When fallacies about the ends justifying the means are set aside and we must judge only the means, how do we draw the lines between legitimate protest, civil disobedience, rioting, self-defense, insurrection, and sedition? Read more
When fallacies about the ends justifying the means are set aside and we must judge only the means, how do we draw the lines between legitimate protest, civil disobedience, rioting, self-defense, insurrection, and sedition? Read more
So as we find ourselves in a darker Yule than usual, remember that you have rescue missions to go on (even if not as dramatic as leaping into a river or engaging in a firefight). Don't give in to despair. Read more
This spell uses these stagnation-busting powers on a higher level, to free stuck energy. Can't move on from some emotional trauma? Feeling stuck in a life circumstance? Feel like the flow of your life energy is constricted? This is a spell you can use. Read more
This Yuletide season is looking bleak. So what can we do when things suck? Read more
Some will offer you a pre-designed, classical system for doing this. That's fine but my taste runs more towards a do-it-yourself, make-it-up-as-you-go-along, improvisational style -- the sort that allows me to trip over magick while taking the dog for a walk. Read more
Rather than an 1860s style civil war, I foresee something more like the Irish Troubles: a long, drawn-out, low level social and political conflict spilling over into a cycle of sectarian terrorist violence, a cycle of attacks and reprisals and counter-reprisals and counter-counter-reprisals. Read more
Even if the Bread and Roses Party itself is never heard from again after this cycle, it represents an approach which can help inform our work building that replacement, and I'm proud to give it my vote and my endorsement. Read more
But there are reasons that the spiritual traditions that have achieved power in the world portray karma as personalized. It's useful for getting people to behave -- the most juvenile form of religious ethics, the threat and promise that the gods or the workings of cosmic forces will give you candy if you're good and a spanking if you're bad. Read more
I know people who call themselves or are initiated as witches and wizards and magicians and shamans. I think I've even met a sorcerer or two. But I don't think I've met anyone who calls themselves an Enchanter. And it's interesting because it's a broad and general term. It can mean a practitioner of magic -- sharing its Latin root cantō with "chant" -- but also "a person who enchants or delights". Read more
The past few days have been among the worst in my life. I find that am estranged from my brother, most likely permanently -- I have to think that if you don't seek rehab after ending up on a ventilator, you're probably not ever going to. And I'm left much more distant from my beloved mother that I want to be, though I'm going to try to keep the connection open. My heart is heavy. And yet. Read more
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