http://helgaleena.mylivepage.comhttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.comhelgaleena healing line :: MyLivePagehttp://avatar040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/2.gifhttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.comhelgaleena healing line :: MyLivePageSocial60http://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3350/We%20are%20Monsters--%20repost%20from%20wordpress%20<p><a href="http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/24/the-big-idea-catherine-lundoff/#respond"><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/1774/fullmoon.JPG"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/1774/small_fullmoon.JPG.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /></a></p> <p><a href="http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/24/the-big-idea-catherine-lundoff/#respond"><br /></a></p> <p><a href="http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/24/the-big-idea-catherine-lundoff/#respond">The Big Idea: Catherine Lundoff &ndash; Whatever</a>.</p> <p> <strong>Catherine Lundoff writes FF books. I think she's onto something when she says, </strong> The werewolves of Wolf&rsquo;s Point are called into being by the ancient magic of the place where they live. It picks and chooses which women will serve as the valley&rsquo;s protectors, deciding who will change and who will not, based on a logic all its own. Sometimes, it makes mistakes. Becca thinks she might be one of the latter; it must have meant to pick someone else and somehow got her by mistake. But then, she thinks that about a lot of things. In this respect, Becca was a hard character for me to write. Like her, I&rsquo;m a middle-aged woman just entering menopause. Unlike her, I&rsquo;m not terribly introspective or insecure about what I&rsquo;m doing. Of course, I&rsquo;m also not dealing with the changes she&rsquo;s wrestling with. That, really, was what I was hoping to capture in this novel: the experience of change, both physical and psychological, that is absolutely earth shattering. I wanted to examine what an ordinary woman does with those kinds of events. Menopause is a time in a woman&rsquo;s life where her body feels like it&rsquo;s transforming into something else, something alien, and potentially monstrous. Not unlike changing into a werewolf... </p> <p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/24/the-big-idea-catherine-lundoff/#respond"><img src="http://helgaleena.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/p.jpg" alt="The Big Idea: Catherine Lundoff &ndash; Whatever" /></a></p> <p> <strong>I am Helga the Hutt on the Internet. I too feel the monster in me like an inner truth that cannot be ignored. Writing and making art are ways of handling that discomfort with what I am, instead of what I have been told to be, by forces internal and external. It is a dilemma all humans face, I think. That is is triggered in her tale by the place makes it Druid. We all become the place where we live for a longer time, drinking its water and eating the crops and creatures grown on its soil. Subtle forces too, whether ley lines or radons, impact us as greatly as architecture. We are monsters.</strong></p> <p><strong>from <a href="http://wp.me/py9sz-3j"><a href="http://wp.me/py9sz-3j">http://wp.me/py9sz-3j</a></a><br /></strong></p>General24 May 12 21:28:27 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3350/We%20are%20Monsters--%20repost%20from%20wordpress%20http://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3326/Beware%20fake%20candidates<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="622"> <tr> <td width="34" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"></td> <td width="552" align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="552"> <tr> <td height="10"></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; color: #626161; font-size: small;"><strong>I received this warning from the American Association of University Women about our state election tomorrow. The Republicans are trying all sorts of things to mess up the recall of Scott Walker, including adding extra candidates who are actually Walker supporters, in order to split the opposition. It's weird.<br /><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/557686_3494079467959_2811170_n.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_557686_3494079467959_2811170_n.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />UPDATE: Recall Primary Tuesday, May 8</strong></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="10"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <div> <div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;" lang="EN">ALERT:&nbsp; </span></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;" lang="EN">There are several candidates running in tomorrow&rsquo;s primary that are <strong>pseudo</strong> <p> Democrats.&nbsp; These candidates have placed their names on the ballot to confuse voters and give the incumbents time to campaign.&nbsp; They demean our election process.&nbsp; Below you will find a list of all the candidates for Governor, Lt. Governor, and the four Wisconsin senate districts. &nbsp;On Tuesday, the &ldquo;pseudo&rdquo; candidates will be found on the Democratic ballot when you go to the polls.&nbsp; Please use this list in making your decision and pass the word to other voters. <a href="http://capwiz.com/aauw/wi/utr/1/JUZMRRKIYZ/GNAMRRKJDX/8250515196" target="_blank">Click here to find your polling place</a>.<br /></span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN">May 8th, 2012 Recall Primary Election</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Governor:&nbsp; Scott Walker (Incumbent), Republican</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Arthur Kohl-Riggs, Republican</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Tom Barrett, Democrat</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Kathleen Falk, Democrat</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Doug La Follette, Democrat</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Kathleen Vinehout, Democrat</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Gladys Huber, <strong>Pseudo</strong> Democrat</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lt. Governor:&nbsp; Rebecca Kleefisch (Incumbent), Republican</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mahlon Mitchell (Endorsed by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin)</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ira Robins, Democrat</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Isaac Weix, <strong>Pseudo</strong> Democrat</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">State Senate District 13:&nbsp; (Democratic Primary)</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lori Compas (Endorsed by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin)</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Gary Ellerman, <strong>Pseudo</strong> Democrat</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />State Senate District 21: (Democratic Primary)</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">John Lehman (Endorsed by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin)</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tamra Varebrook, <strong>Pseudo</strong> Democrat</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">State Senate District 23:&nbsp; (Democratic Primary)</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Kristen Dexter (Endorsed by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">James Engel, <strong>Pseudo</strong> Democrat</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">State Senate District 29:</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Donna Seidel (Endorsed by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin)</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Jim Buckley, <strong>Pseudo</strong> Democrat<br /><br /><br /><strong><em>Meanwhile here is a fine essay on ETHICS over at the wordpress<br /><br /><a href="http://helgaleena.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/204/"><a href="http://helgaleena.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/204/">http://helgaleena.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/204/</a></a><br /><br /></em><a href="http://druidlife.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/godless-pagan-ethics"><a href="http://druidlife.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/godless-pagan-ethics">http://druidlife.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/godless-...</a></a></strong><br /><br /></span></div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>politics, druid, humanity07 May 12 22:12:14 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3326/Beware%20fake%20candidateshttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3301/Happy%20Earth%20Day%2C%20Jupiter-style<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://soulgarden.me/group/state-of-idecide-capricorn/forum/topics/happy-earth-day-jupiter-style"><img src="http://helgaleena.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/76728957.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://soulgarden.me/group/state-of-idecide-capricorn/forum/topics/happy-earth-day-jupiter-style"><img src="http://helgaleena.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/188287_10150435051525554_903055553_17584774_1909663_n.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;">Queen Mary prayed for all the waters of the earth. I prayed for all the love stories of the earth.</p> <p> <a href="http://soulgarden.me/group/state-of-idecide-capricorn/forum/topics/happy-earth-day-jupiter-style">Happy Earth Day.............Jupiter-style!!! - Soulgarden.ME</a>.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> The Great Pacific Trash Whorl is getting bigger. <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3590/3426913845_1c2038898d.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p>I also signed a whole bunch of petitions at the<a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/action/alerts/index.html"> Center for Biological Diversity&nbsp;</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Hope yours was lovely and earthy.</p>druid, humanity23 Apr 12 01:01:58 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3301/Happy%20Earth%20Day%2C%20Jupiter-stylehttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3280/Happy%20Random%20Easter<p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/4d60d0c5-0efc-4f55-9677-36c55bf83ed3.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_4d60d0c5-0efc-4f55-9677-36c55bf83ed3.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/188287_10150435051525554_903055553_17584774_1909663_n.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_188287_10150435051525554_903055553_17584774_1909663_n.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/557686_3494079467959_2811170_n.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_557686_3494079467959_2811170_n.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/396277_348131808539601_245079965511453_1365184_1717797649_n.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_396277_348131808539601_245079965511453_1365184_1717797649_n.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/demotivational-posters-rabbit.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_demotivational-posters-rabbit.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/eostur.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_eostur.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/1774/paaskehexen.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/1774/small_paaskehexen.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htvLwSn7aOc&amp;list=PL7BDD9CCFF7E6BAF4&amp;index=4&amp;feature=plpp_video"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htvLwSn7aOc&amp;list=PL7BDD9CCFF7E6BAF4&amp;index=4&amp;feature=plpp_video">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htvLwSn7aOc&amp;lis...</a></a>&nbsp; holiday music</p> <p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/eostre%2019thc.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_eostre%2019thc.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> <p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/1774/The%20four%20peeps%20of%20the%20Apocalypse%20by%20Chance%20the%20Pug.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/1774/small_The%20four%20peeps%20of%20the%20Apocalypse%20by%20Chance%20the%20Pug.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p>humanity, druid08 Apr 12 14:51:25 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3280/Happy%20Random%20Easterhttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3258/I%20am%20so%20ashamed...<p><img src="http://chzmemebase.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/internet-memes-scumbag-government.png" /> </p>inhumanity, politics26 Mar 12 20:22:45 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3258/I%20am%20so%20ashamed...http://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3232/Spring%20cleaning%20yoga<p><a href="http://helgaleena.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/alchi-goddess-tara-388.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image" src="http://helgaleena.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/alchi-goddess-tara-388.jpg?w=297" alt="Image" /></a></p> <p>From <strong>Chakra Healing and Karmic Awareness </strong>by Keith Sherwood (2005 Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul Mn USA) :</p> <p>"Below you will find a series of commitments that will sever your links to non-physical beings outside your energy field... and will bring you in accord with the will of the Self as it emerges through your higher and lower mind. In addition, these commitments will safeguard your energy field from any further intrusions of non-physical beings by strengthening your boundaries on all worlds anbd dimensions, including the world of spirit, intellect, soul, lower mind, world of the chakras, and the levels of the splenic chakras.</p> <p>If you know it's appropriate to make these commitments and you know you will keep them permanently, then simply read the commitments below, <em>repeat them out loud</em>, and affirm, <em><strong>"I agree to these three commitments."</strong></em></p> <p>The first is:</p> <p>"If I have given permission or inadvertently given permission for any nonphysical beings to be in my world of my spirit, my world of my intellect, my world of my soul, my world of my chakras, my world of my lower mind, my level of my upper splenic chakra, and my level of my splenic chakra, I revoke that permission now and permanently in the future."</p> <p>The second is:</p> <p>"It is my desire and my will that all non-physical beings depart from my world of my spirit, my world of my intellect, my world of my soul, my world of my chakras, my world of my lower mind, my level of my upper splenic chakra, and my level of my lower splenic chakra now, and remain permanently outside them in the future. I want you to leave now."</p> <p>The third is:</p> <p>My world of my spirit, my world of my intellect, my world of my soul, my world of my chakras, my world of my lower mind, my level of my upper splenic chakra, and level of my splenic chakra are <strong>my sacred space.</strong> It is my desire and my will that they be occupied solely by myself and the light of God now and permanently in the future."</p> <p>If you know it's appropriate to make these commitments and you know you will keep them for the rest of your life, <em>affirm out loud,<strong> "I agree to these three commitments."</strong></em></p> <p>By making these commitments (it's only necessary to make them once) and keeping them, you will be taking responsibility for your inner life and will be committing yourself to a life of personal integrity and truth. In addition, you will be signifying your intent to put union with the Self (god, universal life force) above the needs and desires of the mundane world which emergeexclusively from your individual mind and ego.</p> <p>Many people before you have made these commitments and have experienced an immediate shift in their condition, as prana-- which had been blocked and prevented from radiating freely by subfields of qualified energy and non-physical beings-- is set free...Although you may not have been aware of the cause and effect relationship between non-physical beings within your energy field and your internal state of well-being, the fact is that non-physical beings integrated into and feeding from the individual mind and ego are the greatest cause of human suffering."</p> <p>More information on Keith Sherwood is available at onewholelove.com</p> <p>Helgaleena knows it is theseason for spring cleaning. In order to get anything in the external world accomplished, I needed first to do something about my personal condition. I dig out of the accumulated piles of exfoliated skin cells and dust bunnies and discover there is air warm enough to fling open a window or two. I spring forward.</p> <p>If your personal domestic space is better order than mine, perhaps you are ready to journey forth to new dimensions. Bon voyage.</p> <p><a href="http://helgaleena.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/funny-cat-pictures-saddle-up-toms-weve-got-a-herd-to-bring-in-but-a-herd-of-what.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image" src="http://helgaleena.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/funny-cat-pictures-saddle-up-toms-weve-got-a-herd-to-bring-in-but-a-herd-of-what.jpg?w=490" alt="Image" /></a></p> <p>also published at:<a href="http://helgaleena.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/spring-cleaning-yoga/"> helgaleena</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>druid, healing, humanity11 Mar 12 19:06:08 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3232/Spring%20cleaning%20yogahttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3223/On%20Beliefs%20and%20Being%20Wrong%3A%20%20Occupy%20Wall%20Street%20explained%20by%20Zack%2C%20%20for%20Imbolc.<h1 class="title"><a href="http://blog.thezeitgeistmovement.com/blog/troy-wiley/beliefs-and-being-wrong-occupy-discussion-homeless-guy-named-zack">On Beliefs and Being Wrong: An Occupy Discussion with a Homeless Guy Named Zack</a></h1> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> <img src="http://i.imgur.com/cVsI3.jpg" alt="" />&nbsp; This is a philosophical discussion, at the above link, which touches upon the lack of sustainability of most of our current cultural models. Treading more lightly and reverently upon the Earth is being thrust upon us, you could say, and our species will be ever more receptive to it as we run out of other options.</p> <p>I was going to blog about Imbolc, the festival associated with candles, lactation, pomegranates, and beer.&nbsp; Around the Mediterranean the pomegranate, and the myth of the marriage of Persephone, is the dominant pattern. Farther north the ewes begin to lactate, demonstrating that lambs are on the way, and still farther north there is burning of the Yule greenery in great sparking bonfires, to spite the darkness.</p> <p>Days are in fact getting longer, and though the worst of winter in our own area is yet to come, we have hope. Jimmy the sun Prairie Groundhopg, or Punxatawney Phil, will prophesy the sort of winter yet before us at this season, at the full moon.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Already the Year of the Water Dragon has begun in Asia, at the new moon.&nbsp; But really,&nbsp; Zack is on to something...I think? here's a quote from the link above.</p> <p><em>Z. No, not at all. I&rsquo;m talking about what&rsquo;s being called a <strong>"resource-based economic model"</strong>(9), a holistic social and economic system in which the planetary resources are held as the common heritage of all the earth's inhabitants. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude(10). After all, that&rsquo;s mostly the system we&rsquo;ve had for about 95% of human existence(11), and one which was most nobly expressed in some of the Native American Indian cultures(12). Some people, like Steve McDonald, are envisioning that we are now entering a period in our evolution that some are calling <em>&ldquo;Neo-tribalism,"</em> where <em>&ldquo;we begin to see the Earth as one complex living system with its own intelligence, and ourselves as an integral part of it all. Now the tribe is humanity itself and our sacred land is planet Earth. There&rsquo;s a trend towards a non-interfering minimalistic lifestyle that&rsquo;s in harmony with nature, while maintaining all the advantages of our high technology.&rdquo;</em>(13)</em></p> <p><em> </em></p> <p><em>Q. Wholly shit man. I like the sounds of it, but that&rsquo;s some utopian stuff. But, given our whole discussion here today, I&rsquo;m open to being wrong. I will look into this thing you call a resource-based economic model and try to get my head around the idea of a world without money. </em></p> <p><em> </em></p> <p><em>Hey Zack, gotta run. It&rsquo;s been enlightening talking to you man. You are so &ldquo;righteous&rdquo; dude, ha ha.</em></p> <p><em> </em></p> <p><em>Z. Are you sure about that? Keep in mind that I&rsquo;m just a homeless bum. I could be totally wrong about everything we just discussed. </em></p> <p><em> </em></p> <p><em>Off I go in search of a meal and a cardboard box or tent to sleep in. By the way, can you spare any change?</em></p> <p><strong><em>&ldquo;Where there is recognition of right there must be recognition of wrong; where there is recognition of wrong there must be recognition of right.&rdquo;</em></strong> Chuang Tzu 2&nbsp; <img title="Smile" src="http://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/common/tiny_mce_3/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-smile.gif" border="0" alt="Smile" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>druid, humanity, politics, love29 Jan 12 21:36:38 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3223/On%20Beliefs%20and%20Being%20Wrong%3A%20%20Occupy%20Wall%20Street%20explained%20by%20Zack%2C%20%20for%20Imbolc.http://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3220/Worse%20than%20the%20Magdalen%20Laundries---%20<p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/this%20right%20here.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_this%20right%20here.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> <p>BIG VICTORY! Re:<strong> Lesbian Torture Clinics</strong></p> <p>FROM: Patrick Schmitt, Change.org</p> <p> TO: helgaleenas@ Message flagged</p> <p> Sunday, January 22, 2012 3:10 PM</p> <p> <a title="http://www.change.org/" href="http://www.change.org/">Change.org</a> </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-brony-hate-detected.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-brony-hate-detected.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /></em></p> <p><em>"After ten years of outcry, the nation of Ecuador -- through the Ministry of Public Health -- has entered into a commitment with civic organizations, and society in general, to deconstruct the belief that homosexuality is an illness and root out the use of torture in these clinics. We extend our thanks to all the men and women who signed our petition -- it's been an invaluable support in starting to change this reality."</em> - petition creator, <strong>Fundacion Causana</strong></p> <p> Dear Helgaleena,</p> <p> This is the beginning of the end -- the end of women suffering physical and emotional abuse (and even torture and sexual assault) in Ecuadorian clinics <strong>trying to "cure" them of being lesbians</strong>. <strong>All around Ecuador, countless women were being held against their will in hundreds of these so-called clinics.</strong></p> <p> For ten years, a group of brave women in Ecuador who call themselves Fundacion Causana tracked down survivors, documenting their stories and bringing them to light. But the situation wasn&rsquo;t changing.</p> <p> Then, something incredible happened. A petition that <strong>Fundacion Causana</strong> had started on <a href="http://www.change.org/start-a-petition">Change.org</a> calling on the Ministry of Health to take action was signed by more than 113,000 people around the world.</p> <p> Suddenly, officials were ready to meet with Fundacion Causana and take responsibility for the violence against women and LGBT Ecuadorians happening on their watch. Now, the Ecuadorian government is working hand in hand with Fundacion Causana to eradicate these clinics from Ecuador, free the women trapped there, and run a national public awareness campaign to fight homophobia.</p> <p>Sometimes, it takes a decade of fearless commitment before starting a petition on <a title="http://www.change.org/" href="http://www.change.org/">Change.org</a> tips the balance. Sometimes, a movement is sparked by one person starting a petition. But almost everyday now, there&rsquo;s a victory. <a title="http://www.change.org/" href="http://www.change.org/">Change.org</a>&rsquo;s mission is simple: to empower anyone, anywhere to start, join and win campaigns for social change.</p> <p>We&rsquo;re excited to help you win your own campaign -- the first step is to start a petition. <a href="http://www.change.org/start-a-petition">Just click here to get started.</a> Thanks for being a change-maker,</p> <p> - Patrick and the Change.org team</p> <p>This email was sent by<a title="http://www.change.org/" href="http://www.change.org/"> Change. org</a>|<a href="http://www.change.org/start-a-petition"> Start a petition</a></p> <p> Reply to: Reply to Patrick Schmitt,<a title="http://www.change.org/" href="http://www.change.org/"> Change.org</a></p> <p> <img class="alignnone" src="http://change-production.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/3/tv/ni/qFTVniqwvzjyRhc-180x118-cropped.jpg?1327254097&amp;utm_source=action_alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;alert_id=wkvkAoJLka_iwUbSKSjld&amp;me=aa" alt="" width="180" height="118" /></p> <p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/epic-win-photos-street-art-win.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_epic-win-photos-street-art-win.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p>druid, humanity, inhumanity, love24 Jan 12 00:51:54 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3220/Worse%20than%20the%20Magdalen%20Laundries---%20http://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3019/Another%20Archdruid%27s%20Report%3A%20The%20Blood%20of%20the%20Earth%2C%20or%20Pulp%20Nonfiction<p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/1774/The%20four%20peeps%20of%20the%20Apocalypse%20by%20Chance%20the%20Pug.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/1774/small_The%20four%20peeps%20of%20the%20Apocalypse%20by%20Chance%20the%20Pug.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2012/01/blood-of-earth-or-pulp-nonfiction.html">The Archdruid Report: The Blood of the Earth, or Pulp Nonfiction</a>.</p> <p> "It&rsquo;s not often remembered these days that the literal meaning of the word "apocalypse" is the revelation of something hidden. The term got its modern meaning because most of the prophecies that have been so labeled claim to reveal one hidden thing in particular, that is, the imminent end of history; but there&rsquo;s another sense in which the word is even more appropriate, and that sense seems worth exploring just at the moment. The presence and popularity of apocalyptic beliefs, I&rsquo;ve come to think, reveal something important about any society in which such beliefs occur.</p> <p> "Apocalyptic thinking, after all, doesn&rsquo;t come out of nowhere. It has an extensive history behind it, a point I tried to make in my recent book Apocalypse Not, but it also has roots in the collective psychology of any society in which it becomes popular. Epochs awash in apocalyptic beliefs are also full of intense social stress, but there are stressful periods in which very few people spend their time feverishly getting ready for the end of the world. What seems to do the trick is a particular kind of stress&mdash;specifically, the kind that happens when the narratives a society uses to make sense of the world no longer work."</p> <p> John Michael Greer is the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America</p> <p> Bonus info: <a href="http://www.disinfo.com/2012/01/the-oligarchy-we-live-in-charted/">disinfo's link to the chart of US Congressional income by percentage</a></p> <p> 'It just costs too much to run for Congress today for anyone who&rsquo;s not fairly well off to do it. And that&rsquo;s no coincidence. As income inequality goes up, campaign funding from rich donors also goes up. This creates an arms race that effectively precludes anyone who doesn&rsquo;t have either money of their own or access to wealthy donors from running. And that means that Congress has fewer and fewer members with any real connection to the working world.'</p> <p> John Greer's point is that science fiction is becoming ever less speculative and ever more close to our actual life experiences-- as fellow Druid <em>ahm</em> puts it, 'we are living inside a fantasy rpg!'</p> <p> Greer:</p> <p> "By this point, though, I suspect that you, dear reader, are wondering about one detail. If we&rsquo;re actually stuck inside the pages of a trashy fantasy novel, as I&rsquo;ve suggested, and all the details of the setting and the plot are in place, where is the protagonist? Who is the hero or the heroine who will turn the pages of the long-lost Gaianomicon, use its forgotten lore to forge a wand of power out of the rays of the Sun, shatter the deceptive spells of the lords of High Finance, and rise up amidst the wreckage of a dying empire to become one of the seedbearers of an age that is not yet born? Why, you are, of course."</p> <p> Helgaleena says,</p> <p>in that case let us all sit cross-legged and hum the sacred names of the deities of our choosing and keep out of trouble. In the southern hemisphere they are harvesting and in the northern hemisphere they are hibernating until Imbolc. Let us wrap ourselves in to ox-hide like the king-maker-seers of Tara and try for insight.</p> <p><a href="http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2012/01/blood-of-earth-or-pulp-nonfiction.html"><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/9026_138186062881_677402881_2699663_3274917_n.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_9026_138186062881_677402881_2699663_3274917_n.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></a></p>druid13 Jan 12 00:43:55 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3019/Another%20Archdruid%27s%20Report%3A%20The%20Blood%20of%20the%20Earth%2C%20or%20Pulp%20Nonfictionhttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3018/Healing%20Lines%20have%20been%20featured--%20<p><a href="http://www.rdna.info/news.html"><a href="http://www.rdna.info/news.html">http://www.rdna.info/news.html</a></a></p> <p>I am pleased to announce that an article from here has been featured in <strong>The Druid Inquirer,</strong></p> <p>Year of the Reform XLIX,</p> <p><big><big>Vol. 27. Issue 8, Dec 31, 2011 c.e.</big></big></p> <p><img src="http://www.rdna.info/newsyicons/yule.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p>and also a very short review of my favorite present this Solstice, which was a book.</p> <p><a href="http://www.rdna.info/news.html"><a href="http://www.rdna.info/news.html">http://www.rdna.info/news.html</a></a></p>druid, humanity04 Jan 12 21:38:55 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3018/Healing%20Lines%20have%20been%20featured--%20http://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3014/Gardening%20with%20spiritual%20connection%20%7E%20%20Joseph%20Rael%20echoes%20Rudolf%20Steiner%20<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKA9PXGRxE0">Beautiful Painted Arrow part 1</a></p> <p>Bio-dynamic agriculture and Joseph Rael's perceptions have many traits in common, most importantly the connection of all levels of existence through the cultivation and consumption cycle. We help the plant achieve its 'nirvana' by consuming it in the most mindful way.</p> <p> <a href="http://helgaleena.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/gardening-with-spiritual-connection/"><a href="http://helgaleena.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/gardening-with-spiritual-connection/">http://helgaleena.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/gardeni...</a> <br /></a></p> <p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/1774/green%20thing.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/1774/small_green%20thing.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://helgaleena.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/gardening-with-spiritual-connection/"></a><a href="http://helgaleena.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/teaching-the-feeling-of-the-land/"><a href="http://helgaleena.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/teaching-the-feeling-of-the-land/">http://helgaleena.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/teachin...</a></a></p> <p> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bOwLwtvIdk&amp;feature=related">Beautiful Painted Arrow part 2</a></p> <p>As in Anthroposophical education, the entire body and all the senses are used to learn. Once a young child has made this connection, all other learning can proceed in the most effective manner. All the beings and planets are connected and we are what we eat. That is what it means to truly be humans.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Now as Jupiter turns direct, it is time to expand our intentions for the unfolding year, spiraling out into the longer days as solstice has passed.&nbsp; Mindfulness in every facet of our incarnated existence is ancient, and it is universal. We fall into illness when we forget that we are, as Carl Sagan put it, "made of star-stuff"-- that it is as important to think of the consciousness of the foods we consume as it is our own, that there will always be planetary influence upon us at every level, and that the lunar tides are merely the closest and most obvious tides, the solar radiations the most ubiquitous and pervasive radiations, and the spaces between molecules just as vast as those in the cosomos.</p> <p>When you click on the links to the videos of traditional mystic Joseph Rael, you will hear things that are so familiar and yet so outlandish at the same time.&nbsp; And he doesn't give a flying corncob whether people think he's high, and he's not trying to get laid by groupies; he is gentle and humble and matter-of-fact about listening to the sounds of squash, not making a Frank Zappa joke.</p> <p>But I think you will conclude, as I have, that the planet will be much improved if we all learn to 'call any vegetable', even just one.</p> <p>Those who have studied the principles of Bio-Dynamic agriculture, or the Waldorf school system, or the movement art known as Eurythmy, will easily note the echoes of Rudolf Steiner's practical theosophy for the European mindset.&nbsp; Less focus has been placed upon North American traditional agricultural practices because the teachers were so thoroughly displaced from their ancestral settings by the colonizers. Survival depended upon nomadism and vagabondage for a crucial century in most areas.</p> <p>Just as manuring began to ameliorate the depredations of slash-and-burn upon the Old World, so can true mindfulness of all levels of consciousness, of ourselves, our crops, and our domestic animals, begin to repair the 'factory-farming' myopia that leads us to produce foods full of misery and empty of nutrition.</p> <p>There are cycles. Compost and mycelium need to return essential componds to the soil; algal mats need to remove excess from the water and return it to soil.&nbsp; Fires will turn excess acidity back to ashes.&nbsp; And humans can be part of it in many ways. Time to choose them.</p>General26 Dec 11 17:49:05 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3014/Gardening%20with%20spiritual%20connection%20%7E%20%20Joseph%20Rael%20echoes%20Rudolf%20Steiner%20http://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3001/%20%23Occupy%2C%20%23rebuild%2C%20%23review--%20Solstice%20New%20Moon%20conjunct%20Pluto.<p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/302439_10150360557214248_511989247_7947532_1129373140_n.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_302439_10150360557214248_511989247_7947532_1129373140_n.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> <p>&nbsp; <p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://wp.me/p12agD-2o"></a></p> <p> <a href="http://wp.me/p12agD-2o">A Part of the Problem on Jobs</a>.&nbsp; from<strong> A Year and a Day</strong>, the wordpress journal of Gwionbach</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The Occupy movement has been much upon my mind as the new moon approaches Pluto in Capricorn. And I stumbled upon this fine and clear summation by a fellow Druid, which applies at the very least to North America, in which I am a Reformed Druid.</p> <p>If you go to this posting you will find many informative links to statistics and possible solutions. Now is the time to reframe our realities, as Pluto's direct energies meet sun and moon. Plutoids are a strong team and a long-lasting one.</p> <p>And have a nice solstice re-alignment as well. It's all up from here, into longer and brighter.&nbsp;</p> <p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/296509_10150352607387863_674287862_8045499_1520565209_n.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_296509_10150352607387863_674287862_8045499_1520565209_n.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p>druid, humanity, politics, nature18 Dec 11 22:38:01 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/3001/%20%23Occupy%2C%20%23rebuild%2C%20%23review--%20Solstice%20New%20Moon%20conjunct%20Pluto.http://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2785/Objectification%2C%20Worship%20and%20Power--%20Ennobling%20%27Things%27<p>Objectification, Worship and Power-- Ennobling 'Things'</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> I have been working upon manuscript which deals with the liberation of ghosts from bondage even beyond the grave,wrought by the will of another. The happy ending is finally achieved when the spirits realize they are free to remember another identity outside the bondage state.</p> <p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/churchlady.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_churchlady.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> <p> Part of the binding of the victims' spirits involved reducing them to household appliances and furniture. Another part required stripping them completely of their previous identity as humans through loss of name, which in magical tradition is a puissant means of creation, or in this case, destruction. All of this was rendered evil because it was achieved through force.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> It occurred to me as I lay with my beloved, and he called me 'his throne', how different the outcome of the villain's impulse to subjugate could have been. I am happy to be my beloved's throne. It in no way diminishes my many other identities, as mother, editor, artist, and ArchDruid. The vicitms in the story were denied all other identitites except for furniture, and there's the rub.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> In mystical tradition, inanimate objects also contain spirit, each as worthy as our own incarnate human version, but invisible to us as we go about our daily lives. We can ennoble our pets and our other life companions by treating them with love and respect, honoring the divinity in them as much as the divinity in our fellow sentients.</p> <p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/funny-pictures-cats-in-bra.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_funny-pictures-cats-in-bra.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> <p>In other parts of the world, household and business machines, such as taxicabs and assembly lines, are given ceremonial blessings and these blessings are renewed seasonally.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me', and similar monotheistic pronouncements, can exist in harmony with such practices when one remembers that the Universal Life Force, or whatever other name you prefer, is everywhere, including these objects.</p> <p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/trinithakura.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_trinithakura.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> <p> Ceremonial worship is essentially the bestowing of love and attention of a positive nature upon objects. When the Wiccan heroine of the book I was editing blessed an athame, consecrated a thermos of herbal tea, or filled an area with incense or salt, she was performing actions of love. She was invoking the harmonic aid of the world around her to lessen suffering. Whether it is in a High Mass, a Buddhist temple, or a kinky bedroom, worship is a healing, and the healing is received when the worship is gladly accepted.</p> <p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/prehistoric%20Disney.png"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_prehistoric%20Disney.png.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> <p> It is hard to tell, in our incarnate limited bodies with their attenuated senses, whether inanimate objects such as an idol, or a taxicab for that matter, is gladly accepting our worshipful attention. WE can only judge by the feeling of satisfaction we may have after the service, or after we gaze down at a well-scrubbed kitchen floor.</p> <p> When it comes to being my beloved's 'throne' I can be much more expressive of my acceptance, and this ennobles us both. When it came to the villain in the book I'm editing, he got pleasure only out of the victims' sorrow and discomfort. This degraded him as well as them, and rendered them 'stuck' in the wrong plane and going the 'wrong' direction, once they were disembodied by death.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> Once I am disembodied, I don't think it will matter to me so much whether I reincarnate as an angel or as a chair. There are shiny 'thrones' both ways! the victims of the madman on the other hand had to remain as ghosts. They made the living humans uncomfortable and the physical spaces they were 'stuck' in unusable. They were very glad to be angels instead, as soon as they realized that they could.</p> <p>Being 'stuck' had cut them off from love. With the oriental greeting 'Namaste', or a bowing motion, one offers love and worship even to a stranger one has just met, because they too are a part of the universe. When there is involuntary bondage, exploitation, or degradation, that is a desecrating of a part of the universe, a cutting it off from love.</p> <p> How different the villain's character would have been if instead of forcing human beings to be objects, he had treated objects as nicely as human beings! It's quite common, after all, to value things in our cultures. We want money and many things, and to display them to others for their admiration and our own. This impulse does not have to be bad for us because it springs from love.</p> <p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/funny-captions-your-argument-is-delicious-andrew-garfield.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_funny-captions-your-argument-is-delicious-andrew-garfield.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> <p> A lonely person like the TV character Pee-Wee Herman begins to imagine that his household furnishings, the food in the refrigerator too, is alive and willing to be his friend. And though we might label this crazy behavior, it is not in a mystical sense false. And so he takes good care of his things, because he wants his inanimate friends to be as happy as he is when he is well cared for.</p> <p> Humans can be fooled into involuntary bondage for a while, but eventually they usually will get up the nerve to realize it must stop before they die of it. That is called revolution, and it only frightens those who have been getting reward or pleasure from degradation of fellow beings in some way. When they stop this, or are stopped, their fear of change will ebb away from them.</p> <p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/epic-win-photos-hacked-irl-i-love-revolutions.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_epic-win-photos-hacked-irl-i-love-revolutions.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> <p> We also see a large number of humans acting out of sympathy for beings with less ability to be understood, such as animals and plants and geographical locations. All these so called 'lesser' entities would benefit from worshipful treatment instead, just as much as our fellow humans would. Every material object has the potential to be a sacred ritual object, because they are all portions of the same Universe.</p> <p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/pastafarian%20tat.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_pastafarian%20tat.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> <p> Recently I read an amusing Twitter post from a young man-- 'None of the gals I know are into golden showers so I tape pics of boobs on the toilet and it's all good.' In my view, the next step should be for him to give thanks to his toilet for accepting his piss. Maybe he'll give it a nickname. It should aid him in his quest for the happy fulfillment of his fantasy, until that ideal shower partner comes along.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> By the way, Helga is not THAT sort of 'throne'. I believe too strongly in compost.</p>druid, writing, mythology, humanity, inhumanity, art03 Dec 11 21:54:48 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2785/Objectification%2C%20Worship%20and%20Power--%20Ennobling%20%27Things%27http://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2600/Where%20the%20%24%24%24%20Trillions%20are%20going---<p><img src="http://21stcenturywire.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/trillion_dollar_bill.jpg" alt="" /> </p><p><a href="http://t.co/QU3ojf3d" title="http://t.co/QU3ojf3d"><a href="http://t.co/QU3ojf3d">http://t.co/QU3ojf3d</a></a> </p><p>We 99% are not seeing them, nor are they being taxed. </p>General22 Nov 11 23:04:21 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2600/Where%20the%20%24%24%24%20Trillions%20are%20going---http://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2598/Being%20human%2C%20Being%20Badger<p><a href="http://philipcarrgomm.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/this-being-human/"><a href="http://philipcarrgomm.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/this-being-human/">http://philipcarrgomm.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/thi...</a></a></p> <p><em>This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor&hellip;Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.</em></p> <p><a href="http://philipcarrgomm.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/cropped-picture0438.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="http://philipcarrgomm.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/cropped-picture0438.jpg" alt="" /></a>Actually, it's a bit of a dodge because the Englishman Philip Carr-Gomm, head of one of the modern Druid Orders, is quoting a famous Sufi, Jalaluddin Rumi, about being human, when I had promised to blog next about BADGERS.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>One of my fellow Arch Druids of the Reformed Druids of North America recently brought to my attention the Honey Badger. It has been on the Internet recently with this slogan--</p> <p><a href="http://laughingsquid.com/honey-badger-dont-care/"><a href="http://laughingsquid.com/honey-badger-dont-care/">http://laughingsquid.com/honey-badger-dont-care/</a></a><a href="http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/honey-badger-20110303-164336.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/honey-badger-20110303-164336.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p>Honey badger is known for its thick skin and its taste for venomous puff adders and wasp larvae. It is a symbol of both endurance and tolerance. To get through 'this being human', we need to cultivate our inner honey badger sometimes.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>I am living in what is known as The Badger State, Wisconsin USA. Those 'badgers' were actually the rowdy, Cornish immigrant miners who ousted the local Native population in order to gouge out open pits for lead ore, fueling the munitions industry that led to US independence from the Crown. They were lead poisoned and brain-damaged and drunkenly belligerent and beat strangers and their own families indiscriminately; hence they became known as 'badgers'. Our state took the local mustelid for a mascot. That is how we transmuted darkness into a plucky red and white shirted sports icon. <a href="http://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/Fathead/99-99040_wisconsin_bucky_badger_prod?layer=comp&amp;wid=175&amp;hei=175&amp;fmt=jpeg&amp;qlt=95,1&amp;op_sharpen=1&amp;resMode=bicub&amp;op_usm=0.5,0.2,0,0&amp;iccEmbed=0&amp;bgc=0xeeeeee&amp;bgColor=0xeeeeee" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="http://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/Fathead/99-99040_wisconsin_bucky_badger_prod?layer=comp&amp;wid=175&amp;hei=175&amp;fmt=jpeg&amp;qlt=95,1&amp;op_sharpen=1&amp;resMode=bicub&amp;op_usm=0.5,0.2,0,0&amp;iccEmbed=0&amp;bgc=0xeeeeee&amp;bgColor=0xeeeeee" alt="" /></a>In the spirit of aerobics I will show you the 'Badger dance', which has the potential to help keep nerds and geeks trapped in cubicles from developing too much body fat due to their metabolism switching off from inactivity.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=xRmwECcpjgA"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=xRmwECcpjgA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedd...</a></a></p> <p> The original dance has spawned many re-enactment videos which can be seen on Youtube. The three basic 'katas' or positions, used in techno clubs around the globe now, are 'badger,', 'mushroom', and 'snake'.</p> <p>Here is a terribly murky clip of the Milwaukee duo The Gothsicles leading the Badger Dance live. </p> <p>One rises from one's ergonomic chair, bounces with arms out to the sides either upon the balls of the feet or at the knee or both, then when the interlude 'mushroom, mushroom' is reached, one keeps legs still and creates a 'cap' with the arms.</p> <p>For the third, 'snake' kata, there are two schools of thought. One is the walk to left and right with one's limbs making suggestive diagonals. I prefer to bend at the waist with hands in an elevated prayer posture while gently jogging in place, symbolizing retreat from the 'snake'.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>However you perform it, the Badger Dance promotes both endurance and humor. It is both simple and silly. That is why it is suitable for humans. </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>To bring this post full circle, you will note that the Neolitihic chalk monument Carr-Gomm favors, above, could be doing this dance. The Mevlevi Order founded by the Sufi saint Rumi is also known for meditation dancing. Theirs is solemn whirling in place, meant to connect the practitioners, as well as the audience, with the 'music of the spheres'. <a href="http://asecretforest.typepad.com/.a/6a0133ec89b204970b0148c790a121970c-800wi" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="http://asecretforest.typepad.com/.a/6a0133ec89b204970b0148c790a121970c-800wi?width=500" alt="" width="500" /></a>source: <a href="http://asecretforest.typepad.com/"><a href="http://asecretforest.typepad.com/">http://asecretforest.typepad.com/</a></a> </p> <p>This SoulGarden of ours is based upon the coming to grips with that larger universe, and its 'Astro-Weather', is it not? Dancing and moving is an essential part of achieving this understanding.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>General21 Nov 11 20:26:17 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2598/Being%20human%2C%20Being%20Badgerhttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2593/A%20collection%20of%20Occupy%20Links--%20%20Nov.%208%2C%202011<table id="post3789030" class="tborder" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%" align="center"> <tr valign="top"> <td id="td_post_3789030" class="alt1" style="border-right: 1px solid #cccccc;"><br /> <div id="post_message_3789030"> <p> Occupy St. Louis ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/occupy-protesters-city-hall-remain-at-odds/article_8ddc41c6-46ed-5fc6-b92d-7d66d58b78b0.html" target="_blank">Occupy protesters, City Hall remain at odds</a><br /> <br /> Occupy London ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/08/occupy-london-protesters-issue-demands?newsfeed=true" target="_blank">Occupy London protesters issue demands to lord mayor | UK news | The Guardian</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Boston arrests ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1379383&amp;srvc=rss" target="_blank">Occupy Boston arrests continue to mount - BostonHerald.com</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Oakland pledge ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2098891,00.html" target="_blank">Occupy Oakland Debates Violence and Black Bloc Anarchists - TIME</a> nonviolence in response to mayor's request<br /> <br /> Occupy Atlanta ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/05/occupy-atlanta-protesters-back-in-city-park/" target="_blank">Atlanta Police Arrest 5 People Following Protest | Fox News</a><br /> <br /> Occupy LA ~<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_19290362" target="_blank">Occupy LA marchers rally at downtown BofA bank - San Jose Mercury News</a><br /> <br /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/conrad-murray-occupy-la-protesters-go-to-courthouse.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lanowblog+%28L.A.+Now%29" target="_blank">Conrad Murray: Occupy L.A. protesters go to courthouse - latimes.com</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Vancouver ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/11/08/bc-city-injunction-occupy-vancouver.html" target="_blank">Occupy Vancouver protesters face arrest if they stay - British Columbia - CBC News</a> <br /> <br /> Occupy Sydney ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8371730/occupy-sydney-protesters-to-face-court" target="_blank">Occupy Sydney protesters to face court</a><br /> <br /> Occupy DC wants investigation into hit and run ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/occupy-dc-protesters-call-for-investigation-into-weekend-accident-say-4-people-not-3-hit/2011/11/07/gIQAm3CivM_story.html" target="_blank">Occupy DC protesters call for investigation into weekend accidents, say 4 people hit, not 3 - The Washington Post</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Santa Cruz ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ksbw.com/news/29715318/detail.html" target="_blank">'Occupy Santa Cruz' Camp Struggles To Make A Statement - Central Coast News Story - KSBW The Central Coast</a><br /> <br /> Occupy San Jose protesters assaulted ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mercurynews.com/occupy-oakland/ci_19284998" target="_blank">Occupy San Jose members assaulted - San Jose Mercury News</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Delaware ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/component/flexicontent/item/29568-occupy-delaware-tries-to-stop-sheriff-sale" target="_blank">Occupy Delaware tries to stop sheriff sale </a><br /> <br /> Occupy Tucson ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.fox11az.com/news/local/Occupy-Tucson-vows-to-stick-it-out-133458403.html" target="_blank">Occupy Tucson vows to stick it out | fox11az.com Tucson</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Salt Lake ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52870574-75/monday-burbank-protesters-federal.html.csp" target="_blank">Occupy SLC campers remain at federal building site Tuesday | The Salt Lake Tribune</a> <br /> <br /> Occupy San Antonio ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52870574-75/monday-burbank-protesters-federal.html.csp" target="_blank">Occupy SLC campers remain at federal building site Tuesday | The Salt Lake Tribune</a> <br /> <br /> Occupy Austin ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.statesman.com/news/local/city-paid-110-000-in-police-overtime-for-1955904.html" target="_blank">City paid $110,000 in police overtime for first two weeks of Occupy Austin</a><br /> <br /> Occupy San Diego protestors file restraining order ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://obrag.org/?p=48913&amp;cpage=1" target="_blank">Occupy San Diego to File Restraining Order Against City and Police</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Philly ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/11/an-occupy-philadelphia-wedding/" target="_blank"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline...lphia-wedding/">http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline...lphia-weddi...</a></a><br /> <br /> Occupy Tampa ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www2.tbo.com/news/breaking-news/2011/nov/08/7/occupy-tampa-finds-different-activities-to-occupy--ar-301372/" target="_blank">Occupy Tampa members try tai chi, meditation to occupy time | TBO.com</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Chicago seniors arrested ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/07/seniors-join-occupy-chica_n_1079553.html?ref=chicago" target="_blank">Seniors Join Occupy Chicago, Protest Cuts To Medicare, Social Security (VIDEO, PHOTOS)</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Halifax ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/occupy-protesters-vacate-halifax-city-hall-site-ahead-of-remembrance-day-133443093.html" target="_blank">Occupy Vancouver camp given ultimatum by police chief: leave now to avoid arrest - Winnipeg Free Press</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Nova Scotia ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2011/11/07/ns-occupy-move.html" target="_blank">Occupy Nova Scotia move begins - Nova Scotia - CBC News</a> <br /> <br /> Occupy Ft Collins CO ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20111108/UPDATES01/111108003/Occupy-Fort-Collins-protesters-peacefully-follow-rules-?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE" target="_blank">Occupy Fort Collins protesters peacefully follow rules | The Coloradoan | coloradoan.com</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Cardiff ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/11/08/occupy-movement-to-set-up-protest-camp-in-cardiff-s-city-centre-91466-29741213/" target="_blank">Occupy Movement to set up protest camp in Cardiff's city centre - Wales News - News - WalesOnline</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Trenton NJ ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/11/state_is_ordered_to_return_occ.html" target="_blank">N.J. is ordered to return Occupy Trenton possessions | NJ.com</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Moscow ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/even-with-guy-fawkes-masks-russian-protests-still-fail-2011-11" target="_blank">Russia's Attempt To Emulate Occupy Protests Ends In Arrests</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Victoria ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Updated+Occupy+Victoria+campers+ordered+leave+noon+today/5666187/story.html" target="_blank">Occupy Victoria campers rearrange tents but vow to stay</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Muncie IN ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20111108/NEWS01/111080341" target="_blank">Occupy fire 'accidental negligence,' sheriff says | The Star Press | thestarpress.com</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Fresno arrests ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/occupy-fresno-more-than-20-arrested.html" target="_blank">Occupy Fresno: More than 20 people arrested over the weekend - latimes.com</a> <br /> <br /> Occupy Raleigh NC ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.indyweek.com/citizen/archives/2011/11/08/occupy-raleigh-city-hall-city-council-committee-meets-tuesday-to-decide" target="_blank">[Updated-again] Occupy Raleigh City Hall? City Council committee says no, 3-0. | Citizen</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Asheville NC ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20111108/NEWS/311080033/Asheville-police-employee-under-probe-Occupy-post?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFrontpage" target="_blank">Asheville police employee under probe for Occupy post | The Asheville Citizen-Times | citizen-times.com</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Dunedin NZ ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=10764789" target="_blank">Police refuse to evict Dunedin Occupy protesters - National - NZ Herald News</a><br /> <br /> Occupy New Hampshire ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20111108-NEWS-111080315" target="_blank">Occupy N.H. is about 'democracy' | SeacoastOnline.com</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Anchorage extreme camping ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/occupy-anchorage-protesters-soldier-winter" target="_blank">'Occupy Wall Street' protest in Anchorage continues despite winter's arrival | Alaska Dispatch</a><br /> <br /> Okay my fingers are giving out. <img class="inlineimg" title="Tongue" src="http://www.lpsg.org/images/smilies/tongue.gif" border="0" alt="" /> but these are all from TODAY, fresh links! 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ABC Melbourne - Australian Broadcasting Corporation</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Keystone XL Pipeline (in Obama's face) ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://theenergycollective.com/asiegel/68778/screeching-halt-keystone-xl-plans" target="_blank">Occupy Keystone XL: 13,000 Protest Pipeline at Whitehouse | The Energy Collective</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Atlanta unity ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.theroot.com/buzz/occupy-atlanta-unites-bloods-and-crips" target="_blank">Occupy Atlanta: Bloods and Crips Unite</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Omaha ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/Occupy_Omaha_Wont_Be_Using_Elmwood_Park_133382518.html?storySection=comments" target="_blank">Occupy Omaha Won't Be Using Elmwood Park</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Santa Ana Orange County ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ocregister.com/news/council-325948-tents-benavides.html" target="_blank">No tents for 'Occupy' in Santa Ana, council says | council, tents, ben - The Orange County Register</a> <br /> <br /> Occupy Coachella Valley CA ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://lakeelsinore-wildomar.patch.com/articles/occupy-movement-to-protest-bush-s-visit-to-region" target="_blank">Occupy Movement To Protest Bush's Visit To Region - Lake Elsinore-Wildomar, CA Patch</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Youngstown OH ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://business-journal.com/occupy-group-eyes-indefinite-occupation-p20354-1.htm" target="_blank">Occupy Group Eyes Indefinite Occupation</a><br /> <br /> Robert Reich: Occupy movement 'not a class war' and 'already a big success' ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2011/11/robert-reich-occupy-not-class-war.html" target="_blank">Robert Reich: Occupy movement not part of ?class war? - San Francisco Business Times</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Appleton WI moves indoors ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20111107/APC0101/111070423/Story-new-photos-video-numbers-fade-Occupy-protesters-pivot-policy" target="_blank">As numbers fade, Occupy Appleton protesters pivot to policy | Appleton Post Crescent | postcrescent.com</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Edmonton AB ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2011/11/07/edmonton-occupy-winterizing.html" target="_blank">Occupy Edmonton gets winter ready - Edmonton - CBC News</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Flint MI ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2011/11/occupy_flint_group_sets_up_ten.html" target="_blank">Occupy Flint group sets up tents in front of Flint city hall | MLive.com</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Seattle becomes classroom ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/College-professors-host-classes-in-Occupy-Seattle-2253693.php" target="_blank">College professors host classes in Occupy Seattle - seattlepi.com</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Portland OR ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/11/occupy_portland_police_say_cri.html" target="_blank">Occupy Portland: Police say crime has increased downtown near camp | OregonLive.com</a><br /> <br /> OWS moves to Dept. of Education ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/07/occupy-wall-street-department-of-education_n_1080875.html" target="_blank">Occupy Wall Street Protests Outside Department Of Education</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Worchester Mass. ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.telegram.com/article/20111108/NEWS/111109599/1116" target="_blank">Worcester Telegram &amp; Gazette - telegram.com - Occupy Worcester protesters get fines, community service</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Toronto ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1083542--occupy-toronto-ready-to-legally-resist-eviction-if-necessary" target="_blank">Toronto News: Occupy Toronto ready to legally resist eviction if necessary - thestar.com</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Sacramento ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/11/08/41297.htm" target="_blank">Courthouse News Service</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Calgary ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2011/11/07/calgary-occupy-no-camping.html" target="_blank">City to remove Occupy Calgary tents in Olympic Plaza - Calgary - CBC News</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Bloomington IN ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/91e77ae1e972457d8abd8b860df84da9/IN--Occupy-Indiana/" target="_blank">Coroner: Man found dead at Occupy Bloomington camp was homeless, seeking shelter | The Republic</a><br /> <br /> Occupy Mobile ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/9f925a67e9f74263b3781b434402e8a1/AL--Occupy-Mobile/" target="_blank">Mayor tells Occupy Mobile protesters to leave downtown park by Wednesday | The Republic</a><br /> <br /> Occupy El Paso ~ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.utepprospector.com/mobile/occupy-el-paso-movement-continues-support-dwindling-1.2687792" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.utepprospector.com/mobile...ling-1.2687792">http://www.utepprospector.com/mobile...ling-1.2687...</a></a><br /> <br /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://occupytogether.org/" target="_blank">Occupy Together</a> for an occupation near you! </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="alt2" style="border-right: 1px solid #cccccc;" height="100%" valign="bottom"> <p><br /> </td> </tr> </table>druid, humanity, inhumanity, art, romance08 Nov 11 23:37:51 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2593/A%20collection%20of%20Occupy%20Links--%20%20Nov.%208%2C%202011http://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2588/Nimue%20Brown%20on%20Samhain%20and%20the%20Dead%20%20%20<p>I am spreading the reflections of a fellow Druid, Nimue Brown this New Year.</p> <p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/churchlady.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_churchlady.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> <p>Here is an excerpt:</p> <p> <strong>We have a culture in which real death is kept out of sight, while pretend death is ever more present. From violent movies to shoot em up computer games, fictional horror can be a feature of daily life. It&rsquo;s an odd juxtaposition to say the least. For me there is no supernatural. Everything, by definition, is within nature. I have thoughts about our degree of understanding of &lsquo;nature&rsquo; and that for a long time anything we can&rsquo;t explain has been &lsquo;supernatural&rsquo;. These days we tend to go for whichever buzz term around the wilder ends of physics is in vogue. These days, if we can&rsquo;t explain it, we make noises about quantum. In folklore this is the time of year when the veil between the worlds is thin, the dead walk, the wild hunt rides, the faerie courts move from their summer to their winter halls. Tam Lin&rsquo;s climax is set around Halloween. It is a good time to think about people we&rsquo;ve lost, and our ancestors as well. Most of our ancestors are not known to us, but we wouldn&rsquo;t be here without them, after all.&nbsp; <br /></strong></p> <p><a href="http://druidlife.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/samhain-and-the-dead/"><a href="http://druidlife.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/samhain-and-the-dead/">http://druidlife.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/samhain-...</a></a></p> <p><strong><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/1774/unworthy.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/1774/small_unworthy.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /></strong></p>General30 Oct 11 14:10:06 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2588/Nimue%20Brown%20on%20Samhain%20and%20the%20Dead%20%20%20http://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2584/The%20Carrot%2C%20the%20Egg%2C%20and%20the%20Coffee%20Bean%2C%20A%20Kitchen%20Fable%3B%20with%20bonus%20Chickpeas<p><strong>I found this on Facebook in a group called Exceptional Living and promptly decided to broadcast it. </strong></p> <p>Story: Handling Adversity: Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?</p> <p> A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose.</p> <p> Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water. In the first, she placed carrots. In the second, she placed eggs and the last one, she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil without saying a word. In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.</p> <p>Turning to her daughter, she asked, &ldquo;Tell me what you see?&rdquo;</p> <p> &ldquo;Carrots, eggs, and coffee,&rdquo; she replied. She brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted they got soft. She then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, she asked her to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled, as she tasted its rich aroma.</p> <p> The daughter then asked, &ldquo;What&rsquo;s the point, mom?&rdquo; Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity&ndash;the boiling water&ndash;but each reacted differently.</p> <p>The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak.</p> <p> The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior. But, after sitting through the boiling water, its insides became hardened.</p> <p> The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water they had changed the water.</p> <p> &ldquo;Which one are you?&rdquo; she asked her daughter. &ldquo;When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?&rdquo; Think of this: Which am I?</p> <p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/CarrotBomb_big-1.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_CarrotBomb_big-1.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> <p> Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity, do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?</p> <p> Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and a hardened heart?&nbsp;</p> <p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/BIRTHOFACLONE%20BY%20ELTHEGENERAL.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_BIRTHOFACLONE%20BY%20ELTHEGENERAL.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> <p> Or am I like a coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you.</p> <p>When the hours are the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you elevate to another level? How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?</p> <p>~ Author Unknown&nbsp;</p> <p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/111c710f-6967-42d6-8789-b014c11868a3.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_111c710f-6967-42d6-8789-b014c11868a3.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> <p> <strong>Speaking for myself, my ego would like to be the coffee bean who changes the water that boiled me. However, in the process I would lose my shape completely and be thrown out while the water would be relished. I think the lesson here is that no matter what sort of effect the boiling pot of life has upon us, it renders us more palatable than we were before. Cooked carrots and eggs are good, and coffee is great! </strong></p> <p><strong>Here is a famous poem by Rumi about boiling chickpeas. </strong></p> <p><a href="http://wildriceblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/chickpea-poem.html "><a href="http://wildriceblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/chickpea-poem.html">http://wildriceblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/chickpea-...</a> </a></p> <p> A chickpea leaps almost over the rim of the pot where it's being boiled. "Why are you doing this to me?"</p> <p>The cook knocks him down with the ladle. "Don't you try to jump out.</p> <p> You think I'm torturing you. I'm giving you flavor, so you can mix with spices and rice and be the lovely vitality of a human being.</p> <p>Remember when you drank rain in the garden. That was for this."</p> <p> Grace first. Sexual pleasure, then a boiling new life begins, and the Friend has something good to eat.</p> <p> Eventually the chickpea will say to the cook, "Boil me some more. Hit me with the skimming spoon.</p> <p> I can't do this by myself. I'm like an elephant that dreams of gardens back in Hindustan and doesn't pay attention to his driver.</p> <p>You're my cook, my driver, my way into existence. I love your cooking."</p> <p> The cook says, "I was once like you, fresh from the ground.</p> <p> Then I boiled in time, and boiled in the body, two fierce boilings.</p> <p>My animal soul grew powerful. I controlled it with practices, and boiled some more, and boiled once beyond that, and became your teacher."</p> <p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/foodporn_life.png"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_foodporn_life.png.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p>General24 Oct 11 22:14:08 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2584/The%20Carrot%2C%20the%20Egg%2C%20and%20the%20Coffee%20Bean%2C%20A%20Kitchen%20Fable%3B%20with%20bonus%20Chickpeashttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2541/On%20the%20relevance%20of%20the%20eight%20festivals%20to%20modern%20Druids<p>--- In <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RDNAtalk/">RDNAtalk@yahoogroups.com</a>, "Mec" wrote:</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&gt; &gt; Sigh, is it a Mid-vocation crisis I'm having here?</p> <p> &gt; &gt; We can read OODLES about the 8 festivals, nifty customs and cool tips for making them come together. Rather few sites really explore WHY we show up every 45 days to be interested in odd things like farming, raising cattle and blacksmithing. (cool as they are) Why does a modern Druid need to know this?</p> <p>&gt; &gt; Every religion has its special days, and generally does them every year, depending on solar or lunar calendar, around the same time.</p> <p> &gt; &gt; Are the 8 festivals of druids/pagans/wiccans a bit stilted and divorced from the actual natural cycles, and more an imposition of regularity on a fluid and unpredictable schedule?</p> <p>&gt; &gt; I'm been having some thoughts on whether with full sincerity I can celebrate the husbandry/agriculture festival in which I neither raise livestock nor touch a spade, and for which I do not eat much local produce. A bit out of touch, perhaps not the only one.</p> <p>&gt; &gt; What I feel left with is a shell of a holiday structure that while symbolic and pretty is hollowed out by non-participation in the reason they are celebrating.</p> <p>&gt; &gt; Yes, I probably should grow a garden, eat local, and adopt a farm.</p> <p>&gt; &gt; -Mike</p> <p>&gt; Re: <strong>What do you think about seasonal festivals? <br /></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/missyou.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_missyou.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Here is what I answered to Mike, though mine was not the only answer.</em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> Dear Mike,</p> <p> please don't 'should' yourself. Whether you do any of those earthy things or not is beside the point. Like it or not, we are all a part of Nature.</p> <p> Mihalyi Cziksentmihalyi, in his book<strong> Flow</strong> and its sequel, examines the neurological underpinnings of not only the experience of happiness, but the amount of instinctive behavior we cannot avoid. Much like manufacturing our own vitamin D by absorbing sunlight, accepting our unavoidable links to Nature simply is common sense and to be encouraged.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"> <strong>And to quote the two Tenets-- Nature is Good.</strong></p> <p> Thus it follows that the eight festivals, whether we engage in actual agriculture or not, continue to have their effects upon us as we all live upon the planet and in this space/time that cycles through its seasonal changes. I have, for the past few years, tried to enumerate the relevance of the eight festivals as they manifest to me and in the life I observe globally as well. It is there to be scrolled through at my druid blog, Healing Lines.</p> <p> <a href="http://helgaleena.mylivepage.com "><a href="http://helgaleena.mylivepage.com">http://helgaleena.mylivepage.com</a> </a></p> <p> I do post about other things too, but the passage of time inevitably brings on another season for me to experience and record in my tremendously personally biased fashion.</p> <p> helgaleena</p> <p>White Rabbit Grove</p> <p> old school RDNA</p> <p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/stephenandmelindagatesfoundation.org.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_stephenandmelindagatesfoundation.org.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> <p>PS: if you upload a photo of yourself at the website pictured, the rich people will donate $50 to USA schools, maybe more.&nbsp; Since the one percent have firm control of the government and want to cut all services to the 99 percent, this is likely prudent of us.</p>druid, humanity, nature13 Oct 11 18:29:17 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2541/On%20the%20relevance%20of%20the%20eight%20festivals%20to%20modern%20Druidshttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2538/Angry%20Druid%3F%20Might%20be%20time%20for%20that.%20<p><a href="http://druidlife.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/peaceful-druid-angry-druid/#comment-246"><a href="http://druidlife.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/peaceful-druid-angry-druid/#comment-246">http://druidlife.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/peaceful...</a></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>The preceding is a link to fellow Druid Nimue Brown's blog entitled 'Peaceful Druid, Angry Druid'. She admits that peace is the ideal state, but not always is it the appropriate state. If there are situations that need remedy, wrath might be the needed medicine.&nbsp;</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> <a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/bluebird.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_bluebird.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> <p> <strong>And here is another fine link, to an interview with one of the dedicated Wall Street Occupiers. The title of that one is 'Why the Elites Are In Trouble'... <br /></strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/10-1#.TpMbW2kpJD5.facebook"><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/10-1#.TpMbW2kpJD5.facebook">http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/10-1#.TpM...</a></a></p> <p><strong>Here is a little taste of the interview. </strong></p> <p> &ldquo;People were worried we were going to get kicked out of the park at 10 p.m. This was a major concern. There were tons of cops. I&rsquo;ve heard that it&rsquo;s costing the city a ton of money to have constant surveillance on a bunch of peaceful protesters who aren&rsquo;t hurting anyone. With the people&rsquo;s mic, everything we do is completely transparent. We know there are undercover cops in the crowd. I think I was talking to one last night, but it&rsquo;s like, what are you trying to accomplish? We don&rsquo;t have any secrets.</p> <p>&ldquo;The undercover cops are the only ones who ask, &lsquo;Who&rsquo;s the leader?&rsquo; &rdquo; she said. &ldquo;Presumably, if they know who our leaders are they can take them out. The fact is we have no leader. There&rsquo;s no leader, so there&rsquo;s nothing they can do.</p> <p> &ldquo;There was a woman [in the medics unit]. This guy was pretending to be a reporter. The first question he asks is, &lsquo;Who&rsquo;s the leader?&rsquo; She goes, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m the leader.&rsquo; And he says, &lsquo;Oh yeah, what are you in charge of?&rsquo; She says, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m in a charge of everything.&rsquo; He says, &lsquo;Oh yeah? What&rsquo;s your title?&rsquo; She says &lsquo;God.&rsquo; &rdquo;</p> <p>... &ldquo;We&rsquo;re trying to make this a space that everyone can join. This is something the caucuses are trying to really work on. We are having workshops to get people to understand their privilege.&rdquo; <em><br /></em></p> <p><em>But perhaps the most important rule adopted by the protesters is nonviolence and nonaggression against the police, no matter how brutal the police become.</em></p> <p>&ldquo;The cops, I think, maced those women in the face and expected the men and women around them to start a riot,&rdquo; Ketchup said. &ldquo;They want a riot. They can deal with a riot. They cannot deal with nonviolent protesters with cameras.&rdquo;</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Now, an angry Druid does not cause mayhem for its own sake. These occupiers are incomprehensible to the powers that they are tackling because these powers cannot conceive of a world which does not need their intervention. But that intervention is precisely the illness which needs remedy. A parasite needs to be detached because it is burdening its food source. </strong></p> <p><strong>Chris Hedges, the interviewer, puts it thus:</strong></p> <p> <em>The elites believe, and seek to make us believe, that globalization and unfettered capitalism are natural law, some kind of permanent and eternal dynamic that can never be altered. What the elites fail to realize is that rebellion will not stop until the corporate state is extinguished. It will not stop until there is an end to the corporate abuse of the poor, the working class, the elderly, the sick, children, those being slaughtered in our imperial wars and tortured in our black sites. It will not stop until foreclosures and bank repossessions stop. It will not stop until students no longer have to go into debt to be educated, and families no longer have to plunge into bankruptcy to pay medical bills. It will not stop until the corporate destruction of the ecosystem stops, and our relationships with each other and the planet are radically reconfigured.</em></p> <p> <strong>Myself, I have always preferred to think of the human race as the parasite being shucked by our host, Nature. To that end, our killing each other off seems acceptable, including the status quo funded by constant wars. These people in Zucotti Park, New York City, are doing an end run around the present untenable status quo because they intend to live. One can't fault them for wanting to survive, even if the wealthy in their tall glass buildings do not care one way or the other. <br /></strong></p> <p><strong> Mainstream media is still woefully behind on how much protest is actually going on. It's more than six hundred satellite 'occupations' now, including state capitals and the headquarters of multinational conglomerates, and also other countries. It also includes several areas in Washington DC.</strong></p> <p><strong> I think it's less 'angry' Druid, and more 'fed-up' Druid, me writing this. But it's harvest time, the crops are in and we can do battle with the encroaching dark, wresting our survival from its very jaws. Let the forces of decay have the remains after slaughter and smoking. And feed us all.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/blue_hand.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_blue_hand.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /></strong></p>inhumanity, politics, druid, nature10 Oct 11 19:21:25 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2538/Angry%20Druid%3F%20Might%20be%20time%20for%20that.%20http://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2533/United%20States%20banks%20are%20gobbling%20each%20other%20up%21%20%20<p><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/monopolies.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_monopolies.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> <p><img src="http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/309648_2498030260222_1536851625_32813117_1476141785_n.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p> <img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_funny-sports-pictures-go-to-your-people.jpg.jpg" alt="" /> Go, balls, to batter the monopolies...</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><a href="http://occupytogether.org"><a href="http://occupytogether.org">http://occupytogether.org</a></a>inhumanity, politics, nature, druid05 Oct 11 23:54:57 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2533/United%20States%20banks%20are%20gobbling%20each%20other%20up%21%20%20http://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2530/completely%20awesome%20%20universe%20of%20gif%20ponies%20%20---%20ON%20Wall%20Street%21%20%20R%20U%20LISTENING%2C%20world%3F<p><img src="http://chzbronies.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-brony-ponies-forever.gif" alt="" /></p>humanity23 Sep 11 19:55:50 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2530/completely%20awesome%20%20universe%20of%20gif%20ponies%20%20---%20ON%20Wall%20Street%21%20%20R%20U%20LISTENING%2C%20world%3Fhttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2528/Happy%20Equinox%20from%20our%20Alien%20Overlords---%20I%20mean%2C%20Angelic%20Guides%20<p>[youtube <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hWNjOfERkU]">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hWNjOfERkU]</a></p> <p>Now that darkness and light are of equal length, now that harvest and slaughter are in order to prepare for the year's end, it is time to visit still pools and look into mirrors and realize that we all have a doppelganger. We all have a dark side. We all have an internal wife or husband or angel upon our shoulders. Time to call in the flocks and muster the reserves and give thanks for them. Otherwise, it is time to give up the ghost and push up the daisies.</p> <p>[youtube <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v38af7DXv0]">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v38af7DXv0]</a></p> <p>This wise cat in the Wisconsin woods thinks it's time to be the Fool on the Tarot card. Step out with an open mind, right off the cliff into the future, and see if your wings work.</p> <p><a href="http://soulgardentv.ning.com/profiles/blogs/are-you-ready-to-receive"><a href="http://soulgardentv.ning.com/profiles/blogs/are-you-ready-to-receive">http://soulgardentv.ning.com/profiles/blogs/are-yo...</a></a></p> <p>So, celebrate this turn of the year, and say hi to our angelic guides, or internal archetypes, or alien overlords, or whatever they are. As above, so below, on Earth as it is in 'heaven'. Let's dance.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img src="http://helgaleena.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/libra2.jpg?w=197" alt="" /></p> <p><a title="http://kosmicmind.blogspot.com/2011/09/intimations-of-new-world-new-moon-in.html" href="http://kosmicmind.blogspot.com/2011/09/intimations-of-new-world-new-moon-in.html"><a href="http://kosmicmind.blogspot.com/2011/09/intimations-of-new-world-new-moon-in.html">http://kosmicmind.blogspot.com/2011/09/intimations...</a> </a></p> <p><br /> </p>druid, mythology, humanity21 Sep 11 19:47:32 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2528/Happy%20Equinox%20from%20our%20Alien%20Overlords---%20I%20mean%2C%20Angelic%20Guides%20http://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2497/Horn%20of%20Plenty%20announcement<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMBhrZfL1l0 ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMBhrZfL1l0 </a> </p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMBhrZfL1l0"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMBhrZfL1l0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMBhrZfL1l0</a></a> </p>General30 Aug 11 15:51:35 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2497/Horn%20of%20Plenty%20announcementhttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2495/Stop%20this%21%20%20<p><a href="http://ittybiz.com/death-threats-online/"><a href="http://ittybiz.com/death-threats-online/">http://ittybiz.com/death-threats-online/</a></a> I do not want to see the blogging world filled with people actually willing to harm one another in the offline world. Just stop it.<a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/spyvspy.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_spyvspy.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/epic-win-photos-hacked-irl-i-love-revolutions.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_epic-win-photos-hacked-irl-i-love-revolutions.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/superheroes-batman-superman-mjolnyan.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_superheroes-batman-superman-mjolnyan.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><a class="lightwindow" author="" caption="" title="" href="http://image040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/110305-tolerate-thumb-548x449.jpg"><img src="http://thumbnail040.mylivepage.com/chunk40/492022/286/small_110305-tolerate-thumb-548x449.jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p>General30 Aug 11 15:46:21 GMThttp://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/2495/Stop%20this%21%20%20