Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Friday, November 25, 2011

The Truth About Voodoo

By Jade Davidson


If you search the internet about voodoo, you'll find out that the most searched terms are these: voodoo dolls, how to make voodoo dolls, and of course how to use voodoo dolls and how to do voodoo. These will be our topic for this article.

We have many misconceptions on voodoo because we have been fed by the Hollywood movies that portray voodoo as a very harmful and evil thing to pursue. We think that voodoo invokes evil spirits that causes harm to other people. While this is a possibility, this is highly discouraged in the practice of voodoo since the real voodoo discourages the black magical arts. This is very similar to Hinduism and Catholicism, voodoo has many statues that are represents the loas or the deity, the lesser gods. They are here, waiting for us to call upon them - spirits that are earth bound. It was man's evil desire that prompted him to use voodoo as an evil tool for revenge. The real practitioners of voodoo wants a peaceful relationship with everybody. It doesn't seek to destroy but to heal.

Many voodoo practitioners don't use voodoo dolls by pricking them. Although this is a wide practice, many voodoo practitioners use the voodoo dolls as lucky charms and amulets. These are kept and as much as possible, always held with them so that negative forces will just be at bay. The voodoo dolls are mainly used to heal other people and many other good reasons too.

If there is a religion that is quite similar with voodoo, this is the religion practiced by the native Indians in the USA. Why did the latter religious belief never receive negative attention from the media? Why is it that voodoo seemed to claim all of the negative reputation? The reason for that is that voodoo has been developed by the Africans when slavery flourished. Since superstition and witch craft was highly feared during ancient days, the African slaves used their knowledge of how to do voodoo to scare their white masters. The voodoo dolls then became very famous for being a witch's tool for torture.

Be reminded of the fact that any magical and supernatural force has noble roots. While it has started out as a means to spread goodness, it can possess negative vibrations to do exactly the opposite. If used to manipulate people and bring bad luck to others. The law of karma will be felt in many ways - either you will have conflicts, mishaps, and become uncontented and unhappy for the rest of your life. The decision is always ours to make. There isn't any potion or protection spell that can prevent the law of karma to be at work.




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