Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

A Sense of Place

Home
Pagan

Worlding

Select a Category Africa Amazon Ancestors Animism Austin Boots Across Ireland Boston boundary crossing Bretagne Children Cities Community Connection Culture Detroit Druidry Earth Edinburgh Elements England Eskdalemuir Eugene experiential family Fiction Florida folklore France Glasgow Heathenry home how to build it Human Spaces imaginary landscapes Introduction Ireland Journeys Know your wild herbs Land Spirits London Maine memory lane Naturalizing Nature's Metaphors New York Poetry Remembering Ancestors Sacred Spaces San Francisco Scotland Seasons Seattle Tanzania Technology Texas the South Theory Top 10 traditions Travel Uncategorized United States video Water West Virginia Witchcraft Worlding

Select a Month August 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012

October 2014

October 17, 2014

Finding Land Spirits and The Fae

Helpful tips to finding the Fae and Land Spirits, and also, advice to make your...

August 2014

August 08, 2014

Where They May Be Found: Dionysos

Between the pining and the longing, there He is. Where They May Be Found, part...

July 2014

July 11, 2014

Where They May Be Found: Brighid

Fifth in the series, "Where They May Be Found." Brighid tosses more wood upon Her...

June 2014

June 27, 2014

Where They May Be Found: Ceridwen

We living feast relentlessly on the dead, and love is a kind of death--is death...

June 13, 2014

Where They May Be Found: Cernunnos

Finding gods you know in places is one thing, but helping someone find a god...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

Where They May Be Found: Arianrhod

The second in a five-part series on where I've met the gods. Part Two: Arianrhod.

May 23, 2014

Where They May Be Found: Brân

The first in a five-part series on where I've met the gods. Part One: Bran...

May 16, 2014

Fare Forward, Travelers…

At some point, my life became a story. Gods showed up, magic became the everyday,...

May 09, 2014

What I Know of a Creek

On the Amazon Creek in Eugene, Oregon: "I don't understand this creek, actually. Mostly, I...

April 2014

April 25, 2014

Dionysos in a Paving Stone, Brighid in the Broken Glass

When we go to festivals and spiritual retreats in nature, what are we retreating from?...

April 11, 2014

Disenchantment, Enclosure, And ‘The Burning Times’

Capitalism is responsible for our ancestral trauma, our alienation from the land, and the greatest...

April 04, 2014

Some Walk Away

What do you do when you discover that the happiness, success, and comfort of your...

March 2014

March 21, 2014

What We Built From Ruins, Part Three

A Druid tells the story of what Paganism becomes, 50 years on. (Part three of...

March 07, 2014

What We Built From Ruins (Part One)

As the oil ran out and the waters got poisoned, what kind of world did...

February 2014

February 21, 2014

The Garments of the Gods

When a god in one city appears different in another, perhaps it is that they...

February 14, 2014

What I Learned in the Crosswalk

Sometimes we need someone to free us from a spell by breaking out of it...

February 07, 2014

The Past is a Place We Still Inhabit

Our belief that the present is somehow exceptional, that we are modern and more developed...

January 2014

January 24, 2014

A Choice of Worldings

Land Spirits who protest factory conditions and a spear-wielding, "strong-armed" mystical king leading the smashing...

January 10, 2014

The Liberation of the Earth

Many of the ancestors of Modern Paganism were anti-Capitalists, and the reason for this is...

December 2013

December 20, 2013

Of Love and Land Spirits

Worlding the spirits of land into our lives is not just for seers or mystics....

December 13, 2013

The Logic of Disenchantment

In the 1700's, something was spawned from the countryside of England, and it's disenchanting the...

December 06, 2013

The Magician, The World

There are gates to the Other everywhere, including the ones we create ourselves.

November 2013

November 29, 2013

The Song of the Other

Who did I think I was, playing songs to a goddess? How song is at...

November 22, 2013

Marketing Disenchantment

Not only are there people earning fortunes by worlding the earth into disenchantment, we help...