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Gus diZerega

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Gus diZerega is a Gardnerian Elder with over 25 years practice, including six years close study with a Brazilian shaman. He has been active in interfaith work off and on for most of those 25 years as well. He has conducted workshops and given presentations on healing, shamanism, ecology and politics at Pagan gatherings in the United States and Canada. He is the first Pagan blogger for Beliefnet. His first Pagan book Pagans and Christians: The Personal Spiritual Experience won the Best Nonfiction of 2001 award from The Coalition of Visionary Resource. His second, Beyond the Burning Times, is a joint Pagan and Christian authored book discussing relations between the two religions. He is completing a new book: Faultlines: The Sixties the Culture Wars and the Divine Feminine. This will argue the US's current political and cultural struggles reflect a four-way division between "traditional" religion, liberal and "Baconian" secular modernity, and spiritual traditions that have gone beyond the modern paradigm.

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Does Religion Decrease Compassion?

Studies suggest that religious dogma can override our natural tendency toward empathy. Read More »

Earth Day, 2012

Earth Day becomes increasingly a day to venerate, and yet is now increasingly ignored. Read More »

Religion and Freedom, Religion and Slavery

Totalitarians of the right and left have always been clear as to what they would do, and their future victims have refused to believe them -- until it was too late. Read More »

The Contraception Battle: Is This the Culture Warriors' Waterloo?

It will be very fitting if the nihilists on the right meet their Waterloo by mindlessly attacking women. Read More »

Pagans, Science, and the World

When we honor the world, we are honoring a context bigger than we are. Read More »

Of Gateways and Beauty

When we enter a place, we add ourselves to its energies and bring additional presences. Read More »

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