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PMP: Hypersensitivity & the Pagan

Shauna Aura Knight joined RevKess and KaliSara for a wonderful discussion of hypersensitivity with a focus on the Pagan world. Relaying anecdotes from personal life, ritual situations, and throwing in some armchair psychology, the three had a rather informative talk about how being hypersensitive to their environment and other contributing factors can learn to move through life with a better understanding of how their selves react to the world.

A term that cropped up once or twice in the conversation was “kinesthetic”. In context of the conversation, Shauna was referring to kinesthetic sense. WikiPedia defines that as

Proprioception, the kinesthetic sense, provides the parietal cortex of the brain with information on the relative positions of the parts of the body. Neurologists test this sense by telling patients to close their eyes and touch their own nose with the tip of a finger. Assuming proper proprioceptive function, at no time will the person lose awareness of where the hand actually is, even though it is not being detected by any of the other senses. Proprioception and touch are related in subtle ways, and their impairment results in surprising and deep deficits in perception and action.

The idea of “micro expressions” was brought up just over half way into the show. If you are a fan of TV dramas then you might be familiar with the show Lie To Me. Taking the idea of “profiling” to the extreme of observing the smallest shifts in body language or facial expressions to better understand the emotional state of the individual. The TV show is based on the work of Dr. Paul Ekman.

Towards the end of the show, the focus shifted to Pagan leadership.

ADDITIONAL LINKS

MUISC

  1. Celia – Everyday Goddess – Breathe
  2. Tuatha Dea – Akasha (featuring Spiral Rhythm) – The Tribe
  3. Dragon Ritual Drummers – Heart Beat – Passage
  4. Damh the Bard – Ever with Me – The Hills They Are Hollow

Unfortunately for our live listeners the live stream ended before the show was over. But they didn’t miss much. Shortly after the top of the hour Shauna and KaliSara both lost their connection and RevKess did a quick wrap up. All three will return on February 2nd for a continued conversation about Pagan Leadership: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

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Veterans’ Day on the Mess

ad bannerHello, all. I’ve been rather remiss of late when it comes to sharing our play lists and other notes from the shows, both those on PMPChannel and the shows I am involved in on KZUM. We’ll see what we can do to rectify that.

Here is the playlist from Murphy’s Magic Mess on the 10th. It was our Veterans’s Day celebration, so much of the music fits into that theme. It was also one of our SoundExchange tracking weeks, so the format of the playlist is taking straight from the tracking spreadsheet. I had the pleasure of selecting the music, and these 20 tracks are just half of what I selected. We also had a nice little visit with Josh Bivins of UNL Pagan Life, the Pagan student group at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Playlist

Song Title Featured Artist Album
Warrior Queen Kellianna Lady Moon
From Cradle to Coffin Isadar The Purple Heart
Flowers of Edinburgh Bill Leslie Scotland: Grace of the Wild
Dark Afternoon David Nevue Open Sky
Stone Circle Al Jewer & Andy Mitran Music of the Earth
Peaceful Warrior Chant Ruth Barrett The Year is a Dancing Woman: Vol. 1
Warrior’s Prayer Wil Kanim Firewater
Prayers for the Warriors Sophia Emergence
RED Alabaster & Blue Celia Red Alabaster & Blue
Cad Goddeu (Battle of the Trees) Dale Bacon Poems
Cad Goddeu (Battle of the Trees) Hugin the Bard Bardic Tales of the Mabinogian
The Bold Fenian Men Omnia Crone of War
Battle Hymn Faith and the Muse :Shoumei:
Coloured Ribbons & Tarnished Brass The Cundeez Coloured Ribbons and Tarnished Brass EP
The Battle of New Orleans Coyote Run Pleads the 5th
The Green Fields of France Dropkick Murphys The Warrior’s Code
I Am Warrior Monica Richards InfraWarrior
Maiden, Warrior, Mother, Crone Murphey’s Midnight Rounders Swede Hollow
Sink the Bismark Johnny Horton Battle of New Orleans
Don’t Call My Name In Battle Heather Alexander Songsmith: From Andre Norton’s Wit
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Musica Pagani #9: A day early

Due to some scheduling issues and RevKess getting deep into research, Musica Pagani aired a day early. Saturdays are the usual day for the Pagan-Musings Podcast with KaliSara and RevKess. RevKess has to work and KaliSara has dived deep into her writing projects. So, Musica Pagani comes to you a day early. Hope that you enjoy!

The format is a little bit different for this evening’s broadcast as well. Managing to squeeze the show into just over two hours, RevKess brings you a selection of New Age and Pagan music, but with a different twist. 1-2 tracks per artists instead of three, and a story thrown in their for a little bit of extra fun. As all the programming on the Pagan-Musings Podcast Channel is constantly evolving, who knows where the next edition will bring you!

Speaking of future editions, before we give you the set list, here’s a sneak peak at what is coming your way in August. On Sunday the 11th, Brian Henke visits with RevKess about his music career, shares some of his inspirations and his music. On the 18th, that Goddess Kiss’d gal from Florida, Mama Gina, joins RevKess on the show to talk about her music and a recent benefit to support a local metaphysical shop that was destroyed in a fire.

Music

  1. Jenna Greene – Rise Up Singin’ – Crossroads
  2. Jami Sieber – Dream Raga – Timeless
  3. Jami Sieber – Invisible Wings – Lush Mechanique
  4. Lia Scallon – Gift of Serenity – The Luminous Pearl
  5. Lia Scallon – Pearl – Crystal Keys
  6. Al Conti – Minstrel’s Song – The Blue Rose
  7. Al Conti – Abstract Desire – Poeta
  8. Steven Halpber – Deep Alpha 8Hz Pt 5 – Deep Alpha
  9. Steven Halpern – Deep Theta 2.0 Pt 1 – Deep Theta 2.0
  10. Shining Wheel Pagan Chorus – Bring the Rain – Elemental Children of Earth
  11. Shining Wheel Pagan Chorus – Runnin’ Wild – Elemental Children of Earth
  12. S.J. Tucker – Mummy Medusa – Haphazard
  13. S.J. Tucker – Ravens in the Library – Mischief
  14. Celia – The Bee, the Mouse, and the Bum Clock – Irish Tales
  15. Candace Night – Dangerous Smile – Reflections
  16. Blackmore’s Night – The Spinner’s Tale – Dancer and the Moon
  17. Kenny Klein – Ghosts of the Lower 9th Ward – Ghosts of the Delta
  18. Kenny Klein – Jugband Blues – Ghosts of the Delta
  19. Murphey’s Midnight Rounders – Wreck of the Modern Pagan – Swede Hollow
  20. Murphey’s Midnight Rounders – Pixie Glide – Swede Hollow
  21. Tuatha Dea (featuring Spiral Rhythm) – The Blessing – The Tribe
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Musica Pagani Celebrates Independence

RevKess would like to say happy 4th of July to all the listeners in the United States and all of those who appreciate the freedoms and independence that they have or want to have. Every year on the 4th of July, millions of people celebrate the freedom and independence that they have in the United States. Even with the inequities that barrage US citizens on a regular basis, people in the US have much more freedom than most other places around the globe. It is due to the long battle that the US people have waged for centuries that they can celebrate on this day, and any other day of the year. Religious freedom, sexual equality (a work in progress), workers’ rights, voters’ rights, property and inheritance rights, all those things that many in the US take for granted. They are all reasons to celebrate.

Though Musica Pagani is a music program, as the name suggests, RevKess wanted to share that Crystal Blanton is a new staff writer for the Wild Hunt. Her first article for TWH was published for the 4th of July and it pertains to the celebration in the United States as well as the major disappointment that many have with the Supreme Court of the United States after their decision to over turn Section 4 of the Voters Rights Act on June 25, 2013 – one day before their major decision regarding Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8. In the article she quotes such figures of the Pagan community as T Thorn Coyle, Peter Dybing, Yeshe Rabbit and Erick DuPreee.

This 4th of July, Musica Pagani celebrates freedom, diversity and independence with music and song.

The Music

  1. Celia – Lady Liberty 
  2. Fiona Joy Hawkins – Freedom – Live at the Q
  3. Stephen DeRuby – Freedom – Awakening
  4. Celia – Red Alabaster & Blue – Red Alabaster & Blue 
  5. Gaia Consort – Cry Freedom – Secret Voices
  6. Big Bad Gina – Freedom Connection – Lake of Dreams 
  7. Lis Addison – My Big Community – Grace of the Green Leaf
  8. Ian Corrigan – A Charm for Religious Liberty 
  9. Celia – Build the Wall – Military Religious Freedom Foundation 
  10. Celia – Symbol Song 
  11. Heather Dale – Brother Stand Beside Me – The Green Knight 
  12. Tron Syversen – Freedom Song – Piano Poems 
  13. Emerald Rose – Hills of America – Bending Tradition 
A special thank you to the editors and collectors of sound effects over at www.freefx.co.uk for some of the sounds you heard on this special edition of Musica Pagani.
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Musica Pagani #2

Sunday the 9th of June 2013 brings you the second installment of Musica Pagani the reboot. RevKess had a lot of fun putting this edition together. Recorded in advance, the show is full of music that everyone is sure to enjoy. Whether you like new age instrumental, heavy drumming and some rock, or simple Pagan ballads from some of the greatest musicians around the globe, there is sure to be something for everyone.

Before giving you the play list, the cast of personalities on PMPChannel would like to remind you to visit their advertisers and sponsors.

The Music

  1. Blackmore’s Night – Sake of the Song – Autumn Sky
  2. Al Conti – The Princess & the Emperor – The Blue Rose
  3. Al Conti – The Rainbow Bridge – Northern Seas
  4. Al Conti – Ripples on Water – Poeta
  5. Lis Addison – Hearts & Bones – Crown in the Sky
  6. Lis Addison – Solar Winds – The Song of the Tree
  7. Lis Addison – Mother Gaia – Crown in the Sky
  8. Annette Cantor – Spider Woman – Songs for the Goddess
  9. Annette Cantor – Isis – Songs fro the Goddess
  10. Annette Cantor – Venus – Songs for the Goddess
  11. Cernunnos Rising – Wise Old Yew – Urban Druid
  12. Cernunnos Rising – Beyond Us Is the Cost – Urban Druid
  13. Cernunnos Rising – Willow, Water, Moon & Stream – Urban Druid
  14. Didges Christ SuperDrum – Mystic Rituals – Alien Technology 
  15. Didges Christ SuperDrum – Grok Otok – Alien Technology
  16. Didges Christ SuperDrum – Snake Oil – Alien Technology
  17. Celia – Walking the Labyrinth – Carry Me Home
  18. Celia – Trees Breathe – Breathe
  19. Celia – Metta Prayer – For the Asking
  20. Hennie Bekker – Mystical Mother – Temba
  21. Hennie Bekker – Urban Trance – Spectrum
  22. Hennie Bekker – Inner Peace – Spa 
  23. Murphey’s Midnight Rounders – Wreck of the Modern Pagan – Swede Hollow
  24. Murphey’s Midnight Rounders – Daylight Comes Again (single)
  25. Murphey’s Midnight Rounders – As You Depart – I Am the Goddess

Musica Pagani and all the other shows on the Pagan-Musings Podcast Channel can be reached via email at paganmusings@gmail.com. Follow PMPChannel on Twitter. Like us on Facebook.

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PWN #96: Florida Pagans, Monsanto, and more

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The 96th edition of Pagan Weekly News led off with news from the state of Florida. Lots of things going on down there for the Pagan and New Age communities. What with the uproar, now simmered down, in Pahokee over the first Summer Solstice Pagan Festival and the new banning of herbal tinctures state wide.

After a false start, RevKess was able to get things going an hour late. The joys of doing things live and hitting technical issues that cannot be resolved on our end. Thank you to the BTR help desk for taking the time to get things fixed. Still don’t know what actually happened, but it is a fix.

Links

  • Florida Pagan Summer Solstice Festival near Pahokee, FL:
    • Coverage from Florida.NewsZap.com. This first bit of coverage does not bode well for the event, but look at the links below before you react. If you aren’t familiar with these happenings then you might be pleasantly surprised.
    • The Mead Muse writes about the early information on the Summer Solstice Festival.
    • First press release from the Lady Liberty League detailing the goals of the Task Force.
    • Second press release from the Lady Liberty League detailing the results of Peter Dybing’s meeting with several community pastors from Pahokee.
    • Video coverage from a local news station: 
  • Monsanto backs down from lobbying in the European Union. More coverage from a German website.
  • Could a Tea Part-Democrat alliance be slowing progress in Washington?
  • SARS-like virus, part of the coronavirus family, appears in the Midddle East and Europe. Watch some video coverage from CNN: 
  • After Pope Francis appeared to perform an impromptu exorcism before thousands of people, Father Gabriele Amorth, head of the International Association of Exorcists, is calling for the rules to be relaxed and allow all priests to perform the rite. 
  • More witch hysteria in Africa.
  • Community notes from the Wild Hunt: Cherry Hill Seminary receives $10,000 donation match challenge and the Solar Cross Temple helps Oklahoma.
  • Patrick McCollum revisits the religious matrix in a guest posting on the Wild Hunt.
  • NA student fined for wearing eagle feather. 17 year old Poarch Creek Band of Indians member wore an eagle feather to her graduation from Escambia Academy High School in Alabama and has her diploma and transcripts withheld and fined $1,000.

Music

  1. Tuatha Dea – Bagabi – Kith & Kin
  2. Kellianna – Serpent Mound – I Walk With the Goddess 
  3. Spiral Dance – Asgard’s Chase – Through a Sylvan Doorway
  4. Omnia – Shamaniac – Wolf Love 
  5. Frenchy and the Punk (as Gypsy Nomads) – Tall Tales from the Tavern – Thread & Stone 
  6. Dragon Ritual Drummers – Bamboula – Volume 2

Other News….

Bonus Videos

Paradiso and Rasamayi have a new video available on YouTube: 

Celia is giving away free digital downloads of her “Symbol” song through Friday morning (6/7/13): 

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PWN #76: Show Notes

PWN banner 1Thanks to Peter Beckley, these show notes were made possible. You can listen to the 76th edition of PWN at this link.

Some of what was discussed on this edition of PWN:

Heather Dale asks if any fellow indy artists have had trouble monetizing their YouTube channel. Currrently she is a partnet with YouTube, but they don’t believe she’s written her music. Learn more by watching her plea…on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2KXakxq96w&feature=youtu.beA question of Pagan Solidarity-Part II: http://wildhunt.org/2013/01/a-question-of-pagan-solidarity-part-two.htmlWild Hunt Community Notes: http://wildhunt.org/2013/01/pagan-community-notes-the-pomegranate-ronald-hutton-witch-school-and-more.html

Pagan Living TV Episode 2 is now available: http://paganliving.tv/

Celia’s new Indiegogo Campaign: http://www.indiegogo.com/CeliaSoundSpirals

Advertisers heard on tonights show:
Pangaia Metaphysical Store

Music from tonight’s show:
Artist – Track – Album
Omnia – Luna – Crone of War
Kenny Klein – Herne the Hunter – High Grows the Barley
Tricky Pixie – Tough Titty Cupcake – Mythcreants
Omnia – Taranis Jupiter – Wolf Love
Frenchy and the Punk – Galloping Glory – Thread & Stone (recorded as Gypsy Nomads)
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MP: Mabon 2012, a celebration in music & song

On Friday, 21 September 2012, RevKess hosted an episode of Musica Pagani dedicated to music and songs about Mabon, the Autumnal Equinox and the season of Fall. The original scheduled date was Thursday the 20th. Minor conflicts came up and he mistakenly confused his dates. Thanks to a regular listener and fan of programming on Pagan-Musings Podcast Channel, he was reminded and made arrangements to produce the show on Friday the 21st.

Click on image to get the audio feed for the show.

Along with the music and songs, RevKess shared some mythology, folk lore and correspondences of the season. The play list is below followed by links to some of the information shared during the show.

  1. Please Bless This Space – Celia – Carry Me Home
  2. Come to the Dance – Emerald Rose – That Night in the Garden
  3. Fae Dance – Spiral Dance – Through a Sylvan Doorway
  4. The Coming and Going – Cernunnos Rising – Wild Soul
  5. Cloak of Feathers – Damh the Bard – Herne’s Apprentice
  6. Dancing the Dragon – Dragon Ritual Drummers – Passage
  7. In Days  Gone By – Elaine Silver – Faerie Goddess
  8. Interlude at Sunset – Bone Poets Orchestra – Belladonna Smiles
  9. Persephone – Kellianna – Lady Moon
  10. Open My Senses – Wendy Rule – Deity
  11. Winds of Change – Damh the Bard – Herne’s Apprentice
  12. Marooned on Venus – Spiral Dance – Magick (Had intended to play Shadow Wood, error in music upload.)
  13. Spring Maiden – Al Conti – Northern Sea
  14. Spring Rain – Hennie Bekker – Spectrum
  15. Spring Love – Jenna Greene – Crossroads
  16. Dead Gerbil Jam – Kenny Klein – Fairy Queen
  17. Anti-Gerbil Song – Dale Bacon (single, not released for mass market)
  18. Last Night I Dreamed of Dead People – Lon Milo Duquette – I’m Baba Lon
  19. Stardust + Energy = Me – Didges Christ Super Drum (single, available as video on YouTube)
  20. Heartbeat of the Earth – Heartbeat – Bloodmoon

Links:

RevKess would like to thank everyone for listening to Musica Pagani and invites you to listen to any and all programming available on the Pagan-Musings Podcast Channel. Questions, comments, suggestions and more can be sent to RevKess via the PMPC email or in comments on this post. Like Musica Pagani on FaceBook for sneak peaks at up coming episodes, information on artists, song lyrics and videos.

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PWN #50: Zaracon is Back

After a nearly three week absence from the PMPChannel, Zaracon has returned. He was absent while spending time with his children. More than understandable there. And we at PMPC are very pleased he got to spend time with his family! <click the PWN banner to hear the show>

For his return to the Pagan Weekly News, Zaracon and RevKess dived right in and discussed many issues and events of note to the Pagan community, even though few of them had direct impact on the Pagan community specifically.  On PWN, Z and RevKess do their best to cover news from the Pagan community as well as talk about news and events covered by mainstream media but from a  Pagan perspective.  Whenever possible, RevKess does these show notes with links to the articles mentioned and further information on the issues athand. And of course, the music play list.

Tonight’s Topics (with Links):

  1. Wild Fires – We started the show off with a discussion of some of the issues related to the Wild Fires in many states across the western U.S. In particular, the conflict between Arizona’s indigenous population and the courts over a fire ban. We continued with a recorded segment from our friend Peter Beckley at That Witchy Place on Magick without forethought as related to the  Wild Fires.
  2. Scranton, PA has opposed a court order and reduced the pay of all city employees to the Federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. The city is essential bankrupt. But is that a reason to make police, fire & rescue, and other city employees suffer? Many of these employees may well be unable to provide for their families at this significantly reduced pay rate. Don’t get us wrong, Z and RevKess are far from living high on the hog themselves, but Federal minimum wage has not been raised since 2006 and has less buying power than the minimum wage of 1968.
  3. A Rolling Stone’s article on the sharp and sudden decline of the middle class during this current recession prompted your hosts to go into a conversation about service organizations and how some of them that are religiously operated tend to enforce their religious beliefs onto their clients and exchange for the services offered.
  4. From there they talked about the Pagans with Disabilities or Developmental Differences Anthology being compiled by Immanion Press. They are still taken submissions for this anthology. In fact, they have extended the submission deadline to August 31, 2012. Check out the link or email tara.miller21@gmail.com for further information.
  5. July 9th was the 20th anniversary of the death of Herman Slater. Slater was a writer, publisher, Pagan shop owner, and variously a Pagan rogue, hero, and jokester. RevKess, not having met Slater, does have fond memories of encountering his writings and video productions in the mid ’90s, after Slater’s death. You can read a full bio of Herman Slater on Controverscial.com.
  6. A question of free speech, artistic license and the separation of church and state was addressed this past school year by the ACLJ. A source for information that we rarely use, but this article caught both Z and RevKess’s attention. An art project in a New York public school hit some controversy when the school administration required one of the contributors to alter her art to removed religious symbols. This after several other students had included apparent non-Christian symbols in their own contributions. Read and decide for yourself.

Pagan Weekly News is usually slated for three hours on BTR. That third hour being for any overflow discussion or major stories that need to be addressed. Z and RevKess usually wrap up around the top of the second hour. Tonight they ran out of time for the deep topic of the Higgs Boson (aka the God Particle). Tune in next week for a discussion of that topic and how it might effect science and religion in the very near future.

And now for the music:

  • Celia – Ground, Center, Shield – For the Asking
  • Cernnunos Rising – Heart Beat of Harvest – Wild Soul
  • Jenna Greene – Dance with Me – Crossroads
  • SJ Tucker – Cheshire Kitten (We’re All Mad Here) – Mischief
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PWN #44: RevKess and KaliSara at Heartland

Over Memorial Weekend, RevKess and KaliSara went to Heartland Pagan Festival outside McClouth, KS. For RevKess it was his first visit, for KaliSara it had been 15 years since had gone. On Tuesday, 29 May 2012, they discussed their experiences on PWN. Zaracon joined in on the line about 1.5 hours into the show. Both will be blogging and writing articles about their experiences over the next couple of weeks. Please check back with this posting for links to those articles and blog posts. In the meantime, visit the Pagan-Musings Podcast Channel on BTR to hear their talk and listen to some great music.

Play List from PWN #44

  1. Wendy Rule – Deity – Deity
  2. Paradiso – Ancient Waterways – Shaman’s Trance
  3. Blackmore’s Night – Be Mine Tonight
  4. Wendy Rule – Shine
  5. Celia – Connected – For the Asking