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This Week’s Hosts

Listener Topics

• Magda Writes about Episode 71:
  

  Hey loved the episode! I’m getting my fiance into it. He’ll be one of the Catholic fans I guess.

  Made me curious about whether or not there are state and city specific ley line maps? I heard a few years back about one state or city in the US. that has all the ley lines mapped out. They purposely build businesses on them so they can be more successful. I believe the same goes for the homes as well. I forget which place it is though.

Lead Topic

• Getting Energy
  • We keep talking about energy work, where are we getting this energy from?
  • Round-robin: Energy Sources
  • Dave’s notes:
    • Source: Earth, Moon… damn near anything that is a rock, rushing water is a bit overwhelming for me
    • I’m constantly grounded, so pull energy from Earth constantly
    • Dangers of using energy from a locale (e.g. devil’s rock), poisoned energy
    • Using energy that’s already there vs. raising energy, good for weather workings
    • Setting objects to draw energy from the earth themselves
    • If one object (e.g. shield) is pulling energy from something else… well, expect that source to be attacked when push comes to shove (Mill Creek incident)
    • Sometimes put energy into certain objects for storage. Certain things tie into my metaphysical self such as my sword.

Ego Stroking

• Update regarding Raptor Jesus Pamphlets, apparently in high demand.
• Michael Writes about Episode 70: I just had to comment on the paganism and sex toys part. I actually took one of my circle sisters to a sex shop (she’d never been to one) and i got a fairly large dildo and we weren’t even out of the parking lot before she started to bless it in the name of Apollo. 4 years later and it is still called that by my friends.
• Daniel Writes: Why are there no pics of the PCP guys and gals. Would be nice too put a face wit the voices.
• Zach1978 Writes about Episode 69: Love the show.
• Thanks to A Pagan Heart in Maine for linking to us
• Become an Ego Stroker, Get PCP Episodes Before Release!
• PCP Effect: We update our page layout, MySpace updates their page layout… w00t.

Topics of Discussion

• Keeping a Pagan group together: having multiple specialized group.
• Determining if someone is Pagan
  • What personal experiences/fiascos have you encountered while trying to figure out if someone is Pagan?
  • How do you determine if a stranger is a Pagan?
  • Should we all wear giant signs on our heads that say “Dude, I’m a Pagan?”

Weekly Segments

• WAME POT: Someone trying to convert them to Christianity
• Site of the Week: Rune-Net (click link, awesome book too!)
• For Further Listening
  • Title of Show: From the Edge of the Circle with TommyElf in Dallas/Ft. Worth
  • Entertaining - “Keeps ya hooked” (/10): 9
  • Educational - “Taught me something, got me thinking” (/10): 9
  • Audio Quality (/10): 9 (could use some higher levels for the spoken portion to match promos etc., otherwise all is good)
  • Notes: Cool because he manages to get a lot of listener feedback with it seeming to detract from the show. I really love the many viewpoints presented via listener feedback that can be hard to get from a show with a single host. The show has been around for a while, now I know why.
• Final Thoughts

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Actual Manhole Cover in Nagasaki, Japan. I guess it’s their symbol for shit.

Copyrighted, found on Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/7313654@N07/2391441382/

Don S. Davis, who played General Hammond on Stargate SG-1, died several days ago. Read more at: http://gateworld.net/news/2008/06/don_s._davis_1942-2008.shtml

Just thought I’d bring it up since we used to make many references to Stargate on the podcast… since replaced with Doctor Who references.

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
- Samuel Johnson

Wow, another Border Patrol FAIL (that white SUV is border patrol). This is on I-10 between Houston and San Antonio. For those without knowledge of Texas Geography, here’s an estimate of where this picture was taken: google map.

This is a technique I felt the need to share with ya’ll. This is a technique I developed as a result of my failed experiments at PK.

During these experiments, I would try to reach out to the object and touch it, but not physically. I started by doing this astrally. As soon as I remembered at how horrible my accuracy at astral projection was, I decided to try something else.

The technique originally involved me visualizing an energy field around my body. I would feel anything that passed through this energy. Obviously, the physical feedback of mundane nerves in one’s mundane body is how the body will initially register these sensations. However, I tried to expand this energy to start sensing things without them actually touching me. I started with touch because… well, it made the most sense to me as being the easiest sense to work with. After all, I had previously felt the sensation of people’s energy entering my own while being several inches away from my body, so there wasn’t much of a mental leap of faith to be made here.

I practiced with this technique for a while, expanding my energy, contorting it into different oblong shapes etc. Eventually I came up with the idea of having a protruding beam of energy. This would be like a metaphysical walking stick, except that instead of just whacking things to *something* was there, I’d be getting useful sensory input to determine *what* being detected by this energy.

I would experiment with sitting on one side of a room, and “touching” objects on the other side of the room - trying to feel them with just my energy. Of course, you can argue one’s previous sensory input can affect the results - but at this point in the learning process, I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing, just a likely rational explanation.

From here I made a leap. I thought about sensing everything in a room rather than just 1 thing at a time. From that I developed a technique I call The Sensory Net. I have what are like ropes of energy coming from my physical body forming a pattern of a stereotypical rope net (with 90 degree intersections). I’m not sure if the cross-sections are truly needed, but it works for me so I don’t plan on changing any time soon.

As I became more efficient at this technique, I started to experiment with larger and larger sensory nets. Now, the interesting thing is to have a sensory net that isn’t attached to you. I have used this technique to sense when someone entered an area that I couldn’t physically sense (e.g. being at the dead end of a frequently path and sensing approaching individuals).

My current use of this technique has replaced sensing physical objects with sensing the energy of my surroundings. I can just use more traditional methods (sense using receiving hand), but I feel this technique offers a better degree of security by obscurity and this technique doesn’t drain me nearly as much.

Just throwing that out there. Feel welcome to modify as you desire.

It starts off silly, but is worth 10 minutes of your life - especially if you work in this industry

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This Week’s Hosts

Listener Topics

• Colby in Seattle, WA writes on his MySpace blog about how the Green Scare has resulted in bad things going on in the Legal System
  • What is the Green Scare?
  • This particular case
  • Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
• Italian Bishop refuses to marry impotent couple - from Magda

Lead Topic

• Sensory awareness and when less truly is more. Inspired by the foreword to Space/Time Magic.
  • What is Sensory Awareness?
  • Dave recommends “The Einstein Factor” by Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe as an excellent academic guide to this topic and how to enhance sensory awareness.
  • When is heightened Sensory Awareness a good thing for metaphysical workings?
  • For what metaphysical workings is lessened Sensory Awareness a good thing? (More is not always better)

Ego Stroking

• Lupa plugged episode 67 on her blog - Thanks!
• Call for co-hosts for the Pagan Fundamentalism Episode: Episode 79
• Over 60k downloads, w00t.

Topics of Discussion

• Predicting the Future, rational explanations vs. the inexplicable
  • Good foresight vs. actual predictions. Is this behavior expected?
    • Dave Note: Locking something… OMG, I lost the key and can’t get this open!
  • Fears and Hopes
  • Predictions vs. trying to find the truth in what you said
    • Dave Note: Look, I predicted an earthquake. It was 0.8 on a fault line in Alaska!
  • Write it down!
    • Dave Note: Perception influences memory. Good luck editing what was written without you realizing it. Objective records can help indicate if you are truly making predictions.
  • Details
    • It’s one thin to say “something bad will happen” - it’s quite another to say “Some building called the World International Building or something will get hit by a large missile rocket thing and explode like dirt. This will take place on 9/1/2001.” - inaccurate but still creepy.
• Pagan Symbols
  • What symbol or symbols do you wear and why?
  • What personal experiences have you had relating to people noticing your symbol of faith?

Weekly Segments:

• WAME POT: News crews covering their abuse of federal and state laws regarding charter schools
• Site of the Week: GodChecker.com
• For Further Listening (Podcast of the week):
  • Title of Show: Geek Witch
  • Notes: A podcast that proves by example that podcasting isn’t for everyone. If you’re going to start a podcast… please have something to say, preferably something different from what other Pagan podcasters are already saying.
• For Even Further Listening:
  • The Secrets In Plain Sight! Episode for June 7, 2008. Good rant about why censoring/hiding something makes it more difficult to cope with stuff.
• Final Thoughts

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Here’s something you can reference when some indit decides to say there’s no proof of evolution:

http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Lenski_affair