In my previous article about Sophia two days ago I wanted to mention the site of the Hawaii Dar’ Shem Association, whose Hawaiian leader, Ceighbree is in charge of the Sophia Communion of the West Coast. When I tried to contact it the site was exactly in the middle of changing hosts and was unavailable. Now it is up again I’m posting this P.S. for www.darshem.org for anyone nearer Hawaii than Illinois who wants to know more about Dar’ Shem, the Reiki of Sophia and about Sophia Herself.

It is a common complaint among various pagans, Buddhists, Hindus, Wiccans, Muslims and New Agers that whenever the U.S. media mentions "religion" it always refers to Christianity as though that's all there is. Even the existence of other major religions has been erased from much of the public mind unless you count Muslim extremists, as a religious group.

Since I have recently come out of retirement to teach Dar’ Shem the Reiki of Sophia to qualified dedicants I will be posting articles now and then of particular interest to them, and to previous students of mine in many modalities now spread throughout this continent, and in Europe, though anyone interested in the Goddess in any form will find them useful.

Nowadays there are many people becoming more interested in spirituality than in religion and many of those are interested in what the original followers of the teachings of Jesus practiced before they were persecuted almost out of existence by the intolerant and power hungry Church of Rome.

The earliest followers of the teachings of Jesus were called Nazoreans and in modern terms would be classified as Gnostics, because they worked to ‘experience’ the vital truths of the teachings rather than just ‘believe’ what someone else said.