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Entheogens and Contemporary Science
By
Gus diZerega
Mark Kleiman has a very interesting post up on the gradual opening of science and medicine to the value of entheogens that had been smothered as part of the mindless backlash against the Sixties. As older Pagans know, entheogens played an important role in opening many of us to spiritual dimensions of reality. They certainly…
A Good World and Undeserved Suffering: the Tough Cases
By
Gus diZerega
This post fulfills a promise I made to discuss the tough examples readers raised in my post on beauty and suffering. I do it from a Pagan perspective, one emphasizing the sacredness of the world and of the basic processes that make it up. Every time I go to the local grocery store I put…
Spirit, Power and Women
By
Gus diZerega
Maureen Dowd hits a home run on women, religion, and power today. The most important single truth we Pagans have to offer the broader spiritual community is our view of women and the feminine. Dowd explains why – though she seems unaware of us.
Mt. Tamalpais, Two Poems, and National Poetry Month
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Gus diZerega
This is National Poetry Month, and as spring caresses the hills of northern California, one of the most magickal places in the San Francisco Bar Area, Mt. Tamalpais, is rising serenely above the hustle and bustle below, the good and the bad, the nasty and the generous, clothed in waving grasses and spring flowers and trees of…
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