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So, back when rocks were still soft and the internet was young, Scarecrow (aka Lorax, aka Gordon Cooper, current Grand Archdruid of the AODA) wrote an essay that was published in Converging Paths, 1987 Fall Equinox issue, called "SHAMANISM: Agony Before the Ecstasy". As rocks have cooled, dinosaurs been killed off and such, bodies have moved and the like, he no longer has a complete copy of it, and I have a need of it.

I've been scouring the dark alleys of Google seeking it, as it had been posted to the old PODSNet file system, as well as having been posted to Usenet in a few places. I've tracked down as many of those as I can, and in every instance, text is missing, or garbled. In fact, there are two versions at the Skeptic Tank, both of which have different errors and gaps, as well as two instances in soc.religion.shamanism which at first look seems to be a duplicate of the one in alt.pagan, except they have different garbles as well ...

By any chance, do any of Ye Old Timers have in their mildewing files in the box in the crawlspace or basement, copies of this particular issue of Converging Paths, and if so, could you be enticed to scan the pages of this article and email them to me, so that I can clean up the scans and get them to Gordon? Sadly, my own copies of that belated magazine were eaten by vermin about 25 years back and seven moves ago.

For any assistance, many thanks, feel free to contact me at Moondancer @ NemedCuculatii (dot) org with "SHAMANISM: Agony Before the Ecstasy" as the subject if you can assist!

Thanks,

Moodancer/Ashleigh

PS - Permission to share this in appropriate Craft/Metaphysical Groups is granted, lease just let me know where it's been shared, so that I can attempt to keep track.

Current Mood: hopeful

ex_moondancer561

Is anyone here (besides me) planning on attending the Esoteric Book Conference in Seattle this weekend?

Current Mood: calm

ex_moondancer561

Here are feed links for the three Pagan Newswire Collective* Blogs on different sites. Enjoy! (and please share as appropriate!!)

InsaneJournal:
http://feeds.insanejournal.com/pnc_culture
http://feeds.insanejournal.com/pnc_military
http://feeds.insanejournal.com/pnc_politics

Dreamwidth:
http://pnc-culture-feed.dreamwidth.org
http://pnc-military-feed.dreamwidth.org
http://pnc-politics-feed.dreamwidth.org

LiveJournal:
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/warriorsandkin
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/paganpop
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/paganpluspol

* The Pagan Newswire Collective is an open collective of Pagan journalists, newsmakers, media liaisons, and writers who are interested in sharing and promoting primary-source reporting from within our interconnected communities.

Current Mood: good

jenett

Realised this might be a good topic here... I'm continuing to look for suggestions for a particular set of circumstances. (And as you'll see below, have some limits.)

Me: HPS of a (very small) coven: currently me and one prospective student, with the option of adding one more student sometime in the coming year.

Also a moderate simple cook: I do bake my own bread, make a variety of soups from scratch, etc. but my time/energy for extensive cooking is pretty limited right now.

The problem: Feeding people for discussion evenings (after work, when people want dinner) or after rituals with a minimum of fuss, time needed in last minute preparation, and moderate cost.

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seshen

This is the intro questionnaire I've got on my own communities, so thought I'd use it here.

1. What religion or spiritual tradition do you follow? Lycian Wicca

2. Geographic location (not "earth/the universe"): San Antonio TX

3. Coven or solitary? Clergy? We recently dissolved our coven, but will be creating a new one in the next few months. I am an initiated 3rd Degree in my Trad, but have not yet gained clergy status.

4. Public or in the broom closet? So public, I gotta wear shades. :) OK, fine, that made no sense, but the stupid song is in my head. I've been public since 1988.

5. Are you active in your local pagan community? In what capacity? Organizer of 3 local Meetups (Witches, Wiccan and Pagan Parents), plus webmistress of the San Antonio Pagans web portal.

6. Personal web site (if you've got one): Seshen.us

7. Anything else you'd like us to know about you: Married 15 years, parent of 2 daughters (adult and teen). If you notice the ghost in my icon, it's because I live in a haunted house.

nacho_cheese

A friend of mine posted about finding comfort in rosaries. (If you're not aware of what they are, I've put a picture of rosary beads under the cut.) I used to have a crystal set myself, as I grew up Catholic, but I ended up donating them to the church I left when I was a teenager, as I had just become Pagan and didn't feel comfortable with the symbolism -- most rosary beads have a crucifix at the end. In hindsight, I sometimes regret that move, as I'd love to still have them as a remembrance from whence I came, but it's over and done. :)

Her post prompted me to wonder: Has anyone here adopted the religious trappings of another faith and either used them for your own purposes as they originally are, or did you alter them to reflect your own spirituality?

I ask because, in light of her entry and my long-donated rosary beads, I've been contemplating making my own crystal Pagan prayer beads. I've seen them done, but I'd like to make my own, and wanted to get others' opinions on how they feel about taking religious symbolism and icons from one religion to use in your own practice.

(Yes, this has been done for centuries by other faiths, including our own and from whom we took them. But I want your personal experiences. :))

( Rosary beads )

Also, I apologize in advance if anything I said above makes little or no sense. I'm sick, and thereby very tired. :)

brock_tn

The last time I looked, the half-life for a pagan group here in the United States was somewhere between two-and-a-half and three years. That is, 50% of all newly formed pagan groups will have ceased to exist within thirty to thirty-six months after they are formed.

Now, we've all seen discussions that go on ad infinitum about why pagan groups collapse. I seems to me that a far more useful subject for a community like this would be why certain pagan groups survive well past the three-year mark.

What say you?

elf

Welcome to

group_paganism. I'd like this to be a community for discussions about the community and non-solitary aspects of Paganism: training, group dynamics, finding mentors, vetting students, shared celebrations of holy days, ritual roles, egregores, and so on.

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