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In O'Keefe's view, throughout human history magic has served as a form of resistance the...

There is a Buddhist practice of viewing each person as having been your mother or...

But it seems to me that if we're going to talk about the problems of...

Did a teen being dumb about sharing space become, in our national insanity, the screen...

Welcome to the first Random Wednesday of 2019, a randomly appearing feature of short bits...

We sometimes think of creativity as a light, playful thing, an airy-fairy luxury for the...

Just as it is a genuine act of witchcraft to give a friend with an...

Are we on the watch for the light, or for the darkness? The whole phenomenon...

I woke up yesterday morning to the news that President Bush -- the first President...

Deities are either invented, created, or discovered. And that is a process of story-telling. We...

For those of us in the business of unusual religious practices, the fortieth anniversary of...

What we owe our veterans is not some "thank you for your service" platitude. What...

It is ironic and problematic that this style of republic, structured from the start to...

What if we thought of the veil between the worlds not as a separation between...

A few years ago, I was of the opinion that anti-Semitism was something we'd gotten...

As we drum and dance and support each other around the fire, we sort of...

The sort of King we are speaking of here truly "reigns but does not rule";...

Kavanaugh's defenders say "he's not that sort of man". But we would have said the...

It is the way of these things that they are ineffable. To even say "I...

But I didn't come here to talk to you about McCain's misogyny or homophobia or...

We have no good definition of what "consciousness" is. If we're invoking science, whatever "consciousness"...

I’ll be posting more about what this year’s Starwood meant to me personally. Meanwhile, I...

Who's going to find what we need? The wild ones. The experimenters. The spiritual mad...

To answer the question “Do the gods and goddesses exist?” we need to answer two...

And wood for a bow is a lot easier to come by than bronze, iron,...

And so every year I have to throw a little plastic flag into the trash....

At some point in your life, you may have had a job like this: you...

Looking for consistent application of principles in American politics is perhaps like Diogenes's famous quest...

I spent last week at my twentieth Free Spirit Gathering. I was reminded of the...

I spent Memorial Day weekend at Playa Del Fuego, the East Coast regional Burn (Burning...