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In November the citizens of Maine go to the polls to vote on whether their gay neighbors can marry.  The usual suspects – the religious right and Catholic church – have pulled out all stops to deprive them of this right.  But they are fighting a losing battle, however many skirmishes they might win.  Here’s…

A healthy four month old baby has been denied insurance because of a ‘pre-existing condition’ – he is too fat.  He is fed entirely with breast milk. If health care reform occurs, underwriting will go away. We do it because everybody else in the industry does it,” said Dr. Doug Speedie, medical director at Rocky…

Wicca Within the Web Activity Book speaks for itself, and has good stuff for adults and also kids.  Particularly cool for folks who like puzzles.  

There has been a lot of  good stuff written about the Goddess, Goddesses, and the Divine Feminine,.  The Wiccan Goddess is first among equals in traditional Wiccan circles., and in my view, should be.  Certainly She has been the most important influence in my own life.  I have even recently completed a book manuscript dealing…

UPDATE on sweat lodge sacrilege. The words of a survivor. Among us Pagans, a popular joke is “what is the difference between a New Age and a Pagan workshop?” “Two decimal places.” When I read of the deaths of two people in a ‘spiritual’ sweat lodge retreat I was reminded of the death of a…

Last night Joan Marler of the Institute of Archaeomythology — gave a fascinating talk about the likelihood Europe’s first agricultural peoples had developed writing 8,000 years ago, long before Sumer.  It is called the “Danube Script.”   The evidence she offered was persuasive to me.  But fascinating as this was, the point Marler made about their…

Paul Stamets gave a couple of mind-blowing talks at TED and Bioneers about mushrooms that suggest ways we might ultimately come to harmonize pur civilization with the natural world.  They are well worth the time it takes to watch.  In his TED  talk, Stamets covers “Six Ways Mushrooms can Save the World.  The Bioneers talk…

I have have been asked to prepare a special page on 12 things you didn’t know about Paganism for Beliefnet.  I have come up with a preliminary 11.  They are NOT set in stone.  For Pagan readers: any suggestions?  For non-Pagan readers, any thing I have not covered that you’d like to see?

Magick? This brings me to Pitch’s second point, that in many ways really underlies his first.  Wild species are more magickally powerful than tame.  When you have a message from Spirit that your work should focus on native species, as I gather is the case with Pitch, that follows.  But what about those of us…

When I posted on Mabon,  I suggested we need to get in better touch with the energies and denizens of the places where we live.  Only then could we really honor the spirits of the earth.  I mentioned salmon, grapes, and apples as examples from Sonoma County.  Pitch, the source of many wise comments both…
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