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Relationship with Religion
Can people have a healthy relationship with religion? Yes, they can. The word religion comes from the latin word “religio” meaning a body of practices. Religion is like meditation. It’s the social aspect of factionalism. It is false identification (to use a Buddhist concept) that is toxic. The interfaith movements are a powerful force for…
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Projecting and Relationship
People project onto us and we assume roles. Young people tend to worry a lot about things they shouldn’t. Thus who has had a smooth third decade? Seems to me stories of that are rare to non existent. In their twenties, who doesn’t have some comedy of errors to relate at least, if not a…
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Relationship with Spirit
I wonder how Machiavelli would be seen back in the day? As you know, Machiavelli had considerable influence as a strategist, but not much virtue. His power came from “not revealing the rules of the game”, and for supposedly not having much virtue but he would not have been villainized in African culture. His guidelines in…
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Meaning in Relationship
What is meaning and why is it important? To a degree the consensus is love. The common ground we can all stand on. It can be diversified and thus enriched, but still there is the connection. The spectrum of meaning is synonymous with the range of beliefs and these do vary. But one of the…
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Astrological Relationship
Someone earlier today asked if there were ley lines in the Second Life (SL) virtual world. I would say there are, and the rhythms are keying into our communication. The energy breathing substance into what seems very different than the old French cave paintings or Native American petroglyphs, and yet is it really different? Is…
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Free in Relationship
Freedom is a pretty complicated topic, though it would seem simple. Freedom is often sought in name, but people call a lot of things freedom. Often if someone says “I need my freedom”, it’s because they are about to self destruct and feel entitled. We think of many things as freedom, mislabelling them like financial…
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Primal Relationship
I intend to discuss the spiritual facets of parenting. How many of you are parents? But no, it’s not necessary to be a parent to gain from this. We are all involved in parenting. We were parented in one form or another, and some of us are parenting. It’s perhaps one of the most primal…
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Pain in Relationship
There can be pain in the change of ending one relationship, and starting another. Mourning loss is good, and allowing yourself to grow naturally into the new relationship is good also. Not immediately adopting a positive stance, because “you are supposed to.” Another may want to fight with you, but you don’t owe any fight.…
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Essence of Relationship
Intimacy is vital and most people have only a loose view of what it is, if they have it at all. Intimacy is the essence of relationships. You live and breath in a state of intimacy with the earth itself. You eat from an intimacy with the earth. Your body can eat of anything found…
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Food Relationship
Maybe an illustrative exercise. Someone want to pick a food? Carrots. Ok, good pick. To the Native Americans carrots were a person, and so was corn. If carrots were a person, what kind of person would carrots be? Upper body strength. Rooted, Bright. Ok, earthy and bright? They are hard, and break when they are…
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Unstable Relationship
Let’s do a thought experiment, shall we? Anyone care to share one of their storms? Past or present, even future if you perceive that. Hmmm, not sure if this is one, but I’m trying to decide if a relationship is worth saving. It is, yes. Dealing with an unstable relationship. It has winds, “hot air.”…
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My Relationship To Shadow
A bit about my relationship to shadow. Having an ASD (autism spectrum disorder), as a developmental trait, has set me up to perceive much that remains hidden to others. In the strictly intellectual task, I don’t have habitual filtering for “pleasing” images, so I don’t select for those in embedded figure patterns. I am likely…
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Relationship Of Psionic And Arcane Energies
What about the overlap between psionic energies and arcane energies. Can each manipulate the other? The laws of metaphysics are like the laws of physics, and all things that take any sort of form have their root in the same principles. Like diet and complex factors affecting genetic heredity. So a parallel is how magnetic…
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Relationship to Pneuma
Our relationship to pneuma comes down to time. Time as an object doesn’t exist. Time is a dialogue and exchange. Like coming into the online world of Second Life, the server says things to your computer and your computer says things back to the server. From most peoples point of view, the time channel seems…
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Self And Relationship
Individual awareness. Most people usually have a pretty firm conviction that they have it, but if you ask them who they are, can they list anything other than a set of relationships or activities? I’m a wife, a daughter, a sister… No, I guess you can’t. People even fight to establish their individuality in the…
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Relationship to Fear
We are discussing horror, and specifically horror stories. I don’t mean horror literature necessarily, nor horror movies. Stories run deeper than any modern media, and horror stories are perhaps one of the oldest, if not the oldest sort of story ever told. Horror goes back to the start of language, as we have always had…
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Relationship to the Thing
Attachments or bonds can be in two possible states; harmonious or attuned, and disharmonious or disconnected. How do we treat things? As children we tended to treat them like creatures, even people. It depends on the things relationship to us? Actually, it depends on our relationship to the thing. Things are more reasonable than us in…
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Relationship of Trees
Can you give us a bit of a chronological time-frame for ogham script? Neo-lithic? Ah, well the exact origin hasn’t been firmly established, but to date the presence of the ogham script has been traced as far back as two centuries BC. In fact, it’s commonly believed that a lot of the found examples of…