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December 2016

December 02, 2016

Be just as we face corruption

Toynbee’s paradigm, that the collapse of a civilization begins when the creative minority is replaced...

August 2016

August 21, 2016

Agnostic Jewish Paganism—and Other New Religions

Yes, I am all three of those; how I define them makes them compatible. 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 27, 2016

On the Primacy of Nondisprovable Hypotheses, Part IV

Returning to the issue of partitioning DHs from NDHs. A concept similar to Gurdjieff’s Partition...

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...

April 2014

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...

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...

August 2013

August 12, 2013

Goddess Murder, 9: More Discussion of the Gospels

Megan asked, “Don’t most people believe he could be the Messiah only because he was...

June 2013

June 26, 2013

On My Love for Sophia, Our Lady of Wisdom and Mercy

It is common to suppose that knowledge is not wisdom, but just what is the...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Why the Gods Are Infinite

A dialog about whether the Gods are infinite or not often begins with “Gerald Gardner...

April 29, 2013

Empower the True Muslims;They Are Hope for Humanity

Since the Boston bombing, the newscasters have talked nonstop and nonsense about Muslims, saying nothing...

April 12, 2013

Thoughts About the Universality of Saints

Every key insight of the many religions is true: Change how you think, and you...

March 2013

March 09, 2013

Divinity, Infinity, and Infinitesimals

No one can be absolutely objective about religion, because every person must have a set...

March 06, 2013

A Request and Previews

A request for positive reviews of this blog, and some previews of upcoming posts.

March 05, 2013

On the Nature of the Gods

The passion of the Gods is not a calm and boring bliss. It is a...

January 2013

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...

December 2012

December 26, 2012

Marvin Meyer, 1948-2012

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

December 23, 2012

Taking Responsibility for Feelings

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

December 16, 2012

Goddess Murder

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

July 2012

July 04, 2012

Why the Craft Is an “In Your Face” Religion

Earlier today, on Charles Arnold’s e-group on Linkedin, someone expressed surprise that the fundamentalist Christians...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

Aphrodiphobia, Part V: Toward the Divine Sexuality

In one of the preceding essays, I said that a totally committed couple, in the...

June 12, 2012

The End of My Catholic Boyhood

In order for you, dear reader, to see why I think about religion as I...

June 11, 2012

“Human Life Is Sacred”: My Foray Into Blogging

I’m rather excited. Friendship with Star recently ambushed us both—so I have begun writing on...

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