I had come across so many right wing and Christian attacks on James Cameron’s Avatar that I made up my mind definitely to see it, and to write on it after doing so.  But I haven’t seen it yet.  The right wing and Christian attack on its pantheism is now apparently taking off big time,…

Last night we celebrated the Winter Solstice in Berkeley.  Old friends and newer gathered together to invoke, dance, sing, and burn the boughs of last year’s celebrations in a brilliant conflagration.  I hope the Yule Fire’s enthusiastic flames will prove an omen for the coming year, as the meager and fitful fire of last year…

I’ve known Sam Webster for years as one of the brightest most energetic forces in the very broad Pagan community within the San Francisco Bay Area.  But until today I did not know how central he was to something called open source religion, which fits modern Paganism really well.  Interestingly, its other main manifestation was…

Books exploring the philosophical implications of science by contemporary scientists tend to fall into two categories: those that assert and explore the implications of scientific reductionism and those that explore the implications of quantum physics.  Neither is directly relevant o a Pagan world view, and both can be used to attack it.  Now Stuart Kauffman’s…

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