The Zen Pagan

Boundaries in their role as both endings and beginnings are also on my mind because...

In those discussions and debates -- and sometimes heated arguments! -- I'm come to the...

Our society is too much like Ares and too little like Athena. We are too...

Some teachers have called this "don't know" the very heart of Zen. There are many...

When I was a kid I was so uncoordinated that during gym class I was...

Since no one else seems to want to say it, I will: the fake workshop...

A friend inquired, "What does a Zen Pagan Atheist ritual look like?" Which is a...

To answer the question "Do the deities exist?", we need to answer two questions, just...

A psychedelic can only act as a catalyst, speeding up a reaction that would have...

Crouch suggests that if we applied critical thinking to religion the same way we apply...

Religion provides a ready-made us-versus-them narrative. This narrative often has little to do with the...

The idea that one should seek to distance oneself from the world is expressly refuted...

Sophisticated cynics know that it’s a bunch of bunk, of course. There is no jolly...

Nichol came to be interested in a more contemplative approach to his Druidry after a...

As a power hierarchy becomes more and more unjust, of course more brutal and repressive...

I’m not going to tell you to be thankful, even as you’re about to be...

All in all, there seems to be quite a bit of overlap between the values...

Should we be afraid of wild mind? That is certainly the message of some religious...

In other words, we must get wild with our spirituality, untamed and direct. It seems...

The martial arts are magic -- they use imagination to raise and direct psychological energy...

As we look around at the ecological crisis that faces us today, it's reasonable to...

It seems to me that to be a great magician is to be able to...

It's interesting to think that pilgrimage, travel for religious reasons, seems to predate civilization. The...

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