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The importance and need for initiation in America
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Gus diZerega
The issue of initiation in modern America was a major theme yesterday in a book group to which I belong. We had been discussing Barry Spector’s Madness at the Gates of the City. Spector uses a Jungian polytheistic approach to understanding people and society that he explicitly describes as Pagan and polytheistic. For me his…
Wear a snake on St. Paddy’s Day
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Gus diZerega
I got a suggestion on Facebook to “Wear a snake for St. Patrick’s Day.” It was put up by an Irish Pagan, to protest honoring the desecration of our sacred sites. Why do We , as a Nation , celebrate the banishing and passing of our Ancient Ways and the arrival of Christianity to these…
Pantheacon 2011: Contrasting Tolerance and Pluralism
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Gus diZerega
This isn’t quite the write-up I anticipated doing because I left my notes somewhere or other. A drag, but maybe a blessing in disguise. Now I have to search my memory about what impressed me most. And a great deal impressed me. I’ll pick one issue here, and I hope my memory of two presentations…
Pantheacon this weekend!
By
Gus diZerega
Th West Coast’s annual Pantheacon starts Friday at 1 and goes through Monday afternoon. It is one of the high points of the years for me, a chance to see old friends from different parts of the country, as well as make some new ones. There are more Pagans in one lace than I ever…
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