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• Commission Ritual Site Update

  
  Niche Store Strategies — Authority: 103
  Right now, I am totally excited!As you know, I started building sites using the Commission Ritual method starting a little over two weeks ago.  At the moment, I am not expecting much from these sites because I haven’t done any backlink building.I’ve been keeping an eye on my stats and this one particular site has ...
  14 hours ago

• The oolong tea ritual: Part 3 of 3

  
  T Ching — Authority: 124
  Tea made kung-fu style will be quite concentrated, with an intensity of aroma and flavor otherwise unobtainable.  Sip it like a liqueur.  The aftertaste of a fine oolong may linger up to half an hour afterwards. Making sure the water is boiling, pot after pot may be made in this way, always allowing a slightly ...
  19 hours ago

• Writing the Right Rite: Lessons of Experience

  
  Meadowsweet & Myrrh — Authority: 110
  Although Ive been slowly cultivating a personal practice of meditation and ritual as a solitary Druid for several years now, until last week Id only ever participated in exactly one Pagan group rite — and then, not even as a Pagan myself, but as an academic, observing and collecting data via field research. But last ...
  1 day ago

• Trip Report: Uva Enoteca

  
  Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com — Authority: 118
  This small-bite Italian eatery and wine bar on Lower Haight arrived on the scene in the Spring of ‘08, taking over what was frequently a campaign office for local politicians. They have limited seating in front and plenty more in back, with both dining areas separated by a large, accommodating bar with stool ...
  1 day ago

• blowing you off

  
  i am neurotic. — Authority: 137
  When I was younger I would co-ordinate my breathing so that I would exhale if I was walking passed a person that I didn’t like or looked weird to me. I thought that by doing this that they would not be able to affect me in any way. I sometimes still catch myself doing it.
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• light switch limbo

  
  i am neurotic. — Authority: 137
  I often times worry that light switches I turn off could be stuck between the on and off positions. Each night before bed I methodically check the switches in my house with a firm downward press. Occasionally, when anxious, I will make get out of bed to make a second circuit of the house checking all of the switches ...
  1 day ago

• Case against seven Asaram Bapu workers over deaths

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Gandhinagar, Nov 9 (IANS) Seventeen months after two students of the Asaram Bapu ashram in Ahmedabad were found dead under mysterious circumstances, the Gujarat police moved to file a case of culpable homicide against seven workers of the ashram.The case registered by the CID (crime) department in the deaths of Dipesh ...
  1 day ago

• Baby Tossing Ritual Anyone?

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 151
  OK, new parents, old parents, any friggin parent for that matter, I suggest you don’t click this clip if you know what’s good for you. It was in the top ten most watched Youtube videos of last year but you ain’t gonna like it. This is the baby tossing ritual from Solapur, India. It probably looks a lot less ...
  1 day ago

• Caste and Modernity

  
  Kafila — Authority: 421
  A friend remarked the other day that this is an “unendingly interesting” country. The phrase is stuck in my head, and it recurs when I come across stuff like this: There were no Hindu untouchables in the West Punjab, and such work as that of sweepers, skin-flayers and leather workers was done by Muslims. They ...
  2 days ago

• To Mourn and to Honor - The All Souls Procession

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 441
  A nice article on one of the cool cultural traditions here in Tucson. If you happen to be in or near Tucson, the procession happens tomorrow. This article comes from The Tucson Weekly . To Mourn and to Honor The All Souls Procession enters its third decade ...
  3 days ago

• Robert Moss on Dreams and the Dead

  
  Dream Talk Radio with Anne Hill, D.Min. — Authority: 106
  A special Halloween show with Robert Moss : what do dreams of the deceased have to tell us?
  3 days ago

• Have Any of You Joined Commission Ritual?

  
  Niche Store Strategies — Authority: 103
  Wow, it’s been a crazy week.  Aside from being sick (a cold I just can’t shake), and having my doctor find a lump in places where there shouldn’t be lumps (I had a mammogram and ultrasound yesterday, and am VERY glad to say it is just a cyst), I have ALSO been on a site-building [...] This post via the Niche ...
  4 days ago

• Feminism and Brit Milah: Reconciling Faith and Personal Politics

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 160
  For the vast majority of my life, I never even considered questioning the ethics of male circumcision. When something is so ingrained in one’s culture, it seems strange to question it. And I’m not referring to the fact that the United States has a circumcision rate of 75%. Growing up in a Jewish community, in [...]
  4 days ago

• Lexicons of Lost Lifestyles: In Passing, Part III

  
  GenWeekly — Authority: 120
  In her latest article on the uses of death, dead, and dying in everyday language, Jean Hibben suggests many of the phrases and terms we use relating to death "never were alive in the first place." The article, " Lexicons of Lost Lifestyles: In Passing, Part III ," the author explores the origin of terms such as a ...
  4 days ago

• Pagan Ritual Thursday – Thanksgiving

  
  2 Witches Blog — Authority: 123
  While Samhain was only a few days ago we all know that Thanksgiving will fast be upon us.  With a few weeks to prepare it is a fitting time to consider what traditions you might want to add to your own holiday dinner, while keeping in mind that a ritual need not be formal or lengthy to be powerful. Fill a bowl with ...
  5 days ago

• Who Is Me?

  
  Spirituality for Living — Authority: 125
  W hat is this me?   There is a simple practice of inquiry that can lead to very deep insight. What is this me, and who is asking? It’s me. Yes, but we often still get caught up in life, even if we understand this inquiry it just seems easier. We get distressed and just go on auto-pilot, because to stop ...
  6 days ago

• citrus and rainbows

  
  i am neurotic. — Authority: 137
  When I eat any sort of colourful candy, like M&Ms or jubes, I empty a few into my palm, and eat them according to colour. I eat the citrus coloured ones first, then backwards according to the rainbow, and then brown if it’s there.
  6 days ago

• words in head match words in mouth

  
  i am neurotic. — Authority: 137
  Whenever I say something I have to repeat the sentence back to myself in my head. I analyze the sentence and determine whether it came out the way I wanted it to come out. When this first started I would also mouth the words and sometimes say the whole sentence out-loud a second time.
  6 days ago

• sweet spot six

  
  i am neurotic. — Authority: 137
  When I set my alarm at night the ending digit has to be 6. always. (5:16, 5:36, :5:56) If I end it in a normal number, I consider it a jinx and I will surely sleep through it.
  6 days ago

• volcanic potatoes

  
  i am neurotic. — Authority: 137
  Whenever I’m served mashed potatoes and gravy, I have to first shape my dollop of potatoes into a cone, make a hollow in the center, then fill the crater to the top with gravy. As soon as I’ve gotten everything else on my plate, I have to let some of the gravy escape it’s pit and slide down the side, like a ...
  6 days ago

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