Bottle Talking

Posted July 18th, 2010 by punyhuman

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Divination XII: As An Animist Sees It

Posted July 17th, 2010 by Syndicated

So, there’s all these different ways that people explain how / why divination works, ranging from the scientific ("It’s all about quantum entanglement, you see…") to the mysterious ("I don’t know, it just does."). While I tend tow…

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Bioregional Long dance

Posted July 16th, 2010 by Syndicated

I have been debating for a very long time whether or not to start Bioregional long dances. For those that do not know what a long dance is, it is a ceremony brought to us from the visions of joseph Rael, also known as beautiful painted arrow, one of hi…

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Magic, Animist Style

Posted July 15th, 2010 by Syndicated

I’ve posted a little bit on building Spirit Houses, which is a kind of magic, and I’ve talked about a Materia Magica, but I’ve been thinking lately about the broad spectrum of magic and how it’s accomplished. Probably in part because of the whole Spiri…

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The Wedding

Posted July 13th, 2010 by Syndicated

Whew.I am exhausted. Who woulda thought a wedding would be so tiring? Probably everyone other than me, actually. :) It went amazingly well, was moving, people loved it, etc. Everyone had a good time. We did a pot luck banquet – we supplied Texas briske…

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Geomantic Studies, Shamanism, and Animism: Feng Shui 2

Posted July 11th, 2010 by Syndicated

Some notes (and observations) on the Feng Shui documentary.Feng= wind, movement of air, energy of the sky, describes an intangible force that cannot be seen but can only be experienced. You cannot see the wind itself, but you can see its action as it…

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Psychedelics, Deep Ecology, and Wild Mind: Essay by Dale Pendell

Posted July 10th, 2010 by Syndicated

Posted with out permission, originally posted here…http://dalependell.com/essays/psychedelics-deep-ecology-and-wild-mind/After reading  the intro I could not help myself from posting it here. “In 1969, in an essay in Earth House Hold, Gary …

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Geomantic Studies, Shamanism, and Animism: Feng Shui

Posted July 9th, 2010 by Syndicated

This is the first of a series of posts looking at selections from European, Native American and Chinese geomantic systems, along with the Shamanic worldview (the previous post), landscape history, bioregionalism, and animism, especially the concept of …

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10 ways to give back to the Earth

Posted July 8th, 2010 by Syndicated

The conversation around the table turned to the gushing oil in the Gulf of Mexico, the sense of powerlessness we all feel to do anything about it. We know our lifestyle is driving the need for oil. We know how complex the economic problems are, the entrenched special interests. “What can we really do?” asked [...]

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10 ways to give back to the Earth

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The Shamanic Worldview

Posted July 7th, 2010 by Syndicated

1. The shamanic universe is holistic and dualistic. All things are interrelated, as in the Lakota saying, mitakuye oyasin, “All my relatives.” At the same time, the universe is made up of binary sets, binary opposition/opposite pairs, such as big-littl…

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