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What the vaccination and autism scandal teaches us about science
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Gus diZerega
Those of us who have had personally strong and oft repeated experiences with the spirit world, and of nature as animate, are often sympathetic to people attacking mainstream science. For example, I know several Pagans who have resisted having their kids vaccinated because of supposed research that indicated a link between vaccines and autism. The mainstream…
Alex Mar’s “American Mystic” – a beautiful film
By
Gus diZerega
Alex Mar has produced American Mystic, a beautiful and most unusual film, one I hope receives many viewers, for many will be the better off for having seen it. In her film Mar describes the lives of spiritually committed people living outside the American spiritual mainstream. She does so sensitively and entirely in their own…
Happy New Year and the Day of Iemanja
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Gus diZerega
I got up this morning and after my injection of caffeine picked up some molasses and corn meal and drove to Portuguese Beach to make my annual offering to Iemanja, Orixa of the ocean. It was a cold. grey, blustery day, and the coast was even colder and more blustery. Almost no one was out.…
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