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	<title>Rending the Veil &#187; culture</title>
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		<title>Poetic Journeys: The Gnostic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 02:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheta Kaey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[on an Easter long ago the Dark Night of the Soul the self crucified on the cross of Ego &#8220;Eloi Eloi lama sabachthani?&#8221; It is Finished! the stone, Restriction, rolled away by Will light beamed forth from within it was I who arose bearing the Light no grace, no guilt, no sin, no god in [...]]]></description>
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on an Easter long ago
the Dark Night of the Soul
the self crucified on the cross of Ego
&#8220;Eloi Eloi lama sabachthani?&#8221;
It is Finished!



the stone, Restriction,
rolled away by Will
light beamed forth
from within



it was I who arose
bearing the Light
no grace, no guilt,
no sin, no god in sight



I laughed
stepping forth into the Day
created by the spark within
shedding rays of [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Further Thoughts After the Women&#8217;s Voices in Magick Panel at Pantheacon 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 00:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leni Hester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the most recent Pantheacon, I was honored to participate in a panel of authors who contributed to Immanion Press’s recent Women’s Voices in Magick anthology. It was a real treat to be able to take part in a lively conversation on the state of contemporary occultism with women from a diverse range of magical [...]]]></description>
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At the most recent Pantheacon, I was honored to participate in a panel of authors who contributed to Immanion Press’s recent Women’s Voices in Magick anthology. It was a real treat to be able to take part in a lively conversation on the state of contemporary occultism with women from a diverse range of magical [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Beyond the Veil &#8211; Book Excerpt: Daughters of the Witching Hill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Sharratt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She was a very old woman, about the age of Foure-score yeares, and had been a Witch for fiftie yeares. Shee dwelt in the Forrest of Pendle, a vast place, fitte for her profession: What shee committed in her time, no man knows. . . Shee was a generall agent for the Devill in all [...]]]></description>
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She was a very old woman, about the age of Foure-score yeares, and had been a Witch for fiftie yeares. Shee dwelt in the Forrest of Pendle, a vast place, fitte for her profession: What shee committed in her time, no man knows. . . Shee was a generall agent for the Devill in all [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Poetic Journeys &#8211; Bless My Space</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ambrose Hawk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bless my space, O Lord! North, south, east, west; My Lord brings me all things blessed. East, west, south, north; All shadow, our God&#8217;s life drives forth. South, north, west, east; Angels draw us to the bridal feast. West, east, north, south; Let wisdom&#8217;s winds flow through my mouth. From earth and sky, All evil [...]]]></description>
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Bless my space, O Lord!



North, south, east, west;
My Lord brings me all things blessed.
East, west, south, north;
All shadow, our God&#8217;s life drives forth.
South, north, west, east;
Angels draw us to the bridal feast.
West, east, north, south;
Let wisdom&#8217;s winds flow through my mouth.



From earth and sky,
All evil fly
From blessed birth
In sky and earth.



From sea and fire,
Our foes [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Poetic Journeys &#8211; ROTA: The Wheel of Aeons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aion 131</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then, when thou knowest first the Wheel of Destiny complete, mayest thou perceive THAT Will which moved it first. (There is no first or last.)” &#8212; #78, The Book of Lies, By To Mega Therion 0. No breath, no time Neither darkness nor light No thing Then wind, the sound of pipes Pain of birth, [...]]]></description>
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Then, when thou knowest first the Wheel of Destiny complete, mayest thou perceive THAT Will which moved it first. (There is no first or last.)”
&mdash; #78, The Book of Lies, By To Mega Therion



0.
No breath, no time
Neither darkness nor light
No thing
Then wind, the sound of pipes
Pain of birth, awareness dawns
A beast-man dancing
Amidst the chaos
Water, flame, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Poetic Journeys &#8211; KetKuth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aion 131</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Point of Light is within the Darkness of Matter Malkuth is a Gateway direct to Kether As Kether is both the seed (1) and actuality (10) of One As Many The 10- Thousand Things are the One- Thing And the 1-Thing is reflected/refracted In every single Facet/Manifestation Within Malkuth Thus Ever the Bride The [...]]]></description>
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The Point of Light is within the Darkness of Matter
Malkuth is a Gateway direct to Kether
As Kether is both the seed (1) and actuality (10) of One
As Many
The 10- Thousand Things are the
One- Thing
And the 1-Thing is reflected/refracted
In every single Facet/Manifestation
Within Malkuth
Thus Ever the Bride
The 10- thousand things are the Throne of Making
Upon it sits [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Artistic Visions &#8211; Bynopar</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Tyson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About the Artist I started studying in 2004 privately with a studio artist in Maine, then continued with self-study after my arrival in Canada in 2005. In 2008 I began working with my husband, Donald Tyson, illustrating his books, and have continued over the past year. I work with different mediums or even a mix. [...]]]></description>
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About the Artist

I started studying in 2004 privately with a studio artist in Maine, then continued with self-study after my arrival in Canada in 2005. In 2008 I began working with my husband, Donald Tyson, illustrating his books, and have continued over the past year. I work with different mediums or even a mix. My [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Poetic Journeys &#8211; The Founding of the Black Flame Kaba</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aion 131</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pan was lonely for the chase   Moon-white thighs and wine&#8217;s embrace   But the mood upon the land  was of cold and Death He chanced upon the Waste in dread  Dreaming ferns and soft sunlight   When into his loneliness came   The cry of a Hawk   and thunder awoke at the sound [...]]]></description>
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Pan was lonely for the chase  
Moon-white thighs and wine&#8217;s embrace  
But the mood upon the land
 was of cold and Death


He chanced upon the Waste in dread
 Dreaming ferns and soft sunlight  
When into his loneliness came  
The cry of a Hawk  
and thunder awoke at the sound of its wings


Pan, called Dead, arose and trod [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Poetic Journeys &#8211; Entering In</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ambrose Hawk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am the Bull in the Garden; I am the lightening in the clouds; I am the thunder in the air; I am the rain kissing the earth; I am the whirlwind that crashes from heaven to Earth, that raises Earth dancing to Heaven. I am S/He In whom God is manifest upon Earth. I [...]]]></description>
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I am the Bull in the Garden;
I am the lightening in the clouds;
I am the thunder in the air;
I am the rain kissing the earth;
I am the whirlwind
that crashes from heaven to Earth,
that raises Earth dancing to Heaven.


I am S/He
In whom God is manifest upon Earth.
I am the Great Jewel
brought down from Heaven,
raised up from [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Na&#8217;vi and the Fremen: What Science Fiction Teaches Us about Tribalism and the Mystic</title>
		<link>http://www.rendingtheveil.com/navi-fremen-science-fiction-teaches-tribalism-mystic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grey Glamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To begin, I must offer an unqualified spoiler alert. During the course of this article, I&#8217;ll be examining the complex and fascinating intersection between tribalism and mysticism, employing for reference points James Cameron&#8217;s 2009 movie Avatar, and the 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert&#8217;s science fiction classic Dune. If you&#8217;ve missed either of these movies, please [...]]]></description>
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To begin, I must offer an unqualified spoiler alert. During the course of this article, I&#8217;ll be examining the complex and fascinating intersection between tribalism and mysticism, employing for reference points James Cameron&#8217;s 2009 movie Avatar, and the 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert&#8217;s science fiction classic Dune. If you&#8217;ve missed either of these movies, please [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Ocular Distortion &#8211; Persephone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jose Cardenas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About the Artist My interests in photography and film began in junior high school &#8212; a fascination leading me to pursue my undergrad and graduate degree from Ohio State University in cinematography. For the last 20 years most of my work has been in film and video &#8212; documentary and narrative film &#8212; specifically horror [...]]]></description>
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About the Artist

My interests in photography and film began in junior high school &mdash; a fascination leading me to pursue my undergrad and graduate degree from Ohio State University in cinematography. For the last 20 years most of my work has been in film and video &mdash; documentary and narrative film &mdash; specifically horror genre. [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Poetic Journeys: Coming to the Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie Corzett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mind playing tricks on my eyes That golden glow bringing me into worlds of pumpkin coaches. Valkyrie in flight, neverlands that never were, yet so much more real than what passes for day to day. Sadness is beauty brought down by ugliness, truth succumbing to convenient lies. Joy is opening all the senses into [...]]]></description>
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My mind playing tricks on my eyes
That golden glow bringing me into
worlds of pumpkin coaches.
Valkyrie in flight,
neverlands that never were,
yet so much more real than
what passes for day to day.


Sadness is beauty brought down by ugliness,
truth succumbing to convenient lies.
Joy is opening all the senses into the
spectrum of beauty.
No moderation,
no limitation,
no convenient structural captivity.
Let the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Poetic Journeys &#8211; Eleusis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aion 131</dc:creator>
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&#160; &#160; Artemis Pangaia! &#160; Mystery of mystery White light within the Flame The Hidden Fire Is the Heart of Nature. The brilliant Light Erupts from Yoni In the scream-cry-chant of Birthing Cosmic, Whole, All Embracing Transforming All. Light beyond all lights Luminescent, Transcendent Peacock Sheen Beyond. Body of Flaming Sun Of crystalline brilliance of [...]]]></description>
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&nbsp;
&nbsp;
Artemis Pangaia!
&nbsp;
Mystery of mystery
White light within the Flame
The Hidden Fire
Is the Heart of  Nature.
The brilliant Light
Erupts from Yoni
In the scream-cry-chant of Birthing
Cosmic, Whole, All Embracing
Transforming All.
Light beyond all lights
Luminescent, Transcendent
Peacock Sheen
Beyond.
Body of Flaming Sun
Of crystalline brilliance of full glowing moon
All rays of Star-Light
One light
A Ray.
The Flame of the World
The Flame of the Altar
The Flame [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Poetic Journeys &#8211; Another Winter Solstice. . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ambrose Hawk</dc:creator>
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The air is crystal hard, not clear; Chilled by mottled, somber blankets. Cold grey on darker grey Lift pillars above the dull snow. Yet this drear light lies. Beyond the grimly bare trees Wild rose and black briars Set stealthy green shoots. Below the grimy, frozen slush Day lilies and daffodils Swell towards their spring [...]]]></description>
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The air is crystal hard, not clear;
Chilled by mottled, somber blankets.
Cold grey on darker grey
Lift pillars above the dull snow.
Yet this drear light lies.
Beyond the grimly bare trees
Wild rose and black briars
Set stealthy green shoots.
Below the grimy, frozen slush
Day lilies and daffodils
Swell towards their spring explosion.
Above the lowering, gloomy clouds
Summer’s sun begins to spiral
Towards its [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Poetic Journeys &#8211; Winds of the Sea</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina L. Salley</dc:creator>
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&#160; &#160; I hear music in the chilling winds from the sea. It is wailing my lonely cry, &#8220;Come back to me.&#8221; In loneliness, my heart aches so I want to die. Winds, blowing over the sea, sing my mournful cry. Yesterday my darling and I strolled hand in hand On the shore, barefoot, digging [...]]]></description>
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I hear music in the chilling winds from the sea.
It is wailing my lonely cry, &#8220;Come back to me.&#8221;
In loneliness, my heart aches so I want to die.
Winds, blowing over the sea, sing my mournful cry.



Yesterday my darling and I strolled hand in hand
On the shore, barefoot, digging our toes in the sand.
Mist from the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Ocular Distortion &#8211; Winter Set</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald del Campo</dc:creator>
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About the Artist My interest in photography began when I was very young. My father was one of the best known photographers and &#8220;print men&#8221; in Argentina, and since he had a lab in our house I had plenty of opportunities to watch him perform his awe-inspiring magick in the darkroom. I watched and learned [...]]]></description>
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About the Artist

My interest in photography began when I was very young. My father was one of the best known photographers and &#8220;print men&#8221; in Argentina, and since he had a lab in our house I had plenty of opportunities to watch him perform his awe-inspiring magick in the darkroom. I watched and learned and, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Poetic Journeys &#8211; Binding</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ambrose Hawk</dc:creator>
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Creature of God, I wish thee no ill But just to teach thee: rule thy will. Christ’s love invokes His Might as Son To heal the hurt thy choices have done. Thus, when harm may rule thy mind, Only good shall come to me and mine; Rebounding damage that thou might choose Until thou learn [...]]]></description>
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Creature of God, I wish thee no ill
But just to teach thee: rule thy will.
Christ’s love invokes His Might as Son
To heal the hurt thy choices have done.
Thus, when harm may rule thy mind,
Only good shall come to me and mine;
Rebounding damage that thou might choose
Until thou learn such harm to refuse.


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		<title>Veiled Issues &#8211; Chthonic BDSM</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Dain</dc:creator>
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&#160; &#8220;This thing of darkness, I acknowledge mine.&#8221; &#8212; Prospero (The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1) Geoff Mains, in his seminal work on Leather culture, Urban Aboriginals: A Celebration of Leathersexuality, uses this quote in his introduction to that work. Later, he frames the tribe of Leather (at that time, Gay Leather, the pansexual Leather/BDSM [...]]]></description>
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&#8220;This thing of darkness, I acknowledge mine.&#8221; &mdash; Prospero (The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1)


Geoff Mains, in his seminal work on Leather culture, Urban Aboriginals: A Celebration of Leathersexuality, uses this quote in his introduction to that work. Later, he frames the tribe of Leather (at that time, Gay Leather, the pansexual Leather/BDSM movement, was [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Poetic Journeys &#8211; Dark Magick</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie Corzett</dc:creator>
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&#160; &#160; In the still of the dark of the moon after the revelry has passed on deep, deep into the frozen fields of dreamless sleep we, walking, silently, along the riverbed breathing in ancient ash of woodsmoke breathing out long-growing tears to weave ghostly tentacles along our path take each others&#8217; hand up to [...]]]></description>
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In the still of the dark of the moon
after the revelry has passed on
deep, deep into the frozen fields of dreamless sleep
we, walking, silently, along the riverbed
breathing in ancient ash of woodsmoke
breathing out long-growing tears
to weave ghostly tentacles
along our path
take each others&#8217; hand up to our heart
to pray, to kiss, to whisper
thus casting an eternal [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Artistic Visions &#8211; A Full Samhain Series</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>April del Campo</dc:creator>
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About the Artist I began painting long ago while I was still in high school, but of all the painting mediums I have tried I like watercolor the most because I find it the most challenging. Once the paint leaves the brush and is absorbed by the paper, the entire process is out of my [...]]]></description>
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About the Artist
I began painting long ago while I was still in high school, but of all the painting mediums I have tried I like watercolor the most because I find it the most challenging. Once the paint leaves the brush and is absorbed by the paper, the entire process is out of my hands. [...]]]></content:encoded>
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