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	<title>Blog o&#039; Gnosis &#187; Spirit</title>
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	<description>Thoughts on Dreams, Life, and Spirit - by Anne Hill, D.Min.</description>
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		<title>An Eye in the Storm—Victor Anderson&#8217;s Memorial</title>
		<link>http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2012/01/25/an-eye-in-the-storm-victor-andersons-memorial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this piece shortly after Victor Anderson&#8217;s death, in October 2001. I am reprinting it here because Victor&#8217;s name came up in conversation with a friend this morning, and I realized that I want the story of my experience at his memorial to be available to readers here as well. Things just hadn’t been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Samhain to Solstice</title>
		<link>http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2011/11/23/from-samhain-to-solstice/</link>
		<comments>http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2011/11/23/from-samhain-to-solstice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[elements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pacific Ocean]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[winter solstice]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/?p=1215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It feels like it&#8217;s time to take down the Day of the Dead altar. I am not aware of any hard and fast rule about this, but just last night as I added more wood to the fire and glanced up at the mantle, I had the distinct impression that things had to change. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standing in Spirit – Centeredness Through Change</title>
		<link>http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2011/04/17/standing-in-spirit-%e2%80%93-centeredness-through-change/</link>
		<comments>http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2011/04/17/standing-in-spirit-%e2%80%93-centeredness-through-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dreams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[aikido]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative Content Coaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dream Talk Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dreamwork]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Serpentine Music & Media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/?p=1124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love my work as a consultant on digital publishing and social media. It&#8217;s fun, I&#8217;m good at it, and it allows me time to write and keep up my radio show. Still, I was wondering when I&#8217;d get back into teaching, my other love. Now, it seems, is the time. In 1999 I went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Religion Pass the Briefcase Test?</title>
		<link>http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2011/03/05/does-your-religion-pass-the-briefcase-test/</link>
		<comments>http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2011/03/05/does-your-religion-pass-the-briefcase-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 18:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leaving Hotel California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[briefcases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heinlein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lovecraft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outer darkness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scientology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/?p=1065</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am proud to be a citizen of the United States, a country that is a beacon of liberty and religious tolerance for the rest of the world. I am all for freedom of religion too, yet there are some religions that I have a very big problem with. Specifically, religions that hold truck with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poems for the Return of the Light</title>
		<link>http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2011/02/01/poems-for-the-return-of-the-light/</link>
		<comments>http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2011/02/01/poems-for-the-return-of-the-light/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alex Johnson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brigid Poetry Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonard Cohen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have two poems to offer this year: an invocation by Leonard Cohen, and an elegy by Rumi. Both of these I read at my nephew&#8217;s funeral last Fall. Both I think deserve wider reading. So here they are, in honor of Brigid, the poet&#8217;s muse. May the light return to us all. - Holy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving Hotel California</title>
		<link>http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2011/01/16/leaving-hotel-california/</link>
		<comments>http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2011/01/16/leaving-hotel-california/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leaving Hotel California]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alston Chase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Guest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the themes of this blog over the last couple years has been California Cosmology, a term coined by Alston Chase to describe the curious mixture of Eastern and Western philosophies, speculative science and experimental psychology that has been California&#8217;s unique contribution to many modern social, spiritual and literary movements. I have also coined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Very Best Piece of New Year&#8217;s Advice</title>
		<link>http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2010/12/30/my-very-best-piece-of-new-years-advice/</link>
		<comments>http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2010/12/30/my-very-best-piece-of-new-years-advice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 05:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dreams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was explaining to my teenage daughter yesterday what a tough year 2010 was for most people, by way of an example from our own life. Here we were, driving on the freeway in my old Honda, heading down to San Francisco. On the back window of my car was a big white &#8220;11&#8243; on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If We Dismantle It, They Will Come</title>
		<link>http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2010/10/24/if-we-dismantle-it-they-will-come/</link>
		<comments>http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2010/10/24/if-we-dismantle-it-they-will-come/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hotel California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macbeth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There we stood in a park in San Francisco, about fifteen of us circled around a large ceramic bowl on the ground in which we had written the things we wanted to see increase: more money for this, more power to that, healing for her, a better job for him. Interspersed among the slips of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem With Loving Nature</title>
		<link>http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2010/09/15/the-problem-with-loving-nature/</link>
		<comments>http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2010/09/15/the-problem-with-loving-nature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bron Taylor]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/?p=804</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I always appreciate a chance to refine my thinking in areas where I have a lot of strong opinions, and the confluence of spirituality, nature, and politics is one such place. Reading Bron Taylor&#8217;s excellent new book, Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future, has given me that chance. I read most of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Getting Up Again</title>
		<link>http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2010/07/15/art/</link>
		<comments>http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2010/07/15/art/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dreams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a great conversation with Dr. Joan Borysenko this morning on Dream Talk Radio. We talked about dreams and mind-body healing, and at one point discussed the limits of what can be taught in a workshop. I commented that there should be a workshop titled &#8220;The Art of Getting Up Again,&#8221; since that is the [...]]]></description>
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