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Philosphy foundation
Sunday, 23Dec2018 Filed in: philosophy⭐︎ manifest
“Conservationists plant a 'super grove' of redwood trees cloned from ancient stumps”
Read More...Cloned giants
Wednesday, 19Dec2018 Filed in: tellus
Coincidence
Wednesday, 19Dec2018 Filed in: tellus
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
Good vibrations
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...The flip side of placebo
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.”
Tuesday - November 6, 2018 - election day
Tuesday, 06Nov2018 Filed in: daybook
The Gods Do Not Vote
Monday, 05Nov2018 Filed in: modern adult pagans
The Gods Do Not Vote, So Why Are You Asking Them?“Meanwhile, I see some Pagans convinced that they know how the gods vote — or would vote, if they could produce a photo ID at the polling place.
Are these the same Pagans who sneer at that subset of evangelical Christians who apparently think that Jesus is a Republican?
If you are really a polytheist, then you must accept that the gods do not vote. Their values are not always aligned with our day-to-day political values. Really, what does Aphrodite care about Colorado’s proposal to change the redistricting process or about who wins the race for Pueblo County coroner? Should I consult Hekate about my congressional candidates?”
Transcribing Faith
Monday, 17Jul2017 Filed in: rite & ritual⭐︎ studies
❝Know yourself. Know what you can do. Know what you're willing to do. Know the price you're willing to pay.❞
— NeoWayland, Quick notes to a new seeker
❝4 Rituals That Will Make You Loved❞
❝Make it better today. Keep polishing.❞
— NeoWayland, Quick notes to a new seeker
Political assumption
Tuesday, 11Jul2017 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ modern adult pagans
“Over the years however I have noticed a disheartening trend in the community. And that trend is what I refer to as political assumption. What I mean is that what seems like a large degree of practitioners of the Wicca faith and other similar earth based religious belief systems automatically pigeon hole everyone else in the faith as being politically a democrat or of some other left leaning ideology. Many attacks have been directed at me over the years for my right leaning political beliefs by many people who know me very little or not at all. Well, I actually do lean politically right; however, I consider myself a right leaning Independent.>snip<
I have been personally attacked en mass on a number of occasions to the point of people screen copying my personal opinions, taking them from other conversations and importing them to their social justice warrior sites, and then trying to get people to gang up on me for my deeply held (conservative) pagan viewpoints. Some going so far as to sending my viewpoints directly to well known individuals in the magickal community to show them how much of an "evil" person I am. I do equally find it a cowardly thing to do when I have the strongest feeling that these social justice warrior types could not muster the courage to say this stuff to my face under the fear that they would receive a serious beat down.”— Douglas Helvie, On Preconceived Pagan/Wiccan Political Affiliations
Move through the anger
Sunday, 28Jan2007 Filed in: practicals⭐︎ quotes & thinkums
Some songs work amazingly well as meditation aids, IF it's the right music and the right lyrics.
Read More...The roots of the Old Breed
Monday, 08Mar2010 Filed in: practicals⭐︎ modern adult pagans
Voices
Thursday, 12Mar2015 Filed in: studies⭐︎ quotes & thinkums
I first started keeping notes in a three ring binder. It worked, sort of, as long as I kept the index up to date.
Read More...Touch of a Master - Updated
Tuesday, 29Dec2009 Filed in: studies⭐︎ quotes & thinkums
