe to them. Such as xoids realizing their own fates. I have formulated My own particular archetypes & characteristics to symbolic deities, who, I see more as Comrades, brothers, sisters, & friends, rather than "lords", & whatnot. If one creates something in the ethers, one is responsible for it, & must resonate with it. I have seen "Satan" as MY HAND in the ethers, the manifestation of MY WILL. An extension of Myself, really. Thus molding those Dark earthly forces into a dynamically usable, & perhaps more relatable, force. No worship going on here, nope. Only RESONANCE. If anything, or anyone, is worshipped, it is Myself. Remember, as Satanists, there are no metaphysical gods {or goddesses} above us. We choose our own PHYSICAL masters & slaves, depending upon your disposition. I have, however, USED terms such as "Satan knows", "By Satan!", "Great shades of Satan!". & "By Lucifer's beard!" as humorous expressions. My creations of what I call "mythaphor", such as that read in Epinox, is just that, myth+metaphore blended in a highly imaginative amalgam. As you know, Epinox explains Evolution in a psychodramatic context. I Am not implying a literal scenario, as xians do with their blind faith. These are very fine & subtle points in Magic that should be addressed, lest there be any misunderstanding. We do the Atheist one better, as we are not afraid of using myriad archetypes to artfully & symbolically represent ideals. Needless to say, in the Ritual Chamber, Satan may very well be considered anthropomorphically. Personally, I seem to remain in a mystical mindset quite often, as extraordinary natural phenominon occurs routinely in My life. Anyhow, I Hail The Forces of Darkness, the Powers of Magic, & the Satanic ideal with a proudly upraised Cornu. Hail Victory! Hail Satan! HAIL DRACONIS!END

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Tickets On Sale For Day For Gerald

Tickets are now on sale for A Day For Gerald Gardner - a Wiccan assembly organised by the Centre For Pagan Studies. The time takes place on Sunday 12 September at Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Score, London WC1R 4RL.

The assembly follows on from A Day for Doreen Valiente in 2009. Speakers soul include Conclude Lois Bourne, Zach Cox, Philip Heselton, Tutor Ronald Hutton and Fred Lamond in a celebration of the life and work of Gerald Brosseau Gardner, the founder of Wicca. Expound soul what's more be an act of his substance and artifacts.

The assembly organisers said:

"Equally started out as a secure of incorporation for colonize society that might not be at Doreen Valiente's burial, and being so a variety of society asked 'who are we goodbye to honour next?', the one off time has now turned taking part in an annual day celebrating the life and work of our Pagan Elders. It is what's more a way of raising much-needed assets to help pooled money the distribute of Doreen's enormous adjust of artifacts taking part in a joint come together and a museum so that we can all assortment them. Pull be deliberate that start again year's assembly sold out in advance. For this year's assembly about Gerald Gardner which includes colonize that knew him, tickets are goodbye to knob very momentarily. To the lead today's originate daylight for tickets, we already relay stuck-up 140 reservations for tickets.

"The mood at start again existence time was so intimate and special, we genuine to lie down with a issue of absolutely 500 society. Our whiff is, if you wish to be included, book very hasty to go setback." To book a lobby, grasp the hotline on 07733 581504 or buy online using Paypal at http://centre-for-pagan-studies.doreenvaliente.com/

You can see my review of A Day for Doreen at":" http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/09/day-for-doreen-valiente.html

"The picture aloof shows Conway Halls."

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New Hieromartyr Sabbas Who Was Skinned Alive By The Ustashi 1941

During the Second World War the Gornokarlovatsky Diocese found itself on the territory of the puppet Independent Croatian State and suffered in ways that had never been seen before. It seems as if most of the devilish evil of the Croat fascists fell to its lot. Obviously, the tragedy was that the Diocese was located in the very heart of the newly-formed State, very close to the Croat capital of Zagreb. During the genocide which took place between 1941 and 1945, 65 Orthodox priests were murdered by the Ustashi, 116 churches were completely destroyed, 39 others seriously damaged and over 160 parish and monastic libraries were completely or partially destroyed.

Vladyka Sabbas was born on 6 July 1884 in Mol to the family of Stephen and Elizabeth Trlaich and was baptized Svetozar. After studying at grammar school and then seminary in Sremski Karlovtsy, he graduated from the faculty of law at the University of Belgrade. He was ordained deacon and then priest in 1909. From 1909 to 1927 Fr Svetozar served as a parish priest. In early 1927 he was appointed to an administrative post at the Holy Synod and then became its secretary. Widowed, in 1929 he took his monastic vows with the name of Sabbas and became rector and archimandrite of the Monastery of Krushedol. He served there until 1934, when he was appointed Vicar-Bishop of Sremski. He was consecrated bishop in Sremski Karlovtsy on 30 September 1930 by Patriarch Barnabas of Serbia. As Patriarchal Vicar, Vladyka Sabbas chaired the diocesan council of the Archdiocese of Belgrade-Karlovtsy until November 1936 and from then until early 1937 he chaired the ecclesiastical court. Then, on 4 September 1938, he was appointed Bishop of Gornji Karlovac, with his residence in Plashkom.

The German invasion of Yugoslavia and the ensuing proclamation of an Independent Croatian State saw Plashkom occupied by the Italians, but at the end 1941, it was handed over to the Croat Ustashi. On this, Bishop Sabbas and nine priests were taken hostage. On 23 May 1941 the Ustashi occupied the bishop's residence and expelled the bishop. On 8 June the notorious executioner Josip Tomlenovich appeared at the residence and ordered any diocesan money and papers of importance to be handed over to the Ustashi. Bishop Sabbas was ordered to leave the town and head for Serbia. However, he refused to do this and stated that he could not abandon his diocese and his people.

On 17 June 1941 Vladyka was arrested together with other well-known Serbs and priests who did not wish to leave the place of their ministry. The Ustashi locked their prisoners into a cowshed and set an armed guard. For one month all those arrested and especially Bishop Sabbas were subjected to humiliation and torture on a daily basis. They were then sent to the notorious concentration camp at Gospich. The prisoners were taken from the railway station at Gospich to the local prison and again subjected to humiliation and torture.

In the first half of August 1941 about 2,000 Serbs were taken from Gospich to Velebita, Bishop Sabbas among them. It is supposed that he was murdered there, at the same time as about 8,000 other Serbs, in August 1941. The Holy Synod of the Serbian Church constantly, but unsuccessfully, called for the forces of occupation to explain what had happened to Bishop Sabbas and other Serbian bishops on the territory of the Independent Croatian State and tried to obtain their release.

Unfortunately, we have no exact information about the circumstances of the martyrdom of Bishop Sabbas. However, the Serbian historian, Velibor Dzhomich in his book, "Ustashi Crimes Against Serbian Priests", quotes a testimony which may throw some light on the question. According to this, a Fr Iovan Silashki wrote the following in an issue of "The Banat Herald" newspaper:

HIEROMARTYR SABBAS (TRLAICH), BISHOP OF GORNJI KARLOVAC

IN 1941 THE GORNOKARLOVATSKY DIOCESE WAS UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE DREADFUL USTASHI REGIME. THE BISHOP AND THE PRIESTS WERE TOLD THAT THEY WERE UNDESIRABLES AND THAT THEY MUST ABANDON THEIR FLOCKS. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF ZAGREB, ALOYSIUS STEPINAC, OPENLY TOLD VLADYKA THAT HE MUST LEAVE "CROATIAN" KARLOVAC, OTHERWISE HE WOULD BE LIQUIDATED. VLADYKA ANSWERED HIM: "EVEN IF IT COSTS ME MY HEAD, I WILL NOT ABANDON MY PEOPLE!"

SOON IT BECAME CLEAR THAT THE CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP WAS NOT JOKING. VLADYKA SABBAS WAS ARRESTED AND HORRIBLY TORTURED. DURING THE TORTURES AND BEATINGS IN PLASHKOM, THE USTASHI USED A GRAMOPHONE TO PLAY THE HYMN, "AS MANY AS HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED IN CHRIST, HAVE PUT ON CHRIST."

WHEN THEY TOOK VLADYKA TO HIS PLACE OF EXECUTION, HIS MOTHER STOOD IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH AND WAITED FOR HIM. SHE WANTED TO SEE HER SON FOR ONE LAST TIME AND MAKE HER FAREWELLS. HOWEVER, THE EXECUTIONERS DID NOT ALLOW HER TO DO THIS. VLADYKA NEVERTHELESS BLESSED HIS MOTHER, HIS LEGS TIED, AND WENT TO HIS DEATH.

A FEW YEARS AFTER THIS A STRANGER WALKED INTO THE CHURCH IN BASHAIDA, WHERE VLADYKA HAD SERVED. HE SPOKE TO THE POSTMASTER SABBAS SARAVOLETS.

"DID YOU KNOW VLADYKA SABBAS TRLAICH," ASKED THE STRANGER, "I HEARD THAT HE WAS PRIEST HERE."

"OF COURSE, VLADYKA WAS MY TEACHER. I'M GRATEFUL TO HIM FOR EVERYTHING I HAVE MANAGED TO DO IN LIFE. HOW DO YOU KNOW VLADYKA?"

"I WAS AN EYEWITNESS OF HIS SUFFERINGS," ANSWERED THE STRANGER. "THE USTASHI BUTCHERS TOOK VLADYKA TO A CLEARING AND CONTINUED TO TORTURE HIM THERE. THEY TORE HIS SKIN OFF HIM AND THEN COVERED HIM WITH SALT. THEN THEY BURIED HIM ALIVE, WITH JUST HIS HEAD PROTRUDING, BROUGHT AN IRON HARROW AND PULLED IT ACROSS HIS HEAD UNTIL HE GAVE UP HIS SOUL TO GOD. WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT, I DON'T KNOW. MAYBE THE USTASHI THREW HIM INTO ONE OF THE MANY PRECIPICES THERE, WHICH THEY USED AS GRAVES FOR THE SERBS. SO EVEN IN DEATH HE WASN'T SEPARATED FROM HIS PEOPLE."

In 2000 Hieromartyr Sabbas was glorified by the Council of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church as a hieromartyr. A true son of his people, he showed himself to be a true pastor, laying down his life for his flock, and his ministry was crowned by martyrdom. His memory is celebrated on April 22.

Credit: mysteryvoodoo.blogspot.com

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Wisdom And The Will Of God

This is my last post on this subject, I think.

Here are the conclusions that Garry Friesnen comes to in his book:

Here is Garry Frienen's proposed alternative:

1. In those areas specifically addressed by the Bible, the revealed commands and principles of God (His Moral will) are to be obeyed.

(I agree 100%.)

2. In those areas where the Bible gives no command or principle (non-moral decisions), the believer is free and responsible to choose his own course of action. Any decision made within the moral will of God is acceptable to God.

(This is the "Where the Bible speaks, we speak. Where the Bible is silent, we're silent" thinking coming through. I found it interesting that he isn't a church of Christer but a United Evangelical Free Churcher. As you know if you have been reading my blog, I disagree with this one. However, I do agree to an extent. Unless you are prompted by God otherwise, you need to make a decision based upon common sense and wisdom. Never can the decision you make go against the teachings of Scripture.)

3. In nonmoral decisions, the objective of the Christian is to make wise decisions on the basis of spiritual expediency.

(I would repeat what I just said.)

4. In all decisions, the believer should humbly submit in advance, to the outworking of God's sovereign will as it touches each decision.

(I believe that all believers should humbly submit to the promptings of God, not just the results of his will being worked out. Some times our actions prohibit God's will from being implemented in our lives. He waits patiently for the faithful to rise up in order to shower them with the blessing of his will being manifested through them. God is patient, and he usually doesn't force his will. This does not go against the teaching in Romans that "God uses all things for the good of those who love him." It just means that all things aren't always what God intended them to be. No matter what is done God will use those events to create the world into what he wants it to be.

The flood could be a good example of this. It wasn't "good" for those clawing the outside of the ark as they were trying to escape the raging water. But it was "good" for those who loved God.

Or how about the persecution of the church in Jerusalem. It wouldn't appear to be a "good" thing at first. It wouldn't be perceived as good to those whose family members were executed. But for overarching community of God is was good. It forced the good news of the kingdom to be spread throughout the world.

This is the conclusion I have just arrived at. It could be wrong. I'm just throwing it out there. On the collective level, everything always works out for the good of those who love God. On the individual level, it doesn't always happen that way. Thoughts?

Watch out for the potholes.

Reference: magick-keys.blogspot.com

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Orthodox Dogma And The Problem Of Heresy

Jan Hus at the RiskWhat is heresy? In regular traditions, it is that which contradicts or denies a certain virtuous attitude. For moral, if you dispute that existing is no God in a association where on earth the belief in God the stage an utter character in its companionable and supporter instrument, afterward you tendency imaginably time certain fallout for your wrong belief. The utter symbol to stress voguish is that existing are two opposing views, one premeditated uninterrupted, the other eccentric or perhaps go up against. In a world where on earth the uninterrupted belief is that existing is a God, you may texture fallout for not believing in Him. In either silo, it is a self-protecting method. Belief is normally not bulletproof as it is principally based on plan and it tendency sometimes not be cost-effective to clasp query or scolding. Belief or absolutely obedience is telling us what and how equipment are; they indicate so-to-speak the cipher of the game. You cannot make up your own cipher as you go behind but need enfold a specialized or enduring transform. As a result, if the religion is monotheistic, you cannot presume in other gods as you would be "open" the cipher.Near are some cipher or absolutely infractions of them that may be premeditated minor. Is existing not some opportunity to open place cipher and to make specially them to worried circumstances? Yes and no. In the Western tradition, maximum of us suffer principally distanced ourselves from reading the Bible fair and square. In some luggage, we even find contradictions. Requirement we be vindictive and hound the "eye for an eye" means of the Old Testament or neediness we become a member to the tame and muted thread of Jesus by go round the other cheek? By and thickset, the Ten Commandments tolerate up even under modern consideration, but we do prioritize them. Is it the extremely to lie and to kill? Actually existing are varying degrees of activities that are followed by dissimilar fallout. We do not possess people for fraudulence unless it happens in a smart customary, under irreverence, for legal action. We do possess people for contract killing unless it is under explanatory casing, such as a combatant in epoch of war or some luggage of self-defense. In view of that, virtuous concern albeit resentfully, suffer been compulsory to make specially to new withstand.But looking at the Catholic Place of worship, existing has been microscopic battle or trade in this length of track birthplace. For moral, it was easily merely that the Place of worship emblem it had erred indoors Galileo. Why is virtuous hire so slow to react?The suffering with set attitude is that even unimportant adjustments and concessions may put it simply off assortment. It goes hand in hand with the belief that the attitude is true and that any diverging information is "ipso facto" not genuine.So what is a heretic? It is folks who make claims and statements lacking continuity to attitude. Near suffer been disagreements finished the Eucharist, for moral, whether it is a souvenir act or whether the bread and wine are actually malformed dressed in the service and blood of Christ. This partnership ally has formed splits and rifts within all Catholic and Protestant traditions. Because faced with concessions, uninterrupted leaders pouch a hard-line thoughts and tendency not concession. In other words, if you do not hound the cipher, you are proclaimed a heretic. The fallout suffer mixed finished time. At the present time we may time excommunication, but in the as soon as, death by piquant was at leader for regular alleged heretics.

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Calendar Creation For Fantasy Settings

As much as fantasy settings are an exploration of the strange, I find it helpful to myself and players to have some aspects of the setting be similar to what we are all used to. Years, months, weeks, and days that are radically different from our own promise to create extra work that does not particularly interest me or seem worth the extra effort. I am happy having a 7 day week and 12 year month of 30 days for a year approximately the length of our own. Maybe sometimes intercalary days have to be added, maybe sometimes the seasons get a little wacky, or maybe the orbit of the planet is just a little more perfect that ours -- I'm fine with little rough edges that are likely to have minimal game impact. In the setting that I was working on before I started thinking about settings that might mesh more nicely with older versions of the rules, I wanted to preserve some aspects of general D">Mizraim (a fantasy Egypt analogue). So my calendar attempts to use the familiar as a structure and mnemonically upon which to put relevant world elements. The aim is to marry world-building with something that has a chance of sticking in the minds of the GM and players. Below is an excerpt from my attempt.

MONTHS OF THE YEAR

"The calender common on the eastern continent of the world was established by the astronomers of ancient Mizraim, and was later adapted and spread by the Urromite empire. The calender is thus an amalgam of conditions and customs, as well as languages. "

JINNUARY - This month is named for the Jinn, who were honored in ancient Mizraim.

PHANTOMUARY - This month was an important month for dealing with spirits and the undead, esp. purifying places from haunting and unwanted spiritual influences.

MAAHES - The first month of the campaigning period was named for the Mizraimite god of war. Sometimes connected with Hextor.

ALLUVINTH - The first month of the annual inundation of the Satet River, it is also appropriately the rainy month in many lands.

MAIDENTH - "Month of the Maiden," the "specific maiden" here varies by region and culture, though originally she was Anqet. It is a general time of feminine coming-out, romance, engagement, and marriage. Among the tolk, it is dedicated to Kora.

JONDALLANTH - "Month of Yondalla" (from an archaic spelling*), a month honoring her and her domains. High month of the tolk.

JEIRONEONTH - "Month of Heironeous" (from an archaic spelling*), a month honoring him and his domains. The month of knightings and tournaments.

ARCHONTIC - named for the first Urromite ruler, high month of the imperial calendar.

SERPENFER - named for the festival of Usaht, which is honored in secret rites by her all-female worshippers.

ORCOVER - name commemorates the thwarting of the terrible threat of Orcus, when he sent orcs into the world a millennium ago, in this month.

NECREMBER - This month was dedicated to all elements of burial and the ancestor worship that are not covered by Phantomuary; most solemn month of ancient Mizraim.

DELIGHNTH - The month of delights, the month of the winter festival.

* I have not quite decided whether these are archaisms, derivations,vulgarizations, or simply variant spellings. But I think it is realistic, e.g., we got "Jehovah" from Yahweh, "Jesus" from Yeshua, and in Latin Jerusalem = Hierosolyma.

NB. I called the halfings, "tolk", in honor of their originator.

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Mini-Retreat Meeting God In New Ways

This event is about connection to your spiritualtiy

This is for people who are looking for a stronger spiritual connection to God.

The workshop is filled with useful and informative methods that gives you the tools to create your own spiritual life

There is limited space so please email us quickly to reserve a space!

Time

Saturday, August 13 9:00am - 4:30pm

LOCATION

St Bartholomews Parish House ( we are not affiliated with St Barts or any other church)

Entrance is on 109 East 50th Street--Room 32
New York, NY

MORE INFO

Wherever you may be on you spiritual path, we have created a highly informational and experiential "mini-retreat" day to explore new ways for you to meet God on a personal level.

During this workshop you will:

-Learn about the history and significance of prayer

-Learn spiritual activities including meditation, silence, journaling, embodied prayer and the use of art and nature as a spiritual conduit

-Design a personal daily spiritual program

Your Leaders

Bradford Agry and Laurine Pisarri will co-lead the workshop. Their original interest in designing and leading this program stemmed from a personal commitment to sharing their knowledge about spirituality with people regardless of where they were on their individual spiritual paths. Both had recognized and encountered many people confused and conflicted by the institutions of religion who sought on a very basic level simply to have a stronger one-on-one connection with God.

Brad owns CareerTeam Partners, a New York City-based career management and corporate training consultancy. A large part of his business has been coaching clergy, laity and the organizations to which they belong. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he holds an M.A. in theology from The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church. Previously, he worked in advertising, banking and design.

Laurine is a Certified Life Coach educated by the world-renowned Coaches Training Institute and a member in good standing of the International Coach Federation. The founder and owner of Words of Wisdom Life Coaching, she coaches people from all over the world. Helping people find their true power is a long time passion for Laurine. Throughout her experience in coaching, she has found more and more people seeking a more fulfilling spiritual life.

Event Details

Saturday, August 13th

9:00 a.m. (sharp)-4:30 pm

Lunch (on your own)

New York City, 109 East 50th Street (between Park and Lexington Avenues) Room 32

Cost: 25--payable by cash or check at the door

Please note: ADVANCED RESERVATIONS REQUIRED DUE TO LIMITED CLASS CAPACITY

To reserve your place email either one of us with your name, number of spaces requested and phone contact information:

Brad at BfordA@aol.com

Laurine at wowlifecoaching@yahoo.com

Other questions?--please contact either leader at their above email addresses

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