Spreading the Faith
In our blood the old wisdom speaks, if we’ll but listen. We can teach the world to listen, too.
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Casting Anarchist Magic
Indeed, power was given to all beings to be shared. As witches, we can help the world remember that fact, but only if we come out of the shadows and become the fire.
Read more "Casting Anarchist Magic"Making Peace with Extinction, Part Two
This post is the transcript to a sermon given on July 19, 2020 to the First Unitarian Church of Hobart at the request of friend, John Halstead. He read the previous post and asked me to participate in their Sunday service with a similar idea. Much was rewritten from the original, including the “future myth” […]
Read more "Making Peace with Extinction, Part Two"Not For Consumption
Maturing in spirit and mind, perhaps strength and resolve lies not in the fragile Self, but in the Eternal Whole of our communities.
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I am interested in how to transmit this story in a way that achieves the ultimate goal of all storytelling: to restore a wider, more adaptive perspective for those who adopt it. In that hope, I make this humble offering.
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Setting down a new spiritual root in the Land We Are connects us to a powerful current of the present moment. The soil, air, and waters nourish the spirit into new growth and health. One begins to move in step with the local environment and finally notice the little miracles of bird song, atmosphere, plants and fauna. Each become invitations to participate in the unfolding rebirth of life around you.
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When it came,the storm was an afterthought.We were long gone.The ‘scrapers claimed by climbersand moss and other green,and rust as well, becausewhen them winds howledthe groaning, empty boardroomsgave way to long-awaited ruin.It is the state of things.The old is ruins nowand vagabonds still pick whatever’sleft of yesterday’s metropolis.They sell that junk at market:a pound of […]
Read more "Remaining"Why Every Phoenix Film Has Been Trash & Wrong
TL;DR: The Phoenix in X-Men is about the cosmic and transcendent power of love required to heal trauma, and the films barely delve into that aspect of Jean Grey with any sort of realism or grace. For starters, I would like to make a disclaimer that I am not talking or reviewing the comic book […]
Read more "Why Every Phoenix Film Has Been Trash & Wrong"Be the Course
“I will call the waterAnd I will be the courseAnd I will call the rainI will call the rain“– Ayla Nereo, The Course A few of you know that I have been “spiritually rehabilitating” the new development I moved into. I have great news to report! 😀 First, though, what is it exactly that I’ve […]
Read more "Be the Course"Alignment: Beyond the Surface
I want to address the rampant cognitive dissonance and psychic trauma of our times. For, it seems, there is no way to bring our present state of political and ecological crisis into alignment. Most of us are aware of the climate crisis unfolding, along with the Sixth Mass Extinction already underway. To pagans, these are […]
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