Journeys | Links

Spirit

Beliefnet.com - religions, spirituality, prayer, God, angels, politics, meditation...a good gateway (though a bit over-commercial for my taste) to most faith traditions.
BuddhaNet - Buddhist Information and Education Network: Buddhist Studies, World Buddhist Directory, BuddhaZine - Online Magazine. Insight Meditation Online, eBooks on Buddhism.
The Joseph Campbell Foundation - preserving, protecting and perpetuating the work of Joseph Campbell. If you don't know who he is, check this out. He was a truly fascinating man.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Classic Christian books in electronic format from Saint Alphonsus to John Woolman.
DharmaNet - an international gateway to Buddhist Dharma centers, studies and much more.
Earthlight - a magazine of nature and spirit and beauty. Articles by and about some of my favorites, like Annie Dillard, Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme.
Encyclopedia Mythica - an on-line encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend. It contains thousands of article and hundreds of images and stories.
Interlude: An Internet Retreat - This exceptional website hopes to bring to your Internet experience a few moments of peace, composure, and mental expansion.
Internet Sacred Text Archive - The sacred texts of many religions.
Mysticism in World Religions - concerned with the nature of reality, the struggle to attain a clear vision of reality and the transformation of consciousness that accompanies such vision.
Mythic Passages - is a new online magazine. It's got articles on myth and how it relates to us, and contributors like Sam Keen. It's an offshoot of Terri Windling's Endicott Center in Tucson, Arizona.
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) - just about all of the information and links you might need for matters Quakerly, including the less-than-tenuous connection to Quaker Oats. ;-)

Activism & Alternative News

AlterNet - a highly acclaimed, politically progressive news source that provides readers with a view of what's happening in our world that is difficult to find in mainstream media.
The American Voice 2004 - while not precisely for either activism or alternative news, this website fairly (I believe) presents both conservative and liberal progressive viewpoints for your consideration.
Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) - is a public interest lobby founded in 1943 by members of the Religious Society of Friends. FCNL seeks to bring the concerns, experiences and testimonies of Friends (called Quakers) to bear on policy decisions in the nation's capital. FCNL's multi-issue advocacy connects historic Quaker testimonies on peace, equality, simplicity and truth with peace and social justice issues which the United States government is or should be addressing. FCNL seeks to follow the leadings of the Spirit as it speaks for itself and for like-minded people.
MotherJones - an independent nonprofit whose roots lie in a commitment to social justice implemented through first rate investigative reporting.
National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) - is a very effective environmental action organization. NRDC uses law, science and the support of more than one million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things
Universal Health Care - also known as Everybody In, Nobody Out (EINO). They seek to educate and mobilize the public, stimulate debate and encourage moving the states and country towards a more humane and equitable system which guarantees universal access to health care for all Americans.
Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (VADP) - This is not an easy call for me. I have bounced back and forth for years on this subject. But for now, I believe, as Mohandas K. Gandhi said, that "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."

Veg*nism

50 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian - yeah! What he/she said.
VegWeb - a ton of vegan/vegetarian recipes, articles, coupons...they've even got a personals section!
Vegan Outreach - this is the very best of the vegan websites I've found. There's no hype, just a simple presentation of the rationale for adopting a vegan lifestyle: ending cruelty to animals, benefits to health and environment. There're also "how-tos" and you can even send away for s free "Starter Kit" that will get you going on the vegan way.

Arts

The Green Man Review - indepth reviews of fantasy, folklore, fairy tales, traditional music and more.
Heron Dance - art, words and good company for the seeker's journeys. Absolutely beautiful watercolors, and a free weekly newsletter.

Mental Health

Depression Center - an interactive Web site dedicated to helping those who suffer from Major Depressive Disorder.
Depression Center: Depression Test - is a survey that asks you a series of questions about the symptoms of major depressive disorder and other problems that often go along with depression. These questions are based on questions that doctors often ask when their patients think they have a problem with depression.
Internet Mental Health - Their goal is to improve understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness throughout the world. They have a good section on the various medications used for mental illness.
Mind Health - provides a structured source of information about mental health issues by offering accurate, detailed technical briefs on disorders, symptoms, and treatments. With this information, they hope to educate consumers and guide them towards intelligent decisions in their pursuit of mental health.
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) - The Nation's Voice on Mental Illness.
Psych Central - Your one-stop index for psychology, support, and mental health issues, resources, and people on the Internet, since 1992.
Suicidal.com - A Place for Hope and Compassion for the Depressed and Suicidal. Emotional support for severe clinical depression, vitamin and antidepressant therapy treatments for clinical depression, suicide prevention and crisis intervention for those who are gravely suicidal.
Walkers in Darkness - has been providing peer-to-peer support, information and education to people with mood disorders for over 11 years. They have a huge resource database, mailing lists, chat rooms and discussion forums. I've only been going there for a short time, but I've been made welcome and have found a lot of support and just plain kindness.
The Wounded Prophet - This article about the nature of mental illness absolutely blew my mind and has made me re-evaluate everything I believe about it.

Health

Merck Manual - The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy.
MedlinePlus - an excellent, advertising-free! Federal website with lots of health information and links. It includes drug information and an illustrated medical encyclopedia. They also have mailing lists for various diseases/conditions. A great resource.
On-line Medical Dictionary - a searchable dictionary with terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology (whew!).
PubMed/MEDLINE - PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

Family & Friends

Greensong - an early more-or-less abandoned website of mine for herbal medicine.
Heartfires - my relatively new (March 2006) blog for spirituality, progressive politics and civility.
Latter Day Scents - my stepsister April's business website for the sale of inspirational candles and body sprays. There is a pun to both the name of the website (she's a Latter Day Saint, or Mormon) and the tagline: "Did you think to Spray?" Oy.
Warm Healing Hands - My friend Susan Taylor's website for CranioSacral Therapy.
Wolfsinger's Den - This is my youngest daughter Jessica's website. She has her own burgeoning quotes section and she'll be adding stuff about TV shows and anime she likes. She'll also have a song lyrics section.

Personality Tests

The Enneagram Institute - If you are not already familiar with the nine Enneagram personality types, this is a great place to start learning about them. They have a online test to determine your type that costs a little bit, but fortunately for cheap people like me, they have the RHETI Sampler, a free online test with much fewer questions. I tested out as a Type Four: Individualist, which is uncannily accurate, in my opinion.
Highly Sensitive Person - There's a test at this website to help you determine if you're a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP). This site is associated with Elaine Arons, who wrote a book titled The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You. I tested out as an HSP.
The Keirsey Temperament Sorter - This is the free short-form online test that will give you your personality type as developed by the Myers-Briggs Temperament Indicator, which is based on archetypal traits described by Carl Jung. I'm an INFJ: Counselor.
What Archetypes Are Calling You? - this is a test of the specific archetypes that can be used to "hook" you in advertising, but I found it otherwise helpful as well.

Just for Fun

Crazy Libs - this is an online version of MadLibs. Spend countless hours creating twisted stories.
The Dialectizer - You type in an URL or some text and click a button and the Dialectizer converts the text to various "dialects", like "jive", "redneck", "Swedish chef" and several more. I think it's hilarious and very cleverly done. This definitely shows how childish I am.
Facade - a website devoted to tarot, runes, I Ching, biorhythms, numerology, and other forms of divination. I don't know how much I believe in it, but if you don't take it too seriously I think it's kinda fun.
Fun Trivia - a trivia test website. I can't help it, I love test websites.
SelectSmart.com - more tests (and excuses for me to goof off), known here as selectors.

Computer

Black Viper - For Windows 2000 and XP. Complete explanations of each Windows service and advice on which you can safely disable and various tweaks.
Pricelessware - This is a great site for computer freeware. Instead of having tons of stuff to choose from in each category, they only have a few. These have been determined by vote to be the very best by the alt.comp.freeware newsgroup.
SnapFiles (freeware section) - bucketloads of computer freeware in lots of categories.
Spyware Removal - They offer articles, software reviews and resources to help you fight spyware. The (freeware) tools I use for spyware are Lavasoft Ad-Aware and Spybot-Search & Destroy.
TweakXP - an excellent website dedicated to improving and customizing Microsoft Windows XP.
The W3C Validation Service - This service will check the web page you submit to see if it's valid HTML or XHTML, depending on the DOCTYPE you've given the page. Don't know what a DOCTYPE is? They'll tell you.
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials - A collection of free HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XHTML, ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, SQL and a bunch of other tutorials with lots of working examples and source code. I couldn't believe that such good tutorials would be for free! I've learned a lot here.

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