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May 2016

May 11, 2016

Creative Endarkenment: the Need to Ground and Shield

Creativity is by its nature radical. Grounding and shielding helps us protect ourselves when the...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

The Brewery of the Gods!

It is well known from the lore that the gods actually have a brewery, not...

April 11, 2016

Cultural Appropriation has nothing to do with “race”

Cultural appropriation is when someone from a colonising or culturally dominant culture takes a ritual...

January 2016

January 08, 2016

Pagan Contemplative Prayer

Contemplative prayer is a practice that is fairly simple to understand, but which may take...

January 06, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: Grounding and Centering

Many Pagan rituals begin with grounding and centering. It comes from the Taoist tradition originally,...

January 04, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: Meditative Walking

There are several different types of meditative walking, from various different spiritual traditions.The theologian St...

January 02, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: Walking The Labyrinth

Each person’s journey into the labyrinth is unique, although the labyrinth has a single pathway...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Haiku Writing

The haiku is a Japanese form of poetry which evolved out of the philosophy of...

December 28, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Gardening

Gardening is well known to be therapeutic, but it is also deeply spiritual. It is...

December 26, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Meditation Hut

The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids suggest building a meditation hut. The idea of...

December 24, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Making an Altar

An altar is a focus for devotion, prayer or meditation. It can be simple or...

December 19, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Making a Mandala

A mandala is a twofold meditation tool. The process of creating it is meditative, and...

December 17, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Storytelling

Most spiritual and religious traditions have a corpus of stories which transmit their values and...