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2019-01-01T20:46:37-04:00

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Mastering Time And Space With The Bullet Journal

Last updated on: January 1, 2019 at 8:46 pm By Tom Swiss

Just as it is a genuine act of witchcraft to give a friend with an upset stomach a cup of ginger tea, and just as prosperity magick can bump up against matters as mundane as balancing your checkbook, there is a magickal attitude with which to approach your calendar and to-do list. Read more

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2018-12-21T15:29:54-04:00

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Not Much Light But It Beats The Darkness

Last updated on: December 21, 2018 at 3:29 pm By Tom Swiss

Are we on the watch for the light, or for the darkness? The whole phenomenon of the seasons and the solstices is, in effect, a question of which direction we look. Read more

2018-12-02T18:23:21-04:00

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George H.W. Bush And The Banality Of Evil

Last updated on: December 2, 2018 at 6:23 pm By Tom Swiss

I woke up yesterday morning to the news that President Bush -- the first President Bush -- had died. The NPR reporter told a story about how Bush the First had told her that the happiest time of his life was not his Presidency or his campaign, but when he returned from World War II and was going back to school, with his wife and son at home waiting for him. I'm sure the hearts of the ghosts of the estimated 13,000 Iraqi civilians who died in Gulf War I and the 70,000 who died in its aftermath were suitably warmed by this tale of domestic bliss. Read more

2021-03-14T23:25:25-04:00

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Sandman At 30: The Birth Of A Pantheon

Last updated on: March 14, 2021 at 11:25 pm By Tom Swiss

Deities are either invented, created, or discovered. And that is a process of story-telling. We invent them in our stories, or create them via our stories, or we spread the discovery of them through our stories. Stories make gods. Read more

2018-11-18T03:22:43-04:00

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Jonestown at 40: Religious and Political Lessons

Last updated on: November 18, 2018 at 3:22 am By Tom Swiss

For those of us in the business of unusual religious practices, the fortieth anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre is a good opportunity to pause and reflect on how we protect against dangerous cultish behavior. And to contemplate how movements that seem to have noble ends can end up deadly authoritarian nightmares. Read more

2018-11-11T15:46:42-04:00

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Armistice Day, Veterans’ Day

Last updated on: November 11, 2018 at 3:46 pm By Tom Swiss

What we owe our veterans is not some "thank you for your service" platitude. What we owe them is a deep apology and compensation for the way our government has used the lives of men and women as geopolitical tools for the benefit of our ruling classes. Read more

My Blogging Life and Times

2018-11-05T16:57:46-04:00

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Should You Bother To Vote?

Last updated on: November 5, 2018 at 4:57 pm By Tom Swiss

It is ironic and problematic that this style of republic, structured from the start to restrict democracy and preserve the power of the wealthy, has become synonymous with "democracy" in modern conversation. In general, your vote matters little. That's how the system was designed from the start. But we won't get better if we don't exercise the tiny capacity we do have. Read more

2018-10-29T01:16:55-04:00

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The Veil And The Void

Last updated on: October 29, 2018 at 1:16 am By Tom Swiss

What if we thought of the veil between the worlds not as a separation between our physical realm and a realm made out of some more rarefied substance but as the boundary between the ordinary view of reality and that fuller view which sees that "form is emptiness, emptiness is form&quot, as the Heart Sutra puts it? Read more

Because I Could Not Stop For Death

2018-10-28T16:48:37-04:00

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Murder At The Tree Of Life

Last updated on: October 28, 2018 at 4:48 pm By Tom Swiss

A few years ago, I was of the opinion that anti-Semitism was something we'd gotten past in this country. Sadly, I was wrong. Read more

2018-10-20T23:59:11-04:00

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Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself, Again

Last updated on: October 20, 2018 at 11:59 pm By Tom Swiss

As we drum and dance and support each other around the fire, we sort of lift each other up by the bootstraps. Which is of course impossible, a logical contradiction, but such is the nature of magick. Read more

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