Table of Contents
money, manifestation, materialism, career, achievement, works
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Celebrate Life with Corn (Lillith T. Lewis)
Ah, harvest time is here. For centuries, folks have gathered in late summer and autumn to give praise to the Divine Ones and to offer thanks for the blessings of the harvest.
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Finding Value in Work (Shanddaramon)
If it is hard be a spiritual being in the midst of the marketplace, imagine how even more difficult it is to be spiritual in the workplace.
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Harassment: Avoidance & Confrontation (NeoWayland)
Unfortunately there are many stories in the Pagan community about harassment in the workplace on the basis of religion.
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Modern Pagans in the Modern Workplace (Rev. Susan McDermott-Measheaw, Circle of All Paths)
This topic piqued my interest because I am a Human Resources (HR) professional.
groups, service, volunteering, group dynamics
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A Crash Course in Drum Circles (Julia Kilmer)
Investing in a drum can be an expensive endeavor, especially if you don't know how to drum and don't necessarily intend to be a regular drum participant.
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Outlaw Spirituality (Tom Crockett)
Whether you consciously think about it much or not, you have a story you are carrying about how you came to be born.
sustainability, green living, animals, nature
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Minding Our Mother (Gina E. Jones)
I would like you to think about your Mother, your larger Mother -- the one that sustains you and me and everyone we know. I'm talking about Mother Earth.
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Changing The Dream (Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, PhD)
The images of life's oneness and interconnectivity are calling for us to work with them, to engage in the timeless alchemical work of transmutation in which we take real responsibility for what is being born.
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Civilization & The Ocean (Lillith T. Lewis)
History has provided ample tales of civilizations that rose to prominence and then deteriorated through misuse or overextension of resources, or through plain foolhardiness.
Women's spirituality, men's spirituality, GBLT spirituality
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MAN-ifest the God Within
(Gwydion Ream)
Today, in an age that is witnessing the return of the Goddess in all ways and on all levels, the idea of one more male deity may appear to be a step backward.
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Masculine & Feminine (Tom Crockett)
Can a woman come to God/Love/Spirit on the same path as a man? The answer is, of course she can, but, why would she want to?
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Taoism & Gender (Lillith T. Lewis)
Although the two people most often credited with the creation of Taoism were Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu, they were actually scholars who criticized the rigid traditions of Confucianism.
food, health, healing, body, mind/body/spirit connection, alternative health/healing
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The Biology of Love and Fear (Tom Crockett)
What kind of program are you running? Moment-to-moment, on any given day, you are running one of only two possibilities of biological program: growth or protection.
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Elemental Qi Gong (Julia Kilmer)
For several years, I had thought about taking up some form of martial arts program, largely for the benefits of stretching and keeping limber.
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Get Well! Hypnosis and Healing (Stephen Poplin M.A.)
Over the centuries, medicine and healing have gone through hundreds of phases of belief, techniques, approach and theories.
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The Healing Power of Crystals (Alison Jones)
Crystals, minerals and rocks have been used by healers, prophets, therapists and channelers for many thousands of years to heal the sick.
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Health & Karma (Sophia Heartsinger)
One of the eternal theological questions continues to be, "Why do bad things happen to good people?" Among those bad things is illness.
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Reintegration: The Anima Approach to Health and Wholeness (Jesse Wolf Hardin)
Healing is a magickal process, and we need no more evidence than a bloody cut quickly healing until there is no mark to know that our bodies are miraculous indeed.
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The Secret Life of a Stage Hypnotist (Stephen Poplin, M.A.)
"Okay! When I count to three, you will awaken!" is one of my lines, one of my suggestions to my hypnotized volunteers and it is also a daydream "command" that I sometimes play, or review, in my inner film. To whom am I speaking? Ah, if you only knew.
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Stimulate Your Own Immune System (Wayne Perkins)
I have watched many times as friends and family pull away from the person once the dreadful disease is confirmed by a doctor or a laboratory.
light-hearted look at spirituality
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Dante's Bar (Gwydion Ream)
A play written by Mike "Gwydion" Ream
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Green Thumb (Jason Love)
I spend a lot of time apologizing to the plants. It's not that I'm negligent; it's just that there is so much on TV.
motivation, creativity, aspirations, dreams, art, music
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Be of Good Company (Bob Young)
This is the third time Reuven Finkel stormed into the study of Rabbi Yitzchok (Joseph) Jung at 126 Lewis Street in New York City’s lower east side. It had been only a few years since the Rabbi had come from Berettyoujfalu in the county of Hajdu-Bihar in eastern Hungary.
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Frozen Thoughts (Bear)
From colorful images on cave walls to "Kilroy Was Here" graffiti on WWII shipping crates and the Sunday comics, the human race has always demonstrated a universal compulsion to leave a visual legacy of its innermost thoughts and ideas to succeeding generations.
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Living by Dreams: Spiritual Dream Work in the Shamanic Tradition (Tom Crockett)
It is in dreams that we experience the overlapping nature of the seen and the unseen worlds most clearly.
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The Magic Drum: Rhythm and The Realm of the Miraculous (Jesse Wolf Hardin)
Rhythm is meant to be an aide to reconnection, and the drum an instrument of rhythm.
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Music as Visionquesting (Grewolf)
I'm gonna try and have some fun exploring the human need for music, and its power to take us journeying into spiritually significant realms
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Shamanism in the Modern World (Lynn Andrews)
Many years ago, a powerful shaman named Twin Dreamers said to me, "We are all born wild like a mountain lion. To live in civilization we become sheep at a very young age. We become tame. But we are not house pets. We are fierce and wild by nature."
articles that don't fit easily into other topic categories
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Ban Them! (Lillith T. Lewis)
Throughout time, books have offended, enlightened, ennobled and degraded people and their beliefs.
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The Fermentation Mysteries (Mike "Gwydion" Ream)
An essential element of the Transformation Mysteries found in the esoteric teaching of paleo- and neo-Paganism.
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The Information Superhighway: How the Internet Could Change Religion Forever (Scott Benson)
Humanity has one thing to thank, above all others, for its current position in the world's food chain: communication. Our ability to act in groups according to a common plan has not only allowed us to survive as a species.
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Our Place in the Shadows: How the Written Word Saved the Mayans (Scott Benson)
The first signs of Meso-American culture start with the Mayans' ancestors, the Olmecs, about which very little is known.
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The Parallel History of Christianity and Wicca (Julia Kilmer)
Many philosophers and theologians have often described the history of religious systems in the same way as one would describe a child growing up through its infancy and through maturity.
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Rani Kumra (Krishnananda)
Speaking about her mother, Rani Kumra glows, recalling how tirelessly her mother worked to help and support all of the unfortunate and needy....
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So Many Books... (Eileen Troemel)
Books, books everywhere and no more shelf space. In my family this is a common dilemma. Almost everyone in the family loves to read and all of us accumulate numerous books both in fiction and nonfiction on almost every topic.
family, sex, love/partner, groups, friends
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Harmony in Friendship (Eileen Troemel)
Karen has been my best friend since the third grade when I was in pigtails and she would sit behind me and play with them.
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The Three C's of Sacred Gifting (Tom Crockett)
Gifts can have power. Gifts we make, gifts we find, and even gifts we buy can connect us to others and release healing energy.
archeology, space/astronomy, technology, medical science, pseudo-science, quantum physics
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The Beat of Your Own Drum (Scott Benson)
The universe, it turns out, is full of music. Even the Earth itself puts out an onslaught of notes that would drown out all the other sounds in Nature, were they not confined to the lower "out-of-range" section of our hearing.
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A History of the Mystery: The Progress of Science and Spirituality (Scott Benson)
I want to tell you about something extraordinary. In fact, it's so incredible that many consider it to be an actual miracle.
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A Trickster in Every Atom (Greywolf)
No matter whether he takes the form of Coyote, Raven, Spider, Loki or a dozen others, he always stands for the spontaneous, unpredictable element in Nature.
meditation, self-education and training, improvement of the self and the Self
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The 2% Solution (Morgana Rae, CPCC.)
When you are criticized, assigned attributes or character faults that don't fit you or upset you, you have a choice.
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Commuting and Enlightenment: Is it Possible? (Dr. Stewart Bitkoff)
This article is about using the mind in a different way to overcome a tiresome activity. It is about using spiritual capacity to transcend the ordinary.
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Food For Thought: Digesting Life (Vaishali)
Most people think of the digestive process as something limited to the foods and liquids that we stuff into our mouths daily.
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Higher Knowledge & Spiritual Experience: What to Buy? (Dr. Stewart Bitkoff)
The goal of the mystical process is to help complete human evolution. The Sufi asserts that humanity is evolving to a higher spiritual condition and this evolution is purposeful and directed.
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The Soul's Machete: Cutting Through The Spiritual Wilderness (Scott Benson)
Have you, at any moment in your life, even attempted to stray from "normal"? Have you ever once faced a popular opinion and said, "Give me just one good reason to believe you"?
death, afterlife, shadow, underworld, karma, sacrifice
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The Bardo of Big John (Amy Martin)
Big John was my husband's good friend. They were quite the pair. When cancer started to take Big John down, we all rallied 'round.
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The Belly of the Mother (Eileen Troemel)
When you say "The Underworld," most people think of fire and brimstone, sin and evil. For me it is just the opposite.
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The Cat, The Bird and Artemis (Wendy Thurston)
Driving under the speed limit because there were often wild creatures that seemed to wait for a car to scurry across the road, I saw a lump on the middle line.
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Gaian Metamorphosis: Death As Gift and Teacher (Jesse Wolf Hardin)
It is the fear of death, that makes us fear the risks entailed in really, fully living.
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Healing With Those In-Spirit (Linda Drake)
Many religions and spiritual teachings define death as the doorway home, but what about those of us left behind?
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The Shamanic Underworld: Closer Than You Think (Tom Crockett)
You lie down and cover your eyes to block your visual sense. A low insistent drumming begins. You breathe deeply, relaxing the muscles in your body.
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There and Back Again: The Effect of Near Death Experiences on Mind, Body and Spirit (Serena Florale and Bear Baker)
In our culture, preparations for death are generally dealt with only out of necessity, not forethought.
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Transitions (Jeffrey W. Moore)
When I first began this article, I thought that it would be interesting to learn of the various rituals and traditions involving death, as practiced by the many religions.
ritual, ceremony, divination, prayer
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Carrying Home a Brand from the Neighbor's Bonfire (Rabbi Michael Panitz)
In the family album of Jewish festivals, Lag B'Omer, which we celebrate today, is one child who looks strikingly different from her siblings. In their biblical formation, the other holidays are often Temple-centered and feature official sacrifices.
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Celestial Thaumaturgy (Stephen Poplin, M.A.)
It first appeared in English in 1727 and does not have some of the other connotations of words such as sorcery or magic.
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A Devotional Rite (Mike "Gwydion" Ream)
This rite is suitable for daily or frequent performance at a personal altar.
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Do Witches Worship the Moon? (WebWeaver Anemone)
When I was a young witch just starting out, I asked my friend Lydia if she really worshiped the moon, to which she replied, "Well, yes ... and no."
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Eating and Holiness in Judaism (Rabbi Michael Panitz)
Creation is the work of Benevolence. Therefore, when we humans sustain ourselves in the world by taking in bodily nourishment, Judaism teaches, we are enjoying a part of Divine blessing.
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Eostre Ritual (Eclectic Study Group of Sacramento, CA)
Eostre is a Pagan honoring of the Vernal Equinox, a celebration of the elusive balance between light and dark. Spring has arrived, with the blooming of flowers, new growth on the trees, and baby animals popping up all around us!
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A Glance at Gnostic Christianity (David Oliver Kling, Jr.)
The ancient Gnostics were about as numerous in variety as the modern variety are today, with various sects and traditions placing emphasis on different aspects of the faith.
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Journeys (Eileen Troemel)
I gazed into her crystal ball -- a clear crystal with no flaws and absolutely beautiful -- and knew I would have one. I felt myself falling into it and knew there were journeys and lessons to be learned from it.
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Make Your Own Meads for the Holy Days (Wendy Thurston)
Mead might be the oldest recorded fermented beverage, predating both grape wine and beer.
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The Mandala (Nitin Kumar, Editor, ExoticIndiaArt)
The mandala idea originated long ago, before the idea of history itself.
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Manifestations of the Runes (David Weatherly)
Once you begin to work with the runes on a regular basis, it is normal to begin to sense them in the world around you.
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Meditation: It's Not What You Think (Vaishali)
"If you think that meditation is sitting in a corner of your room for fifteen to twenty minutes, and then getting up and paying no attention to the rest of your day, you are NOT meditating. You are fooling yourself!"
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A Muslim's Diet (Mustafa Canan)
To maintain a pure heart and a sound mind, to nourish an aspiring soul and a clean healthy body, special attention should be given to the diet on which man lives.
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Nature Spirituality: The Gaian Path (Jesse Wolf Hardin)
Spirit in the myriad plants and animals, and in the unfolding lessons of terrestrial Gaia.
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Numerology and Planetary Associations (Stephen Poplin, M.A.)
Numbers have been used since ancient times in intuitive ways, in the intuitive arts, in prophecy, in divination.
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Outlaw Spirituality II (Tom Crockett)
Outlaw spirituality is not about religion, but about those practices and ways of seeing the world that often obliterate the safe container of religious belief.
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Plug-N-Play Spirituality (Lillith T. Lewis)
How can we touch the divine if we cannot stop multi-tasking long enough to pay attention to where we are?
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The Secret World of Huna (Julia Kilmer)
Contrary to popular opinion, Huna is not the ancient traditional beliefs and practices of Hawai'ian spirituality.
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Spirit Guides (Eileen Troemel)
When I was young, I had many bad dreams. However, I rarely suffered ill effects from them because almost every time a bad or scary dream would start, a black panther would appear in my dreamscape. His presence would let me know I was safe because no matter how scary the dream, I knew my panther would take care of me.
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Tarot (Jason Love)
Tarot card readers can be fun, especially when they're your wife and you can tease them in print.
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The Ten Most Influential Heavenly Bodies in Traditional Western Astrology (David Coffman)
Astrologically, the sun is perhaps the most prominent heavenly body; of course, it is not a planet but a star (sometimes called a "luminary").
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Tradition: Building Blocks Upon Which We Build Our Lives (Bear)
Like air, tradition permeates our lives and every waking thought and it doesn't like to be ignored.
values/ethics, philosophy, law, education, integration
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Contemporary Great Spiritual Thinkers (Lillith T. Lewis)
We asked for a list of who they thought would qualify as great spiritual thinkers who are alive today. Here are the results
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Do You Really Want To Know The Truth? (Jean-Claude Gerard Koven)
There have always been those among us who, claiming to speak with the authority of God or on behalf of a totalitarian regime, have advocated their version of Truth.
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Knowing What You Really Want (Jean-Claude Gerard Koven)
The naive misuse of powerful cosmic tools to acquire fame, fortune and other creature comforts can easily have ruinous consequences.
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Intro to Holistic Thinking (Renee Guidelli)
Holistic thinking starts with an awareness of an imbalance - whether physical, emotional or spiritual.
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Maya, Mirages and Miracles (Tai Rainman)
Spiritual existence is, in and of itself, an event that "apparently contradicts known scientific laws."
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Passing the Torch (Mike "Gwydion" Ream)
We dance circles around the fire, mindless of the envy of the world around us.
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Shabbat Shalom: The Shabbat of Passover (Rabbi Michael Panitz)
God's love for us is a key dimension of our Passover celebration. On Passover, we read Shir HaShirim, the Biblical "Song of Songs."
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Stirring the Waters with Dr. Masaru Emoto (Alison Jones)
Interview with Dr. Masaru Emoto -- whose work was featured in the film What the Bleep Do We Know?
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Stones: The Memory of the People (Wendy Thurston)
My last semester of graduate school before I entered the classroom as a teacher brought one of the most memorable experience I had had
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The Sun, Like an Athlete, Rejoicing to Run the Course (Rabbi Michael Panitz)
We pre-dawn joggers are a strange fraternity. We pass each other like shadows.
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The Voice From Within (Scott Benson)
My path has been guided by my own personal search for meaning and enlightenment. One question would lead to another, and send me from studying shamanism to Christianity, and off again to Taoism. But recently, a question made me step back from it all and really ask: "Who do you think has been the greatest spiritual thinker?"
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The Voodoo's and Don'ts of American Culture (Vaishali)
Post modern American culture is not famous for embracing Spiritual values. And you thought that outer space is the only thing that operates in a vacuum.
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Where in God's Name Did We Go Wrong? (Jean-Claude Gerard Koven)
When people ask me if I am religious, I tell them I love God far too much to be religious.
consciousness and its role in spirituality
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Living in a Cookie Cutter World (Gina E. Jones)
In the past, each country of the world had its own energy, a specific feeling that made it unique, but this appears to be diminishing.
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Neurotransmitter Consciousness (Taylor Ellwood)
For a human person alone there are a variety of levels of consciousness that exist.
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Searching for the Mind (Lillith T. Lewis)
What is the mind? Where is it located? Ask those questions of a child, a Buddhist monk, an American scientist, a physician, a fundamentalist minister or a Hawaiian shaman, and each will give you a different answer.
Spirituality in art, dance, theater
spiritual identity, self-identity, meditation, transformation, transcendence
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The Chrysalis Soul: Butterfly Wisdom & the Spiritual Seeker (Scott Benson)
What does it really mean to say that something has been transformed? Transformation implies change. Now, everything in the universe is in a constant state of change. But to speak of transformation is to speak of something "becoming."
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Create a Private Retreat (Lillith T. Lewis)
How can we bring a bit of what we gained from a spiritual retreat into our personal lives?
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Creation Song (Lynn Andrews)(new)
"In the Tree of Dreams there is a song," Face in the Water said to me. She is a beautiful elder woman whose eyes reflect an ancient past, the tribal customs of her people.
"Like any other living thing, the Tree of Dreams has a song to be sung.
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Drumming the Soul Back Home (Tom Crockett)
Drum sound is the voice of the mother. In cultures that developed on plains, steppes, tundra or grassy flatlands, that voice is the heartbeat of the mother - steady and repetitive, until we feel it beating inside of us as well as outside.
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Glimpses of Vision Quest (Lillith T. Lewis)
In some First Nations, the vision quest was limited to those studying to become medicine people, but in other nations every person could choose this rite of passage.
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Holy Jokes and Sacred Clowns: Honoring the Trickster (Theodore "Jay" Joslin)
The lofty lunacy of the Fool, the cunningly creative Trickster, and the disciplined distractions of the Sacred Clown are all variations on the same way of learning, a crazy wisdom of defiance of social norms in pursuit of individual truth.
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Looking for Trickster (Jaq)
The mythologies of gods and goddesses of various cultures can be a fascinating subject to research, as well as a frustrating one.
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Mindful Meditation (Lisa Green, R.N.B.S.N.)
Meditation is not necessarily dependent on language. In fact, the practice of meditation enables a profound pre-linguistic experience of the world.
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Sacred Play: Playful Teachings from the Wild Women's Gathering (Loba)
One full moon each Summer a small and evolving group of women come together from all over the country to explore and celebrate their real selves, the living Earth and each other in an enchanted canyon in Southwest New Mexico.
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The Value of Spiritual Retreats (Tom Crockett)
Religious and/or spiritual retreats are a significant part of some of the major religions of the world.
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Why Bother to Go on a Retreat? (Lillith T. Lewis)
While a few might think of a retreat as something only monks and nuns do, modern retreats are not at all the old stereotype of convent living.
Goddess and women-specific spiritual issues, body image, overcoming stereotypes
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Changing Woman, Gateway to a Woman's Greatest Beauty (Lynn Andrews)
Wise blood, the time in every woman's life when she has lived long enough and experienced more than enough to become "one who knows," a woman who has gone through the gateway of Changing Woman and stepped into her own sacred self.
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Demeter (Eileen Troemel)
This complex and involved myth has multiple layers of symbolism, the most obvious of which is the change in seasons.
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Parts -- Loving the Total (Byron Ballard)
I was in high school when I first heard about the "Hottentot Venus," an African woman of the Khoisan people named Sarah (Saartjie) Baartman.
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Virtues of the Goddess Warrior: The Warrior Within (Eileen Troemel)
As a woman in our society today, I find myself facing more and more situations where I must tap into the warrior aspects of the Goddess in my everyday life.
