Anxiety is not the same as an Anxiety Disorder

3 Comments | December 19, 2009 at 7:29 am by mahud

I discovered this movie about the lives of those who have Social Anxiety Disorder.
Video about Social Phobia

Mark ?? | MySpace Video
Below is a video I made recently talking about my current anxiety disorder issues. Things for me have grown worse over the past year. Probably the worst year of my life actually. My lack of […]

Restful Awareness

0 Comments | April 5, 2009 at 3:14 pm by mahud

From life to death. To death from life. From life to death.
Cernunnos manifest and re-create through the mystery of death.
In darkness and in light give freedom to my footsteps
and guide me into your secret place.
There, grant me rest in your abundant peace.
Cernunnos’ Path: The Incense Path (Incense Ritual)

Tarot Question Addressed to Cernunnos
Q: How is my […]

On the Threshold Between One Life Path and Another

5 Comments | January 7, 2009 at 7:22 am by mahud

I was sad to learn via The Wild Hunt: Outgrowing Paganism? that the excellent Deo’s Shadow will no longer be podcasting. It’s been pretty obvious for some time that it was over. Now it is official
I’m a big believer that everyone whether they are secular or spiritually inclined are, in the larger scheme […]

Winter Solstice 2008

6 Comments | December 21, 2008 at 2:12 pm by mahud

I was thrilled to catch the live webcam of the Newgrange burial mound. Sadly it was cloudy, but they played footage from last year, so I did get to see the sunlight hit the box and illuminate the passage.
Although this is my second WC as a Pagan, my first went by unnoticed. So I […]

Journeying to Otherworlds: Access Denied (Mythology Synchroblog 4)

12 Comments | August 21, 2008 at 3:54 am by mahud

This post is one of many in the fourth Mythology Synchroblog (View the list of other bloggers below)
Journeying to Otherworlds: Access Denied
Our transition from child to adulthood to old age to death is often marked by some kind of rite of passage within various systems of belief. Each transition, in reality, is a gradual one: […]

Wrestling with my Shadow-Self

2 Comments | August 12, 2008 at 2:30 am by mahud

One night, eight or so years ago, after a period of (what is known within Christian circles as) backsliding, I was reading a recently acquired translation of the Upanishads, when I came upon the opening Upanishad in a translation by Juan Mascaro. You can read the Isa/Isha Upanishad here, but here’s a brief excerpt from […]