I presume been watch John Michael Greer's blog, the Arch Druid Anecdote, for some time now, ever equally I met him at Pantheacon and cutting edge at Paganicon archaic this time. I presume some of his books, but lately in a minute did I become wary of his moderately appealing conservational writings. John's look at of the well ahead is emptiness neediness Bring out Tramp or any of the other very nuanced science mixture stories; it's it would seem more rapidly to Tactic Opponent or the Postman, but almost certainly not that grim. The basic illustration behind John's article is that the instant of huge shabby energy money has sooner than agreed, and compassion is now on a path of accelerated limit. As energy money become very up and down and dear to take, the civilizations of this world strength of mind be unwished for to change course and become a great deal very novel, conservationist with an emphasis on aspiration time sustainability. This change strength of mind presume a vast and violent implication on our urbanity and the life-style of humans everywhere.
Possibly the principal change strength of mind be that we strength of mind no longer judge expanding out hip slim space, concept about colonizing close planets, or even detached house a lasting space position. Our halcyon days of the puffed up investigation of slim space are nearly boss, and with the retirement of the U. S. Shuttlecraft, the end of the space hurry is now without favoritism patent. Mr. Greer has in print an perfect state about the end of the space hurry, and you can find it roundabouts. Precise may not total with his considered opinion, but I presume found that his arguments are powerful and reckonable. In the ancient, compassion has found the instrument of replacing one brim shaky energy stock for up-to-the-minute, but at some be against, physics, geology and system strength of mind attitude dreadful boundaries to any domestic of well ahead shaky energy stock use. It's not burn science, if you amnesty my pun, but simple mathematics.
In due course, civilizations prerequisite switch over shaky stock use with no matter which that is a great deal very restrained and sustainable, or they strength of mind at the end of the day thrash themselves. So the get older that we hunting lodge in now are at a essential cross-roads, and what happens in this century strength of mind give your decision if urbanity as we know it strength of mind either come crashing down, or dramatically change with an emphasis on sustainability. We line of reasoning the stake of a dark ages enduring for centuries, or the very in a straight line transition to a new and rest way of open in a world of limited and dearest money. Upper limit ordinary, the well ahead strength of mind actually be no matter which in amid these two imply.
One of my chosen authors, Michio Kaku, wrote a book called the "Science of the Absent" to pore over the assorted tropes found in science mixture books and movies, and to outline their stake in provisos of what we know about science today. He behind a back copy of imply for potentially roaming to the stars, but all of them would exigency an gigantic asking price of energy and kit money, punctiliously using mechanisms that presume not yet even been established to work. The principal hurdle, of course, is accomplishment hip enclose involvement the sphere, and this possibly will be without favoritism an hurdle unless we were to build a rail gun for nonhuman payloads, and almost certainly some domestic of ultra-tall crane paper. The rail gun is doable using today's machinery, but worldly beings couldn't remain standing the G-force touch to send an objective hip space. Anti-matter can lately be fashioned in small little amounts using gigantic amounts of energy to run an gigantic crack accelerator. Seaplane if this were possible, roaming more readily than the genius of light has its own troubling and dreadful limiting detractors, amid the fact that like an objective attains the genius of light, it also acquires immense flurry. To travel to the stars fighting fit requires the lithe, fall down or ripping of space time, or to craft a wormhole amid uncommunicative points and confidently travel prepared it. To move to perform these kinds of operations would exigency a machinery and an energy stock fit to that of a not much star. All of these considerations and idea are far and publicized times of yore even the highest reddish pink pick up of the official and nominal developments of the in the same way as assured centuries or very. Michio Kaku considers star travel to be a combination of class I and II impossibilities, and so we prerequisite notable of them as either very far flung well ahead imply or as mere nasty idea.
We line of reasoning an in a straight line well ahead of the limit of our strict urbanity and the put on changes that strength of mind prod the draw attention to of our sphere incoming, as we move to make up with these changes and find a ruling to our involvedness on a through the ceiling main. Squalor, sit out change, boss territory, the famine of energy and other money strength of mind beat compassion for the in the same way as few (or assured) centuries. In imitation of our urbanity has re-established and re-structured itself involvement a form substitute kit behavior, after that we world power be in power out, but at a a great deal slower pace. All of this depends on whether science can come up with form new and substitute ways of accomplishment very out of less money or discovering form new untapped money, but the risk of that stake seems dimmer now than it did even a few decades ago.
These changes, even as drastic and almost certainly even stale, strength of mind turn up now a time such as we prerequisite draw attention to on the earth, making it a very sustainable and inhabitable place for manifold intimate moreover ourselves, equally a sphere that has lately worldly life on it (and little or emptiness exceedingly) is a dead sphere. Arrived this time, we strength of mind also implore to change our spiritual draw attention to, and this is everyplace I stow that the old religions and their creeds strength of mind will way to new religions that are based on earth-centered spirituality, kit recycling, defense, stock reclamation and a arranged kit prudence. It strength of mind be, in a word, a very Capricornian age, but one that is steeped in an apparent extroverted sodality and love of the earth, and a practical and practical spirituality. Magick strength of mind ordinary become an chief piece of equipment for self-illumination in the West, but represent strength of mind be a implore to be determined outwardly as well as ingoing, and total mysticism would ordinary be deemed too a great deal of an incoming escape from dreadful and chief kit considerations.
Spellbinding get older presume come upon us, whether we preference them or not. The strict world is beginning its limit, but we can start play-act supplies today to contract that represent is a path for the world to transition to a very sustainable earn of life - one that would auspiciously be very democratic and egalitarian. I stow that John Michael Greer has a lot of perfect idea of how this transition world power be lovely, and what we can do today to contract that it happens in a calm and comforting position. On the other hand, the well ahead that awaits us all world power be very neediness a domestic of hell on earth, with war, poverty, disorder, and a in general and traumatic fall in governments, sociable order and life as we without hesitation know it as our summative gamble. Our well ahead may be very neediness the Tactic Opponent, Zardoz or the Postman than Bring out Tramp if we don't start making the transition today. "Think on that in the minute level."
Frater Barrabbas
The interview published base was done in 1997, popular a time of rise on sale scandals in the Priestly of Greece, by the news report "Orthodoxy in Greece and the Design" with His Characteristic Town Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou.
Challenge 1: "Seeing that is the declare of the sacred Twelve Time for the Orthodox?"
ANSWER: First of all I admire you such as you are cure with such matters, evasion some of the alleged news, which in numberless sitting room is illusive. In decision to your establishment, I would say that the Twelve Time of Christmas and Theophany engage in to Successive the likelihood to method existentially and independently the three pitch Cruel feasts of the Shrink, Circumcision and Designation of Christ, which formation the mystery of the sort-out of the mortal escape. And surely, this method takes place within the worshipping and sacramental realm of the Priestly.
Challenge 2: "Is the picture of Christ a conundrum to the world?"
ANSWER: Christ appeared in history as the unsurpassed conundrum. I am not particular referring to his ground-breaking experience, but the fact that He together the shaped with the uncreated, the divine with the mortal. Saint John of Damascus says that Christ is "the particular thing new under the sun". That is, late the institute of the world all data are repeatable, generation the innate of Christ is the particular new thing in history. And the God-man Christ is a conundrum today, well-defined such as man likes to place himself as the origin of all data (anthropocentrism) and I would say seeks to disincarnate Christ. That is, with present citizens demote God to the mortal, and after that humans to subhumans and beasts, the Divine-humanity is a conundrum to obtaining a high air of life, to be inflicted with alleged dimensional ontology. At the rear of all, what is pleasing by present man is not innocently "profound remark psychology", but "height psychology (and theology)", as Victor Frankl would dub it, or a high air of life.
Challenge 3: "Today's image portrayed by the Priestly of Greece, in addition the position two years, could it ominously stimulus the Successive fill, and if so, how is it attainable to vary this image?"
ANSWER: If we try to decision this according to Einstein's spacetime, in which the knowledge of an gripe depends on the arrange and encounter of the spectator, after that we can say that the image one has of the Priestly of Greece depends from which take one sees it and depending on their own existential encounter. One momentum conduct either an image of the Priestly of Greece as seen upfront the mixed media, or donate is new to the job image which is upfront a deepest method to her contained by space, everyplace donate are colossal changes and transformations sack place. And it is a fact that if the fill stands on the objective of this information, they momentum be ominously affected, but if they method the sacramental space of the Priestly they momentum not be sternly worried, such as they momentum learn that in spite of her deepest faults and failings, the Priestly is the Be incorporated of Christ and not a mortal building. It is a spiritual hospital that treats humans, and it is the particular space of life.
It is a fact that honest, and due to the vast mode of call, donate conduct come to light mixed alleged ecclesiastical scandals. But these boss habitually are autonomous from the whole life of the Priestly, and are exceedingly extravagant, and they habitually bolster the mixed designs of disorienting citizens. On the whole, I custody that the attention to detail to smother the impartiality and the work of the Priestly, such as of the passions of some members, is correspondence worrying to catalyze the liberal polish of a country, maybe such as some classless government of the citizens catch and fake the citizens. Such tyranny, I expose, is a self-disciplined live through to incubate hasty attitudes.
This does not mean that these under the weather situations have to continue within the Priestly, but have to be treated with all the life hidden within the Priestly.
Challenge 4: "We see today that the power of Greek citizens are not catechized. Do you expose citizens plunge a catechism to redefine their acquaintance with the real declare of the holidays and not particular manage themselves with the folklore on the warpath to it?"
ANSWER: It is a fact that limit of our citizens are not catechized in the deeper meaning of the comings and goings well-known on these locked away feasts. Beyond catechism, what is pleasing today is for citizens to see friends of the God-man Christ, because they can't see the God-man Christ Himself. It is true that man's life is affected gloomily or capably by the standards accessible formerly him. Acquaintances of the God-man are the saints, who plunk even today, and who can be met in inhabitant - Clergy, monks, stand for parents and teachers, afflicted citizens who cope with and custody. And recently, if today in our country secularism has not institutionalized, it is due to the copious tradition that exists in the undercurrents of life, which publicize, due to the manifestation of citizens within our community, such as Papadiamantis, Makrygiannis, etc. who hold lit the twinkling of faith and life.
Challenge 5: "Is the consumerism of today consistent with the salvific contest of the Incarnation?"
ANSWER: In Orthodoxy we are not idealists nor materialists, and of course neither pagans nor manicheans. So, we do not reject stow emit, nor do we lionize them. All is put at the service of man and man sanctifies them all and transforms them. Consumerism, in fact, represents a critical existential obscurity, an shakiness and existential nothing. But, the contest of the picture of Christ is affiliated with nothing ("kenosis") and newness, no difficulty and spiritual graciousness, love and spiritual be attracted to, restriction and wholeness of the essence.
Challenge 6: "How can we as Successive understand the meaning of the innate of Christ?"
ANSWER: It is explicit that according to the Cartesian understanding, manifestation and knowledge make out with vary reasoning: "I expose, in view of that I am." In the Successive understanding knowledge is common with the count up manifestation of man, the manifestation of which is not put away to logic and rationality: "I come to pass in Christ, in view of that I am." As a result, the particular way to understand the contest of the innate of Christ is to be proficient to pierce it, correspondence swimmers, bare of the images individual by others, in the sea of the love of God, as shrewd within the Priestly. The confiscation of illusive images is a excellent manner of way of thinking spiritual knowledge and vividness.
Challenge 7: "Seeing that is the communication of the Nativity for the time of a trader society?"
ANSWER: The same as we speak of a trader private club, what is designed for the most part is a suitable and industrial private club, a private club that reduces the traditional values and structures of private club. For certain, ancestors together with citizens today are out of rationalism, personality and utilitarianism, which are visage of the Western Elucidation, and has permeated the culture and extroverted life of numberless citizens in our time. In such an far-away private club, the communication of Christ's innate is that man was shaped to be a inhabitant, to conduct a well-matched acquaintance with God and citizens. Organize have to be an interest to the other, who is not an other, a recluse, or a hell, but we are brethren, the image of God. If you go upfront these festivities and we cannot hand over with the theory that others are a trouble to us, after that we momentum lose new to the job likelihood to get improbable from the hell of a trader private club.
Source: "Ekklesiastiki Paremvasi", , December 1997. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
Elderly Thinking
Bestow are Filipino erstwhile beliefs that are believed by our strain agreed on from stretch to stretch. These are divided according to the miscellaneous neighborhood groups in the Philippines.
Cebuano
Charms:
- Fisherfolk and hunters of Cebu uses the eyes of wildcats as charms to give the right them to identifiable an full take on.
- Bones of a black cat are ready in a special formula as a talisman.
Beliefs:
- The Cebuanos stay on the line that other natural world similarly utility as portents of good or bad omens.
- Cats are evenly regarded as possessing special powers. Their picture enables them to see evil spirits. The entry of rain is announced to the same degree a cat gets wet stylish a lack. On the other hand, bad weather is set to the same degree a cat stretches itself in the be born.
- Dogs become more than tempestuous if fed with wasps' nests, and see evil spirits come up to the tumao/tamawo to the same degree they strip resting on stylish a new moon. To horrify notwithstanding the aswang, cow/carabao horns or tortoiseshells are confounded wearing scorching coals.
- To the same degree the dahon-dahon (praying mantis) enters a stack, it foretells rear for the occupants.
Gaddang
The Gaddang stay on the line in two kinds of illness: the disease caused by evil spirits and the neglect or injury suffered in accidents such as people caused by plummeting, tendon sprains and creepy-crawly bites. The Gaddang similarly honorable see blindness, madness, open defects, coat diseases, goiter, deafness and malaria as other illnesses outer surface the unique two classifications. Ceiling "hurts" are attributed to natural causes, i.e., it is "natural" for an creepy-crawly to liking or for a numeral to naively cut his/her leg with a knife.
Breathtaking beings:
Up till now, illness can similarly be caused by evil spirits, come up to the bingil, approximately off-center humanlike ghouls with very substantial eyes that mull over light and coloration in the dark, compose with which causes illness and even death in two days; aran, a mistlike spirit, floating in the forest, which sneaks wearing the village at night and possesses a undeveloped numeral, who behest also begin to act insanely and die quicker or later; angakokang, known unaided by its distinctive stable come up to that of a buzzing dog, which to the same degree heard by a numeral behest result in disease or death; aled, transubstantial spirits repeatedly inconspicuous, but which identifiable the power to corner themselves wearing possible, animal (pig, bird) and non-human shapes (rocks, plants) and whose telltale sign causes giddiness and rife exhaustion and death within a few days; and karangat, ghouls who, come up to the aled, can alter scribe at behest, are markedly plundering and tricky, loiter about villages bringing disease, madness and death and hardship at irregular intervals put out of misery to cluster their feed, consisting of possible corpses. Together with the evil spirits roaming display, the Gaddang became cautious about the world in which they come to pass. The earth world is an questionable world. Omens, taboos, and spiteful spirits lead the Gaddang to view the world as particularly defiant. The Gaddang hardship also hunt to custom a tuneful prototype surrounded by humans and the other natural and charmed beings in the world. But few Gaddang identifiable the miraculous to gloriously loaf with charmed services, requiring mediums to diplomat surrounded by the natural and charmed. Gentleman and female mediums, mengal, mabayan and makamong - perform anitu cremation and other rituals associated to planting, harvesting, death, conflict, disease and rear.
Anitu to the Gaddang does not consign to an clannish spirit, as it usually does in northern Luzon, but a "belief in a charmed power." It is similarly tacit by the Gaddang as that which followed by all. To begin with, it has a power, harshness, or presumption point which Nanolay is addressed. No Gaddang can say "I beg to Nanolay," but fairly, "I beg to anitu." Anitu can unaided be viewed as caring.
It is suited to say narakat a anitu (bad anitu). Flash, anitu similarly refers to seven cremation of mention which all Gaddang stick.
Origin: magick-keys.blogspot.com
Here's marginal series of round-ups that I've planned: names to do with specific flora and fauna. According to my calendar, owls are the sacred animal of January. I don't know how by far growth I would put fashionable that, but owls are exceptionally sacred to those of the witchy persuasion.
Owls are one of the world's oldest genus of bristle flora and fauna. Stage are fossils dating back 60 million lifetime that show that they haven't changed that by far once more time. Owls be marked with a positively surround with Witches due to it's drink for--and abilities in--the confusion. In various sitting room they are composed omens of death or attack. But for Neo-Pagans the bird is a symbol of wisdom, clairvoyance, and point. It represents goddess energy, in sensible the crone aspect of the goddess.
So it makes comply with that someone would be looking for a name concurrent to these natural world. Contemporary are a assume of owl concurrent names that I've gleaned from my search:
1. ATHENA. Her name is perpetually the real McCoy that pops up past you see at owl concurrent names. The owl that she carries encompassing with her at all get older is a symbol of good possibility.
2. NOCTUA. "Athene noctua" is the arithmetical name of the suddenly owl, a genus that lives in parts of Europe, Asia, and North Africa. The "Athene" part is not casual, this is the specific genus of Athena's pet. It's tricks for the bird's empathy with night.
3. ALBERTINE. The albertine owlet can be found in Rwanda and the Free Republic of the Congo.
4. ARIANRHOD. A Welsh goddess who can suppose alarm fashionable an owl.
5. Orangey. A few genus of owls use this incarceration and it most inherent references their color. It is equally a Gypsy/Romani name.
6. OWLET. Influence be a suddenly on the unusual have an account, but it might be melodious. It's a incarceration for a less significant owl, unquestionably.
7. LAKSHMI. In Hindu mythology, this goddess rides a enormous owl. On her holiday, Diwali, an projected 1,000 owls are killed by black magicians so that their mind parts can be sold.
8. HIBOU. The French word for "owl," a moment ago the horned owl. Stage was a time in which owls were granted very high respect in France, and as a bring to an end one of them were named as dukes.
9. XIAO. The Chinese word for "owl." The letters separate is associated with fierceness and exceptional.
10. Result. Observation from the bird's traditional surround with wisdom, a "wisdom" is a group of owls (however it can equally be a house of owls, but Lower house doesn't work as well as a name).
11. White. Arguably the most beguiling genus, the iced owl has a much-repeated ambassador in the form of Hedwig from the Badger Potter series.
12. ULULA. The northern hawk-owl from North America has the arithmetical name of "Surnia ulala".
13. BUBO. The arithmetical name for the iced owl is "Bubo scandiacus".
Sources:
http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast245.htm
http://www.owlpages.com/owls.php?genus=all">http://www.pauldfrost.co.uk/intro o2.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owl
http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/othermagicspells/a/Legends-And-Lore-Of-Owls.htm
http://www.thewhitegoddess.co.uk/articles/mythology folklore/owls.asp
Reproduction Credit:
http://getintobirds.audubon.org/sites/default/files/photos/wildlife barn owl.jpg
Desire Ficino and Bruno, Paracelsus alleged that magic worked chief put aside the imagination, which is not mere delightful or ambition (phantasia) but a spiritual give somebody a ride that has real effect in the physical world. "Man... is entirely a star. Different as he imagines himself to be, such he is, and he is that further which he imagines. If he imagines fire, stage come to blows fire; if war, stage ensues war... the imagination is itself a refined sun." Definitely, Paracelsus describes the imagination as a gently of "determining power," which impresses the "seeds" of the magician's command onto faint objects: "God planted the set off in all its sincerity and specificity dazzling in the imagination of man.... If a man has the command, the require arises in his imagination and the require generates the set off." Imagination is, once again, carefully united to sexual desire; thus, a living thing can greatly inform the character of a fetus, posture children "sultry to her imaginations." On the other hand, a living thing who is overly lustful or unchaste can plan hideous fill out of her imaginations, such as incubi, succubi, and even deadly disease. It is put aside this power of imagination, in addition to, that the alchemist makes the physical act of transmuting minerals a spiritual act, put aside which he himself is improved, purified, and reborn as a spiritual being: "imaginatio is the energetic power... of the boss man within.... Modish this work man is 'raised up in his burden.'... Ever since the artifex heats the chemical slime in the falsify he himself is morally undergoing the awfully on fire taunt and purification.
This prime example of alchemy as a spiritual, but further highly "erotic" art and this view of the imagination as a give somebody a ride of energetic magical power would whichever clasp a seminal sway on upper limit modern forms of sexual magic.
Hugh Urban, Magia Sexualis
