I recently had a metaphysical experience I decided I wanted to share with ya’ll.

Last night I had an emotionally intensive dream… emotionally intensive to the point where emotion suspends my normally quasi-rational thought in dreams. This morning I wake up and my metaphysically inclined friend mentioned that now everything is rainbow looking (with different colors representing different emotions). Compare this to last night where she saw everything as black. This leaves me to think something happened, and perhaps my dream is more than just a coincidence - especially since I feel so emotionally relaxed today - like all my stress just went away.

I’ve experienced this before, usually at times where there’s nothing particularly interesting going on. It’s almost as if blandness and nothingness (or to use a Stargate reference, memories of Britain) is a trigger for this emotional molting. I’m not sure if anything bad happens with all this random energy floating about, but nothing bad has happened the past few times this has happened.

Anyone have any insight on this? Is there anything anyone knows of on a metaphysical level where one would have very emotionally intensive experience in an altered state of consciousness that results in feeling so relieved after the experience? What about the fact my apartment’s energy is apparently a gay pride parade waiting to happen?

Note, offer not legal in all jurisdictions so… pay attention to the whole void where prohibited thing:

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Academics from across the US and the world are discussing Religion (from an academic perspective) this week in Chicago.

You can find information from the first couple of days of this event on The Wild Hunt Blog: http://www.wildhunt.org/labels/American%20Academy%20of%20Religion.html

Witchvox is taking a poll again on who you’re voting for POTUS. Vote at: http://www.witchvox.com/index.html

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Disrupting the educational process? Why is the inability of our educators to incorporate their dynamic environment into their education increasingly an acceptable excuse for dejecting students?

It is said that how money is spent reflects upon how we set our priorities. Looking at academic salaries of various personnel, it’s no wonder our higher educational system is messed up: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1086

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Listener Topics

• Matthew, a Thelemic reshreacher(sic.) in Blacksburg writes:

  Big fucking show question: Ron Hutton wrote marking difference between the two; Gardnerian (Gerald Gardener) would always mark clear separation between Pagan/Wicca & Christianity & the struggle of the later against the former. Alexandrians (Alex Sanders) portrayed themselves as “warriors in a constant battle between good against evil magic.” I have mix views on this myself. These guys where before Cunningham or Buckland. What is P.C.P.’s opinion of the this old school rivalry in wicca?

  Dave notes: Sorry for the delay, it got lost in my inbox for a while

• Qwertos is building PCP: The Game and wants some ideas.
• We’ll address Micky’s topic next week as it is a bit long

Lead Topic

• Magic as a social practice?
• Mundane life and metaphysics, mixing the two.

Ego Stroking

• KSFruitBat Writes on iTunes:

  More fun than a Barrel of Mead!

  As they say in the intro, this is a group of average pagans discussing daily and common influences and news about paganism and alternative religion.

  Very humorous, with gobs of Dr. Who and other fun sci-fi jokes, 8/10 for audio quality, since sometimes the members attending via Skype are a bit fuzzy sounding.

  If you’re pagan and want more information, or just want something fun to listen to, give this a listen

• Magda Writes: (Regarding Episode 79)

  Hey,

  I see there’s finally a video game that pisses of atheists. This is so ridiculous; I knew Christians wouldn’t like it because there’s evolution in it, but I never thought atheists would care. Now I’m definitely getting the game.

  Also, I love how you guys are going after the organic food topic. I’ve gone to Whole Foods, mostly for meat without hormones, and it’s too expensive. I found a cheaper place called Trader Joe’s, that’s one of the cheaper grocery stores in NYC. It’s has a mix of both organic and non-organic.

• Ed Writes:

  If you have already seen this (attachment: Field Guide to Fluffy Paganism) I apologise - for all I know you guys wrote it! But I thought it seemed like your kind of thing. I like to use it to fluffy spot and I am ashamed to admit many pagans in the UK fit these descriptions!

  Keep up the good work - Love your podcast

  Ed

• Harlequin Writes:

  Hey - a new fan to the podcast - love it x

• Bill in North Carolina Writes:

  Great show guys. And YEA for the return of the pcms

• Edward Writes:

  Bravo to Amber in episode 81, great to hear someone speaking out against people who wear religion as an accessory. =] xXx

• Sacredor Writes on YouTube:

  Loving the show, keep it up!

• Unlike my car that is run on happiness, rainbows and gasoline - this show is run ego stroking and hate mail, so please be sure to send your feedback to us by visiting ImBleedingProfusely.com and clicking the Feedback tab at the top of the page. We haven’t had any hate mail in a long time, so please send us some!
• Announcement: Our Pagan Occult News section has been upgraded. Check out the latest Pagan and Occult news from sources we here at PCP love by going to ImBleedingProfusely.com/news

Topics of Discussion

• Theologian in UK states Christian priests wearing robes is 'absurd' and builds barriers between Priest and congregation. What role does ritual clothing play in your practice? Do you believe it is necessary?
• Dentists across the US to buy back Halloween candy from kids for $1/lb, then ship the candy to our troops overseas
• Nifty Fact: Llewellyn threatened to give out free books for Pagans to hand out in a back woods North Carolina school district if a measure to allow the distribution of Christian pamphlets was passed.
• Pwn3d, Christian Girl tries to claim she was attacked by "Satanic Voodoo Cult" - claims analyzed and thrown out since they are inconsistent. Not to mention she has a history of lieing to the police. Read The Wild Hunt Blog's Article on this. As the editor points out, the mainstream media has simply become regurgitatiors of press releases and police reports (both of which contain inaccuracies) rather than acting as professionals and do things like simple fact checking.
• From Fark: Well, at least she bought some bath salts before playing “burn the witch” in the new age shop
• From the Wild Hunt Blog: More of VP Nominee Palin's anti-Pagan ties
• From Fark: A church in the middle of a monthlong prayer festival has already racked up 10 noise citations. "I'd never be allowed to have a party for 31 days straight in my backyard." (Highlights Christian mindset that what they do should be outside the law, e.g. solicitation)

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Last Updated Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:30:00 -0600 GMT

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