What remembering you on circle means
Whenever a friend talks about some difficulty they are facing in life I ask “can we remember you in circle?” Here’s what that means.
Performing a handfasting wedding
Here’s how it started: a farmer friend reached out to me and asked if I could officiate at a marriage. Two of her farming apprentices wanted to get married right away so it would basically be that same week.
The best devotional method
I’ve been doing devotionals to deities for several decades. When I started it was difficult to find instructions on how to do it.
Writing a book as initiation
Containment, transformation, emergence. Virginia Beane Rutter describes this process as an initiatory pattern.
When the veil of life falls
Last night I saw a lot of cute costumes. Halloween as a secular holiday is about dressing up, getting and giving candy, and admiring people's artistic skills in carving squash.
Women at the Parliament Saving the World
The Inaugural Women’s Session at the Parliament of the World’s Religions is giving me hope for the future.
Settler landscape - Dungeness Valley Washington
Cultural Appropriation and Theft
There’s a conversation going on among Pagans about cultural appropriation. I’m re-examining my own work in light of these discussions.
Going Clear: is O.T.O. a “black magic cult”?
We are discussing Lawrence Gibney's documentary Going Clear, Scientology and the Prison of Belief.
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L. Ron Hubbard the Magickian?
We are examining the relationship between L. Ron Hubbard and the Ordo Templi Orientis.
L. Ron Hubbard and the O.T.O.
Last night was thrilling for Scientology watchers with the first broadcast screening of Alex Gibney's documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief on HBO.