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| April 26, 2012
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Eclectic Spiritual ethics

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Spiritual ethics are basically a set of rules which help you connect spiritually to the god(s) / dess(s) the higher self , the creative intelligent, ancestor spirits, elements, higher begins etc which for this section will be referred to as “Spirit” Now from a formal standpoint spiritual relates to the “spirit!” Now how you personally see “Spirit” will depend upon your path or religious up bringing. For some spirit will mean the “soul” others the “divine” and for others it could be a mix between the two or something in between. So when we look at spiritual ethics we are not looking at the “spirit” or trying to define what “spirit” is as the definition of “spirit” is a personal one. We are looking at the way we interact and relate to “spirit”. Again our path and upbringing will influence how we interact with “spirit” for some it may be in silence others in loud parties and dance two extremes, which archives the same goal, a connection with “spirit”. Now a group that connects through silence will never be able understand the techniques required to connect using loud parties and vice versa as each group with have a different viewpoint. Now as a person you have a set of ethics when it comes to connecting with “spirit” these ethics are handed down from “a spiritual leader” i.e. Jesus, Buddha, Gardener etc who have instructed you how to connect with “spirit”. Now as eclectic witches we often have a mix of spiritual ideals from many spiritual

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| April 26, 2012
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Losing sight of the path

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A solitary pagan path can be one of the most difficult paths to follow and you can often find yourself with out warning resting along the way. As with all things in a pagans life it all about the ebbs and flows the circle of the year. With this there come your own natural ebbs and flows there are times when everything flows perfect your home life, work life and health all seem to be working in perfect harmony and your spiritual life just fits in perfectly. But there are times when one or more of these life aspects fall out of harmony sometime causing major problems with your life and your health. When these aspects fall out of balance that happen for a reason. They cause us to spend more time focusing on our lives in greater detail. These times can affect us greatly and our spiritual selves can take a back seat or we can over rely on them to see us through. When we are in a group our group members can help support us, or offer advice cast spells to assist us, ritual can be created to help us. But the solitary does not have that luxury – the solitary is never truly alone thou they do have friends in the craft that will do workings for them and support them. The solitary witch or pagan has chosen a path which relies of a personal understanding of the divine and their place within the structure life, the universe and they understand

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| April 26, 2012
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Energy Vampires

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The energy vampire is someone who draws psychic or spiritual energy from another life force with out replacing it with like energy. Over the years I have found that there seem to be 3 may be 4 types of energy vampire. The first and most common type of energy vampire in what I like to call the immature energy vampire, the second is the controller energy vampire and the third is a feeder and if there is a forth kind it seems to be a hybrid of these three. The immature energy vampire is completely oblivious that they are feeding off of your energy in this category you will find children, those suffering illness (physical and mental), the Star (a person how is a diva who needs people to praise him or her) and the party animal (always on the go the one that is still raving a 4am while everyone else is lagging). The immature energy vampires are not bad (in the sense of good and bad) although they are demanding they need you to offer your energy before they can start to draw off your energy. The problem is the immature likes energy and is really not bothered if the energy is negative or positive just as long has they have your attention. The good thing is that these vampires will often share your energy and return some back. Since the goal of this vampire is to charge himself or herself up, they often have an abundance of excess energy, which they use

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| March 12, 2012
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Never again! The law is on our side

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Going through my Book of Shadows this morning I came across this and though I would share I hope JR Grover does not mind but it is only 21 years and I am not sure if it is available anywhere. I used to have this in my office at work as it gave me confidence in my early days in the craft to come out and be a proud witch You are politely but firmly requested not to discriminate against our pagan and spiritual heritage. As pagans, witches and Druids, we have every right to express our views and practices. Our traditions with the fall protection of British and international law. The last remaining laws prohibiting witchcraft in Great Britain were repealed in 1951. This was necessary to bring British law in line with the United Nations universal declaration of human rights, which states: Article 18 Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public Private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. Article 19 Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. Adopted and proclaimed by the Gen assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1948. Compared to various Christian persuasion is (a religion of Middle Eastern

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| March 12, 2012
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Creating coven ethics

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Starting any coven can be a difficult thing for any pagan but for the true eclectic it can be very difficult. The reason for this is an eclectic understands that things that should not work together do! Having mixed mythologies and practices are personal so it can be difficult to explain to others the significance, this is one of the main reasons the eclectic remains solitary. Although over the years I have run eclectic covens, which are more like working groups and moots which developed. I have found that when these groups meet and connect and share information the group dynamic changes from a coven that meets for worship or feasting to a group where practices merge and learning is shared in an inclusive enviroment. These covens does not work like a Wiccan coven there is no high priestess or priest no elder keeping things in check it works more as a council where the leader for next meeting is chosen leaders would be chosen in rota new members being added to the list. Whoever is in charge for that meeting chooses the topic of discussion they will either give a talk or write a ritual that includes everyone. For the main Sabbats (and not all paths follow the Wiccan wheel of the year so some groups have other main rites added to the wheel.) meeting are normally a few days before or after the event to allow member to have their own personal rites. These Sabbat meetings would normally follow a simple outline a

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| March 12, 2012
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Hellenic Ethics:

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Hellenic Ethics: Living Virtues in Community The ethical principles of Hellenic Reconstructionist Polytheism rest on fundamental human virtues as expressed in community, and are derived from the teachings of our ancient Greek spiritual ancestors. Some of the virtues discussed below will be familiar, and are indeed common to other traditional religious cultures. Others may prove surprising and even challenging to modern pagans who look to the Rede for ethical direction. A Key Principle: Reciprocity To most ancient Greeks, people fell into one of three categories: friends, enemies, and strangers. Underlying all of these relationships is the assumption of reciprocity. [1] Friends are those who help you and whom you are obligated to help. Enemies are those who harm you and whom you are likewise expected to harm, for doing so also helps your friends. Strangers or outsiders are those persons with whom you have no defined relationship and will probably view with a mix of suspicion and generosity, as they will you. Our relationship with the gods is also based on reciprocity: our offerings for their blessings, gift for gift. Unlike both the Christian ethical ideal (“Love your enemy” [2]) and the Wiccan Rede (“An it harm none, do what ye will”), traditional Hellenic ethics teaches that there is no shame in interpersonal conflict or just retribution; indeed, these are fundamental parts of life. (Nemesis is a goddess, after all, and the myths show the gods in conflict with each other.) Further, by not harming one’s enemies, one harms one’s friends, breaking down the fundamental

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| March 12, 2012
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Blood in the Cauldron

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Pagans have a long history of violence not only the fact that human and animal sacrifice where used but even today in the more enlightened times human sacrifice is heard of. The last being this year (2010) in April where a human Head and torso was found in A temple of Kali near Chotomakdampur village in the western district of Birbhuma in West Bengal India Although many Western pagans and neo pagan groups would not consider a human sacrifice as part of their rituals as they see it as being against the Goddess wishes some tribal polytheistic religions still use animal sacrifice as part of their practice. Now we all know that during our history (at least 50,000 years of history) across the world that human sacrifices where commonplace as way of appeasing the Gods. Even many of today’s rituals and festivals are link to sacrifices which would of in times past required animals to be slaughter as a minimal offering and this would escalate to humans if crops failed repeatedly or other hardships where faced. During this time in our history no one was excused from being sacrificed kings and leaders would be scarified to. Even Christianity has a dark past when it comes to blood scarifies the Old Testament is littered with account animal and human sacrifice. This link with human and animal sacrifice is often glossed over and is not spoke about much today and where possible is dismissed as history of primitive cultures and has no relevance today days pagan which

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| March 12, 2012
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Ethics the road to nirvana

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As a pagan, witch it’s ok to use books of lore or ethical guideline set out buy others. Although each of us has our own social and economical background which shape us and we also have the laws of the land to deal with. Each pagan path with have it own set of rule and regulations and core beliefs and I was reminded today how silly some are and how some laws are the same just worded in the style of that tradition. Now we have the laws to help us become better people to hopefully one day create a perfect world filled with perfect people the divine in physical form. Now it got me thinking once again about my own personal ethics and how I agree with something’s but can see there sometime when these rules need breaking. This is one of the reasons I prefer to be solitary I know that to be perfect is to be divine but how has the right set of rules?. There is the law of the land the ones that are set in the country you live or are visiting Now you can look at any law and agree or disagree with it if you follow it then no harm but break it then you get trouble the more important the law the higher resulting trouble. FACT In the UK if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your commode – you must let them enter. Now no one of us is going to

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| March 12, 2012
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Dealing with negative thoughts

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Now no matter what path or belief the one thing we must accept is that we are human beings and with that comes emotions. And with all things in life their is a balance some people will say that there are positive and negative emotion I would prefer to say that emotions are neutral and it is how we deal with them makes them positive or negative. Now like any normal person I have my range of emotion from love to hate and Joy and sadness as well as some less than desirable ones like jealousy, envy but how do I deal with these emotions. Well the first thing is to notice them and evaluate them ask yourself why do I feel this way or that way? I accept the fact that I have negative feelings and look for the reason within myself for feeling them. Now I have found that many of, it not all my negative emotions are born out of fear. These fears can be little or big but they have to be dealt with some may be defeated some may just be driven back into the darkness to arise again and again but each time they become weaker until they are truly defeated. So how do you deal with negative emotions? The first thing is to notice when you are having one, now negative emotions do show them self in though. Now I am going to use a very common emotion envy, now we have all walked past a person that

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| March 6, 2012
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Sex, sexuality and magick

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The god is the symbol of male potency he is often portrayed a horned figure his symbols are the male penis erect, the woods horned animals such as the stag, the Athame and the sword. While the goddess is the symbol for the feminine mysteries and her symbols are the vagina, the cup and the cauldron. In the Wiccan tradition groups are normally male / female, male / female with the group being head by a High Priest and Priestess, and one of the most important rituals in Wicca is the Great Rite. During this rite, which celebrates the union of the God and Goddess. The High Priest will assume the part of the God and the Priestess will assume the role of the goddess. The God aspect in ritual is the Goddess’s consult and their union is played out in the Great Rite in some groups this ritual is acted out and in other groups the rite is a full or partial sexual act between the high priest and priestess. Sex is something pagans and Wiccan’s treat as sacred and is always done in great reverence and where the rite is physically performed a couple in a relationship that are shielded from the group or they withdraw and return after the act. Although pagan enjoy sex … a lot! it is sacred act to us in magicks and in life and would never, rape, abuse children or have sex with animals. All pagans will agree to very basic ethical rules when it comes to

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