{"id":410,"date":"2005-04-16T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-16T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=410"},"modified":"2005-04-16T03:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-16T03:32:00","slug":"410","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m in Blog Heaven<\/strong><\/p>\n

This blog has been added to BeliefNet’s “Blog Heaven,” a list of blogs emphasizing religion and spirituality<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Appropriately enough, you will find “Letter from Hardscrabble Creek” in the “Other” category. I feel “Other” quite a bit of the time. Not “the Other,” just “Other.”<\/p>\n

The button on the right side of your screen below the blogroll will take you to Blog Heaven too.<\/p>\n

Another BeliefNet article profiles an American who became a shaman in southern Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He says, “The great taboo in our [Western] culture has nothing to do with sex, drugs, or controversial theater or performance\u2014it is that realm of ecstatic experience. We just dismiss it, close the door, just no room, no reason, in fact, we don’t even want to look at it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m in Blog Heaven This blog has been added to BeliefNet’s “Blog Heaven,” a list of blogs emphasizing religion and spirituality. Appropriately enough, you will find “Letter from Hardscrabble Creek” in the “Other” category. I feel “Other” quite a bit of the time. 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