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2020-10-21T23:45:35-04:00

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Shop Like A Warrior

Last updated on: October 21, 2020 at 11:45 pm By Tom Swiss

But on my shopping trips over the past few weeks I've been struck by how distracted and unfocused many of my fellow shoppers are. So in this post I'd like to use four fundamental concepts from the Japanese martial arts to discuss strategies for safer and smoother shopping. And perhaps in the process give an example of how the study of the martial arts has much broader application to our lives than merely punching and kicking. Read more

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2020-04-05T07:41:57-04:00

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A Tarot Reading For The (April) Fool

Last updated on: April 5, 2020 at 7:41 am By Tom Swiss

If we accept the Way of the Fool, we can keep perfect hope even at the edge of the cliff, even in the depths of perfect doubt. (Doubt and hope are a yin and yang pair: opposites, yes, but mutually supporting and constantly transforming into each other.) Read more

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2020-03-28T13:41:01-04:00

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Papa Legba And The Internet

Last updated on: March 28, 2020 at 1:41 pm By Tom Swiss

It is Papa Legba (not "the devil") whom we meet at the crossroads. And what are the routers and hubs of the internet, where data packets are sent this way or that way, but crossroads? Read more

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Magic(k), Ritual, and Mysticism

2020-03-19T12:46:51-04:00

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COVID-19: We’re All In This Together

Last updated on: March 19, 2020 at 12:46 pm By Tom Swiss

A bit more than twenty years ago, after my 30th birthday, I went away for a long weekend by myself. I rented a cabin in the woods, and spent a few days alone (other than my dogs) thinking and writing, doing some divination and meditation and ritual. No radio, no TV, no computer — and this was the days before smartphones. I came away with some insights worthy of the effort, but the most important insight was one I discovered... Read more

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2020-03-09T00:49:08-04:00

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Paganism and Countercultures

Last updated on: March 9, 2020 at 12:49 am By Tom Swiss

We might find each of these groups sympathetic. Artists, poets, nature lovers, advocates for alternative medicine, social reformers, naturalists, wanderers -- these are our people! They pushed for egalitarianism, creativity, and liberty. But these are not the only countercultures out there. Read more

2020-02-26T21:26:36-04:00

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Grid And Growth (52 Make-Up, Part 4)

Last updated on: February 26, 2020 at 9:26 pm By Tom Swiss

This image brings to mind the way in which the solid, rational, straight-line world supports -- or is infiltrated by -- the growing, curling natural world. The natural world declines to be bound by the grid. Instead it grows around it, curls and bends through it, puts the grid to its own uses. Read more

2020-02-17T23:03:54-04:00

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Frederick Douglass’s Root Magic

Last updated on: February 17, 2020 at 11:03 pm By Tom Swiss

Given the significance of Douglass to the abolition movement, this fight with Covey might fairly be called a turning point in American history -- and it was catalyzed by root magic. Read more

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2020-02-09T22:02:05-04:00

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We All Get To Do Everything, Because We’re All Everyone

Last updated on: February 9, 2020 at 10:02 pm By Tom Swiss

I seldom remember my dreams, but sometimes they are humdingers. From this one came a no-self revelation: given the transcendental truth that everyone I see is me, I'll get to do all the things! There is no "fear of missing out" because I -- ***I****, Big Cosmic I That Unifies All -- will do everything! Read more

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2020-02-06T00:25:36-04:00

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Lady Liberty, American Goddess

Last updated on: February 6, 2020 at 12:25 am By Tom Swiss

She is the totem of the United States, and if her attributes seem contradictory and confusing perhaps that's best seen as a reflection of the animating contest of democracy. (Or maybe there's a little bit of my lady Eris in her makeup.) Read more

2020-01-28T18:04:09-04:00

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Broken and Golden (52 Make-Up, Week 3)

Last updated on: January 28, 2020 at 6:04 pm By Tom Swiss

There is no avoiding the breaking, the cracking, the flaws. But it is up to us how we interpret them, whether we see the world as a disappointing fallen version of some perfect Platonic realm, or revel in the realness. Read more

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