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NeoNote — First lesson
Sunday, 09Dec2018
❝Fair warning. If you persist, you're going to feel very foolish and personally attacked. It will be due entirely to your own actions, although you will bend over backwards to blame the commenters here. I know you won't be thinking about this rationally because you believe you have a greater truth to pass along.
Walk away. It's not worth the pain you'll inflict on yourself.
If you could be bothered to ask about Divinity in general, I'd say that my personal path doesn't recognize a sharp division between the universe and Divinity. Or between humanity and our Elder Relatives. We were given a Spark of Divinity, it's up to us to Manifest and pass it along.
But you're not up to dealing with that. No, this is the drive-by, where you drop "ultimate truths" and then Run Away Really Fast, all while congratulating yourself on your courage for facing those Nasty Unbelievers.
Of course, you could stop trying to preach and actually pay attention to what people are willing to share. You might even learn something.
You're trying to put your labels on my belief.
More accurately, you're trying to cram my gods and my experience behind your godmask.
So here's your first lesson. The Divine is beyond human understanding or limits. What you choose to perceive is the godmask that protects your safety. As long as you huddle behind what someone else has told you about Divinity, you'll always be less than you could be.
Gods make you stretch.❞
NeoNotes are the selected comments that I made on other boards, in email, or in response to articles where I could not respond directly.
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Good vibrations
Sunday, 09Dec2018
The Hippies Were Right: It's All about Vibrations, Man!“Fast forward to the present era and we can ask ourselves now: Did the hippies actually solve this problem? My colleague Jonathan Schooler (University of California, Santa Barbara) and I think they effectively did, with the radical intuition that it’s all about vibrations … man. Over the past decade, we have developed a “resonance theory of consciousness” that suggests that resonance—another word for synchronized vibrations—is at the heart of not only human consciousness but of physical reality more generally.
So how were the hippies right? Well, we agree that vibrations, resonance, are the key mechanism behind human consciousness, as well as animal consciousness more generally. And, as I’ll discuss below, that they are the basic mechanism for all physical interactions to occur.
All things in our universe are constantly in motion, vibrating. Even objects that appear to be stationary are in fact vibrating, oscillating, resonating, at various frequencies. Resonance is a type of motion, characterized by oscillation between two states. And ultimately all matter is just vibrations of various underlying fields.
An interesting phenomenon occurs when different vibrating things/processes come into proximity: they will often start, after a little time, to vibrate together at the same frequency. They “sync up,” sometimes in ways that can seem mysterious. This is described today as the phenomenon of spontaneous self-organization.”— Tam Hunt
Ro3 № 17
Tuesday, 20Nov2018
❝It’s not a real party unless it lasts three days.❞— NeoWayland, Rules of Three
The flip side of placebo
Wednesday, 14Nov2018
Technopagan retreat
Wednesday, 14Nov2018
Doing something positive in the world
Thursday, 01Nov2018
“Several years ago, I heard what I think was best advice ever about improving the image of Paganism. Unfortunately I can’t remember who said it, but the gist of it was this:) Rather than coming out as Pagans and then trying to convince people we deserve to be on the school board or city council or whatever, we should join the school board or city council, show them we are good citizens and good people, and then come out as Pagans. It’s not about hiding our Paganism, so much as taking our focus off of ourselves and refocus it on doing something positive in the world (other than making the world more comfortable for Pagans). Changing the image people have of Pagans will then happen naturally, without us trying.”— John Halstead, Why Contemporary Paganism Deserves to Die
How does it make the World better?
Tuesday, 30Oct2018
Us versus them
Thursday, 25Oct2018
“Anyway, my point was that seeing the world solely through an us vs them lens only increases the conflict and division in the world, and dehumanizes the people we think are Them. It's the root cause of why these Christian folks in the article think that the Druids are Satanists out to do terrible evil. Their specific religious justifications are only the surface level. At it's root it is the poison of dualistic thinking, the idea that the world and it's people can be divided into good and evil. And the poison of dualism can infect anyone, or any religion.”— Shawn Herles, comments from Wayist Druid public Samhain ritual draws threats
The pedestal problem
Tuesday, 23Oct2018
Read More..."The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."— Lewis Carrol,
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
NeoNote — People cherish their passions
Monday, 22Oct2018
❝Whatever has brought you the most passion, that is what you will seek out. If it is pain from abuse or being attacked, that is what you want. If it is exhilaration from skydiving, that is what you want. If it's the love and acceptance from a loving partner, that is what you want. Whatever has pegged your emotional meter, that is your longing.❞Read More...
NeoNote — He would deny it
Friday, 19Oct2018
NeoNote — Political hexing
Thursday, 18Oct2018
❝As I said before, apparently the motivation for hexing Kavanaugh has moved from justice to attack.Read More...
This will have consequences, regardless of who did what where and when.❞
Sexuality without politics
Tuesday, 09Oct2018
On-line biding ritual
Thursday, 04Oct2018
Me, I compare an on-the-fly online ritual to building one custom motorcycle in twenty different places with 459 mechanics and parts from thirteen manufacturers.
Read More...NeoNote — Religion & responsiblity
Monday, 01Oct2018
❝Religions are not created by the Divine.Read More...
Religions are created by people claiming to speak for the Divine.❞
Paganism isn't a movement
Monday, 17Sep2018
Condemnation of memory
Tuesday, 21Aug2018
Anti-Christian
Friday, 03Aug2018
❝There was a time, a little more than a year, when I was very anti-Christian. Some of my relatives didn't help. But I didn't like the person that I was becoming.
There's an old idea, like calls to like. In the New Age vernacular, if you put positive energy out into the universe you get positive energy back.
But it's simpler than that. People cherish their passions. If you wrap yourself in hate and envy and despite, that will color your thoughts. That will be what rules you. That is what you will hold tightest in your secret heart. And that is what you will be. You won't have passion or power for anything else.❞
A book fell on my head
Friday, 15Jun2018
NeoNotes – Government should not be trusted
Sunday, 22Apr2018
I do not believe that a government agency should be trusted with caring for the environment.
Read More...Difference between the Story and the Journey
Thursday, 08Mar2018
❝It is the difference between the Story and the Journey. One is told while the other is lived. The only two purposes of the story are to honor the memory of those who have gone before and to teach you to recognize where the path begins for your own journey. The rituals are not the faith. The map is not the territory. The words are not the thing. You can only be responsible for your journey alone because it is your journey and no one else's.❞— NeoWayland, Some thoughts from my WebTree path
Tainted frisson
Tuesday, 27Feb2018
Politics has tainted paganism in my mind and I am working to re-establish the separation.
Read More...NeoNotes — Perception and symbols
Tuesday, 06Feb2018
I wonder. If a symbol can be "tainted" no matter what it was used for previously, what does it take to "purify" the symbol?
Read More...Walk away
Tuesday, 02Jan2018
“Speak To The Sky” (pagan version)
Thursday, 02Nov2017
I call myself pagan
Thursday, 27Jul2017
❝I call myself pagan because I don't have a better term. I'm polytheistic and pantheistic. On alternate Thursdays and every third Tuesday I might admit to an animism bent as well. On the 13th of the month, I'll tell you (truthfully) that the label isn't really all that important, only the manifestation.❞
— NeoWayland
Magick everyday
Wednesday, 19Jul2017
The air is still humid from last night's never-storm. No rain, but plenty of lightning and thunder around midnight.
Read More...Special harvest
Tuesday, 11Jul2017
There's something very renewing about greeting the sun at dawn dressed in nothing but a pendant.
Read More...Beyond patriotism
Tuesday, 04Jul2017
I was coming off a long time of being militantly solitary and I relished the fellowship I finally allowed myself.
Read More...Pure
Tuesday, 27Jun2017
Today's really twenty-nine
Friday, 28Apr2017
NeoNotes — What witch?
Tuesday, 21Jun2016
❝The "Witch Winter Solstice Ritual" in Nylon is populist pap. It's a lot like having Easter using only Cadbury eggs and never once mentioning a resurrection or what it might mean.❞
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Intuition & Inspiration
Tuesday, 03May2016
Act of Change
Thursday, 24Mar2016
According to popular culture, magick is about breaking the rules and molding reality.
Nope.
Read More...Faith Triad
Tuesday, 08Mar2016
No matter what the inspiration, you still have to come down off the mountain. Living in the Here & Now helps make you human.
Read More...Earth centered
Tuesday, 01Dec2015
More and more I think I was wise to separate my pagan blogging from my political blogging.
Read More...The grand cause
Tuesday, 09Jun2015
You take a plot of land. Now you can grow flowers or vegetables or both. You choose.
Read More...Gaia
Tuesday, 28Apr2015
Better
Tuesday, 10Feb2015
“My friends have always been the best of me.”Read More...— Doctor Who, “The Wedding of River Song”
On commitment
Tuesday, 28Sep2010
Witchy stuff in the pockets
Thursday, 02Sep2010
Future
Tuesday, 01Jun2010
In Which NeoWayland combines Geekary and Technopaganism to Peer Dimly at Humanity's Potiential
Read More...Pagans against sexual abuse
Tuesday, 18May2010
Blessings and ethics
Tuesday, 08Aug2006
When things are messy, actions and answers aren't clear cut. That is when you need faith in yourself.
Read More...Basking in the moonlight
Tuesday, 23Aug2005
