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March 2016

March 20, 2016

Tell Me Again That Jungians Can’t Be Pagan (edited)

The claim that Jungians can't be Pagan ignores the (at least) thousands of Pagans who...

June 2014

June 17, 2014

“Darkness Leaping Out of Light”: The Summer Solstice from a different angle

If we celebrated the birth of the Sun Child to Mother Night on the longest...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Love, Earth, Body, Ritual: These are the threads of my emerging spiritual tapestry.

Love, Earth, Body, Ritual: Over the next few months I'll be writing about how I...

June 2013

June 22, 2013

Being the Allergic Pagan: My lover’s quarrel with the world

The irony of being a Pagan with seasonal allergies symbolizes an essential conflict at the...

June 02, 2013

Hearing voices or talking to ourselves?

All revelations are personal. That's why all revelations are suspect. -- Neil Gaiman, American Gods...

April 2013

April 07, 2013

Confessions of a Recovering Fundamentalist

A few months ago, I was contacted through Facebook by a lady, Eliane, in Brazil,...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

Quote: Intellect in service to wonder

My posts tend to run a little long. So, I've decided to start a thought-provoking...

February 2013

February 23, 2013

I’m making it up

Where you’ve nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them. --...

January 2013

January 19, 2013

I worship the blind God

You weary Nations, perhaps I am some new being you've never encountered before. Yet there...

January 06, 2013

2012 Blog Roll, Looking Forward to 2013

Over the past several months, I have come across many posts on other blogs that...

December 2012

December 23, 2012

The role of faith and hubris in Paganism

Last week I came across a word that, ten years ago, I would never have...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

What do we mean by “magic”?

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

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,...

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 04, 2012

Are the gods real?

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

September 2012

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...

August 2012

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 03, 2012

These are my gods: or my biography told in deities

The God of the Old Testament The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the...

July 2012

July 26, 2012

Who’s in charge here? Grace, humility, and defiance of fate

I've been thinking about grace and humility lately. Last Sunday in the Spirit Circle discussion...

July 18, 2012

Depression as a friend (updated)

Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again -- "The Sound...

June 2012

June 22, 2012

Dream: Finding my soul outside the Pagan community?

For someone who considers himself “Jungian”, I don’t dream very often. Or rather, I don’t...

June 02, 2012

Soul-Centered Paganism

This post is Part 3 of a 3-part series on my evolving sense of Pagan...

May 2012

May 10, 2012

“Post-Paganism”

I am a label junkie. If you've been following this blog for any length of...

May 03, 2012

American Neopaganism, Part 2: “I think I may be a Wiccan”

In my last post, I wrote that Neopaganism was a distinguishable tradition from Wicca, and...

May 02, 2012

American Neopaganism, Part 1: An Imaginary Tradition?

The AmericanNeopaganism.com website which I maintain will be taken down next month. I've maintained it...

April 2012

April 22, 2012

The gods may be hungry

Last Sunday, at the "Spirit Circle" group at my Unitarian Universalist congregation, we watched a...