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May 2016

May 19, 2016

It Should Have Happened on a Mountaintop: My Winding Path to Environmental Activism (Part 7/10)

I guess we don’t get to choose the time and place of our epiphanies.

April 2016

April 19, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #3 Face Your Death

We instinctively turn away from this truth. And we engage in myriad strategies, both individually...

January 2015

January 31, 2015

The Neo-Pagan Mysteries, Part 8: Exoteric and Esoteric Ritual

Neo-Pagan ritual may function as a celebration of and an experience of connection with nature;...

January 29, 2015

The Neo-Pagan Mysteries, Part 7: The Mother and the Son

The Neo-Pagan Goddess may be called Mother, because she is the eternal Source, the continuous...

January 27, 2015

The Neo-Pagan Mysteries, Part 6: Descent to the Underworld

The psychological process which is symbolized by Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey is not a one...

January 25, 2015

The Neo-Pagan Mysteries, Part 5: The Dying God

Scholars have criticized Jame Frazer's Golden Bough, arguing that he glossed over significant differences in...

January 23, 2015

The Neo-Pagan Mysteries, Part 4: Sacrifice

It is natural to resist change and to "rage against the dying of the light."...

January 21, 2015

The Neo-Pagan Mysteries, Part 3: The Eternal Return

In contrast to the monotheistic religions with their linear view of sacred time and the...

January 19, 2015

The Neo-Pagan Mysteries, Part 2: The Meaning of Death

Neo-Paganism sanctifies our ultimate annihilation and holds that death is no less sacred than life....

January 17, 2015

The Neo-Pagan Mysteries, Part 1: Introduction

Neo-Paganism may be understood as an initiatory or mystery religion. While Wiccan initiation is an...

July 2014

July 29, 2014

I miss you already Margot

None of the recent deaths of prominent Pagans has struck me so hard as the...

March 2014

March 02, 2014

How Vampires Led Me to Paganism

I just finished reading Margot Adler's Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the...

September 2013

September 23, 2013

New Family Equinox Ritual: Balder’s Passion

I've been playing with the idea of doing a Balder myth-themed autumn equinox for over...

July 2013

July 10, 2013

Wonder and Death: Why only adults can really appreciate nature

Driving through Glenwood Canyon along the Colorado River, knowing that this beauty existed long before...

May 2013

May 05, 2013

Longing and Grace in Lev Grossman’s The Magician King

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently...

March 2013

March 20, 2013

The Gospel of Compost

"All my life I had waited for an inspiration, a manifestation of God, some kind...

January 2012

January 20, 2012

Memorial for Nibbles

So we decided to give the kids bunnies for Christmas. They went to the store...

January 15, 2012

Plunging into the sea of matter

I struggle with periodic bouts of existential despair. I don't mean depression. Just periods when...

December 2011

December 23, 2011

The Dying of the Light

So, I'm in Florida over Winter Solstice/Christmas and thinking how strange it is to be...

November 2011

November 02, 2011

Memorial

About a year ago ( September 30, 2010), my uncle killed himself. I was the...

October 2011

October 21, 2011

My love/hate relationship with Neopaganism, Part 2

Why I love Neopaganism: #1 I love that Neopaganism honors the dark as well as...

October 03, 2011

Family Fall Equinox Ritual (revised)

Introduction The last family ritual we did was at Midsummer. What is Midsummer? It’s also...

September 2011

September 09, 2011

Eating God Eating Us

I have been trying to write this post for a week or so and I...

September 02, 2011

There is only one infinite game: Life

As you know, I have been wrestling with the concept of death as an act...