What if we thought of the veil between the worlds not as a separation between our physical realm and a realm made out of some more rarefied substance but as the boundary between the ordinary view of reality and that fuller view which sees that "form is emptiness, emptiness is form", as the Heart Sutra puts it? Read more
A few years ago, I was of the opinion that anti-Semitism was something we'd gotten past in this country. Sadly, I was wrong. Read more
As we drum and dance and support each other around the fire, we sort of lift each other up by the bootstraps. Which is of course impossible, a logical contradiction, but such is the nature of magick. Read more
The sort of King we are speaking of here truly "reigns but does not rule"; he does not command, he is not a conqueror. Instead the King is the conduit of blessings for his people. Read more
Kavanaugh's defenders say "he's not that sort of man". But we would have said the same about Cosby when he was at the height of both his rape career and his acting one. If we can see that someone is "that sort of man", he won't have the opportunity to commit rapes. Read more
It is the way of these things that they are ineffable. To even say "I was not in my ordinary state of consciousness" (much less to say "oh, an early migraine experience") is to put a border around it, classify it, put it safely in a container where it won't leak out an affect the rest of my life. Read more
But I didn't come here to talk to you about McCain's misogyny or homophobia or corruption or role in destroying reasoned political discourse. I came to talk to you about the blood on his hands. Anytime there was talk of bombing or invading another nation you could bet ol' Maverick McCain would be beating the war drums. Read more
We have no good definition of what "consciousness" is. If we're invoking science, whatever "consciousness" is must be an objectively observable phenomenon -- because that's the domain of science. Read more
I’ll be posting more about what this year’s Starwood meant to me personally. Meanwhile, I was able to get a little video from Starwood attendees -- including Ian Corrigan and Oberon Zell -- telling you why you should join us next year. Read more
Who's going to find what we need? The wild ones. The experimenters. The spiritual mad scientists. The mutants and freaks. The explorers of consciousness. The Pagans, a name taken because it suggested both a link to the past and a rebelliousness and disreputableness, a rejection of the mainstream -- a name to which we often prepend "Neo", new, to show that we are looking forward as well as back. Read more
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