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May 2014

May 04, 2014

Blindsided by a Rabbit, Again

Just finished Paulo Coelho’s Eleven Minutes. Every one of his books is like seeing through...

May 02, 2014

About Writing Witchy History

It ain’t easy. Given that I began saving Green Egg and the other dozen  periodicals...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

A Tapestry of Witches: A History of the Craft in America, Volume I is now available on Amazon

It was not easy figuring out how to write this book. The chronological structure (the...

April 20, 2014

Pagans and Christians and Mark, Part I

Some people ask whether one can be both Pagan and Christian. If you think of...

April 16, 2014

The Search for Truth Is Endless—Don’t Get Sidetracked

Some people have accused me of being unfair to atheists in my recent blogs. No,...

April 12, 2014

Interpreting the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife”

There have been many news stories reporting that the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” is as...

April 09, 2014

Maybe a “Fellowship of the Spirit” could be a safe place to tell our true experiences

What if it became possible to talk more freely about these spiritual experiences? What if...

April 06, 2014

Resist the Koch brothers: Buying Chevron gas and Georgia Pacific paper helps them subvert our democracy.

The Koch Brothers and Koch Industries cannot treat American citizens as they do and still...

April 02, 2014

Disqus Sucks

This is not so much a blog as a complaint about this system. I did...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

Of Epistemology and the Varieties of Atheism

I’ve been working for the last 60 years on the complex of issues concerned with...

March 23, 2014

On Karl Popper, George Gurdjieff, and Nondisprovable Hypotheses

Whenever I have mentioned “Gurdjieff’s Partition,” which is the concept that disprovable hypotheses are the...

March 22, 2014

How Atheism Kills Students

I’m sure that got your attention. I mean only a certain kind of atheism: if...

March 02, 2014

Of Breasts (Redux) and the Foundations of Ethics

My previous blog elicited more negative than positive comments. Allowing for the fact that one...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

“Why are men so interested in women’s breasts?

They don’t really have anything to do with sex.”  Thus Mikel Schwartzkopf asked me and...

February 22, 2014

Yes, Atheism Is a Genuine Religion

Religion does not need to be social, shared, a church; a person’s religion can be...

February 18, 2014

Of Blogging, the Virtues of Atheism, and the Epidemic Mental Illnesses That Are Destroying All Societies

I have not been posting much on this blog lately. My attention has been concentrated...

February 03, 2014

Aljazeera Is Radio Free America–and Remember Pete Seeger

I switched to Aljazeera, and found a panel discussion about the lasting importance of Pete...

January 2014

January 11, 2014

Understanding the Divine Is Always Personal

I believe a primary agenda of the Divine is to protect our free will, our...

January 02, 2014

Perhaps Another Way to Protect Teenagers from Suicide.

If you are a parent, I hope you know that suicide is the leading cause...

December 2013

December 25, 2013

“Credit” Is a Word Used to Exploit You: Step One in Economic Resistance

If enough people make the decision to turn their lives over to their Higher Power...

December 15, 2013

Why Is Sex a Problem at All? The Poison of Puritanism

Why don’t human beings just have sex whenever they feel like it—which is usually—just for...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

Retrieving the Myth of Jesus and Sophia, Part II

Understanding what the actual theology of the classical Gnostics was about depends on understanding what...

November 24, 2013

Retrieving the Myth of Jesus and Sophia, Part I

In various previous blogs I have been pursuing the myth of Jesus and Sophia. I...

November 20, 2013

Goddess Murder, 36: The Holy Apostle Mary Sings of Her Husband; Dante II

XL. The Holy Apostle Mary Sings of Her Husband [An excerpt from the Gaulish Chronicles...

November 15, 2013

The United States Has Always Been a Pagan, Socialist Nation, Part II

In Part One I presented an argument that the USA began as a socialist nation....

November 13, 2013

Goddess Murder, 35: Enter Dante Gabriel Rossini

Abstinence sows sand all over / The ruddy limbs and flaming hair,/ But Desire Gratified...

November 10, 2013

The United States Has Always Been a Pagan, Socialist Nation

A viable balance between politics and religion is as difficult to achieve and maintain as...

November 06, 2013

Goddess Murder, 34: Aradia’s Second Revelation Discourse

XXXVIII. The Second Revelation Discourse [An excerpt from The Gospel of Diana as translated by...

November 02, 2013

Goddess Murder, 33: From the Letter to Theophilus; Avalon 3

XXXVI. From the Letter to Theophilus We believe in the sacredness and sanctity of our...

October 2013

October 25, 2013

Goddess Murder, 32: Aradia’s First Revelation; Avalon 2

XXXIV. The First Revelation Discourse When Aradia, my mother, began to be a woman, her...

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