In the meantime, here's a few reading links (owing to a lack of time, I've made no particular effort to arrange these in any articular order, and some are lacking introductory remarks - again, my apologies):
- http://www.aloneinherpresence.com/2013/07/permission-to-dare.html?spref=fb;
- http://blog.oup.com/2013/07/wisewoman-healer-in-twentieth-century/;
- http://www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbeckett/2013/06/first-world-problems.html;
- http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4762700.html;
- http://wildhunt.org/2013/06/the-function-of-pagan-celebrity.html;
- although this is written in moderately dense "acadamese" (I've read worse - particularly as part of my day job in engineering), and thus I said "Huh?" and had to re-read a few bits to understand the jargon used, it does have a few points worth thinking about: http://ripjournal.org/2011/heathenry-as-postcolonial-movement/;
- from http://blackfeministranter.blogspot.com.au/, which looks quite interesting (from a political point of view): http://blackfeministranter.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/the-biggest-rob-in-all-this-political.html;
- from http://www.incitingariot.com/, which also looks quite interesting: http://www.incitingariot.com/2013/07/my-shady-grove-and-paula-deen-is-here.html#more;
- also on the 60s, but from a different point of view: http://www.deverry.com/thesixties.html;
- well written and thought out, and worth a think: http://www.incitingariot.com/2013/07/christian-products-for-pagan-purposes.html#more;
- http://www.andrewleigh.com/blog/?p=4404;
- http://wildhunt.org/2013/07/voters-rights-act-independence-day-and-the-pagan-response.html;
- http://www.thorncoyle.com/blog/2013/07/03/vra/;
- http://www.incitingariot.com/2013/04/maiden-mother-who.html#more;
- very interesting: have been starting to watch this author: http://www.incitingariot.com/2013/07/unverified-personal-gnosis-response.html#more;
- and, on this topic: http://www.witchesandpagans.com/Pagan-Studies-Blogs/upg-an-ugly-misguided-notion.html;
- found this through the Wild Hunt, and I'd heard about them at the World Parliament of Religions in Melbourne in 2009: http://www.romuva.lt/new/index.php?page=en;
- a worthy social movement: http://www.iepcp.org.au/opening-doors;
- well said T Thorn Coyle (again :) ): http://www.thorncoyle.com/blog/2013/07/14/confronting-racism-is-spiritual-work/;
- I'm still going to make noise about not having economic growth, as too many people in power think it is still a given and will not, in my view, undertake the type of reflection that Garnaut has in this article: https://theconversation.com/garnaut-reconciles-economic-growth-and-conservation-15269?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest+from+The+Conversation+for+18+June+2013&utm_content=Latest+from+The+Conversation+for+18+June+2013+CID_34cd784431ea48519e9c43752624e251&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=Michelle%20Grattan%20reports;
- http://symboldictionary.net/;
- this article is interesting for a few reasons: it shows the importance of collaboration in the world of science to enable all relevant skills to be include (note the vulcanologist's comments), it shows the dangers of group think - especially around the assumption that an "advanced civilisation" could not be destroyed without much trace or knowledge, and it shows the bias of establishing an orthodoxy - which is currently that the earliest source of civilisation was in the Middle East and India, and I won't go into all the other orthodoxies in the past ... such as that the world was 4,000 years old, or flat, and so on ... : http://www.theage.com.au/world/the-worlds-oldest-pyramid-or-are-they-dreaming-20130726-2qprp.html;
- the title says it all: http://www.theage.com.au/national/an-innocent-woman-slain-wheres-the-public-outcry-20130726-2qpw7.html;
- hmmm .... : http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/false-memory-planted-in-mouse-brain-scientists-say-20130726-2qo1x.html;
- this is appalling, and it is just as appalling that this no doubt happens to others who we never hear about - can you spare time for an email to your local Qatari embassy, POLITELY* expressing your concern?: http://www.theage.com.au/world/norwegian-woman-in-dubai-sentenced-to-jail-after-reporting-rape-to-police-20130722-2qd44.html;
- http://www.theage.com.au/world/trayvon-martin-could-have-been-me-obama-20130720-2qao1.html;
- this is one I will be writing to our politicians about: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/house-rentals-out-of-reach-of-jobless-20130718-2q75r.html;
- http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/why-you-should-deactivate-your-facebook-account-20130714-2py1a.html;
- http://www.smh.com.au/comment/dark-undercurrents-of-teenage-girls-selfies-20130710-2pqbl.html;
- any time you read anything which is complaining about "the young" recall that it goes all the way back to Aristotle: http://www.theage.com.au/comment/kids-are-not-all-right-they-never-have-been-20130714-2pxyh.html;
- http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/buying-time-20130712-2pudb.html;
- http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/parliament-like-mean-girls-movie-says-younger-rudd-20130715-2pz7p.html.
* The aim of activism is to create change: it is NOT for you to feel better by spouting platitudes or your feelings. If you are going to effect change, you have to be able to communicate in a way that is accessible to the person you wish to change. This is the essence of at least two other posts I'm working on ...
By the way, I may not be able to publish links from my local newspaper, "The Age". They now claim to charge for access, which is OK by me in principle, although it may cause problems for those of you who look at more than a few links, but they've evidently made some changes which have made it impossible to get forward articles from their website. Unfortunately, no other free source I've found yet has as many thoughtful social insight articles ... I'll keep looking :)
[1] BPF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Forces. See here and here for more on this.
[2] Please see here and my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").
[3] For more on this, see here. This and this might also be of interest.
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My "blogiography" (list of all posts - currently not up to date) is here.
I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "pagans for peace" project, and here for my bindrune kit-bag.
- One size does NOT fit all.
- May the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a master, of the lives of people.
- A home is for living in, not feeling, becoming or being rich or a “better” class than others.
- The secret to being (financially) rich is not to have lots of money: it is to have an income above the poverty line, and then make whatever sacrifices are necessary in order to live within 90% of your means.
- Like fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad master.
- Armageddon is alive and well and happening right now: it is a battle between the indolence of "I only ..." and/or "I just ..." and what Bruce Schneier [2] calls "security theatre" on one side, and perspicacity and the understanding that the means shape the end on the other.
- The means shape the end.
- Sometimes you just can't argue with a biped that is armed with a sharp stick, a thick head and not too much in the way of grunts.
- Spiritual love is far more than just an emotion - it is a concept, thoughts, actions and a way of living.
- One of the basics of serious spiritual / psychic work is that the greatest work is that which we do on ourself, which seems trivial to many. Our own Innermost Essence, which is our Higher Self / Soul / Spirit, has the power to do so much, and is actively participating in the creation and sustenance of this physical reality. Some mote of our conscious or unconscious knows that, which is why we seem inclined to be dismissive of Self Mastery - which is a bit like the child who sees an adult spending money to buy toys, and fails to recognise the daily grind of work which has led to having the money.
- My favourite action movie of all time is "Gandhi". However, I loathe the stereotypical action movie - and, for similar reasons, I loathe many dramas, which are often emotionally violent, more so in some cases than many war films.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing. (based on writing by) EDMUND BURKE
Your children are not your children. ... They come through you but ... they belong not to you ... for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow KAHLIL GIBRAN
We didn't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we only borrowed it from our children ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Those whom we cannot stand are usually those who we cannot understand P.K.SHAW
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, and the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change." SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY (US Attorney General 1966 Speech)
People I'm currently following or reading, or have considerable respect for, include:
- Red Catherine, a Romani woman living on Artemis, in South Australia;
- T. Thorn Coyle;
- Fire Lyte;
- http://paganinparadise.blogspot.com/;
- The Wild Hunt;and
- the Order of Scathach.
First published: Laugardagr, 27th July, 2013
Last edited: Saturday, 27th July, 2013
