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NATURE WORSHIP: – Wicca and witchcraft or other shamanic attunements akin to the kind of ethic and awe the great and beautiful (FREE) North American Indians had before the arrival of the ‘civilized’ men from the Old World.

“A Guide to Nature Spirituality Terms Selena Fox

Founder and leader of Circle Sanctuary, an internationally linked Nature Spirituality resource center and Shamanic Wiccan church based in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. Animism: ancient philosophy that views everything in Nature as having an indwelling spirit/soul, including the plants, rocks, waters, winds, t tires, animals, humans, and other life forms.

Animism is the foundation of shamanism and has been considered the earliest form of human religion on planet Earth. {Sorry, philosophy students, who are often told Aristotle and his work ‘Anima’ is original, these same students aren’t told about his Secretum Secretorum which is an alchemic treatise covering what he was taught that he sent to his pupil Alexander the Great.}

Earth-Centered Spirituality: honoring the spiritual interconnectedness of life on planet Earth, often as Mother Earth or Gaia, but sometimes as a gender neutral Earth Spirit. Sometimes called ‘Earth religion’ and ‘Gaian’ (Gaean) religion. Related Eco-Christian form is Creation- Centered Spirituality.

Ecofeminism: feminist environmental philosophy that draws parallels between the oppression of women and the oppression of Nature by patriarchy and which advocates the spiritual and political liberation of both. Goddess Spirituality: revering Nature and honoring the Great Goddess in one or more of Her many forms. Usually polytheistic and sometimes multicultural in practice. Usually incorporates feminist perspectives. Heathen: Another name for Pagan. Many contemporary practitioners of Teutonic nature religions prefer this term for themselves and their spirituality.

Nature Religions: religions that include an honoring of the Divine as immanent in Nature. May be premodern, modern, or postmodern in philosophical orientation. Usually polytheistic, animistic, and pantheistic. Include traditional ways of various native peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, Polynesia, Europe, and elsewhere; religions of ancient Pagan cultures, such as Greek, Egyptian, Roman, Minoan, Assyrian, Celtic, Teutonic, and others; and contemporary Paganism.

Nature Spirituality: honoring the spiritual interconnectedness of life not only on planet Earth but throughout the Universe/Cosmos; ,ore encompassing term than Earth-Centered Spirituality because it also includes Celestial religions; used by some as synonymous with contemporary Paganism and by others as also including interfaith blends, such as those that combine Paganism and Eco-Christianity or Eco-Buddhism. {Is nature worship doing the denominational rag and differentiating itself with real intent to discriminate of claim special status?}

Neo-Pagan: Contemporary Pagan.

Pagan: pertains to a nature religion or a practitioner of an ancient and/or contemporary nature religion; also used to refer to a Nature Spirituality, Earth-Centered Spirituality, and/or Goddess Spirituality group or practitioner.

Pantheism: the Divine as immanent; the Divine is in everything and everything has a Divine aspect.

Panentheism: Pantheism that also includes a transcendent component conceptualized as the Sacred Whole or Divine Unity. {Use and misuse of language allows epithets and degrading remarks to minimalize or depreciate very similar concepts. Is it not better to say religion is ‘what you DO?’ and not what rationalistic construct that might move your thought at some moment?}

Polytheism: honoring Divinity in two or more forms. {Does that include the three as one or one in three ‘Trinity’ originally taken from the Triune Nature of Man?} Can be belief in/worship of multiple aspects of a particular deity; of the Divine as Goddess and God; or of many Goddesses, Gods, Nature Spirits, and/or other Divine forms. Some, but not all, polytheistic nature religions acknowledge an all- encompassing Divine Unity. {This seems more ‘open’ and less than the kind of anthropomorphing that ego often does.}

Shaman: an adept who serves as healer and spirit world communicator for her/his tribe or community. Sometimes known as a ‘Medicine person’. This role is tribal culture/community defined.

Shamanic Practitioner: someone learning and working with shamanistic healing practices for self-development, and in some cases, also for helping others. Sometimes known as a ‘Medicine worker’. This role is self-defined.

Shamanism: animistic spiritual healing practices usually involving trance (ecstatic) and spirit world journeys by adepts. Forms of shamanism include ‘Traditional’, which are rooted in specific indigenous tribal people’s cultures, and ‘Multicultural’, which are contemporary forms that integrate old and new spirit wisdom from more than one culture. {Does this seem to be an ‘open’ and positively ecumenical spirituality? Why would there be any problem if anyone and indeed everyone started to learn all wisdom?}

Wiccan Spirituality: contemporary paths rooted in one or more nature folk religions of old Europe. Also known as the Old Religion, the Craft, Wicca, Wicce, Ways of the Wise, Neo-Pagan Witchcraft, and Benevolent Witchcraft.

Witch: some Wiccan practitioners use the word “Witch” for themselves in connection with their spirituality to bring back its pre-Inquisition use in Europe as a term of honor and respect, meaning “medicine person/medicine worker,” “shaman/Shamanic practitioner,” “wise woman/man,” “priestess/priest of the Old Religion.” Other Wiccans refuse to use the word “Witch” because of later negative definitions of the word which led to its use as a tool of Pagan genocide and religious oppression in Europe and North America for hundreds of years. {Do you know when it ended? Did it end when Blasphemy Laws were overturned in England in 1951? Some would like you to believe it ended when the last person was burned at the stake in Seville, Spain in the early 19th century. It still exists in career and government as well as social situations. Therapeutae like Jesus and Pythagoras or other syncretic religions are definitely the real models of discipline that are “Witches”!} During the “Burning Times” of the Middle Ages, bigots in power changed its definition, making it a term linked with evil, and used it as a brand to mark and exterminate folk healers, {The supposed one god church actually believed illness was created by “sins and demons”. The guilt trips are more refined as time allows more control and programming through the destruction of open discussion and free-thinking.} those who refused to convert to state-sanctioned forms of Christianity, political rivals, and others. Contemporary usage of the word “Witch” by non-Wiccans is diverse but in recent years has been changing in academia and elsewhere {IT is the position of the American Psychiatric Association that trances, and possessions, are mental illness. They do not study or deal with the soul and most avoid discussion of it, but when pressed are only acting out the old propaganda and prejudice still. Anthropologists seek to make Trances an area of specialized study and these scientists (?) want to create a legal and druggable disorder called ‘Trance Possession Disorder Syndrome’. Real disorders including hallucinations do exist, and are treatable by witches and shamans. Vitamin B is often a missing ingredient in the nutritional intake and stresses or coping skills must be learned. Compassion is better than drugs and even massage or acupuncture work better in many studies such as one done at the U of Toronto in 2000. This author may be right when she says there is a “growing awareness” but that awareness may be managed to a degree she does not know.} to reflect the growing public awareness and understanding of Wiccan Spirituality’s reclaiming of the word.” (1)

In fairness to psychiatry they are equal opportunity drug pushers and will drug a Christian with visions, too. There are many instances of religious obsessiveness and out of control behavior. One of the worst, is believing you have the right to lie to people about things like ECT in order to meet societal goals. That, of course is the subject of discussion in our ‘Science’ segment and it is no great mystery. Deepak Chopra has a little input of value to balance my overly passionate comments.

“If bliss is basic to life, there should be a physical counterpart for it in the body, and indeed there is. According to Ayurveda, the body’s counterpart to pure joy is a subtle substance called ‘ojas’, which is extracted from food once it has been perfectly digested. Like the doshas, ojas is just on the edge of being physical; one could call it a subtle substance that registers on both mind and body. The final and most valuable result of eating a good diet is to extract every drop of this subtle substance from your food. That enables the cells to “feel happy,” to experience the cellular equivalent of bliss. {Do you think attuning and visualizing with the process helps?}

Twenty years ago, the idea of a happy cell would have made little sense in scientific terms. Now we know that the body in fact is capable of generating a complex network of chemicals (neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, and related molecules) that the brain uses to communicate emotions throughout the body. It is also known that a single meal can change the brain’s biochemistry quite radically. A brain chemical connected with feelings of well-being, such as serotonin, goes up and down in response to the food being digested in the intestinal tract. This has opened up the exciting possibility of a “food pharmacy” to correct depression, anxiety, and other mental disorders, just as fiber helps to control cholesterol.

In Ayurveda {A very ancient herbalistic shamanic process related to Nyaya Yoga said to date back to 6000 BC.} we can bypass the bewildering complexity of brain chemistry. Nature has given us ojas, a single substance for happiness that the body makes all the time.” (2)

For me Nature worship of the modern variety is whatever works (!): and the wholistic integration of the mind body operating system that has knowledge. Science has learned such things as the lymph system and chakras act to bring soulful knowledge to our soulful potential.

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Because the use of flowers as a ceremonial gesture predates written language, historians can’t precisely pin down the earliest origins of most of these traditions. However, many believe that ancient wedding ceremonies likely initiated the trend of flower gifts. Flowers have long had a symbolic association with rebirth, innocence, fertility, and new love, so wedding attendees would bring bouquets of flowers to a ceremony as a way to bless the new union.

The ceremonial use of flowers to celebrate love was also established through the celebration of the feast day of St. Valentine and Lupercalia, the Roman precursor to Valentine’s day. On these special occasions, worshippers would lay bundled bouquets of flowers at altars and shrines in order to ensure luck in love, harmonious relationships, and fruitful marriages during the coming year.

For centuries, flowers were associated with holiday ceremonies, and among the nobility and upper classes, it was common to give and receive bouquets of valuable blooms as tokens of esteem and affection. However, it was not until the Middle Ages that the practice of exchanging floral gifts achieved widespread popularity.

The tide shifted with the popularization of the concept of courtly love. During this era, swooning over unrequited love came to be seen as the height of manliness, and knights across Europe lavished their beloveds with dazzling bouquets of roses, tulips, and carnations.

Even after the era of courtly love began to wane, the practice of giving flowers as gifts remained fashionable, but its popularity reached new heights during the Victorian era. In this time, direct outward expression of emotion was regarded as taboo, so lovesick men and women alike began to use bouquets as a way to send secret messages to one another. So popular were roses during this period that they actually came to be accepted as currency in some parts of Europe.

Today, flowers remain some of the most frequently exchanged gifts. During the week of Valentine’s Day, for example, over 110 million bouquets are exchanged worldwide, the majority of which are red roses. Clearly, people around the world have known for thousands of years that a floral gift is always a perfect way to express yourself no matter what the occasion.

“The latter part of a wise man’s life,” said Jonathan Swift, “is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.”

The awareness to see one’s own follies, prejudices, and false opinions is in fact essential to overcome one’s psychocultural programming.

But before we discuss awareness, we should look at how we went about assimilating programs that didn’t benefit our evolution.

Apart from what we have been told about the nature of reality, we also actively programmed ourselves on what things meant.

Unfortunately, most of our programming was done when we were children. At that time, we did not have sufficient knowledge or experience to sift through the absurd to uncover the profound.

While many of the belief-systems we adopted as children were designed to help us survive, they may have had a deleterious effect on us as adults. Since these programs for the most part arise from the unconscious, we may often find ourselves responding childishly to challenging events rather than summoning our adult power to move through the problem.

As a child, for example, I adopted the belief that if something did not work out for me, my best option was to move on to something else.

This program created failure and frustration in my adulthood.

As an adult, I noticed that this program to negate effort made my life very difficult.

But by practicing sufficient awareness to notice the pattern and choosing to learn to persist in every endeavor, I noticed a critical shift in my life experience.

What I noticed was that when I applied my new decision to persist when things were not going my way that even seemingly impossible things would turn in my favor.

A program, then, is a repeated pattern arising from a previous decision. It is usually one made as far back as childhood. It is an early and immature decision that creates disharmony and dysfunction in one’s present life.

Cultivating awareness breaks the cycle of living out decisions made in childhood.

Awareness is noticing a recurring life situation that disturbs happiness and success. It is inquiring into the original decision that set the life-denying pattern into motion. Once a person sees the program that has been silently and almost invisibly running their life, they can redecide how to live their life and organize their experiences in a more meaningful way.

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Dysfunctional give and take

I’ve recently been working with groups of women who are unable to stop ‘giving’ to others. But their behaviour is unhealthy because it’s ‘co-dependent’. Co-dependence sounds like something good, but it isn’t. It’s very different from ‘inter-dependence’, which is a characteristic exhibited by good leaders or emotionally mature people. Inter-dependence is a place beyond an ego or fear-driven need for independence, which is often mistakenly regarded as being the pinnacle of human development.

Co-dependence is not a ‘condition’ but a behavioural pattern that seeks to fulfill a desperate gap in one’s life. The label originally described the partner of an alcoholic or drug addict. Meaning that sometimes, partners unwittingly sustain or ’support’ the habits of their counterparts just by always ‘being there’ for them and appearing to care for them. So each colludes with the other, for the fulfilment of their particular dysfunctional script.

Co-dependence usually surfaces in people from dysfunctional families. Where it was never safe to express the emotion one felt. Because it might have triggered a negative or violent reaction in someone else. Or the emotion was so intense we were afraid that if we began to express it, we’d also be unable to control it. It was usually coupled with not getting sufficient or indeed any love or support from the significant so-called care-givers in our early life. We quickly learned that if we did things for them or other people, we somehow ‘bought’ attention and maybe even some appreciation. The terrible sadness though, is that this unconscious pattern is then superimposed on many of our subsequent relationships and interactions as the ‘blueprint’ for the way the world works. Which of course, it doesn’t. But it’s the way our particular sad, distorted world works – driven by our quest to be loved.

Some common characteristics of the co-dependent person are: 1) They are unable to say ‘no’ and will almost always put the needs of others before their own. 2) They will usually appear to be very ‘giving’ people. Of themselves and their energies. 3) They attract an abnormal number of ‘needy’ people around them. 4) If you ask them why they help ‘everybody’, they’ll usually give you a neat, packaged, religiously based answer, which will be difficult to argue against rationally. 5) If you ask them to describe how they would know if someone loved them just for themselves, and not for what they could do for that person’s career, social or financial standing, they can’t answer the question because they’ve usually never experienced such love. 6) If you ask them what emotional (not sexual) intimacy would feel like, they don’t know. 7) They often feel intense emotion, but are unable to clearly define quite what that emotion is. For example: Is it fear, anger, resentment, or self-pity? They feel safer leaving out the detail of emotions because they’ve been programmed into experiencing identifiable emotion as ‘unsafe.’ They often have few if any, real friends. Most of the people around them are parasites, leeches and ‘takers’. 9) Their relationship difficulties, both personal and career, exhibit a repeated, predictable
and consistent pattern of failure – usually ending in disillusionment and sadness, that once again
they’ve been cheated of ‘love’. 10) They may be sexually promiscuous, because their desperate
need for intimacy can appear to be satisfied for a time by sexual activity. 11) They will often
claim to be happy ‘being on their own’. 12) They may appear to be ’super-copers’ and give the
impression of being incredibly ‘together’. Quite often their real confidence or status is
the exact opposite of what they project. This is called ‘paradoxical co-dependence’. Because
their projection and thus the perception of them by others belies the reality. 13) They are often
found serving in the health or ‘caring’ professions and institutions or with charitable bodies.
They’ll be more than adequately represented among psychologists or counsellors. Religious
organizations will also have their quota.

Equally dysfunctional, but at the exact opposite end of the continuum, are the ‘takers’. They can spot a ‘giver’ at a thousand metres. These two types often land up in relationships, the one giving and the other taking – with each hoping to receive love through their negatively collusive but unconscious behaviour. It’s destined to end only in resentment, unhappiness and depression.

The healing lies in recognizing the driving need behind the behavior. Starting with a reasonably insignificant or dispensable relationship, one needs to realize that this behaviour will remain unrewarded, and cut loose. When you break the pattern once and the sky doesn’t fall on your head, it’s a whole lot easier to do it again, and again. Until you’re finally liberated.

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Title: Addiction to Complaining
Author: Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
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Addiction to Complaining
By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.

Complaining is a way of life for some people. It was certainly a way of life for my mother. I don’t remember a day going by without her complaining, endlessly. I don’t think I ever heard a word of gratitude out of my mother’s mouth. No matter how good things were, she would manage to find something wrong. No matter how perfect I was – and God knows I tried to be perfect! – she always found something wrong with me, as well as with my father.

Over the years of counseling others, I’ve noticed that some people start every session with a complaint. They can’t seem to help it. Like my mother, they are addicted to complaining.

Why do people complain? What is it they want or hope for when they complain?

People who complain are generally people who have not done the emotional and spiritual work of developing a loving, compassionate inner adult self. They are operating as a wounded child in need of love, attention and compassion. Because they have not learned to give themselves the attention and compassion they need, they seek to get these needs met by others. Complaining is a way they have learned to attempt to get this. They use complaining as a form of control, hoping to guilt others into giving them the attention, caring and compassion they seek.

Complaining is a “pull” on other people. Energetically, complainers are pulling on others for caring and understanding because they have emotionally abandoned themselves. They are like demanding little children. The problem is that most people dislike being pulled on and demanded of. Most people don’t want emotional responsibility for another person and will withdraw in the face of another’s complaints.

This is what my father did. He withdrew, shut down, was emotionally unavailable to my mother as a way to protect himself from being controlled by her complaints. Of course, he didn’t just do this in response to my mother. He had learned to withdraw as a child in response to his own mother’s complaints and criticism. He entered the marriage ready to withdraw in the face of my mother’s pull, while she entered the marriage ready to make my father emotionally responsible for her. A perfect match!

My father’s withdrawal, of course, only served to exacerbate my mother’s complaining, and she constantly complained about my father’s lack of caring about her. Likewise, my mother’s complaining served to exacerbate my father’s already withdrawn way of being. This vicious circle started early and continued unabated for the 60 years of their marriage, until my mother died.

While my parents loved each other, their ability to express their love got buried beneath the dysfunctional system they created. Unfortunately, this is all too common in relationships. One person pulling – with complaints, anger, judgment, and other forms of control – and the other withdrawing, is the most common relationship system I work with.

A person addicted to complaining will not be able to stop complaining until he or she does the inner work of developing an adult part of themselves capable of giving themselves the love, caring, understanding and compassion they need. As long as they believe that it is another’s responsibility to be the adult for them and fill them with love, they will not take on this responsibility for themselves.

Our inner child – the feeling part of us – needs attention, approval, caring. If we don’t learn to give this to ourselves, then this wounded child part of ourselves will either seek to get it from others, or learn to numb out with substance and process addictions – food, alcohol, drugs, TV, work, gambling, and so on. If, as a child, a person saw others get attention through complaining – as my mother did with my grandmother – and if complaining worked for the child to get what he or she wanted, then it can become an addiction. Like all addictions, it may work for the moment, but it will never fill the deep inner need for love. Only we can fill this need for ourselves, by opening our hearts to the Source of love. Only we can do the inner work of developing a loving adult capable of opening to the love of Spirit and bringing that love to the child within. People stop complaining when they learn to fill themselves with love.

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symposium on “Time according to Quran and Science” which has been conducted by the Association of Scientific Miracles in Quran and Sunnah” it its cultural activities in Cairo. Dr. Mansoor Hassab El Nabi addressed the symposium. He assumed that Quran always opens new horizons of thoughts for thinkers and scientist. He emphasized that the right types of science and knowledge leads, always, to faith and believe. He confirmed that there is no contradiction between science and Quran. Therefore scientist must initiate their theories carefully and religious scholars must interpret the Quranic verse correctly. Dr. Mansoor added that Quran dealt with so many scientific issues such as the creation of the cosmos, the issue of time and place. Quran says that Allah, The Almighty has created the Universe in six days. But we must know that days of Allah are not necessarily similar to the days we, human beings, know, because time is proportionate matter and not an absolute issue. This fact goes hand in hand with the conclusions of the modern science and the theory proportionate. Time occupies an important place and role in the life of not only the animate creations, but also the life of the in animate. All of us measure the time to know the age of things. For example the radio cative material such as the uranium and Radium as well as the coral line reef all are turned by radiation into lead. Each radio cative element has particular rate of turning into another elements. Some scientists have used some radio cative materials such as Uranium and Carbon 14 to determine the age of earth. The scientists used also the phenomenon of cosmic extension and widening to determine the age of earth. Dr. Mansoor dealt with the (age of cosmos) as an issue that emphasis the existence of Allah. The Almighty. Because if the earth is having an age then it is having a beginning and if it has a beginning then it has been created by a creator because it cannot begin itself by itself. Quran asked man to probe and know how the creation began it opines. ‘And say more on earth and see how the creation has began” This Quranic verse indicates many points. It tells us that probing the issues related to the beginning of earth would enable Man to know how the creation has began and that such a divine will enable man to realize the age of the existence of may creations on earth. The six days which has been mentioned in Quran was duration for the creation of cosmos is indicating various periods in which the cosmos has undergone the process of creation. It is not similar in its duration to the days which man knows today. This six days (six periods) have been divided into three periods: Firstly, two days (one period) for the creation of earth from the smoking sky. The skies and earth were one unit and they were separated by an explosion. Secondly, two days (one period) for the creation of seven skies. Thirdly, two days (one period) for managing the boons and maintenance for those who will need it. Dr. Mansoor assumed that there is a vast period which separates the creation of earth and the creation of Man. If the above three periods are manipulated for the purpose of calculating the age of earth, then the period between the creation of earth and the appearance of Man which has been estimated to be 4.5 billions can be multiplied in three and the age of cosmos can be estimated to be 13.5 billion years. Some other scientists estimate the age of cosmos in different ways depending on the cosmos extension, the red displacement, etc. Depending on these factors the estimate the age of cosmos to be 13 or 15 billions years.

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There are two sides to Santa Cruz, CA. The west side and the east side. The west side is where the world recognized spot called steamer lane is. The east side is where pleasure point is. Both surf reefs produce some of the United States best waves. It has been said before that the west side is where the rough crowd goes and the east side is where more relaxed people go out. Steamer Lane is located closer to the college and is much easier for the students to access the surf break. Both are very crowded.

Both surf breaks give you very long rides. You can catch a wave and ride it for up to two minutes. There are not that many places in the world where you can ride a wave for that long. You can not be a beginner at these spots because you will get in the way of really good surfers. There have been many instances where if you don’t know the rules of surfing than you might get into trouble with the locals. The first surfer on a wave always has the right of way and you have to respect that. If you can get better position on the wave then it is all yours. If another surfer can get that position, let them have it. The best surfers get the best waves.

In the morning it is the best because the wind is light and you can catch a lot of waves while other surfers are sleeping. There might be more of a chill in the air, but if you have a flexible and warm wet suit on you will be ok. Exercise in the morning is great for your health and if you are looking to lose some weight. Hold off on eating breakfast until the end of your surf session.

I guess there are very valid reasons why when you look on one search engine the results can be incredibly different than if you looked to another search engine. With search engine optimisation there are countless ways that search engines could classify your website. One engine may have pigeon holed your site as too wordy and perhaps thought your was being manipulated by a webmaster able to use catchy keywords to keep the link fresh. Another engine may not notice anything wrong with your site and it could immediately be placed on the top of their results. If there was just one search engine who knows what you would find. This way it is all open to interpretation. I will be forever mystified by the way computer programmers work. I was reading recently on search engine optimisation and there is no end to what these search engines can figure out. On the flip side there are countless number of programmers trying to figure out how to crack the code and get their websites the most amount of traffic. To understand this programming is just mind boggling. To build a computer program that thinks like a person, perhaps even uses better grammar and then make that program understand complete websites is in itself a feat. And we use this program everyday.