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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…

As I was researching the modern American rightwing and how it had completely jettisoned the old conservative praise for limited government, I was struck at how it had been captured by the NeoConfederate South, the one part of our country to have formally rejected the Declaration of Independence and ultimately the entire Western Enlightenment.  As…

The Sauronic “Christian’ right is alarmed at Sharia law.  It’s often hard to understand why since their views are so often in perfect agreement.

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. …

Beliefnet seems to have finally developed a spam fighter that prohibits anyone from posting.  After five tries that failed, I used my “back door” and so could reply to George, but that seems to be it.  I can reply to comments that for the moment cannot be made.  Hopefully they will figure out how to…

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…

As I was reading some comments on the post immediately below, a “devilish” question came to mind… From a Christian anti-abortion point of view, if it is a human being, does a fetus have original sin?  Or is it without sin entirely? Or does it sin in the womb?  If so, how?

Lest we forget the deep hypocrisy of so many who claim to be pro-life, a timely reminder of a woman who died because doctors refused to treat her since doing so might harm a first trimester fetus. Not all pro-life people fall in this category, but it is fascinating to wonder why so very many…

Books can be great in several ways.  Some encapsulate the spirit of their time.  Some grow in profundity, as the reader returns to them again and again, marveling at how much the author is saying that had been missed in earlier encounters.  Some make break-throughs in established fields of knowledge.  And some, a very few,…

To my mind the presentations by Tony Mierzwicki, Brandy Williams and Don Frew constituted the meat of the Theurgicon gathering, but two other presentations added additional dimensions.  Diana Young (I was unable to find a link to her – perhaps someone can help)  spoke from a ceremonial magick perspective rooted in the Golden Dawn and…
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