The best movies don’t just entertain you – they also make you think. The Wicker Man lets us imagine what it would be like to live in a community where everyone shares our beliefs and practices. It warns us against unreflectively adopting any religious practice. And for us as modern Pagans, The Wicker Man calls us to contemplate the nature of prayer, and the true nature of sacrifice. Read more
In 1941 Dion Fortune instructed her order to stop concentrating on defense and start visualizing what they wanted to build after the war. World War II would not end until 1945, but Dion Fortune was right. And what was right in 1941 is right in 2024. Read more
This year’s Mystic South conference in Atlanta was good as usual. Here are 11 observations from my time there last weekend. Read more
What I saw from the Republican National Convention confirmed what I already knew – Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and Project 2025 must be defeated. And if we turn out to vote, they will. Read more
Sometimes the problem isn’t that I go too far with deep spiritual and magical experiences, it’s that I don’t go far enough. I want to do more but don’t know if I’m well enough to do more. But for this full moon, I think it’s time to try. Read more
A God of inhospitable places and a God of chaos is a God nonetheless. In these times of chaos, Set reminds us to do what must be done, whether we live in the black land or in the red land. And sometimes, he brings opportunities. Read more
An Evangelical blogger asks if ecstatic religious experiences are rational, and if it’s good for us to pursue them. I say they are not materialistic but they are quite rational, and while pursuing such experiences is good, it’s also dangerous. Read more
Fear is natural and necessary – it helps keep us alive. But our current socio-political situation is not one where the evolutionary instincts for fight, flight, or freeze are helpful responses. We need to respond to our fears with courage and do what is necessary in spite of our fears, for ourselves and for the wider world. Read more
I stopped talking about Tower Time because too many people were expecting an apocalypse or accusing me of fear mongering. But Tower Time is still very much with us. We will do what must be done. We will survive and we will succeed. Read more
The Return of Paganism fails to make a rational case for the superiority of the Christian religion. But it wasn’t written to convert Pagans to Christianity. It was written in an attempt to stem the tide of people leaving Christianity for anything else. Read more
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