Arbor Low
I've been meaning to post this story for a while, but things have been really hectic for tribe Sargant recently :-) Arbor Low is a stone circle near Buxton, Derbyshire... I've known of it since...
View ArticleLet us speak of marvellous things
Let us speak of marvellous things Lest we get mired in the illusion of drudgery Let us gather, and speak of marvellous things And journey to worlds of omens, faery, of sunrise And more Let us speak,...
View ArticleWhere the sky ends and space begins
(a short tale written in response to a flame war starting on a forum I once managed. written very quickly in one sitting it sort of poured out onto the paper) I once knew a story about a boy called...
View ArticleJOHN CLEESE'S LETTER TO AMERICA
To the citizens of the United States of America: In light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of our...
View ArticleI am become
I am become bornless Beyond death I have stood outside of time And been present at my ending I am witness to my own emergence And guide to my transition I have seen my mother In three causes of pain My...
View ArticleThe Matron/Patron Diety
I've had a conscious/explicit relationship with an external power for many years now (actually, since childhood, when I think about it)... call it a god, a guide, a spirit, I don't know and I'm not...
View ArticleSocietal Control Trances
I'm in the process of redefining my understanding of trance. Succinctly, trance is a repetition of cognitive events/thoughts that result in a specific state of consciousness that disables certain...
View ArticleA "Civilisation" gone senile?
In a post on a tribe here, I posed the idea that our country (I was specifically referring to the UK) is not coping with age very well. The more I think about it, the more I see depressing signs of...
View ArticleACLU vs the Fear Mongerers and Terror Trance Generators
Obviously I'm not American, but this clearly has implications over here in the UK in light of recent developments. I thought important enough to add to the viral dissemination Thanks Snohomish for...
View ArticleZen Judaism
Found this in the Jokes tribe... made me laugh, anyway :-) If there is no self, whose arthritis is this? Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated? Drink tea and nourish life. With...
View ArticleCrash
I've just watched this film for the second time and I'm damned if I didn't ball my eyes out AGAIN at the cloak of protection scene... and this time I knew what was going to happen!!!!
View ArticleDidjeridu UK 99
I've just managed to get an old video of the UK Didjeridu UK 99 festival converted and I'm gonna start uploading some bits to youtube If you check out my profile or go here...
View ArticleNon-christian and pagan religions in Religious Education in the UK?
The judeo-christian slant in RE has always bugged me... although I would probably change the wording, I do think this petition is not such a bad idea http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Study-Paganism/#detail
View Article15 years today
15 years married and it's still cool... take a look at my anniversary present :-) 45 and no longer a tattoo virgin. You know, it amazes me... the number of people I tell I've been married 15 years and...
View ArticleSTOP the Zimbabwe Arms Shipment
A ship carrying arms, including 3 million rounds of ammunition, bound for Zimbabwe is currently trying to find a way of delivering its deadly cargo. It is highly likely that these weapons will be used...
View ArticleIn Insania Veritas
(I don't know if I got the latin right... no classical background, see) I've written elsewhere that I am a mental health nurse who doesn't believe in mental illness, and I've felt prompted to expand on...
View ArticleI am just a geekster for your love
See my new box!!! I just built that, I did, and I'm feeling like a timelord with a new tardis :-) Running nothing but Ubuntu (actually UbuntuStudio) I finally made the switch to using ubuntu for all...
View ArticleThose who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary...
attributed to Benjamin Franklin, and oh so pertinent to the middle managers that these days we call politicians in the UK :-(
View ArticleDancing
I am not afraid to dance with death But will mourn departing my own kind I will not fight that final breath Yet with tears will leave my belove'd behind I've just got out of hospital. I've been plagued...
View ArticleA Druid Philosophy
The following was a post I made on the British Druid Order forum (http://www.druidry.co.uk/forum/post153.html#p153) in response to another board member. Craig wrote "If we apply the philosophy you...
View ArticleMystic Delight
"I gave way to delight, as mystics have for centuries when they peeked through the curtains and discovered that this world- so manifestly real was actually a tiny stage set constructed by the mind. We...
View ArticleHippy Bardy To Me
No, not yet my birthday... I recently bid for and acquired a small (19 string) celtic style harp on Ebay... OK, I have to sell my Q-Chord and my Icuiti V920 vr headset, but I don't care... I can play...
View ArticleNotice from the Management
For a few hours tomorrow afternoon, there will be a discontinuity in the locus of consciousness. This is to enable us to undertake necessary repairs and maintenance. It is unlikely that you will notice...
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