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February 2019

February 03, 2019

Druid Reading Recommendations: A Revised List

These are the handful of books that are most helpful to seekers as they try...

January 2018

January 14, 2018

Cults of Personality Must Die

If someone insists you treat them like a celebrity, that’s their fault. If you do...

November 2017

November 28, 2017

300 Years of Druidry

According to Ross Nichols, the first Druid order of the modern era was founded in...

September 2017

September 24, 2017

6 Critical Situations, 6 Helpful Books

Here are six critical situations on my Pagan journey and the books that were most...

April 2017

April 16, 2017

Three Forms of Immortality

To be human is to live with the realization that we are alive but that...

March 2017

March 26, 2017

Progressive Magic

Magic has a dilemma. It works best when it’s focused and specific, but many of...

March 05, 2017

How Do You Know Your Magic Worked?

Figuring out if your magic worked is a process of comparing what you got against...

February 2017

February 19, 2017

What Happens When You Leave A Magical Portal Open?

Leaving a gate or portal open is a bad thing. Mainly, it’s a sloppy thing....

February 14, 2017

ADF Texas Imbolc Retreat – Gathering Under a Common Banner

ADF is what it is and does what it does without excuse or apology, and...

August 2016

August 11, 2016

Are We Bringing Sin Into Paganism?

Let’s be as pious and as pure as we can be. But at the end...

May 2016

May 17, 2016

A Need For Divination

It’s necessary for us to stay focused on the tasks at hand. But we also...

March 2016

March 03, 2016

Gorged on Information, Starving for Wisdom

I love visiting ancient sites, hearing and telling ancient stories, and learning about ancient ancestors....

February 2016

February 14, 2016

Druidry Is Not My Religion

I’m inspired by the ancient Druids, I model my spiritual practice on what we know...

January 2016

January 17, 2016

Corporate Mindfulness: Be Careful What You Wish For

Corporate mindfulness is a mixture of Buddhism and Taoism with a little New Age thrown...

December 2015

December 06, 2015

Deep Magic

Deep magic is the way the world works, not in some quasi-scientific, oversimplified cause-and-effect way,...

August 2015

August 25, 2015

What I Learned From Isaac Bonewits

Scholarship matters. Fuzzy targets yield fuzzy results. Why not excellence? I learned a lot from...

August 18, 2015

Bi-druidical

Though I happily remain an OBOD Druid, I’m now also a member of ADF.

July 2015

July 19, 2015

What Are The Gods Up To?

Get a handful of polytheists together and sooner or later the conversation turns to “so,...

July 07, 2015

Spiritual Buffets and the Value of Traditions

The many traditions of religion and spirituality are like a huge buffet offering an appetizing...

May 2015

May 27, 2015

The Obligations of Religion

The freedom of Paganism is a great thing, but let’s remember that good, strong, meaningful...

May 20, 2015

Composing Initiation Rituals

A member of your Pagan group has asked you for an initiation. You’re not part...

May 19, 2015

Planning Initiation Rituals

What do you do if someone asks you for an initiation? My first questions are...

May 18, 2015

Initiation in Today’s Pagan World

It is possible to live a deeply spiritual life and to serve the Gods, humanity...

February 2015

February 17, 2015

In Praise of Communities of Convenience

The modern Western cult of the individual makes building homogeneous communities difficult. But humans are...

January 2015

January 25, 2015

Life Is Complicated – A Rant

Pretending the world is simple when it’s not just makes you vulnerable to those who...

December 2014

December 11, 2014

There Is No Supernatural

“Supernatural” is a convenient but lazy word that means “something outside the realm of what...

November 2014

November 16, 2014

Organic Religion

Even if religion completely disappeared, it would quickly return because people have religious experiences all...

November 09, 2014

Ordeals of Initiation

An ordeal isn’t just a hard and stressful experience, even if it teaches you something...

October 2014

October 09, 2014

Holy Work and Two Lies of Religion

When we decide to follow a religious path or to undertake a religious quest, we...

September 2014

September 03, 2014

Druids: A Very Brief Introduction

Who were the ancient Druids? What’s a modern Druid? A full answer requires several books...