Esoteric Source

Saturday was the vernal equinox, the first moment of spring, and a time when the periods of light and dark in the day are equal. Last year, Donna Henes greeted the spring equinox in a snowstorm at around four in the morning. But this Saturday was different.

 

 

Earth Hour is about more than shutting the power off — it is about raising awareness to alternatives that can make a difference in our lives.

 

 

CNN) -- Amnesty International is calling on Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to stop the execution of a Lebanese man sentenced to death for "sorcery."

Echo feature writer Sian Pilkington sits down with Airdrie’s Debbie Gibbs to get the ins and outs of Shamanism.

 The conifers at the bottom of our English garden always held a special place in my heart.

The short distance from the kitchen to that secret hide-out appeared to the 4-year-old Sian, as a million miles apart and a few steps down into that garden, something changed.

 

This morning, the New Jersey Board of Education voted to approve their list of religious holidays permitting pupil absence from school for the 2010-2011 school year. Included for the first time on this list are the eight Pagan/Wiccan holidays, or sabbats.  This marks the first time any state has approved Pagan holidays to a state calendar, and will set a precedence for other districts and states across the country.

 

A woman was killed after being branded a 'witch' by her relative in Bokaro's Chandrapura area, the second such incident in Jharkhand this month

 

For a man who has spent two-thirds of a century actively pushing himself into the unearthly realm, the filmmaker Kenneth Anger has a pretty firm grasp of the minutiae of the earthly one. He’s 82, he reckons, but when we stop to speak during a break in the schedule of his whirlwind European tour — he’s in London for a show based around his films ”Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome” and ”Invocation of My Demon Brother’‘ at Sprüth Magers in London, a collaboration with Valentino for its autumn-winter show in Paris, and a celebrated guest appearance at the AV festival in Newcastle — he has a recall for the details, facts and figures that make up his constant stream of historical anecdotes and gossip that would put Rain Man to shame.

 

After making it through the harsh winter, people in Western North Carolina are looking forward to the warm sun of spring. Some are preparing to celebrate the season's change with an ecumenical ritual.

 

Long-time esoteric and occult bookseller Watkins Books in London's West End, which closed late last month, got a reprieve. Just two weeks before it was to be liquidated American entrepreneur Etan Ilfeld stepped forward and purchased the 113-year old institution, which stocks crystals, jewelry, and statues as well as books.

 

IN a bizarre incident that has left the community of Gwanda district shell-shocked, a 41-year-old man suspected of stealing 11 head of cattle has been admitted to Gwanda Provincial Hospital, suffering from a mysterious disease.