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Why should New Age seekers care about political realities? A famous performer of channeled music explains.
Spirituality
We see spirituality and religion as two different but related things. Religion is organized, outward. Spirituality is related to how one feels inwardly about God and spiritual things.Interlude Meditations and spiritual expressions from many faiths. Very peaceful.
Are you looking for Lourdes Spring water?
Get it right from the source: Lourdes Official Site - get it straight from the source along with all information, history, how to get to Lourdes.Also, The Lourdes Center - Marist Fathers, Boston American distributor of Lourdes water and information.
Links to Religious Sites
(Many faiths are explored at BeliefNet also.)
Well-Known Faiths
African Methodist Episcopal | Bahai | Buddhism | Catholicism - Basic Intro | Church of God in Christ | Ecumenical Catholic Communion A group of ecumenical catholic faith communities celebrating the richness of catholic spirituality and its traditions. Everyone welcome. | WomenPriests If a woman was good enough to be the mother of God, why can't they be priests today? Explores the role of women in the early church and calls for the ordination of women. |
Islam | Compendium of Muslim Texts Learn what Islam really is |
Jainism |
Jehovah's
Witnesses | Judaism |
Seventh Day Adventists |
Shinto | Sophia Spirit Catholic-based worship of God as the female principle of universal wisdom. Completely open to all. | Taoism |
Universal Life Church | Vodoun | New Orleans Vodoun Temple |
Google's Wicca links
Lesser-Known Faiths
Amish (Old Order)
Asatru A revival of ancient Norse religions, reproducing and carrying on the ancient traditions as closely as possible. Here's another Asatru info page. And here's OCRT's Take on Asatru
Isis of the Stars and Fellowship of Isis Dedicated to renewing the worship of Isis in the modern world. Founded by Lady Olivia Robertson, Clonegal, Ireland.
hare krishna
Reconstructionist Faiths
The House of Netjer A revival of the ancient Egyptian religion, reproducing and carrying on the ancient traditions as closely as possible.
Hellenic Reconstructionism A revival of the ancient Greek religions, reproducing and carrying on the ancient traditions as closely as possible.
YSEE, Ethnikoi Hellenes Dedicating to defending and restoring the Ethnic, Polytheistic, Hellenic Tradition, Religion and Way in contemporary Greek society.
Religio Romana A revival of the religions of ancient Rome, reproducing and carrying on the ancient traditions as closely as possible.
More about reconstructionist faiths
Rastafari New link, this one works. Good intro.
Santeria
The Sacred Text Archive Writings on many faiths, past and present, very comprehensive.
Spiritualism This is the website for the original Spiritualist Church organization.
Morris Pratt Institute The Spiritualist Church's seminary, for those interested in becoming ordained Spiritualist ministers.
Mystical Organizations
The Masonic Lodge
The Rosicrucian Order
St. Germain Foundation Home of the Ascended Masters.
Unarius Foundation Unarius is not a religion but a school. They offer courses in how to neutralize negative experiences from past lives. They say they are also connected with benign intelligences from other planets.
Spiritual Practices
Experience Festival Articles and discussions on a wide variety of religious, spiritual and "new age" topics.
Hoodoo Folkloric, object-oriented spiritual practices based in African and Afro-American tradition. Excellent source for amulets, herb charms, floor washes, anointing oils and spiritual baths. Lists of other stores, catalogues & information.
Ouija Museum Note new and improved site. Ouija isn't a religion, but a method of divination, originally an experiment of the early Spiritualists, a religion that's still around today.
If you like ouija or talking boards but want something a little more vintage and old-fashioned, try Witchboards.
There's also the Pathfinder Board, which has a general sort of New Age takeoff on Plains Native American spiritual themes to it.
Pop Occulture Symbols, concepts and ideas usually considered part of the occult world are common in modern pop culture. This has actually been true for centuries, but began receiving more attention in the 1800s. The author of Pop Occulture chronicles such things. Observations on how spirituality is portrayed in the media, crass consumerism as a religion, unusual religious news, etc. It's hysterically funny, with an almost Archie McPhee atmosphere at times, and there's even a Pop Culture Tarot (Oprah as The Empress; Gov. Schwarzenegger in a Humvee for The Chariot, etc.).
The Rainbow Family Rainbow people are something like hippies in their idealism and search for truth in nature. They gather periodically on public land and in natural settings to join in prayer for peace on earth. Everybody welcome. Also try the newsgroup alt.gathering.rainbow to see if they will be meeting in your area. Ask to communicate with a "Focalizer".
Spirit Writings For centuries men and women have been unexplainedly inspired to speak and set down on paper words that were "not their own...."
Sacred Music
Gabriel says: Sacred Harp music never fails to remind me of the wild mystery of what the real God must be. You have to understand that these are not regular hymns. They are set in a weird choral pattern based on minor fifths that are said to originate in 18th century English choral music and Irish folk tunes but I am betting go back further than that and which have very little to do with Christianity as most people think of it.
Shape-Note Hymn Singing is still very much alive.
this site has an excellent introduction and more about
the history and places where you can hear it today.
Web Directory for Sacred Harp Tradition
Singing Sacred Harp in Chicago
Click here for a brief sample of Sacred Harp Singing.
More
samples from the Univ. of Chicago
Like that? Want more? Here's some low-rez audio streams linked to the records they came from. (Fixed! as of Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:37:20 AM)
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Delight (No Burning Heat By Day) Showers Of Blessings (With Songs And Honours) These are from In Sweetest Union Join which is available for cheap download from emusic.com. |
From "Rivers of Delight": Sweet Prospect (On Jordan's Stormy Banks) Northport (Jesus My All To Heaven Is Gone) Parting Friends (Farewell My Friends I'm Bound For Canaan) |
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"Cult" Scares and Religious Intolerance
A G-Man Speaks
An Investigator's Guide to Allegations of "Ritual" Child Abuse Kenneth Lanning's lengthy study on the FBI's investigation of allegations of ritual child abuse, cautioning agents against finding it where it is not.Satanic, Occult, Ritualistic Crime: A Law Enforcement Perspective Another Kenneth Lanning report, on investigating allegations of Satanism and crime in general.
Answers In Action A Christian group exposes SRA hoaxes.
Varieties of Media Crime: Media Depictions of Satanic and Hate Crimes By a Criminal Law professor.
Cults, anti-Cultists, and the Cult of Intelligence Who decides what a "cult" is?
The Religious Right--Revealed! Links to information on the Religious Right's agenda of intolerance, particularly against gays and Lesbians. See also The Religious Right & Oil Wars Revealed.
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