Quote from: Altair on January 27, 2024, 11:14:20 am If you use music for meditation in the first place, what *type* of music is your go-to? I'm not talking specific pieces here (though doubtless they'll come up as examples), but rather: What's the common element shared by those pieces that you find transporting? Most of the time, I meditate without music. But when I do use music, for me, the key seems to be a droning bass. Something about a sustained low-frequency tone sends my mind into neutral. Sometimes when I'm not meditating but nonetheless listening to such music, I hum along...and then ..read more

Quote from: Sefiru on April 18, 2024, 08:28:55 pm From the youtube channel Strange Aeons comes this fascinating video about the intersections between fanfiction, lucid dreaming and sprituality: [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbWp0z5p8x0[/video] The video as a whole is about reality shifting (ie the belief that one can travel to alternate dimensions in dreams), but the part I find most interesting is the last segment (starting around 33:00) in which Strange discusses how the internet has shaped new forms of spirituality. I'm especially intrigued by the description of the Internet as ..read more

Quote from: Castus on Yesterday at 12:30:36 pm I’m torn. On the one hand, good! The Satanic Temple can go fuck itself — a vast collective of edgy atheist smoothbrains who exist to shock, provoke, and denigrate. I could not in my wildest dreams imagine a ‘religion’ which more richly deserves government hostility. If I was a Florida parent I wouldn’t want TST’s sorry excuse for chaplains within a country mile of my children; I shudder to think of vulnerable students being ministered to by an atheistic Satanist when they find themselves in times of trouble. I’m not typically a stalwart fan of De ..read more

Quote from: Altair on Yesterday at 04:46:57 am Heh. Good luck with that, Ron! 'Not a religion': Florida Gov. DeSantis signs school chaplain bill, says Satanists not welcome 'That is not a religion,' the governor said. 'That is not qualifying to be able to participate in this.' The lawsuit will be epic and, eventually, a no-brainer win for those deliciously provocative folks of the Satanic Temple. From the article (emphasis mine): "The Satanic Temple, which the IRS recognizes as a tax-exempt church, told the USA TODAY NETWORK-Florida earlier in the year that it would put school chaplains in ..read more

Quote from: Altair on Yesterday at 04:46:57 am Heh. Good luck with that, Ron! 'Not a religion': Florida Gov. DeSantis signs school chaplain bill, says Satanists not welcome 'That is not a religion,' the governor said. 'That is not qualifying to be able to participate in this.' I'm not so confident in some of the courts on this, especially the Florida courts and our stacked SCOTUS right now. I worry that there may be a reassessment of what makes something a "religion" or at least one deserving of legal recognition. I think a case could be made that TST is an activist organization and not a re ..read more

Cauldron Cill Roster Apr 22 - May 11 (Also available on the Cill's Google Calendar .) 01. Apr 22: Vacant (covered by Chatelaine) 02. Apr 23: Vacant (covered by Morag) 03. Apr 24: Hariti 04. Apr 25: Vacant (covered by Juni) 05. Apr 26: Garnet 06. Apr 27: Vacant (covered by Garnet) 07. Apr 28: Karen 08. Apr 29: Juni 09. Apr 30: Perdita 10. May 1: Amphibian 11. May 2: Vacant (covered by Sunflower) 12. May 3: Sunflower 13. May 4: Morag 14. May 5: Silver Lynx 15. May 6: Rocquelaire* 16. May 7: Vacant (covered by Chatelaine) 17. May 8: Vacant (covered by Hariti) 18. May 9: Chatelaine 19. May 10: Ke ..read more

[quote author=Sefiru link=topic=18575.msg237534#msg237534 date=1712614178 The best way to describe my own reaction is "shook" (Even though I knew, intellectually, what was going to happen). Also, photographs do not do totality justice. [/quote] The photos are great, but there's so much more going on that I didn't understand until experiencing it. The way the colours change as the light shifts! The 360 degree sunset! The temperature! It's a full body sensory experience in a way the photos can't transmit at all ..read more

Quote from: Jenett on April 05, 2024, 11:10:39 pm And the weather forecast is looking promising for northern New England and Canada! Mother Nature is a fricking tease, that's what! Morning: mostly clear; I leave for the park, clouds roll in; eclipse just starting, a clear patch again; will-they-or-won't-they clouds leading up to totality. And just in time, clouds cleared up just enough to see the main event  The best way to describe my own reaction is "shook" (Even though I knew, intellectually, what was going to happen). Also, photographs do not do totality justice ..read more

Quote from: atr on April 06, 2024, 07:02:42 pm After the Los Angeles Northridge earthquake in 1994, the observatory there received tons of calls about things in the sky - people legit DID NOT KNOW stars were even a thing. Sure they did. They just didn't know about the ones that live in the sky, rather than in, say, Malibu. <runs away very fast, laughing> (Alas, your corrected link, while it does work for going to the article, is paywalled.) Sunflower ..read more

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