Showing posts with label mysticism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mysticism. Show all posts

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Innate mysticism?

"LONDON (AP) -- Self-styled Druids, new-agers and thousands of revelers have watched the sun rise above the ancient stone circle at Stonehenge to mark the summer solstice - the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere.

...Couples kissed, dancers circled with hoops and revelers took part in a mass yoga practice as part of the free-form celebrations.

Stonehenge was built in three phases between 3000 B.C. and 1600 B.C. and its purpose is remains under study. An icon of Britain, it remains one of its most popular tourist attractions."
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Do you ever have mystical urges? Since I learned of the pagan/Wiccan custom a few years ago, I've wanted to have a bonfire on the winter solstice. It seems fitting.

I once read an article in a British publication speculating that the drop in church attendance may account for the upswing in mysticism, punctuated by the wearing of crosses, rosaries, ankhs, yin and yang symbols, etc.