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2015-11-02T19:19:10-04:00

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Wearing My Grandfather’s Coat on Samhain

Last updated on: November 2, 2015 at 7:19 pm By Tom Swiss

Maybe I left that coat in the closet because I had to grow into it. Read more

Magic(k), Ritual, and Mysticism

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Seasonal Musings

2015-10-30T00:13:47-04:00

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Spirituality, Creativity, and Vitality

Last updated on: October 30, 2015 at 12:13 am By Tom Swiss

And so our friend is living what Thoreau called a life of quiet desperation. Do you see the vicious circle here? Each part of the problem supports the others. But the good news is that a circle has an infinite number of points where you can cut it and destroy it. When all the problems depend on each other, you don't have to fix them all at once -- knock one down one part and, boom, you're out of the trap. Read more

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2015-10-20T23:40:13-04:00

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Some Zen Pagan Halloween/Samhain Reflections

Last updated on: October 20, 2015 at 11:40 pm By Tom Swiss

With the leaves falling from the trees and skittering about in the wind, with the bones of trees showing through where lush greenery prevailed just weeks ago, with the first coming of frost, Samhain competes with the blooming May flowers of Beltane, the start of summer, for being the time of most dramatic change. We don't need supernaturalism to see that this is a liminal time, a time of transition between the way we lived and worked in the warm, active time and the way we must live and work to survive the cold dark time. Read more

Seasonal Musings

Samhain

2015-10-19T00:55:02-04:00

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poem: “this is not a retreat”

Last updated on: October 19, 2015 at 12:55 am By Tom Swiss

I forget again and again and that's difficult but each time I remember I learn more and that's the reward to not knowing Read more

Poetry

mysticism

2015-10-16T23:35:49-04:00

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Mysticism Is Not a Retreat to the Womb

Last updated on: October 16, 2015 at 11:35 pm By Tom Swiss

The mystic sense is the perception of the beauty of the interconnected and transpersonal. To see in that apple the seasons, the sun and the earth; to see, as Blake said, the whole world in a grain of sand; to look at a passing stranger, a tree in the median strip, the starry heavens, and see one's own self there. Not just in an intellectual sense, but on the gut emotional and spiritual level, a glimpse past the useful fiction of separateness that the mind spins. Read more

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2015-10-14T18:07:39-04:00

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All Of Human Folly Summarized In A Few Sentences

Last updated on: October 14, 2015 at 6:07 pm By Tom Swiss

Walker recently spoke with BBC News environment correspondent Matt McGrath, and had this brilliant plan for funding his state's response to the disasters created by climate change: drill for more oil. Read more

Ethics, Virtue, and Right Living

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2015-10-09T21:55:59-04:00

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Poem: “a warm day in october”

Last updated on: October 9, 2015 at 9:55 pm By Tom Swiss

some days are good some days you've done your work and you're reading a good book about Thoreau and it's a warm day and you had a good salad for lunch with a good cold-brew coffee and you take the dog for a walk and there's a slightly warm breeze Read more

Poetry

2015-10-07T21:33:51-04:00

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Cultural Appropriation: A Detailed Reply to a Critic

Last updated on: October 7, 2015 at 9:33 pm By Tom Swiss

Thank you for starting off honestly with a declaration that you do not believe in the value of free speech. It puts the rest of our dialog in a clear focus: you have taken a stance in opposition to one of my own core values, something for which I might be willing to give my life. Read more

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Tom Swiss

2015-10-07T21:50:57-04:00

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The Cultural Appropriation Controversy: A Summary Reply

Last updated on: October 7, 2015 at 9:50 pm By Tom Swiss

There are legitimate arguments that John could raise against what I've written, and we could have a legitimate -- if heated -- debate about that. But throwing about charges of racism, and using phrases like "white power thesis" to describe my post is, to be blunt, shockingly contemptible. It seems as if he's confused "You said something about racism that (I think) is wrong" with "You are racist". That's a very serious confusion and I urge him to resolve it. Read more

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Tom Swiss

2015-10-01T22:42:10-04:00

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Umpqua: Stopping the Spear

Last updated on: October 1, 2015 at 10:42 pm By Tom Swiss

On the first Thursday of the month, I usually do a meditation session with my karate students and give a little talk about our training. The sessions have a mix of adults and kids, so sometimes the tone of the talks is all over the place, and what I write beforehand doesn’t always reflect what gets said. But I thought some might find this of relevance. There was another random act of violence today, several people killed at Umpqua Community... Read more

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