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October 2019

October 23, 2019

A Zen Pagan Ghost Story For Samhain

But as the creepier side of the season reminds us, sometimes unwelcome presences can push...

October 19, 2019

PantheaCon, Politics, and Pagan Festival Policies

The Pagan community is growing more diverse. This is a good thing! But it means...

October 09, 2019

Magic Doesn’t Care About Metaphysics

Imagine that we could hop in our TARDIS and jump back to the Golden Age...

September 2019

September 26, 2019

Breaking the Glamour of Greta Thunberg

The social-media-viral cult of personality around Greta Thunberg is a glamour being cast as what...

September 21, 2019

Walking Behind The Waterfall At The Equinox

It strikes me that, if ritual is "poetry in the realm of acts", then a...

September 18, 2019

The Aftershocks of Grieving

I share this so that you may know it, if when next you grieve (for...

September 10, 2019

We Have Always Been At War With The Taliban

And our society is too much Aresian and too little Athenian. We are too ready...

September 03, 2019

The Last Minute Still Counts

Because getting something done at the last minute, is still getting it done.

August 2019

August 22, 2019

Invoke Often

"Invoke often." This simple advice has been offered by Robert Anton Wilson and Aleister Crowley...

August 05, 2019

Of Baltimore And Magic

With just a bit of license, I might say that to be a Baltimorean —...

August 04, 2019

Imposition of order = Escalation of Disorder

"What should we do? We have to do SOMETHING!!!" we yell, in our pain and...

July 2019

July 28, 2019

Minds Do Change And That’s Magic

Magicians seek to alter the consciousness, change the minds, of other people all the time....

July 19, 2019

Space Is For Robots (For Now)

So it pains me to say this, but it's true: beyond Earth orbit, space is...

July 17, 2019

Buddha Touched The Earth: A Zen Pagan Ritual Cycle

My inspiration for this year was that the story of the Four Sights could make...

June 2019

June 02, 2019

Pagan Priests Vs. Whitman’s Kosmos

But my Paganism is very much aligned with these words of Walt Whitman, from the...

May 2019

May 30, 2019

Walt Whitman: Proto-Pagan At 200

May 31, 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of Whitman's birth. It seems appropriate to reflect...

May 16, 2019

Reason, Rhetoric, and Identarianism

What is special about propositions is that they are true or false no matter who...

May 04, 2019

Disappointing Beltane? Spring Comes Anyway

The beautiful and terrible (in the sense of intense, formidable, powerful, going back to a...

April 2019

April 24, 2019

Your Invitation to the Free Spirit Gathering And Starwood

Festival season is coming! And I'd like to invite you to two events where I'll...

April 13, 2019

Travel, Renewal, and Ancestor Work

Travel gives you an opportunity to raise the magickal energy, but you have to take...

April 10, 2019

Liminality, Mastery, And Interdependence

As I write this I am in that most liminal of places, in transit between...

March 2019

March 28, 2019

Teaching Within Learning Within Teaching Within Learning

The idea that one reaches mastery and then stops learning and starts teaching might be...

March 15, 2019

“Shaman” Is A Fine Word For A Shaman

"Priest" can be a specific term referring to Catholic religious figures but it also has...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

How The Gods And Heroes Operate

The exploits of superheroes can inspire the merely mortal citizens of their comic book and...

February 10, 2019

Why The Moment Calls For Magic

In O'Keefe's view, throughout human history magic has served as a form of resistance the...

January 2019

January 26, 2019

Patton Oswalt’s Twitter Act Of Kindness

There is a Buddhist practice of viewing each person as having been your mother or...

January 21, 2019

Masculinity On The Razor’s Edge

But it seems to me that if we're going to talk about the problems of...

January 20, 2019

MAGA Teens, The Native Elder, And Our Projections

Did a teen being dumb about sharing space become, in our national insanity, the screen...

January 09, 2019

Heathen Sailors, LGBT Shintōists, And Sexy Biceps

Welcome to the first Random Wednesday of 2019, a randomly appearing feature of short bits...

January 05, 2019

A Sigil For Political-Artistic Liberation In 2019

We sometimes think of creativity as a light, playful thing, an airy-fairy luxury for the...

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