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    Duke’s Thoughts

    Computers Byte Ever freak out when your computer comes up with some weird error? Ever wonder what causes that? Let me clue you in on something; even the people that make thousands of dollars making the software don’t know. Ever wonder what those cryptic details of the errors mean? So do they. I started using computers back when you still had to type in the commands to run the software programs. Then along came Windows and made computers more user friendly allowing for a graphical method to run programs. But along with an easier interface comes a new set of head aches and a whole new set of profanities. Back…

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    Across the Great Divide

    The Harsh Truth about Ghost Boxes The various ghost hunting “reality” shows that plague the airwaves have given a great deal of attention lately to an amusing new line of gear that merge EMF, audio recorder, and K-II devices all in to one unit; some even assert to turn this data into spoken words that they spout as proof of spirit contact. While in theory this sounds fantastic, in practice it’s a very different, very sobering, reality. Not only are these devices laughable at best, but these “professional” ghost hunters are actually trying to pass off the data from these devices as legitimate evidence of paranormal activity. These devices are…

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    Red Pixe’s – Elements of a Magickal Life

    The Power of Attraction The things we are attracted towards, tell lot about ourselves, after all we are about our attraction. Note, here I am replacing thoughts with attraction. We in preset are the residual outcome of the past thoughts or attractions. In other words we in present are the manifestation of our past or recent thoughts or attractions. Isn’t it interesting, the cause and effect mechanism, “we are in present are caused by past thoughts”, this incredible fact arms us with the power to manifest what we badly want, by attracting them in present. The Law of Attraction a beautiful. We all are using law of attraction in some way…

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    Stones Corner

    Diopside Deep healing and expansion of heart center, love, commitment, trust, humbleness, heart, lungs.  Excellent as a meditation tool and bath side companion. Dioptase & Kinoite Cleanses and keeps away “decay”.  Excellent for old people as it stimulates glands and horomones which tend to slow down in old age. Dolomite Clear varieties, especially pink are used to softly open and heal heart.  Soothes hurt, loneliness, anxiety.  Facilitates giving and receiving, generosity, spontaneity, creativity, energy uplift.  Calcium content strengthens bones, teeth, muscles.  Also, helps a woman’s reproductive system and PMS.   The “herb” of rocks.  A natural abrasive and sponge in one.  A stabilizer of personal and mineral energies; provides a buffer…

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    Book Review: The Secrets of Dr. Taverner

    The Secrets of Dr. Taverner by  Dion Fortune  © 2011 WeiserBooks    ISBN:  978-1-57863-337-1 Paperback       236 pages $16.95  (U.S.) This novel was assembled from a group of short stories at about the same time as the final collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, and there are some similarities           to be noted.  This was intended, as Dion Fortune wanted her stories to gain as large a readership as possible.  Ms Fortune was one of the earliest students of psychoanalysis in the UK, and her training shows through in her works. Dion Fortune had the good fortune to combine a psychologist’s insight with a writer’s ability to capture the imagination.  To that mixture she…

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    HearthBeats: Notes from a Kitchen Witch

    Candles, Magick and everyday. We do not often think about candles when we light them. Well we do if we are lighting them for Ritual or for a spell. But what about outside of that?  Candles are one of just a few links that we have with out ancestors. We do not think about the fact that candle have no race, religion or creed. Candles have meaning in just about every life, religion, race. We light candles for the magick of ritual, whatever the religion. We light then for the magick of romance. We light them for the magick of a simple birthday wish. We light them when we are…

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    Me,Myself and I, Notes from a Solitary Practitioner

    Beneath the cold, black, winter sky Nothing moves but the wind and I In a little while that won’t be Because there will be moving energy I stand in the middle of the sacred space I ground and center, then feel spirit’s grace I cast my circle, as I’ve done for years And the pride I feel fills my eyes with tears I call the quarters, and nows the time To speak my witches words in rhyme The power rises in the circle and me With a clear intent I set it free The spell is over the time has come To open circle with harm to none (Given any…