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2019-10-23T21:47:22-04:00

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A Zen Pagan Ghost Story For Samhain

Last updated on: October 23, 2019 at 9:47 pm By Tom Swiss

But as the creepier side of the season reminds us, sometimes unwelcome presences can push through from that other side. So as the leaves fall this year, as the trees show us their bones, I find myself thinking of a 13th century Zen Buddhist ghost story. Read more

Magic(k), Ritual, and Mysticism

2019-10-19T23:25:35-04:00

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PantheaCon, Politics, and Pagan Festival Policies

Last updated on: October 19, 2019 at 11:25 pm By Tom Swiss

The Pagan community is growing more diverse. This is a good thing! But it means that we will come into disagreement more often, and so must have policies and norms in place as to how to handle conflicts. Read more

Always Roaming With A Hungry Heart

My Blogging Life and Times

2019-10-10T10:46:09-04:00

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Magic Doesn’t Care About Metaphysics

Last updated on: October 10, 2019 at 10:46 am By Tom Swiss

Imagine that we could hop in our TARDIS and jump back to the Golden Age of Athens to grab a musician, and bring them forward in time to talk with a modern musician. Their metaphysical views about music might be completely irreconcilable, but they could still play music together. Read more

Magic(k), Ritual, and Mysticism

2019-09-26T12:11:08-04:00

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Breaking the Glamour of Greta Thunberg

Last updated on: September 26, 2019 at 12:11 pm By Tom Swiss

The social-media-viral cult of personality around Greta Thunberg is a glamour being cast as what part of artist Hiroyuki Hamada has described as a rebirth ritual -- the rebirth of a monster, capitalism. Read more

Magic(k), Ritual, and Mysticism

2019-09-21T16:53:09-04:00

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Walking Behind The Waterfall At The Equinox

Last updated on: September 21, 2019 at 4:53 pm By Tom Swiss

It strikes me that, if ritual is "poetry in the realm of acts", then a large part of living a magical life is recognizing found poetry when one sees it. Sometimes that gets institutionalized -- found poetry published to others, to stretch the metaphor a bit. I am quite sure that in Japan, a waterfall like this would be the home of a Shinto shrine, and would see a steady stream of visitors. Read more

Magic(k), Ritual, and Mysticism

My Blogging Life and Times

2019-09-18T20:48:08-04:00

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The Aftershocks of Grieving

Last updated on: September 18, 2019 at 8:48 pm By Tom Swiss

I share this so that you may know it, if when next you grieve (for that is the way of the world, you will grieve) you wonder at your own behavior. Brains are weird, and there is no right way to grieve. Read more

Because I Could Not Stop For Death

My Blogging Life and Times

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Mark Swiss

2019-09-10T16:04:22-04:00

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We Have Always Been At War With The Taliban

Last updated on: September 10, 2019 at 4:04 pm By Tom Swiss

And our society is too much Aresian and too little Athenian. We are too ready to give in to the easy mindless rage that ends in defeat and humiliation for the aggressor and destruction for their victims, rather than the difficult, judicious, creative — but still valiant and strong — way of wisdom. Read more

2019-09-03T13:52:34-04:00

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The Last Minute Still Counts

Last updated on: September 3, 2019 at 1:52 pm By Tom Swiss

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

Ethics, Virtue, and Right Living

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2019-08-22T10:02:57-04:00

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Invoke Often

Last updated on: August 22, 2019 at 10:02 am By Tom Swiss

"Invoke often." This simple advice has been offered by Robert Anton Wilson and Aleister Crowley as a key magical practice. But we knew it instinctively as kids, as we hung posters on our walls — posters of musicians whose creativity we wished to call into our lives, or of sports heroes whose prowess we wished to invoke. Read more

Magic(k), Ritual, and Mysticism

2019-08-05T13:12:52-04:00

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Of Baltimore And Magic

Last updated on: August 5, 2019 at 1:12 pm By Tom Swiss

With just a bit of license, I might say that to be a Baltimorean — as my ancestors have been for centuries — is to always be in-between worlds. Read more

Magic(k), Ritual, and Mysticism

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