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2myladyblue · 05-29-2010, 01:21 AM

I really need to get some sleep, but I wanted to recommend a lovely selection from my bookshelf....
The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk

Has anyone else read it?
~Blue

Nat · 06-01-2010, 12:30 AM

I just saw these and think they are cute. They are three little beeswax candles.

*Magic_and_Silk* · 06-01-2010, 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by 2myladyblue

I really need to get some sleep, but I wanted to recommend a lovely selection from my bookshelf....
The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk

Has anyone else read it?
~Blue

I have read it and I recommend it to anyone who has not. It is a wonderful book!

Bit · 06-01-2010, 12:29 PM

Nat, I love the altar and tool pics! Also adore those candles *heartmelt* awww!

Blue and Magic, hello! Yep, I'm also one who always has piles of craft things in progress.

As for the book, well, that's one way I measure my growth as a Priestess, actually. The first time I read the book I was REALLY disappointed, could not BELIEVE that Starhawk would write such a "woo-woo" novel, couldn't even suspend my disbelief like I would for any other sci-fi novel, was SO turned off that I actually thought it was a badly written book.

The second time I read the book, I was like, "HEY! I can do that!!.... oh, I can do that, too.... HEY!! I think maybe I can learn to do that one if I work at it..." I was surprised that over the years I had done a complete 180 in my opinions about what is actually possible.... and I was also surprised what a good book she had written. *sheepish look*

I still have my reservations about the crystal communication for the computers.... but yanno what, I'm not dismissing it out of hand anymore. It might very well be that it will take considerably longer than the novel's time frame for it, but it also could still happen in my lifetime--you NEVER know, you just never know.

Also, now I'm the age of the grandmothers who took the pickaxes to the streets to break them up for gardens... and I can relate to them, oh I can relate! Even in my disability, I am stronger, more vital, more vibrantly alive than I was ten years ago, and that again is the opposite of what I believed when I first read the book. Age brings power, even to the disabled--who would have guessed that, living in this society??

I'm looking forward to the insights I'll find when I read it the third time. I hope I'll have made more progress!

2myladyblue · 06-08-2010, 09:00 PM

I'm watching an interesting show on Stonehenge. Apparently drumming inside the stones would produce sound at the proper frequency (5-15 hertz) to induce alphawaves in the brain & a state of trance (which would be further enhanced by firelight). They've also likened this experience to modern day raves. Not that this is surprising, but I love it when science 'proves' the validity of rituals/ceremonies.

~Blue

Massive · 06-08-2010, 10:36 PM

If you're interested in Stonehenge, did you know that further upriver, there is Woodhenge?
It's the start of the spiritual journey of the soul that Stonehenge is the culmination of. They celebrated the lives of the deceased at Woodhenge, then followed their spirits downriver to Stonehenge where the dead where allowed to go back to the beginning, so to speak, and pass on into the spirit world.
They've recently excavated Woodhenge, nobody even knew it was their until about a year or so ago.

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06-08-2010, 09:00 PM	#5
2myladyblue Member How Do You Identify?: Goddess Preferred Pronoun?: ...oui? Relationship Status: Worshipped Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Winterpeg, Manisnowba, The Great White North Posts: 430 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,255 Thanked 455 Times in 186 Posts Rep Power: 90765	I'm watching an interesting show on Stonehenge. Apparently drumming inside the stones would produce sound at the proper frequency (5-15 hertz) to induce alphawaves in the brain & a state of trance (which would be further enhanced by firelight). They've also likened this experience to modern day raves. Not that this is surprising, but I love it when science 'proves' the validity of rituals/ceremonies. ~Blue __________________ "i believe people are see-through if you hold em up to the light i believe people are enlightening if you plug em in right" ~ alix olson "All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for." ~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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Bit Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Stonefemme Relationship Status: married to Gryph Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Wichita, KS Posts: 2,177 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,126 Thanked 3,770 Times in 1,264 Posts Rep Power: 10778871	Nat, I love the altar and tool pics! Also adore those candles heartmelt awww! Blue and Magic, hello! Yep, I'm also one who always has piles of craft things in progress. As for the book, well, that's one way I measure my growth as a Priestess, actually. The first time I read the book I was REALLY disappointed, could not BELIEVE that Starhawk would write such a "woo-woo" novel, couldn't even suspend my disbelief like I would for any other sci-fi novel, was SO turned off that I actually thought it was a badly written book. The second time I read the book, I was like, "HEY! I can do that!!.... oh, I can do that, too.... HEY!! I think maybe I can learn to do that one if I work at it..." I was surprised that over the years I had done a complete 180 in my opinions about what is actually possible.... and I was also surprised what a good book she had written. sheepish look I still have my reservations about the crystal communication for the computers.... but yanno what, I'm not dismissing it out of hand anymore. It might very well be that it will take considerably longer than the novel's time frame for it, but it also could still happen in my lifetime--you NEVER know, you just never know. Also, now I'm the age of the grandmothers who took the pickaxes to the streets to break them up for gardens... and I can relate to them, oh I can relate! Even in my disability, I am stronger, more vital, more vibrantly alive than I was ten years ago, and that again is the opposite of what I believed when I first read the book. Age brings power, even to the disabled--who would have guessed that, living in this society?? I'm looking forward to the insights I'll find when I read it the third time. I hope I'll have made more progress!