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Burning Myrrh: How to Use the Resin Safely
Quick answer Myrrh is the dried gum resin of Commiphora trees, sold as reddish-brown tears. It smells warm, balsamic and slightly bitter — heavier and earthier than frankincense....
Shamanic Journeying: How the Drum Method Works
Quick answer A shamanic journey is a light, self-directed trance brought on by steady drumming at roughly four to seven beats per second. You set one question, follow...
Inner Child Work: Where It Comes From, and Doing It Safely
Inner Child Work: Where It Comes From, and Doing It Safely Three separate lineages feed the phrase, only some of the practice has research behind it, and one...
Simulation or Creation? What the Argument Actually Says
Simulation or Creation? What the Argument Actually Says Bostrom's simulation argument is not the claim most people think it is, the quantum "observer" is not a person, and...
Emoto's Water Crystals: What the Photographs Actually Show
Emoto's Water Crystals: What the Photographs Actually Show The famous images of "thanked" and "insulted" water are real photographs of real ice. What they are not is evidence...
Blue Moon: What It Really Is and When the Next One Falls
Blue Moon: What It Really Is and When the Next One Falls There are two competing definitions, one of them is a documented magazine error from 1946 that...
Gratitude Practice: What the Research Actually Supports
Gratitude Practice: What the Research Actually Supports A working guide to gratitude as a practice — the four formats that hold up, the evidence behind them at its...
Who Drew the Rider-Waite Tarot? Pamela Colman Smith and the Public Domain
The most reproduced tarot images in the world were drawn by a woman whose name is missing from the deck most people call by two other names. This...
Can You Legally Collect Your Own Crystals in the US?
Picking up your own stones is legal in far more of the United States than most people assume — and flatly illegal in some of the most beautiful...
What Actually Happens at an American Spiritualist Camp
A handful of small towns in the United States have been organised around talking to the dead for well over a century, and they are open to visitors....
Quantum Healing and the Two-Point Method, Examined
Quantum healing is an umbrella term, not a protected title. It covers methods in which a practitioner touches two points on the body lightly, enters a state of...
North Node and South Node: Meaning in Your Chart
The lunar nodes are not bodies but the two points where the Moon's orbit crosses the ecliptic. The north node is the ascending crossing, the south node the...
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