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January 2019

January 01, 2019

Mastering Time And Space With The Bullet Journal

Just as it is a genuine act of witchcraft to give a friend with an...

December 2018

December 21, 2018

Not Much Light But It Beats The Darkness

Are we on the watch for the light, or for the darkness? The whole phenomenon...

December 02, 2018

George H.W. Bush And The Banality Of Evil

I woke up yesterday morning to the news that President Bush -- the first President...

November 2018

November 29, 2018

Sandman At 30: The Birth Of A Pantheon

Deities are either invented, created, or discovered. And that is a process of story-telling. We...

November 18, 2018

Jonestown at 40: Religious and Political Lessons

For those of us in the business of unusual religious practices, the fortieth anniversary of...

November 11, 2018

Armistice Day, Veterans’ Day

What we owe our veterans is not some "thank you for your service" platitude. What...

November 05, 2018

Should You Bother To Vote?

It is ironic and problematic that this style of republic, structured from the start to...

October 2018

October 29, 2018

The Veil And The Void

What if we thought of the veil between the worlds not as a separation between...

October 28, 2018

Murder At The Tree Of Life

A few years ago, I was of the opinion that anti-Semitism was something we'd gotten...

October 20, 2018

Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself, Again

As we drum and dance and support each other around the fire, we sort of...

October 15, 2018

Manifest The King, Honor The Ancestors

The sort of King we are speaking of here truly "reigns but does not rule";...

September 2018

September 28, 2018

Kavanaugh, Cosby, and the Full Rashomon

Kavanaugh's defenders say "he's not that sort of man". But we would have said the...

September 03, 2018

My Labor Day Mystical Experience

It is the way of these things that they are ineffable. To even say "I...

September 01, 2018

John McCain, Warmonger

But I didn't come here to talk to you about McCain's misogyny or homophobia or...

August 2018

August 10, 2018

Eight Points About Consciousness

We have no good definition of what "consciousness" is. If we're invoking science, whatever "consciousness"...

July 2018

July 21, 2018

Why You Should Go To Starwood

I’ll be posting more about what this year’s Starwood meant to me personally. Meanwhile, I...

July 18, 2018

Pagans Are Wild

Who's going to find what we need? The wild ones. The experimenters. The spiritual mad...

July 17, 2018

Pagan Atheism (talk from Starwood 2018)

To answer the question “Do the gods and goddesses exist?” we need to answer two...

July 04, 2018

Zen Paganism In The Art of Archery

And wood for a bow is a lot easier to come by than bronze, iron,...

July 03, 2018

Throwing The Flag In The Trash

And so every year I have to throw a little plastic flag into the trash....

June 2018

June 28, 2018

Our Problem With Immigration: Inconsistency

At some point in your life, you may have had a job like this: you...

June 21, 2018

Incarceration Separates Families

Looking for consistent application of principles in American politics is perhaps like Diogenes's famous quest...

June 21, 2018

Renewal, Grieving, And Video Blogging With Friends At The Free Spirit Gathering 2018

I spent last week at my twentieth Free Spirit Gathering. I was reminded of the...

June 08, 2018

The Temple, The Fire, And The Flood

I spent Memorial Day weekend at Playa Del Fuego, the East Coast regional Burn (Burning...

May 2018

May 13, 2018

The Catonsville 9: What Real Resistance Looks Like

I live in Catonsville, Maryland, a suburb on the southwest side of Baltimore. Catonsville has...

May 08, 2018

“Cobra Kai” And Toxic Masculinity

So I'm pretty much in the bullseye of the target demographic for YouTube Red's new...

May 01, 2018

Someone’s Prom Dress Is Not Your Culture

Well, the Internet is all upset over a dress again. But this time it's not...

April 2018

April 24, 2018

What are your #Mythstruck4?

There's an Internet meme going around under the hashtag "#filmstruck4". The idea, initially posted by...

April 14, 2018

The Wounded Healer

But we must be wary of thinking that more suffering enables more healing, that in...

March 2018

March 27, 2018

Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, And Black Magic

Product advertising has been with us since some Paleolithic guy boasted that his flint arrowheads...

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