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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…

I’ve been taking a vacation of sorts from this blog, for the reasons I already mentioned below. I’ve been trying to find a way to do more than write “aint it awful” every day, along with the occasional spiritual Pagan piece. Many of you have written insightful comments, which I very much appreciate, including that…

Beliefnet has been shifting to a new platform while I have been shifting to a different perspective towards this blog. Over the past few months I have been increasingly uncomfortable about reporting on the incredibly depraved actions by the “religious” right and its allies, while still feeling it my responsibility as a citizen to do…

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…

So-called ‘conservatives’ seem to be on a collision course with every form of decency that exists among human beings.  I have just come across a case where a woman have been jailed because she thought about having an abortion! You can donate to Planned parenthood online here.   James O’Keefe has been yet again shown…

The ongoing tragedy in Japan offers a great deal for us to think about, from how we can help to how such catastrophes can happen in a world where Spirit matters to what it says about human beings’ ability to plan wisely. I will begin with the most important short run issue: how we can…

Imagine the worst that a ‘pro-life’ monster can do.  This probably exceeds it. I am ashamed to be of the same species. There really is no other spiritual term that can reasonably apply. This is not true for all conservatives of course, but it holds for a great many. A great many.

At this time when the worst side of many Americans is proudly exposed to view by people too morally lost, and too besotted with self-righteousness to realize what they are doing, it is good to reflect on a beautiful poem by Robinson Jeffers. Praise Life This country least, but every inhabited countryIs clotted with human…

Cherry Hill Seminary is offering a fascinating course by York Dobyns, a Ph.D. in physics at Princeton as well as a Wiccan since 1992.  The link explains everything briefly, so there is no need for me to duplicate it.  Find out more about this course here. You can also watch a fascinating Youtube talk by…

I just read a delightful (in a black humored sort of way) post up at Balloon Juice.  It offers a way to calculate the number of “crazies” on the political right, people for whom no fact or logic will work at getting them to question a belief and whose partisanship is completely blind. A much…
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