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Lemon Lime V8
Monday, 09Sep2019
A NeoWayland original.
Blend pineapple with it's juice.
Add bananas and coconut. Blend.
Add OJ concentrate and water. Blend.
Enjoy.
- one 20 oz can of crushed pineapple
- two fresh bananas
- 1/4 cup of shredded coconut
- Add one 12 oz can of frozen OJ concentrate
- 1/4 cup of water
Blend pineapple with it's juice.
Add bananas and coconut. Blend.
Add OJ concentrate and water. Blend.
Enjoy.
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South Carolina Barbecue Pork Burgers
Monday, 09Sep2019
More and more I'm thinking that this is a resource site and blogging is secondary.
So I put Befores, Quotes & Thinkums, Gallery, and the Timetable in the main menu bar. I think people will find these useful if they can find them more easily.
So I put Befores, Quotes & Thinkums, Gallery, and the Timetable in the main menu bar. I think people will find these useful if they can find them more easily.
Very simple cake
Monday, 09Sep2019
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 egg
- 1 can of fruit cocktail
- brown sugar
Mix and bake at 350º for 1 hour with some brown sugar on top.
December sunshine
Monday, 09Sep2019
Egg casserole
Monday, 09Sep2019
“Fall down twice, get up three times.”Probably related/derived from the old Japanese proverb Nana korobi, ya oki which translates as “Fall down seven times, stand up eight.”
“The Calendar Act of 1750 and eleven lost days”
Thursday, 22Aug2019
Erase the past
Saturday, 20Jul2019
“Any pattern of data can be split into (at least) two patterns with “opposing” characteristics, and each will contain the essence of the other within itself.”
Unexpected goddesses
Sunday, 07Jul2019
Seven Principles of Leave No Trace
Sunday, 30Jun2019
“Every sentient being lives in and quite possibly creates a unique universe which can never be 100% identical to that lived in by another.”
Humans do change the planet
Saturday, 11May2019
❝Humans do change the planet. But humans don't change the climate.❞— NeoWayland, anthropogenic climate change
NeoNote — For your own good
Wednesday, 24Apr2019
It means I watch for the exceptions where neither IS nor IS NOT applies. It means our understanding is limited by our perception and assumptions at the moment.
Read More...“Who Invented Parkour?”
Saturday, 06Apr2019
“Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
Microdose
Wednesday, 26Dec2018
Study: People Who ‘Microdose’ LSD and Magic Mushrooms Are Wiser and More Creative“Microdosers also scored lower on measures of dysfunctional attitudes and negative emotionality, which is very promising.
Psychedelics microdosing can mean taking five to 20 micrograms of LSD, 0.1 – 0.3 grams of dried psilocybin-containing mushrooms or very low doses of more exotic substances, like 1P-LSD, ALD-52 or 4-AcO-DMT.
No matter the substance, microdosing implies a dose so low that the individual experiences only subtle changes, not hallucinations. People are not “tripping” on a microdose; they just go about their regular day, whether that means studying at school, going to work or taking care of the kids at home.
There has been no published science on whether microdosing works, but despite this, microdosing for self-enhancement and mental health has hit the media.”
Coincidence
Wednesday, 19Dec2018
Winter Solstice 2018 Coincides With Both A Full Moon And Meteor Shower“The winter solstice, falling on December 21, 2018, will mark the shortest day of the year as well as a full moon in the night sky. The upcoming full moon named the Cold Moon or the Long Night Moon will be visible during the longest night of the year.
The two events don't perfectly align. The peak full Moon will occur on December 22 at 12:49 p.m. EST while the winter solstice falls a day earlier on December 21. However, to the typical person viewing the moon, it will appear full for several days.
The winter solstice marks a transition period where days begin getting longer in the Northern Hemisphere and shorter in the Southern Hemisphere. The evening of the winter solstice will be the longest of the year for the Northern Hemisphere. This is because Earth's poles create a maximum tilt away from the Sun in the Northern Hemisphere and maximum tilt toward the Sun in the Southern Hemisphere.”— Trevor Nace
“The Agricultural Revolution: Crash Course World History #1”
Saturday, 15Dec2018
“I reject your reality and substitute my own.”
❝Difference Between Grizzly, Brown, and Kodiak Bears❞
Thursday, 13Dec2018
“Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?”
Good vibrations
Sunday, 09Dec2018
The Moral Guardians® have taken for themselves the exclusive power to decide who will and will not be heard. Or read. Or even mentioned.
Read More...❝I'm pretty sure that the World can take care of Herself❞
Friday, 23Nov2018
Discussion on morality, sex, nudity, and pagan festivals
Monday, 19Nov2018
The flip side of placebo
Wednesday, 14Nov2018
Pain can be a self-fulfilling prophecy“Expect a shot to hurt and it probably will, even if the needle poke isn't really so painful. Brace for a second shot and you'll likely flinch again, even though - second time around - you should know better.
That's the takeaway of a new brain imaging study published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour which found that expectations about pain intensity can become self-fulfilling prophecies. Surprisingly, those false expectations can persist even when reality repeatedly demonstrates otherwise, the study found.
"We discovered that there is a positive feedback loop between expectation and pain," said senior author Tor Wager, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder. "The more pain you expect, the stronger your brain responds to the pain. The stronger your brain responds to the pain, the more you expect."
For decades, researchers have been intrigued with the idea of self-fulfilling prophecy, with studies showing expectations can influence everything from how one performs on a test to how one responds to a medication. The new study is the first to directly model the dynamics of the feedback loop between expectations and pain and the neural mechanisms underlying it.”
Unoriginal
Tuesday, 30Oct2018
Some people have noticed that I use the same responses again and again.
That's because I keep having the same conversations again and again.
If it plays in Peoria, it will probably work in Flagstaff.
I like talking to people who make me think. But if it's the same people, they usually tell me the same things. And most of the rest don't think for themselves, they just regurgitate what they have been told is the the right thing to say.
I recycle a lot of what I say because I can't come up with an original response to the same stuff all the time.
If you want an original response, tell me something original. Or at least something I haven't heard before.
That's because I keep having the same conversations again and again.
If it plays in Peoria, it will probably work in Flagstaff.
I like talking to people who make me think. But if it's the same people, they usually tell me the same things. And most of the rest don't think for themselves, they just regurgitate what they have been told is the the right thing to say.
I recycle a lot of what I say because I can't come up with an original response to the same stuff all the time.
If you want an original response, tell me something original. Or at least something I haven't heard before.
❝Everything must go somewhere.❞
Thursday, 25Oct2018
“Everything must go somewhere.”— Barry Commoner, second law of ecology
❝Nothing comes from nothing.❞
Thursday, 25Oct2018
“If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.”
Rain, rain, stay a while
Tuesday, 21Aug2018
“How These Metal Sculptures Move With The Wind”
Friday, 20Jul2018
“Sometimes today's Pagans seem to think that wearing a Thor's hammer should grant them the presumption of honor of a Viking king.”— Kenneth Goze, comments on Anatomy of a failure: the Piedmont Pagan Pride collapse
Lights are stronger
Thursday, 24May2018
Part of the metaphor for this site is a loose-leaf binder jammed with all sorts of stuff.
Read More...Staircase to Heaven
Thursday, 24May2018
Encyclopædia Brittanica gets it wrong
Sunday, 20May2018
Not once, but twice.
I've been working on version 3 of my lexicon. It's steady work, and helps calm me. I don't write all the definitions, I take clips if I can find well written ones.
So I was looking at Brittanica's Quarter Day page, which actually refers to the Lammas page.
The second mistake is about May Day, and I am pretty sure it's a translation error and misunderstanding about agriculture. I'll just quote my own note here.
I've been working on version 3 of my lexicon. It's steady work, and helps calm me. I don't write all the definitions, I take clips if I can find well written ones.
So I was looking at Brittanica's Quarter Day page, which actually refers to the Lammas page.
““The Quarter Days—Candlemas (February 2), May Day (May 1), Lammas, and All Saints’ Day (November 1)—marked the four quarters of the calendar as observed in the British Isles and elsewhere in northern Europe. ””Every single reference I've ever seen from Valiente forward calls these the cross quarter days, they mark the transitions between the season. The actual quarter days are the solstices and the equinoxes. It helps if you visualize the year as a wheel.
— Encyclopædia Brittanica, Lammas
The second mistake is about May Day, and I am pretty sure it's a translation error and misunderstanding about agriculture. I'll just quote my own note here.
❝Enclyclopædia Britannica has it wrong here, it's a very common mistake. In some European countries especially further north, there were two seasons, winter and summer. May Day traditionally marks the beginning of the growing season, not the beginning of spring. If the summer solstice is midsummer, that makes May Day the beginning of summer.❞I doubt that anyone except a calendar geek or a pagan would have caught it. But when you're both at once, you have to tell people.— NeoWayland, May Day
The magic circle
Thursday, 17May2018
I've had three deaths in the past month. One a friend, one an uncle, and one person who I did not get along with.
Read More...“Rotating Moon from LRO”
Friday, 23Mar2018
“I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.”
Disconnect
Tuesday, 20Mar2018
I don't suppose it's really important in the overall scheme of things, but I find it unnerving.
Read More...NeoNotes — the middle
Saturday, 17Mar2018
Journal 23Feb2018
Friday, 23Feb2018
I saw a horse "broke" once. It was time consuming. It was brutal. That was enough to convince me it was wrong.
Read More...NeoNotes — Shift happens
Wednesday, 24Jan2018
❝1 pint Haagen Daz vanilla ice cream dumped into a sixty-four oz thermal mug (yes they exist). Fill up the rest with double-strength Circle K coffee at 2 a.m.
It didn't keep me alert, but it did keep me awake. Sometimes for a couple of days.❞
Blue Moon Eclipse
Tuesday, 23Jan2018
Slice it
Tuesday, 16Jan2018
More and more I'm convinced that I was smart to (mostly) separate my political blogging from my pagan blogging.
Anyway you slice it, politics is about controlling other people. What that has to do with the dawn or the coyote's howl drifting through the night is anyone's guess.
When pagans jump up to recite approved scripts to this week's Officially Designated Outrage, they make paganism look silly.
I think it grew out of when paganism was part of the American counterculture. Pagans had to rebel against established mores. Existing culture wasn't good enough, it had to be replaced even if the replacement didn't work. In the 80s it got worse. Pagans became moralistic busybodies when it came to the Earth, and of course when it came to minorities.
But what does that have to do with the Dark Moon or the chill of the night air? What does that have to do with a winter rain or the clouds as they stretch to cover the sky? What does that have to do with a vigil kept in front of the fire all night?
That's paganism.
It's almost sunrise. I'm going to share some oranges with my friend the raven.
Anyway you slice it, politics is about controlling other people. What that has to do with the dawn or the coyote's howl drifting through the night is anyone's guess.
When pagans jump up to recite approved scripts to this week's Officially Designated Outrage, they make paganism look silly.
I think it grew out of when paganism was part of the American counterculture. Pagans had to rebel against established mores. Existing culture wasn't good enough, it had to be replaced even if the replacement didn't work. In the 80s it got worse. Pagans became moralistic busybodies when it came to the Earth, and of course when it came to minorities.
But what does that have to do with the Dark Moon or the chill of the night air? What does that have to do with a winter rain or the clouds as they stretch to cover the sky? What does that have to do with a vigil kept in front of the fire all night?
That's paganism.
It's almost sunrise. I'm going to share some oranges with my friend the raven.
“Eclipse Phases over Brasstown Bald, Georgia”
Wednesday, 23Aug2017
Rainy and windy
Tuesday, 25Jul2017
❝Always do what you promise. Try to do more than you promise.❞
— NeoWayland, Quick notes to a new seeker
❝Think of nature…❞
Thursday, 13Jul2017
❝I think too many people are in religion for the politics.❞
— NeoWayland
Marvel at the real Milky Way
Wednesday, 28Jun2017
Stewart Farrar * deceased birthday
Lived 28Jun1916 to 07Feb2000 (83)
Witch, author, novelist. May have encouraged the sexual initiation of minor girls.
Bilagáana
Monday, 24Apr2017
“You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.”— David Suzuki
Pagan anti-environmentalist
Monday, 24Apr2017
☿ Mercury retrograde ☯ waning crescent moon
Am I, NeoWayland, pagan philosopher and libertarian, an anti-environmentalist?Well, yes.
❝Environmentalism is a political movement. It’s about controlling other people to achieve utopia. It’s about closing yourself off from the possibilities.
I don’t want to be limited by the word “environmentalism” anymore. I don’t think ecology is about saving the Earth. I think it’s about understanding how things fit and the tradeoffs we make. It’s about looking at where we were, where we are, and where we could go.❞
Environmentalism is like any other crusade. It wants to change society for our own good even if we disagree with the cause.
I resist it just as I do the extra-enthusiastic Christians who want to enshrine their beliefs as the law of the land. And for PRECISELY the same reasons.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a draft to finish for tomorrow's article.
❝Economy above ecology❞
Sunday, 23Apr2017
Everything
Sunday, 23Apr2017
❝Plant-birthday❞
Sunday, 23Apr2017
“I think it is funny that we were freer about sexuality in the 4th century B.C. It is a little disconcerting.”— Angelina Jolie
NeoNotes — Ecology vs environmentalism
Sunday, 23Apr2017
“Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use that person solely as a means of personal gratification, without regard to his or her desires.”— Bertrand Russell
Nothing supernatural exists
Tuesday, 04Apr2017
“The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting.”— Mark Twain
Solstice snow
Thursday, 22Dec2016
The first snowfall of the year in my high desert was about a half hour and melted as soon as it fell.
Last night I was keeping vigil, well, sort of. My knees don't like me these days, so I can't kneel in front of the fireplace for extended times anymore. But I was still feeding the fire and still meditating. About 22:30 or so I noticed that the streets were wet and I thought that was the rain we were expecting. Then I noticed that the car had snow on the top. So it was a very wet snow. Somewhere about 4 it started sticking, and as I write this at 8:22 it is coming down slowly but steadily.
Today marks the last day of Starwell, my version of the solstice. I'll need to go check on my mother later. Obviously I don't want her going outside in the snow.
I'm winter-born, so a good snow always touches my soul in a quiet joyful way. I could watch it for hours. I did watch it for hours.
Mostly my high Arizona desert gets mild weather. Not too hot in the summer, not too much rain, and not too much snow.
I'm thankful that I have snow, a fireplace, and a big set of windows to watch it this day.
Take joy in the day as the light returns.
Last night I was keeping vigil, well, sort of. My knees don't like me these days, so I can't kneel in front of the fireplace for extended times anymore. But I was still feeding the fire and still meditating. About 22:30 or so I noticed that the streets were wet and I thought that was the rain we were expecting. Then I noticed that the car had snow on the top. So it was a very wet snow. Somewhere about 4 it started sticking, and as I write this at 8:22 it is coming down slowly but steadily.
Today marks the last day of Starwell, my version of the solstice. I'll need to go check on my mother later. Obviously I don't want her going outside in the snow.
I'm winter-born, so a good snow always touches my soul in a quiet joyful way. I could watch it for hours. I did watch it for hours.
Mostly my high Arizona desert gets mild weather. Not too hot in the summer, not too much rain, and not too much snow.
I'm thankful that I have snow, a fireplace, and a big set of windows to watch it this day.
Take joy in the day as the light returns.
Hidden but still grand
Thursday, 17Nov2016
Asperitas
Friday, 04Nov2016
“There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”— Lord Byron
Soft rain
Tuesday, 25Oct2016
Neighborhood pagan
Wednesday, 19Oct2016
How we treat the Other may be the defining mark of a civilization. How we treat civilization may be the second defining mark of an individual.
"I. Was. Different." Some outgrow it. Others Want To Be Noticed. Still others DEMAND attention.
I never have understood why someone would wear ritual garb in public. It probably has something to do with crossover with the SCA, the RenFaire crowd, and cosplay. But these things don't have pockets. Where do you keep things like your keys, your wallet, and your smart phone? In my case, there are even fewer pockets in my ritual garb.
It's not that hard to "freak the mundanes." But does that mean that people will trust you? Can you trust them? And yes, there will be times you need to trust someone who doesn't share your beliefs.
Or your victimhood.
We should discuss that too. I've said before you should not draw power from victimhood. It draws on the pity of others and will probably fade the more you depend on it.
So if your paganism can't depend on how weird you are or how much a victim you are, what should it depend on?
How about your connection to Nature? Magick may be about changing the world, but paganism is about finding the place where you balance.
You start by being a good neighbor. Not just to the plants and the creatures and the four-foots around you, but to your fellow humans. Those humans are important.
Yes, really.
Humans are a part of the World. We're not separate.
And that means you should trust your neighbors. That they should trust you. You won't get that with a six inch pentagram and ritual garb. You won't get that with "mysterious" symbols painted on your house. You won't get that if you are too strange.
How we treat our culture may be the defining mark of an adult.
Are you ready?
"I. Was. Different." Some outgrow it. Others Want To Be Noticed. Still others DEMAND attention.
I never have understood why someone would wear ritual garb in public. It probably has something to do with crossover with the SCA, the RenFaire crowd, and cosplay. But these things don't have pockets. Where do you keep things like your keys, your wallet, and your smart phone? In my case, there are even fewer pockets in my ritual garb.
It's not that hard to "freak the mundanes." But does that mean that people will trust you? Can you trust them? And yes, there will be times you need to trust someone who doesn't share your beliefs.
Or your victimhood.
We should discuss that too. I've said before you should not draw power from victimhood. It draws on the pity of others and will probably fade the more you depend on it.
So if your paganism can't depend on how weird you are or how much a victim you are, what should it depend on?
How about your connection to Nature? Magick may be about changing the world, but paganism is about finding the place where you balance.
You start by being a good neighbor. Not just to the plants and the creatures and the four-foots around you, but to your fellow humans. Those humans are important.
Yes, really.
Humans are a part of the World. We're not separate.
And that means you should trust your neighbors. That they should trust you. You won't get that with a six inch pentagram and ritual garb. You won't get that with "mysterious" symbols painted on your house. You won't get that if you are too strange.
How we treat our culture may be the defining mark of an adult.
Are you ready?
No significance
Sunday, 19Jun2016
Interconnections
Tuesday, 14Jun2016
Since I don't have much time this week, I thought talk about the daily things we sometimes overlook.
Read More...Act of Change
Thursday, 24Mar2016
Taproot: Through the Woods
Thursday, 10Mar2016
Earth centered
Tuesday, 01Dec2015
You can see that politics corrupts pretty much any religion, faith, or path you’d care to name.
Read More...Dusting of Snow
Sunday, 29Nov2015
I am a sensualist. I’m telling you this because all too often pagans forget we’re supposed to bridge worlds.
Read More...Unusual Unkindness
Monday, 16Nov2015
Usually when ravens group together, it’s up on fences or power lines or rooftops
Read More...The hard rain
Tuesday, 20Oct2015
They want flashy cheap answers to their problems. In easy to swallow pill form if possible. Read More...
In which I indulge my Southern ancestors
Tuesday, 23Jun2015
You shouldn’t listen to the folks in the weird clothes and making the loudest noises.
Read More...Gaia
Tuesday, 28Apr2015
I mentioned some of my concerns, but their future is full of utopia and collective effort.
Read More...Soft snow
Monday, 23Feb2015
If the real difference in people is choosing between the Journey and the Story, does the Journey have to be religious or even spiritual?
Read More...Four-foot
Tuesday, 17Feb2015
“My friends have always been the best of me.”Read More...— Doctor Who, “The Wedding of River Song”
Spark
Sunday, 01Feb2015
Yesterday's news…
Tuesday, 29Jun2010
h4 class="blurb">I don't have a stake in that fight. Or the other three either. Read More...
In which body modification technology catches me by surprise
Sunday, 27Jun2010
The Authority Problem
Wednesday, 21Apr2010
Last night…
I dreamt I walked as a bear
I dreamt I walked as a bear
Thursday, 28Jan2010
Crossing the horizon
Tuesday, 01Sep2009
Taproot: Open the Way
Thursday, 02Jul2009
“On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people; and then I go home alone.”Read More...— Janis Joplin
The Day After Earth Day
Thursday, 23Apr2009
Dream a little dream for me
Thursday, 09Apr2009
Magick in the modern world
Thursday, 19Feb2009
❝When someone starts talking about THE truth, it's to exclude the thoughts and ideas they find uncomfortable.❞— NeoWayland, Quarter Moons and Semi-Truths
Kissed by the Lady Moon - updated
Saturday, 13Dec2008
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”— John Muir
What is the difference between a crow and a raven?
Tuesday, 18Nov2008
“In the absence of understanding, triviality dominates.” - UPDATED
Thursday, 06Nov2008
Rocket in my garden Read More...
Migration noise
Tuesday, 16Sep2008
Transcending the label
Wednesday, 03Sep2008
“Thunder in the vicinity”
Monday, 07Jul2008
Greenwood Beltaine - updated
Wednesday, 02May2007
Correllian ripples
Saturday, 28Oct2006
Polyester, Protestant Pagans?
Saturday, 14Oct2006
❝What you think you know is not what you need to know. Where you are is not where you need to be. Who you believe you are is not who you were meant to be.❞— NeoWayland, Systematically
The most Pagan thing that happened to me this week was two and a half days of thunderstorms
Saturday, 07Oct2006
Witchschool.com no longer affiliated with Correllian Nativist Church International
Wednesday, 04Oct2006
“Here I come to save the Day”
Tuesday, 01Aug2006
This is a page from the third version of Technopagan Yearnings. There are some formatting differences. Originally published at www.neowayland.com/C65989237/E20060802051541
Why do some Pagans believe they are destined to save the world?
The posts on discipline and Indigo kids got me in the mood to go exploring the Pagan web again, just to see what is happening. It's getting harder and harder to do that anonymously, but I still have a few technopagan tricks up my sleeve.
Much of what I saw hasn't really changed in the last few years. There are still very few experienced Pagans who are willing to go online, at least publicly. There are definite trends towards political correctness and silencing dissent. And the most visible Pagans online aren't necessarily the ones that anyone should be listening to.
Although that doesn't just apply to Pagans. Imagine if Christians only listened to Jesse Jackson or Pat Robertson.
To me at least, the most disturbing thing is the growth of the "Pagans will save the World" theme. Save the world from what, I am not quite sure, but there are some out there who are only a few steps away from conquering in the Name of the Goddess for the Betterment of Humanity. Or at least trying.
It always worries me when I can hear the capitals in what other people say, even if it is only what they are typing on a computer screen.
I am not quite sure where this messiah complex comes from. I only know that it is there. I get frustrated when I deal with newbies. Online, my experience is "one upped" by some kid who read the "right" books and started "practicing" six whole months ago. It's times like that when I understand exactly what Oberon Ravenhart-Zell wants to do with his so-called Grey Council.
Intentionally or not, this "save the world" thing comes across as recycled Christianity. I'm not sure that is what they need, although they believe it's what they want.
*sighs*
And that is the rub, isn't? You can't tell them until they are ready to believe it. Even if I could, I am not sure I should stop them from tripping and falling. Although the gods know I am tempted. I understand now what the Blessed who were around me were saying when I "broke out," although I ignored them then.
I'm pretty sure that the World can take care of Herself, maybe with a little help from her Consort.
It's the rest of us I am not so sure about.
Much of what I saw hasn't really changed in the last few years. There are still very few experienced Pagans who are willing to go online, at least publicly. There are definite trends towards political correctness and silencing dissent. And the most visible Pagans online aren't necessarily the ones that anyone should be listening to.
Although that doesn't just apply to Pagans. Imagine if Christians only listened to Jesse Jackson or Pat Robertson.
To me at least, the most disturbing thing is the growth of the "Pagans will save the World" theme. Save the world from what, I am not quite sure, but there are some out there who are only a few steps away from conquering in the Name of the Goddess for the Betterment of Humanity. Or at least trying.
It always worries me when I can hear the capitals in what other people say, even if it is only what they are typing on a computer screen.
I am not quite sure where this messiah complex comes from. I only know that it is there. I get frustrated when I deal with newbies. Online, my experience is "one upped" by some kid who read the "right" books and started "practicing" six whole months ago. It's times like that when I understand exactly what Oberon Ravenhart-Zell wants to do with his so-called Grey Council.
Intentionally or not, this "save the world" thing comes across as recycled Christianity. I'm not sure that is what they need, although they believe it's what they want.
*sighs*
And that is the rub, isn't? You can't tell them until they are ready to believe it. Even if I could, I am not sure I should stop them from tripping and falling. Although the gods know I am tempted. I understand now what the Blessed who were around me were saying when I "broke out," although I ignored them then.
I'm pretty sure that the World can take care of Herself, maybe with a little help from her Consort.
It's the rest of us I am not so sure about.
Simple pleasures
Wednesday, 28Jun2006
In the still of the night
Thursday, 25May2006
This is a page from the third version of Technopagan Yearnings. There are some formatting differences. Originally published at www.neowayland.com/C65989237/E20060525233957
My journey to and from a funeral reminds me of the world outside artificial light
I did some driving in rural Arizona and New Mexico this last week.
One of the big differences between urban areas and rural areas is the amount of light at night. Depending on the size of the town or city, even as little as thirty miles is enough to reveal a whole other world.
Headlights are visible for miles if the road is in view. The shadows wrap around you so you feel like you could just reach out the window and gently stroke it. The desert night air has it's own scents and promises. The plants rustle in your side vision which seems a notch or two sharper. The land hints at it's shape rather than revealing.
And then the stars. Oh gods, the stars.
In a city, you see a few twinkles of the stronger stars, but that is nothing compared to what you see when you get away from the city lights. Suddenly the words "Milky Way" make sense. When I have been away from all the stars, my first instinct on a clear night is to strip down and bathe in all that silver starlight.
It's not just lights. In the desert and away from the roads and cars, you swear you can hear every single sound for miles around. Maybe it's just psychological. You're away from the normal stimulus so you pay extra close attention to the ones you do sense.
There are times I am very much in hermit mode and there are reasons for that. I can't tell you the name of the American Idol contestants. I have no idea what the Top 40 is these days. I have no interest in having Dr. Phil solve my problems on national television. More importantly, I've no real desire to think about these subjects. But they wrap themselves around you, insidiously. It's all that most people talk about.
It's the same with religion, at least for the people who want to get noticed. Folks are so busy making noise for their gold stars that they don't pay attention to the "stillness of the soul." The Blessed recognize that as the place where your inner journey begins, the gateway to your higher selves.
So away from the churches every block, the people mouthing the noise they think the Divine wants to hear, the flood of television and radio evangelism, and away from all those bits that we humans like to wrap ourselves in, that is the where the inner soul can wake and the outer soul can sleep.
I need to go camping again soon I think.
One of the big differences between urban areas and rural areas is the amount of light at night. Depending on the size of the town or city, even as little as thirty miles is enough to reveal a whole other world.
Headlights are visible for miles if the road is in view. The shadows wrap around you so you feel like you could just reach out the window and gently stroke it. The desert night air has it's own scents and promises. The plants rustle in your side vision which seems a notch or two sharper. The land hints at it's shape rather than revealing.
And then the stars. Oh gods, the stars.
In a city, you see a few twinkles of the stronger stars, but that is nothing compared to what you see when you get away from the city lights. Suddenly the words "Milky Way" make sense. When I have been away from all the stars, my first instinct on a clear night is to strip down and bathe in all that silver starlight.
It's not just lights. In the desert and away from the roads and cars, you swear you can hear every single sound for miles around. Maybe it's just psychological. You're away from the normal stimulus so you pay extra close attention to the ones you do sense.
There are times I am very much in hermit mode and there are reasons for that. I can't tell you the name of the American Idol contestants. I have no idea what the Top 40 is these days. I have no interest in having Dr. Phil solve my problems on national television. More importantly, I've no real desire to think about these subjects. But they wrap themselves around you, insidiously. It's all that most people talk about.
It's the same with religion, at least for the people who want to get noticed. Folks are so busy making noise for their gold stars that they don't pay attention to the "stillness of the soul." The Blessed recognize that as the place where your inner journey begins, the gateway to your higher selves.
So away from the churches every block, the people mouthing the noise they think the Divine wants to hear, the flood of television and radio evangelism, and away from all those bits that we humans like to wrap ourselves in, that is the where the inner soul can wake and the outer soul can sleep.
I need to go camping again soon I think.
Wheel
Wednesday, 18Jan2006
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