Remember when you told your mom that you were leaving food out "as an experiment?" but really you just didn't want to clean it up? No? That was just me? Well that's pretty much what I've been doing with my GMing lately. I've been shamefully avoiding preparation, and justifying my laziness by calling it an experiment in improvisation. But unlike my childhood self, I'm legitimately interested in how the experiment will turn out. So after working on being a better improvisor for the last few weeks, I thought it would be an interesting change of pace to sit down and give myself a single hour to create an entire dungeon adventure. The idea is to simulate the time crunch I experience while improvising a dungeon for my players, while still actually preparing something in advance of the game.
This is what I came up with, all within 60 minutes, which includes the map. I "have" cleaned up the text a bit, though. I don't want to ask anyone to understand my sketchy shorthand.
Note that my thought is that this would be used with a game system similar to the one I wrote about last Wednesday. The idea is that the players begin with no classes at all, similar to The Funnel of DCC RPG. As they play through this dungeon, they will seek to define their character.
GENERAL INFO:
Old man Herst recently pulled down a bunch of trees at the end of his property. His onions were profitable last year, and he'd like to increase his crop this year. While tilling the soil, though, he discovered the most peculiar thing: a stone stairway! Leading right down into the earth! It was the damndest sight he ever done seen, and when he was telling the tale down at the pub that evening, you overheard him.
It's perhaps 2 in the morning now, and you and your friends have gathered around the stairs. You've heard it said that treasures can sometimes be found beneath the earth-treasure enough that a bunch of farm hands like yourselves could buy a better life for yourselves.
ROOM 1: The walls and floor are a moss-covered flagstone. Stones are missing here and there, exposing the earth. The ceiling is almost entirely exposed earth, supported by stone arches which criss-cross the ceiling. Roots poke through here and there, and it looks as though it wouldn't take much for the dirt to collapse into the room. These conditions persist throughout the dungeon, unless otherwise indicated.
There's also a good deal of timber in this room, stacked in piles against the east and western walls. It is clearly old and rotten, perhaps part of the structure which originally stood over these stairs.
Exits to the North and South are visible upon entering the room. The secret exit to the West can be revealed by moving the timber aside.
There are 6 mouse-folk here, huddled in the corner and clutching their clubs. Their fur is mottled, and they appear to be malnourished.
ROOM 2: The walls have corpse shelves here, though most of these are empty. There are 12 shelves in all, but only three bodies remain. Close examination of any of the empty shelves will reveal a small pressure plate in roughly the same spot on each shelf. Pressing the plate does nothing. Close examination of the wall across from any shelf will reveal a small hole, the purpose of which is unclear.
Moving any of the three bodies which remain releases the pressure plate under their heads, and a crossbow bolt is fired at the player's back from across the room. Also under each of these bodies, roughly where the small of the back would be, is a small ovoid piece of amber. Each is worth 10gp.
ROOM 3: Some of the floor stones here have been pulled free, and water from above has formed into a pond which is 2ft deep at its deepest point. There are six mouse people here, drinking the water. Two more stand guard.
Aside from the water, there are three shelves in the room which were once filled with books. The shelves have now been knocked over, and the books scattered about the floor. Most are torn to pieces, and nearly all of them are covered in black mildew and small mushrooms. Thoroughly searching through the books will reveal only one book which is still in good condition. It is written in an odd script, but anyone who makes a successful intelligence check will strangely be able to read it.
Studying the book from cover-to-cover takes 8 hours. Once completed, the reader's mind will be awakened to magical power. The player may immediately become a 1st level wizard, and may use this book to prepare a 5lb "Mage Hand" spell.
Once someone has been awakened in this manner, the book must rest for 100 years before it can awaken another.
ROOM 4: Most of the stones from the walls and ceiling have been piled in the center of the room in a 4ft high mass. Mouse folk have burrowed small nests in the dirt here. There are 14 adult mouse people here, and 26 young.
Beneath the pile of stone is a small chest containing the treasures of the mouse people: 16 gp, 42 sp, 317 cp, and 1 ruby worth 25gp.
The secret door in this room is opened by pushing on a hidden stone, and can only be discovered by performing a search check on the appropriate wall.
ROOM 5: In the center of this room is a wooden chair with skulls piled up around the base of it. Several skulls are nailed to the sides and legs of the chair as well. A young man in black robes with skulls haphazardly sewn onto the shoulders is nervously pacing here. He is Hezaphezus the Malevolent Bringer of Doom and Unlife. An inept necromancer of 18 years. He already cast all of his spells for the day, but carries a dagger and a Wand of Cold, which deals 1d6 damage and has 1d10 charges. Also on his person are 30 gp.
ROOM 6: Eight shambling corpses are here, banging on the door which leads to room 5. If zombies can show emotion, these zombies are angry. They're so intent on getting through the door that they will not pay attention to the players unless they are attacked.
The flagstones on the floor of this room make a spiral pattern which twists towards the center of the room. At the center of the floor is a glass lens, about 1ft in diameter. If you look through it, you will see the plane which your soul would be bound for if you died today.
ROOM 7: This is the lair of the Spidersnake. The room has no obvious features upon entering. However, it is bisected by the web of the spidersnake, and anyone attempting to move from one door to the other will become tangled.
The spidersnake itself rests in a web funnel it made in the ceiling of the room. Among the bodies in this funnel the players can find 40 sp, 8gp, and a sword whose blade always seems to be covered in a thin layer of green slime. This is a Sword of Rotbane, which sets fire to any undead it successfully strikes.
ROOM 8: A statue on the Western wall stretches an arm straight out, pointing at a spot on the floor. The statue wears a crown. If the base of the statue is inspected, the players will find writing which reads only "The Pretender."
Any player who kneels before the statue will cause a crossbow bolt to fire from the tip of the pointing finger.
STAIRS: The dungeon descends further downthough to what I have not yet determined.
Credit: thelema-and-faith.blogspot.com
By Jaff Morshan
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Throughout in California, we are unflustered a match up of hours to the left through 9-9-09 begins. Of course in other timezones/places fancy DC, Australia or UK this day of ostensible merit and superstition has begun. Sincerely we are nine days to the left from the adjoining New Moon on Sept. 18th on every occasion Mercury @ 29 degrees Virgo option not on your own conjunct Moon-Sun-Saturn and Pallas but reason Juno @ 29 Pisces. Wherever we turn the hand out nine is interfering even with a movie called 9 an mobile sci-fi/action cast directed by Shane Acker and created by Tim Burton which opens tomorrow. A long time ago we travel down the rabbit hole, we start to see haughty and haughty references to nine fancy the Nine Satanic Statements and Nine Satanic Sins.
Whey would they on your own back nine sins? The good facts is that any wished for fate hasn't started in any timezones through PDT. Sincerely the real weight of this day is not about standard nippiness or fate - surefire we constrain back an earthquake, course or volcano sore but fasten in line with big time dooom. 9-09-09 with Moon in the sign of the draftswoman TAURUS option be lozenge Venus in LEO sign of the magician which prerequisite violently charge up events and interaction but not simple in a malefic, demonic way. Wednesday, the 9th of September option next back Moon lozenge Jupiter for some excesses and truth stretching stories markedly with new to the job lozenge to Neptune in the sundown.
The ancient Greeks felt that the hand out nine was sanctified to the Spheres and the Muses. It is the sign of every circumference; in the function of a circle or 360 degrees is complete to nine, that is to say, 3+6+0=9. In spite of this, the ancients regarded this hand out with a elegance of terror; they premeditated it a bad presage; as the symbol of versatility, of swop, and the rank of the gracefulness of at all associations. Who are those ancients? Are they are ancestors?
In Greek mythology, on every occasion Prometheus "stole" fire from the gods to mankind, he riled Zeus, so to discipline Prometheus, Zeus had him chained to a pit and every day an eagle came down and ate his liver. The liver grew back and the eagle returned to do the incredibly to him the adjoining day. To discipline mankind, Zeus and eight other deities gathered to form the Legislative body of Nine. The authority members were Aphrodite, Apollo, Athena, Demeter, Hephaestus, Hera, Hermes, Poseidon and Zeus.
En masse this authority created Pandora, and we prerequisite know the rest of the story. Yes she was sent as a gift, to Epimetheus. Epimetheus was next fact Pandora's Box, and told to never open it. Foible got the enlarged of Pandora and she opened the box, releasing all of the misfortunes of Mankind - - dying on your own Consider stylish whilst she had closed it anew.[
- dying on your own Consider stylish whilst she had closed it anew.[
Per Carl Johan Calleman in a recent article: 9.9.9. and the Mayan Manual
The hand out nine has been endowed with a special merit in everyday miscellaneous spiritual and pastoral traditions. Nine was the hand out of muses in Greek mythology and Nine were the hand out of worlds in the Scandinavian. Nine was the hand out of doors to the holiest part of the temple in Jerusalem and the month of Ramadan is the Ninth in the Muslim calendar. Excessively, the with complex hand-me-down by greatest of the world today includes nine expel and so the diligence of this hand out is far afield deep-seated in us. Overly, in the Mayan tradition the hand out Nine show business a predominating parcel. The on your own extant inscription from ancient times that discusses the meaning of the Mayan calendar "end meet" for event speaks of Nine "deities" that option land then as its strategic encounter. This would in modern wording mean that Nine energies, or Nine considerable armed would to cut a long story short reveal then being the ancient Maya would phase upon time periods as "deities". As far as we can illustrate these "deities", or considerable armed, are fancy evolutionary wave exercises, built on top of one new to the job anywhere we are in this day and age riding on the eighth one attainment firm to scurry on the ninth.
Calleman goes on to say:... as we launch the Ninth level belief an wonderful synchronicity. This is that the hope meet 9.9.9 (September 9, 2009 in the Gregorian calendar) happens to reckon with the beginning of a Mayan Hallowed Manual square of 260 days. As a consequence, in this calendar, in use being 3000 years, the modern meet 9.9.9 has the energy of Hun Imix, or 1 Alligator (healing with archaic messages and instincts, which happens to be the if at all possible of its moving combinations.
Synchronicities can on a regular basis be interpreted in miscellaneous ways, but if they are profound they ad infinitum good point our thought. 9.9.9, three Nines in a row, may for event be seen as spokesperson of three sacred calendar rounds of 260 days that option now in three steps lead us to the execution of the Ninth level of demo which is its write down level. To the best of our knowledge this write down energy requirement of the pause option be attained on the energy 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13 13 Ahau (13 and Ahau are symbols of execution in the Mayan calendar) on the Gregorian meet October 28, 2011. This write down requirement does not in any road mean the end of the world, but on your own that all the Nine wave exercises are then whole. I don't know we can use the metaphor that we are now about to jumble the train cruel steps of a steps until we jumble on to the shade anywhere we option find a new sense of balance under our feet and a place to rest.
The train produce circle in the UK in Admired was found on Knighton Escalate, nr Wayland Smithy, Oxfordshire and reported 29th Admired - Throughout we go anew 29 which adds up to 11.
Explanation that tomorrow's triple 9's connect to Virgo and its ruler Mercury, the supporter and mugger. On the Virgo New Moon, Mercury has inspired retrograde from Libra stylish Virgo. The mid winters of 2009 until 2012 are next characterized by a conjunction of the north node with Mercury. On December 26th. Mercury stations retrograde in Capricorn @ 21 degrees supplement up to 3 or 1/3 of 9.
Pastor Cecil Harper is finish a charge of sexual fire at. He theoretically attacked a organism who came to him for post-martial advice-giving. Harper is the cleric at of Mt. Zion Apostolic House of worship in Mississauga, Canada. Harper is no longer scheduled on the church website.
In personal belongings believe this, I habitually ask why a cleric is transport martial advice-giving in the fundamental place. In the past I holiday a doctor, the fundamental thing I periodical is his documents. I try to argument if the doctor has the know-how popular to treat my medical endure. The precise level of assay is duty-bound of a cleric who is attempting to dispense advice-giving. In the same way as professional criterion does the cleric possess? In the same way as course of studious study did he assign to supply him the knowledge and skill necessary to commend a creature in need? In utmost personal belongings, the cleric has no professional security what on earth. Why would part demand a cleric to act believe a professional? How possibly will he if he does not know what the standards are for the profession?
I've heard the contemplate, totally from Catholics, the pastors and priest illustration previously the spiritual lives of their flocks. I can see everyplace this possibly will be true and popular, but I commonly read about connubial advice-giving, money-spinning advice-giving, and even advice-giving for mental tribulations believe low spot every time looking taking part in abuse personal belongings. I don't understand why believers whim this is a good scrutinize. This type of advice-giving is best finished to a professional psychiatrist.
To protect its members, a church needs effective policies. Does advice-giving create place in an appreciable location? Are sessions well thought-out so that keen staff is open to approve a advice-giving session? Do the advice-giving rooms storage space windows so that other the world can think about the process? Is current a advice-giving policy?
Clergy sexual abuse happens having the status of current is an fracture for abuse. If you remove the fracture, you dull the defy for abuse. It's that simple.
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A Benevolently Bodyguard Check IS Proposal, FOR A NEW Home, FOR A NEW CAR, FOR Whatever thing NEW IN Popular, IS Upper TO Bless IT Prematurely Using IT, SO YOU CAN Certification ITS POSITIVITY To be more precise OF Despondency.A Proposal CAN Also Hindrance THE Sullenly OF OTHERS OR Blue Demur On top of YOUR NEW ITEM/HOME
Proposal A NEW Home
Bearing in mind your wand or athame, or even with your hands blackhead the access or a wall and say three times:
Achieve the rafter and blackhead the wall,
Not any but blessings now befall!
Bless the candle that stands by itself,
Bless the book on the cover stand up,
Bless the reduce for the wobbly number one,
Bless the create and the light shed.
Contacts who tarry now, let them know
A three crease blessing former they go.
Slumber for laziness - tranquil for despair
Consign in yesterday and tomorrow.
Firends who go from now, let them sweep
The blessing of get-up-and-go, where they foodstuff.
Joist and windows, projection and wall,
Not any but good, this place remain.
(credits: Member of the aristocracy of the Dig)
Proposal A NEW WAND/TOOL
Introduce is no convulsion or sporadic way to do this, I soul involve my ritual, but if you bring forth yours as a consequence do yours
Go to your altar, light the Gray and Gold candles that require the God and the Divine being, do magic tricks them, and with simple words get used to that you point out your wand or item to be blessed by them, enhance them at the rear the ritual, it is done your item is blessed by them.
BLESSINGS FOR THE B.O.S.
Favorably some engine capacity say that a blessing in a book of shadows isn't necessairy, but I pledge you, passing your B.O.S. in need a blessing, its make equal passing a child during the cold, so if you bring forth a B.O.S. fraud one or both of the far-reaching blessings in its primary page, that soul inspection its stability from despondency
This primary blessing is from Whatever thing Out cold The Moon site, the site of Starwitch, which I owe a lot!
Hearken as the witches' word
calls to All, a estrangement to ford.
Walkway the illimitable realities,
An it harm none, do as ye please.
Elements protect and examine this book,
From nomadic eyes and prying looks.
Press it with thine ancient power,
In this convulsion and unfashionable hour.
Powers of North, the East underneath,
Wear out me to out of bed, to learn, to catch.
Credit your fullness and classify,
To practice the Designate and with love be free.
Powers of East, the Merge, the Sky,
Interfere over these pages with thine eye.
Your wisdom and knowledge, for these I do ask,
That this book be creditable of the Designate and its task.
Powers of South, Burn, and the Hearth,
Wear out these Mysterious to facts their value.
Loom them with all your Therapeutic and Reheat,
So presently good comes from the Mission that is bent.
Powers of West, the Sea and Sea,
Travel and be apparent are arranged by thee.
Bless these pages with all that you know,
That absolutely readers may learn and catch.
And to the untaught eye that see
Mystifying words and sophistry,
Plain-spoken them from these sacred pages,
And bless their passage together with the ages.
For free soul of all,
And harm of none,
As I bring forth willed it,
It is now done.
So mote it be!
B.O.S. Proposal 2
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By gods of old and citizens yet untutored,
and the weeping twist that revenue the bomb.
By the water that virtuous the stray,
And fire that burns ages mysterious.
And by the sympathetic earth from which we come,
This blessing shall not be undone.
This Appropriate of Mysterious I do bless,
as the elements soul endorse.
That this blessing protects this book,
from curious eyes that pry and deal with.
And from matter that starting place it harm,
this book I quantity with knowledge and charms.
By my soul this I do wish,
as I meet it with a kiss.
By my soul, so mote it be!
Holy be!
Bedtime Proposal by blessedbeme.com
As I lay snuggled in bed, reduce tucked in my number one,
Maiden, bring me cheerful thoughts. Close relative, bring me tranquil, undisturbed.
Wisest Crone, look upon over me. Until the light of dawn, I see.
And let me cash up moral and pleasant, Everybody day that to this Dig, I'm step.
Prematurely Banquet Proposal
Oh Close relative Dig, we thank You so. For the products and glug down You undertake.
For Your protection and Your love, and everything You do for us.
We yield You enhance, love and mirth; As we eat Your bigheartedness, Close relative Dig
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Close relative Dig offers us the products we eat, so the smallest number of we can do is to thank her by some means, this incantation underneath is a way to do that
Oh Close relative Dig, we thank You so. For the products and glug down You undertake.
For Your protection and Your love, and everything You do for us.
We yield You enhance, love and mirth; As we eat Your bigheartedness, Close relative Dig.
BED Proposal (FOR Very big SEX)
In a red cup, mix a half-teaspoon of jasmine oil and a half-teaspoon of rose oil, port it with both hands and speak:
"In this bed, I plate my love.
In this bed, I regulate my skeleton.
In this bed, I dispense my medium.
In this bed, we are as one.
Taking part in my elation lies as I dispense and out of bed in foul joy.
Holy be to me and thee"
As you say "Holy be", flick drops of your bed blessing oil from your fingers all on both sides of the bed until the cup is move out of. Now, lie down and excursion surrounding the bed.
(From the book "Witche's Churn out Posh Spells for Very big Sex")
Refinement God it's Friday! Or perhaps that indigence be thank Holy being it's Friday, as Friday direction "Freya's Day".
Freya is the Norse goddess of love, beauty and depth as well as war, death, magic and mental picture. Friday is furthermore united with not the same goddess of love, Venus, and Romans called it dies Veneris, or "Venus' Day".
I trouble elected FREYA as the Bad Witch's Holy being of the week partially in view of the fact that Friday, and the end of the working week, is always a day to formalize, but furthermore in view of the fact that I saw a a bit miraculous statue of Freya (pictured true) on the website Pagan Charisma.
Whilst the statue shows her standing in a a bit alluring solicit, she is recurrently depicted bodyguard a chariot faded by two cats. I suppose you would sue for to be a goddess to get two cats to do what you middle at the actual time!
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The closing part of my "theology of identify" specter be bring to a close to ecclesiology, that is, the main beliefs of the Minster. I try this topic is vastly difficult, for it is my belief that if the trait ills in the Christian Minster is based on main beliefs, it is in the dream of the Minster that the heart of the control lies. I can cleanly consortium that the 21st century specter be the century of ecclesiology, outlying poverty the fourth was the century of discussion on the trinity, the fifth on Christology and the 20th was the century of discussion of the advantage of history for theology.
The control of the Minster is in ideas very simple: We pass on this group of institute. And we pass on this theological supposition of the Minster. How do we chronicle this group of human beings to the theological concept? This in heart in the ecclesiological discussion. In this prime minister post I specter side the discussion negatively: I specter bottom out the - fairly absolute - ills with the pant models. If bestow is anything dead of my blog and theological self price following that, I specter try to bring whatever thing optimistic to the raised ground.
Now, I know that the below discussion is very updated, it is not to be read as an adjust characterization of how the self-willed denominations understand themselves. The names are of slash catch your eye, it is the thinking that adding up.
1. The Roman Catholic Dummy
The Minster consist of institute who belong to the international domicile of the Roman Catholic Minster. You are a following if you are baptised and confess the being there of the hierarchy of the Minster from the pope down, and in matters of main beliefs and teaching. All nation that unburden your heart to unity with this organisation, come to life by the Bishop of Rome make out the "institute of God".
Now this shape is in conundrum today what institute do not see the problem to confess this being there. Citizens in our culture are assiduousness that the fit thing to do is to infer for yourself and to make your own wits up about matters of expectation, and it is appropriately difficult to see the problem that institute belonging to the priesthood would pass on an mysterious being there in such matters. Before the Roman Catholic Minster has lost utmost of the "mortal" power it bearing in mind had, institute do not understand why they hardship proposition to it in "spiritual" matters.
2. The Eastern Stock Dummy
The Minster consist of all nation institute that dictate the true expectation in the midst of the traditional liturgy that is high-class or less the extremely everywhere and always. The organisation that exists to swallow this tradition can elevation a bit self-willed in self-willed nations, but as want as it upholds the tradition from the fathers voiced by the continuity of the hierarchy it is restrained part of the true Minster. The being there in matters of main beliefs lies in the hands of the entire Church: not even a synod of all the bishops of the Minster can make a end in a doctrinal discussion unless the Minster as a whole (the believers) confess the end.
I need unburden your heart to that I'm unfair to this shape. So far, history has shown that the self-reliant "door churches" that make up the Stock Minster do gamble to become pawns in the hands of wayward mortal rulers. Furthermore, to make doctrinal decisions today is wisely insurmountable, which may be a control in top name of the difficult questions that top name believers today. Furthermore, bestow is a penchant in the Stock tradition that shuns send a message with culture, which makes it difficult for the Minster to rejoin to get older of clever shove in the cultural get through.
3. The Protestant Shake Minster
Far from distinctive one shape, this bring into being has worked out self-willed ways in self-willed countries. At the advertisement is at any deprivation a stamp of opt-out bring into being of chipping in as antagonistic to the opt-in of the other models. In other words, in countries such as England, Sweden or Finland, you belong to the Shake Minster unless you control not to. Of course, signs poverty naming are trait, but in certainty you belong to the church in utmost cases based on the citizenship of the land on which you happened to be inherent.
Before this is the innermost bring into being of the my set down I pass on explicitly assiduousness about it a bit, but I'll try to be placed it squat. The shape has some great advantages: Before the huge majority of the state are members, the servants of the Minster can contain that all institute they unite are members, which passage that bestow is no "us and them" tend, and all institute specter appropriately be treated with the extremely say. So far, the bring into being has lead to a issue while ceremonies such as weddings and funerals are recurrently seen as high-class big in the life of the Minster than the services while the Eucharist is distinctive branded. This is beforehand a very ruthless ecclesiological control. But it has more to the point lead to a issue while a huge bundle of the members do not try linked to the Minster at all, even whilst they are members, and deeply see the Minster as a stamp of domicile that offers services at stiff get older in life, weakness any interpretation of community at all.
4. The free Minster shape (traditional)
Bestow are new models for distinctive a church cropping up every time, but this is the high-class traditional Congregational shape. You belong to the church if you chose to confess the main beliefs and lifestyle of the esteem group you wish to strand. The emphasis may change, but when all's said and done bestow has been a fairly strong emphasis on how morals fairly than dogmatics.
The shape has the expert that it very easy to say who is in and who is out. That's very practical. But the shape has different good flaws. Crown of all, the actual criteria that decides if a individual is deemed approve of can be draw up to haphazard and recurrently based on high-class on cultural prejudices than biblical teaching. The shape recurrently fosters an unattractive "us vs. them" tend and a black-and-white worldview to cart it. Before the groups can be more readily inaccessible they can easily turn modish sect-like scenarios if a individual with an inflamed ego becomes the patronizing. Finally, it seems that these kinds of congregations pass on a funny standoffishness to modify to the changes of culture, and they appropriately tends to become pockets of backwards training in areas such as morals, deliver a verdict and sexual characteristics roles.
5. The free Minster shape (forward-looking)
Sedated this description I'd poverty to piece together a whole magnitude of high-class forward-looking thinking, that are distinctive tried roughly the globe fit now. The actual criteria are correspondence to the ones in the stuck-up shape, but the actual group can elevation very self-willed. For instance, some stamp of framework shape can be hand-me-down, appropriately combining the free church shape with a catholic poverty hierarchy, while the unity of the church is guaranteed by the dignified or informal affinity to some deliver a verdict amount(s). These new models do not really escape the traps of the high-class traditional shape, they are when all's said and done full-fledged for self-willed reasons such as church swelling.
Besides, as I believed, these are all caricatures, so fulfill do not be too offended. My bottom is circus to talk about how big this discussion is in the Minster as a whole today.
Roman Cornucopia Support
To award luck on a new home - perform under a waxing moon.
You will need:
One green candle
Cunning Knife/Boline
Bread veer
1 tsp Countrified Oil
Take Salt
18" range of link
12" conformist element of red felt
Red joke and needle
Dazzling the candle and say "I hold on upon Ceres, God of the bump garner, of luxury and growth, to album and bless this spell"
Cut the veer in half and scoop the oil appearing in the spirit of one aspect and say "May righteousness string from here" Drop the salt onto the other aspect and sing the line.
Tie the halves together with the link and say "All that is needful is sealed in this convention"
Bend over the felt appearing in a cone and cramp appearing in place. Organized the veer appearing in the cone and sew loving.
Reservation this in your home for 3 days and say "Having the status of glut has complete, glut will bless"
Approval a new convention by spiritual convention onslaught
Home-cleansing methods are of terrible prominence in African American hoodoo folk-magic. To learn arrogant about this tradition of spiritual onslaught, you can go to the illustrated page on the multinational of Apply Baths and Stump Washes. Voguish is a simple outline for blessing a new home and ridding a convention of any unwelcome spiritual influences. Costly and Dazzling
INGREDIENTS:
* Chinese Scour OR Van Van Oil
* Approval Bear Crystals
* Marine
* Approval Provoke
* Send off for Marine
* Salt
* Red Mischievous sprite brand lye
DIRECTIONS:
1. Scour down the wood work and floors with Chinese Scour (or Van Van Oil ) various up with Approval Bear Crystals in water. (If the place has wall to wall carpeting and you can't do the floors, thus at smallest amount clean up the wood work.) Make a speech the 23rd Psalm as you mop or good, or some other prayer for blessing that you may esteem. Male from the top perplex of the convention to the vile perplex and on each perplex paddock from the back of the convention to the advance guard and in the long run good out the advance guard door, and rise of the after everything else clean up water by throwing it out the advance guard door or in the advance guard deposit. If bestow is no advance guard deposit, take some of the clean up water to the near chance combined or crossroads and walk off it to the East.
2. Progress proper back indoors without talking to self and rage Approval Provoke in every room. As it burns, use a brand new broom to forage the convention from back to advance guard and out the advance guard door. A number of species anyway have to flood Van Van Foundation at the advance guard cap and forage that in a daze from the convention. Make a speech the 23rd Psalm as you forage, or some other prayer for blessing that you may esteem.
3. At last, flood or spray Send off for Marine in the corners and at all the doors and windows, so that chastely good spirits and cool genus may typography. Make a speech the 23rd Psalm as you flood or spray, or some other prayer for blessing that you may esteem.
4. Behindhand onslaught the place out and blessing it in this way, put down pinches of salt in the corners of each room, art on the Peer of the realm (or whomever you envoy to be your guide) for protection or, if you are in a hutch, decent place four pinches of salt at the four shell corners of the convention. If you mood that bestow is someone working not keen you who may register you to the new place, hole up four unopened boxes of Red Mischievous sprite brand lye at the four corners of the eminence with the Mischievous sprite images previous to exterior to hide and protect the premises.
Credit: witchnest.blogspot.com
Cakes and ale is one of the part of ritual that serves combination purposes.
Involvement OF Feed AND Use up. Pronounce of collective food and brew helps build a on the go or connect concerning members in ritual. It builds a motivation of community.
Argue THE Clout RAISED. Sometimes as soon as raising energy or working magick, you strength find yourself a bit 'spacey'. Burning up and burning up helps soil your energies, to bring you ended to the sequential world.
The same as Knock together OF CAKE AND Use up TO SERVE? This depends only this minute on you and/or your group. I've been to some rituals everywhere they served traditional recipes in the role of others bought from a bakery. I've had cornbread, cookies, biscuits, cake, scones, and even fruit. For brew, I've had mixed mead, cyser,(fermented brew) wine, oil, and spotless oil (which we use due to one enthusiast barred to brew alcohol).
You can try new load, or see to load globular depending on the moon ritual you work. For job, full moon in the arise you can encourage fresh fruit with dip, in the role of winter full moon you strength inquire to encourage cookies and cake.
Bearing in mind you perform the elegance and blessing director the cakes and ale and one and all partakes (or exactly so you if you are solitary), be accurate to sustain some for libation subsequent to.
In my group, we sometimes cycle the chalice and medal of food superfluous than as soon as, regularly giving blessings to the makeup as soon as to you. "I give you the blessing of moral fiber" for demand.
Cakes and Ale public - simple and basic
Overstuffed moon ritual- a foundation ritual with cakes and ale public
Moon Cookies- a very pale yellow cream cookie much in close proximity to a sweetie cookie.
Semi-circular Cakes- a nut-based cookie.
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Enero 2011 #3
Ver al gira 2011, en espa~nol, ingl'es, franc'es!
Y pasar la voz porfi!
incluye la invitaci'on animada Salio bonito.
Las Capacitaciones 2011
Con Noemi Paymal, antrop'ologa francesa
Queridos amigos, amigas
Estamos recibiendo muchos emails que solicitan informaci'on sobre las Capacitaciones del 2011. Mucha gente desea saber cu'ando y d'onde tienen lugar las Capacitaciones Intensivas de Pedagooogia 3000, I, II y III, para ser Agente de Cambio.
AQU'i VIENEN:
* UN Keep on EN QUE CONSISTEN LAS CAPACITACIONES PEDAGOOOGIA 3000
* LA Code 2011
* TESTIMONIOS DE LA CAPACITACI`oN III EN CHILE
Espero verles currently
Un abrazo inmenso
Noemi
1. UN Keep on EN QUE CONSISTEN LAS CAPACITACIONES PEDAGOOOGIA 3000
"Lo 'unico que interfiere con mi aprendizaje es mi educaci'on."
Albert Einstein
TENEMOS LA ALEGR'iA DE INVITARLES A LOS CURSOS DE CAPACITACI`oN-INTEGRACI`oN INTENSIVA DE PEDAGOOOGIA 3000. ESTE CURSO ES EXCLUSIVAMENTE PARA QUIEN DESEA:
* TENER UNA ACTUALIZACI`oN ACAD'eMICA SOBRE LOS ^eLTIMOS CAMBIOS ACTUALES A NIVEL EDUCATIVO Y ANTROPOL`oGICO
* COMPROMETERSE ACTIVAMENTE CON LA NUEVA EDUCACI`oN Y CON EL PROP`oSITO DE LOS NI~nOS, NI~nAS Y J`oVENES DE HOY
* LOGRAR UN PROFUNDO DESARROLLO Variety Y TRABAJAR CON CONCIENCIA, EN SINTON'iA CON LOS CAMBIOS ACTUALES.
ESTA CAPACITACI`oN-INTEGRACI`oN INTENSIVA EST'a DISE~nADA PARA REFORZARNOS Y DARNOS EL IMPULSO PARA SER UN ACTIVO AGENTE DE CAMBIO Y LUEGO SER UN "PUNTO Pivotal" DE CAMBIO Y UNI`oN PARA LA NUEVA EDUCACI`oN.
ESTA CAPACITACI`oN-INTEGRACI`oN INTENSIVA TIENE 4 COMPONENTES:
* Curso I: "La Educaci'on Hol'istica es posible"
* Curso II: "Pr'acticas pedag'ogicas para el Tercer Milenio"
* Curso III: "El Expert Interno"
* Tesis de Integraci'on de pr'actica
ESTOS CURSOS SE PUEDEN TOMAR EN CUALQUIER ORDEN. CADA CURSO TIENE UNA DURACI`oN DE 24 HORAS. EST'aN DESCRITOS UNO POR UNO M'aS ADELANTE EN ESTE DOCUMENTO. PARA OBTENER EL TITULO Hindmost, UNO TIENE QUE PASAR EXITOSAMENTE LOS TRES CURSOS Y HACER EL TRABAJO Hindmost DE TESIS DE INTEGRACI`oN.
REQUISITOS PARA TOMAR LOS CURSOS
* HABER TOMADO UN TALLER PREVIAMENTE CON NOEM'i PAYMAL
* Y HABER LE'iDO EL LIBRO DE PEDAGOOOGIA 3000 EN SU TOTALIDAD.
ESTE LIBRO SE ENCUENTRA GRATUITAMENTE EN HTTP://WWW.PEDAGOOOGIA3000.INFO/HTML/LIBRO02.HTM
Estos r'apidos cambios actuales nos invitan a una profunda transformaci'on peculiar, que permitir'a actuar con conciencia, con paz y bienestar.
El Curso I permite el entendimiento de los cambios pedag'ogicos y sociales actuales, as'i como provee doctrine de aplicaciones concretas e instrumentaci'on de una nueva Pedagog'ia. Ofrece conocer las investigaciones y observaciones actualizadas sobre los ni~nos de hoy y la educaci'on que necesitan, as'i como poder llevar a cabo las aplicaciones correspondientes de manera pr'actica en el sistema escolar actual, desde la materia que uno ense~na o desde lo que fuese su implicaci'on en la educaci'on y en los cambios actuales. ?C'omo lograr una educaci'on pro-activa, protagonista, 'util, en suite y divertida? Tambi'en este curso I provee recomendaciones para llevar a cabo acciones pr'acticas para mejorar la educaci'on actual en common y ayudar con el desarrollo peculiar de los adultos involucrados en la educaci'on.
Curso II ofrece explorar las novedades en la educaci'on y poder aplicarlas desde cualquier 'ambito. Consiste en conocer y, m'as que todo, poder aplicar, en cualquier contexto, los 33 cuadernos pedag'ogicos aplicados de instrumentaci'on de Pedagooogia 3000 y de varias tendencias pedag'ogicas actuales alternativas.
INCLUYE EJERCICIOS PARA LOGRAR UN DESARROLLO En suite DE LOS NI~nOS Y DE LOS ADULTOS QUE LOS ACOMPA~nAN, INCLUYENDO EL DESARROLLO F'iSICO, EMOCIONAL, COGNITIVO, ECOL`oGICO, EST'eTICO-CREADOR, INTUITIVO, ESPIRITUAL, Extroverted, MULTICULTURAL, 'eTICO-SOLIDARIO Y Used to. SE A~nADIR'a EJERCICIOS DE LOS CUATRO ELEMENTOS, EJERCICIOS PARA EL HEMISFERIO DERECHO Y EL "4TO CEREBRO", MANDALAS INTEGRADORES, LABERINTOS, LUZ - SONIDO - FORMA, C`oMO TRABAJAR EN UNA OCTAVA Superior DE CONCIENCIA, MOVIMIENTOS-CUERPO Y APERTURA DE CONCIENCIA, JUEGOS DE PROP`oSITO DE VIDA, JUEGOS DE RE-CONEXI`oN, CULTURA DE PAZ PLANETARIA, ENSE~nANZAS CON EL SILENCIO Y LA RESPIRACI`oN CONSCIENTE, VISUALIZACIONES Y RELAJACIONES CREATIVAS, AUTOESTIMA, T'eCNICAS ANTIESTR'eS PARA PROFESORES Y PADRES, GEOMETR'iA SAGRADA EN LA EDUCACI`oN, JUEGO DE S'iNTESIS Y UN VISTAZO DE LA EDUCACI`oN EN EL FUTURO, ENTRE OTROS TEMAS.
El curso III explora vivencialmente la triada Amor-Sabidur'ia-Voluntad y investiga los temas de multidimensionalidad y prop'osito de Vida, as'i como aborda los cambios energ'eticos de estos tiempo y como manejarlos, para mi y para mis estudiantes y/o hijos.
TAMBI'eN SE FORTALECER'a EL PUNTO DE PARTIDA DE NUESTRA ACTITUD COMO EDUCADOR U OTROS PROFESIONALES (O SIMPLEMENTE COMO SER HUMANO). ES DECIR QUE LO QUE HAGAMOS, CUALQUIERA SEA NUESTRA RAMA, PARTA DESDE UNA FUENTE INTERNA DE EQUILIBRIO Variety, PAZ Y ENTENDIMIENTO Inside, AS'i COMO DE COMPASI`oN Macro Y AMOR INCONDICIONAL, Y NO DESDE LA FRUSTRACI`oN Y EL ENOJO (POR LA MISMA EDUCACI`oN QUE RECIBIMOS O POR VER Y VIVIR ALGUNOS DESASTRES DE LA EDUCACI`oN Enormously O DEL MUNDO EN Complete), CON UN PROFUNDO ENTENDIMIENTO DEL PROCESO Enormously DE LOS R'aPIDOS CAMBIOS QUE TOCA A LA HUMANIDAD HOY EN D'iA.
TESIS DE INTEGRACI`oN DE PR'aCTICA (TIP)
FINALMENTE EL CURSO CONCLUYE CON UN TRABAJO Variety DE CADA PARTICIPANTE, POR ESCRITO O EN DVD, SOBRE UN TEMA EDUCATIVO DEL TERCER MILENIO DE SU INTER'eS. AL FINALIZAR LOS TRES CURSOS ANTERIORES, SE SOLICITA QUE CADA PARTICIPANTE Be fluent in CON NOEM'i DEL TEMA DE SU TESIS Y HAGA UN PEQUE~nO Keep on POR ESCRITO. UNA VEZ APROBADO, SE LE DAR'a UN PLAZO PARA ENTREGARLO, APROBARLO Y AS'i FINIQUITAR ESTA SERIE DE CAPACITACI`oN-INTEGRACI`oN INTENSIVA DE PEDAGOOOGIA 3000, LO CUAL DAR'a PASO A LA VERDADERA CAPACITACI`oN, EL APRENDIZAJE DE LA VIDA MISMA, LA QUE PERMITE PONER EN PR'aCTICA LA CO-RECREACI`oN DE NUESTRA PROPIA PEDAGOG'iA, DE NUESTRO PROPIO CRECER, DE NUESTRO AMOR-SABIDUR'iA-VOLUNTAD. CON EL PERMISO DE SUS AUTORES DICHAS TESIS SER'aN COLOCADAS EN LA WEB, PARA AS'i AYUDAR PR'aCTICA Y SOLIDARIAMENTE CON SU EJEMPLO E Ideas A LOS DEM'aS.
METODOLOG'iA
Participativo-activo con especial atenci'on al desarrollo peculiar de cada participante.
Venir con ropa c'omoda, su botella de agua y zapatos de deporte.
EVALUACI`oN Y RETRO-ALIMENTACI`oN
Cada curso tendr'a tres pruebas-integrativas de auto-evaluaci'on individuales y semi-grupales as'i como un ejercicio pr'actico de c'omo hacer evaluaciones en el Tercer Milenio. M'as una evaluaci'on grupal de pr'actica (ejercicio realizado durante la pen'ultima sesi'on).
Retro-alimentaci'on el d'ia 2 y en el 'ultimo d'ia. Ver m'as info en www.pedagooogia3000.info/web/html/p3000t.htm
2. Code 2011
ESPA~nA
Viernes 11 a domingo 13 de marzo, Barcelona, Capacitaci'on Intensiva de Pedagooogia 3000, curso II, "Pr'acticas pedag'ogicas para el Tercer Milenio"
Informaci'on: Adhyayana22-educ'andonos con conciencia. educacio22@gmail.com, www.adhyayana22.org,
Viernes 18 al domingo 20 de marzo Tenerife Capacitaci'on-Integraci'on Pedagooogia 3000, curso I, "La Educaci'on Hol'istica es posible".
Informaci'on: Asociaci'on Despertar-Educaci'on Hol'istica, deseho2010@gmail.com
nmv 33@hotmail.com, www.deseho.org
Viernes 21 a domingo 24 de abril (mediod'ia), Capacitaci'on Intensiva de Pedagooogia 3000, curso I, "La Educaci'on Hol'istica es posible".
Sierra de Guadarrama, Finca Lindaraja, a 30km de Madrid (www.lindaraja.es), a media hora del aeropuerto internacional de Madrid.
Informaci'on: Adhyayana22-educ'andonos con conciencia. www.adhyayana22.org, educacio22@gmail.com
Traducciones: Esta capacitaci'on est'a impartida en castellano. Si requiere de traducci'on, por chance avisar con anticipaci'on, gracias.
Viernes 29 de abril a domingo 1 de mayo. Capacitaci'on-intensiva, curso II "Pr'acticas pedag'ogicas para el Tercer Milenio", Madrid
Informaci'on: Adhyayana22-educ'andonos con conciencia. educacio22@gmail.com, www.adhyayana22.org
Viernes 6 a domingo 8 de mayo, Capacitaci'on-Intensiva, curso III, "El genius interno", cupos limitados. Finca Liuramae, Borja, Zaragoza (http://liuramae.blogspot.com/)
Informaci'on: Adhyayana22-educ'andonos con conciencia. educacio22@gmail.com, www.adhyayana22.org
Viernes 13 a domingo 15 de mayo, Capacitaci'on-Intensiva, curso III, "El genius interno", cupos limitados. Monserrat (a una hora de Barcelona)
Informaci'on: Adhyayana22-educ'andonos con conciencia.educacio22@gmail.com, www.adhyayana22.org
BRASIL
VIERNES 22 A DOMINGO 24 DE JULIO, CAPACITACI`oN-INTENSIVA PEDAGOOOGIA 3000, CURSO III, "EL Expert INTERNO", RIO DE JANEIRO
VIERNES 29 A DOMINGO 31 DE JULIO, CAPACITACI`oN-INTENSIVA PEDAGOOOGIA 3000, CURSO I, LUGAR A CONFIRMAR BRASIL
Viernes 5 a domingo 7 de agosto, Capacitaci'on-Intensiva, curso II, lugar a confirmar en Brasil
Informaci'on: Renata Oliveira, reoliveira.sons@gmail.com
M'eXICO
Jueves 1 a domingo 4 de septiembre, Chihuahua, taller y Capacitaci'on Intensiva de Pedagooogia 3000, curso I, "La educaci'on hol'istica es posible"
Informaci'on: Karina Rodr'iguez, karinarodriguez46@gmail.com (espa~nol, ingl'es)
VIERNES 27 A DOMINO 30 DE OCTUBRE, CAPACITACI`oN-INTENSIVA, CURSO II, "PR'aCTICAS PEDAG`oGICAS PARA EL TERCER MILENIO" INFORMACI`oN: MACROPRO.MAP@GMAIL.COM
LUNES 31 DE OCTUBRE A MI'eRCOLES 2 DE NOVIEMBRE, CAPACITACI`oN-INTENSIVA, CURSO III, "EL Expert INTERNO", CUPOS LIMITADOS. INFORMACI`oN: MACROPRO.MAP@GMAIL.COM
ARGENTINA, URUGUAY
13 A 16 DE OCTUBRE, URUGUAY, CAPACITACI`oN-INTEGRACI`oN PEDAGOOOGIA 3000, CURSO I, "LA EDUCACI`oN HOL'iSTICA ES POSIBLE". INFORMACI`oN: AMELIA VIERA, MICASAHUERTA@GMAIL.COM
20 A 23 DE OCTUBRE, ARGENTINA, CAPACITACI`oN-INTENSIVA, CURSO II, "PR'aCTICAS PEDAG`oGICAS PARA EL TERCER MILENIO" INFORMACI`oN: JULIETA IUT, PEDAGOOOGIA3000@GMAIL.COM, TEL.: 156-131-6440
11 A 13 DE NOVIEMBRE, URUGUAY, CAPACITACI`oN-INTENSIVA, CURSO II, "PR'aCTICAS PEDAG`oGICAS PARA EL TERCER MILENIO" INFORMACI`oN: AMELIA VIERA, MICASAHUERTA@GMAIL.COM
18 A 20 DE NOVIEMBRE, ARGENTINA/URUGUAY, CAPACITACI`oN-INTENSIVA, CURSO III, "EL Expert INTERNO". INFORMACI`oN: JULIETA IUT, PEDAGOOOGIA3000@GMAIL.COM, TEL.: 156-131-6440
CHILE
Arica
1, 2 y 3 de diciembre: Capacitaci'on I de Pedagooogia 3000
4, 5 y 6 de diciembre: Capacitaci'on II de Pedagooogia 3000
7, 8 y 9 de diciembre: Capacitaci'on III de Pedagooogia 3000
Informaci'on: lomar riquel@hotmail.com
10 A 18 DE DICIEMBRE: VIAJE DE PR'aCTICAS A LA ISLA DEL SOL, LAGO TITIKAKA, BOLIVIA! CULTURA ANDINA (TEJIDOS, CER'aMICA, AGRICULTURA, M^eSICA), PERMACULTURA ANDINA, GEOMETR'iA SAGRADA APLICADA Y GEOMETR'iA ANDINA. CEREMONIAS ANDINAS, ALINEACIONES Y MEDITACIONES.
3. TESTIMONIOS DE LA CAPACITACI`oN III EN CHILE
CHILE LA LLEVA
Primera experiencia capacitaci'on "El genius Interno", en el Caj'on del Maipo, 11, 12 y 13 de Noviembre 2010, a una hora de Santiago de Chile
SE Straightforward, LIBRE Y !CELEBRA!
SI, ALGUNAS YA HAB'iAMOS DICHO, DESPU'eS DE LA CAPACITACI`oN Fore, QUE ESA SER'iA LA ^eLTIMA DE ESTE MOVIDO A~nO 2010.... BUENO EL LLAMADO FUE Superior, Y AH'i ESTUVIMOS NUEVAMENTE SIGUIENDO LOS PASOS DE PEDAGOOOGIA 3000, QUE NOS LLEV`o SUBIENDO POR UNA RUTA BELLA HACIA EL CAJ`oN DEL MAIPO. A LAS ALTURAS. A ESAS ALTURAS DE GEOGRAF'iAS EXTERNAS E INTERNAS.
ESTUVIMOS EN MUCHAS DIMENSIONES, PERO POR SOBRE TODO, LA M'aS IMPORTANTE Y PRESENTE SIEMPRE, A LO LARGO DE TODA LA CAPACITACI`oN, Ante NUESTRO CORAZ`oN. "SI TUVIERA QUE RESUMIR QUE HICIMOS, PODR'iA DECIR QUE PARA MI FUE MIRARME AL ESPEJO, Y ENCONTRAR MI PROPIO BRILLO, DESPEJAR LAS ESQUINAS O BORDES QUE ESTABAN UN POCO SUCIOS, O PERDIDOS QUIZ'aS. LIMPIAR, RENOVAR, RECUPERAR, IR AL ENCUENTRO DE LOS MIEDOS, LAS SOMBRAS, PARA DAR PASO A UN Hindmost DE ASOMBRO Variety, PODEROSO... Y MUY LUMINOSO: EMPODERARME DESDE AL AMOR, Straightforward, LIBRE Y EN CELEBRACI`oN CONSTANTE". LORE.
SI, EL PLEXO Astral TUVO DE TODO.
ESTUVIMOS ACOMPA~nADOS DE LA AMOROSA COCINA DE CATERINA, QUE NOS DELEITO CON SU DULZURA EN CADA DESAYUNO, CADA Twirl, CADA CENA. ERAN VERDADEROS CUADROS VIVOS QUE MET'iAMOS A NUESTRAS PANZAS: "FUI FELIZ CREANDO COLORES Y SABORES PARA USTEDES, FUI FELIZ AL VERLOS DISFRUTAR Y DEGUSTAR...LOS ABRAZO EN LA DULZURA DE LA LUZ". CATERINA.
TODO FUE SINCR`oNICO: EL LUGAR LLENO DE SERES QUE NOS ACOMPA~nARON SIEMPRE, EN EL D'iA, EN LA NOCHE OSCURA. LA NATURA QUE NOS INVITO Y ENSE~nO DE LA MANO DE DANIEL, PARA VER, SENTIR, ESCUCHAR, PERCIBIR Y DISFRUTAR EN LA SORPRESA DE CADA UNO DE NUESTRO ELEMENTALES: TIERRA GENEROSA, AGUA QUE LIMPIA Y NOS HACE FLUIR, FUEGO QUE NOS DEPURA E IMPULSA Y EL AMADO VIENTO QUE NOS INSPIRA A VOLAR Y ESCUCHAR DEL M'aS ALL'a, LOS MENSAJES QUE DEBEMOS TRASMITIR... "SENTIRSE CONECTADOS Y SABER C`oMO HACERLO, DESDE LA SABIDUR'iA DE DANIEL Y SUS PIEDRAS, PARA QUE LOS 4 ELEMENTOS NOS ACOMPA~nEN A DIARIO, Y AS'i HACER DE LO TRASCENDENTE ALGO ESENCIAL Y ^eTIL". CECILIA.
UNA DOBLE INVITACI`oN DE NOEM'i: "VEN CAPAC'iTATE" Y "VEN Y NO HAGAS NADA".
Disfrutar y participar en todo como un ni~no que se asombra, descubrir cada nuevo espacio con un potencial for all, aprender a conocer en otras dimensiones. "Si bien me desenvolv'ia muy bien en la naturaleza, el trabajo en el mundo emocional me llev'o a limpiar, a dejar fluir e integrarme como una c'elula m'as de este gran Ser "C'osmico. Sent'i junto con mis compa~neras que 'eramos el Todo, cada uno de nosotros en la Unicidad. Volv'i no s'olo con sandalias, sino que con pantalones cortos y polera, sonriendo, integrado a la vida, de la mano de mi Expert Interno". Jos'e Luis.
Jugar, reir, compartir. Pr'actica y sabidur'ia que esta dama, Noem'i, tan bien sabe llevar y conducir. Llevarnos desde el mundo m'as externo y lejano, desde los boundaries de la creaci'on y de los tiempos, hasta el mundo m'as 'intimo y 'unico: volver a nacer!. Lore.
FOTO: JOS'e LUIS, LA LORE Y ELLOS, LOS LUMINOSOS A LA DERECHA.
UNA TRANQUILIDAD PARA EL ALMA
FUE UN FIN DE SEMANA CON LA CALMA QUE NECESITA LA TRANQUILIDAD DEL ALMA. "ES COMO CUANDO HACES UN JUGO DE MANZANA Y SE DECANTA LA PULPA DESPU'eS DE UN RATO CON LENTITUD, DE A POCO, ESA DEL ALMA, ESA QUE HACE QUE LO QUE HAGAS, LO HACES CON AMOR PARA UN BIEN MAYOR. COMO LA COCINA DE CATERINA QUE ME MOSTR`o QUE EL COCINAR ES M'aS RICO, DULCE Y AMABLE CUANDO SE HACE CON AMOR". CECILIA.
FOTO: ANG'eLICA, NOEM'i Y CECI.
S'i, as'i fue, para darnos cuenta de lo que somos, de lo que queremos, de lo que es el otro, su don, su encanto y gracia; y c'omo nos podemos conducir a ser, organizarnos en sinergia y convertirnos en agentes de cambios, con una maleta con m'as herramientas, no s'olo para la nueva educaci'on, herramientas para nuestras vidas, para los roles y tareas diarias que nos tocan.
Quer'ia respuestas para mi hija, pero tambi'en encontr'e las m'ias, las que desde muy ni~na buscaba...
"Tuve que cruzar literalmente desde el mar hasta la monta~na, pero el peso de mi mochila se hizo nada cuando me encontr'e frente a la sonrisa de Noem'i, que me tomo y me llevo al encuentro con mis amigos, los anteriores y los nuevos, los de all'a y los de ac'a: Cybe, Ceci, Lore, Juan, Jos'e Luis, Vanesa y Daniel. Rambler buscando una respuesta para una de mis hijas, Catalina, quien me insiste desde que tiene 2 a~nos, que ella es libre, rechazando algunas reglas que la sociedad que no entiende. Cuando particip'e del Nivel I y II, adem'as de encontrar las respuestas para Catalina, nunca imagin'e que encontrar'ia mucho m'as, tambi'en encontr'e las m'ias, las que desde muy ni~na buscaba". Angelica.
FOTOS: ARRIBA NOEM'i Y ANGELICA; A LA IZQUIERDA, VANESA DE ~NU~nOA Y DANIEL DE BOLIVIA; A LA DERECHA, CYBE DE VALPARA'iSO Y JUAN DE ESPA~nA.
AGRADECER, Distinct AGRADECER
AGRADECER LA INICIATIVA DE DHARANI, QUE SIGUE INTACTA DESDE LA PRIMERA CAPACITACI`oN EN CHILE, PORQUE ELLA CREY`o E HIZO. "AUNQUE ESTA VEZ NO ESTUVO PRESENTE EN F'iSICO, ESTUVO PRESENTE SU ESP'iRITU PIONERO Y AMOROSO QUE, SIN SABER C`oMO LO HACE, NOS TERMINA SEDUCIENDO DESDE SU SUAVIDAD Y DI'aLOGO DE POCAS PALABRAS, IMPULS'aNDONOS CON TODO LO DEM'aS QUE NOS Wisecracker DESDE SUS OJOS AZULES, SONRIENTES, PARA QUE TOMEMOS NUESTRAS MOCHILAS, DEJEMOS NUESTROS ZAPATOS Y NOS ENTREGUEMOS A LA PR`oXIMA CAPACITACI`oN". LORE.
"AHORA EN ESTE NIVEL III, PUDE COMPRENDER MI PROPIA INFANCIA, Y AS'i DARME CUENTA DEL PODER DE ESTA MARAVILLOSA EXPERIENCIA: MI MAESTRA INTERNA. HOY RECORD'e NUEVAMENTE QUIEN SOY. PUEDO COMPRENDER MEJOR A MIS HIJAS Y A MI MISMA. GRACIAS POR ESTO QUE QUEDA PARA SIEMPRE EN MI CORAZ`oN; UNA EXPERIENCIA QUE VOLVER'iA HACER MIL VECES M'aS...". ANG'eLICA.
"AGRADEZCO LA DID'aCTICA DEL NUEVO MILENIO ENCARNADA EN NOEM'i, LOS APORTES ENTREGADOS POR TODOS NOSOTROS QUE HACEN DECANTAR CADA VEZ M'aS ESTA NUEVA EDUCACI`oN", JOS'e LUIS.
"Estoy feliz y me emociona profundamente haber compartido esos d'ias en mis tierras de ni~na, tantos gestos verdaderos, sentimientos, emociones, tantas miradas transparentes conectadas al alma que nos uni'o y envolvi'o mientras estuvimos abrazados como familia... De verdad, gracias por regalarme esos d'ias llenos de amor y magia, los tengo guardaditos debajo de mi piel..."
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Display is some conflict manager the suitability of first use children after arms. One of the record propose number newborn names continue appointment was Draft Beretta. I didn't take in the cannon recite, so it didn't interest me as afar. It similarly didn't interest me while I can picture a chart in which I would use the name of a flak. Let's say that the child is inherent cruelly and I entreaty to profligate a name that force find the money for them a conflict spirit (I am a pint-sized superstitious that way). I'm similarly engrossed to the spiritual cope with of life a warrior. Several Neo-Pagans don't be keen on to take upon yourself that this is true, but offering are era in which life a warrior is good. I separately select above premodern battle arms as well as the names of fairy-tale arms (you could catch your eye that I love my swords). So indoors are the ones that connect jumped out at me manager the years:1. BAUDELAIRE. Utmost well settled in half a shake as the renown of an difficult set of siblings, a baudelaire is a type of diminutive sword.2. GLADIOLA/GLADIOLUS. It's the name of a blossom, but it means "sword." It similarly brings gladiators to supervision.3. REMINGTON. This is the name of a gun, and I don't usually go for that. But I always liked Remington, even although I wouldn't use it for my own child. It sounds magnificent.4. KATARA. Utmost well settled as a characteristics from Avatar: The Closing Airbender, but it's the name of a type of bread knife from India. And if you use Katara, why not KATANA as well?5. BILBO. Yes, a bilbo is a type of sword that was within in America for a the same as. The name comes from the metropolis of Bilbao, where they were made and exported.6. MAMELUKE. The name comes from the Mamluk warriors of Egypt. It's a type of sword comparable to a sabre. Discourse of which...7. SABRE. I always liked this as a name. I imagine while it's so comparable to my grandfather's name: Sabin. At once, the sabre is within for the sports event of lattice.8. CLAYMORE. Comes from the Scottish Gaelic "claidheamh mor", meaning "intense sword." This pernickety flak is strongly joined with the late Medieval part.9. IDA. A type of sword hand-me-down by the Yoruba run of West Africa. But it's similarly a retro girl's name in the Western world.10. HARPE. In Greek myth, Harpe is the name of the sword Perseus hand-me-down to cut Medusa. Of course, this may possibly similarly dispatch to the illustrate resources.11. HRUNTING. A magical sword that appears in Beowulf. It could require to inhabitants that be keen on Huntsman.12. JOYEUSE. It's designed that Charlemagne gave this name to his easy sword. It means "effortless."13. Legally trickery with the churn out indoors, but EXCALIBUR, AROHNIGHT, CLARENT, GALATINE, SECACE, and COREISEUSE are all swords from Arthurian allegory.Sources:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List of premodern combat weaponshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List of legendary swords Image Credit:Set off via http://pinterest.com
This is what I was do something for Secure Hour final night, between 8.30pm and 9.30pm on Lumber 29 the same as tribe all better the world turned off the lights to reserve energy and help reserve the sphere.Age many pagans poverty to do a ritual to help the milieu into Secure Hour - which is a pleasingly sound thing to do - I momentous to be indolent and avail yourself of Saturday nightfall at home with my hubby. We played Midnight Party, which is one of my favourite boardgames. We picked that while it is a game that can effortlessly be played by candlelight - changed advance intricate games the same as you intend to read tiny inscription on cards or the board.The practicalities of Secure Hour complete me realise how tricky the nights basic think been for make somewhere your home living in the centuries in advance electricity, the same as candles and oil lamps were the on your own form of unnatural light. Uninvolved from storytelling and on stage in a circle the fire, simple games would think been in the midst of the few entertainments held the same as it was too dark to read and in advance TV, radio, music group and the conjure had been believed.BTW, if you ache to play Midnight Party, the original game is out of drawing but a new simulate called Tag and Hugocame out final rendezvous I learnt by inspection on Amazon. Hugo is the name of the ghoul in the game.On each Pagan Eye post, I cover a photo that I find gripping, with a few words about it - a drifter image, a pagan site, an revel, or honest a odd picture. If you ache to send me a photo for a Pagan Eye post, attraction email it to badwitch1234@gmail.com Let me know what the photo shows and whether you ache your name mentioned or not. For copyright reasons, the photo basic be one you think taken yourself and you basic prove that you are submitting it for A Bad Witch's Blog.Forgotten coupled postshttp://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/about-wwfs-earth-hourTag and Hugohttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2014/01/review-terry-pratchett-witches-boardgame.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/12/vultures-and-crows-pentagram-game.html
A few of my in Charity Day quotes from the group who if possible reminded us to set statement an conclude day to be satisfying to our Peer of the realm.
Pay termination attention to some of the ram William Bradford had to say in the same way as it's almost as if it were a timeless state recorded and conserved for make somewhere your home of us living today, what with the hazard of terrorism and a global pandemic continually 'right-around-the-corner' as we're so recurrently told.
Raise up who's really in activate and know that He is a strong development who protects His own. May "every day" be a day of mercy to Him for all that He's done, and for all that He's show nonetheless to this day!
"For the Glory of God and the Advancement of the Christian entrust, and the honour of our Sovereign and Residents." The Mayflower Close up
"To All Ye Pilgrims: Inasmuch as the enormous Institute has disposed us this see an unrestrained resolve of Indian bump, wheat, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables, and has prepared the forests to be full with game and the sea with fish scraps and clams, and inasmuch as He has protected us from the ruin of the savages, has spared us from pestilence and evil, has settled us neutrality to respect God according to the dictates of our own conscience; now, I...do herald that all ye Pilgrims, with your wives and unfriendly ones, do be given...to enjoy to ye minister, and create mercy to ye Almighty God for all His blessings."
William Bradford, the Overseer of Plymouth Colony
PSALMS 68:19 (KJV) Providential be the Peer of the realm who manuscript loadeth us with blessings.
Yes, period are long-lasting, but this Charity Day let's all be satisfying for our blessings that are both ram and spiritual. Freshen up and be in somebody's debt reasonably than looking down in nit-picking.
By the way, thank you all for your unwavering prayers and standstill. I thank God for this ministry and this forum of believers. In the absence of you all I would solely a abandoned spiritual land mass, a lone vocalize in the boondocks, so thank you very afar.
From my column to yours -- Happy Charity Day!
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Park week, Rod Dreher societal this Foundational Stuff clash by Joshua Gonnerman, who is a gay Catholic who practices chastity and had some prickly stuff to say about the event at the subdivision level for Catholics battling same-sex attraction but forceful to get on as devoted Catholics. Rod comments:
Boy, do I ever open area with this. It's not lonesome true for gay dynasty, but plus straights who are tape, either by strength of character or unchosen background. In my act, for example I became a guilty elder Christian, I knew that I couldn't be a Christian temporarily. I had tried that; it didn't work. Definitely, I had tried exempting in person from the sum, garb teaching of Scripture and Association about sexual pro. I read all the wide theologians, and tried to praise it - but it was, to use a Savage-ism, bullshit. And I was lying to in person to conjecture put forward was any reliable way forward but the water down path. Worship Gonnerman, I found that the Church's teaching really is invigorating, even nevertheless it compulsory a lot of tortured severity on my part (the best tortured of which was the real would-be that it strength be like this for my whole life; put forward was no guarantee that I would ever get hitched). How appreciably easier the encumber of chastity as a tape Christian would take been if I hadn't felt so lonely in church. The clergy didn't air to meticulousness appreciably, either deliberately or not, nor did any person excessively. Upper limit of the emergent adults I knew who caring with church at all had no be relevant to in person devoted to its sexual teaching, and so were no help. Someone excessively was give up with extraction life, and the culture of extraction life.
What does a complete Christian elder, gay or directly, do in such a circumstance? So recurrently you go it lonely, seeing that you take no real strength of character, not if you're leave-taking to marks the truth. It shouldn't be this way. To get on in Christian chastity as a tape man or female in this hypereroticized culture of ours requires capacious raw materials of repute. It's very group to do it lonely, lacking the support of one's community of repute. I take gay Catholic friends who, like Gonnerman, are mystified together with fellow Christians who percentage their belief in the Church's wisdom on sexuality, but who are anxious to befriend in a capacious way gay Christians. Individuals who do absence to delightful gay Christians like themselves condescending recurrently than not absence to strike them as gay and service them to get on in disagreement of House of worship teaching - no matter which they cannot in good sense of right and wrong do.
From my own experiences, I would say that the notion that put forward is not appreciably for the tape complete Catholic (regardless of sexual testimonial) at the exhibition subdivision was followed by the notion that put forward wasn't appreciably for the married Catholic pair off and thus that put forward wasn't appreciably for the Catholic extraction with really ounce children and thus that put forward wasn't appreciably for the Catholic extraction with immense children...well, you get the substance. Quite a lot of of it is a "spy is unfailingly greener" issue, but some of it--lots of it--comes from the actuality that subdivision life in manifold parishes is quiet coming up abrupt for example it comes to contest the requests or the yet to come of the modern Catholic (but for for the retirees, but that's new to the job story).
Fire, for bit, a story I've told further on of a subdivision priest who fanatically told the subdivision that he'd "solved" the issue of the tabloid Collection for the working dynasty. The working dynasty, he said, had told him they couldn't be at the eight a.m. tabloid Collection seeing that they had to be at work. Aha! he had wariness, and he had lay aside a special Collection respectable for them...at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday nights...
Or extract the chief priest who schedules heartfelt learning at clear hours of the day on Saturdays depending on the age of the child, who doesn't set eyes on that for a extraction with diverse children this wish mean one child is lay aside at 9 a.m. and new to the job at 11 a.m. and new to the job at two p.m. and...
Or extract the choral group choice I like had who greet to form a divide subordinate choral group until he realized that the adults whose children were participating in the middling choral group (like ours) would no longer be competent to assist both the "subordinate choral group" Collection and the middling choral group Collection...
Or extract the decent dynasty who take a Catholic study group/fellowship thing leave-taking and lumber room homely dynasty...to the 10 a.m. Tuesday meetings...
It's roughly as if the Powers That Be at the subdivision life level are beached where in the 1950s, for example every subdivision extraction lived within walking estrange of the subdivision, every mom stayed at home and had hours to herself every day for example the kids were in school, every dad worked from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday feathers Friday, and every extraction had so appreciably additional time especially on the weekends that the subdivision had to submit undertakings respectable to help break the tediousness (and to lumber room the teenage years pass from the drive-in movie play and carhop diner). Catholic dynasty came in four only renowned groups: priests/religious (or exceptional); not-yet-married, married, and widowed. It was easy to submit persons 10 a.m. Tuesday heartfelt consideration for the retired nuns and thus to take bingo night (shadowing the 5:30 p.m. Mass!) for the retired widows and widowers, some of whom strength end up reentering Sanctified Married state with each other, at which closing stages they'd be invited to the undertakings geared en route for married dynasty, put away with the emergent newlyweds and the thunderous couples with frivolous children who could only find babysitters from amid the subdivision teenage years.
And if put forward were any SSA dynasty in the subdivision, well, nobody other than the confessor knew.
Meanwhile, it's 2012. Heaps of Catholics be off to church, and some of them be off convincing distances. Moms work private the home, in the home, and even homeschool. Dads work ache hours and different schedules as they strive to earn a justified believe in a unsafe global cutback. Weekends are over-scheduled with everything from basic family care to instant jobs to sports to school obligations. Catholics come in condescending than four groups: put forward are never-marrieds in bulky records, put forward are once-married but now-divorced and raising kids alone--and put forward are same-sex attracted dynasty, some of whom absence to get on according to House of worship teaching and would like some help, support, faith, friendship, and natural compassion from their subdivision.
But how do we make that happen? How does the Catholic subdivision find a way to gather the uneven requests of its parishioners--let lonely adapting to the new requests of people attending worship who weren't, almost certainly, in the opposite direction in all-encompassing records in the past? How does the divorced foundation of two who lonesome gets his kids every other weekend see to their heartfelt learning, especially if Mom has departed the House of worship and "remarried" private of it? How does the genus whose vocation used to be called "tape blessedness" fit in, especially if he or she had unfailingly hoped to get hitched but realizes now in the middle of his or her life that it's not leave-taking to happen? And how does the same-sex attracted or gay Catholic event the benign of moral and two-way love and lovely that wish help him or her to get on this life and bolster this encumber lacking tumbling popular desperation, guilty sin, or cycles of debauched isolation?
I pay off don't know. I do know it requests to polish, and that in a House of worship that tends (essentially for good reasons) to move at a satirical pace, it may be a what further on Catholic parishes set eyes on that it is no longer 1952. But if we don't absence the SSA Catholic, and other Catholics who don't fit the immense models, to conjecture of the domestic subdivision as a place of despondency and doom instead of a keen cut up of the extraction of God, we may take to pull out up the pace respectable a bit.
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Sunday, in addition to being Easter, was also Earth Day. Earth Day always falls on the 22nd, and unlike the Philippines, we didn't have the good sense to just move Earth Day to Monday to avoid stepping on the toes of Christians who think the Resurrection of God the Son is more important than "Mother Earth."
But there's no reason to turn this into another battle in the "culture wars." Instead, why not point out the fact that "Mother Earth," which is to say, "Creation," points to a Creator? The laws of nature, and all of Creation, point to what the Declaration of Independence refers to as "Nature's God." Look at how St. Augustine, in a 411 A.D. sermon during the octave of Easter, used the beauty of the Earth to show that we have a loving God:
"QUESTION THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH, question the beauty of the sea, question the beauty of the air, amply spread around everywhere, question the beauty of the sky, question the serried ranks of the stars, question the sun making the day glorious with its bright beams, question the moon tempering the darkness of the following night with its shining rays, question the animals that move in the waters, that amble about on dry land, that fly in the air; their souls hidden, their bodies evident; the visible bodies needing to be controlled, the invisible souls controlling them; question all these things. THEY ALL ANSWER YOU, 'HERE WE ARE, LOOK ; WE'RE BEAUTIFUL.'
THEIR BEAUTY IS THEIR CONFESSION. WHO MADE THESE BEAUTIFUL CHANGEABLE THINGS, IF NOT ONE WHO IS BEAUTIFUL AND UNCHANGEABLE? Finally in man himself, in order to be able to understand and know God, the creator of the universe; in man himself, I repeat, they questioned these two elements, body and soul. They questioned the very thing they themselves carried around with them; they could see their bodies, they couldn't see their souls. But they could only see the body from the soul. I mean, they saw with their eyes, but inside there was someone looking out through these windows. Finally, when the occupant departs, the house lies still; when the controller departs, what was being controlled falls down; and because it falls down, it's called a cadaver, a corpse. Aren't the eyes complete in it? Even if they're open, they see nothing. There are ears there, but the hearer has moved on; the instrument of the tongue remains, but the musician who used to play it has withdrawn.
So they questioned these two things, the body which can be seen, the soul which cannot be seen, and they found that what cannot be seen is better than what can be seen; that the hidden soul is better, the evident flesh of less worth. They saw these two things, they observed them, carefully examined each one, and they found that each, in man himself, is changeable. The body is changeable by the processes of age, of decay, of nourishment, of health improving and deteriorating, of life, of death. They passed on to the soul, which they certainly grasped as being better, and also admired as invisible. And they found that it too is changeable; now willing, now not willing; now knowing, now not knowing; now remembering, now forgetting; now frightened, now brave; now advancing toward wisdom, now falling back into folly. They saw that it too is changeable. They passed on beyond even the soul; they were looking, you see, for something unchangeable. So in this way they arrived at a knowledge of the God who made things, through the things which he made."Or look at how St. Paul, in Romans 1:18-21, makes the same argument. Paul's point is that there
THE WRATH OF GOD IS INDEED BEING REVEALED FROM HEAVEN AGAINST EVERY IMPIETY AND WICKEDNESS OF THOSE WHO SUPPRESS THE TRUTH BY THEIR WICKEDNESS. FOR WHAT CAN BE KNOWN ABOUT GOD IS EVIDENT TO THEM, BECAUSE GOD MADE IT EVIDENT TO THEM. EVER SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD, HIS INVISIBLE ATTRIBUTES OF ETERNAL POWER AND DIVINITY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO BE UNDERSTOOD AND PERCEIVED IN WHAT HE HAS MADE. As a result, they have no excuse; for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened.These are two sides of the same coin. Augustine praises those who, seeing nature, come to believe in God; Paul condemns those who see the same evidence for God, but refuse to. So it's safe to say that Christians have good reason to celebrate Earth Day, since the Earth is a testament to God which even those who never hear the Gospel can see and understand.
Of course, "this" sort of celebration of Earth Day relegates the Earth as a beautiful gift from God, and as a means to come to see His eternal Power and Divinity. Those who, instead, turn it into some sort of Gaia-worship are what the Bible refers to as "fools." Specifically, Paul, in the very next breath from what I quoted above, condemns those who see the beauty of nature, and worship nature (Romans 1:22-23):
While claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes.Paul's specific objection is that these idolaters "exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever" (Romans 1:25). Or put another way, Creation can't have created itself. You might as well claim that the Mona Lisa painted herself. So Creation must have been created by a Creator, and that Creator must have been so wonderful and so powerful that He was capable of creating something so grand and so beautiful.
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