I made an offering of wind upon the altar of dust.  ~Grimr
In the beginning was a song.  The song.  The only song there ever was, and ever will be.  It was a love song, and a song of loneliness.  It was a song of joy and sorrow, of love and loss, of peace and war, of life and death.  It was the song of creation, the song of all things.  It was the ( Read more... )

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Winter Solstice Song
By Lisa Thiel
Enter the night and you’ll find the light,
That will carry you to your dreams.
Enter the night, let your spirit take flight,
In the field of infinite possibilities

On the longest night we search for the light,
And we find it deep within.
Open your eyes to embrace what is wise,
And see the light of your own soul shining.

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The following is my Ecstasy playlist.  I'd love to just turn it on and dance in ecstasy for an hour or so, but I never have the time.  Some of them are great for ecstatic trance, and I've used some of them that way.  (For the videos, which wouldn't show on LiveJournal for some reason, see the post on my Blogger blog:  http://muninnskiss.grimr.org/ ( Read more... )

What can popular media tell us about spiritual things?

The Fallen
By Seether

She's wearin' dresses on the borderline
(lookin good)
Or making senses that were lost in time
(make amends)
This liberation is the one they'll love for ages (hey man I see them comin' again)
Just cut those dresses make you look so fine (you're a ten)
Put on that shirt and you'll ( Read more... )

Just as Dance is made up of Stillness and Action, Music is made up of Silence and Sound, in effect, Hacah and Naba'. Dance is our reaction to Music. It is hard to dance without some form of Music. Stillness corrisponds to Silence, and Action corrisponds to Sound. Our lives are a Dance to the pattern of Hacah and Naba ( Read more... )

367. Thomas the Rhymer. Anonymous. The Oxford Book of English Verse:TRUE Thomas lay on Huntlie bank ( Read more... )

I'd like to expand what I said about Art in my post concerning the Divine Mirror ( Read more... )

There is a concept I have mentioned many times, but never actually wrote about.  That concept is the Divine Mirror ( Read more... )

The Child Ballads: 37. Thomas Rymer:37C.11 ‘O see ye not yon narrow road ( Read more... )

The other important concept which goes along with Shiflut is Kavanah, Intention.  Kavanah can mean Intention, Concentration, Attention, Focus, Intensity, Directedness of the Heart, and other similar things.  The root of Kavanah is Kavan, meaning to direct, aim, or attune.  Kavanah is about directing your conciousness ( Read more... )