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When courage falters, people say, “take heart!” Maybe that seems like a silly way to...

There’s a spiritual equivalent of standing alone in a forest, in a place where there...

The time to train is before you’re in a fight for your life. Begin your...

We don’t master grounding and centering by knowing some secret. We get there like we...

Tied to the history of the land, the boline is a reminder of the thin...

Idolatry has been the straw man of the West for two millennia. Monotheists hate it....

We all bow to fear. We can’t help it. No one is fearless in all...

If a religious altar is a doorway for the gods and spirits to come to...

When it comes to virtue, the West has lost its way. The way back is...

Step into the unknown, and you’ll find yourself there.

It’s about impossible to get through a day without being pulled this way and that....

With nothing but the intuition that there must be more, we enter a new land...

Like a lot of people, I always wondered how I would face death. As it...

Years of self-doubt and struggle aren’t a cruel joke played by the universe. They’re the...

In a time of Internet memes, the bumper stickers of the Information Age, it’s easy...

In the good old days, the occult was about things like finding your vocation in...

The occult isn’t inherently evil. It is powerful, and often opaque. That can be scary...

The occult is a journey to ascend the Witches’ Pyramid to reveal in ourselves the...

Are we creatures of spirit who inhabit bodies, or physical bodies that somehow have awareness?...

We see people do incredible things, and we think, “I could never do that.” But...

The Internet. Cell phones. Satellites. These are the things driving a new spiritual revolution. The...

Faith is not belief. That’s a weird, post-Enlightenment Protestant Christian, non-Pagan thing. Faith is connection...

Over and over, I hear people talk about how they can’t meditate. They confess that...

The spiritual importance of Star Wars, at least for me, is that it showed us...

Since animists don’t turn a blind eye to the dark corners and dangers of the...

Scrying is the practice of inducing and interpreting visions. Commonly, crystal balls and magic mirrors...

Life is about more than just being terribly clever and easily dissatisfied primates who happen...

Halloween is almost upon us. It’s a time of year for costumes, parties, and maybe...

In Paganism, we spend a lot of time shouting across the chasms of meaning and...

The animistic worldview is the red-headed stepchild of Western pagan worldviews. It finds itself mostly...