Recent content by Aisling

For me spirituality is very simple. I see people giving very verbose definitions of the term, but I think it can be summed up in just a sentence. I see spirituality as the practice of cultivating self-awareness, and using that self-awareness to benefit the rest of the world in whatever ways I...

Chicago surely is warmer in the summer, but English weather is so much nicer than Irish. It rained almost every day I was there last year, and I would have enjoyed that had the rain also been accompanied by thunder and lightning. I miss Chicago storms very much. I was living in Dublin...

Having once considered myself a Buddhist, maybe I should participate. Most Buddhists will tell you that Buddhism is a philosophy, not a religion like Christianity or Judaism. Others call it an "atheistic religion." The way I see it, however, all of the world's religions began as...

Yup, she's my favourite too, mostly because I've always tended to act like that in real life, as scary as that is. If people had cameras running when I'm alone, they'd see some surreal and hysterical stuff (I blame the dreams). ;)

I would say so! If he's there, I never noticed, because he's been there since I was born. I'm sure you've noticed by now my obsession with the dream world (I've got Neil Gaiman listed as an interest on LJ, I'm using a Delirium icon, and my chosen name is Aisling, which means "dream" in...

Qu Not really. There are certain patterns I've noticed in myself before, that have been directly caused by problems I've had with a certain family member, and I hadn't noticed these patterns until very recently. I'd explain it now, but it would take a long time and I'm just not up to it at...

Wow, I am really sorry about your friend, Brian. I actually had a friend back in the States, an older man, who suffered from Schizophrenia. He disappeared one day and nobody saw him again, and I've never found out what happened to him. He was on medication the last time I saw him, and doing...

Thanks for all the welcomes! ;) (And don't say "you're welcome")!

Don't get me wrong, I've had dreams where my teeth fall out, but it's usually accompanied by something extremely disturbing that used to leave me wondering what the hell was wrong with my mind! I can't just have simple dreams where a bunny appears and it symbolizes fertility, or a family member...

Yes, I am a member (and moderator) at WiccaUK! I've seen you around. ;) Your forums are very interesting, and I'm glad I've found them. The diversity of the membership is something I look for in internet communities. You've visited my journal at a very bad time! I was just sacked from...

The only times I've ever really "seen" the Goddess have been in dreams. The first dream I had of her, I was kneeling in front of a liquid screen, where all the letters and characters of every alphabet were floating randomly. She was there, but not in human form, almost like a disembodied...

One thing about me that I've noticed is highly unusual is the type of dream I tend to have. I only know one other person who has had dreams like mine, and he and I share some sort of "connection" that I can't really describe any better than I just have. All of my dreams are dark, surreal, and...

I disagree about the tradition of an open casket being a bad idea. Many people find it hard to gain closure on the death of a loved one when they haven't seen them since they were still alive. I know that if my mother died today (4,000 miles away from where I am) and I travelled back to the...

Hello there. I just stumbled across this forum, although I've been here before a few times, and decided I'd join in. I've been a member of a few other Pagan forums, but stopped posting on them a few months back for various reasons. I'm twenty years old, American, and currently living in...