Resources: Links to Websites
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www.finalpassages.org
Final Passages is dedicated to a compassionate and dignified alternative to current funeral practices. Entirely supported by donations and sales of our educational materials and workshops. The Nature of Life includes the Eventual Miracle of Death, a rite of passage that deserves dignity and loving care.
www.funerals.org
A Federation of Nonprofit Consumer Information Societies protecting a consumer's right to choose a meaningful, dignified, affordable funeral since 1963
www.dyingwell.com
Resources for people facing life-limiting illness, their families, and their professional caregivers. Dr. Ira Byock, long time palliative care physician and advocate for improved end-of-life care, and a past president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, provides written resources and referrals to organizations, web sites and books to empower persons with life threatening illness and their families to live fully.
www.nursestoner.com
Dr. Stoner's recent article on End-of-Preferences for Tibetan Buddhists created much interest in the palliative care community. She has been asked to make presentations and contribute additional papers based on her work. Dr. Stoner and I are currently working on Wiccan/Pagan/Nature Spirituality End-of-Life Preferences study and will be doing various presentations, articles and possibly a book on our experience of working together. She has truly blessed my life, and everyone has something to learn from her!
www.jeffersonhealthcare.org
As a philosophy of care, hospice seeks to enable people in the final stage of life to continue a pain-free life, with dignity and surrounded by their loved ones. Hospice affirms life and emphasizes quality rather than length of life. It provides family-centered care that involves the client and his or her family in decision making. Nora is a chaplain with Jefferson County (WA) Health Care.
www.circlesanctuary.org
Founded in 1974 by Selena Fox, Circle Sanctuary is a non-profit organization dedicated to networking, research, spiritual healing, community celebrations, and education. The Circle sponsors gatherings and encourages Nature preservation with Nature meditations and workshops celebrated at diverse locations including the Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve, a 200 acre site in the forested hills of southwestern Wisconsin, USA.
www.paganpastoraloutreach.org
The Pagan Pastoral Outreach association began as the prison and hospital committee of ten year’s standing within the Pagan Federation Canada. If you are interested in any facet of Paganism in an institutional setting, whether you are a volunteer or want to be, or an institutional chaplain dealing with Pagan prisoners or patients, or just interested in knowing more.
www.worldprayers.org
A gathering of great prayers written by the spiritual visionaries of our planet in an online database representing all life affirming traditions. Though these sacred verses arise from divergent paths, voices, languages, cultures and heritages, they all carry within them the same burning flame — the same impassioned love for life and the divine mysteries.
www.schooloftheseasons.com
Waverly Fitzgerald's School of the Seasons helps you connect with the seasons through articles on seasonal crafts and recipes for holiday foods, a correspondence course (with suggestions on spiritual practices and creative pursuits that match the energy of each season) and books on time management and the seasons. The holiday calendar features moon lore, pagan rituals, saints days and seasonal world holidays.
www.gaiantarot.com
The Gaian Tarot by Joanna Powell Colbert celebrates the living Earth and those who seek to live in harmony with Her. The imagery of the deck combines multicultural Goddesses and other numinous beings with the mysteries of the natural world. With its structure rooted in Tarot tradition, the Gaian Tarot is the perfect deck for those who honor Gaia, the earth, as a living, sentient being and who practice an earth-centered spirituality.
www.womenofwisdom.org
Women of Wisdom in Seattle, Washington is a non-profit organization for the empowerment of women through programs that offer healing, spiritual awareness, personal development and community. WOW celebrates the sacred feminine and is creating a new paradigm through a circle structure of shared leadership.
www.sagewoman.com
SageWoman Magazine: Celebrating the Goddess in Every Woman.
Nature Religion by Trish Deneen, Editor
"Your friend has just told you she is a Pagan and follows nature-based spirituality. You think of yourself as pretty hip, but visions of tree hugging and tie dye still fill your head. One of the first questions you probably asked her was, "Are you Wiccan?" secretly thinking to yourself that she better not expect you to go around saying "Merry Meet!" or "Merry Part!" with a big grin on your face." Read more