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January 2015

January 25, 2015

Trekking Toward Nineveh, Mile One

I have finally, step by step, been forced to realize what I must do. Since...

December 2014

December 30, 2014

Prologue to a Story of Jesus and Mary

Two beats of God’s heart ago, two thousand years as we feel time, the Awakened...

November 2014

November 04, 2014

How I Pray

All sensible people pray, no matter what term they use to name what they do....

June 2014

June 18, 2014

A Choice for the Erinyes of Victimhood

A reader recently commented on one of my blogs dealing with sexuality that I was...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

Rebirth Among Those You Love

Gardner asserts in Witchcraft Today that belief in reincarnation was preserved by the witch covens...

May 28, 2014

A Report on Life and Writing

I’m 73, and have been writing since about age ten. I live in Tacoma with...

May 11, 2014

What If Witches Are the Genuine Christians? — Goddess Murder II

I had completed much more writing linked to my Goddess Murder project, and it was...

April 2014

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...

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...

February 2014

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...

December 2013

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 13, 2013

Goddess Murder, 35: Enter Dante Gabriel Rossini

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

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...

October 23, 2013

Goddess Murder, 31: First Night in Avalon

XXXIII. Avalon I As all men are alike (tho’ infinitely various), so all Religions, and...

October 22, 2013

Goddess Murder, 30: Aradia in Hades

XXXII.  Hades She is walking along a path through the forest, wearing a white robe,...

October 21, 2013

Goddess Murder, 29: North to Sonoma, 3

XXXI. North to Sonoma, 3 “Dotty sounds like a fascinating character," I said, "but that...

October 16, 2013

Goddess Murder, 28: The Captivity of Aradia

XXX. Captivity We had our camps in the forest, under the trees, and in the...

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