Are You There Gods? It’s Me, Teo.

Looking Up

Sometimes I think there's a good reason for blind faith, religious ignorance, unwavering piety. Sometimes those seem like a much easier choices than being inquisitive, being contemplative, being patient with your own uncertainty. The dialogue around the last post extended deep into the theoretical as well as the practical, even spawning an interesting offshoot post on ecological polytheism, and a resurgence of questions about an American goddess named Columbia. The explosion of ideas did a … [Read more...]

I Spotted Thor Down at the Quik Mart

Chris-Hemsworth-Thor

In a recent discussion with a group of Pagans about the development of an American pantheon for use in ADF ritual, someone said this: "When we look at historical evidence to find the ancient deities, we look at what was left behind and what survived for long periods of time, such as the stories that remained popular ... These and many other things help us to form a picture of the beliefs of an ancient culture. I'm using the same types of techniques to examine our modern culture ... Elvis is a … [Read more...]

When Psychic Attack Hits Home

Psychic Attack

It was a normal morning at home. I was reading a book about Proto-Indo-Europeans while my dogs slept on the couch next to me, and my husband was off at our local metaphysical store, trading a psychic reading with an astrologer. Admittedly, our "normal" is not really prime-time normal. I looked up from what I was doing, and I saw my husband walking toward the house from his car with a horrible expression on his face. Agony, perhaps? Pain? He came in and I asked him what was … [Read more...]