Project X13

The Checkered History of Over-the-Counter Pain Relievers
03/02/2010

In ancient Egypt, healers would pull electric eels from the Nile and place them over a patient's wounds.

http://www.totalhealthbreakthroughs.com/2010/03/the-checkered-history-of...

back pain

In ancient times, pain relief was often the province of mystical healers who communed with the gods. Early civilizations relied on a combination of herbal remedies and magical rituals to cure what ailed them.

Teacher Violates Religious Freedom of a Student Witch

http://www.care2.com/causes/education/blog/teacher-violates-religious-fr...

The shop teacher at Guthrie Center High School in Iowa believes he was wrongly suspended from his job last month. The superintendent of the tiny school district disciplined Dale Halferty, the school’s shop teacher for the last three years, for refusing to allow one of his students to build a Wiccan altar as a class project.

Halferty was sent home for two days while school officials consulted with a lawyer. Guthrie Center High School has a policy prohibiting discrimination against students who express their religious beliefs as part of school assignments. The state of Iowa, and federal law, also prohibits such discrimination.

COME CELEBRATE THE GRAND OPENING OF LUNA SOL ESOTERICA
Hosted by Green Witchcraft series author and new proprietor Ann Moura!

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

10AM to 6PM

311 S.Park Ave, in Sanford, FL

407-392-6870

Welcome Spring Ritual; At 1 PM presented by Ann Moura

Egg hunt will be held on site, so bring your kids!

Readers and vendors will be available all day!

Services confirmed so far:

Ann Moura: readings & consultations.

Morpheus: rune readings.

Wayne Lee: 15-minute Reiki healing sessions.

Kathy Harris: bio-feedback readings

Louise Wilson: aura photography & consultations.

Colleen Gordon, pet psychic: readings & consultations
(bring your pet's photo!).

Earth Focus Interview: Michael MacCracken (-is Chief scientist for climate change programs at the Climate Institue.)

http://www.linktv.org/video/4760/earth-focus-interview-michael-maccracken

Michael MacCracken is Chief scientist for climate change programs at the Climate Institue. He discusses important new findings of the recent United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) report, which illustrates how climate change is occurring faster and on a larger scale than predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007.

The most dramatic example is how sea ice is melting much more rapidly than initially projected. the report suggests that sea levels will rise an additional three feet due to melt from Greenland and Antarctica.

Earth Focus Interview: Gawain Kripke

http://www.linktv.org/video/4759/earth-focus-interview-gawain-kripke

In this Earth Focus interview, Oxfam's Gawain Kripke discusses climate change and its effects on global food security.

Aside from more obvious, immediate effects, more insidious results of climate change will impact food sources. Farmers and the agricultural industry will be most affected. Poorer nations are most reliant upon agriculture; around 80% of the African work force is based around it. Changes in watersheds and water-flow from glaciers, rooted in climate change, present and major challenge to agriculture in many regions. Policy and cultural changes must be made in order to help maintain and sustain the future of agriculture, and of the world's food supply.

Don- From WitchSchool; Discusses Earth Axis Shift-Please Pass it on

Hi everyone,

Today it was announced the Earth Moved 3" from it's Axis. This was
caused by the Earthquake in Chile. This gives a lot more credit to New
Age and Prophetic Ideas. Don is calling on the Crystal Web to conduct
Ritual and Get back to him.

Consider this a School Wide Project: Please Pass it on.

Here is Don's New VBlog on this subject:
http://www.witchschool.com/video/rev-dons-video-blog-1-march

Here is the Discussion:
http://www.witchschool.com/forum/topics/2012-alert-calling-on-the
Blessings
Ed Hubbard
on Behalf of Rev. Don Lewis
www.witchschool.com

Learn Anything, Anytime, Anywhere!
www.P2pSchools.net

March 2010 Featured

By Sandhya Bathija
An Ohio ‘Commandments’ Judge Would Like To Impose God’s Law On You – And His Religious Right Mentors Are Even More Extreme

When former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore defied federal court orders to remove a 2.5-ton Ten Commandments monument from the foyer of the Alabama State Judicial Building a few years ago, most jurists around the country thought he had gone much too far.

Not Ohio Judge James DeWeese.

“Justice Moore courageously did in this case what his oath required him to do,” DeWeese told Focus on the Family in 2003. “He defended the Constitution by resisting an unlawful order which did such damage to the First Amendment. A government official’s acknowledging God is not an establishment of religion…. The Establishment Clause is a prohibition against the United States Congress. It has no application to state court judges.”

Moore was eventually ousted from the court, but his one-man Ohio fan club is continuing the fight. DeWeese insists he should be able to display the Commandments in his Richland County Common Pleas courtroom in Mansfield, Ohio. Even more alarming, Americans United has uncovered information that indicates DeWeese’s involvement with the Religious Right’s most overtly radical wing.

In recent years, DeWeese has displayed a poster entitled “Philosophies of Law in Conflict.” In one column, he lists the Ten Commandments, which he calls the “moral absolutes,” and in the other column, he lists the Humanist Precepts — or as he puts it, the “moral relatives.”

DeWeese then states at the bottom of the poster that he joins “the Founders in personally acknowledging the importance of Almighty God’s fixed moral standards for restoring the moral fabric of this nation.”

The poster has become the center of a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio. A federal district court ruled in October that the sign must come down, but DeWeese, represented by TV preacher Pat Robertson’s American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), has appealed the decision to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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DeWeese’s controversial worldview seems to be shaped by his relationship with some of the most radically theocratic elements of the Religious Right. He is a graduate of the Witherspoon School of Law and Public Policy, a seminar its sponsor, Vision Forum Ministries, describes as “a four-day crash course in biblical principles of law and public policy.”

Vision Forum reminds its students that they cannot “ignore God’s Word as the foundation for law and liberty.”

At first glance, the San Antonio, Texas-based ministry looks like a typical conservative Christian outfit that promotes home schooling, male-dominated families and a literal interpretation of the scriptures. In fact, the group is aligned with Christian Reconstructionism, a movement that seeks to replace secular democracy with a fundamentalist theocracy.

Reconstructionists argue that “God’s law,” including the harsh legal code of the Old Testament, should be binding on modern-day America. They insist that believers of their stripe should re-order (“reconstruct”) governments and establish theocratic rule to pave the way for the Second Coming of Jesus.

Reconstructionists say the Old Testament mandates the death penalty for various offenders, including homosexuals, the “unchaste,” blasphemers, adulterers, witches, those who worship false gods and even “incorrigible” teenagers.

Vision Forum is run by Douglas W. Phillips, son of Howard Phillips, a longtime Republican operative and former Nixon administration official who drifted into Reconstructionism during the 1990s. The organization doesn’t flaunt its alignment with Reconstructionism – probably aware of its controversial nature – but Reconstructionist writers are a staple on its Web site.

Tellingly, the site is littered with columns by William Einwechter, a Pennsylvania pastor who in 1999 authored a controversial essay arguing that the Bible mandates the stoning of “disobedient” teenagers. (Einwechter spoke at the Vision Forum’s 2008 Witherspoon seminar in Fredericksburg, Va., offering lectures on “Christian Jurisprudence” and “The Bible and Female Magistrates.”)

Read more at http://www.au.org/media/church-and-state/archives/2010/03/roy-moore-20.html

Can Animals Foresee Natural Disasters?
02.27.10

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/02/can-animals-foresee-natural-disa...

Earthquakes, like the one that struck today in Chile--which, at the time of this writing, is believed to have claimed 147 lives--are all the more devastating for their unpredictable nature. While geologists have resources available to indicate a probability of when a quake will strike, such as measuring seismic pressures or observing changes in magnetic fields, it is still impossible to provide any short-term notice to threatened communities--a notice that would undoubtedly save countless lives. Although geologists may be incapable of putting communities on alert, however, recent disasters are strengthening theories that some animals may be able to 'sense' impending earthquakes.

WATCH VIDEO: Top 5 Amazing Stories of Animals Saving Humans

Goddess of Old Europe Debuts in New York Exhibit at New York University
February 28, 10:06 AMLA Women's & Goddess Spirituality

http://www.examiner.com/x-22579-LA-Womens--Goddess-Spirituality-Examiner...

For those of us who cannot make a trip to New York City to see the Lost World of Old Europe Exhibit where artifacts of Goddess are on display, guest columnist, artist/scholar, Lydia Ruyle, is the perfect reporter who generously allows us to enjoy the exhibit as seen through her eyes in the review below. And don't miss the slide show at the end of the article.

Observations on The Lost World of Old Europe Exhibition
by Lydia Ruyle, Artist, Author, Scholar