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December 2012

December 01, 2012

Confession: I Love Christmas

I have a confession to make. Yes, I love Christmas. I'm Pagan, and I love...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

A proposed categorization of magical terminology

In an excellent essay entitled, “The New Old Paganism”, Ronald Hutton reviews the history of...

November 29, 2012

What do we mean by “magic”?

Magic is no instrument Magic is the end -- Leonard Cohen The issue of magic...

November 24, 2012

The many shades of Pagan embarrassment

"You will be ashamed because of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you...

November 24, 2012

Embarrassment and the twin threats to Paganism: Shallowness of the mind and of the heart

In my last post, I wrote about "Being Ashamed by Paganism" (which was really about...

November 16, 2012

Being Embarrassed by Paganism

Years ago, when I was deciding whether to leave the Mormon church, one of the...

November 05, 2012

The Complete Works of Carl Jung (UPDATED)

[UPDATE 6/16/15: Jung's Collected Works can now be downloaded from Scribd.com.] Christmas has come early...

November 04, 2012

A Jungian Interpretation of the Goddess

John P. Dourley is my favorite interpreter of Jung. Author of numerous books on Jung,...

November 03, 2012

The dirty words we use to describe each other

Some time ago, I heard a story on NPR's "This American Life", about a guy...

November 01, 2012

All Hallows: candy and pomegranates, gravestones and red wine

The Wild Hunt arrived here in Chicago-land region this week. We had one beautiful warm...

October 2012

October 28, 2012

Lateral Transcendence: Toward Greater Compassion

My minister at the Unitarian congregation I attend recently started a sermon series on "Dangerous...

October 20, 2012

Jung Resources for Pagans

I have just created a new menu on the side of my blog which contains...

October 20, 2012

Symbols

I just came across this quote in a biography of Jung I have been reading. ...

October 18, 2012

Water and Stone: libations and altars

Recently, I discovered a great blog at Witches and Pagans called Baring the Aegis: Hellenismos...

October 13, 2012

My trip to Philadephia

I just got back from a trip to Philadelphia for work. I was fortunate to...

October 11, 2012

Goddess as a Personal Presence

In a recent post, I wrote about polytheistic religious experience from a Jungian perspective. Recently...

October 07, 2012

Unitarian growth and Pagan (dis)organization

Over at The Wild Hunt, Jason Pitzl-Waters has posted about the growth of the UU...

October 04, 2012

Are the gods real?

Do we worship the same gods? Over at Patheos, Star Foster recently published an interesting...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Mysteria Misc. Maxima @ Invocatio: a blog *mostly* about Western esotericism

For a few months now, I've been following the weekly Mysteria Misc. Maxima posts at...

September 27, 2012

Happiness and Depression, Sacrality and Spirituality

I've come across several good posts on other blogs recently that tie in with subjects...

September 19, 2012

Defining Paganism and Neopaganism

I can't believe I am diving into this linguistic swamp again, but here goes. Recently,...

September 18, 2012

Paganism and Real Live Nature

Recently Teo Bishop wrote a wonderful post about his experience of doing ritual in nature. ...

September 17, 2012

Check out B.T. Newberg’s new blog at Pagan Square

If you haven't already, check out B.T. Newberg's new blog at Pagan Square: Pagan, Naturally:...

September 13, 2012

Navel gazing versus the journey to the World Navel: Individuation and community

Jungians are sometimes accused of being ego-centric navel gazers in the Pagan community. There is...

September 12, 2012

The First SIgn of Autumn

My wife pointed this out to me this morning: the first red leaf. The first...

September 07, 2012

“One needful thing”, Part 3: Letting go of the side of the pool

In Part 1, I traced the development of Unitarianism since the early 19th century to...

September 05, 2012

My Trip to San Francisco

I just returned from a trip to San Francisco. In addition to getting some business...

August 2012

August 28, 2012

My Fivefold Path

Over at Humanistic Paganism, "NaturalPantheist" recently shared his fourfold path for naturalists, summarized below: Path...

August 26, 2012

“One Needful Thing”, Part 2: UUism and the Transformative Experience

In Part 1, I traced the development of Unitarianism since the early 19th century to...

August 23, 2012

A Mormon therapist takes on masturbation

I typically do not blog here about exclusively Mormon issues. When I do bring up...