“IF I CAN DO IT, ANYONE CAN!”

By Carol Ward

Chapter II

 

BROADENING YOUR HORIZONS

 

They say knowledge is power and I agree, learning is empowering. I find that the more I learn, the more interesting life becomes. I’m not talking about school type learning, (although obviously that’s great too) I’m talking about finding out more about anything and everything. My best inspiration for learning comes from movies. I’ll be watching a movie (or TV program or reading a book) and they’ll mention something, a country, religion, archeological find, strange happening, unusual weather phenomena etc and I’ll think, “hey, that sounds interesting!” My next stop will be the internet and/or my local library (aren’t libraries great!) and I’ll read and do research until I feel I know enough about the subject. That doesn’t mean I know everything about it, just what I need to satisfy myself. I’ve learned lots of amazing things this way and I never get tired of it, there’s always something else to learn about.

Exploring past and place

Bob Trubshaw

Few of today’s career-conscious archeaologists would want to justify the theories and interpretations of, say, Glyn Daniels, still less more distant notables such as Gordon Childe. Even within single academic lifetimes it is possible to take disparate broad-views of the subject, as Colin Renfrew has happily shown. By the same criteria the ‘fringe’ contains a legacy that should largely be disregarded.

BASIC MEDITATION TECHNIQUES

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Bill Witt

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The  course is divided into  three sections. Section  one deals with what meditation is and how it  plays a part in the lives of  those who use it.   Section two will go into the techniques and tools of meditation.  Section three  gives  suggestions on  how  to use  what  you’ve learned, in everyday life. A list of books for further  reading on the subject, will be given at the end of section three.

40 Meditation Exercises as listed in the Path of Purification

By Bhikkhu Khantipalo

 

If one has no meditation teacher from whom one may request a meditation subject, then one has to rely upon one’s knowledge of one’s character in order to prescribe for oneself a suitable meditation. There are forty meditation exercises (kammatthana) noted by the great teacher Buddhaghosa as being suited to certain types of character. For the purposes of meditation, he considers six characters: faithful, intelligent, and speculative (in which the skillful roots of non-greed, non-hatred and non-delusion are variously dominant); and greedy, hating, and deluded (in which greed, hatred and delusion, the unskillful roots, are dominant). The trouble here is twofold: firstly, very few “pure” types can be found, most people being mixtures of two or more of them — and moreover ever-changing mixtures; and secondly, it is rather difficult to judge which class one’s character belongs to since one’s own delusion and pride are apt to blur one’s judgments.

An Opinion on Magick

by Steve Caldwell

 
When I decided to write an article on magick I didn’t quite foresee what a difficult subject it was to write about.

 
Magick, (real magick, not the tricks that David Copperfield does) is still considered to be somewhat of a taboo subject. Even in this enlightened and supposedly free country, those who practice the ancient arts are ridiculed and persecuted.

A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO ONE ON ONE MAGICKAL ASSAULT

Magickal assault, one person contending with another, is a tricky subject. This article covers one solution to the problem. It is by no means the only  one, but it does work.

The first step is to obtain some sort of talismanic link with the individual  who is the object of the attack. This link will act as the conductive medium  through which the attack will flow. Talismanic links may be divided into three  types; Physical, Mental and Astral.

Color Therapy – Magic or Medicine?

by Amanita
Reproduced from _The Bard_, Vol. 1, No. 2 – Imbolc 1980

 

Although occult tradition tells us that color was used therapeutically in ancient times for a wide variety of mental and physical afflictions, today there is scant remaining information on the subject. We find from what is left however, that the healing priesthood of ancient Egypt utilized “color halls” where they researched the science of light and color therapy. The Greeks as well, experimented with it, and believed that color was absorbed by the body through the eye. The seven hues of the visible spectrum were considered representative of the seven fold nature of mankind, and corresponded to the seven chakras in Ayurvedic (Hindu) medicine also.

Goddess of the Black Stone

Alby Stone

 
Bob Trubshaw’s article on the Black Stone of Mecca was of great interest to myself, as I had already seen Rufus Camphausen’s original article on The Ka’bah at Mecca, and already had something of an interest in the subject. Camphausen, and now Bob Trubshaw, have done us all a great service by bringing this material to our attention in an accessible form, and presenting what is basically a strong and coherent case for the original pagan context of the Black Stone; but it is also apparent that there is a good deal more that could be said on the subject. Indeed, there are a number of points that really must be made, particularly with regard to the goddess Al’Lat, whose identity – and those of her old Meccan companions, Al’Uzza and Manat – is perhaps not as clear-cut as Rufus Camphausen has asserted, and as Bob Trubshaw has reported. There are more connections to be made, and these show the goddess of the Black Stone in a rather different light.