Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night – Nicholas Rogers
Boasting a rich, complex history rooted in Celtic and Christian ritual, Halloween has evolved from ethnic celebration to a blend of street festival, fright night,…
Month: October 2022
Reincarnation: The Cycle of Necessity – Manly P. Hall
Among the subjects discussed are reincarnation in Oriental, Greek, and American Indian systems of thought; the theory as set forth in the Old and New…
Reading the Zohar: The Sacred Text of the Kabbalah – Pinchas Giller
Comprising well over a thousand pages of densely written Aramaic, the compilation of texts known as the Zohar represents the collective wisdom of various strands…
Radical Gratitude: Discovering Joy through Everyday Thankfulness – Ellen Vaughn & Chuck Colson
‘No one tells a story better than Ellen Vaughn’ —Chuck Colson Why read a nice book about gratitude? After all, being thankful is not controversial.…
Beltane: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for May Day – Melanie Marquis
Light the fires of celebration with Beltane’s invigorating energy Beltane―also known as May Day―is a time of fertility and growth. As the start of the…
Be It Until You Become It: The Law of Attraction Explained Through Neuroscience and Ancient Wisdom – Natasha Graziano
With practical exercises and scientific studies, Natasha Graziano explains the Law of Attraction like never before in Be It Until You Become It! Be It…
Corn Mazes
Corn Mazes—A corn maze is a type of HALLOWEEN ATTRACTION, although corn mazes aren’t always exclusively tied to Halloween— they may simply be a form…
Corn Dolly
Corn Dolly—A HARVEST custom with certain specific Halloween variants. Typically a corn dolly was a semi-human figure made from the last sheafs of CORN (or…
Corn
Corn —Associated with Halloween because corn (which usually refers to OATS outside of America) ripens in late October. Corn husking contests were popular at nineteenth-century…
Colum Kill
Colum Kill— Another name for St. Columba, an Irish priest who in the sixth century had been ordered to convert the Picts in Ireland. St.…