Topic: Magick & Spirituality

Everything we do has a purpose. How many things do we do out of habit? We wake up, go to work, go home, eat dinner, and wake up and do the whole process again over again day after day. It is as if our world is on cruise control 24/7. We push ourselves to the limits beyond belief. We carry all our burdens on our shoulders. But where is the Goddess or God in this? Where is the faith that we have? Where is the spiritual life?

Ventura, CA (PRWEB) July 6, 2006 -- Modern day "Witch", Rose Ariadne, pulled the curtain back on a new service for practicing Pagan witches all over the world today at http://www.askroseariadne.com.

A Thankful Heart Is the Way to Happiness by Masaru Emoto Author of The Secret Life of Water

Why do people go through life looking for happiness? Dogs and cats look for food and comfort, but they certainly don't go to all the trouble that people do in their continual search for happiness. I suppose the reason is that we are the only ones who can align ourselves with the hado of happiness.

Change Your Outlook on Change by Charlene M. Proctor, Ph.D. Author of Let Your Goddess Grow! 7 Spiritual Lessons on Female Power and Positive Thinking

Make no mistake about it, change is challenging, whether it is conscious or unexpected. Viewing adversity as change, not loss or failure, is part of empowered and positive thinking. Humans develop resiliency through change, both physiologically and emotionally. It’s necessary for all life forms to evolve. Change comes through many vehicles: some hit us hard, others are rather sneaky. But despite the challenges change brings, we know it is our natural state. It’s inevitable - the world grows and we grow with it.

Paganism With Spirituality by Lesley Gary

Who are the pagans? To know the answer to this question, one must know what a pagan is. Pagan once meant “of the land.” Webster says that a pagan is “a person who does not acknowledge God in any religion, a heathen,” but we know that we do follow a God, Goddess and, for some, a Great Spirit.

Water as a Spiritual Element by Annie B. Bond Excerpt from the book Home Enlightenment: Practical, Earth-Friendly Advice for Creating a Nurturing, Healthy, and Toxin-Free Home and Lifestyle.

Water is the central source of our beings. It is part of every cell and fiber in us; it is our very essence. Could water be the common denominator that weaves us all (earth, animal, human, and plant) together as one? Is it the ultimate connector? It's awesome and humbling that water carries so many entrained messages, especially when we consider that there has been the same water, and the same amount of water, on the earth for millions of years. What messages are we receiving from our ancestors when we drink? And it is overwhelming to think that in the past 60 years alone, the human hand has imprinted so much pollution on the water, bringing it out of healthy balance. It is our spiritual obligation to be water's caretaker and cause it no further harm.

The last time I looked, personal transformation was not on America's top ten list of achievements. Success, family, happiness, friends, wealth, respect, health, religious beliefs or spirituality, satisfying work - these took priority. Our spiritual institutions follow suit with the most successful and prestigious requiring little of their flock as far as personal introspection is concerned. The prevailing ambiance is one of levity, music and celebration - seldom one of self-inquiry.

Next time you are in the company of a child, just watch. Suppose the child is holding a small cardboard box in their hand: one moment the child is talking to you, the next they are rushing off to play because Aggis has arrived. The excitement draws you in but you see no one around; and the child is full of excitement as they explain that mischievous friend Aggis has come to play trains and planes using the cardboard box as the main prop. The child is suddenly transported from our physical "real" world and into their magical imaginary world - a world where friends like Aggis exist.

The Secrets of Judas by James Robinson Excerpt from the book The Secrets of Judas: The Story of the Misunderstood Disciple and His Lost Gospel.

Judas Iscariot is, if not the most famous, then surely the most infamous, of the inner circle of Jesus' disciples. He was one of the Twelve Apostles who stuck with Jesus through thick and thin to the bitter end, until the night of the Last Supper when he led the authorities to arrest Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. Was Judas just fulfilling prophecy, implementing the plan of God for Jesus to die for our sins, doing what Jesus told him to do? Why else would he identify him with a kiss, all for a measly sum of thirty pieces of silver? What do the Gospels inside the New Testament -- and then what does The Gospel of Judas outside the New Testament -- tell us about all this? ...

For some time the world has eagerly awaited the premier of the film version of Dan Brown’s best-selling novel, The Da Vinci Code. For the few not familiar with the story, a Harvard symbologist is swept up in a mysterious web of intrigue over an unsolved murder revolving around a secret society. Clues to the society’s most preciously guarded secret abound in the paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci – a former member of this society. The secret reveals what the Holy Grail really symbolizes – the sacred bloodline that culminated in the marriage between Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ whose descendants live among us today. While most critics agree that the book is a thrilling confluence of fact and fiction, many argue over which part is fact and which is fiction. Regardless, the book and the movie neglect to mention the true origin of this sacred bloodline and why it was considered royal to begin with. That brings in the connection with aliens and vampires. Those not privy to this knowledge (because knowledge is power) might think it even more bizarre than the initial controversy, but historical evidence for this story also exists.