And the winner is… !!

I happened to watch the “Good News Week” Season Finale (a comedy show on Aussie TV) last night and was pleased to see they gave their 2009 GNW Award: Religion to Danny Nalliah (see here and here for my previous blogs about Danny).  Unfortunately he couldn’t be there on the night so a member of the GNW comedy team graciously accepted it on his behalf. The trophy was a giant hand holding a  tomato sauce bottle …a reference to the rather mixed up idiom “Fair shake of the sauce bottle” used by Australia’s Prime Minister earlier this year.

The nominees for this category were…

• Pope Benedict the 16th for re-instating a bishop who’s a Holocaust denier, and posing the question: “In the C20th, what contributed most to the emancipation of women?” Answer: The Washing Machine
• The Scientologists for claiming their Church “had been subject to relentless ridicule and misinformation” and calling for religious vilification to be a prison offence.
• Catch The Fire Ministries leader Danny Nalliah for blaming the Victorian bushfires on the state’s abortion laws and claiming that Parliament House is being cursed by baby-sacrificing witches.
• The Islamic extremist magazine “Jihad Recollections” which among many wonderful things, contains fitness tips for terrorists.

I was so glad to see this prestigious award go to such a deserving recipient.

Dragons’ Breath & Rainbow Pyramids

This article, which I wrote about a recent Spheres Of Light meditation, also appears in the November edition of the Axis Mundi. I created the artwork below, featuring a dragon’s eye inside a pyramid. I have to admit though, it’s not totally an original work as I used a photo of a clear crystal pyramid (which I found here) and a picture of a dragon’s eye (found here). But I’m quite pleased with the effect I achieved by combining the two and adding colours etc to make it “mine”.

“The Watcher” – a vision from my meditation.

Even immediately afterward, I always find it difficult to remember all the details of what happened in my meditations, and of course writing this up a day later made it even harder, but I’ve tried my best to record at least some of the events from a SOL group meditation I attended last Sunday in a beautiful, secluded natural bushland setting.

It’s Beltane again…

…so I thought I’d post another of my artworks to celebrate the occasion. This one was done using coloured pencils on cardboard, and features an alien couple enjoying the great outdoors during the equivalent of Spring time on whatever planet they’re from …and yes, I know there’s snow-capped mountains in the background and no leaves on the tree, but that’s all part of “Spring” on their planet. As usual it also reflects my own inner turmoil and feelings of alienation and “difference” at the time.

Today’s the Day…

…of the “Christian prayer offensive on 17th October to pull down satanic altars to save Australia from bushfires and other disasters” or “Taking the high places for Jesus” or “spiritual warfare operation”. Yep, these are names which “Catch the Fire Ministries” use on their website/blog in reference to their planned Canberra gathering today …hmmm.  The main focus will be on the meeting at Mt Ainslie in Canberra,  but apparently there are other gatherings planned in various locations for those who can’t make it to the nation’s capital.

Thoth Tarot Deck

I’ve been thinking of buying a Thoth tarot deck to add to my collection so I’ve been looking online and found a few different versions published by 2 companies — AGMuller (Switzerland) and U.S. Games — which I found rather confusing trying to decide which of the many versions I preferred.

F***ing Spam!!

I am really getting tired of the amount of spam comments that have been directed to my blog lately. Fortunately WordPress  uses a wonderful plug-in called Akismet to filter the spam and hold it for me to check and delete, so at least the crap doesn’t get published on my blog for all to read. As of this very moment Akismet has protected my site from 1,014 spam comments. Of course this leads to the question of WHY???? Why do spammers continue to send their crapulent little messages about erectile dysfunction, penis enlargement and various “pleasure enhancing” pharmaceuticals to blogs and email accounts all around the world when so much time, effort and money has been invested in stopping these sorts of messages? Is the effort of setting up spam bots and sending this crap really worth it for what must be a minuscule amount of money made from the one moron in a million who might actually click on a link and buy something? I guess some people get a sick sense of satisfaction out of annoying others. Could there really be enough flaccid fools out there who do buy this stuff online, risking their health and possibly even their lives by self-medicating, buying goods that aren’t even guaranteed to have the desired effect or even contain the ingredients they’re supposed to? How would you really know what’s in a packet of pills you buy online from a less than reputable supplier? Oh well, hopefully “natural selection” will eventually play its part to eradicate “stupid” from the gene pool. Meanwhile, the rest of us have to put up with the irritation and frustration caused by the copious streams of spammy effluent flowing into our various blogs and email accounts every day.

Runes, cards & life’s possibilities…

Occasionally I consult my various oracles, tarot decks and runes  just to see what insights they might reveal. I’m often blown away by their amazing accuracy and synchronicity — somehow Spirit causes precisely the right ones to be chosen, continually reinforcing the idea that it’s not all just chance or coincidence. Last night was no exception. I decided to consult the Oracle of the Dragonfae (by Lucy Cavendish) and pull just one card to get a brief overview about certain things affecting a part of my life right now.

PAN Inc …shiny new website!

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A Tarot Journey …my new blog

As part of Spheres Of Light’s Dark Moon Circle work I am attempting to study and hopefully learn something about the tarot. To help me along on this journey I decided to create another blog to document my progress (or lack of it, LOL). There’s not a lot there yet but hopefully as time goes on it’ll grow substantially. Click on the image below…

Different …it’s not so bad

In my previous blog I briefly referred to the idea of “being different” and whether or not it was considered acceptable to be so. That reminded me of a video which I discovered recently — the link was posted on one of the autism forums/e-groups I’m a member of. The film clip is from  a 1970 feature film of the children’s television series, H.R. Puffnstuff with Mama Cass Elliot in the role of “Witch Hazel”. It’s not about Asperger’s Syndrome and in spite of the presence of  a lot of witches it’s not about Paganism either, LOL. However, I love the song lyrics which can be interpreted to be about either, or both, or anything else that sets people apart, yet brings them together in their “differentness”.  It all depends on your point of view.   Enjoy…