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Last night I saw Avatar.  Go see it! It is a wonderful and very Pagan movie. As I understand it the movie’s basic messages are that completeness is achieved in connection with others, that harmony is the basic value and its loss the basic failing of the modern mentality, that individuality exists in the context…

I have been so focused on my own work that I failed to pay any attention to the Pagans presence at the Parliament of the World Religions, held in Melbourne, Australia.  My bad.  One of the best pieces of news from this year’s Parliament was that we were not controversial.  We According to Don Frew, who…

I had come across so many right wing and Christian attacks on James Cameron’s Avatar that I made up my mind definitely to see it, and to write on it after doing so.  But I haven’t seen it yet.  The right wing and Christian attack on its pantheism is now apparently taking off big time,…

Unbelieveable. Fortunately neither they nor their deity are very good at it. UPDATE Well, looks like their attempt at Black Magick may have backfired.  😉

Last night we celebrated the Winter Solstice in Berkeley.  Old friends and newer gathered together to invoke, dance, sing, and burn the boughs of last year’s celebrations in a brilliant conflagration.  I hope the Yule Fire’s enthusiastic flames will prove an omen for the coming year, as the meager and fitful fire of last year…

An exciting discovery has taken place at the Sandia National Labs in New Mexico.  A way has been found, using solar energy, to turn CO2 into fuel.  It will not be on the market soon as greater efficiency is needed.  Nor can it take CO2 out of the atmosphere.  But it can be applied to…

As many West Coast Pagans know, Pantheacon is the largest Pagan gathering in the West, happening February 12-15, over Presidents’ day weekend in San Jose.  I’ve gone for years, seeing old friends, listening to great music, attending cool workshops, and generally having a good time. Of late I’ve been doing workshops of my own there,…

UPDATE 12/21 – below Like many people I’ve been torn both ways by the health care bill that Corporate America’s representatives in the Senate and White House are trying to give us.  If passed it would definitely help some people who are currently uninsured.  Definitely.  And that is not nothing. But the precedent it establishes…

I’ve known Sam Webster for years as one of the brightest most energetic forces in the very broad Pagan community within the San Francisco Bay Area.  But until today I did not know how central he was to something called open source religion, which fits modern Paganism really well.  Interestingly, its other main manifestation was…

Some readers have asked me, given the previous blog, what to do.  Certainly a reasonable question.  I made a quick answer in the comments, here’s a more considered post with five suggestions, the first able to be implemented today.  
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