I had started the book hoping for wild descriptions of near death experiences and the afterlife, because I am a drama addict. However, what I received from reading the book was perhaps more profound. Read more
I had started the book hoping for wild descriptions of near death experiences and the afterlife, because I am a drama addict. However, what I received from reading the book was perhaps more profound. Read more
Greg Jenkins has achieved the enviable accomplishment of creating a divination system with a great deal of depth and utility, while still being easy to understand by those just beginning along a magickal path. Read more
How can we focus on our life goals when life itself seems bound and determined to prevent us from ever having time to devote to them? It's easy to lose sight of our hopes and dreams when our schedules seem to be overflowing with distractions. Read more
We need to continue to confront the reality of racism in our Pagan subculture and our culture overall. BRINGING RACE TO THE TABLE is one small contribution to that effort. Read more
Lots of things can change when you push your boundaries, and I’m still sifting through the continued effects of this stretching. Read more
Religion provides a ready-made us-versus-them narrative. This narrative often has little to do with the actual teachings of the religion, which in most cases are ambiguous at best or contradictory at worst on the topic of violence. But you don't even need to know what those teachings are, as so-called "Islamic State" recruits cramming with The Koran for Dummies demonstrate. Read more
It is now possible to earn very good money indeed in the tech sector whilst feeling good about living a lifestyle that really is just gentrified poverty – two missed pay checks from living in a car, a subjectively high wage that objectively isn't enough to save for our own retirement, let alone put a child through school. As Pagans, we have a bit of a bad habit of identifying as poorer than we really are. We forget that we can actually make a difference. Read more
Letting go might be the hardest thing to put into practice. There are many things in our daily life, both material and immaterial, that we attach to. For some of us, it is the expectation to live our lives in accordance to another's rule book. For others, we are hostages to our own doubt. For me, it was overcoming the years of feeling not good enough and finally knowing worthiness. This attachment to "not good enough" is something that I continue to work through and with. That is the practice, why it is called "doing the work." Read more
The old ways are just as much about personal revelations as they are interpersonal relations. We are more than just a community, we are the products of the lessons and values that we hold dear. We keep the old stories alive for a reason, and how those stories affect each of us is an important part of who we are. To explore this, I'd like to introduce our newest series! Read more
We live in multiple communities, multiple subcultures. We need to be prepared for when those communities and subcultures intersect. Read more
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