These are excerpts from my Meditation Journal. Since the original journal entries were more like essays than jotted notes, I figured it was the most appropriate format. And of course, I've left out the really private stuff that I didn't want to share...
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Written the first week of June 2004, this is a short essay on a specific form of ADF meditation. There's more in my Meditation Journal essay (DP#6).
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Forgive me for doggedly pursuing this Dedicants' Program stuff, but I've been meaning to upload it for months, so it hounds me like a muse until I complete the task. Besides, since I completed the DP, I've been of the opinion that it this "work in progress" bears cyclical review to see where I've been, where I am, and where I'm going ( Read more... )

As part of an introduction to ADF druidry (based on scholarship), book reports are required from each of three categories of our recommended reading list (for the Dedicant level). It took me longer to read the books than the rest of the program (including the meditation). I started in the Summer 2004 and finished around February 2005. The biggest ( Read more... )

The original Word document (combined with #8 [ADF Dedicants Program #2]) was written June 4, 2004. I consider it my weakest set of essays. I'm not sure why, but somehow I have trouble researching the High Days. I think it's because most of the books I've encountered pertain to neopaganism, and much of the meanings are modern interpretations. And, ( Read more... )

Another one of my DP essays. This was is very long: on the 9 Virtues ADF aspires to cultivate. By no means am I a paragon of any of these virtues, but perhaps thinking about them I can strive to improve in each of these Nine Worthy areas...
(this one was written in June 2004)

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I've decided to start posting my DP writings. For those not familiar with www.adf.org, you may wish to explore. However, if you are not a polytheist or might not enjoy reading pagan theology, you might want to skip it.

I wrote this essay in early June 2004:

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I've just deleted my old account after switching all the data to this new one (in a crude manner, but at least I did it before too many entries were made). I hope it isn't too confusing to people; I'm hoping that the consistent picture between the accounts will help (it's ~7 years old, so I've changed a bit since then). In any case, I thought it ( Read more... )

Liminality was one of the basic themes of my Dedicant's essays. It seems such an frustratingly ambiguous theme in my whole ambivalent life. Then, I came across one of those tests:

The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to the First Level of Hell - Limbo!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
LevelScorePurgatory (Repenting Believers)Low ( Read more... )

I've changed my journal today. Starting fresh and hoping to figure this journaling stuff out. For some reason my site doesn't look like anyone else's and I'm not sure why nor how to change it (help anyone?). I'm not used to this sort of problem -- I write raw html pages with my fingers tied behind my wrists (figuratively, of course), so these ( Read more... )