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Blessings, Witchcraft is a healing art form full of mysticism and love for spirituality used with discretion & whimsical fae joy. A member of the Correllian Nativist tradition Reply

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Entry for July 03, 2009
I am living my life in harmony to a point except for the fact of living w/ a father whom is depressive expecting me to live life around him. So I don't have someone in my life more than talking on the net with friends etc... Does that give my dad the authority to yell @ me, threaten me with saying he does not want to live, take his medications, tell me if I don't do this he will take that away from me. I have to write about this. I so much want to have a relationship with someone. Every time I get into a conversation with someone to talk more than religion he calls out my name expecting me to come running. Today I was having digestive issue arise causing me to rest and all. He yells up the stairs demands I come. I came I asked him what is up. He bellows out I don't want to hear about your bowel problem. Well I walk with a cane for a reason. I lose balance get light headed. I fell down hit my head in the front it aching right now. He so tries to burst my bubble. Why do I have to put up with that. I didn't cause my ex husband to use our finances on needless toys to result in me moving back home. I came to live with him cause my mom asked me to come back and make a change. This change is like a hell for me. I rather be elsewhere wherever my friends are then having to live with my dad Paul Morrison. Today July 3rd is the 5th month since my mom crossed over to death a place my dad desires. So why do I have to see and hear all of his woes suppressing my desires to satisfy his. Oh my life insurance policy bill came in the mail today. I guess I have to wait and see if he pays the 17o a year fee for coverage. Oh yeah he bought it and made himself the beneficiary. I may be his beneficiary but with all this pain he gives me I rather be like how my two uncles see it not of the family. I am in pain.
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Enjoy the blist of solitary
Wow! I am content with where I am with path as a priestess. The years as a practicing Catholic have molded me in understanding of spirit and of humankind. Much fear has left me embracing deity as male and female. As a child I communicated with spirit automatically as an adult not only do I communicate I can share with others clearly. Occasionally I will spring forth from solitary practices into performing with others Rituals of the tides we have throughout the year. It is a renewal affirmation from my self to higher self to praise public. When I gather with others where they have control of the Ritual it puts me at ease to flow with the earth with freedom and trust. Whether I partake in online Rituals with the Correllian tradition or with those from Mystic Moon the local hub or when I am blessed with a certain male friend to perform the Great Rite beautiful bounty of praise sent and received.
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Entry for July 14, 2008

This is something about to commence. Pray any government doesn't try to make the prophesies come true.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9473392#share

The World's Largest Particle Accelerator

by David Kestenbaum

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The second of a two-part series.

The gargantuan ATLAS particle detector is seven stories tall.
Serge Bellegarde

The gargantuan ATLAS particle detector is seven stories tall. Physicists hope to use it to answer fundamental questions about mass, "dark matter" and perhaps even discover extra dimensions to space-time. CERN

“It's awe-inspiring actually. This is the most excited I've been about physics for about 20 years. We expect to see things which will change the way we view the universe. That only happens once or twice in a lifetime.”
Dan Green, CERN Physicist

Q&A: Physics Mysteries

Physicists hope the Large Hadron Collider will help them unravel some of the fundamental mysteries about how the universe is constructed. Read about what they hope to find.

The empty, underground cavern before construction of one of the giant detectors.

The empty, underground cavern before construction of one of the giant detectors. CERN

A CERN staffer sits atop a bike in the accelerator's 16-mile  tunnel.

CERN staffers use bikes to travel through the Large Hadron Collider's 16-mile tunnel. The LHC is the largest particle accelerator ever built. When the machine is running, particles taken from hydrogen atoms will zip both ways around the loop at close to the speed of light. CERN

“The size is amazing... [It was a] massive civil engineering project. And the detector itself dwarfs anything I've seen. It's like a five-story building, it's ridiculous.”
Milan Nikolic, Graduate Student, University of California, Santa Barbara

All Things Considered, April 9, 2007 · The cows grazing by the roads outside Geneva, Switzerland, have witnessed some pretty strange things these past few years: Trucks roll by carrying big, superconducting magnets that look like missiles, and other brightly colored pieces of scientific equipment. The pieces are all taken to warehouse-sized buildings, where they disappear down shafts that reach 300 feet into the earth.

The work is all part of an $8 billion project at the international physics laboratory called CERN. At its heart will be an enormously powerful particle accelerator capable of smashing subatomic particles together, reproducing the energies that existed a fraction of a second after the big bang. What comes out may solve some fundamental mysteries about how the universe is put together.

But that's if everything works. Physicists hope to begin operation this fall of what is arguably the largest and most complex science experiment ever constructed.

The Weight of Five Jumbo Jets

To visit CERN these days, is to feel very small in all sorts of ways.

On this early morning in February, technicians are lowering what they say is the world's largest electromagnet into one of the 300-foot shafts. The magnet is the size of a house, and can store enough energy to melt 18 tons of gold. It is incredibly heavy and dangles over the mouth of the shaft on four little bundles of black cables.

Christoph Schaefer, one of CERN's safety personnel, says the electromagnet is almost 2,000 tons. That's the weight of five jumbo jets, or one-third of the weight of the Eiffel tower.

With only seven inches of clearance, the electromagnet is lowered into the hole. The shaft is round, white-walled, and well lit. The magnet is a gray, metal cylinder — it looks like it might be part of a space station. It sits inside a huge, red octagon, and layers of scientific equipment.

The whole thing will be part of an even larger contraption which, oddly enough, is designed to detect ultra-tiny subatomic particles. The detector is called CMS for Compact Muon Solenoid. It will sit far below our feet in a huge cavern.

When it is all hooked up, the detector will have a special pipe running through it. If you leave the chamber you can follow the pipe on foot into a tunnel that makes a 16-mile loop. In five or six hours, you'll end up back where you started. Everyone calls it the LHC — short for Large Hadron Collider — the most powerful accelerator ever built.

When the machine is running, particles taken from hydrogen atoms will zip both ways around the loop at close to the speed of light. They will collide in the center of the detector with enormous energy, giving birth to a spray of new particles, perhaps some that no one has seen before.

"We hope to complete a journey started with Newton's description of gravity," says Jim Virdee, physicist and spokesman for the CMS team.

"The source of gravity is mass," says Virdee. "It's a very poorly understood concept. Certain particles have certain masses. We don't know why."

That may sound like a peculiar question to ask, and all this equipment may seem like an elaborate way to go about finding an answer. But it turns out if you smash things together, very strange particles emerge that are not part of the everyday world: Z bosons, pi mesons, strange quarks. Some only live a very short time, but they are clues to the fabric of the universe.

The Descent

Behind Jim Virdee, the 2,000 ton magnet begins — imperceptibly — to disappear down the shaft. And even though it is 6:30 in the morning, dark and rainy, other physicists have dragged themselves out of bed to watch. One of them is Dan Green, the project manager for the U.S. contribution to this detector.

"It's awe-inspiring actually," Green says. "This is the most excited I've been about physics for about 20 years. We expect to see things which will change the way we view the universe. That only happens once or twice in a lifetime."

No one really knows what the machine will give birth to. But the equations suggest that some weird stuff could be just around the corner — maybe "dark matter," the invisible stuff that seems to hang around galaxies.

"It's kind of an embarrassment that we don't know what 95 percent of the universe is made of by weight," Green says. "We hope — it's possible — we may be making dark matter."

Some theories say it is possible the collider will cause miniature black holes to momentarily appear.

But for now, what has appeared is a table of croissants, an urn of coffee, and more people. Everyone stands around in blue hard hats. They don't talk about black holes or dark matter. A few say things like "I hope the magnet doesn't fall."

A Test of Faith

Some people at the lab think that these projects are pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved by humans: financially, politically, and organizationally. There are more than 2,000 physicists from all over the world working on just this detector. The list of names alone takes up more space than some scientific journals allow for an entire research paper.

The physical scale is also unprecedented. Milan Nikolic, a graduate student from the University of California Santa Barbara, describes the cavern where the detector will sit as larger than one of the New York subway's stations — the 168th Street IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit).

"The size is amazing," Nikolic says. "It's actually in an underground river. We had to sink liquid nitrogen probes and freeze the river around it to lay the concrete structure down. [It was a] massive civil engineering project. And the detector itself dwarfs anything I've seen. It's like a five-story building. It's ridiculous."

Nikolic is hoping they discover evidence of extra tiny dimensions to space-time.

"Because then I would have a job and stuff," he says.

Nikolic is not entirely joking. People don't like to talk about it, but it is possible these experiments may not find much at all. The answers may simply be out of reach, so hard to probe that it would take an accelerator the size of the solar system to sort things out.

At the end of the day, the magnet nears the bottom of the shaft, hanging like a giant yo-yo. For no good reason, everyone whispers.

It's a classic test of faith. On the one hand, everyone trusts the math that this huge thing won't fall. On the other hand, no one wants to stick their head under it, though we do for a second.

The experiment is supposed to start running this fall. But a lot of people, a lot of languages, a lot of pieces, means a lot could go wrong. And this gargantuan detector is actually the "little one." It has a much larger brother named ATLAS, which is seven stories high.

When we go to see it, people are crawling over it like insects.

There's an unintentional beauty to it all, with so many pieces all fitting perfectly. Because the particles go every which way, the equipment is symmetric, cylinders within cylinders, with giant pale green wheels. The equipment will precisely track and identify the spray of particles.

It will take years to fully analyze the data. When the accelerator is running, collisions will occur 30 million times a second.

I ask one physicist how much time she was putting in. "Infinite," she says.

'It Rivals the Pyramids'

We leave the cavern, and walk into what looks like a gently curving subway tunnel. This is what people call "the ring," the particle accelerator itself. Thousands of magnets are arranged like boxcars on a long, 16-mile racetrack – so long, the tunnel seems almost straight.

"It's actually very relaxing to go walking down this way," says Peter Limon, a physicist from Fermilab, outside Chicago.

CERN staffers use bicycles to get around down here. If a magnet breaks it could take a while to get to it, much less fix it.

"This is just the most amazing thing I've ever seen built," Limon says. "I think it rivals the pyramids."

The pyramids long outlasted its builders. And one physicist here wonders whether thousands of years from now, a future civilization would find these strange tunnels and equipment buried in the ground.

Q&A: Shedding Light on Physics Mysteries

by David Kestenbaum

CERN's Large Hadron Collider is scheduled to begin operation this summer. When fully operational, it will smash protons together at energies that were present just after the big bang. The collisions will occur 600 million times every second, producing a spray of subatomic debris. Physicists hope somewhere in that haystack they will find the following needles:

The Higgs Particle (Named after physicist Peter Higgs)

What does it do? It gives things mass. The Higgs particle would be a companion to an (also hypothetical) Higgs "field." The field would pervade the universe and act like cosmic molasses, making everything hard to move. That's what we call mass.

Why do we need it? Without the Higgs particle, electrons would have no mass and atoms wouldn't stick together. We would fall apart into piles of atomic nuclei.

Likelihood it's real? High. Physicists generally agree the Higgs or something like it must exist.

How hard would it be to find? It depends on the Higgs particle's characteristics. The Higgs doesn't live long and quickly decays into other particles. Depending on what those are, physicists might be able to pick out Higgs fingerprints quickly, or it could take years of sifting through data.

Dark Matter

What is it? Dark Matter is the name given to the mysterious invisible material that seems to hang around galaxies. Estimates are that 20 percent of the stuff in the universe is dark matter. Astronomers call it dark because they can't see it.

If it's invisible, how do you find it? You don't — or at least not directly. If the LHC makes dark matter particles, they will escape without leaving a trace. But physicists are prepared. They should be able to notice its absence.

Likelihood it will appear? Unclear. Many physicists believe that dark matter particles are part of a whole family of new particles. This theory, known as Supersymmetry (SUSY), says that every known particle has a heavier sibling. The problem is, no one has ever observed one of these hefty partners.

Miniature Black Holes

What are they? Teeny tiny, superdense objects.

Yikes, should I be worried? No, they wouldn't live long. Estimates are a thousandth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second.

How do you detect one? A miniature black hole would collapse and can create all particle types that exist.

Likelihood mini black holes really will appear? Physicists agree they're a long shot. Miniature black holes appear in some theories that say there are extra, tiny dimensions to space-time. And while the idea of extra dimensions is popular — as part of something called string theory for instance — they don't necessarily allow for mini black holes.

Monday July 14, 2008 - 11:10am (EDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
Entry for July 09, 2008

So nice to be a Spiritualist when I was a Catholic people took it at face value I was spiritual cause of the Sacraments I have had etc...Well, I am walking in the world now embrassing others views by studing other faiths and I am finding they all try to prove their way is better than another. I have news for you if you love willingly another being than whomever and how many deity shouldn't have issue with what you are doing. There are basic understandings of what one can and get do to get by here on this plane.

Last year after trying to blend in with Wicca community here in Hampton Roads I enrolled in an online Wicca school zoomed happily taking their version of what I have already learned as a solitary practicer of the craft. Sure they can add to my philosophy but as it stands they still ask me daily if I am familar with chakras and tarot.

I have been a physic medium since childhood. My parents protected my abilities by putting me through private school. I was humored by astrology, numerology, cartomancy, receiving messages.

Daily I would say my Rosary meditation, reflect w/ the Saints, channel Spirit carefully. While I was married I was in the charasmatic renewal movement which was flowing wonderfully in the Church. I had miscarriages. While sleeping my dearest companion who has walked w/ me the Blessed Mother along w/ a recently past great aunt made a visit to me telling me "there are other ways of having children, no sugar and no caffeine." I cherish the wisdom of our Lady.

I don't think my family understands the path I have taken by leaving the Roman Catholic Church. With the visions I have had of the Blessed Sacrament while I was convelencing after an episode of Lymes. Countless dreams I have had as a Catholic and they still continue as a Wicca priestest.

One of these days I will take the certificate I have from Universal Life Church to the city hall for the govt. licensing as a Reverend. But I was raised Catholic the concept of a woman priest is let just say not allowed for the man is to the woman as the priest is to bride. I can't let the preconceived teachings of the faith prevent me from happiness. I have wisdom I have nurturing ability a tenderness a male can't give a person in the crisis we have as people of this plane.

My parents both have chronic health issues requiring my continuous nagging to take their medications, make appointments, eat as healthy as possible, check their glucose levels., take a shower.

It is not easy being 40 divorced unemployed with doctors telling you have chronic health conditions limiting your outdoor and indoor activities. I would like to take these conditions to Disability. Yet, the clinic can't get my file correct so I can get better care for myself.

I don't eat properly. I try to fix meals for my parents and myself but I pretty much have to fix what dad wants and that usually raises his blood sugar. How funny is that?

Wednesday July 9, 2008 - 09:48pm (EDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
Nasty nationally known Kathy Lee
On national, international media personal views about another's faith should be kept to a minimum. On June 25th, a trivia question was being read by Kathy Lee she added a personal opinion to the card. Since then many have tried to get her to do more than make a general apology. The apology she made was lame. It was made in mockery. What exactly is nasty about another's way of spirituality? Is it to be made fun of. No. Freedom of religion ought to be a freedom we have in America. I read of stories where if you don't keep this statue or that statue in your home on a altar you could be hung or something. I have studied many types of faiths. The basic 10 that the Bible has is simply put common sense. It boils down to "love." If you intend to be affectionate charismatic, gentle you are love.





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Call to action: Public apology from NBC

Proclaimed by: ArianellMB
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Proclaimation...

Wednesday June 25th on the Today Show, host Kathy Lee Gifford was quizzing guests of a wedding on wedding traditions. On a question as to the origin of wearing the wedding ring on your left ring finger, an option for an answer was that "Pagans believed it was bad luck to carry metal on the right side."

Reading the question aloud, Gifford chose to say "The Pagans, the nasty, bad, Pagans, believed ....."

For any other religion, she would not have made the comment, and if she had, a public apology would most likely be released very quickly. The pagan community should not stand for it. Her personal belief may be that we are "nasty and bad", but it does not make it alright for her to say so on national television. Please e-mail NBC and/or the Today Show with professional, yet still stern, letters asking for an apology from Gifford. E-mails should be titled something along the lines of "Pagan Community Requesting On-Air Apology from Kathy Lee Gifford"

The video of Gifford's comment can be found at the link following, about 5 minutes in: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/25368216#25368216

E-mails can be sent to : today@nbc.com

Edit (6/27/08) : I recently found out that you can call 212-664-4249, press 1, which is for suggested program ideas, and ask to speak with Jim Bell, who is the Producer of the Today Show, and speak directly to him to ask for an apology. Thank you to the person who sent me this information!

Also, a petition has been started, please forward the link to everyone you know. As far as I know this is the only petition and, while it may blow things out of proportion a bit, as all most of us want are an apology, if this becomes the only thing the Today show looks at, it's important to sign.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/quotnasty-bad-pagansquot-protesting-hate-speech-on-nbc

Edit (6/29/08) : So there's been an update in this whole ordeal that I hope will spur on everyone's attempts to be, firstly, professional rather that flying off the handle, but secondly, more determined than ever to gain respect for Pagans everywhere.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/25411068#25411068

At about 2:30 Kathy Lee gives a blanket apology to everyone she has offended. This does not count as an apology, especially not in the tone with which she said it, which was resemblant of a snotty, haughty 15 year old being forced by a teacher to apologize to an unpopular girl in their class whom she insulted.

Within the last 30 seconds, it becomes truly insulting. I am angry beyond words at how to describe those last 30 seconds. Please watch to understand.

As pagans, we should demand respect and a formal apology from Kathy Gifford which acknowledges that she offended PAGANS.

Please, in your letters and calls, remain calm and professional. Flying off the handle will only give us an even worse name in her eyes for yelling and screaming. While we don't have to forgive her or force her to learn about a religion that holds no, well, magic for her, we do need to gain respect for how to handle a situation like this.

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