Religion, Culture, & Philosophy http://icpir.yuku.com/forums/14 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:38:38 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Yuku http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://icpir.yuku.com/forums/14 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ <![CDATA[ Are Paranormal Beliefs Similar to Religious Beliefs? ]]> http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/7638/t/Are-Paranormal-Beliefs-Similar-to-Religious-Beliefs-.html Is there a real connection between religion and belief in the paranormal? Some, particularly adherents of various religious faiths, will often argue that the two very different types of beliefs. Those who stand outside of religion, however, will notice some very important similarities which bear closer consideration.

Certainly there is no exact correspondence between religious and... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (RavensMagick) http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/7638 Tue, 13 May 2008 18:09:17 GMT <![CDATA[ Mysterious Pits May Be Signs of Modern Witchcraft ]]> http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/7469/t/Mysterious-Pits-May-Be-Signs-of-Modern-Witchcraft.html Mysterious Pits May Be Signs of Modern Witchcraft

Tuesday , March 11, 2008

By Simon de Bruxelles


Evidence of pagan rituals involving swans and other birds in the Cornish countryside in the 17th century has been uncovered by archaeologists.

Since 2003, 35 pits at the site in a valley near Truro in Cornwall have been excavated containing swan pelts, dead magpies, unhatched eggs, quartz pebbles, human hair, fingernails and part... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (RavensMagick) http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/7469 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:44:37 GMT <![CDATA[ Demons 'possess' Ugandan kids ]]> http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/7448/t/Demons-possess-Ugandan-kids.html Kampala - More than 100 students in a western Ugandan school become possessed by demonic spirits, Uganda's state-run newspaper reported on Tuesday.

The New Vision said that authorities at Sir Tito Winyi Primary School in the western district Hoima described the "hysterical" students as suffering from a demonic attack.

"The situation is bad. About 100 pupils are totally mad. They are chasing everybody including teachers and fellow pupils, throwing stones,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (RavensMagick) http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/7448 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:00:31 GMT <![CDATA[ Video- Mayan Calendar Explained ]]> http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3570/t/Video-Mayan-Calendar-Explained.html video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7479499978592433198&q=mayan+calendar+explained&total=36&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=3

]]> feeds@yuku.com (aquaclay) http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3570 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:55:37 GMT <![CDATA[ Religion and Paranormal Research ]]> http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3569/t/Religion-and-Paranormal-Research.html
How important do you think it is to have someone so well versed on religion on a paranormal team? Do you think it gives... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Azeztulite) http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3569 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:02:12 GMT <![CDATA[ First Dec. 25 Xmas Tied to Pagan Shrine ]]> http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3571/t/First-Dec-25-Xmas-Tied-to-Pagan-Shrine.html 2:25 PM EST, December 22, 2007


ROME - The church where the tradition of celebrating Christmas on Dec. 25 may have begun was built near a pagan shrine as part of an effort to spread Christianity, a leading Italian scholar says.

Italian archaeologists last month unveiled an underground grotto that they believe ancient Romans revered as the place where a wolf nursed Rome's legendary founder Romulus and his twin brother... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Azeztulite) http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3571 Sun, 23 Dec 2007 09:42:08 GMT <![CDATA[ Can I get a scholarship? ]]> http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3572/t/Can-I-get-a-scholarship-.html www.baltimoresun.com/news...b01_layout
]]> feeds@yuku.com (SpiritedBirdWoman) http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3572 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:36:59 GMT <![CDATA[ problem ]]> http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3580/t/problem.html I am new to this forum. I read few threads here and I think its great.
I am looking for advice here, especially if someone who does witchcraft here. (not wiccans or pagans), just witches.
I am very confused, the person I love, might leave me soon. He tought me so many wonderful things that i thought are not ever possible or exist and I love him with all my heart.
It is a long distance relationship and I am soon about to come to that place where he lives, but that... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (dver) http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3580 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:45:23 GMT <![CDATA[ Cats - Superstition and Folklore ]]> http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3579/t/Cats-Superstition-and-Folklore.html www.xmission.com/~emailbox/folklore.htm#witches

Be sure to go down to where it says "Cats and Witches", I find this particularly interesting because it tells partly of how black cats got the reputation of being bad luck!

Enjoy!
feeds@yuku.com (SoweluSpirit) http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3579 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:00:11 GMT <![CDATA[ Runes ]]> http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3581/t/Runes.html An Alphabet Of Enlightenment
Runes
Many millennia ago in northern Europe, ancient peoples sought a means to understand their roles in the world at large. They created runes-an alphabet of symbols that served both as a functional writing system and as a unique system of divination. Though the symbols themselves were little more than varying combinations of straight lines carved on natural mediums such as wood, stone, or bone, these individuals devised a method of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (upstateSCgirl) http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3581 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:14:20 GMT <![CDATA[ Pagans Honor Zeus at Ancient Athens Temple ]]> http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3582/t/Pagans-Honor-Zeus-at-Ancient-Athens-Temple.html
Yesterday believers gathered near the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus in the heart of Athens, Greece, to honor Zeus's marriage to the goddess Herathe first such ceremony known to be performed at the site since the Romans outlawed the religion in A.D. 394.

Surrounded by a curious... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (MsTee108) http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3582 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:10:46 GMT <![CDATA[ Razor Sharp ]]> http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3583/t/Razor-Sharp.html :ahh

I once had a dream that 5 guys whom I grew-up with surrounded and attacked me. Each of the four grabbed an arm and a leg each, while the fifth pulled a large knife out and waved it at me. As I screamed in fear and exitement; begging him not to cut me...he did anyway.
I woke-up during the night and quickly went... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Majai6) http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3583 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:44:24 GMT <![CDATA[ Video-Malleus Malleficarum ]]> http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3584/t/Video-Malleus-Malleficarum.html www.history.com/media.do?action=clip&id=wc_malleus_broadband
]]> feeds@yuku.com (upstateSCgirl) http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3584 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:15:25 GMT <![CDATA[ Exorcism: Psychiatry meets faith ]]> http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3586/t/Exorcism-Psychiatry-meets-faith.html


Exorcism: Psychiatry meets faith
From: www.bakersfield.com/102/story/88641.html

Dec 9, 2006

Alone in her bedroom, the black-dressed woman thumbed through her binder of spells and contemplated her next victim. The baritone voice of Satan rumbled in her mind, enticing... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (upstateSCgirl) http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3586 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:28:44 GMT <![CDATA[ Calls to pardon 'UK's last witch' ]]> http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3587/t/Calls-to-pardon-UK-s-last-witch-.html
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/6212880.stm
]]> feeds@yuku.com (upstateSCgirl) http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3587 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:49:53 GMT <![CDATA[ Roman Ritual Of Excorsism and Questions? ]]> http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3589/t/Roman-Ritual-Of-Excorsism-and-Questions-.html
I hope I am posting this to the right board.

Just a few questions, since I am no expert and would really value all of your opinions and observations as well as real world experience.

What is the difference between a human spirit and non-human spirit? Having never had a supernatural experience myself, I also wondered if anyone has ever been hurt by a ghost/spirit etc. Now I will say that I have been to places that Felt spiritual, and have been drawn to many of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (SirMick011) http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3589 Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:24:11 GMT <![CDATA[ Haitians in voodoo-tinged celebration of the dead ]]> http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3588/t/Haitians-in-voodoo-tinged-celebration-of-the-dead.html
Thu Nov 2, 2006 6:42pm ET
By Joseph Guyler Delva

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Haitians poured into cemeteries and danced in the streets on Thursday as their strife-torn Caribbean nation wrapped up its annual two-day celebration of the dead.

Driven by voodoo and the widespread belief that the dead have supernatural powers, the festival is ingrained in Haiti's turbulent history.

This year the celebrations... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (upstateSCgirl) http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3588 Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:19:13 GMT <![CDATA[ Pagan dance honors roots of Halloween ]]> http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3590/t/Pagan-dance-honors-roots-of-Halloween.html Matthai Chakko Kuruvila, Chronicle Religion Writer

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Altars to the dead lined the basketball court at Kezar Pavilion: One was a shrine to pets, another memorialized fetuses that didn't come to term, and a third, with photographs of the first thousand U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, mourned the war dead.

They set the stage for a ceremony where a thousand witches, druids and pagans prepared to meet the dead. It... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (upstateSCgirl) http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3590 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:35:02 GMT <![CDATA[ A World without Witches? ]]> http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3578/t/A-World-without-Witches-.html by Robert F. Potts

Can you imagine a world without witches,
A world with all people the same?
Where the only known dragons are hiding in books,
And children are terribly tame?
A world without magic would be sad indeed.
I cannot imagine the pain
Of having a world where there's no Santa Claus,
Where wizards are searched for in vain.

Can you imagine a world without spells,
That science and businesses run?
And think of the sadness a... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (nu2okie) http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3578 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:46:15 GMT <![CDATA[ Witchcraft in my family closet and how to find info.. ]]> http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3592/t/Witchcraft-in-my-family-closet-and-how-to-find-info-.html
"In the ferocious prosecution of 1692, for witchcraft, he was so lenient, or judiciously incredulous of the crimes imputed to his neighbors as to be strongly suspected of the same horrid or ludicrous offence."
[minutes of Groton. ord. 17 Nov. 1706, disc. 1712],... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (xXhelenahandbasketXx) http://icpir.yuku.com/topic/3592 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:04:17 GMT