If the Big Three religions–Judaism, Christianity, and Islam–are The People of the Book, Pagans are People of the Library (and the Bookstore). In the early days of the Neo-Pagan movement one had to know someone to find a coven. One had to undergo a period of study, often a year and a day, in order [...]
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The pictures from Pittsburgh show police officers hurling tear gas at black-clad anarchists, or police arresting Greenpeace demonstrators hanging a banner from a bridge. I have to search to find Pagans in the streets of Pittsburgh, but I know we are there. If it’s a global economic summit or climate conference, there are Pagans. On [...]
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The Wheel of the Year rolls on. This is Harvest Home, also called Mabon, the second of three harvest festivals. Lammas or Lughnasa is the first one at the beginning of August. It’s the Festival of First Fruits. For me, as I said in “Lammas 2009″, Lammas is fair season: gigantic vegetables, prize-winning pies, truck-pulls, [...]
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That’s the title of Phillip Pullman’s new book due out at Easter. And yes, it’s a new account of the life of Jesus, challenging the gospels and arguing that the version in the New Testament was shaped by the apostle Paul. I’m rolling my eyes here… I love The Golden Compass, but as far as [...]
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“Welcome to the Dark Mountain Project: a new literary movement for an age of global disruption. We aim to question the stories that underpin our failing civilisation, to craft new ones for the age ahead and to write clearly and honestly about our true place in the world.” As I wrote in my previous post, [...]
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“These are precarious and unprecedented times. Our economies crumble, while beyond the chaos of markets, the ecological foundations of our way of living near collapse. Little that we have taken for granted is likely to come through this century intact.” To prepare for the coming chaos of the Post Industrialist Society, The Dark Mountain Project [...]
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For the last two weeks I have been fighting vertigo. From my own experimentation and the experience of other sufferers, I came to the conclusion that I did not have an inner ear infection but something in my neck was out of place After several days of DIY chiropractic manipulations, I finally seem to have [...]
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All’s well in Stoudtburg. “Bewitched, without incident”: Witches and pagans who traveled to Adamstown on Saturday for a festival “Celebrating Earth Spirituality” were greeted by a steady rain and praying Christians in a silent protest. The gathering held at Stoudtburg Village and hosted by Reading Pagans & Witches proved to far less controversial than the [...]
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The Celebrating Earth Spirituality Festival was scheduled for today. I wish, I wish, I wish I had a crystal ball because the emotional stakes increased dramatically this week–and I can’t find “the rest of the story…” When last I checked out The Wild Hunt, a handful of merchants in Stoudtburg Village–a commercial shopping center in [...]
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“Avoiding Pagan Dollars“: This weekend Jason at The Wild Hunt is reporting on Christian merchants in Adamstown, PA, who–in these tough economic times–are willing to reject Pagan money. A great many Pagan groups celebrate Pagan Pride Day in September, some time around Mabon, the Fall Equinox. This year on September 12th, Reading (PA) Pagans and [...]
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