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Following on from "The History of Western Astrology Volume I",
Nicholas Campion examines the foundation of modern astrology in the
medieval and Renaissance worlds. Medieval and Renaissance Europe
marked the high water mark for astrology. It was a subject of high
theological speculation, was used to advise kings and popes, and to
arrange any activity from the beginning of battles to the most
auspicious time to have one's hair cut. Nicholas Campion examines
the foundation of modern astrology in the medieval and Renaissance
worlds. Spanning the period between the collapse of classical
astrology in the fifth century and the rise of popular astrology on
the web in the twentieth, Campion challenges the historical
convention that astrology flourished only between the twelfth and
seventeenth centuries. Concluding with a discussion of astrology's
popularity and appeal in the twenty-first century, Campion asks
whether it should be seen as an integral part of modernity or as an
element of the post-modern world.
The origin story of every culture contains a description of
animism; humans in direct relationship with the land and, through
the reciprocity of that connection, evolving together. The
livelihood of humans and Nature is intertwined. If one ails, so
does the other. History is littered with stories of losing that
connection, and the toll this takes in the form of humans against
each other, humans against Nature. Between colonization,
conscription into the Church, imperialization, and
industrialization, we have created systems of destruction that have
decimated our relationship to the land, and to each other. From
within these systems institutionalized racism, sexism, and all
aspects of 'othering' became embedded in our political and social
structures. As modern pagans, we recognize the need to tear down
these structures and build supportive, inclusive new ones. Our
spiritual paths are Nature-based and Ancestor-honoring, the rituals
of which heal land wounds and ancestral trauma, to create sacred
recovery and activism for all. This anthology presents modern pagan
activists working through their spiritual lines to do better.
Edited by Trevor Greenfield, publisher of Moon Books and editor of
Naming the Goddess, with contributory essays from eleven pagan
voices.
The Blue Cliff Record is a translation of the Pi Yen Lu, a
collection of one hundred Zen koans - the paradoxical teaching
stories used by Zen teachers to go beneath rational thought -
accompanied by commentaries and appreciatory verses from the
teachings of the Chinese Zen masters. Compiled in the twelfth
century, by the great Zen master and poet Hseh-tou Ch'ung-hsien it
is considered to be one of the greatest treasures of Zen literature
and an essential study manual for students of Zen.
Given contemporary attacks on religious faith, this lecture asks
what are the intellectual resources and sources of spirituality
that can sustain us in these times of uncertainty? It suggests that
human moral life is a search to understand and implement that true
nature of morality. It is centred in love, with the idea of kenosis
("letting go") playing a key role because of its transformational
qualities. This book argues the various scientific realities are
all partial and inadequate. Science can be powerful in the service
of an integral view but must not attempt to supplant it. Religion
is still a key context for a consideration of ethics, aesthetics,
metaphysics and meaning.
On the World and Religious Life "(c. 1381) is the first surviving
treatise of Coluccio Salutati (1332-1406), chancellor of the
Florentine Republic (1375-1406) and the leader of the humanist
movement in Italy in the generation after Petrarch and Boccaccio.
The work was written for a lawyer who had left secular life to
enter the Camaldulensian monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli,
located in the heart of Florence. The new monk prevailed on
Salutati to write a treatise encouraging him to persevere in the
religious life. His request led to this wide-ranging reflection on
humanity's misuse of God's creation and the need to orient human
life in accordance with a proper hierarchy of values. This work is
here translated into English for the first time.
After twenty fruitless years on a frustrating spiritual search,
Dawn Paul was faced with no other option but to give up.
Disheartened and exhausted, she went on holiday to Peru and this
changed her life forever. During a visit to Machu Picchu she
received a mystical experience, a vision of the Inca, who
instructed her to follow the path of the shaman. Feeling she had
finally been given the direction she had been looking for all her
life, Dawn promptly resigned from her six figure career in a bank
and stepped onto the shamanic path. Over the following years Dawn
worked worldwide as a shamanic healer and spiritual teacher,
assisting many people of all ages, from all races and religions. A
Healer of Souls is Dawn s gift to the general public, and to the
wider community without which a shaman cannot exist.
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