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I received this notice of a forthcoming Wicca 101 class by very competent California Pagans.  I pass it on in case anyone is interested. Waxing Moon Circle is beginning this year’s annual Wicca 101 class series this upcoming Saturday, January 9, at 2 PM in Mountain View.  Space is limited to 10 students.  The classes…

Recent scientific research has led some biologists to argue that dolphins should be ranked as “non-human persons.”  I can only wish them success in their quest.  Our kind has a long history of retreat from the early modern and Abrahamic religious conceit that animals are so far ‘below’ us that they rank as animate objects.

John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, is at it again, using his version of libertarianism to deny global warming.  It is a false crisis that responding to would impoverish and enslave us.  Even a writer who has long defended him before now has finally had it with the guy.  I was going to unload on…

Stephan Schwartz of the Schwartz Report has posted a very interesting and I think important piece on healing and consciousness.  Here is his first paragraph.  Please check it out in its entirety. I think it’s worth it. (You have to scroll down to Saturday, January 2, 2010: he does not seem to have a more…

On January 2, millions of Brazilians go to the beach and make offerings to Iemanja, Orixa of the ocean.  The teacher I studied with for six years  did it on New Year’s Day for some reason, and so for almost 25 years now, whenever I was close to salt water, I made the pilgrimage to…

Have long since parted in the mainstream media where DHS head Janet Napolitano is being savaged by all manner of bottom dwellers and stenographers pretending to be journalists for allegedly saying “the system worked” after Abdulmutallab’s failed  Christmas Day attempt to destroy a transatlantic airliner with a bomb hidden in his underpants.  The undie-bomber has ‘conservatives’ wetting their…

UPDATE below. The strutting masculinity, steely eyed attention to a brutal reality, and courage under fire that the Republicans and culture warriors in general like to project is showing itself as the posturing of craven bullies.  As it has always been.  The failed attempt to bring down an airline by the undie bomber was thwarted…

Silk” soy products has just been exposed for utterly unethical behavior in the organic food market.  For its parent company, corporate giant Dean Foods, this is not the first time.

Kenneth Davis who blogs over at Huffington Post has a great entry on the Pagan history of Mistletoe as a blessing hung over doorways.  One dimension of the story is Anglo, the other Saxon, and both are worth knowing.  

Catholic Ross Douthat is bothered – more than bothered – by Avatar’s pantheism. If one were looking at an attack on Pagan sensibilities, Douthat’s column would be a good place to start.  Beliefnet’s own Rod Dreher of “Crunchy Con” fame uses it to jump on pantheism as well.    I offer one response to these in…
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