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July 2017

July 25, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Why I Am a Warrior

When courage falters, people say, “take heart!” Maybe that seems like a silly way to...

July 11, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Paganism, the New Frontier

There’s a spiritual equivalent of standing alone in a forest, in a place where there...

July 03, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Daily Practice Saves Lives

The time to train is before you’re in a fight for your life. Begin your...

June 2017

June 27, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Reaching the Spirit

We don’t master grounding and centering by knowing some secret. We get there like we...

June 19, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: The Boline

Tied to the history of the land, the boline is a reminder of the thin...

June 12, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Practical Idolatry

Idolatry has been the straw man of the West for two millennia. Monotheists hate it....

June 05, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Living With Fear

We all bow to fear. We can’t help it. No one is fearless in all...

May 2017

May 29, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: How to Build Your Magical Altar

If a religious altar is a doorway for the gods and spirits to come to...

May 22, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Restoring Virtue

When it comes to virtue, the West has lost its way. The way back is...

May 15, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Everyday Magic

Step into the unknown, and you’ll find yourself there.

May 07, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Summon Yourself

It’s about impossible to get through a day without being pulled this way and that....

May 01, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Teachers & Students

With nothing but the intuition that there must be more, we enter a new land...

April 2017

April 23, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Screw Dying, Live with Your Boots On

Like a lot of people, I always wondered how I would face death. As it...

April 16, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: We All Start as Fools

Years of self-doubt and struggle aren’t a cruel joke played by the universe. They’re the...

April 09, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Don’t Trust Your Spirit, Train It

In a time of Internet memes, the bumper stickers of the Information Age, it’s easy...

April 02, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: What is Magic For?

In the good old days, the occult was about things like finding your vocation in...

March 2017

March 25, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Hidden Knowledge

The occult isn’t inherently evil. It is powerful, and often opaque. That can be scary...

March 19, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: To Keep Silence

The occult is a journey to ascend the Witches’ Pyramid to reveal in ourselves the...

March 12, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Animism & The Big Questions

Are we creatures of spirit who inhabit bodies, or physical bodies that somehow have awareness?...

March 05, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: The Power of Daily Practice

We see people do incredible things, and we think, “I could never do that.” But...

February 2017

February 24, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Through the Portal

The Internet. Cell phones. Satellites. These are the things driving a new spiritual revolution. The...

February 16, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: On Death, Heroism, and Faith

Faith is not belief. That’s a weird, post-Enlightenment Protestant Christian, non-Pagan thing. Faith is connection...

January 2016

January 03, 2016

The Other Side of the Hedge: Why Can’t I F@^%!&G Meditate?

Over and over, I hear people talk about how they can’t meditate. They confess that...

December 2015

December 20, 2015

The Other Side of the Hedge: Why Is Yule like The Force?

The spiritual importance of Star Wars, at least for me, is that it showed us...

December 06, 2015

The Other Side of the Hedge: Animism and Healing

Since animists don’t turn a blind eye to the dark corners and dangers of the...

November 2015

November 15, 2015

The Other Side of the Hedge: Scrying Over You

Scrying is the practice of inducing and interpreting visions. Commonly, crystal balls and magic mirrors...

November 01, 2015

The Other Side of the Hedge: The Magnum Opus

Life is about more than just being terribly clever and easily dissatisfied primates who happen...

October 2015

October 18, 2015

The Other Side of the Hedge: The Thinning of the Veil

Halloween is almost upon us. It’s a time of year for costumes, parties, and maybe...

October 04, 2015

The Other Side of the Hedge: Animism and Virtue

In Paganism, we spend a lot of time shouting across the chasms of meaning and...

September 2015

September 20, 2015

The Other Side of the Hedge: Animism Isn’t for Us?

The animistic worldview is the red-headed stepchild of Western pagan worldviews. It finds itself mostly...

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