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I included some links regarding the Tarot in this thread, but I'm sure there's also a Tarot thread somewhere around. Feel free to start a new one, though, if more suitable - especially if you'd like to adderss Jungian ideas directly. dwndrgn, than you very much for the compliment. It is rare I...

It's certainly an opportunity for great controversy - but I cannot keep this place immune from real world issues. Allowing the discussion of religion of any form will be a challenge in itself. The hope is simply that such realities can be dealt with in a constructive manner. And this is a...

Or so is the conclusion from the team of archaeologists working on this artefact. For those actually following the story, this is not a patricular surprise - there have been a number of small but pivotal objections to the identification of the ossuary as belonging to James. Anyway, here's the...

The following story is interesting in that it refers to Constantine and meteors (Rome+astrophysics - how can we go wrong? ;D ) - but then descends into the usual bad pattern of trying to force a physical event into a historical framework - notably because the actual dating would have placed the...

Certainly that's true. It is an extremely unusual point of note so see mummification occuring in Britain - especailly as the method also differes frmo the Egyptian. Instead of filling the disembowelled body with salt, naptha, oils and incense etc, you have peat acides being utilised to do the...

Well, it's making national headlines now here in Britain. Essentially, a gay Anglican priest in Oxford has been nominated to be the Bishop of Reading. And the gay priest refuses to abandon his long-term gay partner of 27 years. It's an issue threatennig to cause a schism in the Anglican Church...

Well, the council van came around quickly - and left a piece of wood and two traffic cones on top! LOL! See how long it lasts before the kids get that moved! I would laugh, but there is residential housing for the elderly literally around the corner. The open drain is on the route to the main...

Elizabeth May, I wasn't trying to tell you off. :) It's early days yet so I'm uncertain where the actual boundaries of offence may be drawn up. Who knows - maybe the link was taken as religious humour. Or maybe it wasn't at all. Either way, I was "thinking aloud" on the issue of an actual...

Hi Seige, and welcome to comparative-religion.com! Yes, the problem of fundamentalism...yet, alas, this appears to be a pan-faith problem - or perhaps I should say "pan-path" or "pan-human perspective". Although Christian Fundamentalism can be particularly infamous, frankly I see the infection...

LOL! Not yet - but as soon as I can! On another note, around the corner from me there's a storm drain that missing a cover and a streetlamp that has all of its wires hanging out. Obviously there are two potential health and safety issues there. The open drain - that's no problem - it'll be...

PS - As to the original linked article itself - it does seem more than a little bitter - and repeatedly suggests there's a general motivation to discredit Wicca as a belief system. Essentially, though, I posted the link when I was confused about a variety of elements relating to Wicca, and...

That's the part that really brings my cynicism out. Although I've not yet read Gardner, from what I've read of Wiccan practices and ceremonies, there's no particular resemblance so far that I can see to the real folk beliefs of mediaeval Western Europe – at least, the ones I've researched...

The Fool is certainly a figure I can closely identify with. Maybe that's an act of fooloshness, though? I placed a short explanation of the concept on this site in the articles section: The True Fool Again, though, do note the great short piece written on the figure from the Internet Book of...

I just checked some of my books on the topic – and although it has been suggested that Smenkhare is Nefertiti under a different name, it appears that Nefertiti actually disappears by name from the Amarna Records around year 11 of Akenaten's reign. The simplest explanation therefore being that...

Okay - this is how it looks at the moment. Think it may need a little tidying, but it should get the point across. Once that's done I'll let this thread drop and then sticky a copy of this thread on at least one board - maybe more: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -...

Yes, it's certainly an issue. Here's the latest from the BBC: Conservation 'ultimatum' illegal say whalers And while we're on the topic of whales, here's a related articles - essentially, about trying to understand more about the little known "pygmy Blue Whale": Science seeks clues to pygmy...

I thought I'd extend some ideas from a previous thread, and work with Dave's definition of what the soul may be for the purpose of this thread: My personal opinion is that every living thing has a "soul", in that every living thing contains some degree of "essence" that returns to a state of...

I'll certainly try to get a lot more done. This site has a serious amount of room to expand into, in terms of subjects to cover, and I intend to take it to the fullest possible extent that I can. There are specific texts I've still to put online here, and articles specific for each belief...

No porblem, and thanks for the heads up. I figure if one person experiences it then others will. anyway, I've taken this to developer support. There is actually a newer version of this board coming out, hopefully next week. It might be worth seeing if it's corrected in that. Anyway, thanks...

What music do people use when they feel in a more relaxed, peaceful - even spiritual - mood? May sound daft but I still absolutely love the second and third Dreadzone albums - "Second Light" and "Biological Radio" - both of which have ambient sounds which are involved enough to keep you...