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The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico raises a question that has been raised in other contexts over the last year or so: has the scale of things we attempt as a society come to exceed our ability to do them well?  What do BP’s failure, Goldman Sachs’ failure and Massey Energy’s failure have…

Many of us gathered yesterday to do a Sunday May Pole over in Bodega Bay, a small town on the Sonoma coast.  This marked the conclusion of our Beltane weekend.  The coastal hills and bluffs were alive with flowers, as were people’s yards.  A cool breeze came in off the Pacific, but the summer fog…

I wish I had been there.  Some day I hope we have something like it over here.

UPDATE: Parts of this post have been polished and clarified.   May Day is first and foremost a celebration of life in all the earth.  But historically it has also been a celebration of those whose work sustains the modern world.  Then as now, those whose work sustain civilization were oppressed by parasites who grew…

Wiccans along with most other NeoPagans celebrate the sacredness of all natural cycles.  These cycles are particularly clear within regions with four distinct seasons, and I think it is natural that we, whose origins most recently hail from the British Isles, emphasize the ever changing and eternal seasons to concretely symbolize the most basic of…

I believe my unusually rapid recovery from a stroke in 2008 was connected to working with healing energy for 25 years.  My belief just received a boost.  This week (April 24)  the  New Scientist gave  a fascinating account of an experiment first reported in the Neurobiology of Disease. Seventy five rats initially had their spines damaged.  One third…

During last year’s Parliament for World Religions a dispute arose over whether Pagans were properly considered indigenous religions.  One person prominent in our community insisted he qualified by virtue of his membership in a “FamTrad,” that is, a family held tradition that while practiced in the US today, had its roots old England. Other Pagan…

Beltane 2010 is upon us.  Beltane is one of Wicca’s two most important Sabbats, celebrating the power of life and growth, as Samhain, six months later, honors the powers of death and decline.  Beltane is fast approaching and in my opinion is perhaps the best Sabbat of all to celebrate in the company of lots…

Tim Wise has written a revealing piece about how the Tea Partyers are overwhelming evidence of White racism.  I then tried his “imagine” experiment with with Pagans and replaced Tea Partyers with Christians talking about how this should be a Christian country, that other religions were evil, that their holy book should override the constitution,…
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