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It's hard to believe how many people simply hate the work they do. They say they're in the "wrong" job, the "wrong" profession or career, and they've felt that way for perhaps twenty-thirty years. They're stuck. Finding a job that "does something" for you is an important life decision for an under-30 person, trying to find work that will add something to his or her life. The younger people in our population talk about that point openly; their parents didn't, and for the most part the slightly older generation lived and worked in areas prescribed by family tradition, an arbitrary decision or an accident. If the job helped them feel good about themselves, that would be fortuitously ...
My Life North of San DiegoI had been living in the small town of Encinitas, north of San Diego, California. The house was on a street named Vulcan and was about three hundred feet from a frequently used railroad track and an additional three hundred feet from a Self-Realization Fellowship temple. The temple's grounds ended at an abrupt cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. At the base of the cliff was "Swami's" beach, famed for its good surfing. I shared the house with a man and his son. At the time, Michael was an electronics technician working at a company that made Citizen Band radios ("Breaker! Breaker!, Good buddy"), Single Side-Band Radios, and Linear Amplifiers. He also taught ...
Have you ever had you aura photographed? A few years ago at a psychic fair, my friends and I all had our auras photographed, and we were amazed at how each one of us displayed a totally different shape and color spectrum. Of course, this is what you'd expect for different people. I think we were just surprised because we didn't really think it would work! You may be familiar with Kirlian photography, the technology first discovered and developed by Russian scientist Seymon Kirlian. This form of photography captures subtle energies present in humans, plants—even small groups of cells. Many believe that the energy shown in Kirlian photography is a representation of the aura. There ...
We all have our own interpretations and honoring of the four elemental quadrants. Some of us enter our Circles in the East, direction of dawn and new beginnings. Others prefer to start in the North, that their working be well grounded and strong. At Samhain, we open a gate in the West, the direction of the Ancestors and of the Land Beyond, and we lead the Spirits through. An exercise in liberation or purification might begin in the South. Some traditions reverence a fifth Element, Spirit, as the Cauldron of Possibility, Center of Change, or other similar aspect. Most pagans would agree that from the East comes illumination and communication, from the South passion and transformation, ...
