Posted July 29th, 2010 by Syndicated
Have you ever heard of dowsing? Pendulums? Of course you have – to be reading this blog and NOT have heard of a pendulum – well, that’s pretty rare. In case that you, go read up.So what’s the 1 easy step? 1. Use a pendulum. Ta-dah!Of course, it’s a bit…
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Posted July 28th, 2010 by punyhuman
A question I am often asked when I explain animism is whether things created by human hands, what I call manufactured things, are also alive, ensouled, and intelligent. I do not speak for all animists, but manufactured things sometimes speak to me. Hou…
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Posted July 27th, 2010 by Syndicated
someone posted this on the permaculture tribe. this is what i call appropriate brioregional technology!
http://rootbridges.blogspot.com/
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Posted July 26th, 2010 by Syndicated
From Robin Artisson, one excellent method of contacting and establishing a relationship with the Genius Loci and “Forging the Trust-Bond with the Unseen Powers in the Land.” Not to be undertaken lightly. Although this method is English, the general pri…
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Posted July 24th, 2010 by Syndicated
They go together, don’t they? Like, always, I mean. I’ve never seen the two really distinguished – partly because an animistic outlook is generally assumed in shamanism. The thing is, I’ve read a LOT about shamanism – I studied it in school, wrote…
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Posted July 23rd, 2010 by Syndicated
I wrote this essay back in the Winter of 1984, when I was 24, for a class in Native American Studies (NAS 301). My teacher was Henrietta Whiteman, now Henrietta Mann. I haven’t seen her for decades. I was told I was the first at the University of Monta…
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Posted July 22nd, 2010 by Syndicated
Before, I talked about Spirit Jars and making them with a little bit of a sense that you could look up correspondences. As my understanding has grown in the last couple months, and as I’ve shared with you, that’s not entirely true.Certainly, there are …
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Posted July 21st, 2010 by Syndicated
Earlier this evening John K Bollard read from his translation of the Arthurian tales contained in the collection of medieval Welsh tales known as ‘The Mabinogion’. This took place in the campus bookshop at the University in Aberystwyth. He was jo…
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Posted July 20th, 2010 by Syndicated
Remember how I’d talk about building up a materia magica for yourself? Here’s the first of those! I’ll try to intersperse them through other posts, just like I sorta do with the divination stuff.Homeopathy is based on the idea of like curing like. The …
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Posted July 19th, 2010 by Syndicated
I have heard about this all my life, since I was a kid in the 70s. I met Thomas Banyacya in the 80s at the Two Moon Camp in Montana, and he told us about it there too.
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