Why should New Age seekers care about political realities? A famous performer of channeled music explains.
Click here for Islam Basics
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.
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.
Remember St. Bernadette said "It's faith and prayer that heal."
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)
Goddess Movement God as a female creative spirit, as proposed by various women through history. These movements do not exclude or demonize men but redefine his role in creation and the universe. Monica Sjoo, Starhawk, Carol Christ. A history of the Goddess movement in Britain. If you're interested, read MatriFocus.
 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
Rastafari New link, this one works. Good intro.
Santeria
Reconstructionist Faiths
These faiths attempt to revive older religions, reproducing and carrying on ancient traditions as closely as possible.
Asatru A revival of ancient Norse religions. Here's another Asatru info page. And here's OCRT's Take on Asatru
Celtic Reconstructionism Also here. If you are white and you're contemplating "borrowing" or adopting Native American traditions, go here first. Celtic paganism has many of the same elements. It is probably closer to how your ancestors worshiped.
The House of Netjer A revival of the ancient Egyptian religion.
Temple of Aten Home of the Orthodox Atenist Assembly.
Hellenic Reconstructionism A revival of the ancient Greek religions.
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.
More about reconstructionist faiths
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. A method of divination that has been around in one form or another for thousands of years. Contemporary was an experiment of the early Modern 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.
I Ching The art of generating random events (tossing coins or straws) and then interpreting the results as a kind of small working model of your personal universe at present. You might want to check out the rest of deoxy.org while you're at it. This website has been around for a long time and was several underground magazines and journals before that. You might recognize several of the writers -- they were influential in the psychedelic movement.
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.
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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?
Do we think ritual abuse exists? Absolutely.
Join Us A low-key documentary film about survivors of ritual abuse, including several children. And if you think this isn't "satanic", read Matthew 7:5.
Jesus Camp
Theocracy Watch Keep an eye on the Dominionist movement which has a considerable in the U.S. Congress and elsewhere.
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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