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Martin Luther King’s Day and the energy of violence
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Gus diZerega
As we observe this day honoring the life of Martin Luther King, jr., two thought come to mind as particularly relevant, and I hope worth sharing. The first has to do with violence and the second with the intertwining of what I consider some of the most inspiring periods in our own history. My first…
Alex Mar’s “American Mystic” – a beautiful film
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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.…
Sol Invictus
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Gus diZerega
This is a beautiful piece someone sent me long ago in a Winter Solstice Card. I have no idea who wrote it, and would love to know. I’ve inserted copies myself into Yule cards and used it in Yule rituals, where it’s worked wonderfully well. But it takes a bit of memorizing
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