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October 2015

October 01, 2015

The “Cultural Appropriation” Brouhaha

The term carries inaccurate (or at least very questionable) assumptions about the specific cases involved,...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Capital Punishment Is A Barbaric Human Sacrifice Ritual

By the time you read this, despite two judges of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal...

September 29, 2015

The Buddha Was A Handsome Man — Should a Female Dalai Lama Be A Lovely Lady?

If he believes that the Buddha was a good-looking guy, who used supernatural means to...

September 26, 2015

There Is No Such Thing as “Cultural Appropriation”

Laziness, dishonesty, plagiarism and -- sometimes -- disrespect are failings to be avoided. But copying...

September 23, 2015

Prometheus, Makers, and Ahmed’s Clock

I've been thinking of Prometheus, thief and teacher, trickster and benefactor of mankind. I've been...

September 23, 2015

Huston Smith is in hospice care

As reported at Lion's Roar, Huston Smith, one of the most distinguished modern American scholars...

September 14, 2015

When I Die

Now perhaps it's jumping the gun to assume anyone will give a damn, that they...

September 13, 2015

poems: “the bonsai tree is lopsided” and “Goats!”

my heart, too, is irregular and worn broken and mended many times

September 11, 2015

9/11: The Stage is a Sacred Place

I don't know if you've ever stood on a stage and been the focus of...

September 05, 2015

Otalp’s Cave

The ideas that he loved, the roundness of the geometer's circle, the inarguable perfection of...

September 01, 2015

Are People Any Damn Good?

But over-engineering the garden ruins the fruit, give us those cardboard supermarket genetically-engineered tomatoes instead...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

We Live For Beauty

Why do we live?

August 26, 2015

Truth, Beauty, and Lunatics

In those moments I feel like I had no choice, in the same way that...

August 20, 2015

You Can Start Again

If there's something that you wanted to do in the past but never did --...

August 20, 2015

Neopaganism: Looking Forward or Looking Back?

I've always held with the old saw that says we should all be concerned about...

August 11, 2015

Why I Am Still a Zen Pagan Taoist Atheist Discordian

I look back at this after fifteen years, and it’s not terrible. I’ve come to...

August 07, 2015

Enchantment and objectivity

There can be plenty of enchantment in the objective world-view. There is a form of...

August 06, 2015

Hiroshima: A New Way for Humanity to Sin

All throughout the massacres of the 20th century, but most especially on that day of...

August 02, 2015

poem: a Lammas pantoum

watching the sunset reflected on a billboard / thinking about summer winding down / I...

July 2015

July 31, 2015

Psychedelics Aren’t Zen — But That Doesn’t Mean They’re Bad

If this sort of experience is the goal of Zen practice, and if the psychedelic...

July 31, 2015

poem: “madly in love with the impossible”

once again I / fell madly in love with the impossible / trying to flirt...

July 23, 2015

Starwood 2015: Three Ways to Make Friends

That's just how it goes with Starwood. Besides the friendships and the personal connections and...

July 18, 2015

You Don’t Make the Grass Grow By Pulling On It

Zen teacher and punk rocker Brad Warner recently posted a piece titled "Don't Try to...

July 08, 2015

Are Wicca and the Boy Scouts Cousins? Part II

Both the Order and the Kindred met in the New Forest area, the same area...

July 05, 2015

The Big Picture Part II: When It All Changed

The basic plan of agricultural hierarchical society and its associated religious practices had endured for...

June 2015

June 29, 2015

Marriage Equality: Seven Easy Answers

Southern Baptist Samuel James has posed "7 Questions for the Victors" on the marriage equality...

June 27, 2015

Screw You, Ancestors

If the heritage you receive from an ancestor is one of hatred or ignorance or...

June 27, 2015

Beyond Marriage

By all means, raise a toast if you like, change your Facebook profile picture to...

June 26, 2015

Are Wicca and the Boy Scouts Cousins? Part I

The speculation is this: that both the Boy Scouts and modern Wicca can trace a...

June 25, 2015

Faith and Perseverance at the Fire Circle

Screw that. We've got fire, we've got people, we're going to have so much frickin'...

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