Archive for the ‘Religion’ Category

Dreams carry us into magickal realms where spiritual entities that we may have known in the past communicate with us. Other individuals whom we may meet on our dream journeys include guardian angels, ancestors, allies from other worlds such as the animal kingdom, and so on. We also receive responses to petitions we have presented and answers to oracles that we have requested.
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One of the most common questions that I hear is something along the lines of, "Is there a way / spell that will make someone want to be with me / love me?"
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Several books have been written on the art of kitchen witchery, the practice of making consumable goods that are charged with magic.
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There can be some herbs that wiccans use that may not be common ones that you may have heard of or know how they are to be used. This article will help you decipher these commonly used herbs.
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Honey, shut your mouth this month. It's not a time to talk out issues or deal with conflicts. It is time to be sensual, enticing, even captivating.
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The estimate of the number of Buddhists in the world varies between 350 million and 1.5 billion. The disparity in figures is because of factors like the lack of exact figures for congregational memberships and the practice of Buddhist beliefs in combination with traditional religions like Shinto, Confucianism and Taoism to name a few. Let's take a look at some of the countries where Buddhism has left its imprint.
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First, what is the millennium? Our English word comes from the Latin words, mille, meaning thousand. It is translated from the Greek word, chilias, meaning a thousand, and annus, meaning year. Thus, we have a thousand years.
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Religion for me has been a bewildering and reluctant adversary. For the longest time religion meant belief in some strangers prescription for salvation. As one matures and questions their life and the role of religion in it, certain sticking points become clear. Why so many different perceptions of religion? Why so many different versions of religion? Why so much mutual exclusivity of the various religion doctrines? Belief in one religion shouldn't automatically exclude an individual from believing or practicing in another. That's ridiculous. The different and varying threads in the spirituality of religion have far more in common then their proponents would care to admit to. It's almost as if their saying that you must believe in everything that I say. No picking and choosing, just believe in all, or else your out. And it's not just the zealots, it seems to be a persuasive thread among most religions.
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In the 1970s Erich Von Daniken wrote the books Chariots of the gods and Gold of the gods and a few others. These books made the claim that UFOs brought life to Earth and directed civilization over a period of hundreds of years.
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For those running vacation bible school for the first time in 2009, you don't have to reinvent the wheel, trying to figure out how to make it entertaining. Thanks to a wide selection of VBS themes, creating a fun-filled center to teach children about God's word is easy to do. Picking your theme ahead of time will give you plenty of extra time to deal with other things, and letting the kids know ahead of time will help get them excited about the upcoming VBS.
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