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The UFO phenomenon is extraordinarily complex, however the main focus is undeniably face-to-face encounters or the onboard UFO experience. Still, when people think of these types of close encounters, they often assume that the experience is a terrifying event during which the unwilling victim is laid out on a table and examined by emotionless gray-type ETs. While I believe these types of encounters do happen, this is only a small part of the UFO experience. In reality, people experience a much wider variety of encounters. Contrary to popular opinion, onboard UFO experiences are not always involuntary and terrifying. Many people experience encounters during which they are actually helped ...
Author/Designer's note: While this box was designed for an approximate 3" X 5" tarot deck, you can increase rounds and alter the shaping to fit your slightly larger deck. You can use this box on your altar for special tools or as a "manifestation" box that harbors and nurtures your deepest wants and desires. Let your imagination run wild and have fun thinking "out of the box" as you crochet the box. Like many tarot enthusiasts, I have more than one deck of these fabulous oracles. I have a "portable" deck that travels with me; this deck resides in a lovely little bag.I also have a deck that I use for pathworking; this deck sits upon a pedestal in my "meditation sanctuary." There is the ...
Since the ancient Egyptians first pioneered wicked candles around 3000 BC by rolling papyrus and dipping it in beeswax or tallow to burn, the use of controlled flame has enchanted humankind. From Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, that dates to 165 BC, to our current religious practices, candles have provided a point of spiritual focus and celebration. In the 1970s, candle shops emerged onto the American landscape as a result of the hippie movement. Eventually, they evolved into the metaphysical or "Witchy" shops we now know and love. Now, nearly every Pagan shop includes a candle section of prepared delights for our little pyromaniacal, magical souls to enjoy. The various ...
The rationalist culture of the post 19th century has done its best to kill imagination. To the pure materialist, imagination is just day-dreaming and an unnecessary barrier to achieving. More recently, science seems to be reviewing its views with some physicists, like David Bohm and Karl Pribram, starting to think that the entire universe might be like a hologram where the mind and imagination play a key role in what happens. The esoteric tradition has been using imagination techniques for centuries to explain and create the various strange things people on its path experience. Since the 1960s, the concept of pathworking, or imagination journeys, in the hope to attain some form of ...
