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Attention Ancient Pathway Shop Customers: Recently there has been some minor confusion about shipping times from the Ancient Pathway Shop.  We have chosen to put the information here on the main page outlined in RED to assure that there is a full understanding. There are three types of items in the Ancient Pathway shop.  Stocked, non-stocked and custom made.  The stocked items usually ship out within 24 hours of your order.  The non-stock items ship in 7 to 10 business days as they come from our import warehouses which range from Memphis TN to Tokyo Japan.  The third item, which is most of our items, is our custom made items.  Things such as jewelry and such are made to order and ship quickly.  Items such as the custom designed books of shadows require a significant amount of time, especially if you require the hand made paper style.  These can take up to 6 weeks to make.   Those who have shown an interest in the specialized (and very expensive) custom books of shadows with hand carved case, the answer is NO, there is no way to assure that you will receive these for your coven by  Christmas of this year.  The process of making these requires oil infusions in the storage case, and hand pulping of the paper.  The "retting" procedure for the reeds takes at least 10 days before the pulp is ready.  A 500 leaf custom book takes about 90 days to process.   If you have any questions about these items, please email TheAncient at theancient@ancientpathway.com . Rush orders can be accepted, but to be honest, the price is NOT worth it unless you have a very special need. NOTE:  With the coming of the new year, we have verified our warehouse stocks and removed any items that tend to go out of stock though our import facilities.   In addition, we are adding many more custom items.  We are doing this to be non-competitive with our fellow metaphysical sites.   There is no reason for Ancient Pathway to carry and maintain a stock of items that are commonly available.   The only exception to this will be the series of pendants that we have always carried in pewter.  They will be with us always. Christopher Klein TheAncient

 

 

We are unsure if this is going to be a permanent or temporary change.   The message board has gone complety unused for almost 3 years.   As for the community, we were getting close to 100 new users a day.  Aside from 12 serious users, these new users would immediatly go into the classified area, message bases or blogs and post self serving, unwarrented advertisments for boots, credit scams or pornography.  Though the community was set to require systems operator (sysop) approval for all posts, the users were using special code to circumvent that technology to send unwanted advertising.  Additionally, they were attempting to access the system with 'BOTS' to retrieve the email database to further propagate their advertising.   This is not the purpose of Ancient Pathway.  Currently "The Ancient", one of your hosts, is coding a new and more secure solution for this type of community access.  It may possibly return once it has been fully tested and verified as immune to these types of scams. 

Finally, the photo gallery has been suspended for the same reasons as listed for the community.  Free and unreliable access to the photo gallery has caused inappropriate images (porn) and links to questionable sites though inline links.   The gallery is being redesigned without a user upload area.

 

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What is the purpose of Ancient Pathway?

Ancient Pathway is the culmination of 8 generations of information from the family of Christopher William Klein (the Ancient), databases created by Laura Klein (TreeMom) and stories and life tales from Rowan Dante (TheAncientBard) and Willow Rhiannon (GreatTree).   These 4 together create the base of Ancient Pathway.   The Ancient brings with him 8 generations of knowledge that you will find thoughout the site.

Treemom brings the full arsenal of the Kitchen Witch, Natural Witch and enlightened soul to bear on the postings. The children bring a realisitic unbias view of the world today.  We are a creative family. The Ancient follows a Druidic / Enochian Path, TreeMom follows the path of the Natural Witch seeking balance and enlightenment in all things.  Rowan and Willow, though undecided in their paths, question everything, ask intelligently and bring a well needed creative and inquisitive hope for the future.  

The most important issue with relgion and belief today is one of perspective.   Everyone is right and does not want to be, or admit that they could be wrong.  We do not state that out beliefs are right, only that they are right for us.   It is not really important to us what you believe, simply that you believe in something, even if it is a head of lettuce named George or the belief and faith in the self.  Ancient Pathway has been designed as a repository for information.  As you browse through the site, you will find information.  Some of this information may be offensive to you, some you may not agree with.   When dealing with faith and belief, proof is almost always non-existant.   When possible, we have cited our sources, or our reasons for our statements, observations and assumptions.   But this is not always the case.   The author of many of the pages that you will find here is "The Ancient".  And if no citiations are provided, you can pretty much bet that the observation is one of "opinion".