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It Is A Party, Dance
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Empowering Expectation
Quick poll. For who do expectations feel disempowering? I really felt them to be at work limiting. I felt they limited what I could achieve. I’ve never felt disempowered. They can be discouraging if they are given too much emotional weight when they are not met. For who have expectations felt empowering? Not me. Me,…
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Rigid Expectation
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Be Where We Are
Circumstance. People really believe in that idea don’t they? Circumstance, yes. People giving me the long list of how I could do something, but they can’t even though they say they want to. People have long lists of circumstance. The blind expectation thing again. With proper awareness expectation can embrace a range of outcomes, and…
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Dynamic Awareness
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Life’s Flow
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Ceremony of Magic
I won’t be addressing any one style of ceremony, but will speak to styles across the board. What is ritual magic? It is ceremony. It is performance like song or dance, but not like these things in the conventional sense. There are simple ritual practices that those of organized religion wouldn’t want to acknowledge are…
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Ritual Magic Experience
Anyone have experience with ritual magic? Care to share your experiences? Kawa ceremony. At heiau, at midnight to 3 am. Kawa is kava. Heiau are our temples. At those hours we follow a protocol so as to invite the spirits of aumakua to come. Chant, share kawa, silence, etc. and for some multiple presences are…
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Ritual Space
The Hawaiian people have what could perhaps be called family gathering spots. The spot is automatically a meeting place between them and the spirits. Many sites like that here, yes. Ancient to present time. That’s done with the set up of the space, and people also use symbols to define their space. Mandalas, Navajo sand paintings,…
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Exploring Religion
One World, Many Paths holds spirituality discussions in the virtual world of Second Life. Join us there to meet like minds and explore your path. ~~~~~ I’m an atheist, but I find religion very interesting. Especially mysticism, druidism, Wicca. It is, yes. There are so many beliefs that have shaped our world even when we…
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Give Place To Dark
We created our Spiritual Darkness discussion group in Second Life to give place to the darker feelings and phases of the spiritual life. Their expression and perhaps some insight. Everyone on any spiritual/philosophical path has dark moments. In Christian mysticism they refer to them as a “dark night of the soul.” They are actually considered…
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Infinite Night