Archive for June, 2007
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
Australian Man Dies During Ritual
During a sweat lodge ritual, a man died of heat exhaustion while ritual activities continued around him. Everyone assumed that he was astral traveling in a deep meditative state, and no one had medical training to recognize and properly treat the problem.
The article is dripping with the contempt the mainstream media normally shows paganism. The [...]
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Monday, June 4th, 2007
Ritual and Self-Story Telling
Inanna at At the End of Desire wrote recently about a New York Times article which related mental health to the narrative style of the stories we tell about ourselves. Those with mood problems, for example, tell stories in which every major incident is tainted by some dark detail — “notes of [...]