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January 2014

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...

September 2013

September 08, 2013

The Ocean Level and World Temperature Have Been Rising for 20,000 Years.

All our major coastal cities will eventually be flooded. New York’s subways flooded not only...

June 2013

June 21, 2013

Wisdom Is Sold in the Desolate Market

There is an accurate and depressing blog by a colleague on Patheos titled “How The...

June 16, 2013

Blogging as Dedication to the Search

The name that Star Foster and I thought up for this blog, “Including Paganism,” indicates...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

The Problem of Consciousness, Part I

Why do we have two minds? The Deep Mind is the one that dreams at...

May 06, 2013

25 Random Facts About Me

14. I think all prophets must be reprobates, since anyone bound by ordinary rules could...

March 2013

March 04, 2013

Rodin and Claudel

Artists sleep with their models and paint / Their lovers, fall in love and fall...

March 01, 2013

Another Song of Innocence: The Kitten

My loyal readers may have noticed that I like William Blake a lot. In his...

February 2013

February 04, 2013

Of Infinity, Divinity, and the Big Bang

In the beginning there is no beginning. / There is only the Goddess and her...

January 2013

January 25, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: California and Councils, 1967 to 1973, Part I

More history of the Craft in California, plus the OTO, a fraternal magickal order associated...

January 20, 2013

Initiates to the Sea

"Initiates to the Sea" is perhaps the most significant poem I have ever written. It...

December 2012

December 30, 2012

Preview of “The Letter to Theophilus”

The "Gnostics" were radically dualistic and radically ascetic, but they were not the only variety...

December 26, 2012

Marvin Meyer, 1948-2012

Going looking for old friends on the Net and discovering that they have passed on...

December 25, 2012

The Gnostic Bible: A Review

I think it logically impossible for Rabbi Joshua (commonly known as Jesus) to have believed...

December 23, 2012

Taking Responsibility for Feelings

I see that an all-male court in Iowa has ruled that an employer can fire...

December 15, 2012

Of Blogging and Poetry

Now that I’ve been blogging for a few months, I have some opinions about it....

December 11, 2012

Spiritual Maturity for Pagans—and Everyone Else

A scale of spiritual maturity for Pagans and others, built on a model originally designed...

December 08, 2012

Six Songs After Lalla Yogishwari

When Sun was unperceived, Then moonlight came. When Moon was unperceived, Then thought remained. When...

December 02, 2012

Of Pagan Spirituality and Addiction

If you have the misfortune to be both Pagan and an addict, you may face...

November 2012

November 23, 2012

The Pagan Way

In a strict chronology, I should next be discussing events in California and New England...

November 22, 2012

Raymond Buckland and Seax-Wica

In my last blog about the Gardnerians, I indicated that, because of changes in his...

November 20, 2012

Pagan Theology: The Problem of Anything

I have been arguing with myself about posting about the matters herein discussed. I am...

November 12, 2012

The [American] Gardnerians, 1973-75

[Several colleagues have recommended more precision in titling.] In 1972, after a decade of leading...

November 10, 2012

The Gardnerians, 1963-1972

Raymond Buckland was one of the very first people to foresee how important the Gardnerian...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

Yet Another Three Pagan Poems

Alchemical Sonnets Four worldly indivisibles divide the sphere, Plus three unworldly to define the...

October 28, 2012

Joe Wilson, Part IV

In 1972Wilson’s life became extremely difficult because of both political and health problems. He was...

October 26, 2012

Joe Wilson, Part II

In October 1965 Pentagram sponsored a dinner at which Doreen Valiente was the keynote speaker....

October 24, 2012

Joe Wilson, the Pagan Way, and 1734

I’ve had to decide whether to write about Raymond Buckland next or Joe Wilson. Ray...

October 23, 2012

Before the Gardnerians: CAW, RDNA, and DTG

Just to be through, I'm concluding this prefatory series with three groups that have been...

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