Spirit
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Rumpelklaus
I had no idea that Christmas/Yule had so many scary traditions; this one is courtesy of Raspberry World (click photo to go there for larger image and story.) Go here for more, even scarier images. Susie tells us: Klausen are an old heathen tradition. They were originally meant to scare off bad demons. Today, they… Continue reading
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Candles
Candles hold a central position in many of our religious/ spiritual traditions. Warmth, light, hearth. Now these rituals have extended to the web, to virtual candle-lighting. At Circle of Lights, you can request that a candle be lit for yourself or someone else. At The site of Pain Bereavement and Perpetuation (which is mostly in… Continue reading
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Holiday Linkage
Make a SnowflakeWinter Solstice Celebrations Advent CalendarChristmas Through the YearsWinter Solstice WebsitesHistory of the HolidaysSanta’s FBI Wanted PosterAntique Christmas CardsA Singular ChristmasAncient Origins: SolsticeYour Secret Christmas NamePlaydo Christmas GamesHoliplayGiftmixer 3000TreeMaze MakerReba’s Victorian PostcardsThe Christmas Resistance MovementBuy Blue for ChristmasFred, the Christmas Iguana Thanks to lonita; Anne; and Pen-Elayne. This could go on… Continue reading
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Haiku and the Double Helix| What I Am Thinking About
From New Perspectives Quarterly: The role of the scientific imagination in shaping the world to come is today uncertain as the great leaps forward . . . have revived old doubts and raised new fears about the human condition under the regime of reason. . . science is under attack both from religious extremists on… Continue reading
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Religion
From Whiskey River: "In the oldest religion, everything was alive, not supernaturally but naturally alive … For the whole life-effort of man was to get his life into contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain-life, cloud-life, thunder-life, air-life, earth-life, sun-life. To come into immediate felt contact, and so to derive energy, power, and… Continue reading
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