Thursday, July 17

Old Aquaintance!!

Well I never :) listening to the radio t'other day and Jump came
on - I remarked to D that I still think Brian did a better version
having a "rougher" voice, when suddenly I heard B's voice -
hahahaha - he's on YouTube and doing very nicely with his
Gaelic band - so for all those who have heard and liked the
Bittern now's your chance to see and hear the Uillean pipe
player as he is now playing at a gig in Italy


The past few days we have woken to complete cloud cover,
and the evenings are cooler than I have known at this time
of the year, not that we are complaining when the sun does
appear it is still scorchingly hot!!


Eli sent me a link to Finca Luna on La Palma - I can see
you there Eli :) By the way have you found
edreams -
spanish site for finding travel deals??
Talking of travel Ryanair has come down in price once
again so I am hoping to go back to Escocia about the
2nd Oct. till the 14th, spend the first couple of days with
Lau in Ed then trundle down to Moniaive for the week and
back to Ed for another couple of days - this is the month
that Lau also becomes a manager - ooo er!!


Oh NOooooooo - hasn't Spain learnt any lessons in the
past 20 years????

Cute Overload - ah go on you gotta check this one out
for the ahhhhhh factor


Faced with the spectacle of the cruelties perpetrated in the
name of faith, Voltaire famously cried 'Ecrasez l'infâme!'.
Scores of enlightened thinkers followed him, declaring
organised religion to be the enemy of mankind,
the force that divides the believer from the
infidel and which thereby both excites and authorises murder.
Richard Dawkins is the most influential living example of this
tradition, and his message, echoed by Dan Dennett,
Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, sounds as loud and
strident in the media today as the message
of Luther in the reformed churches of Germany.
The violence of the diatribes uttered by these evangelical
atheists is indeed remarkable. After all, the Enlightenment
happened three centuries ago; the arguments of Hume,
Kant and Voltaire have been absorbed by every educated
person. What more is to be said? And if you must say it,
why say it so stridently? Surely, those who oppose religion
in the name of gentleness have a duty to be gentle, even with
especially with – their foes?
mmmm some interesting points in this article - but as always
there seems to be this abiding need for one or the other rather
than a
meeting/acceptance of both, read the comments, does
God HAVE to
be linked with religion?? Why can't we be
subscribers to science AND God,
not neccessarily a religion
just a belief until proved differently that there

IS more to this world/planet/universe than meets the eye -
walk the middle
way believe nothing unless it is your
own experience


On the other side of the coin - Blaming Women - not just
found in the
Southern States!!
"This is also the type of thinking
that has led to the subjegation of women in Judeo-Christian
cultures.
Women are thought to bear the brunt of god's
punishment because Eve
"seduced" Adam into eating the
apple (Good ol' Adam was too

chicken-shit to take responsibility for his own actions and
blamed his
wife for everything when god confronted them)."

This Capricorn Full Moon highlights the balance between
giving and receiving, between your inner child and adult...
between what you do for a living and what you do for a life.
Consider it your official midyear reality check.
Opportunities to heal and break long-term negative patterns
that sap your energy and self-worth are a gift of this
Full Moon... if you're willing to forgive and dissolve all
separation. You're being urged to continue evolving
and shifting your priorities from material to spiritual...
to align yourself with a community and global vision
that also sustains you on a personal level.

And so...I leave you with some words of navigation and
wisdom from White Eagle. "If you do what you can to
purify your own physical atoms by right thinking,
right speech, right action, right living...
then imperceptibly you will find a raising of your
consciousness and a happiness of which you have not
dreamed." {moonsurfing}


This August we have 2 eclipses -- a solar eclipse at the
new moon on Friday, August 1 and a lunar eclipse at the
full moon on Saturday, August 16. It's believed by those
of us who monitor planetary energies that these eclipses
will have a greater impact than typical.
One area that may be catalyzed is
relationships, whether it's between people, between people
and authority figures, or between countries.
Also, August will be a potent month for
completing our projects and getting things we've had on the
"back burner" shifted in full swing.......
know that predictions and prophecies have been a part of the
human landscape for thousands of years. Prophecy, a kind of
advance Divine knowing of a future event,
has been offered by oracles and seers of many cultures
including the Mayans,
North American Indians, Hebrews, Tibetans, and Christians.
Because of the fluid nature of the future, a prophecy or
prediction can only provide a potential future outcome.
If it's true, it can only be a relative truth,
based on what is happening during the moment in time
it is received.
The future that's predicted, therefore, can radically change
by the time it arrives.
Another thing to keep in mind is that if the prediction
indeed is coming from a high level spiritual guidance source,
it will not be fear-based or create negativity
of any kind. Instead, the prediction will be something that
focuses on positive
change, helping others, and creating love.

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