joi, 24 martie 2011

[WitchesWorkshop] Digest Number 4687

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Pagans in the Cafe, 3/27/2011, 9:30 am

Posted by: "WitchesWorkshop@yahoogroups.com" WitchesWorkshop@yahoogroups.com

Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:26 pm (PDT)



Reminder from: WitchesWorkshop Yahoo! Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WitchesWorkshop/cal

Pagans in the Cafe
Sunday March 27, 2011
9:30 am - 10:30 am
(This event repeats every month on the last Sunday.)
(The next reminder for this event will be sent in 2 days, 3 minutes.)
Phone: Kerrie 0431 016 411

Notes:
"Pagans in the Cafe" is a meet up and chat group for Pagans who prefer cafe latte over beer any day! Held at various cafes in the suburbs surrounding the Sydney CBD, such as Newtown and Glebe. Interested parties please call Kerrie on 0431 016 411 for further details.

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Ballan Festival [was Re: Hostility Towards Pagans "Widespread" in Au

Posted by: "Media Officer" media@paganawareness.net.au   pan_inc_media

Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:40 pm (PDT)



Hi all,

PAN has responded to the reports findings; the media release is up on our website.

An interesting irony is the finding on page 81 of the report that "people of pagan belief reported high levels of prejudice, discrimination and a lack of recognition of their beliefs. Reports of hostility and discrimination were validated by the sentiments expressed in some submissions." It is nice that Christians were so willing to assist the Pagan Awareness Network in making its point!

As if to highlight the findings, the Ballan Autumn Festival in Victoria has banned tarot readers, books on the tarot and crystals from the event, the festival committee reportedly banning "products or services relating to the occult, black magic or devil worship." It is worth noting that the festival is partly publicly-funded and that the Equal Opportunity Commission has taken an interest in the issue

PAN has responded to this also and the story will run next week, and I understand some Pagans are considering picketing the event

Gavin Andrew
PAN Media Officer

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> Subject: [WitchesWorkshop] Hostility Towards Pagans "Widespread" in Australia
> To: WitchesWorkshop@yahoogroups.com
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Healing Circle (6 week workshops beginning 15 May 2011) Epping, Vict

Posted by: "aradia_weaver" krista.rados@gmail.com   aradia_weaver

Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:08 pm (PDT)



Healing Circle: Discovery to Recovery
Beginning 15 May 2011 (each Sunday for six weeks)
Cost: Sliding scale $90-$120

This workshop has been created to empower and assist individuals in their healing and growth. It is a six-part series that has been designed to support those who wish to overcome obstacles and invoke the powers of transformation into their lives. The structure of the workshop draws on personal experience and is inspired by techniques used within the Reclaiming and Feri traditions of Witchcraft.

The workshops are held in the introspective dark time between Samhain and Yule.

For more info and to register:
http://thespiralpath.net

Blessings,
Aradia Weaver
Mobile 0430 605 150

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Re: RIP Tiggles May 1993 - 18/3/2011

Posted by: "jenwytch" jenwytch@yahoo.com.au   jenwytch

Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:45 pm (PDT)



Hi Simon,

I'm so sorry to hear of Tiggles' passing. Tiggles was a very special cat and I have fond memories of him from the SOL camps he attended with you. He always seemed happy to be part of whatever we were doing, including scrying... http://spheresoflight.com.au/index.php?page=scrying09#tiggles

(((hugs))) and much love,
Jenny

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> I'm so sorry to hear this Simon ol'mate. Tiggles was a loyal friend, a true familiar. You provided him so much support to him in good times and not so good times, and I know that love was return many fold. My thoughts are with you.
> Salute et vinum sabbati,
> Tim
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> On 22/03/2011, at 8:32 AM, Simon Goodey <simonziki@...> wrote:

> > Thanks Annie and Janine,
> > Lots of hugs to you to,
> > Simon Goodey
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> > There is no part of me that is not of the gods!
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> > From: Annie44merlin <annie44merlin@...>
> > To: "WitchesWorkshop@yahoogroups.com" <WitchesWorkshop@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Tue, 22 March, 2011 12:02:45 AM
> > Subject: Re: [WitchesWorkshop] RIP Tiggles May 1993 - 18/3/2011
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> > Altho I do not remember meeting you, I wish I had.
> > Any one who loves his familiar as much as you do, is a spectacularly
> > pppuuuuurrrrrrfffffeeeeeecccccctttttttttt man.
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> > I do know the hole in your heart. I to have lost familiars, only to find one turn up a few weeks later.
> > The goddess gives when we most need.
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> > On 21/03/2011, at 7:59 PM, Janine Donnellan <spheresoflight@...> wrote:
> > > RIP Tiggles, will be sadly missed at Spheres of Light events. Hugs to Simon.
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> > > Subject: [WitchesWorkshop] RIP Tiggles May 1993 - 18/3/2011
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> > > My familiar and much loved Cat called Tiggles left this incarnation at 6.30pm Friday 18th March 2011. He had battled diabetes and kidney failure for three years but on Friday he had also developed liver failure and hypothermia, although Tiggles was not in
distress or pain it was a professional opinion by the vet that the cats body was shutting down and the decision was to put the cat to sleep.
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> > > Tiggles was well known by the people who attended Pagans in the Pub - He sat in on committee meetings and took part in meditations. He also went on camps with the Spheres of light.
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> > > Regards
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> > > Simon Goodey

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AXIS MUNDI - Autmn, March 2011

Posted by: "jenwytch" jenwytch@yahoo.com.au   jenwytch

Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:51 pm (PDT)



Hi everyone,

Yes, it's Axis Mundi time again! Take a peek at the March issue at...
http://axismundi.spheresoflight.com.au/index.php?page=2011-03

Cheers,
Jenny

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Religious teaching in govt schools challenged

Posted by: "xxxxxxminkaxxxxxx" gilligantor@yahoo.com.au   xxxxxxminkaxxxxxx

Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:57 pm (PDT)



Religious teaching in govt schools challenged

"A Melbourne law firm has begun a legal challenge against the way religion is taught in Victorian government schools."

More at -

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/australian-news/9069209/religious-teaching-in-govt-schools-challenged/

minka

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Newsarticle religion may become extinct in 9 natations...study

Posted by: "Tish" deborahs23@optusnet.com.au   morticia_its_me

Thu Mar 24, 2011 3:23 am (PDT)






22 March 2011 Last updated at 07:31 GMT
Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says
By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News, Dallas
In the UK, Wales has the highest proportion of religiously "non-affiliated"

Continue reading the main story
Related Stories
Two-thirds not religious - survey
The death of language?
Ancient Indian language dies out
A study using census data from nine countries shows that religion there is
set for extinction, say researchers.
The study found a steady rise in those claiming no religious affiliation.
The team's mathematical model attempts to account for the interplay between
the number of religious respondents and the social motives behind being one.
The result, reported at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas, US,
indicates that religion will all but die out altogether in those countries.
The team took census data stretching back as far as a century from countries
in which the census queried religious affiliation: Australia, Austria,
Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand
and Switzerland.
Their means of analysing the data invokes what is known as nonlinear
dynamics - a mathematical approach that has been used to explain a wide
range of physical phenomena in which a number of factors play a part.
One of the team, Daniel Abrams of Northwestern University, put forth a
similar model in 2003 to put a numerical basis behind the decline of
lesser-spoken world languages.
At its heart is the competition between speakers of different languages, and
the "utility" of speaking one instead of another.
"The idea is pretty simple," said Richard Wiener of the Research Corporation
for Science Advancement, and the University of Arizona.
"It posits that social groups that have more members are going to be more
attractive to join, and it posits that social groups have a social status or
utility.
"For example in languages, there can be greater utility or status in
speaking Spanish instead of [the dying language] Quechuan in Peru, and
similarly there's some kind of status or utility in being a member of a
religion or not."
Some of the census data the team used date from the 19th century
Dr Wiener continued: "In a large number of modern secular democracies, there
s been a trend that folk are identifying themselves as non-affiliated with
religion; in the Netherlands the number was 40%, and the highest we saw was
in the Czech Republic, where the number was 60%."
The team then applied their nonlinear dynamics model, adjusting parameters
for the relative social and utilitarian merits of membership of the
non-religious" category.
They found, in a study published online, that those parameters were similar
across all the countries studied, suggesting that similar behaviour drives
the mathematics in all of them.
And in all the countries, the indications were that religion was headed
toward extinction.
However, Dr Wiener told the conference that the team was working to update
the model with a "network structure" more representative of the one at work
in the world.
"Obviously we don't really believe this is the network structure of a modern
society, where each person is influenced equally by all the other people in
society," he said.
However, he told BBC News that he thought it was "a suggestive result".
"It's interesting that a fairly simple model captures the data, and if those
simple ideas are correct, it suggests where this might be going.
"Obviously much more complicated things are going on with any one individual
but maybe a lot of that averages out."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12811197?print=true


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