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2018-10-15T23:35:38-04:00

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Manifest The King, Honor The Ancestors

Last updated on: October 15, 2018 at 11:35 pm By Tom Swiss

The sort of King we are speaking of here truly "reigns but does not rule"; he does not command, he is not a conqueror. Instead the King is the conduit of blessings for his people. Read more

My Blogging Life and Times

2018-09-28T16:03:13-04:00

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Kavanaugh, Cosby, and the Full Rashomon

Last updated on: September 28, 2018 at 4:03 pm By Tom Swiss

Kavanaugh's defenders say "he's not that sort of man". But we would have said the same about Cosby when he was at the height of both his rape career and his acting one. If we can see that someone is "that sort of man", he won't have the opportunity to commit rapes. Read more

2018-09-04T08:28:01-04:00

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My Labor Day Mystical Experience

Last updated on: September 4, 2018 at 8:28 am By Tom Swiss

It is the way of these things that they are ineffable. To even say "I was not in my ordinary state of consciousness" (much less to say "oh, an early migraine experience") is to put a border around it, classify it, put it safely in a container where it won't leak out an affect the rest of my life. Read more

Always Roaming With A Hungry Heart

Magic(k), Ritual, and Mysticism

My Blogging Life and Times

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Labor Day

mystical experience

2018-09-01T10:05:06-04:00

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John McCain, Warmonger

Last updated on: September 1, 2018 at 10:05 am By Tom Swiss

But I didn't come here to talk to you about McCain's misogyny or homophobia or corruption or role in destroying reasoned political discourse. I came to talk to you about the blood on his hands. Anytime there was talk of bombing or invading another nation you could bet ol' Maverick McCain would be beating the war drums. Read more

Because I Could Not Stop For Death

Religion & Politics

John McCain

military-industrial complex

war

2018-08-11T01:42:28-04:00

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Eight Points About Consciousness

Last updated on: August 11, 2018 at 1:42 am By Tom Swiss

We have no good definition of what "consciousness" is. If we're invoking science, whatever "consciousness" is must be an objectively observable phenomenon -- because that's the domain of science. Read more

2018-07-22T02:27:03-04:00

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Why You Should Go To Starwood

Last updated on: July 22, 2018 at 2:27 am By Tom Swiss

I’ll be posting more about what this year’s Starwood meant to me personally. Meanwhile, I was able to get a little video from Starwood attendees -- including Ian Corrigan and Oberon Zell -- telling you why you should join us next year. Read more

Always Roaming With A Hungry Heart

2018-07-18T09:47:54-04:00

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Pagans Are Wild

Last updated on: July 18, 2018 at 9:47 am By Tom Swiss

Who's going to find what we need? The wild ones. The experimenters. The spiritual mad scientists. The mutants and freaks. The explorers of consciousness. The Pagans, a name taken because it suggested both a link to the past and a rebelliousness and disreputableness, a rejection of the mainstream -- a name to which we often prepend "Neo", new, to show that we are looking forward as well as back. Read more

Ethics, Virtue, and Right Living

Magic(k), Ritual, and Mysticism

2018-07-17T16:34:34-04:00

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Pagan Atheism (talk from Starwood 2018)

Last updated on: July 17, 2018 at 4:34 pm By Tom Swiss

To answer the question “Do the gods and goddesses exist?” we need to answer two questions, just two trivial little matters: • What is a god? • What does it mean to exist? We have here two fundamental questions of theology and ontology that have had philosophers arguing since the days of ancient Athens! We have here two fundamental questions of theology and ontology that have had philosophers arguing since the days of ancient Athens! Read more

Always Roaming With A Hungry Heart

Caught On Video

My Blogging Life and Times

2018-07-05T00:38:39-04:00

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Zen Paganism In The Art of Archery

Last updated on: July 5, 2018 at 12:38 am By Tom Swiss

And wood for a bow is a lot easier to come by than bronze, iron, or steel for a sword. In some places -- especially England -- the bow became a weapon of the common people, an equalizer against armored feudal enforcers. Read more

Caught On Video

My Blogging Life and Times

2018-07-04T15:19:16-04:00

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Throwing The Flag In The Trash

Last updated on: July 4, 2018 at 3:19 pm By Tom Swiss

And so every year I have to throw a little plastic flag into the trash. What else am I supposed to to with them? Keep them until I die for someone else to throw out? I can't even respectfully burn them, as one is supposed to do when ritually disposing of a damaged flag; burning plastic is toxic. Read more

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