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(Revised and deepened) This month has been Pomo Honoring Month  in Sebastopol, and yesterday I went to see Hinthel Gaahnula (Talking Indian) a film produced by James BlueWolf giving a narrative history of the Clear Lake Pomo from shortly before contact with Europeans to the present day.  The Pomo  were the tribe that once occupied much…

I took a walk a few days ago out on the Rodota Trail, a lovely foot and bicycle path linking Sebastopol and Santa Rosa.  It goes mostly through a oak savannah filled with big spreading gnarly old oaks.  This time of year most everything else is a golden brown, lying dormant until winter’s rains arrive. …

People who equate a small collection of cells with a baby evidence a very modern world view, one which places an abstraction in front of concrete reality.  This elevation of abstraction is a defining feature of the modern world, one taking many forms. Modern science is modernity’s most successful expression of this principle.  But in…

Don Frew  made the third Theurgicon presentation, on “Gardnerian Wica as Theurgic Ascent.”  Frew’s use of the single ‘c’ was deliberate, as the coven from which Gardner learned spelled the word with a single ‘c.’ It also helps remind is that what we have today is not exactly what Gardner learned, a point that is important…
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