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June 2017

June 04, 2017

The Way of Ecstasy

So many saints, being professional Celibates, and such holy fools, believed We can...

August 2016

August 19, 2016

On Metamethodology in Religious Studies: For John Morehead

John, I very much appreciate your calm and well-informed response to my earlier blog entitled...

July 2016

July 11, 2016

The Gospels Are Inherently Anti-Semitic. Deal With It.

Mark was a literary genius. He invented the “gospel” as a new literary genre. That...

April 2016

April 23, 2016

The Art of Creating Religion. Part I

I am willing to entertain the nondisprovable hypothesis that our religions are inspired by the...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Can I Teach Again? Would Anyone Listen?

Recently a brilliant woman doctoral student picked me, apparently by intuition, out of the hundreds...

February 29, 2016

Deducing the Nature of the Gods, Part II

Interestingly, the problem of good and evil exhibits the same structure as the problem of...

November 2015

November 23, 2015

About Fragments as Materials for Art

Aradia and the Books of the Sacred Marriage, which I have now released through the...

November 13, 2015

Announcing: Aradia and the Books of the Sacred Marriage

It’s done. After 45 years of working on the materials that went into it, it’s...

September 2015

September 06, 2015

Announcing: The Books of the Sacred Marriage, with an explanation

It has been quite a while since I posted on here. I've been busy writing,...

June 2015

June 09, 2015

Please Join the Aidan Kelly Book Club: Help Me Get My Books Written

My previous post on Patreon, proposing a journal to be called Mythopoiesis, was putting the...

February 2015

February 03, 2015

War Against Women: Empower the Victims

I am heartened by the Swedes: they have decriminalized the selling of sex; have made...

May 2014

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...

February 2014

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...

April 2013

April 03, 2013

On Jesus as a Gnostic

Why write about him at all? Because, like it or not, he is the protagonist...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

On the Necessity of Awakening

I have settled on the term Awakening as the best label so far for this...

February 2013

February 18, 2013

“History” — Part I

In December 1963 I had a spontaneous series of altered states that lasted for about...

January 2013

January 26, 2013

Imagine Jesus Holding Hands with the Goddess

One cannot talk about both Christianity and the Craft in the same breath IF if...

January 21, 2013

Post-Doctoral Witchcraft (or something like that)

I am thinking about how to teach what I actually know, which is far more...

January 03, 2013

The Letter to Theophilus, Part III

As followers of Kharpocrates, we celebrate our bodily pleasures, unlike the heretics, and teach our...

January 02, 2013

The Letter to Theophilus, Part II

Mark prayed to the Goddess Charis to drop her sacred blood into the cup that...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

The Letter to Theophilus, Part I

My dear Theophilus, all the brothers and sisters send you greetings in the name of...

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 16, 2012

Goddess Murder

My novel Goddess Murder is essentially a love story, about the romance between a college...

June 2012

June 28, 2012

Aphrodiphobia, Part IV: The Logical Consequences of the First Commandment

The “First Commandment” under discussion here is not that in the Decalogue, but the one...

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