Dated log of site changes and enhancements beginning July 5, 2003

We want to send you a free pocket medallion when you sign up to receive our e-mail newsletter.  We will send tokens to AT LEAST the first 100, and keep on going until we run out of medallions.

Each medallion has a Native American image on the front and the short version of the Great Spirit Prayer on the back.  Even though the picture to the left is a kind of bronze color, all of the medallions we're sending are a bright silver.  The picture doesn't really do them justice.

Clicking HERE will download a MS Word document to sign up with today!

We will be starting a new emphasis on our newsletter this year, before the month of June is over.  We hope to publish a newsletter every other month, eventually making it a monthly tradition.  

Here are some of our planning highlights:

We are soliciting articles and features - are you a writer?  Have you read any articles we might re-print with permission?

Each newsletter will have it's own topic of focus.  Like meditation, or compassion, or service.  Feel free to suggest one.

What's new on the website and/or in the store in Burien

Sale items, discounts on damaged merchandise, special promotions

We'll add other features from time to time as we grow.

If you'd like to be a contributor, or if you'd just like to be a subscriber, send an e-mail to info@flatmajicNOSPAM.com.  (always remember to remove the letters NOSPAM from the address before you send.  It's a little tip I picked up to help reduce spam from the automated address collector software.)

We joined the Pagan Business Owner's Association to support each individual's right to believe as they wish.

When Buddha was on earth he told people to not take his word for anything, but to check it out for themselves.  The Christian New Testament claims that "... perfect love casts out all fear... "  I'm not versed enough in Muslim traditions to know what Mohammed taught his followers, but I have read of several instances where the Muslim faithful lived in peace with religious tolerance for those of different beliefs.  It sounds a bit paradoxical, but about the only thing I'm intolerant of in regards to religion is the intolerance of a few who

When Jesus was on earth he taught whoever would listen, but he didn't proselytize.  He told his followers to carry the message, but he didn't tell them to beat people over the head with it.  He associated with the lower classes, the outcasts, the sick, and the lost.  He ate meals with thieves and prostitutes.  The people in power didn't like his message and had him executed.  He wouldn't even abide by that and rose from the dead as a demonstration of the level of freedom he possessed.

The word "pagan" itself comes from a Roman word around the 1st century C.E. that meant "village religion".  The only thing that word meant at that time was that it didn't follow the Roman view of their pantheon of gods.  In other words, in the first century, even the Christians and Jews were pagan by Roman standards.

One purpose of our store is to give people in recovery an option.  When we do our research, we don't disagree with the teachings of Jesus or Buddha or Krishna.  When we look very closely at those teachings, they're all very similar.  We believe that if we could study those teachings from the place where the original audience heard the original author, and were able to decipher any hidden meanings, they would all be the same.