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   Although apparently not yet available here in the Sates, Beyond the Burning Times (Lion Hudson, 2008) is now out.  The few reviews I have seen, both Pagan and Christian, suggest our book is living up to our hopes: to initiate a dialogue that practitioners of both traditions believe fairly presents their own position in…

This blog has been hacked.  Articles have disappeared and bullshit has been substituted for them.  I am recovering from a stroke and am in the midst of moving to the East Coast.  So, for the moment, things will continue to be quiescent.  My plate is too full to deal with it. In September, if all…

One of the oldest extant Pagan myths is that of the Goddess Inanna’s descent into the Underworld, where She encounters Her sister, Ereshkigal. It has long been a favorite of many within the Pagan community as well as with practitioners of monotheistic Goddess religions. Powerful myths, and this is one, are more than entertaining stories,…

Friday July 25 I will be giving a talk at Many Rivers Books and Tea in Sebastopol. California. The talk is titled The Divine Feminine and the Crisis of Modernity. This talk interprets the contemporary political and social crisis in America as a spiritual birth pang. A new more immanent feminine spirituality is welling up…

Today I received a false quote supposedly from Jay Leno. It is making the rounds enough to appear on Snopes, which identifies it as a lie. Leno never said it. But its content typifies the attitude of all too many self-described ‘conservatives,’ self-righteous, condescending, self-pitying, holier-than-thou. and deeply, proudly ignorant. And so I am sharing…

Looks as if even the Bush administration will let its scientists talk about global warming – when forced by the courts. They say it’s happening and it’s human caused… It will be a problem for the right wing, but not a big one. I predict they will ignore it.

Salmon are one of the wonders of life on earth. The plight of wild salmon due to corporate salmon farms and the parasites and poisons for which they are responsible is appalling to those of us who have followed the issue. Wild runs are being exterminated by seas lice infestations produced and sustained by so-callled…

(Thanks to http://www.mythicjourneys.org/newsletter_apr07_sutton.html) Yesterday was May Day – Beltane for us Pagans – by far the most joyous of our seasonal celebrations. For me it was especially welcome, because so far 2008 has been the year of the tarot card ‘the Tower.” (Thanks to https://www.acumind.com/Joe/tarot/tower.gif) It started before dawn as I groggily got up with…

California is justly famous for its Spring wildflowers. Here in Sonoma County, the hike from Shell Beach to Red Hill is one of my favorites. It isn’t long, and the views are wonderful. In the Spring the flowers are the best I personally have seen on the coast, and they get better the higher you…

The following was on Atrios today. A Dallas man who spent more than 27 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit was freed Tuesday, after being incarcerated longer than any other wrongfully convicted U.S. inmate cleared by DNA testing. Full story here. Atrios as usual makes good points. I want to make another.…
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