Due to Ning closing down its free services in July, I have migrated Quakers in the Wild to spruz.com, thanks to Charley Earp's suggestion. Please consider joining us there!

http://quakerism-on-the-web.spruz.com/

I received an email indicating that the free Ning networks are going to be shut down in July, and I haven't really been posting much here over the last few months, as I have not been keeping up with the non-Christian Quaker blogs that I read. (Have to rectify that.), and I wasn't sure if anyone bar a few people were interested in the stuff I put up here anyway, which is mostly reposting links to other blogs that resonated with me, personally.



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"In my “Many-Selves, No-Self” model of mind, instead of “one true self”, there are many selves. Actually, my mental model is not ovals, but constellations." Source

The spring equinox is one of the four great solar festivals of the year. Day and night are equal, poised and balanced, but about to tip over on the side of light. The spring equinox is sacred to dawn, youth, the morning star and the east. Source

The ambiguity about who is a believer and who a nonbeliever follows inexorably from the pluralism that has been assiduously fostered by many religious leaders for a century and more: God is many different things to different people, and since we can’t know if one of these conceptions is the right one, we should honor them all. Source (PDF)

Early Egyptologists were genuinely shocked to find no trace whatsoever of Hebrew tribes having ever been in Egypt - they weren't expecting to find a record of the Ten Plagues, but they expected to find something. As it turned out, they did find something. They found out that, during the supposed time of the Exodus, Egypt ruled much of Canaan. Source

(Editor's note: This post was my smile for the day, thanks Hystery!)

You see, I don't believe in angels (mine is named Jasper) and I don't believe in faeries (actually it is much better to refer to them obliquely as "the wee people" or "them that be"). Source

I received an email from a reader, asking me questions about being both Buddhist and Quaker. Below is my reply: Source

It is like changing shape. My social self glides away on that wind, and I smell the air differently. Source

Just found this, not sure if it is a valuable resource or not. Interesting to explore!


[Editor's note: Link removed because the site is a front for promoting the closed high-demand Baha'i religion.]