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A blog about everything mystical and magickal. With topics such as psychic phenomena, meditation, paganism, yoga,etc
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meditaton on Words
Found this inspiring. Hope you do as well. it’s excerpt from a reading in one of my classes: In the moment of Love, When overwhelming compassion flows freely, Its empty nature nakedly appears. May we meditate day and night Inseparable from thi...
Life sucks said the Buddha
Now, monks, what is the Noble Truth of suffering? Just this: Birth is suffering, old age is suffering, sickness is suffering, death is suffering. ~Dharmacakrapravartana Sutra~ My paper  that I am writing for First turning class is suffering. But I&#...
Fighting with Father time
Don’t waste time… Live like it is your last day because it could be . This is all great advice but the flipside is you should not spend your life feeling like you are running out of time. I am 29. If I don’t get married by the time ...
Pray the stress away?
For the last few days, I’ve been pretty stress out. Mainly due to my dog ( who I have had for almost eleven years) being very sick. The problem with a situation like this is there isn’t much you can do. You feel that you are the prote...
Sit down and tell me how you feel.
OOO, WordPress got a new toy for me to play with. It’s poll time… ...
The problem with acceptance…
The problem with acceptance in meditation is most people don’t understand what they are suppose to be accepting. When I was taking Mystical classes in college, the topic of acceptance would continue to come up. Most of the students felt that be...
Stress meditation?
They say ( whoever they is) that when you are really stressed… too much to meditate that’s when you need meditation the most. But is it possible to relax into single focusness when you are overwhelmed with anxiety? The other night,Â...
Getting a meditation buddy…
Since joining the virtual world of second life, I’ve had trouble maintaining my favorite practices like meditation and journaling. Whether you get distracted with work, school or play sometimes keeping a regular practice can be hard. So I&#...
Returning to Meditation
I have been away from my blog for awhile mainly because I have been away from meditation. It’s  difficult to write about about mystical experiences when you are having very few due to lack of sitting. But what is harder is returning to sitting...
a rant to quiet
When, I was younger I tried to kill myself because I wanted quiet. Of course, I didn’t realize that at the time. I thought I was mad at my mother, my lover, at myself and my fucked up Life. But really I was sick of listening to the voices telli...
Qutoe of the wk- Leave homeland
Attraction to those close to you catches you in its currents;Aversion to those who oppose you burns inside;Indifference that ignores what needs to be done is a black hole.Leave your homeland — this is the practice of a Bodhisattva. ~The 37 Pra...
Mystical Quote of da week
Let no man endanger his duty, the good of his soul, for the good of another, however great.When he has seen the good of his soul, let him follow it with earnestness. ~The Dhammapada~ If only I had this kind of wisdom with I was engaged back in the d...
Better late..mindfulness quote
Sorry for the delay. The Nanowrimo contest has me a bit distracted. But to make up for missing sunday’s quote.. you are getting two good ones this time: True words aren’t Eloquent; [...]...
My Mystical Second life
Echo ( your Blog writer)has very few serene places she can go to meditate. Her meditation practice is usually constricted to the privacy of her own room. In college she was able to take Mystical and meditation classes and enjoy having a group to med...
Late: Sunday Mindfulness Quote
” When someone is seeking,” said Siddhartha, ” it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything…” from Siddhartha By Herman Hesse...
Burma hungry strike…
The video is from a hungry strike for Burma that I was a part of on Oct 7. The footage was taken by my camera but the majority of this was filmed by someone except for the first two or three guys talking about the event who I filmed. And I had noth...
Sunday’s Mindfulness Quote
“If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself.” ~Alan Watts~...
Simple Meditation for the Meditative-challanged
The first step to starting a meditation practice is setting a time aside where you won’t be disturbed by others. It’s helpful to meditate at the same time every day. But this is not always possible. I recommend being gentle with yourself...
So you think you can’t meditate?
When I mention to people that I meditate I usually hear one of two comments. ” Oh, that’s wonderful… I wish I could do that”. or ” I tried to meditate but I just can’t do it”. In my experience the bigges...
Sunday’s Mindfulness Quote …
We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living…. Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, Peac...
Global Protests for Myanmar
 from AP: YANGON, Myanmar - A day of global protests against Myanmar’s junta began in cities across Asia Saturday, after the military regime admitted detaining hundreds of Buddhist monks when troops turned their guns on pro-democracy demonstra...
If you like this blog.. You Can’t be president!
Can you ever be President of the USA? Are you a Christian? Duh.. get to the front of the line If you are a Mormon… Well, we’ll think about voting for you (if you don’t have too many wives)… you still love Jesus, right? Musli...
A Day of International Action for a Free Burma (Oct. 6th)
Demos planned so far for the USA from Facebook event pg █ UNITED STATES█ Contact US Campaign for Burma to sign up to hold a march, vigil or any sort of event in your area- thelma@uscampaignforburma.org *Athens, Ohio* SATURDAY 6th – 12 NOON * A...
Free Burma
Soldiers hunt dissidents in Myanmar
From the AP: YANGON, Myanmar - Soldiers announced that they were hunting pro-democracy protesters in Myanmar’s largest city Wednesday and the top U.S. diplomat in the country said military police [...]...
