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Buffy the Vampire Slayer slaying church attendance among women, study claims
In short, women are abandoning the church.
"Because of its focus on female empowerment, young women are attracted by Wicca, popularised by the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
"Young women tend to express egalitarian values and dislike the traditionalism and hierarchies they imagine are integral to the church. " In short, women are abandoning the church. ... more -
bali hollidays
Bali's day
of silence
Every religion or culture all over the world has their own way to define and celebrate their new year. For example, the Chinese have the Imlek year and to celebrate it, have, as they called it in their own language, "Gong Xi Fat Choy". The Moslem societies have their Muharam year, and any of the people over the world using the Gregorian calendar, celebrate the New Year on January 1st.
The same thing also occurs in Bali, however the Balinese use many different calendar systems. They have adopted the Gregorian calendar for business and government purposes. But for the endless procession of holy days, temple anniversaries, celebrations, sacred dances, building houses, wedding ceremonies, death and cremation processes and other activities that define Balinese life, they have two calendar systems. The first is the Pawukon (from the word Wuku which means week) and Sasih (which is means month). Wuku consists of 30 items starting from Sinta, the first Wuku and end up with the Watugunung the last one. The Pawukon, a 210-day ritual calendar brought over from Java in the 14th century, is a complex cycle of numerological conjunctions that provides the basic schedule for ritual activities on Bali. Sasih, a parallel system of Indian origin, is a twelve month lunar calendar that starts with the vernal equinox and is equally important in determining when to pay respect to the Gods.
Westerners open the New Year in revelry, however, in contrast, the Balinese open their New Year in silence. This is called Nyepi Day, the Balinese day of Silence, which falls on the day following the dark moon of the spring equinox, and opens a new year of the Saka Hindu era which began in 78 A.D.
Nyepi is a day to make and keep the balance of nature. It is based on the story of when King Kaniska I of India was chosen in 78 A.D. The King was famous for his wisdom and tolerance for the Hinduism and Buddhism societies. In that age, Aji Saka did Dharma Yatra (the missionary tour to promote and spread Hinduism) to Indonesia and introduce the Saka year.
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bali nyepi hollidays
Bali's day
of silence
Every religion or culture all over the world has their own way to define and celebrate their new year. For example, the Chinese have the Imlek year and to celebrate it, have, as they called it in their own language, "Gong Xi Fat Choy". The Moslem societies have their Muharam year, and any of the people over the world using the Gregorian calendar, celebrate the New Year on January 1st.
The same thing also occurs in Bali, however the Balinese use many different calendar systems. They have adopted the Gregorian calendar for business and government purposes. But for the endless procession of holy days, temple anniversaries, celebrations, sacred dances, building houses, wedding ceremonies, death and cremation processes and other activities that define Balinese life, they have two calendar systems. The first is the Pawukon (from the word Wuku which means week) and Sasih (which is means month). Wuku consists of 30 items starting from Sinta, the first Wuku and end up with the Watugunung the last one. The Pawukon, a 210-day ritual calendar brought over from Java in the 14th century, is a complex cycle of numerological conjunctions that provides the basic schedule for ritual activities on Bali. Sasih, a parallel system of Indian origin, is a twelve month lunar calendar that starts with the vernal equinox and is equally important in determining when to pay respect to the Gods.
Westerners open the New Year in revelry, however, in contrast, the Balinese open their New Year in silence. This is called Nyepi Day, the Balinese day of Silence, which falls on the day following the dark moon of the spring equinox, and opens a new year of the Saka Hindu era which began in 78 A.D.
Nyepi is a day to make and keep the balance of nature. It is based on the story of when King Kaniska I of India was chosen in 78 A.D. The King was famous for his wisdom and tolerance for the Hinduism and Buddhism societies. In that age, Aji Saka did Dharma Yatra (the missionary tour to promote and spread Hinduism) to Indonesia and introduce the Saka year. Bali's day of silence ... more -
pagan magic ritual
Many newcomers to the field are uncertain what rituals.
I would therefore give an overview of how and in what order a ritual should be carried out. It is very important that a ritual always in the same way, so that their subconscious to adjust immediately. Also, all points are important and should not be a part omitted.
First, you need a few utensils, for each ritual and any kind of magic needed. This would be:
A Athamen, it is a zweischneidiger ritual dagger, which is exclusively for driving nenutzt of energy and not for such mundane things like bread cut or carve.
A cup of any material
A Pentakelscheibe made of metal, wood or clay, just from a earthy material, because it symbolizes the earth.
An R ä uchergef ä ß, which consists of fireproof material.
Anyone who does not so much money has the same right to einzudecken can also deal with simple items such as kitchen knives, but then only for this purpose be used, wine glass, a sheet of paper covered with stave painted, and a flower pot behelfen red clay.
So now can begin the ritual.
1st Preparation
First of all, it is important to take time and only once on the energies of the space in which they perform their ritual einzustimmen.
Thus, there are several participants discussed, which are part of the ritual wishing, if not one or the whole ritual of a director.
Experience has shown results in more group dynamics, if any part of another ritual participants incorporated.
After all the uncertainties are removed, you can override the festive part.
Who wants can now be special ritual robe and related create jewelry. The person who-where the ritual is not want to move, should ensure that they are clothes made of natural fibres, such as wool, cotton, silk or linen, as these are the emerging energy to penetrate.
For this reason celebrate their rituals, some naked, which I think is not absolutely necessary.
Now, in the centre of the circle provided an altar with a view towards the East was built.
If this is not possible, because the circle is a camp fire, the altar in the East, where the sun and the moon rise.
Some also insist the altar for the North to choose, because this cardinal direction is the earth on which we live and symbolizes power and strength. I personally prefer the east, where the sun and the moon rise.
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How does magic?
You read these pages because they are about everyday magic want to know their lives because they are a turning point, or the "fate" a little peripherals. This is a good thing, because everyone is actually his fortune blacksmith. Some people are daunted by the waves of life, and her throw to lick their wounds and wait anxiously, what happens next, because you can not do anything, it's fate. False thought, you can very well herumreißen the reins when the horse in a different direction than the desired, gallops.
One must also clear, however, there are certain limits which must be acknowledged. The Indians call it karma, I want to life task. It is no coincidence (which is a zufällt), they calculated that these parents, siblings, friends, boss' `s, etc. colleagues. All are part of their life task, even if they are to some fellow ausbeißen the teeth and they only trouble with them. Life is a school and every one of us has to learn his lesson, or you will sit and must repeat the class, in the next life, so to speak, until it is grasped.
I mention this because it is not provided for all, rich or his soul to find partners, if this is not their life task. Some tasks is easier to cope alone and without the sweet life in Saus and Braus. That they must also accept to resign. Our life tasks are as varied as the people themselves must therefore also every man for himself recognize its role and work. It may also help nobody. Even if some people take responsibility for themselves and their happy life to others, they constantly put the cards, or ask another ritual for them to celebrate.
I know there are situations in a person's life, where on foreign aid, because you are no longer the power it has. But they are, please do not get into the habit. I, too, has been frequently asked if I was one or the other ritual for someone could have made. But I think everyone has the ability to own, and it is their own energy that works and that is much more effective. Furthermore, it was not the helm of their lives in foreign hands. Only courage, which others can, they can.
Who says, however, magic would be a great thing, like a light switch without much effort works, has deceived. We must also magic of a certain base, in which they can achieve. I can not, for example, lottery profits to a hope, if I never get a ticket ausfülle. Also at the roulette can only win if they are ready to use. In short if you want to receive something you have to first be willing to give something. In the case of a ritual, it is especially time and energy they have to invest.
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Hocus Pocus Club
On the 10th May this year Witchfest England takes place. This is one of the largest and most popular gathering of Witches in the world. Featuring talks, workshops and an esoteric market. Interest in Occult is rising in the UK which some Christian movements blame on the rise of TV, film and books such as Harry Potter and Buffy. We talk to the event organisers, performers and Witchfest festival goers about what it is that they practice and why people should know about it. On the 10th May this year Witchfest England takes place. This is one of the largest and most popular gathering of Witches in the world... more
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Friendly Neighborhood Witches
"From The Times
July 8, 2008
My friendly neighbourhood witches
Ken Russell
In a heavily wooded hollow in the heart of the New Forest lies the village of Burley. Its tea rooms provide cream teas for tourists, while half a dozen shops cater to the needs of witches living in the woods near by. Books of spells for good and ill, stacks of magic wands, shelves of tarot cards vie for space. Pentagrams, lucky charms, crystal balls, mystic bibles, “books of shadows”, astrological mugs and twig brooms are piled high. Witches and fairies of all kinds hang from the ceiling in mid-flight or decorate bracelets, china, paintings and pretty clocks. Everything is for sale, and for every sale to a serious witch or warlock, there must be a thousand to the visiting tourist.
Yes, Burley is well and truly steeped in witchcraft. And, except for that 16th and 17th-century lapse in tolerance in which tens of thousands were burnt across Europe (mostly women), witches have been thriving, ever since Burley's own Sybil Leek came out of the broom closet in the 20th century and invented witch pride.
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Like most people brought up on Shakespeare, Rackham's drawings, the Brothers Grimm and The Wizard of Oz, I've always assumed that witches were good when they were bad. Double bubble, poison apples, magic mirrors, warts and wands. Pointed hats, black cats, prodding fingers, cackling laughs. But in Burley I was privileged to drag my Hammer-Horror fantasies into the secret lair of a real witch and warlock for correctional instruction.
Our modern magicians, Vandervalk and Freya, hold multiple university degrees in medicine, animal husbandry, ecology and psychology. They're grounded professionals whose dedication to public service (teaching prisoners to care for creatures such as wild owls as a route to learning respect) makes it a risk to reveal their night jobs as high priest and priestess of the craft. And they've had it up to here with toad jokes. This is 2008, after all, and the wise arts have been tested and refined for centuries. The results are in for this pair, who have been practising a combined total of 30 years, 12 of them in partnership.
Witchcraft is based on the four elements: earth, air, fire and water. It involves fine-tuning oneself to receive a vivid experience of the connectedness of things. As Vandervalk puts it: “Witchcraft is like electricity. I'm the plug that goes into the mains. I don't keep the force for myself, or claim mastery over it. I'm a conduit, to bring ease and positive outcomes to other people's lives.”
He continues: “In Western civilisation, all of us are five days away from anarchy. All it would take would be for our usual power systems to fail and we'd be plunged into darkness. At that moment it would be extremely useful to know a shaman like myself who is an adept in woodcraft and plant medicine.”
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“Power animals are my speciality,” he adds. “I'm grafting myself to their purity. Survival is their whole purpose. It's the life-linkage I'm cultivating. A witch connected to woodland ways is able to remove the plastic wrapper from life. That's why it's easier to conduct our work in nature. The forest, the time of year and the Moon are our church.”
“It's a path for attaining self-knowledge in conjunction with the cycle of life, birth, death: the mysteries."
“If someone wants to get revenge or a husband to return, we don't help them to cast spells; we redirect them,” Freya says. “Any black magic rebounds on the sender seven-fold. Nor do we perform ‘skyclad' - in the nude,” she adds, a little too pointedly in my direction and with a hint of psychic powers.
“We're not obsessive about it. The point is to integrate the mundane with the evolutionary thrust, not to favour one at the expense of the other,” Vandervalk says. “And,” he jokes, “to turn annoying people into mushrooms.”
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Religious Extremist Roomies - God Loves ME Best! - Volume 1
Extended trailer for the new TV series God Loves ME Best! The producers introduce the cast to their new home while ridiculing them from behind the scenes. Starring Allegra Cohen, Khrystyne Haje, Eric Kirchberger, Nasry Malak, Michelle Maryk, Ron McClary, Ann Scobie, and Sam Rodd.
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Klepto Lesbo Atheist Wiccan Spell - God Loves ME Best! - Volume 8
The Buddhist discovers how The Atheist torments him. The Wiccan performs a spell for the well-being of the household.
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Drugs Porn And Puppets - On The Next God Loves ME Best!
A look at the future of God Loves ME Best! Starring Allegra Cohen, Khrystyne Haje, Eric Kirchberger, Nasry Malak, Michelle Maryk, Ron McClary, Ann Scobie, and Sam Rodd.
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http://www.godlovesmebest.com A look at the future of God Loves ME Best! Starring Allegra Cohen, Khrystyne Haje, Eric Kirchberger, Nasry Malak, Michelle Maryk, Ron ... more -
Litha, Veneto Pagano
Rituale Pagano di Litha, alto vicentino
Litha è il solstizio d'estate. Astronomicamente il sole raggiunge il suo massimo splendore, è il giorno più lungo dell'anno.
Per il paganesimo la sintonia che gli eventi della natura è essenziale. Il solstizio d'estate rappresenta la piena luce, la natura ci offre tutta la sua potenzialità. Rituale Pagano di Litha, alto vicentino ... more -
God Loves ME Best! - Intro Promo
God Loves ME Best! A New Television Satire.
What happens when a Transvestite Muslim Extremist, a gun and porn Loving Christian Fundamentalist, a Fame hungry Jewish Radical, a pill-popping Buddhist with an anger management problem, a basket case Wiccan, and a kleptomaniac Atheist all live together under one roof?
God Loves ME Best! seeks to explore the narrow minded practices of extreme religious fanatics, stubborn non-believers, self righteous spiritual seekers and the shady washed-up reality show producers who are responsible for this madness, along with the Scientologist network executive who green lights the show.
God Loves ME Best! is a parody of reality television that explores hypocrisy in religion and politics. We are not here to belittle you, we are here to ask why your way is the only way, explore hypocrisy, and generate plenty of laughter along the way!
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The Witches of NYC
A group of solitary witches in New York City meet to celebrate Ostara, a celebration of the Vernal Equinox. To learn more go to http://www.charmedbystarr.com/. A group of solitary witches in New York City meet to celebrate Ostara, a celebration of the Vernal Equinox. To learn more go to http:/... more
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