A R T I C L E A R C H I V E
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Candle Magick for a Global Village
Light a candle. Save a planet.
The Tower
Whether a war in Iraq occurs or not, civilization, as we know it, will not survive.
Of Voting and Mystical Thought
Democracy as mirror. What is our failing electoral system telling us?
Deja Vu All Over Again
Atlantean reincarnates in the post 9/11 world -- doesn't it all feel familiar?
The Path of True Love
Embracing romantic love as a path to emotional and spiritual healing.
The Goddess in Every Woman
Musings on the mother of all muses -- A personal journey through the feminine identity.
The Path of Personal Mastery
Psychic and spiritual development can be expanded through a path of personal discipline or mastery which means an honoring of individual inner truth.
Ritual From Within
Ritual is most effective and transformative when practiced as a dynamic original expression incorporating the appropriate tools and honoring ethical and spiritual laws, and seasonal and planetary influences.
Lining Up the Bones
Sandlin Technique bodywork is part of a Cherokee mystical tradition that facilitates permanent correction of the skeleton, reframes cellular memory for health, and balances every system of the body.
Aromatherapy: The Benefits and Hazards of Essential Oils
The safe practice of aromatherapy for healing requires knowledge of both the benefits and the toxic hazards of essential oils.
R E V I E W
Modern Day Witch Trials
Salem in Arkansas -- the shocking, true story of the "West Memphis Three."
PAPAL SIN: Structures of Deceipt
Dishing dirt on the Vatican -- A look at Gary Wills explosive book on papal fallibility and Catholic discontent.
C O F F E E T A L K
The Power of Negative Thinking?
New questions about the power of positve thinking. Could all those "new age" pundits be wrong?
Of Morality & Gay Bashing: The Outrage of Dr. Laura
Radio shrink, moral guardian, gaybasher -- The ironic synergy of religious conservatism and hate.
L E T T E R S F R O M D Y S T O P I A
April 30, 2003
You have probably noticed, gentle reader, that I have not made a blog entry since about the time we commenced shocking and awing the tiny, third world nation of Iraq. It's not for lack of trying. It's simply that I couldn't write much beyond, "The horror, the horror." Well now that the easy part of this imperial adventure is over, it's time to put the whole thing into perspective.
March 19, 2003
"Since about that time, war had been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war.... Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible." -- George Orwell's 1984
March 7, 2003
My husband and I have an ongoing debate about which dystopical novel best describes the current world situation. I think we're living in an Orwellian nightmare. "I swear," I said one morning, "One of these days I'm gonna open the paper and it'll say 'George W. Bush is Double Plus Good'."
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